• homes@piefed.world
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    1 hour ago

    Just in time for him to bluster all day and back down for Taco Tuesday.

    he thinks this is just some hardball negotiation tactic, but it comes off as just another one of his old-man dementia tantrums that he embarrassingly has to back down from, again, making Iran look like the reasonable ones.

    meanwhile, back at home, he, his family, and his cronies are playing the stock market like one of his pump-and-dump schemes, making billions.

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    2 hours ago

    Honestly, at this point, let’s fucking see Trump attack a vessel from a NATO nation. Let’s do it. I want to see the article 7, I want to see NATO come in and fix the USA.

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      Nothing is going to fix the US bud. Nothing short of civil war. Everyone’s just waiting for pressure to ramp up to “watering the tree of liberty” levels.

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        DNC Policy Platform looks pretty good, tbh. Money out of politics, reform the court, term limits, tax the rich, restrict data collection, restrict foreign ownership of land and industry.

        What’s a US Civil War II going to do for us aside from helping China conquer Taiwan and Russia conquer Ukraine?

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    This is taking the toll Iran planned on charging and turns it into a mob style protection racket that demands 1/5 of your cargo as extortion.

    I guess i don’t need to say it, but this is gonna backfire on us…

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    “All other countries will have fair and open use of the Strait,” he said, but added that “as a matter of FAIRNESS, [the U.S.] will be reimbursed, at the rate of 20% on all cargo shipped, for any and all costs necessary to do the job of providing safety and security to this very volatile section of the World.”

    Trump said the “process and formation will begin immediately.”

    “We guarded the strait for 50 years and never got paid for it,” Trump said on Fox. “We want to be reimbursed for this, for putting our people in danger.”

    Isn’t this dumbass protection racket essentially privateering?

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    He really thinks that the point is the money.

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