Donald Trump ripped into Iran and Israel for violating a ceasefire deal within hours of his triumphant announcement.

“You basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the f— they’re doing! Do you understand that?” he told reporters Tuesday morning on his way to the NATO summit in The Hague.

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    “You basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the f— they’re doing! Do you understand that?”

    Yes, we all understood that for a long time, and not just with this conflict - ironic you would say they “don’t know what the f- they’re doing”, though. Who would have thought diplomacy requires more than “I’m the ‘big guy’, so they’ll naturally listen to anything I have to say”. Who would have thought these long standing conflicts would require more than saying “let there be peace” to solve.

    We all, nameless citizens of the world, have known it for a long time - even though we can’t do much about it - about Israel/Iran, about Russia/Ukraine, and so on. While you, toddler living in a golden bubble that you are, have been focusing exclusively on golfing and how to perfect the art of the grift, as well as securing golden parachutes from your grifter friends each time you manage to bankrupt a casino. So now you get to the big chair and think the chair is what gives you power, when in fact it was most of your predecessors’ hard work that gave so much power to the POTUS chair. The same power you’re now imploding.

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    Someone should probably explain to this moron that a tweet saying, “We’ll stop bombing them if they stop bombing us” doesn’t count as a “ceasefire deal”.

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      Only those not living under a rock for the past 50 years

      Or those not being all coked up for the past 50 years

      Or those not busy with Epstein kids

      Or those…

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      His obsession with the Nobel peace price is really what’s driving all this. He’s been willing to do deals nobody else would make just to get that recognition, and it’s ironically inflaming more conflict.

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        If he wanted a Nobel peace prize he should have just committed genocide. That’s what most of the others did.

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              To be fair, geopolitics is complicated. Ever seen The Good Place? I suspect it’s pretty difficult to stay totally uninvolved in war crimes as a major world leader. The Doug Forcetts of geopolitics don’t do much evil, but they don’t do enough good to get peace prizes either.

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        His obsession with the Nobel peace price is really what’s driving all this

        Nah, it’s much more simple than even that: he’s just a malignant narcissist and a colossal idiot who happens to have a talent for grifting. Everything he’s ever done has been because of that combo.

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        I would think truly being a mediator would require not playing both sides of the negotiating table for your own ego inflation, but I’m no global affairs expert

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          This is why he’s in the white house and we’re not /s

          you know you’re not supposed to tell me you’re playing both sides right?

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    Almost like announcing something on “truth” social doesn’t automatically make it the truth. They probably didn’t even know anything about a cease fire until his post.

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      It’s an old grift. If you don’t want to actually do something, but you still want credit for doing it, then just say that you’re doing it. Many people will be tricked.

      It’s the same reason the Nazis called themselves “socialists” despite never supporting socialism.

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    Didn’t they settle everything in the middle east under his first term? The Saudis sent Trump’s inept, unqualified, security risk son in law nepotism hire Jared Kushner billions to manage afterward to get rich from to celebrate the long lasting peace they negotiated /s

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    The odds of us experiencing a loser of this caliber again in our lifetimes is pretty slim.

    Interestingly enough, the odds of me ever having a shred of respect for this country again in our lifetimes is also pretty slim.

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      The entire admin and half the country are losers of this caliber, you’re drowning in them. Nice thought though.

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        I think people are underestimating how big a loser Trump is. Like the people supporting him are losers, but it takes quite a bit to approach his unprecedented levels of loserhood.

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        Closer to a third. Maybe two thirds if you include the lazy fucks that couldn’t be bothered to stand in line for a few minutes.

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          What blows my mind is even in states like Washington, California and Oregon, which utilize mail-in voting, only about 75% of registered voters participated. How hard is it to check some boxes and fling the letter in the mailbox?

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      It’s a word. I’m getting broken down by the amount of censorship on the internet, particularly Youtube. Their guidelines only state to withhold any uncensored cursing or adult content for the first fifteen seconds, to avoid being tagged as mature and the video viewcount and profit largely reduced. A very small price to pay for freedom of human expression and life. But:

      • Censoring or obscuring all expletives deemed by Christianity to be foul
      • Censoring or obscuring all words describing a sensitive subject (e.g. rape, sex, sexual, abuse, murder, suicide, kill)
      • Censoring any moment in which a being is subject to any form of impact, whether accidental, assault or police abuse

      These actively block and suppress conversing about real issues, leading to more harm, more assault, and more silent victims. Every time the word suicide is censored signifies to me that another person has committed suicide because they weren’t heard. This has been proven to be correlation.

      Censorship of human life, experience and expression not only insults my personal ideals of life and freedom, but actually causes more harm, and I cannot forgive that.

      What makes swear words so offensive? It’s not their meaning or even their sound. Is language itself a red herring here?
      Being Silenced: The Impact of Negative Social Reactions on the Disclosure of Rape
      Censorship of words like ‘rape’ and ‘sexual assault’ on social media hurts victims more than it stops bad actors

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        Channels aren’t doing that because they want to. YouTube has a lot of rules, some of which are written down. They do it because YouTube has flagged them in the past for demonetization on the issue, and they can’t afford to do that too many times. It can also impact your ability to do livestreams.

        It’s on top of a pile of issues that’s making YouTube content creation non-viable for everyone.

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          It’s a bigger issue of so few platforms for people to use and reach an audience.

          But it all comes down to corporations are causing people to unnecessarily censor themselves. It’s a weird thing where corporations have a power they shouldn’t to control what people are saying.

          I somewhat understand content creators who make money. But I don’t understand the people who comment and don’t make money off of it censoring themselves so a company can make more ad revenue.

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        This is why I love Any Austin. Whenever he says “fuck”, he puts a bleep somewhere around that time, sometimes a couple of seconds off.

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      I’ll be honest, I don’t mind swearing on social media as I’m an adult but I don’t think there’s any need to swear in the news media.

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              Anyone can swear, but I don’t see why we need to have swear words in the news. Just because the biggly orange guy thinks it’s appropriate to swear, doesn’t mean we need to lower the standard in the press.