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Trump says 'we're blowing up the whole country' if no Iran deal is reached in 48 hours

https://lemmy.world/post/45225421

Trump says 'we're blowing up the whole country' if no Iran deal is reached in 48 hours - Lemmy.World

Donald Trump said Sunday that if no peace deal is reached with Iran in the next 48 hours, “we’re blowing up the entire country.” The president made the threat Sunday to ABC News’ senior political correspondent Rachel Scott in response to a question regarding whether his previously stated timeline of two to three weeks for a deal was still accurate. Concerns have been raised about targeting civilian infrastructure in Iran and the consequences that could bring.

WatDabney 4d ago

The Toddler-in-chief threatening to throw an apocalyptic tantrum over something that he fucked up in the first place.

He not only needs to be removed from office - he needs to be on a psych hold. He’s deranged and dangerous.

-Niko Bellic’s thoughts on Vladdy Boy

Where is “Vladdy” coming back from?

A safehouse owned by a powerful mob boss.

If you want some more context:

Roman (Niko’s cousin) has a bad habit of getting into debt from all his gambling. Unfortunately, Roman is in debt to Vlad.
Vlad decides to exert his power over Roman by fucking Roman’s girlfriend, Mallorie.
Niko then immigrates to America from the Balkans. After helping Roman out by keeping loan sharks off his back, he encounters Vlad pestering Roman and Mallorie.
Vlad later calls up Niko and demands that Niko work for him, or he’ll put some hurt on Roman. Niko agrees to this.
As Niko works with Vlad, he overhears Vlad talking to Mallorie. Niko sternly tells Vlad to stay away from her. Vlad gives Niko a “Sure, sure”.
During this time, Vlad is very insulting, calling Niko and Roman peasants, and boasts about his powerful friend, Mikhail Faustin. Mikhail Faustin is the boss of the Russian mob in the area. Whenever Niko tries to push back against Vlad’s demands, Vlad threatens to tell Faustin that Niko and Roman are becoming a problem.
Eventually, Roman tells Niko that he thinks Mallorie is “messing around with Vlad”. Niko reveals that he knows, and Roman is outraged. He tells Niko that he’s a traitor and a loser. Niko then gets upset and storms off to Vlad’s bar, with Roman tagging along.
When Niko meets Vlad, he tells him to stay away from Mallorie. Vlad’s response is “I must be hearing things. I could’ve sworn for a moment that this ratty little yokel just told me what to do!”. Vlad then orders his guys to rough up Niko and Roman.
Niko takes down Vlad’s guys, and both of them run out of the bar. Vlad gets in his car, with Niko in hot pursuit. This is when the quote I posted happens. After a little chase around the city, Niko corners Vlad and shoots him in the head.

For the relevant part with Vlad, you can look here.

GTA 4 - Mission #13 - Uncle Vlad (1080p)

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I don’t have a clue what you’re going on about.

Good. Then my plan is working as intended.

I’m currently replaying GTA IV and have just killed Vladimir. He’s a loanshark who, according to some, could be coming back from hell (if one believes in that sort of thing)

BouteilleBrune 4d ago

americans showed the whole world they wanted this, he’s what represents them and it was their choice on the land of the free

Yep! Wankees can’t deal with this amount of reality. He is them.

And when a Democratic president gets in, the Americans will be like, “Oh, but we’ve changed! We’re going to be much better now! Really!”.

It’s like a psychotic ex-boyfriend begging you to take him back, because he’s really sorry and will do better next time. Promise!

PhoenixDog 3d ago

I pray the world never forgives America for all this. I certainly won’t as a Canadian. If a century of good will and allyship can get pissed down the drain in mere months, why should any nation ever trust America again?

Septimaeus 3d ago

so true, their electoral process is highly functional and famous for accurately reflecting their values

he needs to be in prison, that’s where the orange turd needs to be.

El_Scapacabra 3d ago

Death row, to be precise.

Resonosity 3d ago

He needs to be sent to an asylum unlike the immigrants that come to the US for a better life.

bradinutah 4d ago

Criminal is gonna war crime.

JeeBaiChow 4d ago

His opponent was a woman! Fancy that!

/s

dhtseany 4d ago

How many hours ago was the first threat? I feel like we keep repeating ourselves.

I don’t think soup brain is capable of considering this

mkhopper 4d ago

Taco soup?

billwashere 4d ago

My question for him is which country does he mean. Because I’m not sure at this point.

CuddlyCassowary 4d ago

Neither is he.

ClassStruggle 4d ago

He means the US, and by all accounts he’s finishing the job

JeeBaiChow 4d ago

But we saved gaza, right?

Right?

ClassStruggle 4d ago

The arrogance behind that statement is disgusting.

Dionysus 4d ago

He’s right! That Communist Kamala would have sided with Israel and gaza would be nothing more than a pile of rubble.

If it wasn’t for Trump, both the Ukraine war and the Israeli war on Gaza would still be happening! Fuck think of all the dogs and the cats he’s saved in Bumfuck Nebraska from those immigrants!

^…checks notes…^ fuck.

spacesatan 4d ago

‘you stupid lefties wouldn’t settle for sacrificing tens of thousands of Gazans so that we could go back to brunch, I bet you sure regret it’

-person who still hasn’t questioned why sacrificing Gaza was a foregone conclusion

jumjummy 4d ago

One note Gaza Gaza Gaza. I don’t hear you fucks ever talk about all the other suffering in the world due to Trump and his regime, just Gaza.

Almost like your arguments are all bullshit and you’re just shills for all parties who want to tear dow the Western world.

If you were eligible to vote in the US general election, and you didn’t vote for Harris in November, you helped Trump win. Simple as that.

spacesatan 4d ago

‘just shut up about the genocide I wanted to ignore’ No. Everything trump has done so far still pales in comparison to Gaza.

Unless your only barometer for suffering is how much MSM talks about something I don’t see how you could think otherwise. Yeah ICE is evil, not tens of thousands of murdered children evil. Certainly not when we would still fucking have ICE anyway even if Kamala won.

You don’t have to shut up about genocide to talk about other awful things happening directly because of the US.

spacesatan 4d ago

It’s too bad your favorite cop really really wanted to help the genocide or maybe she could have won.

timbuck2themoon 4d ago

I’d argue the people who thought their smug self righteousness was more important are shit myself.

But hey, now we all get to live in this hell right? Or not live I guess.

spacesatan 4d ago

Let me get this straight

Supporting genocide: not shit

Refusing to support a genocide as a sacrificial lamb: shit

michaelmrose 4d ago

Voting against Hitler isn’t garbage because those in opposition could have influenced Harris or used their intact democracy to work on the issue by primaring dems.

The destruction of usaid alone will cause millions of preventable deaths including many kids. The stadium full of dead kids doesn’t care about your feelings

spacesatan 4d ago

The destruction of usaid alone will cause millions of preventable deaths including many kids. The stadium full of dead kids doesn’t care about your feelings

Organizations other than the CIA are capable of distributing food and vaccines

Maybe harris should have thought it was worth not supporting a genocide to prevent that.

michaelmrose 3d ago

Harris isn’t responsible for how we vote that is our and only our responsibility.

They did the beat job providing a convincing platform they knew how obviously insufficient but she like us got one vote

spacesatan 3d ago

Harris is absolutely responsible for her platform being pro-genocide what are you on about. It is the candidate’s job to appeal to voters, all she offered was ‘I’m not him so you have to vote for me’

michaelmrose 3d ago

Its our job to vote for whichever party will be better for America regardless of whether we agree on all areas

spacesatan 3d ago

Fuck america. All suffering matters equally, provocation notwithstanding.

also quoting myself from a different part of this comment thread

I would have maybe a single ounce of sympathy for the lib side of this argument if the stakes were lower. ‘You don’t always get everything you want’ is a hell of a lot more convincing if the left had refused to play ball over healthcare reform or something. But jesus christ ‘don’t do genocide’ is the lowest possible bar to clear and Kamala still refused.

michaelmrose 1d ago

I’m not a nationalist I’m a realist. This is why I voted for Harris and support armed forces to enforce a truce in Gaza and no further military aid to Israel.

You can feel however you like about the choices you have in front of you are still morally obliged to pick the least bad even if you aren’t happy with either but extremely simple principals.

Organizations other than the CIA are capable of distributing food and vaccines

So you don’t care how many poor people die as long as “US bad”. I’m glad their lives are bargain chips to you

spacesatan 3d ago

Unlike the Gazan lives that you definitely aren’t willing to concede as bargaining chips.

And right back around to the bad faith arguments.

spacesatan 3d ago

Great self awareness you’ve got there.

A quality which you seem to lack

spacesatan 3d ago

lol. lmao.

Is your head so far up your ass that you think

So you don’t care how many poor people die as long as “US bad”. I’m glad their lives are bargain chips to you

Is a good faith argument?

JeeBaiChow 4d ago

Yeah but they saved gaza!

Only they didnt. If anything their efforts have started to associate anti-genocide with a disaster like trump and practically guarantee people either switch off in disgust of their rethoric or just jump to the other side to avoid all the tankie bullshit.

sudoer777 4d ago

started to associate anti-genocide with a disaster like trump

So you’re saying your party is so pro-genocide that they can’t even convince people they meet Republican moral standards, which basically don’t exist.

spacesatan 3d ago

‘disgusting anti-genocide rhetoric’ literally burn it all down if that’s where we’re at idgaf

Not voting says you are happy for either candidate to win, not that you want neither to win. If you want that option, campaign for PR. What is your plan to get rid of Trump now?

your favorite cop

Most of us don’t like Kamala, but we voted for her because we’re not fucking morons.

NotASharkInAManSuit 3d ago

Who was your candidate?

No? It was never on the table, considering US and Israel’s history, was it?

But US coming face off? And even their loyal vassal states not touching the shit you get into.

Yea, can’t hide those war crimes behind the world police and hollywood “good guys” facade anymore. Scum

We had a canidate that wouldn’t be committing these war crimes.

But glad you’re happy that you can prove the US isn’t the good guy and it only cost Iranian lives

Canonical_Warlock 3d ago

We had a canidate that wouldn’t be committing these war crimes.

Jill Stein? I guess I don’t remember them saying anything supporting Israel but they were also just a known spoiler candidate so they hardly count.

You know international law gets fuzzy with supplying weapons and money. Which is what the US was providing Israel. Now we have the US military attacking nations directly.

So let me be clear we wouldn’t have invaded Venezuela and we wouldn’t be invading Iran. Those are the war crimes.

And were not even getting into the domestic issues thse days, lots of death there too.

But yeah let’s focus on one thing and ignore all the other way worse direct involvement actions that never would have happened

acargitz 4d ago

Have you been doing any Palestine solidarity work or is gaza just a gotcha for you?

JeeBaiChow 4d ago

Did we though?

acargitz 4d ago

You clearly didn’t. I’m not American.

JeeBaiChow 4d ago

Good. Neither am i.