IRAN: Trump's war?
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THUGR
Her rant is her claiming ignorance about Cubin. This way she doesn’t have to deal with anything SECOND posted about what he said about Trump. So, did she say she did any searches to see if she could learn about Cubin; nope.
SIGNY
From searches I learned that Mark Cuban owns a sports team and something else related to sports. That he's an "investor". But other than telling me that he's rich, which I already deduced, I still don't know much about him.
What's his history?
How did he get to know Trump?
What are his biases?
It would take a lot of reading his opinions/ analyses to understand his POV, and knowing his hx with Trump to know if he had enough business and personal dealing with Trump to form a knowledgable opinion.
You see, THGR, I don't swallow every bit of chum that someone throws in the water, like you do.
SECOND:
You overlooked Mark Cuban starting Cost Plus Drugs. Signym, try a little bit to understand what Cuban did: https://www.costplusdrugs.com/
Signym, I can tell you are trying very hard to convince yourself that Mark Cuban does not describe Trump truthfully.
SECOND, I can see you're trying very hard to misrepresent me. But that's not surprising bc you lie about everything.
I don't "believe" anyone, much less Some Random Guy I Know Nothing About. And I especially distrust anyone you recommend bc you lie about everything and you really like to post liars.
AFA Trump is concerned, I'm capable of forming my own opinion.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
AFA Trump is concerned, I'm capable of forming my own opinion.
Well now you're just speaking a foreign language to these two retards.
They don't even understand the concept of forming one's own opinion. They've lived their entire lives having never once done so.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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Quote:Have you not heard of this old saying? "Opinions are like assholes. Almost everybody has one and most of them stink." Knowledge and Truth are very different, and far less often encountered, than Opinion. For reasons involving their over-inflated egos, "I am a very stable genius" Trumptards can't tell the difference between their numerous stinking Opinions and True Knowledge.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
AFA Trump is concerned, I'm capable of forming my own opinion.
Well now you're just speaking a foreign language to these two retards.
They don't even understand the concept of forming one's own opinion. They've lived their entire lives having never once done so.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/06/politics/donald-trump-white-house-fitne
ss-very-stable-genius
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Will Trump’s Strikes on Iran Unleash a Global Arms Race?
Since World War II, nonproliferation efforts have limited the number of countries with nuclear weapons. That may be about to change.
By Matthew Cooper | June 24, 2025
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/06/24/will-trumps-strikes-on-iran-u
nleash-a-global-arms-race/
President Donald Trump says he's bombing Iranian sites to deter nuclear proliferation, but Washington Monthly writer Matthew Cooper says Trump’s chaotic behavior is giving non-nuclear nations more reason than ever to develop their own nuclear weapons.
It’s about self-defense, says Cooper, citing a recent report by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Director Dan Smith. https://www.nbcnews.com/world/middle-east/israels-iran-strikes-might-s
upercharge-global-nuclear-arms-race-rcna213200
“[Trump’s] erratic temperament and manic ability to shred once sacred alliances have made it much more likely that Seoul, Warsaw, Taipei, or even Berlin and Tokyo will want to consider spinning centrifuges,” said Cooper, arguing that the only thing keeping some nations from going nuclear for decades was the protection the U.S. provided them up until Trump. “Can anyone count on the American nuclear umbrella when the president … seems more likely than not to jettison NATO? French President Emmanuel Macron has not only returned to Gaullist ideas of French nuclear independence …but has also offered to bring other European nations under Paris’s nuclear protection. In the United Kingdom, Prime Minister Keir Starmer has made similar moves.”
Cooper said “they would be foolish not to” with Trump in office, and that only goes for our allies. Our enemies have even more reason to enrich uranium, and quickly.
“If you’re Nicolas Máduro, the Venezuelan strongman, and the U.S. has vowed regime change and told the U.S. Supreme Court that your country is currently invading America thus allowing mass deportations … how would you assess the situation in Iran this week and the events of last 25 years?”
“The lesson for 21st-century dictators like Máduro is that you can be invaded/thrown out of power if you do not have a nuke,” Cooper said. “… the calculus of risk and reward has made nukes seem more attractive.”
Other, more prosperous nations, like Taiwan and South Korea can’t count on the same White House that is seemingly willing to jettison its promise to protect allies like Ukraine.
“Will Trump keep American forces on the Korean peninsula, where they have provided a nuclear tripwire for more than 70 years?” asked Cooper. “Will the new center-right government in Seoul be able to rely on it, or will it want its own deterrent?”
Cooper said there’s no way to know right now what was “buried or unleashed by Sunday’s American bombing of Fordow, Natanz, and other Iranian sites, except sadly, a growing desire in many of the world’s capitals for a nuke of one’s own.”
More at https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/06/24/will-trumps-strikes-on-iran-u
nleash-a-global-arms-race/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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The Problem With Trump’s Cease-Fire
Abandoning diplomacy could make Iranian nuclear progress harder to stop.
By Thomas Wright | June 24, 2025, 5:25 PM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/06/problem-with
-trumps-ceasefire/683314/
Thomas Wright is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He served as the senior director for strategic planning at the National Security Council during the Biden administration.
Last night, President Donald Trump announced a “total and complete” cease-fire between Israel and Iran. Iran’s nuclear program, Trump said, had been “obliterated” and “totally destroyed” by the U.S. strikes, and Iran’s retaliation was “very weak” and resulted in “hardly any damage.”
If the cease-fire holds, this episode would appear to mark a major foreign-policy victory for the president. But Trump may have made a crucial mistake that could bring about the very outcome that successive American presidents have sought to prevent: an Iranian nuclear weapon.
The problem is that the cease-fire is not linked to a diplomatic agreement with Iran on the future of its nuclear program. Trump apparently sees no need for further negotiation, because the military strikes were, to him, an unqualified success. But as the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said on Sunday morning, assessing the damage to the sites will take some time. A preliminary assessment from the Defense Intelligence Agency found that the strikes had failed to destroy some core components of the nuclear program, CNN reported today.
If parts of the program survived, or if Iran stockpiled and hid enriched uranium in advance of the strikes, then Tehran’s next steps seem clear. It will end cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency and withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Without eyes and ears on the ground, the international community will lose the ability to monitor Iran’s program. Iran could then choose to build a bomb covertly.
There is a worrisome parallel here to North Korea, which ended cooperation with the IAEA, pulled out of the NPT, and slowly resumed production of highly enriched uranium. A few years later, Pyongyang tested a nuclear device, much to everyone’s surprise.
The Iranian regime may conclude that withdrawing from the NPT is its most effective form of retaliation. At the start of the Trump administration, the Islamic Republic was in its weakest position since coming to power in 1979, because of its own catastrophic choices. On October 8, 2023—the day after Hamas attacked Israel—Hezbollah, Iran’s proxy force in Lebanon, joined the war against Israel at a low level. Within a year, Israel had decimated the Lebanese militia. Since then, Israel has significantly weakened Hamas, and another Iranian ally, Syria’s leader, Bashar al-Assad, was toppled by local militias. Iran launched two massive air attacks on Israel in 2024—in April and October—with the clear intent of killing hundreds, if not thousands, of Israelis. The United States led a regional coalition to shoot down practically all of Iran’s missiles, and Israeli counterstrikes destroyed much of Iran’s air defenses.
Tehran has been left with no good options for retaliating against the Israeli and American strikes that just took place. If it seeks to kill large numbers of Americans, either in assaults on U.S. bases or by carrying out a terrorist attack in the United States, it will risk enraging Trump and drawing the U.S. into a prolonged conflict that could threaten the regime. Iran could try to close the Strait of Hormuz, but sustaining that would be difficult given Tehran’s shortage of missile launchers and vessels, and the likelihood of a significant international response. And if it expands the war to Saudi Arabia, Iran will just be bringing more enemies into the fray.
Hunkering down, buying time, and perhaps building a nuclear weapon is a much more viable option by comparison.
So long as Iran is a member of the NPT, it has a commitment to allow the IAEA access to its nuclear sites for inspections and a
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Have you not heard of this old saying? "Opinions are like assholes.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
AFA Trump is concerned, I'm capable of forming my own opinion.
Well now you're just speaking a foreign language to these two retards.
They don't even understand the concept of forming one's own opinion. They've lived their entire lives having never once done so.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
Yeah. I have. Asshole.
You don't have any opinions. All you do is parrot legacy media lies, which is why you end up being wrong about literally everything you "think" in the long run.
You are a stupid, stupid asshole who never learns from his mistakes.
Nobody needs to hear anything more out of you.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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Quote:As individuals, the Trumptards I know are extraordinarily conceited, especially when comparing a Trumptard's meager accomplishments to normal humans. ("I own my house" is a typical Trumptard brag about nothing, kind of like bragging you tie your shoelaces without help because you're a big boy.) Unsurprisingly, President Donald Trump's eldest son wrote on X, formerly Twitter, on Tuesday: "Affirmative action is when Barack Obama gets the Nobel Peace Prize instead of Donald Trump."
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Yeah. I have. Asshole.
You don't have any opinions. All you do is parrot legacy media lies, which is why you end up being wrong about literally everything you "think" in the long run.
You are a stupid, stupid asshole who never learns from his mistakes.
Nobody needs to hear anything more out of you.
Obama won the prize in 2009, eight months into his presidential term for his "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."
Why It Matters
Trump has renewed his long-standing grievance over not being awarded a Nobel Peace Prize in recent days.
Meanwhile, Oleksandr Merezhko, the head of Ukraine's parliamentary foreign committee who nominated Trump for the prize in November, told Newsweek this week that he had submitted his nomination withdrawal request.
He said he had "lost any sort of faith and belief" in Trump and his ability to secure a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine.
Four U.S. presidents have won the Nobel Peace Prize. (Trump won’t because he is an asshole.)
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-jr-nobel-peace-prize-barack-obam
a-affirmative-action-2090362
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Her rant is her claiming ignorance about Cubin. This way she doesn’t have to deal with anything SECOND posted about what he said about Trump. So, did she say she did any searches to see if she could learn about Cubin; nope.
From searches I learned that Mark Cuban owns a sports team and something else related to sports. That he's an "investor". But other than telling me that he's rich, which I already deduced, I still don't know much about him.
What's his history?
How did he get to know Trump?
What are his biases?
It would take a lot of reading his opinions/ analyses to understand his POV, and knowing his hx with Trump to know if he had enough business and personal dealing with Trump to form a knowledgable opinion.
You see, THGR, I don't swallow every bit of chum that someone throws in the water, like you do.
BTW, my long post was in response to JUAN COLE'S (who???) article about Iran, not Mark Cuban.
Not much for scanning, are you?
As for me scanning your post, I did.
You were debating against what Jaun Cole had written. You quoted his words then spun in your own beliefs. I'm very familiar with you posting this way.
Unfortunately, like zerohedge, you have in the past aggregated what someone says to suit your perspective. Unless someone is prepared to analyze every word of Coles article against what you've posted of it, there is no way to verify how accurate you’ve been. Therefore, I chose to respond to the Cuban aspect of the post and ignore the rest.
Let’s start with how he knows Trump;
“He recalled meeting Trump at a Super Bowl party at Mar-a-Lago in 1999, after which Trump invited him to meet in New York. Cuban wrote that Trump had covered "every inch of every wall" in his office with photos and magazine covers of himself.”
"After leaving your office, I promised myself that if I ever got liquid and had an obscene amount of money in the bank, I would make a point not to remind myself and everyone else around me of it every minute of every day unlike you," he wrote. "I guess our definition of success is just completely different." internet
Why he stopped supporting Trump;
Mark Cuban Reveals Exact Moment He Turned on Donald Trump. "I remember asking him, 'If you win this thing, you're going to have to make decisions where people could live or die based off of what you decide.' He wouldn't respond," The billionaire also attributed his shift in perspective to Trump's public statements and tweets, which he suggested sowed division rather than encouraged unity.” internet
He has an online pharmacy Cost Plus that offers safe, affordable medicines at the lowest possible price. Trump on the other hand as President, has set up shop selling anything he can to make a buck. And is trying to cut millions off from healthcare to give tax cuts to the top 1%.
Face it comrade signym. You are infatuated with strongmen who rule instead of governing. Once again, you’ve exposed your lack of concern for your fellow man by supporting Trump, by way of deflecting scrutiny away from him.
Bravo
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Keep crying cunts.
Trump is killing it.
Your party is dead and there's nothing you can do about it now.
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Quote:You are out of your fucking little mind, 6ix, but don't feel bad. All the Texas Trumptards I know are just as screwed up in their personal lives as you are. (I checked with Harris County Sheriffs Office online about one particular Trumptard, this afternoon. He is close to average for a Trumptard and was arrested for criminal trespass. He didn't show up in court when ordered and there is an arrest warrant for him. I should call the Sheriffs because I know the booking number and where he is. He is a huge fan of the incredibly incompetent Donald Trump. He is also an irresponsible loudmouth bragging jackass, just like Trump, which is why there is an arrest warrant for him.)
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Keep crying cunts.
Trump is killing it.
Your party is dead and there's nothing you can do about it now.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
I've postulated that only dirt-bags would vote for Trump. I can usually easily find the dirt for almost every Trumptard I have checked. With Libtards I seldom find dirt. I'm pretty sure the reason why is that decent humans are repelled by all of Trump's behavior, wouldn't act the way he does, and wouldn't vote for that semi-human fatass.
https://recentlybooked.com/TX/Harris/
https://www.harriscountyso.org/JailInfo/OffenseInquiry?Length=9
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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