Just for a second, I would like everyone to briefly contemplate how American media would have covered either George Bush announcing a joint venture with Saddam Hussein to charge the rest of the world a tax on oil.

April 08, 2026 - 13:51 UTC

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It’s just business with Trump. 🤝💰
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Well, friends of Russia (Iran, Belarus, North Korea, Hungary...) will also be the only friends of the USA/US oligarchs in the future.
The US will announce leaving NATO very soon and wait for the amazing 'business deals' to be announced in Russia for the Witkoff/Tump/Kushner/1%- Epstein class.
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Media is numb to this kind of extortion because this is Trump's entire modus operandi, ever since his days in mob-controlled New York development. It's all he knows. Let's give credit to @mtsw.bsky.social who predicted this exact outcome 8 days ago!
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They’d wash it as faith based embezzlement.
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Why do you grant him a question, which implies that you think you will get a real answer that doesn't include lies, distortion and distraction?
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The American media that rolled over and didn't question Bush's clear lies about WMDs? They were on the side of power then, too. Always are.
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There are books deals to had. What do you want from them??
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If Biden, the right would go ballistic
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communication in general has changed so much. People seem more complacent than ever. We've accepted the abnormal as the norm, mis/disinfo as truth. I don't see how we ever reverse this.
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*this* American media?
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Extortion is Trump's thang. Yo.
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A two week ceasefire and Bondi is set to testify in Congress in two weeks on the Epstein files.
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Particularly where it was "tax free" just a few weeks ago.
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It’s Iran & Oman that will be splitting the toll money. The US will be PAYING tolls to cross the Strait.
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He’s talking to the Iranians in his head again, joint venture my arse
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Unsure how it works for Republicans but with Democrats it would be about 10 dys. from this fiasco to riding Amtrak as a private citizen again. (Adjusting from a baseline of messing up a debate.)
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There may be and there may not be. I think we know which it will be.
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That is a ridiculous response by DJT.
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They'd both-sides it. But the people who opposed that war would have preferred it.
The price of electing T has always been the same as working w/ any gangster:
A. He enriches himself & lies about it, OR
B. He does massive, permanent damage.

It sucks, but I'll take A -- and work toward November.
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(Yes, we do a lot more with oil than burn it, but it's also probably worth noting that we don't need ships to transport wind and sun.)
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Sine the media likes Republicans and wants them to win and rule us like kings, they might have even gone along with it.

A clarifying question is what if Joe Biden or Barack Obama had done it.
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Shit, can you imagine how many daily January 6th-style attacks on our government would have happened if Kamala had done this?!!
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A good follow-up question would have been - Mr. President how will this bring down the price of oil for the United States.
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Another: "Who is 'We'?"
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The fact that despite the ever-positive media coverage Trump's ratings are still in the dumps - though not as much as they would be in a pre-Ailes world - gives me a sliver of hope.
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Well, that certainly puts things in perspective
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You don’t even have to go back to GW just look at what they did with Afghanistan, giving it to the Taliban
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Craaazy.. A moment ago the news blast is that the Strait has been closed again... This is going to be leverage on a day to day basis by Iran.... Winning???!!!
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I fully support this new carbon tax.
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There is no longer an American media as we knew it, the present day journalists and reporters are biased, inept and are no more than stenographers. My harsh assessment after a decade of being fed Trump-only and little else.
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anything for a buck
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-Started a war with Iran
-Pursues ethnic cleansing
-Created a personal police force
-Puts his name and photo on everything
-Gaudy gold and marble decorating aesthetic
-Has a pair of dumbass grifting sons

He IS Saddam Hussein.
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Not quite. He's not dead yet.
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It’s also false. He’s making shit up.
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Had that happened, the US would be the world leaders in EV's and changing stations would be everywhere.
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