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Ray Miller's avatar

Trump's giant, stupid mouth is globally catastrophic.

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I Resist's avatar

Hoping he starts babbling soon so they carry him off!😄😳

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Merry's avatar

Hmm. If you had substituted Ayatollah Ali Khamenei with the pronoun HE, I would have thought you were referring to DJT.

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Save USA's avatar

My thoughts too! Trump has his thugs shooting protesters here with rubber bullets and tear gas, but he's going to protect protesters in Iran???

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Merry's avatar
2dEdited

The sheer lunacy and hypocrisy are utterly gobsmacking!

And if he actually cared about and respect this country’s peaceful protesters as much as he appears to care about the Iranians, we might be living in a much better country right now. But he obviously DOESN’T.

He’s using his pretense of “protecting” to hide his REAL agenda…which is also exactly why he went to the rescue of Venezuela -

“All of the World’s Oil Reserves by Country, in One Visualization”

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/all-of-the-worlds-oil-reserves-by-country-in-one-visualization/

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Wm Dawg's avatar

Thank you for your time and effort to inform the public of what is taking place and why. Valuable to many I am sure. One peace One love One human family.

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r hamalian's avatar

The parallels to our country today are sobering and terrifying.

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Mike Feder's avatar

Eventually, even if "eventually" means decades, or more--the cost of a life will not be worth the pain and suffering; not worth the silence, the poverty, the constant fear and the consuming rage. Eventually, as it will inevitably happen with Khamenei and Trump and their bribed henchmen and mindless thugs; eventually, it will all be too much to bear and people, even people laboring under the worst tyranny, will do the existential math and decide that living like mice and hiding in holes is NOT the way the want to spend their time on earth...

Trump has just about successfully destroyed American democracy--drawing from a political well of tribal ignorance and irrational fear that never seems to run dry.

It's when even the most ignorant and brain-washed of the great cult become aware that THEY are as much the target as immigrants, foreigners, people who look different, pray differently and love differently--

A dictators' fear and obsession with "enemies" can NEVER assuaged, no matter how many people they lock up, torture and kill; no matter how many fatwas they issue or executive orders they sign... They live in closed room of terrifying fantasies which are fed by an ever-present horde of sadistic and greedy followers.

A couple of times in our history, there was a cataclysm was required to clear the system of some awful political and cultural infection. Our democracy survived then and I can only hope it will survive now... Our Constitution, and it's amendments, are very clear on what a real democracy should/could be--It's a blueprint for how a government of the people functions. BUT--the Constitution is only a blueprint and the house (our government) that gets built from it has to be re-constructed every once in a while; all the rats and ghosts and cobwebs and cracked walls and warped floors have to be cleaned up and fixed--sometimes replaced entirely before its fit for people to live in...

Trump is, like a vampire, accumulating more power with every life he sucks the blood from--he can't help it. He will certainly take the life of our democracy if we don't confront him and his assorted goblins head on. What form that confrontation will take, I don't know, but it will require some heroes. Why do we elect "representatives?" What are they for if not to "represent" the people. If they're not for that, they represent nothing by their own passivity and individual greed.

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I Resist's avatar

Congress people come hoping to achieve then find half their time is spent fundraising and the other half talking to lobbyists, so it doesn’t take long. And to another point, Trump is a vampire. If you look closely he even kind of looks like one, but in my book more lizardy - think it’s his eyes. At any rate, please join the resistance in any way you can! It’s going to take many millions of us! NEVER GIVE UP, NEVER GIVE IN UNTIL WE WIN! 💪🇺🇸❤️‍🔥🫶🏼🗽

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Mark Anderlik's avatar

Have you done any investigation into these protests being sponsored by the CIA? This is likely, and is a way to set the table for an attack by Israel/US on Iran for regime change in order to control Iranian oil. This is the “color revolution” playbook of the CIA in so many countries that you are remiss in not exploring it for Iran.

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Nanny Ann's avatar

passing this on as "anonymous reporting"

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Neural Foundry's avatar

The "semantic gymnastics" point really nails it. Labeling people 'rioters' versus 'protesters' is not just language, its the on-off switch for state violence. I've seen similar patterns play out where once a government redefines dissenters as enemies, the dialogue window closes. That line about burning legitimacy for control is spot on tho, at some point there's nothing left but force.

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Mike Feder's avatar

Amen!

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