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America First Joe

@Callous_Boomer

US Citizen, husband, grandfather, USN vet, constitutional conservative. Interested in HBD, psychology and history.

Illinois, USA Beigetreten Mayıs 2018
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America First Joe
America First Joe@Callous_Boomer·
I don't know much about heart valve replacement either. So if I understand the parameters to require it, I don't study how to do it. Iran already demonstrated much greater range in its ballistic missiles that we knew of. They clearly spend billions to target missiles at its neighbors. They have stated and acted on their attentions with great satan USA. The USA has untold 1000's of people who studied and trained for 40 years to tackle Iran.
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Bret Weinstein
Bret Weinstein@BretWeinstein·
I supported Trump in '24 as the only viable and legitimate candidate running. Maybe those, like me, who expected him to avoid war, simply got conned. But that's not the only valid hypothesis. The deep state appeared to vehemently oppose Trump. Presumably it had contingency plans
Glenn Greenwald@ggreenwald

You won't hear a better 55-second description of MAGA and Trump than this: in terms of the perspective of any minimally honest MAGA supporter:

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Melchizedek 🐭
Melchizedek 🐭@Melchizedek1972·
@Callous_Boomer @BretWeinstein Those are strategic goals, not strategies to achieve them. Again, Joe, please lay out your ideas of how we would achieve those strategic goals. Convince me ( and the millions of MAGA that think it’s time to leave).
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Melchizedek 🐭
Melchizedek 🐭@Melchizedek1972·
@Callous_Boomer @BretWeinstein We have already destroyed their ability to do that for at least a decade. If you’re talking long term, it would mean taking over the whole country like we did in Iraq. As you have to agree didn’t turn out well…..
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America First Joe
America First Joe@Callous_Boomer·
Omri Ceren@omriceren

That's a lie. It's not what happened. It's not how it ever could have happened. The nuclear deal was structured so that when it expired Iran would be able to build a nuclear weapons arsenal while being immune from American pressure. Trump's absolute minimum for a deal has always been that Iran can never have a nuclear weapons capability. The gap was unbridgeable. That's easy to see even at the broadest level. At that level, the Iran debate is divided into two issues: sanctions and nuclear. In the JCPOA, that meant - 1. Sanctions relief. The JCPOA required the US to lock up our most powerful sanctions, including and especially oil sanctions, which had been built against the full range of Iran's malign activities. Iran would get to reap hundreds of billions of dollars annually to build up its navy, missile arsenal, and terrorist proxies, in exchange for concessions just on nuclear issues. 2. Nuclear sunsets. Even those concessions were just temporary. The deal legalized Iran's nuclear program, eventually allowing it to enrich uranium in unlimited amounts to unlimited levels. According to Obama, after a decade under the deal, Iran's nuclear breakout time would shrink to almost zero. In Trump 45, US negotiators spent a year trying to get the Europeans to agree to a "Fix" that would have abolished sunsets and addressed Iran's malign activities. The Europeans said, correctly, that the sunsets were the whole point of the deal, and talks stalled. In Trump 47, US negotiators repeatedly offered the Iranians deals in which Iran's nuclear capabilities would be permanently curtailed. Each time, the Iranians came back with counteroffers that were only temporary, and so here we are.

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Vesper Aegis🇵🇸
Vesper Aegis🇵🇸@VesperAegis·
Solution: It wasn't needed. A nuclear armed Iran was not an instant doomsday any more than Kim Jong Un or Israel getting nukes was doomsday. They would use nuclear weapons to solidify their regime and gain leverage, not start an apocalypse. That's what regimes with more power do with power.
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America First Joe
America First Joe@Callous_Boomer·
@sival84 @BretWeinstein You are niave enough to think Trump takes orders from anyone?. x.com/omriceren/stat…
Omri Ceren@omriceren

That's a lie. It's not what happened. It's not how it ever could have happened. The nuclear deal was structured so that when it expired Iran would be able to build a nuclear weapons arsenal while being immune from American pressure. Trump's absolute minimum for a deal has always been that Iran can never have a nuclear weapons capability. The gap was unbridgeable. That's easy to see even at the broadest level. At that level, the Iran debate is divided into two issues: sanctions and nuclear. In the JCPOA, that meant - 1. Sanctions relief. The JCPOA required the US to lock up our most powerful sanctions, including and especially oil sanctions, which had been built against the full range of Iran's malign activities. Iran would get to reap hundreds of billions of dollars annually to build up its navy, missile arsenal, and terrorist proxies, in exchange for concessions just on nuclear issues. 2. Nuclear sunsets. Even those concessions were just temporary. The deal legalized Iran's nuclear program, eventually allowing it to enrich uranium in unlimited amounts to unlimited levels. According to Obama, after a decade under the deal, Iran's nuclear breakout time would shrink to almost zero. In Trump 45, US negotiators spent a year trying to get the Europeans to agree to a "Fix" that would have abolished sunsets and addressed Iran's malign activities. The Europeans said, correctly, that the sunsets were the whole point of the deal, and talks stalled. In Trump 47, US negotiators repeatedly offered the Iranians deals in which Iran's nuclear capabilities would be permanently curtailed. Each time, the Iranians came back with counteroffers that were only temporary, and so here we are.

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Simon Vallée
Simon Vallée@sival84·
@Callous_Boomer @BretWeinstein Did it? Where are those nukes then? Cuck Chair Trump only attacked Iran because Bibi told him to, not because there was any risk of Iran getting nukes in the foreseeable future. His attack INCREASED the risk of Iran working towards nukes.
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America First Joe
America First Joe@Callous_Boomer·
@sival84 @BretWeinstein Sure, that will work until a nuclear weapon is demonstrated by Iran. They already used all their deals up. Obama's deal allowed them to eventually gain weapons no?
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Simon Vallée
Simon Vallée@sival84·
@Callous_Boomer @BretWeinstein Offer a deal to normalize relations with Iran and drop sanctions if they commit to a limit to uranium enrichment and regular inspections by international bodies.
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Grip it and Rip it
Grip it and Rip it@HC_doug·
@Callous_Boomer @BretWeinstein They said they did that with the strikes 6 months ago. All of our intelligence said they had no more program and still say that, counter to Trump and Bibi. This war has been Bibi's obsession for DECADES. He's said "Iran is weeks away" for decades. Admit we were all conned.
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America First Joe
America First Joe@Callous_Boomer·
@zriboua Clearly the nations with the most to lose were just ignoring the nuclear status of Iran and hoping for the best. What could go wrong? China pulling strings on a nuclear armed Iran controlling the SOH. The USA has Canada, VZ and Brazil as sources. Throw in Nigeria as well.
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Zineb Riboua
Zineb Riboua@zriboua·
Trump: "You know who also didn't help us? South Korea, you know who also didn't help us? Australia, you know who else didn't help us? Japan, and then you get to NATO, they didn't also help us. Saudi Arabia has been excellent, Qatar has been excellent, Bahrain and Kuwait, well, Kuwait hit our planes, they call it friendly fire, I call it unfriendly fire."
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America First Joe
America First Joe@Callous_Boomer·
Owning is the only option I can imagine if you plan on living someplace for many years. Having rent or leases terminated means moving. Landlords can want to sell and force a move. I have not been so lucky with making money on my primary residence, at best its probably a wash after 20 years. But I have paid it off for probably 10 years.
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Josh Young
Josh Young@JoshYoung·
Homeownership is a great "get rich slow" scheme. And there are huge societal benefits. Subject to affordability and other constraints, which are mostly policy driven and not intrinsic to homeownership.
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Peter Barry
Peter Barry@PeterBarry51687·
@BuckSexton Doesn't that imply the rulers of Iran are rational actors and doesn't that mean the nuclear threat is overblown? A large part of the argument for striking now is that we can't let irrational actors (i.e., true believers) get their hands on the trigger.
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Buck Sexton
Buck Sexton@BuckSexton·
Iran is actually a mafia state posing as a theocracy. Very few of its elites are true believers, and the real powerbrokers publicly shout pious slogans just so they can stay rich and repress the masses
Visegrád 24@visegrad24

“Death to America” has been chanted by Islamists in Iran since 1979. And yet many of the children of the Iranian Regime’s elite, like Sarinasadat Hosseiny, can’t wait to leave Iran for the very West their parents hate and want to destroy.

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America First Joe
America First Joe@Callous_Boomer·
@KimKatieUSA It is always the same. Local businesses using these illegals like slaves. Probably loads of Filipinos maids and others in hotel industry.
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Kim "Katie" USA
Kim "Katie" USA@KimKatieUSA·
Illegal immigration advocates in Hawaii are in full meltdown over the new ICE warrant guidance no more judicial warrants needed. DHS clapped back perfectly: “Every illegal served an administrative warrant already received full due process and a final removal order from a judge.” Truth is, they’re terrified because they’ve got relatives here illegally. Hawaii’s cost of living is getting crushed by this mess, and locals are fed up with 3+ generations of illegal families crammed into every home. Blue state or not, the comments on these stories show locals overwhelmingly support mass deportations.
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America First Joe
America First Joe@Callous_Boomer·
@CynicalPublius That is good to hear. I got a burning vengeance for these bastards starting from the Marine Barracks in Lebanon. I knew it could have been me they were my contemporaries in military. There have been too many more.
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Cynical Publius@CynicalPublius·
I don't think very many Americans realize that most GWOT vets view Operation Epic Fury as the culminating strategic victory that their earlier sacrifices were a preliminary part of. This is redemption for the past 25 years, and further back even for some. America, are you getting this?
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JA™
JA™@CoolestKid_3·
@KerryHolmekb You had 8 solid years and guess what you spent those 8 years doing? Sending billions of taxpayers dollars to a pedophile demon. You’re part of the problem. Stop monk-fearing around @BarackObama
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Kerry Holmes
Kerry Holmes@KerryHolmekb·
BREAKING: 🇺🇸 Former U.S. President, Barack Obama: “We cannot launch military operations to get out of an ideological or technological problem. History has taught us that conflicts in the Middle East are easy to start, but almost impossible to end in an orderly way. We must recognize that peace is not built on rubble, but on a regional architecture that provides stability. We must choose between difficult and persistent diplomacy, or a perpetual regional war that has no winners, only victims.”
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Labrador Skeptic
Labrador Skeptic@SaysSimulation·
This new agreement has to be seen in the context of my recent thread on Rwanda & the emerging multipolar world (next post). This is clearly part of the deal. The US would sanction Rwanda to stop its support of the M23 rebels in eastern Congo, and Congo would help the US with 1/
Disclose.tv@disclosetv

JUST IN - Democratic Republic of Congo to receive ​third-country nationals deported from the U.S. under a new deal with the Trump administration.

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America First Joe
America First Joe@Callous_Boomer·
@Oilfield_Rando Nostalgia is fun. Odd how we fondly remember certain aspects of the past and overlook some of the drawbacks. But I do think the 1950's with Ike in WH were rather unique time.
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America First Joe
America First Joe@Callous_Boomer·
@UnintendedCons5 Iran would have enough trouble avoiding a civil war and getting a functional government when (if) the regime falls. I imagine the oppressed Iranians will have a score to settle with many of the previous oppressors.
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