@EricLDaugh Hey Daughtery, who is Trumpy trying to protect in his blundered IRAN deal? That’s what he gets when he puts “real estate investors” negotiating the deal. Witkoff and Jarod Kushner FAILED miserably! Trumpy surrendered to IRAN who now holds the cards including enriched Uranium
@mitchellvii More is going to come out about Couch Boy’s meeting in the Situation Room. Thank you to the leaker who spilled the beans ! Vance does not stand a chance running for office ….
@FoxNews Substitute Thursday and voila, there you have it ! Trumpy surrendered to IRAN by signing a “memorandum “ which 9 or 10 items benefits IRAN and only 1 benefits the US. Basically Trumpy bribed IRAN covering up Kushner & Widkoff’s negotiating failure and his own stupidity!
@FoxNews At what cost?
America lost its face, honour, dignity and 13 brave soldiers.
Some values are not negotiable. Freedom, democracy, dignity, honour, and respect must always come before economic calculations.
America is a lost country.
This is where I both agree and disagree.
I believe adults should be free to use drugs recreationally in the privacy of their own homes. What a consenting adult chooses to put into their own body, in private, should not be the government’s business when no one else is being harmed.
But that freedom ends when the conduct moves into public spaces. Public drug use can make parks, sidewalks, and neighborhoods unsafe or unusable for everyone else. At that point, it is no longer a victimless act - it's infringing on the public’s right to safely use public spaces.
Legalize private use. Enforce the law when that behavior harms others or takes over shared spaces.
Everyone remembers the “pallets of cash.”
Far fewer people understand what actually happened.
The JCPOA was a nuclear agreement: Iran accepted limits on enrichment, centrifuges, its uranium stockpile, and expanded IAEA monitoring in exchange for sanctions relief.
The often-claimed “$150 billion payment” was not a U.S. taxpayer check. Iran regained access to portions of its own oil revenue and foreign reserves frozen overseas - estimated at roughly $50–56 billion in readily accessible funds.
The $1.7 billion cash settlement was separate.
Iran had paid the United States $400 million in the 1970s for military equipment that was never delivered after the Iranian Revolution. The settlement returned that principal plus about $1.3 billion in negotiated interest.
But the controversial timing was real.
The first $400 million - delivered in foreign currency -was withheld until American prisoners had departed Iran. The State Department described that as leverage, while denying it was ransom.
So the honest account is neither partisan version:
It was not a JCPOA “signing bonus.”
It was not $150 billion in American taxpayer cash.
It was a legitimate claims settlement.
And its timing was deliberately used to secure the prisoners’ release.
You can criticize the deal without rewriting it. Facts should be strong enough on their own.
@KelseyDav@CatoFP@ArmsControlNow@QuincyInst@tparsi
This is a remarkable rewriting of history.
Obama didn’t “trust Iran.” The JCPOA forced Iran to surrender roughly 98% of its enriched uranium, remove two-thirds of its centrifuges, alter its plutonium reactor and submit to continuous international inspections. The billions you mention were largely Iran’s own frozen assets released after those steps were verified - not a personal gift from Obama.
Trump, by contrast, launched a war that killed thousands, cost American lives, disrupted the global economy and still did not eliminate Iran’s regime or destroy its nuclear capability. The same theocratic system remains in power, much of the enriched uranium remains unaccounted for, and negotiations are once again necessary to resolve the nuclear issue.
Now Trump is offering sanctions relief, releasing frozen Iranian assets and supporting hundreds of billions in reconstruction assistance to reach another diplomatic agreement.
So the actual comparison is this:
Obama used inspections, sanctions and diplomacy to restrict Iran’s nuclear program without sacrificing American lives.
Trump abandoned that agreement, helped create the crisis, went to war, and is now returning to inspections, sanctions relief and diplomacy after thousands of people are dead.
That isn’t “mixing military action and diplomacy seamlessly.”
It’s destroying the first deal, paying an enormous price in blood and treasure, and then negotiating another one.
This is a remarkable rewriting of history.
Obama didn’t “trust Iran.” The JCPOA forced Iran to surrender roughly 98% of its enriched uranium, remove two-thirds of its centrifuges, alter its plutonium reactor and submit to continuous international inspections. The billions you mention were largely Iran’s own frozen assets released after those steps were verified - not a personal gift from Obama.
Trump, by contrast, launched a war that killed thousands, cost American lives, disrupted the global economy and still did not eliminate Iran’s regime or destroy its nuclear capability. The same theocratic system remains in power, much of the enriched uranium remains unaccounted for, and negotiations are once again necessary to resolve the nuclear issue.
Now Trump is offering sanctions relief, releasing frozen Iranian assets and supporting hundreds of billions in reconstruction assistance to reach another diplomatic agreement.
So the actual comparison is this:
Obama used inspections, sanctions and diplomacy to restrict Iran’s nuclear program without sacrificing American lives.
Trump abandoned that agreement, helped create the crisis, went to war, and is now returning to inspections, sanctions relief and diplomacy after thousands of people are dead.
That isn’t “mixing military action and diplomacy seamlessly.”
It’s destroying the first deal, paying an enormous price in blood and treasure, and then negotiating another one.
I'd pump the brakes on the "victory lap."
Gas was below $3 before Trump’s war with Iran helped disrupt global oil supplies and sent the national average above $4.50. Now it has finally fallen to $3.99 which is still roughly 80 cents higher than this point last year; because Trump reached an agreement to stop the war and restore the oil supply he helped disrupt.
You're essentially congratulating the administration for partially extinguishing a fire it helped start.
Setting gasoline on fire, getting the price back below $4 and promising it may eventually return to where it was before the war is not “taking care of business.”
It is recovering from a self-inflicted crisis.
Call me when gas is back below $3, the American families who paid hundreds more are reimbursed and the Americans killed in an unnecessary war are brought back to life.
Probably because Obama had a better economy, was more efficient at deporting illegals without a hooded government goon squad terrorizing Americans, didn't start wars with Iran that crippled the economy, didn't protect pedophiles, didn't have a corrupt DOJ move pedophile accomplices like Ghislaine Maxwell to minimum security Club Fed to shut her up, didn't ridicule people in death saying he's glad when people died, didn't post racist videos on social media, didn't use taxpayer-funded slush funds to attempt to pay criminals who attacked our Capitol with no oversight, and didn't use corrupt crypto schemes to enrich himself and his family while Americans continue to suffer, etc. Trump is a cancerous albatross on this country that only magnifies Obama and he gives the country daily reminders why over-the-hill Biden mopped the floor with him in 2020.
The prior Iran deal that Trump ripped up cost nothing economically, had no military lives lost, no bases bombed, no military aircraft destroyed, no Strait closed, no global price hikes, along with Iran reducing their enriched uranium to 3% and regular inspections of their facilities.
The Trump University deal has Iran keeping their enriched uranium stockpile with no IAEA access to their facilities, Iran still controlling the Strait, getting billions of dollars for doing absolutely nothing, lives of American service members lost, over 500 injured, the price of everything going up globally, our military bases bombed backed to the stone ages with hundreds of billions of dollars of destruction and destroyed aircraft. The low IQ dregs of America actually voted for this and "yay Team Red!!" propaganda networks like Fox News are still trying to squeeze any kind of positive news out of this display of incompetence by the Trump University administration 🤦🏻