There is a particular indignity that comes from living in America, derived from the experience of waking up in the morning to see reports that Donald Trump has said something profoundly evil, and then needing to type “truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump” into your web browser to see if he actually said that. Once there, you can see a post in which Trump did indeed threaten to wipe out the entire civilization of Iran, stacked on top of an ad for a sketchy herbal supplement of some sort:

A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!

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      If a single member of his personal agents doesnt worship him like a god I’d be shocked

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        There’s no way anyone who doesn’t love him would be able to stomach working that close to the guy for hours on end. I can’t see it happening.

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      All they need to do is take Trump, his family, and all top officials into the basement for a “photo opportunity”. It worked in Tsarist Russia, it can work here too.

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    This isn’t something we will be able to act on retroactively. What I mean is that if nobody in our government or military stops Trump from going nuclear in Iran there is no going back. If he isn’t stopped until after it happens, nobody in the entire world will trust Americans ever again and we will all be hated (even more than we already are). This is the single biggest avoidable threat to national security that has ever existed. It’s already the case that nobody outside the US cares if you are one of the “good ones” or not. If this fuck-face does what we all think he wants to do, the US and its citizens will be internationally considered a threat to everyone elses national security and will be cut off from the rest of the world indefinitely.

    Nobody will give a shit who you voted for or which protests you went to or not, everyone will hate us and rightfully so. If Trump goes nuclear in Iran it’ll be the end of the American Empire basically overnight.

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      Here. I’ll simplify it for you:

      nobody in the entire world will trust Americans ever again

      That’s it. There’s nothing that the US can do to change that anymore. Trust has already been broken. It will take decades to build it back, if that’s even possible.

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    The only way to know for sure is if a large bet is placed on Polymarket for “nuke dropped on Iran”.

    Seriously that’s what the world has come to. We only know what’s going to happen if evidence of insider trading is found. Unbelievable.

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      I haven’t followed that part of current events, but apparently several similar bets were placed when the required info was only available to WH insiders.

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      Polymarket took it down, but I think some other sites still have it listed. It was up to $800k on Polymarket before it went down this weekend.

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    Anyone else remember when Putin threatened to nuke Ukraine or anyone that helped them?

    This is just trump imitating his bestie, engaging in saber rattling to cow his enemies. It’s not going to work like he thinks it will

    Edit: Apparently it did work

    What a shame

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        Yeah there’s a big difference between savvy / unhinged and sundowning / irrationally incompetent

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        He’s also much much stupider, I don’t like Putin one bit but he’s not a complete buffoon

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        Meh. I think we just don’t know enough about Putin to certify him.

        Most people familiar with Russia and its politics say he’s not the evil genius some people make him out to be - just evil, paranoid, delusional…

        His regime’s biggest “achievement” was to repackage Soviet hybrid war strategies for the internet age.

        edit: being more intelligent than Trump isn’t something to be proud of

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    Just a little light market manipulation via terrorist threats to enrich the President of the US and his cabal of Bond villain kid-diddlers.

    I swear if I were the next guy elected US President, I’d use RICO and asset seizure take every last dime the Trumps and their friends stole and give it all to the people.

    And then we kick his traitor ass out of the country.

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    Stop acting as if this is because of one person. There is a whole lot more wrong with the USA than just Trump.

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      Unfortunately, this time it really is. “Fire ze missiles” in the US military is an extraordinarily one-man band kinda decision. Certainly, the problem has more complex origins and potential resolutions, but in the extreme short-term, this is a very “one person” kinda question.

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        Unfortunately, this time it really is.

        It absolutely is not. At the VERY least, the entirety of the republican party is to blame for sucking PedoTUS’s dick so hard he thinks he can nuke Iran. His cabinet could 25th him and get rid of him right now. Republicans in congress could impeach him (which wouldn’t be nearly as quick, but they could make it move if they actually cared).

        Do not let those assholes do a face turn and forget that they were more than happy to support trump until the ship was damn near sunk.

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        Some human has to type in the coordinates and prep the missiles. Unless trump is doing that, someone else is complicit in the death of civilization.

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    Congress could do its fucking job and issue a war powers resolution but republican politicians see him as a piggy bank so that won’t ever happen.

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        OK and? He’s demented also but not “on deaths doorstep with nothing to lose because he’s so old” demented. He’s got more to live for and hopefully has the sense not to trigger mutuality assured destruction.

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          I don’t think JD Vance is demented at all.

          I think he’s fairly well spoken, intelligent and in bed with every billionaire out there so if the base backs him he could be more dangerous than Trump.

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            I’m pretty confident that even the suicidally greedy billionaire class recognizes the fact that nuking a foreign country is bad for business. However, I’ve underestimated their insanity before so maybe I’m wrong

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        Johnson doesn’t immediately become Vice-President. That’s not how the succession works. But you’re right, Captain Couchfucker is just as insane and stupid as Colonel Orangeballs.

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          The Entire Republican Party. and their donors are problems. And likely need to be culled as well. Trump is just a figurehead, and intentional target. This shit doesn’t end with his death, or JD’s for that matter.

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        The Speaker of the House doesn’t become VP when a sitting president dies, the sitting VP chooses a new VP.

        The Speaker only becomes president if the VP dies before taking the recently-deceased president’s spot

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      Not all heroes … well, these do wear capes. Singing can be heroic too.

      I hope they don’t get sued. Or if, that they win. Or if not, that they still made more money with this song than what it cost them.

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    It seems clear the Americans will rather cling on to the life they claim to hate and the jobs they despise until they are slowly enslaved and killed, rather than risk anything to undo the massive mistake they caused by reelecting a convicted felon, child rapist and overall buffoon as president

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        I want them to wake up before their demented dictator wannabe literally takes the world to WWIII

        ps: by “wake up” I mean “act”… at the very least a general strike ta this point

        pps: I’ve read excuses for months, yet Muricans won’t even quit nazi xitter or facebook as a sign they are not totally docile sheeple

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        Interesting point. I hope the “MSM” does their part by portraying exactly that as a Good American Thing.