Donald Trump erupted at the United Kingdom Tuesday morning over its refusal to join the United States in its war against Iran, issuing the European nation a notice that the United States would no longer be offering it “help.”

“All of those countries that can’t get jet fuel because of the Strait of Hormuz, like the United Kingdom, which refused to get involved in the decapitation of Iran, I have a suggestion for you: Number 1, buy from the U.S., we have plenty, and Number 2, build up some delayed courage, go to the Strait, and just TAKE IT,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.

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    I’m not saying the system was good (far, far from it) but this asshole walked into office and started dismantling 100 years of economic diplomacy and peace through trade. There’s no way you can tell me he isn’t a useful idiot for Russia.

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      And all it took was letting someone capture him doing the most vilest and evilist shit to children.

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        All it took was for virtually no one to do anything to stop him from doing whatever he wants

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        In a pub, in 2004, an ex-colleague of Trump’s told us about what a joke of a narcissist he is, being played by his psychopathic handlers, priming him for a puppet presidency.

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      Are we still doing the Cold War? An ever increasing number of drumps policies mostly benefit China

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      And his entire campaign was based on convincing willful idiots that his presidency would do the exact opposite.

      Now the US is dead last in education, science, GDP and trade. Lmao

      Good luck blaming all that on Biden and Obama as if it’s possible to pretend that any facet of society wasn’t objectively better. There is no war in Ba Sing Se!

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        Every day I get more and more depressed that he got a second term. We knew so much about him as a person before the election, and it has only gotten worse as time passes. The raping of children, his business practices, his racism, how he was raised, how he treats his family, his ties to the Russian mob… The fact that he’s president is some kind of cosmic-level joke. The fact that the entire system let him become (and continue to be) president makes me lose faith in humanity. The Saul Goodman of slumloards was the best that the rich could pull off…and it WORKED? Like, are we always doomed to come back here? The powerful will always choose themselves over any common good. Even when the system resets, the accumulation of power is inevitable. Like… they chose him to dance and clown and do exactly what they want. I don’t know whose hand is up his ass, but the fact that this is the guy, THE guy, and we watch him in real time dismantle 100 years of stabilizing economic policy, line his pockets, and more or less hand global hegemony to Russia and China.

        All because he was an open secret of a rapist and Obama made fun of him once. I’m just dumbfounded. I truly thought better of humanity.

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    What is a king if his crown is worthless? Not a man of the people, but surrounded by cultists. Praised by the loudest, loved by the thoughtless. Crowned not by honor, but by lies that were endless.

    His walls crumble as whispers grow louder, Causing once-shaking hands to grip blades ever prouder. The throne he once clutched, now colder than stone, His fate sealed by the seeds of ruin he’d sown.

    He feasts while his kingdom is left to rot, Drunk on his power yet blind to the plot. A puppet on strings, now tangled and caught. If he ends up dead, then that is his lot.

    The crown on his head, a mockery now, A hollow gold band on a sweat-ridden brow. No glory remains, no trumpets resound, Only silence and ash on the burning ground.

    Betrayed not by foes but those he called his closest friends,

    Their daggers ensuring his rule meets its end. No prayers are whispered, no mourners will weep, For kings who sow torment shall fall just as deep.

    When he ends up dead, the people have spoken, A crown polished with falsehood is a crown that is broken. And a kingdom built on cruelty is one which ends with dread,

    The crown on his corpse was always a crown of the dead.

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    Yes please, stop helping. And thank you! See? I didn’t forget to say it.

    But really, you have done more than enough. A LOT more. Some would say you have done way too much. Get on your couch, turn on the tv, order a Big Mac and please, please, stop helping.

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    This being is the embodyment of pure evil. The accumulated evil and greed of the whole of America.

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      i cant wait until america takes that big shit. You know the one I mean. Everyone will feel so much better.

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        they just had million of people on the street and paraded around with their arts and crafts. they are all too apathetic at the moment as it has not really hurt them properly.

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    At least the ruling class isn’t hiding behind diplomacy anymore while they rape and pillage the world. They are showing their true colors in their political and economic wars and in their personal behaviors (Epstein).

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    And yet during this entire thing, like a battered spouse, Starmer has still been allowing US planes to use their bases. And will continue to do so.

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    Even in that statement he seems to suggest taking oil from another sovereign country. Taking over other countries is sadly our British history, but not current practice, unlike the US.

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    Damn, what a petulant little child he is. Anyone who feels he is the right person for the job has not been paying attention