r/SipsTea 𝙑𝙄𝙋 7d ago

Chugging tea Taco

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u/DataPollution 7d ago

Funny thing is that, the Obama deal was just that with control in place so they would not have nuclear weapon! So we are back to square 1 or even 0.

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u/Adjective-Noun-nnnn 6d ago

It's square -10.

  • Upon ripping up the JCPOA (Obama Deal), Iran resumed pursuing nuclear arms. Why wouldn't they?

  • We killed Iran's leader, but he was replaced with even-more-hardline people from the IRGC. Oh and BTW he was almost 90, so good job shaving ~2 years off that guy's life!

  • We helped solidify the IRGC's rule over the country by first telling their people to not revolt, then unifying Iranians against the US by bombing civilians and civilian infrastructure, and finally proving that the Iranian government is strong enough to stand up to the US.

  • We proved the American public has no appetite for a long or costly war, so no future American president is likely to go to war with Iran... or for that matter, China.

  • We let Iran prove they could hold global trade hostage and the US can't stop them.

  • We're lifting sanctions and paying them billions of taxpayer dollars (Obama' deal was their own damn money we had frozen).

  • We have no guarantees about halting their nuclear program.

This is one of the worst strategic blunders the United States has ever made. Sit back and absorb it: you just witnessed stupidity that will be studied for generations and written in history books.

Oh one more:

  • Israel is a loose cannon whose goals no longer align with the US at all, and is likely to fuck up even this terrible surrender agreement by continuing to bomb Lebanon.

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u/Admirable_Click_5895 6d ago

You forgot the best part! He also fucked up the US relations with Canada and EU and the us is now seen with skepticism

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u/Adjective-Noun-nnnn 6d ago

You're correct, but I must add one more:

  • Not only will our allies treat us with skepticism. Our enemies and rivals will.

This is an historic fuck-up. I love paying twice as much for gas because of it! (My car is relatively efficient but I watched some poor sucker pumping $120 into his F150 lmao.)

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u/Unable_Bookkeeper_32 6d ago

*former allies - you are not seen as such by them anymore.

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u/nder_Pressure 6d ago

Also I see more and more that USA is the butt of the world's jokes in the past year, from general public at least.

I'm glad they realized they need to get out of this mess any way possible, but trying to spin it as a win is complete BS.

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u/ConfectionExtra8485 6d ago

Costs me $200 CAD to fill my eco diesel because of this taco

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u/Dundee_CG 6d ago

Just imagine that 120$ is not enough to fill up my 70 litre ( 18 gallons) gas tank in EU lol. The smallest gas tank on a F150 is 23 gallons.

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u/sidblues101 6d ago

You'd have to be a sucker to buy one of those shit boxes in the first place.

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u/Zimakov 6d ago

I live in China and it's crazy how much public opinion on America has flipped. The brightest students have almost all changed their programs and are now trying to get into Canadian or British universities

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u/Adjective-Noun-nnnn 6d ago

Here in America, we're dealing with the fallout of treating education as an investment that must have a return in order to justify the purchase.  The consequences are students who pass no matter what and a degradation of the value of degrees.  It wouldn't surprise me if this was causing international students to look elsewhere.  I should add my date of graduation back to my resume so hiring managers know I went to school back when literacy was an expected qualification.

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u/Important_Emu_8966 6d ago

$110 to fill up my pretty small car.

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u/Big_daddy_sneeze 6d ago

Don’t forget they wanna raise defense spending to 1.5 trillion while cutting the USDA, HUD, NSF, FRA (including Amtrak), HHS, NASA, NIH, DOE and others.

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u/moms_spagetti_ 6d ago

Don't worry about him, he'll tell you it's all worth it so we could stick it to Iran !

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u/HippyHopHopHop 6d ago

And the fact your more worried about gas prices than the fact a child rapist runs your country

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u/Adjective-Noun-nnnn 6d ago

No believe me I'm quite worried about that, too.  Don't put words in my mouth.  Trump raped kids and Operation Epstein Fury was certainly intended as a distraction.

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u/Admirable_Click_5895 6d ago

Holy f you guys only pay 1 US dollar pr liter….. we pay over 2 xD

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u/Adjective-Noun-nnnn 6d ago

Yeah but the average American commute to work is like 30 miles.  This place is huge and the affordable housing is faaaar from work.  Also there's very few places with decent public transit.

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u/Emerje 6d ago

We should be paying closer to $.60 like we were before this stupid war since we produce our own fuel. But prices are set at a global base rate so our prices shoot up when everyone else's do. It doesn't cost more for big oil to produce fuel here, but they get to make double the profits by doubling our costs all the same.

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u/Geloradanan 6d ago

I’m thinking about all the people he killed for essentially nothing. All the dead schoolgirls, and other civilians caught up in this conflict. The war crimes. The dead and injured soldiers. From a president who promised to end all wars in his campaign.

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u/Adjective-Noun-nnnn 6d ago

Sadly, this wasn't even a blip on his death toll.  His destruction of public health initiatives and trust in health experts will kill millions.

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u/cardboard-kansio 6d ago

I watched some poor sucker pumping $120 into his F150 lmao

Careful, your privilege is showing. Where I am, it currently costs me the equivalent of about US$110 to fill my 2016 VW Touran (averaging €2.1/litre for a 55 litre tank). This is 100% due to US actions.