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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.
No help only help
Why can’t the UK just deal with Iran directly? Why pander to an ungrateful US?
We will! And it'll have blackjack ... and hookers!
Why cant the Washington regime "just take" it?
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.
Source?
These numbnuts haven't figured out that it's not that hard for any other country to get their oil. Only the US and Israel need to suffer to this war.
Plenty more in the North Sea.
Maybe we can build even more big beautiful windmills.
oh nooo… they kill millions of birds and [insert random idiot argument]…
plus they're eating the dogs!
and are giving our kids autism!
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.
Renewable energy baby go!
Trump: “what if we pissed off everyone
Generals: pissing of all countries who-
Trump: “I said everyone! Every single person on the planet! I want them pissed all the time!
At some point, some world leader should do a dressing down of this fuckface right there in the world stage.
Edit: Trudeau was too polite: https://youtube.com/shorts/G0va-McELJE
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).
They don't need to anymore
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.
He's a useful fool every supermaster above him, especially those we don't know.
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.
And all it took was letting someone capture him doing the most vilest and evilist shit to children.
All it took was for virtually no one to do anything to stop him from doing whatever he wants
This being is the embodyment of pure evil. The accumulated evil and greed of the whole of America.
i cant wait until america takes that big shit. You know the one I mean. Everyone will feel so much better.
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.
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.
He must kneel to be allowed to have US nukes.
What a fucking loser.
the U.S.A. won’t be there to help you anymore
They weren't helping anyone else before.
At best, they were helping themselves (mostly) without actively interfering with others ability to do the same.
No dispute on all the many many harms done or anything in that vein, I'll never defend the US for countless things.
BUT there was some arguably good, compassionate work done that was effectively dismantled recently, and we shouldn't lose that detail.
We should remember that the federal govt for a country this huge can never be a monolith (and I do also mean that encouragingly, moving forward...).
We should remember also, that many quiet, gentle people who fundamentally deeply dislike the lived experience of the rat-race of capitalism - paradoxically find themselves seeking the stability and straightforward "work toward an anodyne but useful purpose" offered by many federal government sub-branch-agency-bureau whatevers. Too many to list in my already long comment, that function(ed) both as jobs programs, but also ways that decent Americans end up - by dint of sheer math - placing a very different set of moral values and actions into the broader US govt conduct.
Not a thing to give up quietly, but of course the bigger disasters (again, no dispute, there are many, and probably engineered to be such) will necessarily consume all oxygen in the room, so to speak.
that's the plus side to the system? some very quiet people were gently making very small gestures?
All friendships burned, all choices burning themselves, digging their own grave deeper and deeper. Total collapse is inevitable.
Remember all those Hollywood productions about post apocalypse worlds, only showing the US? I always wondered how the rest of the world would be. I guess just normal, it's just the US being a post apocalypse hell hole.
And Trump did all of that just to try to distract everyone from him being a pedo sex offender buddy of Epstein.
He is doing that because there is profit to be made.
Just doing his job.
He's their boy.
They stage things.
Probably said the same thing to his creditors - "Go get your own money. I can't help you".
His creditors, contractors of any scale he hires (meaning this for the ...ahem "real estate" portion of his career lmao, decades ago) - apparently anyone, doesn't matter - the strongarm "fuck you, grab you by the pussy" - now just openly - continues to fucking WORK.
And we have people constantly, everywhere, in this thread of course, misunderstanding him as "stupid". Absurd, beyond frustrating.