“When you’re negotiating with Iran, Mr. President, to what extent are Americans’ financial situations motivating you to make a deal?” a reporter asked Trump before he left for China on Tuesday, alluding to the skyrocketing inflation caused by the fallout from the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran and Lebanon.

“Not even a little bit,” Trump said, shockingly out of touch even for him.

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    The only thing he has EVER cared about is getting his own rocks off. Be it raping children or robbing people blind, if you have EVER thought he gives even a fraction of a shit about you, you’re the idiot.

    To extend this thinking, he doesn’t give a shit about his country either, clearly. It’s just about what’s in it for him. He is the worst president we have ever had by an order of magnitude. Eventually others will figure this out.

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    The mask/pretense is slipping off…
    Until someone else shoves it back in position when the midterms get closer…

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    This is the correct thing to say, no matter what he might actually think. The less that he appears to be concerned about the cost of the war, the stronger his negotiating position against Iran is.

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      Oh, so it is just shrewd negotiation ploy? I was beginning to think that he doesn’t give a shit.

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      What fucking negotiating position?! If you think throwing tantrums on Twitter is a negotiating position, then you’re a fucking moron.

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      oh man. Do you really think Iran is strategising their negotiations around things Trump says to the media?

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        I presume they are evaluating all his actions in order to estimate how much domestic disapproval he’s willing to tolerate. They’re won’t be convinced that he will tolerate a lot simply by him saying so (since that’s what he would always say if he was rational) but if he were saying that he was very worried about prices going up, that could be significant to them (which is why he shouldn’t do it).

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          Thats not how Trump works though. He just says whatever dumb thing has been on his mind in the last 15 minutes.

          Yesterday he was saying fuel prices have come down.

          Every other day hes been declaring the Strait open.

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            I’m not claiming that he always thinks before speaking, or that he’s thinking before speaking this time. I’m just saying that he happens to have said what a person who did think before speaking would have said.

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    MAGA doesn’t care. Trump phrases things to sound like “you’re not a REAL American unless you believe what I tell you.”

    So now, “not letting Iran have a nuclear weapon” is it. If you aren’t “smart” enough to know that’s more important than anything else, you’re a loser and a traitor.

    They will never turn on Trump. Never. Gas could be $7.00 a gallon. They will just regurgitate whatever they are told, and the blame will be put on whoever they’re trying to discriminate against.

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    At this point the problem isn’t him. The problem is the people keeping him in charge and refusing to depose him. He’s a sundowing old pedo that they refuse to do anything about.

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      The people in power are also all the voters who see this behaviour, who see the obvious lies(even for them in their echo chambers it’s hard to miss some of this), and who continue to support not only him, but conservatism in general. It has never worked, yet they keep saying “ok, so once again it is conservatism that has produced this loser but he’s not a real conservative so I’m gunna keep supporting the POS factory.”

      We can argue about the racism, the sexism, the classism, and all that for a real long time but ultimately a few evil people won’t last against a population that actually cares and a few caring people won’t last against a population that allows themselves to be duped by obvious racism, sexism, etc.

      The GOP, for all their evil and election fraud, still would not win a single election if the people of the US said “no.”

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        I mean when he still has 44% approval ratings, half of America or more is to blame.

        It’s just insane.

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          NYT has his aggregate approval/disapproval is 38%/59%. CNN has him at 35%/63%.

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              That’s hardly the point, though. It’s fucking absurd and an absolute indictment of our entire society that it’s even in double digits!

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      I think calling him sundowning is attributing his malice instead to old age.

      He’s a line-upping old pedo. He has “insider trading syndrome” which on the surface appears like dementia…

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        It’s both. It’s always been both. Since even 2016 he’s been a mentally deteriorating sociopath.

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      Exactly. Find the person in the chain that wants to live. Flip them. Then seriously, about 5-15k people need to be executed for treason. Were beyond the ‘lEtS m00vE fOWrd’ phase.

      Let’s have justice. Let us practice justice. Let us execute justice, or there will never be peace

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      I’ve been saying for a while until we get rid of Peter Thiel and the other Epstein class members things won’t get better. Trump is a symptom not the problem. It’ll be cathartic setting him gone but it won’t fix things.

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        When this is over, we have to purge MAGA from our government and our society, and reconfigure our country so that the wealthy understand that they keep their fortunes at the pleasure of the Citizens, and that fortune is required to serve the Citizens. The moment their priority shifts to increasing profit at the expense of the Citizens, their entire fortune is confiscated, their corporations nationalized, and they are improsoned.

        We do not work for them, they work for us.

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        You won’t get rid of those people under the current system. You will need a revolution before the capitalist owner class is touchable.

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    Malignant narcissists don’t give a crap about anyone else anyway, but as long as Trump can change the subject from the fact he’s a child rapist and avoid releasing the Epstein files he’s happy as a clam.