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      You’ll never see this in the news.

      All you’ll see is how Trump won, America is way better off, and how the USA did this all on their own.

      And 90% of the public will swallow the tripe.

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      I’m pretty critical of Trump, but if he actually gets Iran to turn over all of their enriched uranium for $20 billion, I’ll say that’s the best deal he’s ever signed.

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        Without inspections like JCPOA had this is pointless.

        Also it’s Friday afternoon, so market manipulation time. I think on Monday this will be irrelevant.

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    Y’all, it’s about time to look at literally every single conservative conspiracy theory, flip the script and/or its characters, and consider it a massive red flag that this era’s Republican politicians are doing some scaled version of the thing being peddled as conspiracy.

    When acknowledged collectively, the rampant conspiracy shit that half our dumbass relatives have fallen for might as well be evidence of the greatest psyop (and/or Super Ultra Conspiracy Theory) there ever was.

    Take a heinous bit of reality (the wealthy are raping children on Epstein island) and blow it up into an outlandish conspiracy theory (the Hollywood elite are drinking children’s blood).

    Either way, at the end of the day, somebody in power stole someone else’s youth.

    I guess reality is all in the semantics.

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      “Tell Ea-nasir: Trump sends the following message:

      When you came, you said to me as follows: ‘I will give Hegseth (when he comes) fine quality uranium ingots.’ You left then but you did not do what you promised me. You put ingots which were not good before my messenger (Pam-Bondi) and said: ‘If you want to take them, take them; if you do not want to take them, go away!’

      What do you take me for, that you treat somebody like me with such contempt? I have sent as messengers gentlemen like ourselves to collect the bag with my money (deposited with you) but you have treated me with contempt by sending them back to me empty-handed several times, and that through enemy territory. Is there anyone among the merchants who trade with Telmun who has treated me in this way? You alone treat my messenger with contempt! On account of that one (trifling) mina of dollars which I owe you, you feel free to speak in such a way, while I have given to the palace on your behalf 1,080 pounds of uranium, and umi-abum has likewise given 1,080 pounds of uranium, apart from what we both have had written on a sealed tablet to be kept in the temple of Samas.

      How have you treated me for that Uranium? You have withheld my money bag from me in enemy territory; it is now up to you to restore (my money) to me in full.

      Take cognizance that (from now on) I will not accept here any Uranium from you that is not of fine quality. I shall (from now on) select and take the ingots individually in my own yard, and I shall exercise against you my right of rejection because you have treated me with contempt.”

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    Remember when giving Iran money was a thing MAGA hated?

    They will always forget everything they ever held true the moment Trump changes his mind. Maybe first they will deny it’s real. But after they do accept it they will promptly say that it is totally worth giving Iran the money. They might even try to get clever and say “we aren’t paying them. We are giving them their own money from frozen accounts” without any awareness that the pallets of money Obama sent Iran was exactly the same thing. Because they are incapable of holding a constant belief.

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        It’s more than that though. Trump managed to get people to vote for him, he also managed to find equally dull witted individuals and put them in positions of authority.

        If it was just Trump he would never have managed to get elected in the first place and would just be this more or less irrelevant D list TV personality.

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          Last term he found the best he could that would accept his nomination

          But they kept him in line and told him no

          This time he went for pure yes-men, completely untethered

          They’ll do anything he wants, any pushback and they’re gone.

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    I don’t even think I could come up with this shit if you paid me to write the most insane things my brain could come up with.

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    From what I have I read, it’s not so much that the US is gonna give Iran 20 billions dollars, they are just gonna allow them to access their frozen assets.

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    Oil for uranium. What a sick fucking joke the United States government is. And the American people for electing this pure greed.

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      Did you even read the article you linked?

      … the U.S. would release $20 billion in frozen Iranian funds in return for Iran giving up its stockpile of enriched uranium, …