Hey, grifters gotta grift

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    1 month ago

    “I’m really thinking about partnering with them to take some of that money they are never going to give me”

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      Right?! Like he is like,
      “Oh, charging rent for water, how neat! What’s my cut for bombing you into doing so in the first place?”
      As if they will be grateful for it or respect the art of the steal.

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    I’m considering a ‘joint venture’ with all billionaires where they give up all their wealth and we end world hunger, homelessness, and suffering.

    Also my pet pig is considering a ‘joint venture’ with a set of wings to see how far he can fly.

    We’ll see which of these three happens first.

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      My pet pig became pork chops, ham and bacon. I doubt if billionaires would be as tasty, but it’s worth finding out.

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    Trump realizing that he can’t win. So he’s just gonna pretend he’s on the other side.

    The “Make Iran Great Again” is real.

    • End to sanctions
    • Control of the strait with a toll that didn’t exist before
    • Price of oil absolutely boosting Irans economy
    • Still have Uranium and should absolutely make a nuke. The North Korea defense doctrine is proven correct.

    Damn. Iran literally couldn’t get a better deal here.

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    The Islamic Republic’s previous proposal to toll vessels drew criticism from Secretary of State Marco Rubio. He blasted the potential “tolling system” as “illegal” and “dangerous for the world,”

    I just want to put emphasis that Marco Rubio is the straight man in this comedy routine, cause what the heck?

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      Tolls are dangerous to the world.

      An entire siege on a small Island nation who’s only crime against the US has been the purging of slave plantation owners nearly 60 years ago, well, that’s just “strategic” economics.

      Fuck little Marco. He deserves to be [redacted] and [redacted] and then [redacted] like Mussolini in the town square.

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    If anything it should be a joint venture between Iran and Oman, the country on the other side of the strait that’s mostly getting ignored in all this.

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      Actually Iran offered Oman to charge on the toll as well and had I think offered some specific options for split.

      Oman did not like the idea of angering the other countries as much and might regret it, since I think Iran will end up charging ships.

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      He always lies.

      What happened is that he made the biggest threat he could (using nukes) and that still didn’t work (perhaps he was planning to go with it and military refused? That firing of generals including one chaplain is suspicious) so he TACOd and to still claim a victory he now tries to play that he is actually on Iranian side of this war.