@DividendRay @BarbMcQuade Hope the silly ball room and many more Trump memorials that are coming also goes along with it.
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Peter
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@BarbMcQuade It will all go away with the next administration.
Good riddance.
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Putting the current leader’s name and image on everything is an authoritarian move, designed to make them seem more present, more powerful, more invincible than they are. It is a betrayal of American democracy, where power belongs to the people.
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@gina01618328 @BarbMcQuade Democracy is when he lost in 2020 and was kicked out of office.
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@BarbMcQuade Democracy is when 78 million Americans voted for President Trump
popular vote 51.3%
Electoral votes 306
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@LarryBoorstein @BarbMcQuade Very true. Even authoritarians have some shame. Plastering your name every where is just cringe.
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@BarbMcQuade Vladimir Putin's signature and image is not on Russian currency. Xi Jinping's are not on Chinese currency. The Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei's are not on Iranian currency. But those leaders are not narcissistic authoritarians like Donald Trump.
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@SusanJacks81856 @LarryBoorstein @BarbMcQuade Therapist told him to pray for illiterate MAGA like you.
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@LarryBoorstein @BarbMcQuade Oh my. Larry is triggered easily. What does your therapist think?
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@BarbMcQuade THE PEOPLE wanted a closed border. You didn't fucking care.
THE PEOPLE wanted mass deportations. You didn't fucking care.
THE PEOPLE want VOTER ID LAWS. You don't fucking care.
You Mother Fuckers only care about what helps you.
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@BarbMcQuade It is a disgrace. What happened to America? This does not even happen in third word countries. The deluded MAGA seems to like it.
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@Robert_E_Kelly From the speech that he delivered in Miami I don't think he is capable to even understand all of that. With politically correct statements like "kiss my ass" can you expect anything better from him?
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How long do we stay? What do we do when the entire Iranian military descends on these enclaves? Do we push deeper into Iran to suppress those attacks? Doesn’t Iran just close the strait again when we leave?
Why isn’t POTUS speaking to the country to explain all this?
Kelly Grieco@ka_grieco
Seizing territory isn't the hard part. Holding it is. In Strait, the U.S. doesn't have air superiority at lower altitudes, and conducting ground ops without it is very costly (see Ukr). "Secure uranium stockpiles" also assumes we know where they all are and can reach them.
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@woly9010 @aimk27 If they are not making plans already they are living in fools paradise. They have to be smarter than this. America will not stick around for long. If America treats NATO, Europe this badly what hope does the Arabs have. Americans are basically Europeans and have a lot in common.
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@plebhere @aimk27 It’s understandable that the Us government would seek to keep them weakened and it’s been beneficial for them in financial terms but the reality remains that the benefits would be outweighed eventually so the opportunity to change the equation should be considered legitimately
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We truly owe so much to Trump. This man has done more to dismantle Western client states in MENA than 50 years of progressive foreign policy. And is now publically humiliating MBS & delegitimizing the gulf oil monarchies. Our decolonial hero. I can’t help that I love him & wish we could give him a third term
Tenzing Lamsang@TenzingLamsang
“He didn’t think he would be kissing my ass, he really didn’t…and now he has to be nice to me….he better be nice to me, he’s gotta be..” - Trump about MBS Trump lays out the actual relationship between USA and the Arab countries in the region.
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@aimk27 @plebhere You have a near unlimited supply of energy and money that could be spend a pittance on defence between your shared interests and have complete control over energy supply flowing from Western Asia despite your size your capabilities far outweighs the box you force yourself into 🫡
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That’s your opinion. Not all GCC states joined the Abraham Accords, and they are not popular at the societal level btw. Again, take it from a realist point of view, the GCC is doing what they can to protect their people, provide them with good quality of life, and defend their territories. That includes a strong relationship (political, military, economic) with the US. Then be it. You can have your opinions and throw all the adjectives you want, you’re not a GCC citizen; nor are you well-versed in their cultural, socio-political systems or societies.
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Are you stupid? When did I say we had commonalities with the West? You brought this point up and I refuted.
Yes, we are located in West Asia.
I do not support the destruction of Gaza, and Israel is a genocidal terrorist state.
I am making a point about the GCC and US. Not Israel, fuck Israel.
Not mutually exclusive arguments my friend.
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Of course, the same workers who voluntarily moved to the Gulf, who for generations send remittances back home that not only feed their families as a source of livelihood (something their corrupt and background countries did not provide them) but also boosts their local economies.
By ground situation, I meant geopolitical and historical realities. But of course I see through your bias and see the point you’re making and will reply based with reason and fact.
Yes, an employee at a sandwich a shop will most likely hand the sandwich to a customer outside the shop. That’s how drive throughs work. Amazing stuff.
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@aimk27 Well I guess then Trump must know of your culture well when he came there. That is why he saying that his ass should be licked. Grow a spine man. Call out something for what it is. I am sure you must be educated in the west that is why you have so much admiration for them.
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Ottoman currency, Qatar-Dubai Riyal, your point? Rupee??? You mean British-controlled colonial territory India? Yes.
We know our culture, this was clear in the World Cup opening ceremony and clear when Trump visited 2025.
Iran “helped” only when it was in their geopolitical interest to do so, only to spite the other GCC countries. In international relations there are no friends, there are state interests and strategics. The Mullah Shia regime in Iran has no affection for Sunnah or Arabs; as proven in Syria.
You’re boring and uneducated.
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@Billbrowder He would have done it if he was not constrained by the congress.
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Sounds like the table is being set for the US to withdraw from NATO. Not that this wasn’t obvious before, but it’s now being said pretty explicitly
Department of State@StateDept
PRESIDENT TRUMP: NATO wasn’t there for us. We send billions of dollars to them every year to protect them. We would have always been there for them. But based on their actions, I guess we don’t have to be, do we? Why would we be there for them if they’re not there for us?
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@PhillipsPOBrien No, it tells a lot about you, America. Please stop self-humiliating yourselves, it hurts.
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Explains a great deal about his Cabinet choices.
Acyn@Acyn
Trump: I hang out with losers because it makes be feel better. I hate guys that are very, very successful and you have to listen to their success stories. I like people that like to listen to my success.
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@aimk27 Wasn't Indian rupee used there in Qatar before riyals was pegged to the dollar? Before saying that you are proud of alliance with the west make sure you know what their culture is and what is yours. Know their values. Didn't Iran help you guys out with food and supplies in 2017.
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Who is they? The Illuminati? The EU? Britain? France? Who are you referring you? I was specific and said US. “Money bags” man this is really old talking point, ok oil and money, and? Then what? Are GCC citizens starving? Is there universal healthcare in decline? Is there world class education disappearing? Is the quality of life affected?
It’s easy to throw around adjectives, again, you don’t know the reality on the ground, you don’t know the hearts and minds of the GCC people, nor how they’re political systems historically and cultural work.
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