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Iran has all the leverage now - America loses. - YouTube

A positive thread on here with the jointly hosted World Cup with Canada, Mexico and USA.

As the original poster of this thread, I wanted to apologize, for the occasion dump of verbal diarrhea from what appear to be Russian bots, silly Tik Tac clips we all have to step over so our shoes don't get soiled. Personal bankruptcies increased by 11% in 2025, compared to 2024, that's more than 565,000 Americans declaring bankruptcy under The Incompetent's regime. Democrats have made proposals to humanize and protect more assets of Americans declaring bankruptcy. You'd think The Incompetent would support these efforts given his extensive history with bankrupting businesses. Tired of winning yet?

There is a signed document, maybe, no text has been released and according to The Incompetent it might be released next week. Is the USA/Israeli instigated war over? No. It's not over. This document is still limited to, apparently, an extension of the cease fire. The cease fire that Israel has continued to ignore, as they continue to rain bombs down on Lebanon. This will come as a surprise to no one (unless they're a member of The Great Incompetent's cult) there is nothing in the leaked details, so far, that is an improvement on the deal the Obama White House negotiated 10 years ago, with out the blood of American soldiers on their hands (when were we supposed to get tired of winning?).

This regime's corruption and incompetence are the winning messages (and facts) for the fall I think. Buying shares in UFC and then days later announces a UFC fight on the White House South Lawn. New White House motto, Insider Trading for me, Inflation for you.

Iran has more leverage today than they did in 2013, because The Great Incompetent gave the Iranians control over the Straight of Hormuz.

More wars every month. If you don't want to see the USA involved in yet another GOP initiated forever war it's time to support any party, other than the war party currently in the White House, Senate and House of Representatives. With it's newly rebranded Department of War.

The Obama government had already signed a nuclear non-proliferation agreement with Iran 10 years ago. The current "crisis" was settled 10 years ago. But then there was a regime change, and the USA suddenly had The Great Incompetent in the White House and he shit the bed on Iran. Ripped up the agreement. An agreement that was better than anything The Incompetent-in-Chief has come up with so far, and likely will ever managed. If The Incompetent-in-Chief was interested in nuclear non-proliferation with Iran he would have just honored the existing agreement in place, 10 years ago. But who knows, The Great Incompetent probably just enjoys blowing up schools for girls. Why call it the Iran war? It was the Great Incompetent who started it, under orders from Netanyahu, to create a distraction of his and Melania's presence throughout the Epstein Files. There is little chance of coming to an agreement with The Great Incompetent. Agreements require negotiations, and compromises, and balancing of interests, none of which The Great Incompetent is capable of doing. The Great Incompetent can only wage war. He is very very limited in his abilities. The Great Incompetent = War. The Great Incompetent = Americans service men and women will die. This current war started by The Great Incompetent as a distraction. Remember that every time you are at the pump.

Skipping past the doom loop of the cult members. Did you see the last Knicks/Spurs game. So much excitement in the country that has nothing to do with the unfortunate regime we've been saddle with for, luckily, only 2.5 more years. There is a palpable reenergizing of the country. Come January 3, 2027 I'm expecting hope to reemerge from this dark year and a half we've suffered through, and spines are reinstalled in Congress and the Senate. "Trump Derangement Syndrome" (haha - the sheeple call it) will soon be replaced with Trump Amnesia Syndrome (TAS), when no one supported him. "If you had only paid more careful attention to what I said, you would have seen how I never supported the Trump regime." There will be legions with of Republicans with acute TAS.

Very exciting finish to game four with a win for the Knicks. New York City politics as an example. Currently Mamdani has 77% support on the metro end of Long Island, and 65% across Manhattan. It looks like a politics of governing to get stuff done for regular folks (competency), combined with being a decent human being (decency) is a winning combo in politics. Luckily for the Democrats, their opponents are currently campaigning on incompetency and indecency.

There is so much excitement about the Knick's third game. Coming off wins in the first two, and arriving back to play in front of the home town crowd. The party gets crashed by a former neighbor, because he never could stand other people having fun that had nothing to do with him. But he attends and falls asleep in the taco dip bowl. People move on because, he's boring, he's embarrassing, and there's still game four and the championship and, you know what, people are able to look past the big orange oaf boring tantrums and still enjoy basketball. At some pint this Train Wreck-in-Chief will be pulled off to the side of the tracks and sold off as scrap metal to one of the billionaires sucking the life out of America.

Why did she agree to bother interviewing him again. Hopefully next time, she'll address his lies more forcefully. She did a bit of it, more so than other mainstream journalists. But really, they let him ramble on and on and on with his conspiracies and lies.

Senator Chris Murphy is well spoken and clear.

Kristen Welker has agreed to put up with the man baby's nonsense again, and there'll be another interview coming up. Let's see if he can manage to listen to factual information this time without having an allergic tantrum to hearing truthful information. The man baby really needs to get out of his MAGA echo chamber.

Paxton's lawyer for his impeachment by the Texas House, Dan Cogell, has just endorsed James Talarico for Senate.

It is interesting how shielded he is from American people. He lives in a very shielded bubble where he doesn't have to interact with any people who he would have to listen to. He talks and talks and talks, and posts and posts and posts. And he never listens to anyone. Does anyone on here think he gives two seconds thought or two shits about the daily reality of living in the USA, if you aren't a billionaire. I'm not on "Truth" Social, but I expect that there is no ability to comment on the postings of The Incompetent-in-Chief on that site.

I first became aware of Senator Chris Murphy after the Sandy Hook murders. Over the years it seems to be an event, and the issue of gun safety reforms in general, that he hasn't forgotten about, that he has been continually working on. Sticking to an issue, whether it's in the headlines or not, that consistency is an attribute that appeals to me both in politicians and people who I have in my life generally. Consistency. Starting with facts and building out from there. That's the impression I've gotten from interviews with him. Lately I've been doing a bit of reading on his background. He started out as an elected representative in his 20's, moving his way through the Connecticut State House, US House of Representatives and eventually the US Senate. Ideally it'd be good if he had more non-governmental experience in his work life. He isn't alone amongst elected representatives as having found his passion for politics early in life. No one (well no honest person who looks at facts) is going to call him a radical leftists. I'd say he's on the left of center of the Democratic party, he promotes: a single payer expansion of health insurance; gun safety reforms; improvements to mental health services. The health and safety of Americans. Senator Murphy is 52 years old, has frequently over performed in his election campaigns, taking on long term incumbents and winning. I hope he considers running for the Democratic nomination for President. Or alternatively, I hope whoever wins the nomination would consider him as a running mate.

Has there ever been a president more isolated from the American people than this man baby in the White House. He talks and talks and talks, and is unable to listen to anyone. Who can really know, when the man baby walked out from the interview, he might have been doing damage control for the rest of the interview. Create an event to distract from the whole story. Did any of you watch the whole thing? It'll be sane washed by the media, to create kernels of thought. It was a train wreck of an interview from beginning to end. Welker asked Trump about the $1.8 billion "weaponization fund" to payout rioters who Trump tried to justify with they've "have been hurt so badly by radical left lunatics." The Courts have stopped the illegal slush fund for criminals, but Trump defended it. "If it was up to me, I’d pay them the kind of money that they deserve," he said. Including rioters who attacked and beat police officers? Trump said. “I can tell you this, 97% of those people, you look at them, the FBI or whoever it was, cause you had a lot of crooked cops, you had dirty cops." Let that sink in. The Incompetent-in-Chief's line is that "dirty cops" are responsible for the attack on the Capital by rioters engaged in a coup attempt. That "ballroom" is a bunker. We all know who else had a bunker.

To be fair - 175,000 is actually quite good for a GOP president. (Remember that under the last three Democratic presidents a net 80 million jobs were created, and under the last two GOP presidents the net total job growth was 1 million.) What was very GOP president about this jobs report was that wage growth slowed to 3%. The slowest/lowest wage growth recorded in 5 years. Make America great again for billionaires only.

So the current regime in Washington DC is trying to steal the upcoming elections in two (broadly) ways: preventing eligible American citizens from voting; and by gerrymandering the election map. I'm starting to wonder if the Senate is becoming more likely to flip than the House of Representatives (or as Mike Johnson likes to call it the House of UnRepresentatives). With the Senate the GOP is only picking their voters one way, preventing eligible voters to register and vote. There is no gerrymandering. (Although I wouldn't put it past The Incompetent's regime to suggest State gerrymandering - add a little of Alabama to Georgia to make it less purple.) With the Supreme Court legislating from the bench to promote systemic racism in the electoral system, the House of Representatives is becoming a harder goal.