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[–] Linken@lemmy.world 376 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (18 children)
  • Mar 3: "We won the war."
  • Mar 7: "We defeated Iran."
  • Mar 9: "We must attack Iran."
  • Mar 9: "The war is ending almost completely, and very beautifully."
  • Mar 11: “You never like to say too early you won. We won. In the first hour it was over.”
  • Mar 12: "We did win, but we haven't won completely yet."
  • Mar 13: "We won the war."
  • Mar 14: "Please help us."
  • Mar 15: "If you don't help us, I will certainly remember it."
  • Mar 16: "Actually, we don't need any help at all."
  • Mar 16: "I was just testing to see who's listening to me."
  • Mar 16: "If NATO doesn't help, they will suffer something very bad."
  • Mar 17: "We neither need nor want NATO's help."
  • Mar 17: "I don't need Congressional approval to withdraw from NATO."
  • Mar 18: "Our allies must cooperate in reopening the Strait of Hormuz."
  • Mar 19: "US allies need to get a grip - step up and help open the Strait of Hormuz."
  • Mar 20: "NATO are cowards."
  • Mar 21: "The Strait of Hormuz must be protected by the countries that use it. We don't use it, we don't need to open it."
  • Mar 22: "This is the last time. I will give Iran 48 hours. Open the strait"
  • Mar 22: "Iran is Dead"
  • Mar 23: "We had very good and productive talks with Iran."
  • Mar 24: "We’re making progress."
  • Mar 25: “They gave us a present and the present arrived today. And it was a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money. I’m not going to tell you what that present is, but it was a very significant prize.”
  • Mar 26: "Make a deal, or we’ll just keep blowing them away."
  • Mar 27: "We don’t have to be there for NATO."
  • Mar 28: No major quote
  • Mar 29: Claimed talks were progressing
  • Mar 30: "Open the Strait of Hormuz immediately, or face devastating consequences."
  • Mar 31: Claimed a deal was "very close" and that Iran would "do the right thing"
  • Apr 1: "We’ll see what happens very soon."
  • Apr 2: Repeated that a deal was likely, while warning of continued strikes if not
  • Apr 3: "Something big is going to happen."
  • Apr 4: Said Iran must comply "immediately" or face further consequences. "Tuesday 8 PM ET".
  • Apr 5: "Open the fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah."
  • Apr 6: "We can bomb the hell out of them"
  • Apr 7: "A whole civilization will die tonight"
[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 109 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)
[–] Linken@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

Thank you! I copied the comment from elsewhere, I appreciate your additions!

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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 67 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

I like your post. 50 years from now, high school students are going to open their US History book and read what the orange bumble fuck said during a war he started. Humiliating and perhaps the Americans might learn a lesson from the MAGA disaster.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 44 points 1 week ago (3 children)

If americans could learn we wouldn't have a 2nd trump presidency. We're on average stupider than bart with the cupcakes.

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[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Beautiful. Thanks for compiling this.

From that, he does seem to have been getting a lot more agitated over the past week. We'll see how that translates into actions.

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[–] dellish@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] slevinkelevra@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 week ago (3 children)

That's the thing I was wondering about the TACO meme. Is it good to mock him on chickening out when it is best for everybody that he does chicken out?

[–] No1@aussie.zone 14 points 1 week ago

In that case, we should reinforce good behaviour by praising him:

Trump Admirably Chickened Out

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[–] DisgruntledGorillaGang@reddthat.com 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)

He's the biggest fucking dumbass in the universe.

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[–] nosuchanon@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I swear we live in the dumbest timeline. Can we switch back to pre-Covid timeline before Trump?

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[–] HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social 253 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Iran has been calling his bluff at every point. Not surprising.

Hilarious to see. Would be great if it didn't ruin everything while being hilarious though.

[–] evenglow@lemmy.world 126 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Republicans had a choice. They chose to make things worse. They can't complain about laughing out of frustration or dark humor. Not after decades of sabotaging America so they could finally control USA.

[–] HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social 83 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Republicans had a whole bunch of choices. They still have a lot of choices. They keep choosing to do the stupid and/or evil choice. I'll be laughing at them and what happens to Americans for years or decades.

I'm more concerned about the rest of the world having to deal with the consequences of moronic republican decisions.

[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social 47 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I’m more concerned about the rest of the world having to deal with the consequences of moronic republican decisions.

This is the worst part of it. I didn't vote for that moronic child fucker. I can't even vote in that shithole because I don't live there. Yet, I'm getting fucked, and roughly, because of them.

But hey, 'don't go "all americans" because some of them didn't vote for him'. Well fuck you! You didn't vote for him, but what about us? Getting screwed by someone who's not even in our continent just because he fucked kids and don't want to go to jail for it?

[–] StillAlive@piefed.world 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Oh but don't you know Kamala Harris wasn't a good enough candidate so some Americans couldn't bring themselves to vote for her. 

Fuck those guys even more than MAGA. 

[–] jumjummy@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago

Absolutely. Anyone who was eligible to vote in the US that didn’t vote for Kamala Harris come the general election is part of the reason we have Trump. These are objective facts at this point.

“But Gaza!”, “both sides”, “NeoLiberals”, etc. are all flimsy excuses.

You want progressives to have a chance of winning? Make the Republican Party lose so badly that they aren’t contenders ever again. Now you can start to differentiate within the Democrat party to get some true progressives.

[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nah, it's worse. Every voter that didn't vote in those elections just said: "I'm ok with both candidates". They have decided that choosing Harris or PedoHitler was the same thing. Is not that she wasn't "good enough", it's that they said she was AS GOOD AS PEDOHITLER.

[–] StillAlive@piefed.world 12 points 1 week ago

Some of them are still at it. A mere mention of choosing between lesser evil and they come in calling us 'genocide supporters'. 

[–] HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social 14 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Yeah I'm getting a bit tired of the "I didn't vote for him" thing from Americans. I understand that they didn't but from the outside, I can't really start singling out people, so as a result I blame America as a whole. They should have fixed their system decades ago, but they didn't care enough.

I sympathize for all the anti-trump Americans... but they are doing as much as the Republicans are doing, to remove him. Which is fuck all. Going on a parade on a Saturday once in two months doesn't count as doing something, no matter how "historically large" it was.

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (10 children)

I wasn’t even old enough to vote against him the first time he ran. I did my best to convince all my historically conservative Republican family to not vote for him, however the propaganda they consume is too strong to get to them. My mother has been watching Fox News chronically since 1997 when it first aired. By 2016, she’d been consuming that propaganda straight for damn near 20 years!!!

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[–] SoupBrick@pawb.social 14 points 1 week ago

They can't complain

Unfortunately, they can and will.

They need to clutch pearls at every chance they get to show how 'evil' the left is so they can villainize them easier.

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[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 96 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The US had a perfectly good nuclear deal with Iran, but Trump chose to rip it up nine years ago because it had Obama's name on it.

Should come to no surprise that Iran don't want to end this crisis diplomatically with the same guy who stabbed them in the back just to spite the Democrats...

Trump sparked anger and concern around the globe on Tuesday morning with his post, which read, “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!”

I've not read the full wording of his Truth Social post until now, but why does it read like he's trying to cut a wrestling promo?

I mean his description of the US airman rescue operation in yesterday's press conference where he called the Iranian army a "hostile, very talented, very good, very evil military" was giving me Danhausen vibes...

[–] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If he plays his cards right, he might end up winning the WWE Peace Prize.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Did you misspel WW3? 🤭

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (11 children)

The US had a perfectly good deal. Israel didn't. If the deal had stayed in place, the Iranian econony would have roughly doubled by now. That's a lot more resources that could stay in Israel's way of expanding into Lebanon for example.

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[–] YeahIgotskills2@lemmy.world 68 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

Out of curiosity I checked out how Fox News is covering this shit show. Totally fucking unhinged is an understatement. He could livestream eating a baby and they'd be praising his bold nutritional choices.

It's wild. Meanwhile, other mainstream media channels are accused of leftist propaganda by these deranged lunatics, simply for reporting the facts.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Dude at work randomly walked up and said Iran is gonna be a nice parking lot. Like I've known you two weeks and my toolbox is covered in socialist stickers, either you can't read or you're real real fuckin dense.

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[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 60 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Americans if this is not the time for second amendment I don’t fucking know what it. This is Munich 1938, it’s now or deal with a king and a world war where you guys are the Nazis.

The opposition has been infighting and soon you’ll all be silenced too. Before Germany invaded Europe, they stamped out any dissent within their borders first. Throwing the growing list of undesirable in camps without due process.

It’s not like this is already happening in America is it? 🤔 But really Americans how much more do you need? And don’t just throw your arms up in the air and dodge blame while you sit on your couch watching Netflix.

Your country was won by fat farmers and every profession in between when they realized it was UNITE OR DIE

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[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 47 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

No one in their right mind talks with a lunatic.

By acting crazy and threatening people, dj appears to have made up his own mind long ago.

[–] DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I'm so confused. I thought there was a 2 week cease fire starting today?

[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

Everything is a lie unless an Iranian official confirms it. That is the new order of things.

[–] maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 19 points 1 week ago

This post is older than the ceasefire announcement.

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[–] RockBottom@feddit.org 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Who would've thought the art of the deal is just black mailing?

[–] CatZoomies@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

The Art of the Deal: Letting your fragile self be easily manipulated into getting nothing that you wanted.

[–] bagsy@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He's a shitting, screaming, spoiled child having a temper tantrum. Oh, he also has access to the nuke codes. Nothing to worry about. /s

[–] KC_Royalz@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well if the nukes fly tonight I hope there's at least a few that refuse the orders

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[–] OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (3 children)

This could be a blessing in disguise. He called Biden a retard on Monday. He's now upped the threats a notch.

Could be he got some very bad health news from Walter Reed medical over the weekend.

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Huh. Weird. Turns out when you show a demented willingness to cause mass genocide, people might get the impression that negotiations aren't really an option anymore.

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

It isn't really "talks" when the alternative is to be destroyed as a civilization. That's bullying and extortion

[–] northendtrooper@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is 'Sum of all Fears' level of OH FUCK.

[–] LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yep it's not funny. Some commenters seem to find this funny. It's not. He's an incredibly dangerous man and easily capable of killing millions with zero remorse.

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[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 22 points 1 week ago

That went well.

[–] leoj@piefed.social 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I would wish he would just die already but I honestly believe he is just a puppet with 80 different hands up his ass.

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[–] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 19 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Good. Call his bluff. Show the world what a fucking idiot asshole he is.

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