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Trump tells Iran to sign deal with US or ‘the whole country is going to get blown up’
(www.the-independent.com)
this post was submitted on 19 Apr 2026
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USA by criminals for criminals. Absolutely disgusting country, just as bad as Putin's Russia.
To the American population: The fact that you elected this corrupt criminal pedophile malignant narcissist of a moron twice will never be forgotten - never!
will never be forgotten
Sadly, you're wrong. It will be forgotten. That's why history keeps repeating itself.
If people didn't forget, they wouldn't have voted for fascists. After the war, people swore they would never forget the horrors of fascism either. And yet... Trump is soiling the White House today.
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Hell yeah! This is why Germany is still shunned by the global population after all these years.
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If ONLY there was SOMETHING we Could do to STOP this!
-Congresspeople doing NOTHING to Stop this!
I blame the criminally passive GOP congresscritters and senators for letting Trump and his fascist henchmen destroy the country. All it would take is for a few of them to agree to 25th Trump's ass and impeach Vance and Kegbreath for this madnest to end right this minute.
History will not be kind to them, and I hope the courts will hold them accountable for what they did one day too.
Don't let them or the media convince you that their actions are passive. They have had many opportunities to put the brakes on this administration, and every time they deliberately side with Trump. Every Republican congressperson is complicit with his agenda.
You kidding me. Once this fucker is gone, every single one of them will decide that the orange lying asshole was the only problem, and will reliably pull their team’s lever again and again…
Edit - goddamned autocorrect.
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Again? Didnt he sundown this same tantrum like 3 weeks ago?
He already forgot he did this one already from the dementia.
According to another article it's all a strategy/fake to make them think he's unstable and just do what he says.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-was-only-pretending-to-be-removed
Yeah, Mad Man Theory, which dates back to the Nixon Administration. It's debatable whether it worked back then, and it's definitely not going to work against a theocracy.
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So that relatively small group of soldiers sitting in boats far from shore without adequate food or supplies are going to crush the much larger and entrenched entire Iranian military now huh. Sounds real scary.
One silver lining to all this is that evidently Trump has learned that its harder to attack a mid sized country halfway around the world --without allies-- in challenging terrain -- than it is to attack some unarmed civilians trying to get to work in portland or minneapolis.
Progress of a sort.
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So Americans, are you really going to let this clearly unhinged man drive the world into nuclear Armageddon? You will cling on to the jobs you say you hate until the last second of doom lest you find balls and do anything?
As much as I hate to admit it, because I am one, modern Americans are wimps.
I mean....we're letting a criminal pedophile drive our futures into the dirt. As in, we will see a decline in the quality of our lives, for the remainder of our lives.
It's not really a matter of opinion. We're weaklings.
Whether "America The Brave" was true at some point or just propaganda, the bottom line is we're completely and totally pathetic right now. An absolutely shameful time to be an American citizen.
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The question is, will the Secret Service do its duty if he decides to nuke Iran? Because he sounds crazier than ever to me, if any President would, it's him.
Hopefully, an agent will follow their oath to protect the United States from all enemies, foreign and domestic.
Considering the SS paraded the photographers and journalists around Trump when his "ear got shot off," and that crane that slowly lowered the flag down for that infamous picture. I'd say they're all for on board.
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What does he do on sundays that gets him so riled up?
I think Sundays is the day when many of his closest advisers take some or all of the day off, so he's just wandering without the distractions that normally keep him busy.
Spook the market Sunday, spend spend the first half of the week blustering, place Polymarket bets on Thursday, announce the problem is solved and count your profits Friday, golf on Saturday (well, actually every day, but Saturday you don’t have to tweet if you don’t want to).
Trump talks the talk, but I would be surprised if the Iranians didn't quietly start to walk the walk and prepare some blowing up of their own.
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80 year old pedophile dementia patient says what??
US Diplomacy at work ladies and gentlemen.
Is this a new threat to blow up the country, after his last threat to do so where he claimed to have gotten a ceasefire (which Israel breached on Lebanon less than 24 hours later)?
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Lets gooo blood clot
AI Jesus with his psalm of genocide. Praise Epstein!
oh yeah... that'll work.
Just like when he told everyone the Straight was open and for some reason Iran didn't believe him
Oh, back to threatening genocide?
"Stand and deliver" - US is a fucking pirate nation. And the idiots from US Army and US Navy are just common criminals. All of them.
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I smell a 🌮, and I want a 🌮
Iran deserves to be
do as I say or I blowded you up.
shart of the deal
"make huge demands so that big demands look small" (it does not work)
Threaten and do nothing.
Again?
Again? Haven't we gone through this already?
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