Wait... Are we all rooting for Iran now?
this post was submitted on 11 Mar 2026
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Oh they will.there is nothing to win for the usa.
It's possible to want both "sides" to lose
"Did you ever consider that I wanted both sides to lose?"
-- Bilbo Baggins Lord of War
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Kind of. I mean ... I wouldnt be sad if something happened ... I would be the opposite of sad.
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The enemy of my enemy...
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Oh man, if Iran kills Trump I would be so happy.
It'd cause a huge amount of trouble, and many people would die
But I'd still pop a bottle of champagne I've been saving
I feel comfortable saying I believe it would solve MANY more problems than it would cause.
As cathartic as it would be to know trump is dead, yeah you are probably right. It would be excellent though if he could be covertly killed by poison or something, and it look exactly like old age that killed him
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MAGA would essentially implode, it's all about Trump and when he passes there's no one who can carry the torch. These people will go on talking about it being a liberal conspiracy Trump is dead and become even more violent.
MAGA is a classic Cult of Personality, and Trump is the man. There is no #2, or even an obvious successor. Vance, Rubio, Don Jr, and others all see themselves as the heir apparent, but the MAGA rank & file only love Trump, and when he's gone, most of them will fade away.
Some may try to keep it together, but their hearts won't be in it. 90% of the MAGA following will go away, leaving only Republicans who sold their souls for the worst president and the most prolific traitor in American history.
When he croaks, the knives will come out, and the backstabbing will begin. I can't wait.
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How many of Irans 'leaders' were got in the terrorist attacks? If that were reciprocated I wonder if the world would blink.
The disgusting child murdering pedofile lives here 
I know it's wildly put of the realm of possibility, but just imagine...
I mean in the era of 3d-printed fpv drones, it's strange to me that he still lives.
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Not even out of the realm of possibility. He disintegrated khamenei and kidnapped maduro. Who’s stopping any country from doing that to him?
Can we crowd fund an assassin?
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Don't give in to the threats, Dear Leader, be out in the open as publicly and vulnerably as possible. If you show fear instead of living your life as normal then the terrorists win^TM^! You should definitely take zero precautions against these threats, you certainly won't regret taking zero precautions against these threats.
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I love that for him
Dear God somebody needs to take him out. So far it's been all the Republicans taking shots at him and fucking showing up on his properties with guns. They need some backup.
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This sounds like something Trump would say, actually.
Trump is 100000000000000% more likely to die from eating yet another McBurger in the next 24hrs than he's to be assassinated by the Islamic Regime from now to the end of his natural lifespan.
Also, to people who'd view that as a positive because hurr durr Trump (I get it): that would lead to President Vance with a mandate to wage a war of revenge. The whole political discussion would suddenly shift from all the damage that Trump has done to USA, to destroying Iran, with a high possibility of giving more strength to republicans.
The point Iran is making is that a war does not need billions of dollars of munitions to turn. They can do a lot of damage economically. This world would have been a 20x better place if some kid just aimed 2 inches to the right.
I think about that, and he honestly just shouldn't have gone for the headshot. At over 70 years old, it's very unlikely a hollow point to the chest will be survivable.
I don't think causus belli works like that in the modern day, and we haven't cared about legal mandates for war in the US for like 50 years.
Vance probably won't have a political mandate for continued war because a historically unpopular and getting more so by the moment president was killed in retaliation for a war he started.
I see it claimed that Vance would be worse a lot, but he doesn't even remotely have what it takes to be a cult leader, which is all the GOP is now. The power vacuum could only be a good thing.
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I am not so sure. Trump is an idiot and ignores people's advice because he thinks hes a genius, so I could see Iranian cells in america coming up with a viable assassination plot. Especially since they are not against kamikazee typed assassinations.
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I'm suddenly very pro-Iran. 👀
I want to buy a telescoping flag pole. Forget half mast, I want to be able to fly flags at double mast when someone particularly wicked dies.
The flags will be brought down and then replaced with the traditional "Yippie" flag on the day of his death.
Shoot the jump shot. Shoot it!
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