Just like with everything else, his Art of the Deal leaves us with less than what we had before.
Wait until you see how much Cuba is going to cost.
The Shart of the Deal.
So… that’s 1500 dollars per American household.
Will Trump try to pay them with crypto?
Steaks?
Vance’s admission contradicts what he said on Friday, when he claimed in an X post that Iran would not be “receiving any cash, and no funds are being released simply for signing a deal or attending a meeting.” In addition to the U.S. and its allies paying $300 billion in reconstruction funds, Iran reports that the U.S. has agreed to release $25 billion in frozen Iranian assets.
So now can we call it? The american empire is done, please just lets call it.
As they should. The US owes them reparations.
It will go from out of the pockets of the US working class, into the pockets of the politicians who serve the US ruling class and the into the hands of the government of Iran who will promise to serve the interests of the US ruling class.
This isn’t progress for the workers of the world. This is the US ruling class trying to secure their economic position in the region, and the working class in the US and abroad will pay - it might not be felt immediately, but every advance of US imperialism means the lowering of the quality of life for all working class people.
We need to unite as a class internationally.
Remember when those cocksuckers complained about democrats giving Iran their own money back in exchange for a nuclear agreement? Now we’re giving them half a trillion just so they’ll go back to the status quo from a year ago?
Remember when they illegally sold weapons to Iran so they could illegally fund Contras in Central America?
We raped Iran, and then paid them off to shut them up. Yep, Trump definitely negotiated this.
Art of the deal, indeed.
When do I get a refund for all the extra money I paid for fuel over the past few months? My job involves driving - I’ve put about 5,000 miles on my car since the beginning of April - so I’m definitely noticing the difference.
If you drive for work and pay for your own gas too you’re also getting fucked. We all are but like, that’s extra fucked. I really hope you get paid a whole lot, enough to offset that cost, it seems backwards to drive for work AND pay for the gas.
US citizens serving on the home front during WWII sacrificed all sorts of basic foods and materials, all to help the war effort and, you know, defeat the spread of fascism. Today, we paid out the ass to fill our cars up at the pump for months, just so we could drive to work. And all so Trump could accomplish…nothing. Absolutely fucking nothing. He fucked with the stock market for a bit, and then capitulated like the fat fucking bitch that he is. And the people who support him, probably the people most affected by all of this bullshit, will still support him.
Dump has always been a terrible business man. He’s a leech.
For fucks sake, why the fuck does anyone believe this will hold until its supposed to be signed on Friday
Interesting that Vance is finally in the news now that he said he wants to run for president…
This is the same as what Trump called “fake news” yesterday isn’t it? What a surprise.
Can someone explain to me in what sense this money is any real kind of loss for the US? They literally own the dollar printing machines. Sure it’s going to be some fraction of inflation but it’s not as if the US bank account is going to miss this money?
You can only do that so much before people stop trusting your currency. Up until recently, the Saudis sold oil exclusively for USD, now they’ve started selling it for other currencies including yuan.
China sells consumer goods to the US for USD. China gives that USD to the Saudis for oil. The Saudis give that USD back to the US in exchange for bombing civilians in Yemen. That’s how things have worked for the past like 50 years.
If the USD (and the US) stops being seen as reliable, then eventually the whole thing falls apart, and we’re seeing the first signs of that already. The Saudis will start telling us our bombs are too expensive and China will say the scraps of paper we give them aren’t worth it. If we’re not dropping bombs on behalf of oppressive monarchies in exchange for oil, and importing cheap goods from underpaid overseas workers, then what do we even have left, as a country?
It’s probably for the best for the world in the long term that that system falls apart (provided Americans don’t go apeshit and start WWIII, which is a big assumption), and in the very short term of course using the infinite money hack solves a lot of problems, but in the medium term, it’s gonna be rocky.
Fortunately, there aren’t any other major crises we’ve been kicking down the road for short term benefits that are going to reach a head in the near future, so we can focus excluively on that.
Debt isn’t a problem until it suddenly is. That inflation you’re brushing off can get worse, eventually to the point where they’re printing money just to stay afloat. We’re already at the point where $1 trillion goes to just paying the interest on the debt each year.
Every dollar printed affects the value of every dollar already in circulation. Where that money goes changes who feels it. Printing money to blow up and then subsequently rebuild infrastructure in Iran is going to hurt basically all Americans, although some people (guess who) are probably going to see their share of the pie grow even more because their assets are not held in USD.
It’s all so goddamn stupid. If I allow myself to turn to illiberal thoughts I begin to feel like perhaps anyone who supported this clown should have their voting rights permanently stripped. He’s the worst president in maybe 150 years. I guess Trump supporters should be thankful the rest of us are so goddamned liberal.
because it’s actually just a transfer of profit. to a corporation or seven. war is only ever about profit.
More debt.
The amount of money the government prints and destroys is public information. You can’t just raise the first one a ton without making people panic.
It’s nice to know they were able to spend my tax dollars rebuilding Iran after they spent my tax dollars destroying Iran. I’m very happy the prices on everything went up so they could do that.
Looks like the Gulf petrostates will fund it
Art of the deal!
