A November 2011 video has resurfaced of Donald Trump accusing then-President Barack Obama of wanting to start a war with Iran.

Trump stated in the video that Obama had “absolutely no ability to negotiate” and would initiate a war with Iran.

  • doesit@sh.itjust.works
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    So?! Gonna fight this guy with statements they made in the past?! It’s like arguing with IDF that what they’re doing is unfair and immoral.
    They and their voters don’t care. It’s the kind of people that simply wants to have the winning hand, whatever way. Integrity, honesty, fair play, … are not in their dictionary. Power & money are their values. These guys are only busy with their own interests. And the goal justifies the means. At first they’ll try to get their way legally (eg. soft approach à la Cambridge Analytica and advantageous algorithms, FOX news, …). If that doesn’t work they’ll adapt the law (ID & birth certificate, Roe vs Wade, Climate agreements, …). If that doesn’t work they’ll go “slightly” outside the law but it’s for the best (ICE razzia’s, deporting illegal mexicans to maximum security prisons in Venezuela, shooting supposedly drug boats in the Caribbean, …), If that doesn’t work they’ll go full Nazi (ICE are militia in the streets, kill political opponents like they tried on J6, track every not like-minded citizen with Palantir, DOGE data & whatever data they scraped, for instance, in this thread and put them in the concentration camps that are being built across America, …)
    My point is either way, power will not be given back.
    EDIT : layout. Went a bit off topic perhaps.

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    This has been continuous policy over 40 years. The highest United States government policy is to maintain “full spectrum dominance” across the globe, militarily, financially, and socially (soft power). The latter two have waned to the extent that we are over dependent on the first.

    This is a “Hail Mary”

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    Trump was a Democrat who golfed with Bill Clinton and endorsed Hillary for senator.

    He was also a Republican who hated Obama and insisted, somehow, that Obama was not even American.

    He’s a very greedy chameleon, greed is his only constant; whatever he SAYS is shite, unless he’s saying “give me money” of course.

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      Trump was a Democrat who golfed with Bill Clinton and endorsed Hillary for senator.

      He was also a Republican who hated Obama and insisted, somehow, that Obama was not even American.

      That difference is as stark as black and white…