Critics put Donald Trump on blast on Monday after he posted a message on social media threatening Iran with “Death, Fire and Fury.”

Writing on his Truth Social website, Trump said any attempt to block oil shipments would lead to an attack “TWENTY TIMES HARDER” ― and so severe that it will be “virtually impossible for Iran to ever be built back, as a Nation, again.”

Iran has responded to the U.S.-Israeli military campaign by threatening to attack ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz, effectively cutting off some 20% of the world’s oil. That’s triggered wild fluctuations in the market for crude oil, rising gas prices at U.S. pumps and fears of further economic pain should the conflict drag on.

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    The oil prices are affecting us in Europe too. Gas is getting wayyy more expensive. My car also isn’t very fuel-efficient…

    And I think this is wonderful news if it teaches that fuckface a valuable lesson.

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      Unfortunately necessities and commodities getting more expensive doesn’t mean anything to the elites. Tarrifs and increased cost of living significantly disproportionately affects poors and working class people. For a rich person, fridges doubling in price is still a cheap purchase. For a poor person that needs a fridge and could hardly afford one before price doubled, they certainly can’t afford one now. Once again the poors carry society on their shoulders. Gas went up? U think rich people even notice? Hell no. But us working people now have to decide between eating lunch on Saturday and driving to work next week.

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        Hey psst I’ll sell you this old fridge I found with a dead cat in it if you sell some of your blood

        -capitalism and its solutions

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        It will get the attention of the parasite class when nobody can afford to drive to work. There aren’t enough electric car owners to keep the economy going.

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          Not to mention with electric getting more expensive by the minute with ai and data center nonsense the ev thing might not be a solution anyways. Plus EV owners are not part of the poor/ working class I am talking about, anybody that can afford a 20k+ electric car is not half as poor as I am lmfao. I cried about spending 3 grand on my last shitter because the one before didn’t even run me 900$.

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          They also spent a REALLY long time fighting EV and public transit development. They really have no idea how anything works or how to plan further than a few months but society will still act like they’re so smart they deserve billions.

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    Our arsenal:

    • Slam
    • Torch
    • Blast
    • Hammer
    • Drag
    • Criticize
    • Oppose

    Their arsenal:

    • Arrest
    • Murder
    • Disappear
    • Deport
    • Maim
    • Detain
    • Bomb

    Gee guys I sure like our odds

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    “People on internet are mad at stuff Trump says on internet.”

    Brilliant reporting. Why not make the article about how unhinged the shit he was saying was, not the reaction of people to it?

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      love those em dashes, grok really pulling overtime for this one. or maybe openai now that the pentgon contract has been signed

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    He’s threatening nukes, he already mobilized the bombs. Now would be a good time for other countries to cut the US off. US won’t rally and rise up unless we suffer. Make us suffer you pussies.

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      It really does look like he’s trying to find an excuse to use them.

      If he does he needs to go to be removed from office, and all countries need to sanction the US.

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        WTF do you mean, “if he does?” He already needs to be removed from office now, and the notion that he’s thinking about using a nuke only makes it even more imperative that he be removed before that happens!

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          I agree with everything you said.

          But if the US doesn’t grow a spine on this they’re fucked beyond help.

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      The entire world needs to stop. It’s seemingly being considered to drop nukes on millions of people like you and me for no reason. Hello? This is not a matter of tapping on little hearts and arrows on social media, we’re all financing this, in one way or another, and allowing it to happen.

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    He absolutely has dementia or Alzheimer’s and he absolutely had a stroke or TIA at the 9/11 memorial (I’m sure it’s not the first time). He probably has a laundry list of other medical issues to boot.

    Any other 80 year old man with this medical history is in a locked memory unit, but this one is ruining our fucking lives.

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      He very clearly shit himself while on TV a few weeks ago, and its not headline news because reality is crazy town these days. I fully expect the day they announce he croaks to be a lie and they have been "Weekend at Burnies"ing him around for atleast 72 hours prior.

      If that happens early next year around his terms half-way point I fully expect a “Death of Stalin” scenerio (from the begining of the film, where they have to find the best Dr in Moscow, but cant, because they threw them all out of the country and finding one would mean the violated Stalins orders) because if Vance has to server for more than half the remaining term, he can only run for re-election once.

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    What’s the excuse for almost the entirety of the Republican party and the accompanying RINOs then? The fact is that he is such a compulsive liar that nothing he says matters, he’s just a noise maker that works it into a distraction from what he is doing.