Perhaps the shitshow follows an exponential growth model regardless of who is in office. On the bright side, at least we’ll get it over with and get back to sanity sooner. Let’s hope there’s some things to be sane about and some people left to be sane.
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Sorry Rodster, my response wasn’t aimed at you. It’s aimed at those that continually defend criticism of Trump with the actions of the last administration. Hence my comparison of 6 months versus 4 years.
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I don’t know if this was directed at me, but I’m going to put the shoe on 
I feel like two things get confused or treated as one and the same:
- Voting for Trump (getting Biden/Kamala out)
- Trumps actions NOW that are different than what was promised / expected.
I’m NOT defending his actions at all. It’s crap.
But I’m very convinced that he was the only sane option to vote for AT THE TIME.
Hindsight is 20/20, but saying now “told you so” doesn’t do it for me. We had no better options.
So, for all of you that say Trump was compromised all along, and that none of this is a surprise, riddle me this:
Were the two attempts at his life merely theater ? Why kill him if he is “your” player ? Doesn’t make sense to me.
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What happens if Iran closes the Straits of Hormuz?
I went for a run and this cycled through my mind over and over again.
Energy prices will become unstable, and likely quite high.
Japan and Korea will rapidly de-industrialize.
California oil and gas will become extremely attractive if regime change can be affected. This would require State Department regime change money and tactics. The normal operating system of voters voting for change has been completely subverted and corrupted.
China has limited overland access to Russian and Iranian oil, but they will have their economy limited as well.
This provides a runway for the enterprises in the United States performing import replacement work. This also provides a runway for logging, mining, and oil refineries to come back online - if the high prices hold and if the Middle East stay extremely chaotic.
The European nations reliant on Gulf-based oil are going to suffer as Japan and Korea suffer.
What else? What are the implications?
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Judge Andrew Napolitano weighs in on the Trump strikes on Iran. He says what Trump did was unlawful, unconstitutional, a war crime and an impeachable offense.
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It has been bombs for peace since I was a little kid in the 1980’s.
We even recycled the language! Shock and awe was for the Panamanian invasion and the cable news used it for Gulf War 1 and Gulf War 2 - each time acting like it was a big, new, important strategy the U.S. was employing.
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I’d say Trump pluses:
- Closed border. Some small number of deportations. About 1m self-deportations.
- No more DEI silly stuff. Some cuts to USAID.
- Possibility of investigating the 2020 rigged election.
- JFK release
- Withdrawal from the WHO
- No more climate scam
- Gas prices (temporarily) lower
- Possible saline-placebo-controlled trial for vax approvals.
- Removal of the DeathVax recommendation for “healthy people”
- Removal of the Vax pushers from the ACIP committee
And “More of the Same”:
- No Fort Knox audit
- No Epstein file release - gosh I wonder why?
- Gulf War 3.0 because Bibi said so
- Big Bloated Bill = massive deficits. Cuts “come later” (i.e. never)
- Only token refill of the SPR
- US remains “agreement incapable” - Minsk Accords, Bombing Iran during negotiations, causing a confidence collapse in “US living up to agreements.”
Let me know what I missed and I’m happy to add it - on either side.
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PLUS - potential of JD Vance becoming the next president, which could be better, since he’s more against wars and nation building than Trump ever was.
That being said, I acknowledge that Vance is a bit of an unknown player, and we don’t know how deep the rott / corruption / control of the deep state goes.
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The beatings will continue until morale improves. Who would want to deal or trust anything the United States says or deals it tries to make with them? If I were a foreign leader of a superpower, I know I wouldn’t after the two faced (good cop, bad cop) display of US foreign policy.
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Tariff flip flop lowered oil price
Pro:
- Russian revenue has gone down, making warfare harder
- Gas prices stay low in europe and US
- Climate madness has toned down (Trump left some organizations limiting that development)…
- Trump left WHO? No vaxx mandates in US
Con:
- US has lost jobs in small businesses
- FED to print more trillions (more of the same)
More of the same (from 1st term)
- environmental deregulation
- Tax cuts for rich(er)
Still remember what gas price was in Biden term?
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A message for Tulsi Gabbard, and other members of Congress:
One pill makes you larger and one pill makes you small and the ones that mother gives you don’t do anything at all. Go ask Alice, when she’s ten feet tall.
And if you go chasing rabbits and you know you’re going to fall tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillar has given you the call.
He called Alice, when she was just small.
When the men on the chessboard get up and tell you where to go and you’ve just had some kind of mushroom and your mind is moving low, go ask Alice I think she’ll know.
When logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead and the White Knight is talking backwards and the Red Queen’s off with her head remember what the Dormouse said;
Feed your head!
Feed your head!
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Meh, Obama killed an American with one of his bombs.
I don’t think Congress has declared war in my lifetime but yet we have been in one war or another most of my life.
If Trump’s actions get Congress to step up and do their job, I will call it a win but I’m not holding my breath.
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Now might be a good time to top off your gas and stock up on food supplies.
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I like Vance’s lack of warmongering. Trump had that one too. I’m 50/50 there.
Vance is tied to Palantir, which isn’t my favorite organization. Although I know its mostly Mockingbird Media that blats about this. What do you think about his connections?
If a cop shoots a murderer could that bring peace? This whole situation is very nuanced, but I’m willing to suffer financial hardship if it keep one country from Nuking another.
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I haven’t done a deep dive, and I’m not sure there’s something conclusive I would find that is not known yet.
We’re at the tea leaves reading stage, and what’s more, lack of information / clarity is used against him.
It’s a crapshoot, IMO, but worth a shot.
If TPTB / deep state can create an inside player like Vance from ground up, and groom and prepare him for decades, we are f$&#ed anyways. There’s no way a good, organic candidate would not be compromised by them, if they have that much power.
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You just make this shit up, even if you tried real hard 
Maybe this is the reason why!
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Is it shit, or is it the recognition that Trump acted against the advice of multiple people in his cabinet, and that there is an interest in documenting that ?
This is your answer. There were too many “once in a lifetime” events that surrounded the shooting. The miraculous head tilt, the two iconic perfectly snapped photos. Musk and Zuckerberg simultaneously salivating over and flipping support to Trump. The incredibly unrealistic “story” of the lone shooter, the immediate clean up of the crime scene. All designed to make us question who was really behind the “shooting.” Given your question “Why kill him if he is “your” player,“ I think we can both agree that we suspect the CIA/blob was behind this. The scene was staged to make us believe they wanted him dead. Something may have passed by his ear, but I don’t believe it to have been a bullet. This psyop leads to Trump becoming “sanctioned by God” with full faith and trust given by MAGA and others. The photo taken by New York Times photographer Doug Mills had to have been preset to a ridiculously high shutter speed to have captured the image of ‘something” whizzing by his ear. Here is a thread by Michael Yon questioning this…lots of information to ponder.
https://x.com/Michael_Yon/status/1813286486198132813
Let me ask you a question. As the Biden/Trump presidential debate was mysteriously scheduled 3 months early, rather than the standard September window of 35 days before election, AND the entire mocking bird media instantaneously flipping on senile Joe…doesn’t this strike you as at least a little odd? Odder yet to me, was the democratic pick of Kamala, one of the most useless candidates possible, to head the presidential ticket. You do recall Trumps miraculously smooth and easy election win; capturing all swing states, as well as popular vote, occurring a time in history that we are the most divided. I don’t think this was all organic, I think team Trump had a little help. It became obvious to me that the blob had switched sides again, as they have done throughout history. I believe that the Trump team was installed to usher in the NWO quicker than the last administration could have. The blob needed to quickly scoop up as many dissidents as possible and it wasn’t going to happen with team Biden/Kamala. The current actions and non-actions of the Trump administration appear to be confirming this theory. And we are only 6 months into it.
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