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Donald Trump has issued his latest threat to Iran and said that if officials fail to make a deal with the United States “the whole country is going to get blown up.”

The president also made threats Sunday morning to target civil infrastructure after it was reported that Iranian forces were refusing to allow ships to pass through the Strait of Hormuz this weekend.

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[–] stumu415@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 minutes ago

US Diplomacy at work ladies and gentlemen.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 53 minutes ago

do as I say or I blowded you up.

[–] better_than_god@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Again? Didnt he sundown this same tantrum like 3 weeks ago?

[–] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

He already forgot he did this one already from the dementia.

[–] santa@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I smell a 🌮, and I want a 🌮

Iran deserves to be

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

What does he do on sundays that gets him so riled up?

[–] booly@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 hours ago

I think Sundays is the day when many of his closest advisers take some or all of the day off, so he's just wandering without the distractions that normally keep him busy.

[–] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 5 points 3 hours ago

Spook the market Sunday, spend spend the first half of the week blustering, place Polymarket bets on Thursday, announce the problem is solved and count your profits Friday, golf on Saturday (well, actually every day, but Saturday you don’t have to tweet if you don’t want to).

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 19 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 30 minutes ago)

So that relatively small group of soldiers sitting in boats far from shore without adequate food or supplies are going to crush the much larger and entrenched entire Iranian military now huh. Sounds real scary.

One silver lining to all this is that evidently Trump has learned that its harder to attack a mid sized country halfway around the world --without allies-- in challenging terrain -- than it is to attack some unarmed civilians trying to get to work in portland or minneapolis.

Progress of a sort.

[–] SirMaple__@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 hours ago
[–] kmartburrito@lemmy.world 54 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] einlander@lemmy.world 29 points 6 hours ago
[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Where the Back to the Future meme of I seen this one? He threatened this already.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 9 points 5 hours ago

Lets gooo blood clot

[–] spitfire@lemmy.world 7 points 5 hours ago
[–] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 10 points 6 hours ago

AI Jesus with his psalm of genocide. Praise Epstein!

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 70 points 9 hours ago

One trick pony

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 6 points 6 hours ago

This shit again? The old bastard is senile.

[–] BigMacHole@thelemmy.club 45 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

If ONLY there was SOMETHING we Could do to STOP this!

-Congresspeople doing NOTHING to Stop this!

[–] KbSez@piefed.social 11 points 7 hours ago

oh yeah... that'll work.

Just like when he told everyone the Straight was open and for some reason Iran didn't believe him

[–] shiv@sh.itjust.works 21 points 8 hours ago (10 children)

Absolutely crazy to me no one has shot this guy yet.

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 1 points 59 minutes ago

Turns out that the Secret Service really is one of the few truly competent branches of government still around these days. I guess it's just always, regardless of party or doctrine, in the best interest of the president to have the service operate with extreme competence. Trump will happily fill government branches full of incompetent goons instructed to gum up the works. He'll happily dismantle multiple Congress-mandated departments and programs. He'll grift off every bit of government graft he can. But I bet the Secret Service is the one he actually lets be run competently. If there's anything the man cares about, it's himself.

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 7 points 6 hours ago

A lot of people rooting for the fall of the west.

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[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 13 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Is this a new threat to blow up the country, after his last threat to do so where he claimed to have gotten a ceasefire (which Israel breached on Lebanon less than 24 hours later)?

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 53 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (3 children)

USA by criminals for criminals. Absolutely disgusting country, just as bad as Putin's Russia.
To the American population: The fact that you elected this corrupt criminal pedophile malignant narcissist of a moron twice will never be forgotten - never!

[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 42 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

will never be forgotten

Sadly, you're wrong. It will be forgotten. That's why history keeps repeating itself.

If people didn't forget, they wouldn't have voted for fascists. After the war, people swore they would never forget the horrors of fascism either. And yet... Trump is soiling the White House today.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Has Hitler been forgotten?
This time it's even worse, because Americans have been taught about Hitler and Nazism and the horrors that follow with authoritarian governments.
Americans have no excuse, they should have learned enough from history to not repeat the mistakes of Nazism.

[–] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

To be fair, it was different people.

[–] Zoot@reddthat.com 2 points 5 hours ago

Certainly wasn't America saying that

[–] GardenVarietyAnxiety@lemmy.world 18 points 8 hours ago (4 children)

Hell yeah! This is why Germany is still shunned by the global population after all these years.

[–] classic@fedia.io 7 points 8 hours ago

And why Germany has no right wing influence now

[–] WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago

Yeah but was just Hitler. We're talking about Trump here.

/s just in case

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[–] atropa@piefed.social 34 points 10 hours ago

L•O•S•E•R

[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 28 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (10 children)

I blame the criminally passive GOP congresscritters and senators for letting Trump and his fascist henchmen destroy the country. All it would take is for a few of them to agree to 25th Trump's ass and impeach Vance and Kegbreath for this madnest to end right this minute.

History will not be kind to them, and I hope the courts will hold them accountable for what they did one day too.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 7 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

You kidding me. Once this fucker is gone, every single one of them will decide that the orange lying asshole was the only problem, and will reliably pull their team’s lever again and again…

Edit - goddamned autocorrect.

[–] freshcow@lemmy.world 22 points 9 hours ago

Don't let them or the media convince you that their actions are passive. They have had many opportunities to put the brakes on this administration, and every time they deliberately side with Trump. Every Republican congressperson is complicit with his agenda.

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[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 18 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Trump talks the talk, but I would be surprised if the Iranians didn't quietly start to walk the walk and prepare some blowing up of their own.

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[–] Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 8 points 8 hours ago

Threaten and do nothing.

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