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GiqueCee

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11. I find it more than a little alarming...

Reply to groundloop (Original post)

Sat Apr 4, 2026, 09:35 AM

21 hrs ago

... to hear the supposed President of the United States openly brag about usurping another country's natural resources for his own profit. But then, that's the exact same bullshit the US pulled back in 1953, when they agreed to help Britain do the same thing by deposing the democratically elected president of Iran, Mohammad Mossadegh, putting him under house arrest, and installing "Shah" Reza Pahlavi and his version of Trump's personal Gestapo, ICE, the notoriously savage SAVAK.
Trump's America is rapidly turning into Putin's Russia, and Republicans are just fine with it. Fuckin' traitors.
The Manchurian Candidate 2.0 needs to be dealt with harshly.

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Trump says with more time, US can 'take the oil' in Iran [View all] groundloop 22 hrs ago OP

So that's the mission. C_U_L8R 22 hrs ago #1

Said the ignorant drunk at the end of the bar... Chasstev365 22 hrs ago #2

He needs to shut his pie hole. Nt BootinUp 22 hrs ago #3

90,000,000 Iranians say "Fuck that!" Swede 22 hrs ago #4

There it is in plain view.............. Lovie777 22 hrs ago #5

Grand Larceny is the billionaire's way /nt bucolic_frolic 22 hrs ago #6

Seize Iran's oil fields . . . AverageOldGuy 22 hrs ago #7

Iraq's oil was supposedly going to pay for Dubya's war. Norrrm 21 hrs ago #13

Imbecile AWOL Bush's crooked regime paved the way for republicans to install Mysterian 14 hrs ago #27

Two more weeks? Javaman 22 hrs ago #8

Trump isn't a president, he's a mob boss. sop 22 hrs ago #9

Always has been travelingthrulife 21 hrs ago #15

But if you steal one quart of oil at Walmart you get arrested. twodogsbarking 21 hrs ago #10

I find it more than a little alarming... GiqueCee 21 hrs ago #11

All it will take is more Iranian children dying and the lives of American "losers". Wonder Why 21 hrs ago #12

All about stealing their oil, as usual. travelingthrulife 21 hrs ago #14

I hope nobody here is surprised by this JoseBalow 19 hrs ago #16

MAGAts will be a-okay with that Bayard 19 hrs ago #17

You have to hand it to him: he's not even bothering with the idiotic, Aristus 19 hrs ago #18

What this War is about. republianmushroom 19 hrs ago #19

Fortune for who, exactly? tonekat 19 hrs ago #20

Just as most of us with more than two brain cells to rub together figured. mwmisses4289 18 hrs ago #21

But I thought we weren't going to open up the Straights of Homuz Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 16 hrs ago #22

Just like Iraq and Venezuela? IronLionZion 15 hrs ago #23

Everything Trump says is a lie. Martin68 15 hrs ago #24

Sometimes Trump hits the truth by accident. Norrrm 12 hrs ago #34

I never thought I would be ruled by pirates!! Hope22 14 hrs ago #25

the very idea an American president is ranting war plans on social fucking media Skittles 14 hrs ago #26

Sounds like something a convicted felon would say. Emile 14 hrs ago #28

Take the oil lapfog_1 14 hrs ago #29

Wow just stealing crap. How did no one ever think of that? underpants 13 hrs ago #30

So we know, one, that's a lie. sakabatou 12 hrs ago #31

Openly bragging about stealing another country's assets. Irish_Dem 12 hrs ago #32

So his goal LilElf70 12 hrs ago #33