Social media users are ridiculing President Donald Trump and Fox News after the network was accused of adding fake applause sounds to footage of the President's military parade last weekend.
That doesn't answer the question. There are US military bases all over the persian gulf that are sitting ducks. You are either against this war or for Americans dying for Israel.
Last year, Congress banned the app in the U.S., citing national security concerns and demanding it spin off from its Chinese owner, ByteDance. Trump said he'll once again pause enforcement of the ban.
That doesn't answer the question. There are US military bases all over the persian gulf that are sitting ducks. You are either against this war or for Americans dying for Israel.
You are arguing with a maga who gets near 100% of his "news" from X memes. His answer will always be whatever X told him last that makes Trump sound like a messiah. Principles and facts need not enter the conversation.
It’s silly to try to keep going with the TACO acronym and refer to his actions as “chickening out” much of the time. But yes: He has few principles, operates by gut reaction, doesn’t think things through, has no viable long-term plans, does not put the appropriate people in place to execute strategy well (even though that’s hard to tell in the absence of real strategy), … so, yeah, you have the gist of it.
Trump is a Champion of Freedom. He doesn't support an unjust ban on TikTok like Biden did. Furthermore, a big Trump donor (Jeff Yass - founder of SIG) owns a large stake in Bytedance.
This gentleman is a heretic! He is speaking directly against the dear leader’s inspired teachings and should be expelled from the church of Trump.
Powell: "What we're waiting for to reduce rates is to understand what will happen with really the tariff inflation ... everyone that I know is forecasting a meaningful increase in inflation in coming months from tariffs, because somebody has to pay for the tariffs ... some of it will fall on the consumer."
This gentleman is a heretic! He is speaking directly against the dear leader’s inspired teachings and should be expelled from the church of Trump.
Powell: "What we're waiting for to reduce rates is to understand what will happen with really the tariff inflation ... everyone that I know is forecasting a meaningful increase in inflation in coming months from tariffs, because somebody has to pay for the tariffs ... some of it will fall on the consumer."
Not sure why it seems that just about everyone talking about this goes straight to regime change and a military and geopolitical catastrophe? Why do so many think that the following is so very unlikely?
1) We, in a quite limited way, help finish Israel's attempt to substantially delay Iran's ability to get a nuclear weapon (presumably by now bombing a single site?).
2) That's ALL we do.
What happens then? Is that enough to spark/enable an overthrow? Wouldn't think so. But sure, IF it happened, regime change could be ugly. But more ugly than Iran have a nuke? I don't think so.
Now, do I want Trump and Hegseth to be running this show? Of course not. None of above suggests that. It's just not clear to me that helping to - presumably - finish off Iran's nuclear ambitions for a long time would necessarily lead us down an ugly trail. Or any "new" trail at all.
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This.
The amount of stupid stuff being said on this, led, of course, by Trump ("unconditional surrender!" "immediately evacuate Tehran" and "we now have complete and total control of the skies"), is much more than usual. And all the idiots either calling for regime change or living in terrible fear that regime change is the goal ("no more forever war!" etc.). WTF? It's not even an actual issue. The US, even under its current confused leadership, can figure out that it is either going to (1) assist Israel in trying to bomb Iran's nuclear weapon sites, or (2) negotiate some "deal" (i.e., do nothing). I don't understand the hesitancy to do (1) at all. Who is going to do anything about it?
Interesting discussion. Kudos to Trump for recognizing Iran as an adversary that should not have nuclear weapons. Bombing the facility may be the best option. Surgical strike.
The difficulty for Trump here is some of maga does not want to fund foreign wars, some of them want to bomb all arab / muslim countries. Add to that, Putin is allied with Iran and he struggles to do anything Putin doesn't like. Pile onto that, his entire cabinet has zero experience in international policy and were weaned by Fox news misinformation. All they and he know is media image, not policy, national security, or strategic planning. Hence we have a totally indecisive President in this situation. He is likely waiting for polls to tell him what to do.
India's richest man just bribed the Trump organization $10 million. No word on what he wants yet. In the first 6 months, between cryptocurrency and real estate, the Trump family is expected to pull in over a billion dollars to get around tariffs, to get laws changed, to have the SEC stop investigating a company, to get a presidential pardon, etc. Trump is #1 again - most bribes EVER taken by a politician.
In January this year, Ambani had attended Trump’s inauguration in the US and was also a guest in the state dinner held last month in Doha, that was hosted by the Qatar Emir for the US President.
Intelligent people who know Iran, its people, and its history never speak to this nation in the language of threats, because Iranians cannot surrender.
The amount of stupid stuff being said on this, led, of course, by Trump ("unconditional surrender!" "immediately evacuate Tehran" and "we now have complete and total control of the skies"), is much more than usual. And all the idiots either calling for regime change or living in terrible fear that regime change is the goal ("no more forever war!" etc.). WTF? It's not even an actual issue. The US, even under its current confused leadership, can figure out that it is either going to (1) assist Israel in trying to bomb Iran's nuclear weapon sites, or (2) negotiate some "deal" (i.e., do nothing). I don't understand the hesitancy to do (1) at all. Who is going to do anything about it?
Interesting discussion. Kudos to Trump for recognizing Iran as an adversary that should not have nuclear weapons. Bombing the facility may be the best option. Surgical strike.
The difficulty for Trump here is some of maga does not want to fund foreign wars, some of them want to bomb all arab / muslim countries. Add to that, Putin is allied with Iran and he struggles to do anything Putin doesn't like. Pile onto that, his entire cabinet has zero experience in international policy and were weaned by Fox news misinformation. All they and he know is media image, not policy, national security, or strategic planning. Hence we have a totally indecisive President in this situation. He is likely waiting for polls to tell him what to do.
Forgot to add that Trump opened the weapons floodgate to Israel months ago including bunker busters with no restrictions on their use. They used them for Gaza genocide without a peep from Trump. Israel already attacked Iran. Why didn't they just use the bunker busters on the underground nuclear facility? Trump could pretend it has nothing to do with him.
India's richest man just bribed the Trump organization $10 million. No word on what he wants yet. In the first 6 months, between cryptocurrency and real estate, the Trump family is expected to pull in over a billion dollars to get around tariffs, to get laws changed, to have the SEC stop investigating a company, to get a presidential pardon, etc. Trump is #1 again - most bribes EVER taken by a politician.
Yeah, there's a reason why Ambani is such a great businessman - he knows exactly what he needs to do. View it as a $10 million investment for a much larger payoff.
Trump also is a true genius:
"India’s richest man has joined the ranks of foreign developers pouring money into President Trump’s real-estate firm, as the first family ramps up dealmaking after years of aversion to mixing business with global politics. Investors planning Trump-branded projects in Vietnam, Dubai and Saudi Arabia and elsewhere paid the Trump Organization $44.6 million in foreign licensing and development fees in 2024, up from $8.2 million in 2023 and $9.4 million in 2022, according to the president’s annual financial disclosure report."
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"Taken with a set of real-estate projects announced this year in Qatar and elsewhere in India, the burst of foreign Trump deals stands as a highly visible display of the family strategy to steam ahead with expansion plans across the president’s businesses while he sits in the White House. His growing reach spans an array of sectors—including golf, cryptocurrency and a recently announced Trump mobile phone—marking a major break from previous administrations that sought to keep the presidency separated from potential conflicts of interest. While the deals have sparked criticism from Democratic lawmakers and governance advocates, there has been little public resistance from the Republicans who control Congress. In the first term, the Trump Organization pledged a halt to foreign dealmaking while he was in office—essentially putting a stop to any new real-estate projects from the company. Donald Trump Jr, a company executive who oversees the president’s assets with his brother, Eric Trump, said at a Qatar-based conference in May that recusal from deals didn’t stop criticism, so this time the family has lowered the self-imposed guardrails—vowing only to avoid direct deals with foreign governments." “We said we’re going to play by the rules, but we’re not going to go so far as to stymie our business forever,” Donald Trump Jr. said."
From Fed Chair Powell, today: “It takes some time for tariffs to work their way through the chain of distribution to the end consumer. A good example of that would be goods being sold at retailers today may have been imported several months ago before tariffs were imposed. So we're beginning to see some effects, and we do expect to see more of them over the coming months”
