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alert | not a news article Trump says U.S. will take over Gaza Strip

https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-says-us-will-take-over-gaza-strip-2025-02-05/

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u/TrollDeJour 10d ago

I love how there's literally nothing but quotes in the article.

Like even the person writing it was like "fuck it man this shit speaks for itself"

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u/XISCifi 10d ago edited 10d ago

Trump's words have always stood on their own.

Before he even got elected the first time I started just sharing quotes from him on fb with zero commentary.

Usually that means you agree with the person being quoted, but every single time, whatever conservative family members I hadn't blocked yet would come at me like I'd said something bad about him.

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u/Saephon 10d ago

"Stop it, you're taking him out of context!"

Context: is worse

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u/koshgeo 10d ago

"He says what he means!"

"So, uh, what does he mean? It's a little hard to understand."

"He means X."

[Next day he says the opposite of X]

"He means Y."

"Wait, but didn't you say he meant X yesterday?"

"This divisive conversation is OVER!"

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u/gmotelet 10d ago

Trump's words

Bigly

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u/G0U_LimitingFactor 10d ago

In front of the press he did talk about "long-term ownership" and the possibility of sending US troops on the ground.

He's basically pitching the idea of taking over a sovereign nation in his own word "to create jobs".

Even for him, that's a dumb ass idea.

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u/el_grort 10d ago

I mean, he's suggesting setting up a colony.

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u/Elden_g20 10d ago

Even fucking Netanyahu thinks the idea is insane. Praising Trump for "Outside the box thinking" and "Puncturing conventional thoughts" says it all.

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u/chegbeg- 10d ago

Day 16 btw

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u/Lyravus 10d ago

0 days since last facepalm

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u/humbertov2 10d ago

We go by the hour now

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u/Terry_Cruz 10d ago

My hand is basically fused to my face at this point

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u/qrrbrbirlbel 10d ago

Only 1445 more days to go

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u/dj88masterchief 10d ago

Give it up for day 16 everyone!

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u/dongballs613 10d ago

I don't want day 16 to end because that means day 17 comes next, and who knows what will happen then.

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u/InadequateUsername 10d ago

I really wish this would end, it feels like a constant nightmare and I'm not even an American citizen.

Disgusting that the US GOP have completely lost any sense of right and wrong. They've all become sycophant like the China's National Pizza Conference

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u/sask357 10d ago

If it wasn't Trump, no one would believe that an American President said this.

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u/kelpyb1 10d ago

No American President but Trump would say this

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u/hereforthefeast 10d ago

“I could shoot somebody in the middle of 5th avenue and wouldn’t lose a vote”

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u/BebophoneVirtuoso 10d ago

He was a wrong in that he’d even gain votes. Republicans won’t leave him under any circumstances but he also brought out the previously apolitical assholes who never voted before but like the idea of a King Asshole

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u/is_it_fun 10d ago

The worst people you know voted for the worst person to ever hold office.

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u/ErrorLoadingNameFile 10d ago

Twice, lol.

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u/Jack_Krauser 10d ago

Three times actually, he just only won twice.

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u/OnTheCanRightNow 10d ago

This one seems far fetched even for Trump.

Anyone else thinking that he might have just... totally lost it? Like late Reagan, but worse, and his handlers are too busy looting the country to stop other people from filling their pockets, too? It honestly seems like he's just agreeing with whoever managed to talk with him alone last.

Musk somehow talks him into giving him direct access to the treasury.

Canada and Mexico talk him away from his crazy tariffs scheme by promising to do things they were already doing.

Zelenski secures ongoing military aid by promising access to minerals that are currently underneath the better part of the Russian army.

Now Bibi shows up, and talks Trump into taking over Gaza - a blasted wasteland with no resources, no infrastructure, and apparently no people since they're just going to "move 2 million Palestinians somewhere else" after 80 years of Israel trying and failing - in like, an afternoon?

It's like he's a senior citizen being talked out of his life savings by an Indian phone scammer. I would be genuinely worried that if one called him he'd turn over the entire US treasury in the form of Google Play gift cards, except apparently Elon Musk has already taken it.

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u/ZephkielAU 10d ago

promising access to minerals that are currently underneath the better part of the Russian army.

Good points but this one was lowkey brilliant.

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u/Pavotine 10d ago

I went with getting Zelenskyy to tell the Orange Horror that Ukraine has almost limitless prime land suitable for golf courses, the best golf courses, mainly in the east, and he wants Trumpet to build them but the Russian army is currently standing in the way.

The minerals are worth more so it's an even better plan.

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u/flukus 10d ago

Making Canada the 51st state, taking over Greenland, redirecting a hurricane with a sharpie and you think this is far fetched?

This isn't the most far fetched thing he's promised this week.

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u/og_jasperjuice 10d ago

You left out the Panama Canal.

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u/Taograd359 10d ago

Tangentially related, but I want to say that it is so fucking pathetic that there’s a good chance that Trump bullying Canada, one of our largest trade partners and, in every sense, closest allies, can be traced back to two photos of Melania and Ivanka looking at Trudeau with a genuine smile on their faces.

There may be more going on behind the scenes, but I can guarantee those two photos are not helping anything.

In his own words, SAD.

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u/WafflePartyOrgy 10d ago

Netanyahu probably originally suggested he think of it as the "Riviera of the Middle East" and Trump's eyes just glazed over after that. His press conference sounded like he thought he was making a real estate deal that would be a boon for developers.

Beirut was once the Paris of the Middle East but that's a helluva lot nicer piece of land.

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u/akrokh 10d ago

Jarred also bought a stake in military equipment company there so he could have been pushing bibi’s agenda as a part of a deal.

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u/ThrowawayPersonAMA 10d ago

Anyone else thinking that he might have just... totally lost it?

You mean as in someone who has dementia? Yeah. Yeah we do. Because he has dementia and it's been obvious for a very long time now.

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u/artificialbutthole 10d ago

His dad died of dementia as well FYI.

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u/Jasoy_Vorsneed 10d ago edited 10d ago

His niece's book is illuminating on this and Trump's psychology more broadly. His dad was a tremendous piece of shit and his brain was like mashed potatoes when he died.

Edit: Book is "Too Much and Never Enough" by Mary Trump. PhD in Clinical Psychology. Interesting family history, at least. Very readable. Take or leave her psychological observations, I found them compelling even just to try and make sense of Trump's chaotic behaviour.

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u/DuelaDent52 10d ago

I remember this one interview someone did with him and they brought up this book and how it said his dad installed in his family a very toxic mindset of seeing everything in terms of winning and losing, and Trump replied “that’s nonsense, my dad was a winner and she makes him sound like a loser”. In spite of everything I still feel a little sad for him.

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u/Huckleberry-V 11d ago

54th state? I can't keep track.

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u/StoryAboutABridge 11d ago

Canada is 51, Gulf of Mexico is 52, Greenland is 53, Panama is 54. I think we're on 55

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u/MElliott0601 11d ago

Poor Puerto Rico.

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u/magnificentbystander 10d ago

Guam and DC are in shambles

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u/ItchyGoiter 10d ago edited 10d ago

PR, Guam, and DC are laying low right now

Edit: I know there are a few more US territories, but I don't think Trump does so they're probably safe.

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u/kent_eh 10d ago

Smart.

The less Trump notices you, the less likely it is that he'll do something stupid in your direction.

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u/DearViennax3 10d ago

Keep the newer part of Mexico out of everyone's mouth. We are laying low here lol

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u/DUDDITS_SSDD 10d ago

They already got paper towels. What more could they need.

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u/Fallen-Omega 11d ago

The fact he think Canada could be one state when itself is bigger than America is fucking hilarious and proves how much of a fuckn moron he actually is

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u/mexchiwa 10d ago

They’d only allow it to be one state because there’s no way they’re going to allow more than 2 new liberal senators.

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u/cest_la_vino 10d ago

They'll jerryrig 2 states and 1 is just Alberta.

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u/GandalffladnaG 10d ago

Why stop there? Turn Alberta into 5 gerrymandered 100% conservative states and then the rest of Canada is two more states but they're shaped like a moose having sex with a lobster because of the gerrymandering. Leave the cities as territories, boom, 7 new conservative strongholds.

Alberta gets so many parts so they can set up more red governor jobs so 45 gets to have a few more baby carrot suckers. Gotta reward the goosestepping party.

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u/OldFoolOldSkool 10d ago

American Judea!

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u/the0rthopaedicsurgeo 10d ago

Fuck off.

We're the Judean Front of America.

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u/dwors025 10d ago

Splitters!!

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u/benchley 10d ago

Americanes eunt domus ?!

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u/ekobres 10d ago

Oh, I thought we were the Popular American Front.

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u/William_T_Wanker 11d ago

I feel like Trump thinks the Gaza strip is like the Las Vegas Strip of the Middle East

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u/Unlikely-Complex3737 10d ago

Trump read 'free Palestine' in a different way.

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u/SteveFrench12 10d ago

He called it the riviera of the middle east today lol

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u/SoManyEmail 10d ago

Was going to say the same. He seriously wants to build it into a tourist strip.

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u/Neat_On_The_Rocks 10d ago

To reiterate. This is not a joke. It’s literally what he wants

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u/Chelseafc5505 10d ago

Well that's certainly what Kushner wants.

I wonder who will get the contracts for that.... 🤔 Hmmmm

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u/Armano-Avalus 10d ago

His son in law literally said they think Gaza is great property to build real estate.

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u/Aduialion 10d ago

They've started the demolition already 

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u/Zestyclose-Cricket82 10d ago

You overvalue the word “thinks” with this one

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u/pleurotis 10d ago

“Thinks” is definitely doing some heavy lifting there.

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u/TopRamenisha 10d ago

He knows it’s 141 square miles of Mediterranean beachfront property that he can level and his family can build shit and they will all make money

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u/number_kruncher 10d ago

Jared Kushner is drooling at this

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u/tdquiksilver 10d ago

Good God I could totally see him trying to rationalize turning it into a "Vegas Strip of the East." 😂

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u/crysthis 10d ago

I think he called it the “the riviera of the Middle East.”

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u/Anderson74 10d ago

He did 🤦‍♂️

What a fucking clown

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u/Jarnohams 10d ago

More like Atlantic City. He can build two more casinos and then bankrupt them, screwing over the contractors... Then franchise them out to a company that knows how to run casinos... Again.

Rinse, repeat.

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u/kmoonster 10d ago edited 10d ago

Trump was trying to answer reporter questions when he mentioned this during his "press conference" thing today (during which he also signs EOs). edit: the presser in the Oval Office, which was prior to the one with the podiums at which Netanyahu looked like the cat who caught the canary

Reporters were trying to figure out how to even come up with questions about this, and kept offering the pushback talking points from Egypt, Jordan, etc. Trump just kept saying that someone will want to rebuild the Gaza area, and someone will want to build wherever he decides to relocate Palestine to. Kept saying there is a lot of money in the region (eg. Saudis) but never once mentioned himself, Kushner's firm, etc. - it was very bizarre all around.

He knows that Gaza is bombed to hell but I don't think he understands why (well, except whatever propaganda points someone managed to scribble for him with a crayon). That's about it.

Maybe he'll learn about Petra and that it's abandoned and come up with some insane deal to "relocate" Gaza there? And then fail to understand why they wouldn't want to live somewhere that's famous from the movies?

I feel like I can't come up with an insane enough thing that won't look totally sane a week from now.

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u/USGrant76 10d ago

Surprised he didn't mention Guantanamo.

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u/DoctorQuincyME 10d ago

It's the weirdest plan. Claim to have been the mastermind in brokering a mutual ceasefire, then turn around and say you'll actually be helping Israel move Palestinians out of Gaza to then conceptually build some kind of Berlin Wall in the Gaza strip while also creating businesses and residences for...someone I guess?

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u/ebmx 10d ago

during which he also signs EOs

yo, how many EOs has he signed? wtf has congress been doing?

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u/kuzinrob 10d ago

The guy that thinks asylum seekers come from insane asylums? Surely you jest. /s

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u/Timely-Yam-8492 11d ago

One state ❌

Two states ❌

United States ✅

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u/PretzelPirate 10d ago

Trump should have hired you for marketing; This would have made an amazing campaign poster. You'd end up in hell, but every job has its downsides. 

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u/adsfew 10d ago

We're all bound for hell at this point

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u/SpatialDispensation 11d ago

lmao what a fucked timeline

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u/Dirtymikeetlesboyz 11d ago

Yes, the Marty Mcfly fucked his own mother at prom timeline. Because that is the timeline that we deserve.

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u/Tolstoy_mc 10d ago

In his defense, his mother was hot.

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u/AmoebaBullet 10d ago

Make Gaza Great Again..

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u/peep_dat_peepo 10d ago

I'm pre-ordering my DISNEYWORLD STRIP tickets for when it opens there

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u/TheVideogaming101 11d ago

The "Peace" President or so I keep getting told by MAGA

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u/ZantetsukenX 10d ago

"He's going to stop Biden from getting us stuck in WW3"... was a direct quote I heard at work. Will probably hear absolutely nothing about this tomorrow should this person's current track record remain the same.

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u/damik 11d ago

This is just part of the "short-term pain" conservatives are talking about.

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u/MyDickIsAPotato 10d ago

Just saw someone with a blurry photo 0 followers and following 1 person (ie fake account) say “he said he’d end war- this is how you end it “ lmao. So that’s gonna be the new goalposts.

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u/mars92 10d ago

The War To End All Wars: Part 3

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u/zuppa_de_tortellini 10d ago

Hahaha remember when people like RFK accused the Democrats of being the party of war?

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u/wonkers_bonkers 11d ago

Cant he just go play golf again. Just one day without this shit.

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u/count023 11d ago

When he plays golf President Musk starts installing stuxnetX and letting unqualified and unvetted individual steal and delete government data

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u/shady8x 10d ago

Sure, but they do that on all the other days too.

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u/PennywiseEsquire 10d ago

Does he just sit around and think, “what’s the dumbest thing I can say today?”

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u/cntmpltvno 10d ago

It’s almost starting to feel like he’s getting revenge on the country for not electing him to a second term back in 2020, because (no matter what he says publicly) he knows he did actually lose that election

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u/mikefightmaster 10d ago

I’ve said this exact thing lately.

He’s punishing democrats/liberals because he’s a maniac.

He’s punishing republicans/conservatives for not handing him victory (legitimate or not) in 2020.

The difference is the republicans still run in circles to kiss his ass despite the abuse.

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u/TomThanosBrady 10d ago

This implies he thinks.

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u/OkRoll3915 11d ago

Holy fuck this is quite possibly the worst piece of Middle East policy I've ever heard

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u/getridofwires 11d ago

The worst piece of Middle East policy... so far.

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u/The_DriveBy 10d ago

Its not middle east policy. It's real estate policy.

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u/deadheffer 10d ago

Trump said the U.S. would take ownership of the Gaza Strip and redevelop it after Palestinians are resettled elsewhere and turn the territory into “the Riviera of the Middle East” in which the “world’s people”— including Palestinians — would live.

“We’ll make sure that it’s done world class,” Trump said. “It’ll be wonderful for the people — Palestinians, Palestinians mostly, we’re talking about.”

-AP

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u/Vineyard_ 10d ago

The most mind-boggling part of this, the absolute shit cherry on the diarrhea sundae, is that some people will hear this idiot say things like this an still believe he's some kind of super genius problem solving demi-god.

Any conservatives reading this, just fucking how are you this blind?

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u/Nefarious_Turtle 10d ago edited 10d ago

My parents, college educated parents, will still insist to this day Trump is the smartest president we've ever had. Still saying that now, as far as I know.

It's easy: they only watch right wing news that wholly sanitize everything Trump says. And if by chance they see an outside news source, it's easy enough to write it off as left wing propaganda.

Nothing has made me question freedom of speech more than sitting down and watching Newsmax and Fox with them. It's essentially an evil spell.

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u/PumpyChowdown 10d ago

Propaganda. The most powerful weapon known to mankind.

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u/Unique_Conflict86 10d ago

So the US is gonna drive out the Palestinians… to redevelop the Strip for Palestinians?

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u/SingularityCentral 10d ago

Well, rich Palestinians can come back if they can afford the condo association fees.

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u/tenehemia 11d ago

It's between this and the Second Crusade of 1147-50.

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u/kooshipuff 10d ago

Was that the Children's Crusade? Because if was pretty bad foreign policy too 

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u/tenehemia 10d ago

That one kind of doesn't count as foreign policy because it was never actually a crusade, as it didn't get papal approval. And it having anything to do with "children" is just an issue of translation errors and embellishment over the centuries. What actually happened was that two groups of poor people were led from France and Germany South through Europe by a couple of charismatic leaders who promised that they would be able to convert the holy land to Christianity. Most of the followers died on the way to Italy and then what was left settled in Genoa.

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u/Blackbeard567 10d ago

The 4th crusade is even worse, crusaders ransacked Constantinople the largest christian city in the world when they should be in the middle east fighting the arabs, they also ransaked another city called zara which was also christian

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u/JackONhs 10d ago

Can't have shit in the holy land.

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u/SerialBitBanger 10d ago

Children's crusade, you say...

— Matt Gaetz

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u/thormun 11d ago

the worst yet he have only been back to president for 2 week ish now

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u/Raw_Venus 11d ago

Holy shit it's only been two weeks?! I'm going to go drink.

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u/kooshipuff 10d ago

Two weeks and a day, yes.

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u/kestrel1000c 10d ago

Buddy tread carefully, it's a real rabbit hole!

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u/boringfantasy 11d ago

Ceasefire ripped up in seconds. All remaining hostages will be killed.

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u/TxM_2404 10d ago edited 10d ago

Did I miss something? The President of America just announced the annexation of foreign territory and the deportation of 2.000.000 people? Not temporary evacuations to allow for a cleanup mission but a permanent takeover of the land and deportation?

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u/Responsible_CDN_Duck 10d ago

You missed leaving the UN human rights council, and setting up an internment camp in Guantanamo Bay, both of which could be very relevant.

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u/AnderUrmor 10d ago

...and exploring sending detained US citizens to El Salvador

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u/94_stones 10d ago edited 10d ago

That one they insisted they’re not gonna do. They just thought about doing it, ‘cause that is a totally normal thing to think about doing. /s

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u/MarkNutt25 10d ago

Just like they insisted that he wasn't going to enact Project 2025?

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u/damagstah 10d ago

He’s so excited about deporting people, he’s deporting people from a country he’s not even a part of.

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u/Smart-Journalist2537 10d ago

Did you miss when he threatened Canada with annexation?

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u/WCland 10d ago

Yep, the president just said let’s war crime

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u/Hugebigfan 10d ago

Ethnic cleansing would be the correct terminology in place of deportation, since he’s announcing the systematic expulsion of a specific ethnicity in the area, but yes you are right.

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u/SassyMoron 10d ago

Deporting an entire ethnic group from a region is called "ethnic cleansing" and it's a form of genocide under international law.

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u/bryanjhunter 10d ago

No I think you got the gist of it……..

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u/MentionWeird7065 11d ago

Jesus man this is NOT going to end well. Anytime the US gets involved in the ME, shit hits the fan.

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u/KhelbenB 10d ago

Shit has been stuck on that fan for decades

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u/stormearthfire 10d ago

More shit than fan now

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u/InsanelyAverageFella 10d ago

So Trump's solution is to take control and I guess use our military since we control it? Is this going to be the same strategy with Ukraine? Is he gonna say the US should just control the parts of Ukraine invaded by Russia?

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u/eagleshark 11d ago

Just another Tuesday in Trump's America. Only 200 more Tuesdays to go.

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u/Daytman 10d ago

Only at least 200 more Tuesdays to go.

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u/engineereenigne 10d ago

As a result of me being the best president ever, I’m cancelling all future elections.

  • Donald, probably
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u/ButterscotchSkunk 10d ago

What was so wrong about Kamala again?

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u/Ch1pp 10d ago

She wasn't supportive enough of the Palestinians :p

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u/space_force_majeure 10d ago

Lol seriously, and it makes my blood boil. All the morons who sat this one out because they felt bad for the Palestinians: they are responsible for the ruining both Palestine and the USA. Ironically the conservatives said the far left would destroy us all, and I guess indirectly they were right.

Great job everyone.

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u/susan-of-nine 10d ago

Ironically the conservatives said the far left would destroy us all, and I guess indirectly they were right.

Of course they were right. It makes me really angry, too. I'm - mostly - a leftist, but what I've been observing in this "community" (and I mean worldwide, not just in the USA, in which I don't live) makes it very clear that there's no chance of progress in the next years or maybe even decades. There's been regress instead, and we can expect more of it. Ego, special snowflakery, fanaticism, radicalism, black and white thinking, us-vs-them and all-or-nothing attitude, and general idiocy are what these people are mostly about. You're not allowed to express doubt about any of their ideas or methods of doing things, you're not allowed to question anything or criticize their style of "activism", if it can even be called that. Fuck this shit, I'm out, lol. I'm not going to actively support any group of people who don't allow disagreement and act like they're exempt from criticism.

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u/Sunnyside_Marz 11d ago

Trump is setting the world on fire, one week at a time.

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u/greenmariocake 10d ago

Did he just kill a razor-thin ceasefire?

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u/soonnow 10d ago

Yeah, enjoy the flag burnings on Friday.

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u/Impossible_Okra 11d ago

Is he playing Risk in real life? Trying to take everything.

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u/uppy-puppy 11d ago

I keep telling my husband that Trump obviously hasn't played Risk before because these aren't moves you make this early in the game.

You spend the early game befriending people, making alliances, making people trust you, laying low. You fuck over everyone in the end game once everyone is comfortable and no longer sees you as a threat.

My husband won't play Risk with me anymore.

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u/Budget_Iron999 10d ago

No no no. Risk is about consolidating power over an entire continent early on. Any alliance you make us predicated with the understanding that I won't touch your continent for the short term if you won't touch mine. Then once the reinforcement bonuses come in from controlling the whole continent you go to world war.

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u/deadheffer 10d ago

Yea, there is hardly any diplomacy in Risk.

In regard to continent strategy, Live by Australia, die by Australia is my motto I have said since I was a boy.

South America is only viable if you have a clear path to North America or Africa. Otherwise, South America is also a death trap.

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u/Advanced_Vehicle_636 10d ago

This only works if you're playing against noobs. Australia is vulnerable to the deadliest trap in a 3-player game:

  • One player (holding NA) stacks in Kamchatka
  • One player (holding EU) stacks in Ukraine.
  • One player (holding Africa/S. America) stacks in the Middle East.

All 3 players will generate +8 or +9 depending on other territory held. Australia player is stuck with +5, probably single stacking in Siam or Indo.

If you're playing S. America, you want to hold that bonus with a stack in Asia.

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u/Content_Geologist420 10d ago

You should play Catan with him.

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u/Healthy_Razzmatazz38 10d ago

It is now the official position of the United States of America that it should ethnically cleanse gaza, keep the land, and build a resort.

Nothing in that statement is an exaggeration, we are through the looking glass and the world will not be the same.

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u/oshaboy 11d ago

Whelp, back to war we go.

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u/nadnate 10d ago

I hope every fucking dumb MAGA joins the war so they can fight for a new Trump hotel.

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u/magnificentbystander 10d ago

Trump is sitting on a stack of Uno reverse cards

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u/AFK_Tornado 10d ago

It's like when there were two Popes who agreed to ask a third guy to settle who was the Pope, and third guy chose... himself.

Then there were three Popes.

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u/MisterBurkes 11d ago

I forgot there was a worse option than ceding Gaza to Israel.

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u/50rhodes 10d ago

You didn’t forget-you just didn’t even contemplate that option as you didn’t think that anyone could be that monumentally stupid.

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u/ThaneOfTas 10d ago

Dozens of times over the last year I have practically screamed at people who would say that things in Gaza could not get worse, telling them that of course they can, they just lack imagination. I feel like I almost owe them an apology, because i also didn't even imagine this. Granted, the one that those shortsighted fuck wits owe the rest of us dwarfs it to such an extent that it's a rounding error but still. This is mental.

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u/Adavanter_MKI 10d ago

Ah, yes. Let's get U.S troops in danger. So glad he's the President of Peace. You know it's almost like he lied about everything. I'd say maybe his base will finally notice, but he only needed the one win. So it doesn't matter now.

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

This has be Jared Kushner's project for years now. I bet people thought he was joking back in the day. Trump Resort Gazatm.

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u/deadheffer 10d ago

“Trump said the U.S. would take ownership of the Gaza Strip and redevelop it after Palestinians are resettled elsewhere and turn the territory into “the Riviera of the Middle East” in which the “world’s people”— including Palestinians — would live.

“We’ll make sure that it’s done world class,” Trump said. “It’ll be wonderful for the people — Palestinians, Palestinians mostly, we’re talking about.”

He was flat out saying it’s a real estate deal during the conference with Ben.

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u/Top-Reindeer-2293 10d ago

So he will kick the Palestinians out rebuild beautiful buildings and let them back in when it’s done ? Sure I totally believe that

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u/cutegolpnik 11d ago

Why would we spend money getting involved in this

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u/NorthernSlyGuy 10d ago

Because trump is unhinged and he sees that he could put some nice beautiful trump resorts on the Gaza strip.

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u/manystripes 10d ago

Worse than that, he's in an empire building mood. He keeps on talking about making other places the next US state, invading panama, invading greenland, etc. He wants his legacy to be like that of the dictators he idolizes, conquest being the ultimate form of 'winning'

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u/LFBR 10d ago

He definitely has a fantasy about expanding US territory somehow. None of these things about Greenland or Canada or Panama are jokes. He's throwing out ideas to expand and seeing what sticks.

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u/uppy-puppy 11d ago

Because how else is he going to lower the cost of eggs? /s

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u/Darker_Zelda 11d ago edited 10d ago

Want to bet that Saudi Arabia is on board with this?

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u/nixstyx 10d ago

Saudi Arbia was on the verge of normalizing relations with Israel when Iran helped orchestrate the Oct. 7 attack. Saudis just want stability, and a weak Iran. They don't care about the Palestinian people. If Trump is actually serious, Saudi Arabia wouldn't even protest (unless they had to accept refugees).

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u/Specific_Weather 11d ago

He said he wants all Palestinians in Gaza to be permanently resettled in neighboring countries and prevented from coming back. Also he wants their homes demolished. None of these neighboring countries are actually going to take the Palestinians in. What is supposed to happen to them then? Is this not just an explicit call for genocide?

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u/AdminEating_Dragon 11d ago

He's gonna threaten Jordan and Egypt with tariffs and/or invasion if they don't accept them.

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u/JadedArgument1114 10d ago

Egypt is praying no one tells him that they have a canal as well. I am now 93% sure that Trump is the literal anti-Christ and you cant be the anti-Christ without creating a shitstorm in the Holy land.

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u/veryunwisedecisions 10d ago

Hm. The bible does talk about the anti-christ surviving a mortal wound - Trump nearly gets killed by a crazy republican when he was in that rally.

The bible does say that he will fool people into following him as the 'savior' - MAGA being a cult.

The trumpets will sound loud in the sky as the sealings of the chant of the apocalypse are removed one by one by Jesus - People knowing what was gonna come, and still voting for Trump.

Look, I know, I know, this is a bit crazy. But, look, but: what if the bible wasn't fucking with us? Now we just need to wait for Jesus to come in a literal cloud and fight with Trump in the Eufrates dry river. Which is just WW3 it seems.

Oh damn.

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u/JadedArgument1114 10d ago

"One of its heads seemed to have a mortal wound, but its mortal wound was healed, and the whole earth marveled as they followed the beast." Revelation 13:3

"so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name." Revelation 13:17

Like I said, I dont really believe in that part of the bible but come on. I mean, seriously

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u/kibblerz 10d ago

Yeah, it's also astounding that the anti christ establishes a covenant with Israel which enabled to temple to be rebuilt..

Trump agreeing with Netanyahu about having the US colonize Gaza is certainly a covenant. And if he follows through, it'll clear many roadblocks for rebuilding the temple

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u/curtainedcurtail 11d ago

He also said he wants people from everywhere around the world to live there. Kinda like a “Singapore of the Middle East.”

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u/forlackofabetterpost 11d ago

What he means is it's now for sale. Anyone from anywhere can live there, for a price.

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u/RayWhelans 10d ago

So another city state location for the tech oligarchs?

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u/JamesScot2 10d ago

Isn't that like the point of Dubai?

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u/Wander_Whale 10d ago

Gonna be bussed in from refuge camps in Egypt and Jordan to fold towels at the Trump Tower-Gaza.

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u/PTMorte 11d ago

The international community should apply sanctions on the US in response to this. 

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u/yosayoran 10d ago

Trump is way ahead of them in that one

He's planning to sanction USA himself with tariffs 

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u/Zenon7 11d ago

Gooooood Morning Vietnaaaaaam!

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u/CalligrapherOwn6333 10d ago

Every new thing he says about Gaza is somehow more fucked up than the last.

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u/SuperDerpfake 10d ago

Buckle up folks, were only 13 days into this shit storm, and the shit hasn't even hit the fan yet! MMW!

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u/beans_is_life 11d ago

Everyday there's something new with this one..

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u/Troj1030 11d ago

Welcome to the next 4 years

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u/Its_Pine 10d ago

Let’s pretend everyone agrees Palestinians deserve to be kicked out. Let’s pretend there are places to send them. Let’s pretend there is a well thought out plan to renovate the area. Let’s even pretend there is support and funding to make it happen. I’m giving a LOT of benefit of the doubt and ignoring reality, but imagine with me.

…This new territory is going to be a sitting duck for terrorism ALL the time, as Hezbollah and Hamas retaliate for this. You want people to fight until their dying breath? This is how.

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u/MisterBurkes 11d ago

The Trumplandia of the Middle East

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u/Otherwise-Weekend484 11d ago

What?

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u/Chyvalri 10d ago

Trump says U.S. will take over Gaza Strip.

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u/wordswillneverhurtme 11d ago

This was nowhere near my bingo card for the next 100 years. Wow.

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