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It’s the elephant horse in the room, and it’s braying.

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18 points

Offered him a tower and a plane. They’re trolling the US.

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Next they’ll offer him another very similar tower, perhaps twin-like.

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The UK is offering steel beams.

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I hate corruption in all forms, but I love the fact that Israel (edit: Israeli government) is freaking the fuck out right now because the Middle East just realized all they have to do is bribe Trump.

Israeli government is pissed right now, and that’s awesome….

But also, stop pretending like just about every politician in Washington doesn’t also take legalized bribes

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This is bad. And these same people the Republicans where trying to find anything on Biden about bribery. But are silent on this stuff that Trump is doing in the open.

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We need to protect journalists, but unfortunately I don’t know of any

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israel can have their mountain but they must leave the buffer zone

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I hate corruption in all forms, but I love the fact that Israel is freaking the fuck out right now because the Middle East just realized all they have to do is bribe Trump.

Hey, maybe netanyahu being upset will cause democrats to actually oppose something trump is doing.

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I don’t have much faith in that he does seem hellbent on being the most bad ass terrorist in the world though?

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… and no one should put all the blame on one man … he isn’t that powerful or persuasive

It’s a complicit government that had decided to allow this orange menace to do as he pleases because it benefits some wealthy owners.

It’s a lot easier to blame one man because it would remove the complicity of a large organization of people that are driving all this.

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So they just SAY they will build this tower, not they are building it. What’s the chances they aren’t building shit but told our dumb fuck president this to get this done? I think pretty high. They can strimg him along, because they know he will be gone in four years either by end of presidency or death.

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And that is what I don’t get. He is so easily wooed by stuff. The UK trade agreement is not great, but he flounts the high tariffs that the importers will have to pay. Someone dangles a picture of something shiny and he jumps. This is so weird

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The UK trade deal is great because over here it was basically just reported as “the status quo has been maintained”, and then they just moved on to other news items. No one really cares about it.

Trump was going on and on about how America “has the best beef”, and how it’s unfair that we won’t take it, and this trade deal essentially means that farms will have to follow UK food standards in order to send beef (or whatever) to the UK. Since none of them will, essentially nothing has changed.

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I mean. Empty promises for things to be paid for by somebody else are kind of his Thing. Walls, Tariffs. It makes perfect sense.

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It’s easy to just blame the government. When the reality is there is an entire complicit class of voters voting them in

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6 points

Agreed. But when critical thinking is systematically being removed from the education system, well, you see what happens.

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we do nothing to stop it. we are a cooperative society. if we allow this to happen, then the blame is on all of us.

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there is also the rest of us who don’t do anything to stop him and his regime.

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5 points

Blame lies on the judicial branch for not putting him on the chair for his coup attempt and instead telling before elections he can do whatever he wants, legally.

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the blame lies on every one of us. we know exactly what is going on, that the government is broken, and yet we do nothing. we are the last guardrails of this democracy. if we don’t do something, this is the people’s fault.

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49 points

I find in endlessly funny that we’ve been screaming at the democrats to leverage Israel more to end hostilities in the ME without any real movement from them, but suddenly Trump is willing to say ‘fuck it’ just because the right people happen to be bribing him.

If the right people keep trump’s palms greased for long enough we might actually end up on the right side of history by accident, and if that’s not comedy I don’t know what is.

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Someone posted a good picture of the locking mechanism called the “ratchet effect” that democrats/neo-liberals provide for the ruling class.

Essentially, Republicans get to do whatever they want to enrich our rulers, and democrats are there to stop the workers from reversing any of the gains.

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By siding with al qaeda?

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24 points

Tell me you don’t know who Ahmed al-Sharaa is without telling me you don’t know who Ahmed al-Sharaa is.

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Ahmed al-Sharaa is the guy whose dogs are massacring Alawites right now, mostly done with that.

Can I have my A for this answer?

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I am just going by the meme, you caught me.

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