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ConatusPrinciple Mar 21

Qasim Rashid, Esq.

So to recap:
•Trump illegally bombed Iran.
•Iran responded by closing the Straight of Hormuz, thus spiking oil prices.
•Trump is now responding by lifting sanctions on Iranian oil, thus funding the regime he's bombing—all as the Straight of Hormuz remains closed.

So in short, Trump bombed Iran, raised oil prices for Americans, and gave Iran more money. Masterful gambit by the author of the Art of the Deal.

Are we great yet?

tuban_muzuru Mar 21

See, I look at the world and see all this little idiotic nation states, each with their own legal system, all the while, the cold anarchic winds of heaven blow over them all.

When wars start, laws stop. Let's quit with all this hooey about legal and illegal. Hizballah kidnapped a friend of mine, tortured him, eventually hanged him and the Navy named a ship for him.

Iran doesn't seem to understand what's coming. Qom will become another Gaza City.

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@tuban_muzuru @QasimRashid

Why do we have law - thats made at some great effort to take into consideration many peoples perspectives and direct a common "sense" onto all society - to make up for the people who did not get to learn respect, consider others or know what taking responsibility means.

In theory law=less war.

But as you say all these little states with nasty disrespectful greedy egos running them is what we end up with because people dont want society they want chaos it seems.

tuban_muzuru Mar 21

@CressSalad @QasimRashid

What is the chief impediment to peace? It's religion, far and away. We try to accommodate religion but it just keeps on emerging.

Honestly, Iran's cities are cosmopolitan, they're lovely people with a musical and poetic disposition, writers, thinkers -

- and these fucking mullahs won't allow anything. They oppress everyone, but those burkhas tell us what we ought to know, peaceful coexistence with Iran's mullahs is not possible.

@tuban_muzuru @QasimRashid

Good point, and why do people need belief systems so bad - its in my view because they dont spend enough time on knowing themself and their relationship with the world. They are fearful people.

So (dont) learn and grow as indiviuals to the fullest potential, then take or bolster others words for how to think and what they do in life. They forget consideration and taking responsibilty.

tuban_muzuru Mar 21

@CressSalad @QasimRashid

Our predicates in the West are stunted and selfish. Philosophically, we have elected a man not much advanced from a pig.

At 8 BN people, I sense we've reached Earth's carrying capacity. The nation-state paradigm has failed. The USA, once the great bulwark, has become a Clown Show.

We need to give the USA a decent burial. It's done.

Start over.

tuban_muzuru Mar 21

@CressSalad @QasimRashid

The first thing we need, if we ever regain power, is to put forward a repeal of Citizens United. It has reduced politics to a money game and the sewage is flooding out onto the streets.

Everything else is secondary, however important. We need to jump start Congress and make it do its job.

DressToKILT Mar 21

@tuban_muzuru @CressSalad @QasimRashid "if we ever regain power"

who is this "we" you're referring to? Because there's no "we" that has *ever* had power in this country who would willing overturn Citizens United. Democrats aren't going to shut off the dark money hose.

Miha Markič Mar 21

@QasimRashid also saying that others should deal with Hormuz

He acts as if stupidity is a virtue… but then again, he does that all the time…

Display Name Mar 21

@QasimRashid he gave more money to Russia and used it as an excuse to lift some sanctions.

June BlueSpruce Mar 21

@QasimRashid You forgot the part where he also lifted sanctions on Russia and got a two-fer: Russia now has more money to beat up on Ukraine AND to help Iran drop bombs on our allies and soldiers. You might think he actually hates America.

peachfront Mar 21

@jbluespruce @QasimRashid

he (47) does hate America, somebody told him that women & Black people live here

Offbeatmammal Mar 21

@QasimRashid and despite that, and Venezuela, people are still talking about the Epstein files. Incompetent toddler.

albert4064 Mar 21

@QasimRashid Celui qui est grand n'a pas besoin de faire la guerre. Seul celui qui veut paraître grand fait la guerre.

Ms. Denie Mar 21

@QasimRashid yells at allies to clean up his mess. They don't.

Yeah, we should give him a peace nobel for all the good deeds he did in Iran, Gaza, Lebanon, Venezuela, and the world. 🤦‍♂️

Dźwiedziu Mar 21

@QasimRashid
Also bigger oil prices help Putin, so masterful gambit™ indeed.

zetabeta Mar 21

@QasimRashid
maybe not the last part. was this a plan all along. hiking oil prices help oil corporations and russia. roughly everyone knows that trump doesn't care about ordinary citizens. trump is beneficial to big oil.

last part is little weird though, maybe trump doesn't think after all.

dfroidmont Mar 21

Time to make an extension of his old boardgame: "Trump the backpedaler"

He'll probably do the same thing with Cuba next.

Peet Tetteroo Mar 21

Sum - the actions of an alleged fraud criminal deemed malignant narcissistic psychopath by hundreds of psychiatrists..

styxrafting Mar 21

@QasimRashid also they killed the most moderate people in the Iranian government and the bigger advocates of nuclear weapons took their place - which they should make, but it's yet another achievement from the usa standpoint

MidgePhoto Mar 21

@QasimRashid the blame should be shared evenly among all* Republicans in Congress in the previous Trump Administration and the current one, since their task was to prevent an unfit president from such actions or continuing office and they deliberately didn't.

And that filters down to their organisations, supporters, and voters.

Trump is appallingly bad, yes, but he needs not have been placed or kept in power.

* Except IIRC one.

@QasimRashid 😫 I'm getting tired of "winning".

HarriettMB Mar 21

@QasimRashid And he lifted sanctions on Russian oil too. Russia also supports Iran….
Added bonus; some oil gets through the Straits, when Iran demands payment in Yuan and gets it. No oil will go through paid in US dollars.

Jeff McNeill Mar 21

@QasimRashid @pluralistic and spent at least 12bn (so far, likely 2x or more) doing it.

Graeme 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Mar 21

@QasimRashid Not to forget helping Russia too! He really is mentally ill, at the least.

@QasimRashid - Profiteers.

peachfront Mar 21

IMHO this was his plan all along except of course his real focus was on using this as an excuse to lift sanctions on his Russian buddies & split that take with them

under this theory the bribes he's getting via Kushner behind the barn to split the take w/ various Iranians who were tired of waiting for an 86yo to die -- all that's just bonus billions

the real pay off is from the Russians & also from the fact that suddenly Why Aren't We Talking About Epstein every single day?

@pineywoozle ‘s #3WordNote Mar 21

@QasimRashid Don’t forget this helps his pal Putin too.

@QasimRashid
I predict a rise in EV sales and home PV installations.

Pete's Mom 🍉 🇺🇦 ☮️Mar 21

@QasimRashid
Could be a campaign billboard but Dems would consider that an unfair advantage.

lord pthenq1 Mar 21

"Así que, para recapitular:
• Trump bombardeó ilegalmente a Irán.
• Irán respondió cerrando el estrecho de Ormuz, lo que disparó los precios del petróleo.
• Ahora Trump responde levantando las sanciones sobre el petróleo iraní, financiando así al mismo régimen que está bombardeando; todo ello mientras el estrecho de Ormuz permanece cerrado.

En resumen: Trump bombardeó a Irán, encareció el petróleo para los estadounidenses y le dio más dinero a Irán. Una jugada maestra del autor de *El arte de la negociación*.

¿Ya somos grandes?"

Chris Vreeland 6d ago

@QasimRashid It’s a real stumper when you try to think about it.

Eliza MB 6d ago

Strait. That is all.