Meanwhile, dozens were injured by Iranian strikes in Israel, as Tehran targeted a nuclear site.
Donald Trump threatened Iran in a Truth Social post Saturday evening, warning that the U.S. would target the nation’s power plants if the Strait of Hormuz remained closed.
“If Iran doesn’t FULLY OPEN, WITHOUT THREAT, the Strait of Hormuz, within 48 HOURS from this exact point in time, the United States of America will hit and obliterate their various POWER PLANTS, STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST!” Trump wrote in the post.
Approximately 20% of the world’s oil passes through the the Strait of Hormuz, a critical trade route. Iranian attacks on ships in the area have seen the area essentially close to maritime traffic, while oil prices have soared globally.
But Democrats equally bad or something.
Maybe not equally but they will need to take a good chunk of responsibility for this.
Americans saw his first term, his attempts to bomb Iran were thwarted back then.
Americans watched as he tried to steal the 2020 election.
Americans and democrats had 4 years to punish him for this.
What did Americans do? They gave him an even bigger mandate in 2024.
Assuming the 2024 election was valid, this is an American-wide problem. You’ve all got to own this and you’ve all got to be the ones to do something about it.
Unfortunately it is now a world-wide problem. What are you going to do about it?
Protect myself as best I can financially from the coming recession. Little else I can do. Thankfully I live in a country with decent worker rights and benefits systems so even if I lose my job I should be able to bounce back. Not like capitalist dystopian USA.
I’m American, so I’m going to stream the latest hot marvel movies and pay taxes to kill people so I can continue to be a worthless thoughtless human being.
With all of the Russia mentions in this thread, sometimes falling out of a window is pro democracy.
It’s pointless as enough people are encouraged by influence ops to support the dems to run opposition. And their leadership is doomed to fail. Fuck this country, straight to hell, waiting for the phoenix.
Phoenixes rise from something burned to ashes. Not from something turned to shit. Sorry.
Shit does burn after it dries. Or after held in anaerobic conditions it produces methane. So the analogy still kind of works.
That said, plato catalogued greek republics and noticed a pattern they all followed, and all have since, it’s just a matter of time. A monarch is overthrown and a republic instituted. That republic in time decays through stages of oligarcic repression, although he breaks it down into specific stages, and in time, a true leader emerges, and rallies the people, and lays waste to the oligarchy, and becomes a sort of king again, which in time decays and a republic overthrows them and starts the cycle anew.
At a point, destroying the oligarchy is worth any cost. We are at that point. The current president is not caesar, but sulla, another stage of oligarchic repression, until a real leader emerges to lay waste to the oligarchy. The time is nigh, and epstein is the key.
That’s a lot of words and thout put into what is ultimately just hopeful coping.
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What wit! Ha ha.
I resist.
…they all get played out by wealthy corrupted people. It’s the entire culture that’s fucked up.
Oh come on.
This is his second term. I’m not going to give free pass to trump voters, third party voters, and non-voters.
I’m not gonna give a free pass to the spineless conservative Democratic voters who were so afraid of rocking the boat that they refused to help change its course. Neoliberal ideologues and anti left fear mongering kept the party divided, and it’s not like the left wing of the party were the ones unwilling to compromise. AOC played ball to have influence in the party, voting rights activists endorsed voter ID laws to try to compromise with Republicans, yet it didn’t matter because they were always the ones who were expected to give something up. The right wing of the party used the spectre of needing to compromise with fascists to bend the progressive to heel, and they couldn’t even win over the people on the right they were trying to appeal to.
The sad part is they doomed the party in 2020 when they voted for Biden because they wanted to “return to sanity.” That was the last opportunity to right the ship, but because Bernie was still too radical despite the conservative losing in 2016, people voted for the “safe” picks in droves. It didn’t even matter what the lower levels of the party demanded, as Biden refused to hold an open primary because he saw 1 win as a mandate for 2.
So no, it’s not just the non-voters or third party voters who are responsible, but the rank and file Democrats who fumbled the game. Even the progressives should’ve been more demanding. People were still unaware of how bad things could get; unaware that left wing populism wasn’t just an idealistic dream, but the necessary weapon for defeating right wing populism.
Yeah they did so much to stop this in the last 50 years right right?