You may believe it’s no different. You may even be right. But I don’t. And none of those previously using religion as a tool of manipulation in the past also had nukes and ICBMs to back up their threats.
I’d prefer to avoid the risk.

 

Crazy as Trump sounds, it is a negotiating posture the Iranians may well identify with. It’s what they would do if the situation were reversed.

 

Can we please stop pretending like walking into a room and holding a literal and figurative gun to everyone's head is an expert negotiating tactic?

 

Well, when all else fails (and it has with this regime) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

Lol ok buddy...and they say TDS only affects the Trump haters.

 

Where did he threaten genocide? Prove it

 

Are you serious? I'm guessing you're probably trying bait me with some sort of twisted gaslighting, but I'll humor you...

"A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!"

 

I am not baiting you. I am asking a group of people who overreact and are continuously "shocked" at everything the man says over the last 12 years, the rest of us get massive fatigue at your feigned outrage.

First of all, who threatens "genocide" and ends it with "God Bless the Great People of Iran!" So you think he wants to kill them all? Really?

He also says that "maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS?" again showing support to the people, who he supposedly wants to genocide? Give me a break.

The President has made threats to destroy Iranian infrastructure which is what he is alluding to when he says a whole civilization will die. They will be brought back to the stone age, i.e. no power no transportation. Civilizations die all the time in human history without the population itself being eliminated. Think of the Roman and Persian empires.

The targeting of civilian infrastructure to stop military advancement or to pressure a government has been done in nearly every U.S. conflict in its history, most recently Iraq and Afghanistan. Damns, bridges, roads, airports, power plants have all been eliminated in those conflicts. Is today your first day?

But hey, since you guys think he is TACO or whatever then you have nothing to worry about. But that lame talking point fed to you by Democratic operatives goes all out the window when you try to make the argument that Turmp is supposedly some unhinged dictator. Can't have it both ways.

 

I’m amazed this stuff has to be pointed out, but apparently it does to our smooth brained compatriots.

 

What does it mean when the president says words? I guess some stuff is literal, some is figurative, some is trolling, some is 4D chess. The best part is we can all individually decide what it means in our own minds for each specific statement!