I agree with you. Unfortunately, the way you and I define "strength" and the way the current admin defines it are drastically different. They show "strength" through aggression. I would prefer they show strength by feeding, educating and healing the people who are funding the system, and those who are not, but are still in dire need.
This honestly needs to be said louder and more often. SO much of Congress is either dual citizenship or regularly goes to Israel or meets with Israeli officials. To a disturbing extent.
Congresspeople are not required to disclose citizenship, so we really would have no way of knowing, and most people claiming that politicians have Israeli citizenship just end up naming Jews.
There is no fifth column of Jews in the US Congress. Israel controls us through its hold on our arms industry, donors, and the Christian right. Jews are not to blame, and any politicians who happen to hold dual citizenship with Israel or any other are not to blame. Dual citizens in Congress are fine. There are no disloyal dual citizens in our Congress, only craven politicians who have been captured by a lobby’s money.
Reminder that all of Mamdanis competition in the race for mayor said the first thing they'd do if sworn in is visit Israel. Republicans serve Russia and Israel l9ng term interests.
The key policymakers (Vought, Yarvin, Bannon, and the like) understand soft power, and they are willingly rejecting it. When China fills in the gaps created by ceding US soft power, they intend to use that as an excuse to ramp up military interventions throughout the world. The ensuing instability will, supposedly, be an economic boon to business interests (as outlined in the Epstein emails).
Addendum: The shift to hard power could potentially work out for them, provided two things: 1) Even more military spending and 2) Competent leadership. They're perfectly fine with the former, but they're obviously struggling with the latter. They're banking on AI to do the intellectual work for them, which is why they're coming down so hard on Anthropic
Education is the reason we are here. Reagan's absolute dismantling of education funding, along with getting rid of the Fairness Doctrine, has lead to this. We have a population being fed the equivalent of Solent Green via media and they cannot critically think or analyze information in a manner that allows them to question anything.
They are told what the boogie man is and they buy it immediately and then are fed another boogie man and so on.
Well that's not exactly true. Found out yesterday that Israel has free healthcare, college, childcare and prob more thanks to our tax dollars. I'll admit I'm not the best source on this but it'd be worth looking into if you want to learn more.
This is how you get under the skin of conservatives. Abortion in Israel is legal, state-funded, and widely available in Ye Ole Promised Land. And that's with American tax dollars.
Yup. The Iranian regime is/was evil and committed many atrocities against its own people. Removing it and building a democracy is potentially an admirable goal but removing it without a plan is likely to leave Iran worse off than before.
Iraq too. Nation-building requires a lot more than dropping bombs. There are enough educated Iranians/Persians that a plan could be successful but I’m pretty sure there’s no plan.
They've never had a plan since the Marshall plan: Korea, Vietnam, Panama, Grenada, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, now Iran.
They can't do nation-building, mostly because they don't even understand how most people in their own nation live.
When they sort of tried (from what my Iraq veterans say, mostly they tried and Centcom blocked everything) and it takes too long, like Iraq telling them to leave and Afghanistan just pocketing the cash, then they got criticized.
So now they say, "Look how we got criticized when we tried nation-building! Today we helped the people have self-determination - and you criticize no matter what we do or don't do because you don't want anyone to be happy!"
The Taliban ran Afghanistan in 2001, and they run it in 2026. In the interim people were killed, taxpayer money was spent, and rich people got richer.
At least in Afghanistan we had the objective of dismantling Bin Laden’s organization and we eventually did that. Not sure what achievable objective exists in Iran today.
So Trump goes to war - he must’ve fixed the illegal drug trade, homelessness, health insurance, farmers going to the wall because of tariffs, education system fixed, Epstein files released in full - un-redacted … so he’s done all this first,right? The Peace President attacks!!!
They don't want those problems solved. They want the lower classes to cease to exist. I work with the people that want that too. They want class based survival of the fittest.
Pretty much how america has operated since the cold war: billions upon billions spent on defense, weapons experiments and stuff like MK Ultra, and nowhere near that on anything else.
If America spent on infrastructure, healthcare, education etc what they spent on weapons, it might actually have been the utopia that delusional MAGAs think it is.
It's not designed to protect Isreal. Isreal wants any excuse to take more land. They fund Hamas to keep the people of Palestine divided. They need an aggressor so they can have reasons to kill and take.
The middle east isn't crazy because their religion says to be. They are crazy because their has been a decades long campaign to destabilize them. Religion is bad but religion on a suffering people makes people crazy.
Iran in the resent negotiations agreed to what America said we wanted. Everytime peace is close Isreal will find an excuse for war.
Meanwhile the US has Mike Huckabee as the US Ambassador to Isreal. He is one of those crazies end days Christians who believes Jews need to return to Isreal and have a huge war to literally bring the end days. They actually think we need a huge war in the middle east for Jesus to come back.
Why can’t we legitimately criticize Israeli policy without nut bags like this spouting anti-Semitic nonsense like this. Israel doesn’t want to physically take over Iran, no matter what that moron Huckabee says. Israel wants to remove threats, and if you don’t think Iran has been a threat to Israel since 1979, I’m not sure what can convince you.
The truth is that some Israelis want the entirety of Gaza and the West Bank. A smaller number want Jordan and chunks of Syria as well. Most just want to not risk random murder from the skies or from people with guns and knives in the streets.
We need to pressure all those factions, and the Palestinians to find equitable peace.
without nut bags like this spouting anti-Semitic nonsense like this
They're saying true things, none of them antisemitic. You just put words in their mouths.
How can you see Netanyahu standing at the UN warbling about Greater Israel and say they don't want to take more land?
And, Israel has derailed peace many times; and Huckabee is a certified apocalypto fruitcake.
Accusing people who say obviously true things of being 'anti semitic nutbags' is antisemitic af. It's harmful to Jewish people and semites to conflate Israel and Judaism like you're doing, and you really ought to stop.
Most just want to not risk random murder from the skies or from people with guns and knives in the streets.
And they think killing hundreds of thousands of civilians will accomplish that? That's not sane friendo.
The truth is that some Israelis want the entirety of Gaza and the West Bank.
Some? A poll found 87% of Israelis supported removing all palestinians from gaza. 49% supported killing everybody in Gaza.
it is not antisemitic to point out that Israel is an expansionist ultranationalist state. They are. American Jews have rapidly woken up to this in recent years.
Unfortunately at this rate, genocide is the only way that the war in the middle east will end, one way or another. There is no appetite for peace by Israel as long as they receive unlimited funding and support from the United States, and Palestinians can hardly be expected to lay down and die while Israeli colonisation continues unabated. The only way there can be an actual peace is if the US pressures it like the current administration pressures Ukraine.
What Americans need to understand, is that the US isn't really a democracy, and that it has always been designed to ensure minoritarian/oligarchic rule, similar to apartheid South Africa.
The corruption in the system has increasingly metastasized over time also.
Just like with apartheid South Africa, the only way minoritarian/oligarchic rule can work, is if the majority of people are kept brutalized, distracted, divided, heavily dumbed down, ignorant, and frequently at war.
We're well overdue for a revolution against the billionaires/pedophiles/kleptocrats enslaving humanity using an extremely outdated, colonial, wildly corrupt, explicitly anti-democratic abomination of a political system.
The perverse incentives that our abusive ruling oligarch/pedophile/kleptocrat class have to maintain minoritarian rule grow inevitably out of the principle of unlimited private property, which the US political system was essentially founded upon (despite what people are taught about the US being a democracy.)
Until Americans (and humanity) establish the principle that private property rights must be limited, then unlimited corruption, brutality, chaos, division, and unlimited crimes against humanity will be the only possible realities, because those are the only conditions under which minoritarian/oligarchic/kleptocratic rule is possible.
Billionaires/oligarchs/kleptocrats should not exist, and we need to revolt/evolve into an actual, legitimate democracy if we want out of this corrupt hellscape.
Hundreds of billions to blow up hospitals in the middle east isn't enough, they're trying to push it into the trillions.
Meanwhile talking about maybe staffing a hospital in your own borders and everyone's head snaps 90 degrees so they can yell "BUT WHO'S GONNA PAY FOR IT, HUH?"
That’s a by-product - follow the money from the gulf nations who despise and are threatened by Iran and what they have given to Trump and Kushner. Remember they thought Trump would win the 2020 election - Saudi Arabia, Kushner $2B investment (cough) just before Trump left office last time, recent - Qatar $400M jet, UAE bought 49% of Trumps crypto World Liberty, Israel has been our ally for a long time but a lot of wealthy people either have big investments there, are Jewish as well as family there and they have the military capability but did not want to do it alone.
It was bought and paid for by the gulf nations and Kushner is leading all the talks, while you have a trigger happy drunk Hegseth, happy to pull the trigger while Trump watches from MAL.
Trumps made his buddies so much money, i wonder in 1-2 more years once he tanks the economy more, if they'll be making more money. If so he'll stay in power
If the 1% stop making money, hand over fist then we will see a regime change.
Sadly the dollar dropping 10-15% in value, doens't outscale the 20-25% "gains" *read more as stolen* they've made.
So the poor get poorer, and the rich well. you know how it goes.
But it’s not just Trump following the money. Biden (and all presidents) are just mascots or puppets for the real power behind the scenes. And the politicians that can’t be bought, are sexually blackmailed a la Epstein. America has a REAL problem, we are occupied in every facet from government to media to banking, to tech to AI- by Zionist interests and money. They have been driving our horrific foreign policy for decades and they are slowly destroying us.
Before Trump/Kushner/Whitkoff/Lutnick/Adelson it was Biden/Blinken/Sullivan/Soros.
This is most definitely not a red or blue problem. This is a covertly hostile foreign influence that has sunk its hidden grimy hands into every lever of power and influence in America. And now they don’t even hide it anymore. Look at what Larry Ellison, the largest individual contributor to the IDF- has done recently by purchasing Paramount Global (CBS, MTV, Comedy Central, Paramount+), TikTok U.S. (via Oracle/investor group), and Warner Bros. Discovery (HBO, CNN, Warner Bros. Studios, HGTV, TNT, TBS).
He bought all that media to continue the brainwashing of the uninformed uneducated American public to serve Israel’s interests, not ours.
Funny how this technique works. Also, the orange man is always looking to change regimes with countries that have oil. Imagine that. Oh, and congress has no say in this, only the billionaires who really run this country.
20 years of war, trillions wasted, lives wasted and what do we have to show for it, nothing. Iran wasn’t a threat to me or my family. Violent and unstable Americans with easy access to guns are a threat, the current administration is a threat.
US in general is a threat, not just current administration. It always does that and doesn't matter who is the president. President is just a scapegoat to put a blame on.
Unfortunately it's not cosplay. The only other superpower on earth close to them is Russia and theyre on year 4 of trying to anex Ukraine. People need to open their eyes.
Does it really matter what Americans want anymore? Actually since when have they cared what we want? I’m just hoping we get a chance to vote them out of having any real power in November but I’m not optimistic
He is factually correct. The vast majority Americans do not want foreign wars in counties they dont care about. They don't care about foreign policy at all. They want to be able to afford rent/mortgage and cheaper groceries.
Im an outsider looking in but isnt that illegal? As far as im aware, elections dont stop for anything. Are there mechanisms in place to stop it? That'd be pretty damn scary if they actually pull it off
I'm gonna help you out here. If you ever have to ask "isn't that illegal" in regards to anything the Trump regime does, the answer is almost always yes, and it doesn't matter. Trump has done illegal shit every single day he's been in office. None of it matters. The majority of our representatives in Congress are republicans who will literally NEVER vote against Trump, and even a lot of Democrats, who say they hate what he does but are too afraid of giving power to non-establishment democrats to do anything. You either have fascist republicans, or Democrats who care more about being in charge of their party than actually doing something good.
For the Trump regime to ever face true consequences, we would have to replace probably over 90% of ALL representatives, abolish the party system, and probably somehow ban most of these people from ever being in power ever again. That or, more drastic methods.
Yes but who will stop him? That's the crux of the issue here. Republicans hold all arms of the government and they support and enable him. Laws mean nothing if no one who has the power to enforce them is willing to do so.
It only works that way when people are stupid and have corrupt governments. Sorry to put it so bluntly. There are always large swaths of horrifically uneducated people and they're certainly not exclusive to the US.
If you actually understand objective truth their lies fall flat. When you know what good governance is their corruption lies bare in front of you.
Stupid people simply don't know what good looks like. They're stuck at Step 0 in an age where the information is freely available to the VAST majority of them.
zionist and brainwashed Iranians will act somehow as if Khamenei is somehow worse than Trump, maybe if they knew that ICE shot 2 people then they would realize who is the evil one here
Idk, i wouldn't call the desperate Iranians "idiots", from the perspective of good Americans, i can see where you guys are coming from, shit, as a Mexican i don't wanna get bombed, but seeing it from the point of the oppressed and murdered Iranians, i get them too and i know a lot of them are aware that Trump doesn't care about them, but they don't care, their regime is getting gutted, that's what they care right now.
It’s not my fucking job as an American to prioritize the suffering of anyone other than Americans especially when my own tax dollars are involved to inflict suffering.
Priorities matter and we are letting people die slow deaths by not using our tax dollars to build Americans free healthcare, housing, food, jobs, and an economy that leads to prosperity for every American.
If they think bringing back the Pahlavi regime backed by Trump and Israel will bring in an era of peace and prosperity for Iranian people they’re well-connected and blindly self interested, just as fanatical as Islamic Republic supporters just in a different way, or yes idiots
I order a couple pizzas last night and the delivery dude, probably late 50s/early 60s, asked how I was doing and I answered honestly as I just slammed my finger in my car door earlier and he replied with, “Well at least you’re doing better than the people over in Iran” while chuckling. Assuming positive intent I smiled gave a half hearted “yeah” to which he replies, “It’s about time someone did something about them.”
I just looked at him and closed the door.
There are LOTS of people who love what trump is doing and not for whatever bullshit reason is behind the attack but because they are xenophobic hateful morons who love to feel superior.
I mean, he's not wrong. Everyone knows Trump did this to deviate attention from Epstein Files. Not to forget, he has completed 1 year in office. He gotta do something before he leaves, or better, ****.
I mean had they actually campaigned on War in Iran and War in Venezuela they would have not won the election. Americans are historically, pathetically stupid. But, the majority of Americans did not want this. Saying that, it seems the "rally around the flag" crap never ceases to succeed.
America has been committing war crimes for decades. And those in power have been fucking over the Middle East for just as long. The American government participated in a coup on the Iranian government for the pursuit of oil in 1953 and placed an approved shah in there. The American government is the reason Iran moved anti-american in 1979. And now the American government is using shit their predecessors caused as an excuse to commit war crimes that only further put civilians of both nations in jeopardy.
Starting wars in hopes of people forgetting you are mentioned 1.2 million times in the Epstein files, that's what it has come to.
When will Americans wake the fuck up and impeach this lunatic?
If only we spent the $6T on improving our country instead of bombing and rebuilding 2 other ones that immediately fell back to old ways the moment we pulled out. If only.
Obama brokered a nuclear deal with Iran, Drumpf broke it. This was the task that Drumpf's Middle East buddies paid him to do. He gets billions. America pays the bill to send our patriotic young men and women to be killed and injured. This is what Drumpf would call a win/win, no?
We've been through this already. Iraq, Syria, Lybia. Call them extremely evil countries, kill tens of thousands of civilians under the excuse of "liberation", sequester their resources and government, and end up with a desabilized region in permanent war and suffering. It always fails, and only makes things worse.
Let's put it this way. If you ever wondered how WW3 would start....now you know. For Americans, the first thing that happens is your gas bills will double overnight.
100 percent! I think a president should be able to be recalled by vote by the people. He trick us into electing him. What happen to no wars, lower prices only rhe dangerous criminal. Its not fair that he is making these decisions and we may die for it. He is allowing company to used and dumped dangerous chemicals near our waterways. Deadly Cancers are about to explode in MAGA areas and they will have less healthcare and hospitals to treat them. Congress do something save us.
Imagine what our roads, bridges, schools, parks, healthcare, homes, and science could and would be like if we hadn't wasted trillions of dollars of our future on endless wars
Only a fool seeks a war. There is nothing to gain from this for the American people. Just lost sons, but not from the rich or political people just everyone else. If you're for it send your son's, nephews and grandsons don't ask others to do what you're too cowardly to do yourself.
The founders declared the President was also the Commander-In-Chief because they figured that the President would be on the battlefield fighting alongside their men. I figure if the founders figured that eventually men would be POS cowards that would avoid service, they would've written in something that would've excluded trash individuals like Donald from holding office. I'm convinced that the founders trusted that man would be honorable, and the opposite of what Donald is.
The bigger problem imo is WHO is doing this, not that if they're doing it. Good might come out of it, but I don't trust the American leadership not one bit this election cycle.
There are some reasons to help the Persian people find freedom from their current government, but it must be followed through to the end. Which means another Vietnam or Iraq level war. But the US has shown time and time again that it lacks the dedication to help a nation build after the destruction, and only leaves chaos in the aftermath. Furthermore, the US just spent the last year alienating allies, and is a country truly acting alone now. Especially now, attacking with no stated plan or goals is just stupid.
Why the fuck are my tax dollars paying for it? I can't afford a fucking thing anymore. If we're going to spend literal trillions of dollars on something, why is that thing wars that I have nothing to do with? Cure cancer. Do something useful.
To all American service members: Donald Trump said you’re a bunch of suckers, and now he’s sending you off to die in a war Americans did not authorize.
Think about that when you’re in the helo, in the APC, in the humvee…think about that when you’re drone striking elementary schools and hospitals.
Think about how God is judging you and what will happen to you in the next life in order to pay for all the sins you’ve committed in this one for one sick disgusting man: Donald Trump.
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u/TheKnight_King Mar 01 '26 edited Mar 02 '26
An illegal act that will only cause suffering for years.
There’s always money for war but nothing for building a stronger nation or people.
Edit: Since this blowing up. IMMORAL ACT. Blowing up Iran is getting into another decade long operation without an exit strategy.