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True Dough

(26,537 posts)
Sat Mar 21, 2026, 11:37 AM Yesterday

Obama goofed? Really??? Dimwit Donny finding out reality bites, and BITES HARD!

Phil Gordon
@PhilGordonDC

When Obama sent Iran $400m + $1.3bn in interest in 2016 Trump called it "insane" and he and others spent a decade mocking the idea of "pallets of cash" even though it was Iran's own money, American prisoners were released, courts were likely to require the U.S. payment, and Iran had just agreed to significant and verified reductions and restrictions on its nuclear program for 15+ years.

Now Trump is giving Iran up to ten times that amount of revenue — one of the most significant measures of sanctions relief provided to the Islamic Republic since its founding — in exchange for marginal and temporary relief from the big increase in oil prices his actions have caused, without any concessions from Tehran, and even as Iran continues to target the United States, its allies, and world oil supplies.

No way to read as anything other than desperate recognition of the situation Trump's own actions have created and the lack of available alternatives for dealing with it.


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Obama goofed? Really??? Dimwit Donny finding out reality bites, and BITES HARD! (Original Post) True Dough Yesterday OP
THIS!!! True Dough Yesterday #1
... Solly Mack Yesterday #2
The great deal maker. wnylib Yesterday #3
Quite the track record for a "business" man. Every one of his ventures crashed and now his biggest failure is us Deuxcents Yesterday #4
And yet we elected him twice to be our POTUS. He screwed us once and he's screwing us again! CTyankee Yesterday #5
Not "we." "They" elected him. I sure didn't. wnylib Yesterday #6
He can't run again, tho....or will he try? CTyankee Yesterday #7
No, he would not try. He would just say wnylib 23 hrs ago #8
The Rebl2 20 hrs ago #10
Kick Niagara 21 hrs ago #9

True Dough

(26,537 posts)
1. THIS!!!
Sat Mar 21, 2026, 11:44 AM
Yesterday




Joni Askola
@joni_askola

Going to war with a country, then immediately floating the idea of lifting sanctions on its oil to prevent your own economic collapse, is the definition of strategic failure

Deuxcents

(26,704 posts)
4. Quite the track record for a "business" man. Every one of his ventures crashed and now his biggest failure is us
Sat Mar 21, 2026, 12:42 PM
Yesterday

CTyankee

(68,151 posts)
5. And yet we elected him twice to be our POTUS. He screwed us once and he's screwing us again!
Sat Mar 21, 2026, 12:45 PM
Yesterday

He is like a plague that keeps revisiting.

wnylib

(25,873 posts)
6. Not "we." "They" elected him. I sure didn't.
Sat Mar 21, 2026, 01:18 PM
Yesterday

To me, he is Freddy Krueger, always returning to terrorize.

wnylib

(25,873 posts)
8. No, he would not try. He would just say
Sat Mar 21, 2026, 01:55 PM
23 hrs ago

"No more elections. I alone can save the US from our enemies."

It depends on how long his fascist backers and handlers can keep him pumped up on medical cocktails to perform. They might just pull him from being their public face to the world and replace him with someone else. His replacement would then be the one to openly declare a dictatorship.

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