American Politics

[Sirioja]

Exactly. Iran is trying to hold on until after the midterms in hopes the democrats will save them. They are counting on the democrats to try to limit Trumps powers and allow Iran to continue their nuclear and terrorism ambitions. Democrats have sponsored terrorism for years and years.

Islamists are proud to die when your fat Trump is afraid to die and same for your marines. Trump was elected with Musk corruption and now Trump is trying to corrupt again, USA are not a democracy, under Trump.

[Canada]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvK4v1jUhAE&t=9s

I am starting to like this guy more and more. A liberal Democrat who is unafraid to stand up for America and who openly opposes the Woke, Communist (DSA) nut jobs who have apparently taken over the Democratic Party.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvK4v1jUhAE&t=9s

I agree. Fetterman is a Democrat who does what is right for his state and his country. It is a shame that so many democrats in congress are anti American. It is a shame there are so many anti Trump, anti America posters on this site that are cheering Iran and terrorists on.

[Canada]

It's not easy getting old.

What President Trump actually said is that the Iranians last hope is that their friends in the Democratic Party will give them a last lifeline. I'm not saying that the democrats are all traitors but it seems like Iran and the Democratic Party are allies.

Exactly. Iran is trying to hold on until after the midterms in hopes the democrats will save them. They are counting on the democrats to try to limit Trumps powers and allow Iran to continue their nuclear and terrorism ambitions. Democrats have sponsored terrorism for years and years.

[Canada]

The democrats is the true racist party.

Nazism, Islamism, antisemitism, racism is way too common these days in the Democratic Party.

Democrats have always been the racist party. They embraced slavery and Republicans stopped slavery. Democrats were racist 100 years ago and obviously are now.

[SubCmdr]

The democrats is the true racist party.

As I said before, the statements that Republicans make in this thread defy logic and reason.

Campaign tactics and the strategic use of race-coded messaging

Investigations of recent campaigns document repeated instances where Republican ads and imagery have injected race into contests, particularly against Black candidates, prompting accusations that fear-based, racially coded messaging has become an important weapon in Republican campaigns; critics argue these tactics exploit racial anxieties to mobilize voters, while defenders contend tough-on-crime or school-choice ads address legitimate policy concerns and are not inherently racist.

https://factually.co/fact-checks/pol...plained-5d8031

[ShooBree]

So, Iran is controlling and manipulating the time, terms and conditions that must exist to end Trump's latest Repub Forever War of Choice Based on a Repub Lie, are they?

Trump says the war in Iran will end after Election Day

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...day-rcna596950

There is no other name for the side that calls all the shots for how, when and why the fighting ends vs the side that has to wait patiently for their decision than the "winner. " That is by the admission of the dumb, weak current USA Commander-in-Chief, not any Dem's admission.

It's not easy getting old.

What President Trump actually said is that the Iranians last hope is that their friends in the Democratic Party will give them a last lifeline. I'm not saying that the democrats are all traitors but it seems like Iran and the Democratic Party are allies.

[ShooBree]

Looks like trumpys war monger, inflation, Racist party is having a convention because they know there are going to Lose and are Losing. Donald Drumpf is the worse political leader of the Last century.

The democrats is the true racist party.

Nazism, Islamism, antisemitism, racism is way too common these days in the Democratic Party.

[SubCmdr]

Brent crude rose past $102 per barrel on Thursday, the highest in over three months and soaring nearly 15% since the start of September, as escalatory strikes between Iran and the US further supressed supply from the key region. Tehran signaled it will not back down from a military blockade as the US launched attacks against a series of Iranian tankers near Kharg Island, host to the state's key energy infrastructure. The deteriorating backdrop from the Middle East dims expectations that supply from the region could be normalized as Asian economies are forced to re-enter the energy market. China imported 8.93 bpd of crude oil in August, a 6.2% increase from July, after its reliance on inventory since the start of the conflict had shielded the global economy from a deeper energy shortage due to blockaded tankers in the Persian Gulf. Inventories were also lower in the US, with the government's SPR hovering at a record low.

Yet there are Republicans here posting that the undeclared military action against Iran is working. Their collective statements defy logic. You see they cannot spin the oil price in the market.

[Axel Heyst]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvK4v1jUhAE&t=9s

I am starting to like this guy more and more. A liberal Democrat who is unafraid to stand up for America and who openly opposes the Woke, Communist (DSA) nut jobs who have apparently taken over the Democratic Party.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvK4v1jUhAE&t=9s

[Sirioja]

CIA reported no risk from Iran about nuclear. Netanyahou makes war with everybody. When he promised peace in the world to be re elected, must be really dumb to re elect him, Trump followed his friend, war criminal Netanyahou and killed 150 Iranian girls who were at school, if I was father of one, I would have only one aim in life, to revenge. Then, when Ormuz was a free pass before Trump, now his ignorance and stupidity make inflation for Americans and the world, when same mollahs are still there. When Musk corrupted for his election, now, when he worries for midterms, when he failed for 2 years, he tries to fuck elections and promises now 5000 USD to buy, corruption again, citizens. Desperate guy, when more than 60% Americans disagree his politics and results. For my Christmas, get rid of him and I wish same for Netanyahou on Israel elections. Must still be few people who have a brain. If no more Trump, Ormuz will be easier and less inflation for a better, more quiet life in our world than under crazies.

[EihTooms]

So, Iran is controlling and manipulating the time, terms and conditions that must exist to end Trump's latest Repub Forever War of Choice Based on a Repub Lie, are they?

Trump says the war in Iran will end after Election Day

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...day-rcna596950

"The war will be over very shortly after the election," Trump said. "They're hanging out for dear life, hoping that we lose, so they can deal with dumb, weak Democrats and they can have their nuclear bomb. But were not going to let that happen."

The war Trump once predicted would last only four or five weeks is now in its seventh month. A recent NBC News Decision Desk Poll powered by SurveyMonkey found that 69% of Americans disapprove of Trumps handling of the war. The share of Republicans who say they strongly approve of his handling of the war has dropped 18 percentage points since the spring and now stands at 30%.

There is no other name for the side that calls all the shots for how, when and why the fighting ends vs the side that has to wait patiently for their decision than the "winner. " That is by the admission of the dumb, weak current USA Commander-in-Chief, not any Dem's admission.

[Enter The V]

Looks like trumpys war monger, inflation, Racist party is having a convention because they know there are going to Lose and are Losing. Donald Drumpf is the worse political leader of the Last century.

[SubCmdr]

The losses are being socialized and dumped on me and my fellow citizens. The gains are being privatized through the stimulus check being written for all the war spending to the munitions companies. 92% of the stock market is owned by wealthy people.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/09/trea...mal-level.html

You will own nothing and be happy about it. If you are not stacking sats, then you better be stacking gold, silver or buying land so you can grow your own food. That fiat paper and stable coins are worthless everyday that passes.

[Axel Heyst]

"We are six months out now from the beginning of the Iran war, if that's what it is. It's not a formally declared war. It's not even like any war we've seen in the past.

It began on Feb. 28 with a 38- to 39-day bombing that did enormous damage to Iran. And ever since then, it's evened out to a tit-for-tat every couple of weeks, negotiations, a memorandum of understanding, but we should remember that it's not like any war we've seen.

One of the reasons it isn't is we can get no reliable information. There are no embedded reporters because there are no American or Western troops on the ground, and the Ministry of Information in Iran is less reliable than Saddam Hussein's Baghdad Bob.

And to the degree there are foreigners within Iran that are trapped, they don't risk their lives by trying to communicate with us.

And Iranians themselves know if they call relatives in Europe or the United States and disclose information, they can be killed or executed.

So, there's a complete news blackout. In that vacuum, of course, it didn't stop The Washington Post, but especially The New York Times, from telling the American people we've essentially lost the war.

And we've even had illustrious people like Robert Kagan, as I've mentioned in the past, or John Mearsheimer from Harvard saying that essentially the war is lost. I don't know how they can draw that conclusion when we don't have reliable information.

We do have information that comes from Israel, which did a lot of damage to Iran and has photo reconnaissance, and us, but of course they don't trust the Trump administration.

The other thing to remember about this war is there are two laws, canons, protocols that we haven't seen before. The first: Under no circumstances will there be American troops on the ground. No American troops on the ground, given the misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. So we are not invading, we're not going to overthrow the government, we're not going to arm the resistance for good or evil. That's just not going to happen because it's politically impossible.

The other sideline or parameter that we cannot violate, or that we have to respect, is we can't do enough damage that would impair the Iranians' ability to eat, sleep, get fuel, and exist.

If this was a true enemy, as was Germany in World War II, as was Japan, North Korea, or Vietnam, we would be taking out power plants as we did in Serbia with Bill Clinton, or we would be taking out dockworks like we did with Barack Obama in Libya, or bridges, all of them, as Bill Clinton did on the Danube.

But we're not doing that. And I guess the rationale is the Iranian people are now short of food, they're short of water, they're short of fuel, and we count on them to rise up at some point in the fashion of Eastern Europeans or Russians during the period following the Cold War.

So, we do not want to do enough damage to Iran to hurt the viability of a successive free government, and we don't want to put troops on the ground. So that means that it has to be air power.

There's another consideration. The countries that would benefit just as much or more than we doJapan, South Korea, most of Europe, which import oil either from North Africa or from the Gulf states, or themselves are terrified of terrorism, specifically European countries that know that even Arab terrorists who seem to be Sunni terrorists are indirectly subsidized by Iran.

So, they know that if this government falls, there will be no interference with the Strait of Hormuz. But more importantly, you can criticize anybody you want. If you criticize the Iranian government now and you're a European country, or you take sanctions against them, they will retaliate by closing the Strait, and that's what they were afraid of.

It's not quite true, as we are told by the Left, that the strait was always open until President Donald Trump got us in this war and then they closed it. It was open conditional on the attitude of the particular country using it.

So, where does this leave us? This leaves us with a new situation. And in that void, finally, as happens in war, we have a new comprehensive strategy.

We really didn't have a strategy in the Civil War until 1863 or 1864 when Grant said, "I will go down and tie up the Army of Northern Virginia and bleed it white while Uncle Billy Sherman is going to go down to Atlanta, the transportation hub of the Confederacy, destroy it, and then humiliate the martial chivalry and chauvinism of the Southern soldier by marching right through Georgia and then through the Carolinas to meet Grant and end the war."

That didn't formulate until there'd been 250,000 Union dead.

So, what's my point? We finally get a strategy that some of us might want to say, "Why didn't we do this at the beginning?

And what is that strategy? It's the "anaconda strategy" that I mentioned.

So, we are doing a type of blockade, sanctions, freezing of bank accounts, targeting individual theocrats who live double lives, very austere, very religious, very sanctimonious in Iran, not so much in Europe, where they use their ill-gotten gains to buy penthouses, suites, properties, investments that get high interest for a theocracy that says interest itself is sacrilegious.

And if we squeeze them as we are, they will break.

The question is now a political one, and it has two corollaries.

At what point will the Iranian economy cease to function entirely, and that will force people to take great risk and go out and remove this regime in hopes that immediately there will be billions of dollars of Western aid, which there will be, and the country will be reopened?

That's one question.

And will this new anaconda strategy break the regime before the midterms?

Because mark my words, if we have a midterm landslide for the Democrats, as happened against Barack Obama in the case of a Republican landslide that neutered his last two years, this opposition isn't like Republican oppositions.

When the Republicans took the House, they did not impeach Barack Obama. They did not impeach Joe Biden.

This bunch will immediately stop all House proceedings, try to cut off the war, deny funds to the military, and begin impeachment hearings against Donald Trump and most of his Cabinet.

At that point, the Iranian theocracy will be emboldened to take even more severe measures in hopes that the Left is a de facto ally.

Finally, one last perspective, because we are in a dispute with Canada right now as well.

One of the things that came up is President Javier Milei of Argentina said that the Falklands really, given their proximity, should go to Argentina.

He's a big supporter of Donald Trump. The economics and government and new culture in Argentina are much more akin to a conservative government in the United States than is the hard-left government in the you. K.

The hard-left government of Mr. Keir Starmer and the present government, remember, had denied us airspace rights, had put Diego Garcia, a key island in the Indian Ocean, off-limits for our resupply.

And now what happens? The Falklands comes up, and the British media is paranoid.

Why are they paranoid?

Because they have broken a traditional close relationship with the United States.

Milei senses that, senses his affinity for free-market economics under Donald Trump and conservative governance, and all of a sudden thinks he might take a risk and the United States would not get into it as it did during the tenure of Margaret Thatcher when we saved them.

Bottom line: If the United States were not to help Great Britain logistically protect the Falklands, they would not have the ability to do that.

And that would be something that would be a reminder to all of our allies that alliances are not one-way.

And so this war, for all the criticism that it's incurred in the United States and in Europe, does have historical importance.

It's very crucial for Western civilization because it will change the entire Middle East and eliminate a 50-year existential threat.

And no president, given his advisers' acumen, who said, "Do not go into that hornet's nest, just rhetorically say it has to be done. Tell everybody it has to be done to stop this regime. You've got to stop their nuclear weapon, but pass it on to the next president."

Donald Trump didn't do that, and we'll see what happens in November."

[Sirioja]

I worry more about crazy senile Trump than mollahs, in Europe. Mollahs are only a problem for Iranians and Israel, but Israel with Netanyahou have problem with everybody except Trump. Trump won t change mollahs, but made big messe for economics and inflation for the world. Trump put big shame on USA, except for Netanyahou and Putin.

But Trump, rather than his I will stop war in 1 day for his election, same than peace and no war, is so good to DT BJ till Putin cum deep in his mouth and so often, probably why he is so fat, eating too much Putin proteins since Alaska, wishing to make business with Putin, rather than making Russia broke which is only way to stop Putin who dream about new USSR. This is what Trump makes for USA image, the world seeing them sucking Putin like a porn.