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    Donald Trump doesn’t. He didn’t say HE didn’t though. He clearly does, he’s different. He’s a more special boy. He can do whatever he wants. But not the Cheeto Trump, only Biden.

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        I know I’ll never fully understand a man who can say “you had to put on your windshield wipers to get, literally, the oil slick off the window,” in reference to refineries spewing out oil during their upbringing, yet continue to keep licking corporate boot

        Well, that’s not totally true, it’s probably some unholy amalgamation of indifference, greed, belief in free market liberalism, and stupidity

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        It’s very complex, you need to understand a dozen different fields.

        Or, in case you’re Biden, you need to be an 81 year old who graduated 76th in a class of 85 students at a time before the moon landing or first space station, and who has never held a real job (aside from a less than two year period).

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    biden-rember Enough with that malarky jack! This ain’t a war. This is just a routine missile strike on yet another middle eastern country! Heck, this ain’t about actively defending the ability for our friends to finish comitting their geno… you know, the thing… defending themselves. It’s about boats! And a bad bunch of boys who wanna play pirates by stealing our Iranian oil tanker, or you know, whatever. This would be a coast guard rescue if any of them could fly F-22s and all the targets we know about from helping the Saudis bomb them for years weren’t on land. I’d be out there with 'em if these secret service guys would let me. Sailing to the rescue… wearing that orange lifejacket, wind blowing in my hair… god my dad could sail a boat! What’s that…? Oh… uhmmm… my staff is making that motion to tell me to wrap it up. So I’ll just say this… we’ll win this war by this time next week. God bless America! biden

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      Do you have the video link, please? I’d like to put the transcript into context.

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    take us into war with Iran without Congressional approval

    without the informed consent of the American people

    Read: Donald Trump doesn’t know how to fight a war. But I know. I am the President who can win wars for America.

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      Why would you comment this vague nonsense instead of just pointing out the assumptions you think are “bad”? You might say it “approaches infinity” for emphasis, but it actually doesn’t and I’m willing to bet your complaints can be contained in five points tops.

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        At the time there was widespread reliable reporting that Trump was contemplating going to actual (boots on the ground) war with Iran because of the bump a President usually gets in approval when we go to war.

        If Trump had been contemplating (or doing) retaliatory strikes against Iran-supported terrorists, Biden would’ve been wrong to criticize Trump for thinking about bombing legitimate military targets.

        We’ve unfortunately cultivated both a very strong and mostly unaccountable (to the rest of the world) military and a lot of enmity from Shia Muslims (not that the Sunnis love us or anything).

        All that being said, Biden is a serious person who takes the job of President seriously, who takes the deployment of military power seriously, who definitely understands and considers the danger of escalation seriously. He took this action with the active participation of one ally (the UK) and probably in consultation with most of our closer allies. It was done in response to months of active attacks which could’ve hurt people and has diverted a lot of global trade traffic to go around South Africa.

        Trump is not and never was serious about anything to do with the Presidency, he wanted to bomb Iran for his poll numbers, and wanted to leave NATO.

        hope that helps.

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          Trump is not and never was serious about anything to do with the Presidency… and wanted to leave NATO.

          Lmao.

          Death to NATO nato-cool

          Trump wanted to leave NATO because he has no idea how US imperialism works, think of him as Homer Simpson pressing random buttons at the control room. Leftists hate NATO because it is the military arm of modern day imperialism. A “defensive alliance” that starts wars wherever it goes, and whose original staff members were actual 1940s German Nazis.

          It was done in response to months of active attacks which could’ve hurt people and has diverted a lot of global trade traffic to go around South Africa.

          So global trade is more important than Palestinian lives? You know what would’ve been a better way to get global trade back on track? To get Israel to stop committing genocide against Palestinians. One phone call from Biden telling Israel they won’t get any more US ammunition, and Israel would be forced to stop it’s genocide. If Biden was a “serious person” he would do just that. That’s the whole reason the Houthi government of Yemen is carrying out the blockade in the first place. To put pressure on Israel, and the “international community” to stop the genocide of Palestinians.

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          He took this action with the active participation of one ally (the UK) and probably in consultation with most of our closer allies

          But not Congress or the American people, which is what he was criticizing Trump for.

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            I can’t say I’m surprised at the absolute nothingburger of a response. It’s precisely what you’d expect from a pathetic lib who has to perform mental gymnastics in order to defend his favorite war criminal. I never ever want to hear these fuckers accuse enemies of the state department of doing a genocide ever again, because I’ll keep on reminding them how they’re absolute monsters for defending and supporting the genocide against the Palestinian people, and I will do so until they kill themselves.

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          All that being said, Biden is a serious person who takes the job of President seriously, who takes the deployment of military power seriously, who definitely understands and considers the danger of escalation seriously.

          Absolutely hilarious

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          If Trump had been contemplating (or doing) retaliatory strikes against Iran-supported terrorists, Biden would’ve been wrong to criticize Trump for thinking about bombing legitimate military targets.

          The U.S. is actively supporting a genocide in the region and the only reason these “terrorists” are “threatening” the U.S. is because the former is trying to prevent shipments from getting to Israel. And it’s not “retaliatory,” the Houthis are retaliating against a genocide. Genuinely the “Iran support” is just nonsense, I could call a number of countries “US supported” and it would be more meaningful because they’re actual Nazis.

          All that being said, Biden is a serious person who takes the job of President seriously, who takes the deployment of military power seriously, who definitely understands and considers the danger of escalation seriously. He took this action with the active participation of one ally (the UK) and probably in consultation with most of our closer allies. It was done in response to months of active attacks which could’ve hurt people and has diverted a lot of global trade traffic to go around South Africa.

          Wow, these attacks could have hurt people? You know what else hurts people? Genocide you liberal dipshit. He did it to “protect the free flow of international commerce” per his own statement yesterday. Biden is a genocidal fascist, and when he dies I will personally place you in one of the immigrant concentration camps. Also concerning that NATO shit, read abt Gladio.

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          hope that helps

          smuglord helps us tack down exactly how little thought and investigation you put into your positions.

          may you apply such an inquisitive method before playing with live wires

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          You can say Biden is a hypocrite. He’s committing war crimes and claims he’s doing it in your name. You have no obligation to support or defend the actions of an imperial state.

          You said it yourself, the US military is pretty much unaccountable. But by defending Biden, you’re enabling that lack of accountability. Shia Muslims aren’t the problem here.

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          It was done in response to months of active attacks which could’ve hurt people and has diverted a lot of global trade traffic to go around South Africa.

          Oh no! Why would they do something that could’ve hurt people? Surely not to bar supplies going to directly aid the murder of tens of thousands of people. What a terrible thing to do. Someone could’ve gotten hurt.

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          Biden is a serious person who takes the job of President seriously, who takes the deployment of military power seriously

          Serious people in the room, making serious decisions, seriously

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          All that being said, Biden is a serious person who takes the job of President seriously

          He’s so unserious about the presidency that Obama became irritated and confronted his advisors who are failing to execute a good reelection campaign.

          Trump is not and never was serious about anything to do with the Presidency, he wanted to bomb Iran for his poll numbers

          I don’t give a shit what their motives are because all of them result in the prolong genocide of people around the world, in this case, middle eastern people and specifically Muslims.

          wanted to leave NATO.

          This would’ve been the only good thing he did. But you’re stupid enough to think that the American empire will just let some clown unravel their work.

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          He took this action with the active participation of one ally (the UK) and probably in consultation with most of our closer allies

          And in the UK, Rishi Sunak is facing criticism from his own party for going over Parliament’s head on this. Just because he’s found another head of state as bloodthirsty as he is doesn’t magically make it justified.

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          We’ve unfortunately cultivated both a very strong and mostly unaccountable (to the rest of the world) military and a lot of enmity from Shia Muslims (not that the Sunnis love us or anything).

          Was this connected to anything, or did you just feel the need to obfuscate why Muslims, in particular Yemenis, are currently angry at the premier sponsor of genocide on the globe?

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      brump you tell 'em Jack. How dare they say I’m like the other Biden. Many people are saying. Very mean, very nasty people. And their saying it more and more. Into infinity. Infinity. Do you smell burnt toast?

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      Giving you the benefit of the doubt, you do realize Biden authorized bombing against Yemen today without seeking congressional approval right? He just did exactly what he finger-waged Trump for doing.

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      Name one bad assumption “behind this meme.”

      -or-

      Own up to not knowing what you were talking about. It’s fine if you were in over your head, but don’t duck out of a conversation you started.

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    Presidents are probably granted different authorities based on odd/even ssn or a similar detail. That’s the current level of seriousness.