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    I just love, that even in this, they seem to find a way to still, blame Obama and Biden for it.

    This is what happens when you gut national-security training, scrub every mention of Islam, jihad, and Sharia from the manuals, and let Obama- and Biden-era bureaucrats turn counterterrorism into cultural sensitivity class. We’re being led by officials who no longer recognize or refuse to name the enemy they’re inviting into our own backyard.

    The cope is strong with that one.

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    Really, never? Seems like he fucks over his people at least once a week.

    This is what happens when you gut national-security training, scrub every mention of Islam, jihad, and Sharia from the manuals, and let Obama- and Biden-era bureaucrats turn counterterrorism into cultural sensitivity class.

    Christ on sale, these people are stupid. The GOP-led Congress could pass a law called the Fuck Our MAGA Simps In Particular Act, signed by Trump, and they’d still blame Obama.

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    For what legitimate purpose could Qatar have to put a military facility on Idaho? And Trump and Hegseth have absolutely no legitimate reason to allow it. Clearly payback for the bribery of the Plane and future bribes.

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    Well at least now we know the price of opening an airbase in the US for non-NATO countries

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    I remember what happened the last time US trained middle eastern pilots in the late 90s / very early 2000s

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    maga “betrayed” blah blah blah. stop every believe fascists are going to ever become decent people. all these maga people “leaving” the party is theatrical bullspit.

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      Fascists believe in inequality based on identity, so how could they ever feel betrayed by Trump doing outrageous things? They are DELIGHTED the more outrageous Trump acts, because he is their glorious king they wish they could be. They go “Oh gawd did you see what our leader did? I wish I could do that too!”. He’s their golden idol. All he has to do is keep promising them inequality in their favor.

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    Well Qatar literally threatened to sell all of their treasury bonds.

    which would have resulted in a permanent 38% drop in the dollar in 24 hours

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      Now everyone knows how weak we are and exactly how to get whatever they want from us.

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        Go look up how long it took Trump to call Xi after China hit the off button for rare earth metals.

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        Lol … most powerful military in history and all you have to do defeat it is … threaten to stop investing in them.

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      That’s ridiculous. Qatar holds like a billion or two in US Treasuries, which isn’t even a minute’s worth of trading volume. Japan, China, UK, all closer to a trillion, would be a serious threat. Even UAE at $100B. But Qatar?

      No, if anything this is payback for the nice airplane Qatar gave to “Trump Library.”

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      Is there a source on that? Not saying it’s not true I’m just having trouble finding anything atm

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      Google AI (sorry) indicates this is a false story. “Reports of Qatar threatening to sell all its U.S. Treasury bonds are false. The rumor, which gained some traction in September 2025, appears to have stemmed from a misinterpretation of remarks made by a Qatari official.” I asked it, “did qatar threaten to sell all its us treasury bonds?”

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          how does one even know and verify what an LLM’s “sources” are? wouldn’t it just vomit out whatever response and then find “sources” that happen to match its stupid output after the fact?

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            Precisely my point. But if it is correct and can link to an authoritative source (eg. a news article), that is relatively easy to verify.

            How much you can trust a news article is still up for debate.

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            Agreed, I’m more worried about people blindly trusting AI than I am about this particular situation.

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    This is what happens when you gut national-security training, scrub every mention of Islam, jihad, and Sharia from the manuals, and let Obama- and Biden-era bureaucrats turn counterterrorism into cultural sensitivity class. We’re being led by officials who no longer recognize or refuse to name the enemy they’re inviting into our own backyard.’

    Wut.

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    Do you regret giving him a pass for that $200 million plane bribe?

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      That’s about half the plane bribe, it’s actually estimated to be around $400 million. There’s also several billion more in Qatari bribes transferred via sketchy business deals involving Trump’s crypto scams, golf courses, hotels, etc.

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    Also, in totally unrelated news, Trump’s personal wealth jumped by another half billion dollars thanks to his personal cryptocurrency suddenly going up in value.

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    And yet as outraged as they are, MAGA still finds a way to say this is the Democrats’ fault:

    This is what happens when you gut national-security training, scrub every mention of Islam, jihad, and Sharia from the manuals, and let Obama- and Biden-era bureaucrats turn counterterrorism into cultural sensitivity class. We’re being led by officials who no longer recognize or refuse to name the enemy they’re inviting into our own backyard.’

    🙄