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Amusing that it's on a Tuesday again. TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out) Tuesday.

• moralestapia 5mo ago
  Help me understand. Isn't it a good thing that Iran wasn't blown to pieces?
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  • loloquwowndueo 5mo ago
    What in anything parent said makes you think it’s not a good thing?
    • fullshark 5mo ago
      Calling someone a chicken is seen as derogatory.
      • loloquwowndueo 5mo ago
        I too would take issue with being compared with that guy if i were a chicken.
  • ceejayoz 5mo ago
    Yes. But it’s still bad that the US threatened a genocide this morning.
    • k33n 5mo ago
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        • k33n 5mo ago
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          • defrost 5mo ago
            As an uninvolved /newcomments reader that sees things scroll past, I didn't flag it either .. but literally anybody currently active might have. Likely not the GP and not necessarily anybody "left".
          • lovich 5mo ago
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            • k33n 5mo ago
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              • lovich 5mo ago
                Sometimes a spades a spade
              • anigbrowl 5mo ago
                It only requires reading your refusal to give a straight answer, eg your deflection to a passive-voice observation of the Roman Empire's collapse while avoiding the actual question of how you characterize an explicit threat to terminate a civilization.
                • k33n 5mo ago
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  • fifilura 5mo ago
    The chicken is always the good part of the TACO. That doesn't make the whole thing great.
  • fhdkweig 5mo ago
    It is, but he is weakening the credibility of the United States in the process. Never make a threat you aren't willing to back, otherwise everyone knows you make idle threats.
  • WinstonSmith84 5mo ago
    It's just another military adventure ending in a disaster - probably the most humiliating in a long long time. But to your point, it's better for the US to admit defeat now, than in 2 or 3 weeks, let alone in 2 or 3 years. If a parallel can be made, Russia would have been best advised to have done the same 3 years ago.
• ghywertelling 5mo ago
  Yes, markets weren't taking his "normal" market manipulation tweets seriously, so he had to go hyperbolic with the NUKE tweet. I am definitely sure Trump is not serious. That's why Iran said we will continue this discussion with complete distrust.