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Trump Tore Up Obama Deal And Bombed Iran So He Could Make Same Goddamn Deal
https://www.wonkette.com/p/trump-tore-up-obama-deal-and-bombedGary Legum
Thursday started with a lot of chest-beating and rah-rah “America, Fuck Yeah!” jingoism over the United States bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities. It ended with reporters revealing that America is offering Iran the same concessions it offered under Barack Obama in 2015 in exchange for Iran stopping its uranium enrichment, the same concessions that Donald Trump in all his genius has spent the last decade complaining about/ripping to shreds.
Does that mean this week’s bombing was a waste of time and money and energy and lives in service of Trump getting to feel like he one-upped a Black man? Yes, that is exactly what it means.
Thursday started with our drunk meatloaf of a Defense Secretary, Whiskey Pete Hegseth, whining at the Pentagon press corps like the world’s most annoying teacher’s pet because it was committing the crime of gathering facts and reporting them to the public instead of joining him in verbal fellatio of Donald Trump. We get it, man, the press should be waving tiny American flags and singing the national anthem instead of asking you super-hard questions like “Were these strikes successful” and “How does such a fucking lickspittle like you live with yourself, is it thanks to the constant boozing numbing the gaping abyss of insecurity that lurks in your soul?”
We’re paraphrasing, a little.
Then in the afternoon, it was Nazi succubus Karoline Leavitt’s turn to berate everyone while performing for the emperor at her daily press briefing:
Leavitt’s comment about a “weak and ineffective deal” was an unsubtle nod to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) signed during the Obama administration to limit Iran’s nuclear capabilities. Part of that deal involved allowing Iran access to billions of dollars in assets in overseas bank accounts, which the West had frozen to try and force the Iranians to the negotiating table.
Trump and the rest of his sycophants in the Republican Party spent years deriding Obama for shipping Iran “pallets of cash” (a grotesque twisting of what the deal’s provisions really allowed) to gain its compliance. He pulled the US out of the JCPOA in 2018 and has spent the years since screaming about negotiating a new deal.
Then on Thursday CNN published a story about what the US is offering Iran now, in the wake of the bombing of its facilities. And wouldn’t you know it, one offer on the table is handing the Iranians ... pallets of cash!
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Does that mean this week’s bombing was a waste of time and money and energy and lives in service of Trump getting to feel like he one-upped a Black man? Yes, that is exactly what it means.
Thursday started with our drunk meatloaf of a Defense Secretary, Whiskey Pete Hegseth, whining at the Pentagon press corps like the world’s most annoying teacher’s pet because it was committing the crime of gathering facts and reporting them to the public instead of joining him in verbal fellatio of Donald Trump. We get it, man, the press should be waving tiny American flags and singing the national anthem instead of asking you super-hard questions like “Were these strikes successful” and “How does such a fucking lickspittle like you live with yourself, is it thanks to the constant boozing numbing the gaping abyss of insecurity that lurks in your soul?”
We’re paraphrasing, a little.
Then in the afternoon, it was Nazi succubus Karoline Leavitt’s turn to berate everyone while performing for the emperor at her daily press briefing:
“The contrast in leadership could not be more clear. Barack Obama and Joe Biden sent pallets of cash to buy the Iranian regime’s compliance with a weak and ineffective deal. President Trump sent a fleet of American warplanes to destroy Iran’s ability to produce a nuclear weapon.”
Leavitt’s comment about a “weak and ineffective deal” was an unsubtle nod to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) signed during the Obama administration to limit Iran’s nuclear capabilities. Part of that deal involved allowing Iran access to billions of dollars in assets in overseas bank accounts, which the West had frozen to try and force the Iranians to the negotiating table.
Trump and the rest of his sycophants in the Republican Party spent years deriding Obama for shipping Iran “pallets of cash” (a grotesque twisting of what the deal’s provisions really allowed) to gain its compliance. He pulled the US out of the JCPOA in 2018 and has spent the years since screaming about negotiating a new deal.
Then on Thursday CNN published a story about what the US is offering Iran now, in the wake of the bombing of its facilities. And wouldn’t you know it, one offer on the table is handing the Iranians ... pallets of cash!
. . .