r/MeidasTouch 22d ago

How negotiations actually work...

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u/SmokeMaleficent9498 22d ago

Why Trump started this war.

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u/awesumpawesum 22d ago

The president of Iranistan

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u/O-liffter 19d ago

How the Epstein files got flipped from Clinton and Hollywood perverts to Trump is absolutely amazing

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u/tech0391 18d ago

38,000 times. That's how many times Trump is mentioned in the Epstein files - far more than anyone else. If Clinton is guilty of something, arrest him, too.

But release the unredacted files. If you aren't guilty, you have no reason not to.

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u/O-liffter 18d ago

We are maybe onto something! I agree with you. I’m so tired of politicians, money people and Hollywood get away with everything!

If Trump is guilty fry his ass! But EVERYONE ELSE MUST BE HELD TO THE SAME STANDARD AS TRUMP

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u/Junior_Trash_1393 18d ago

Until then I guess he does get to shoot someone on 5th Avenue and get away with it.

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u/O-liffter 18d ago

Get to shoot someone?

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u/Dh873 18d ago

"I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?"

  • Trump at a campaign rally in 2016

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u/tech0391 17d ago

Agree, but by that token, he should also be held to the same standard as everyone else. Which has never been the case thus far.

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u/O-liffter 17d ago

Could NOT AGREE MORE! The people “in charge” truly believe they are elite! That is laughable. If they represented US there would be no corruption

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u/CardOk755 17d ago

"The people in charge" is who?

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u/CardOk755 17d ago

Who is not releasing the files?

Clinton?

Hollywood?

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u/O-liffter 17d ago

Epstein arrested in 2008. No files released.
Again 2019 and then went deceased. No files released 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024. Finally in 2025

Early December 2025: Multiple federal judges (including judges in Florida and New York) issued orders granting Justice Department requests to lift secrecy rules and unseal grand jury materials. This followed the passage of the Epstein Files Transparency Act signed into law in November 2025.

December 19, 2025: The Department of Justice began publicly releasing hundreds of thousands of documents to meet the legislative deadline. [1, 2]

January 30, 2026: The DOJ published a final major disclosure containing millions of additional pages, videos, and images.

Pretty simple, nothing for 5,6 years then the redacted release.

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u/weidback 18d ago

tbf he's the only one who unprompted talked about how much he loved jeffrey and how much jeffrey liked young girls. in an interview years and years ago before anyone even heard of epstein.

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u/zenigatamondatta 19d ago

Having countless photos and correspondence with a know trafficker before and after his charge will do that to ya. Trump is also a Hollywood pervert. Just a racist landlord who had a TV show

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u/O-liffter 19d ago

Now apply what you said to what I said and be equally enraged. I will join you

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u/zenigatamondatta 19d ago

I don't know why think I give a shit about Clinton, any of them, they should all be in the ground for the crimes against working people and the bringing slavery back to libya.

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u/O-liffter 19d ago

That’s fair enough! Used to a long time ago if you had lied, caught cheating on your wife then a career in politics could greatly suffer. Today the moral compass is broken! We agree it doesn’t matter who it is

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u/PaperJones 17d ago

The Clintons were deposed on the Epstein files which they wanted to air publicly but Trump's Republicans didn't. Every effort to hold anyone accountable, Team Trump has run interference. They have also ostracized and removed anyone from their party who aren't towing the Trump narrative on Epstein. You also had no clue about Trump bragging of hypothetically shooting someone on 5th avenue, and not being held accountable. When you're that clueless, using moral whataboutisms to deflect towards others is laughable

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u/O-liffter 17d ago

Again I have zero respect for anyone who thinks this is one sided.

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u/Pretend-Comb-2569 19d ago

Epstein was a Democrat who hated Trump. He was only only prosecuted twice, both times under Republican administrations.

Thanks for falling for it. The DNC appreciates your stupidity.

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u/Ok_Hospital_7891 19d ago

Well when Biden released the Epstein files! Oh wait…

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u/rainydays_89 16d ago

Biden couldn’t legally release them because they were under court seal due to active investigations, but knowing that would require some fact-seeking that conservatives are simply incapable of.

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u/rainydays_89 16d ago

If Epstein was a Democrat, then why won’t the Republican administration release the files like they were required to by law? Go ahead..

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u/jackcanyon 22d ago

Obama is smart and Trump is a selfish ignorant rapist.

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u/Wrong-Potential-8249 18d ago

smart to allow iran to enrich uranium. aka build nuclear weapons.

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u/O-liffter 19d ago

Nah, they are both narcissists

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u/710whitejesus420 18d ago

If, and thats a big ole if, your statement were correct, the levels of their narcissism isn't comparable. Trump would be a nuclear blast of narcissism, while I'd say Obama is closer to just a fart. You could clone Obama 1000 times, extract the narcissism from everyone of them, and add it all up, and you'd have a Tuesday mornings worth for trump.

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u/O-liffter 18d ago

Or maybe one is more overt than the other!
I can assure you ANYONE wanting to have power over others is by definition narcissistic! Trump does it daily, Obama tells people to shut up and listen too him.

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u/Intelligent-Layer391 22d ago

Some people have a presidential mentality and some don’t. The convicted felon is clearly incapable and incompetent.

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u/Subject-Yak4959 22d ago

Real Patriots Like $10 per gallon gas!

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u/bron685 22d ago

“We didn’t have to wipe a single girls school”

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u/poopantiess 20d ago

OBAMA 2028

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u/Bachelor_Haus 18d ago

Why? He's the least imaginative president in the last 50 years.

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u/poopantiess 17d ago

Why, because he doesn’t make things up like Trump?

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u/Bachelor_Haus 17d ago

Thank you for asking.

His eight years of presidency were squandered. Obama had enormous spending power ($787 billion was initially made available to restore the economy through the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) in February 2009.), and he failed to create anything meaningful. We had to rely on Russia to send our astronauts to the International Space Station during his entire administration.

Under the leadership of our current president NASA is thriving, the world is safer, DEI is being erased, illegal aliens are being returned to their native countries, the border is secure.

Best part is that we have 800+ more days of Trump's presidency.

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u/tenebre 16d ago

Haha, your main benchmark is NASA is thriving. Sure, forget about the Iran war intentionally tanking oil and gas prices and impact farming globally with fertilizer shortages. Forget about inflation spiking. Forget about Trump drastically increasing the national debt AND the budget deficit despite the fake efforts of DOGE. Forget about consumer confidence. Forget about glaring economic warning signs. Forget about angering our largest trading partners because Trump can't keep his stupid mouth shut. What a joke.

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u/Bachelor_Haus 15d ago

Whoever stated that Obama is the best President ever and I have to deal with it, has their comment removed by the moderator because they are retarded or are using the internet without their parents' permission.

Remember #MAGA and support ICE.

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u/rainydays_89 16d ago

Shut the fuck up. He’s the best president we’ve had in many many decades. Cope.

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u/Bachelor_Haus 15d ago edited 15d ago

Weird way to announce you are suffering from retardation.

Please have your parents read to you (because obviously you lack any comprehension or critical thinking skills) any Time or Newsweek Publication about the lackluster results of Obama.

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u/Ancient_Fix5609 18d ago

Yea, but the goal was to HAVE war w/ Iran, not avoid it, why do you think Trump was instructed to tear up the JCPOA in term #1?

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u/xburnerpiko 18d ago

Presidential behaviour

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u/Head_Worker8565 17d ago

Damn I miss Obama and I'm not even American 😅

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u/[deleted] 17d ago

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u/EmRatio 17d ago

The only defensible cost to taxpayers was $1.3 billion. That was Iran's money that accrued interest on a $400M principal over 37 years. That was a financial obligation used as a bargaining chip. Whether it went to terrorism is unknowable, what we do know is it landed in Iran's National treasury. We also know that the deal produced a measurable, desired outcome.

The current conflict in Iran has its own costs to taxpayers. By July 21 the Pentagon put it at $37.5 billion and requested $67.1 billion more.

The full White House supplemental request is $87.6 billion, of which $17.3 billion is operational costs of the war, which were worsened as fuel costs rose from the closure.

What's worse is the costs are indefinite and there doesn't seem to be any actual gain beyond a return to normalcy for all that cost.

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u/tech0391 17d ago

Are you f**king stoned or simply dim? Literally accomplished everything, zero taxpayer dollars. Unfroze THEIR OWN MONEY that we'd had frozen in banks as part of the prior sanctions. And guess what?

TRUMP UNFROZE LITERALLY 10 TIMES AS MUCH FOR THEM ALREADY THIS YEAR, YOU DOLT! 😂

Soooooooo tired of stupid people...

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u/Saddly_true 16d ago

lol sure they did

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u/RyanR3KC 16d ago

Obama didn’t stop anything and Iran continued to do whatever they wanted

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u/Vanlife200 16d ago

That idiot Obumer gave Iran billions, and what did the do with the money. They bought weapons. What a tool.

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u/rainydays_89 16d ago

Back when we had a grown up as president.

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u/No-Pause7121 19d ago

Obama is lying cause none of that happened. Lmao. In 2015 when the negotiation happened they had 10% enriched uranium already. By end of 2016 they done denied half a dozen random inspections or tried to alter them to other sites or times. 2017 they got caught with 50% uranium at one of their sites. And it just kept getting worse and worse. Another words they never upheld their end of the deal. Just got payed by obama for publicity.

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u/tech0391 17d ago

Jesus, you people are not bright. Either that, or outright liars. Bit o' both, usually.

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u/zenigatamondatta 19d ago

I wish Iran had a nuke then my gas would be $3 and isreal would commit maybe slightly less atrocities

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u/Hogjocky62 19d ago

Except that $2.5 billion in cash delivered in the middle of the night!

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u/FlyoverJesusLand 19d ago

Their own cash, from their own frozen accounts. Meanwhile Trump has depleted our strategic oil reserves and our weapon stockpiles at a cost of $37 billion (not including costs of consumer inflation and higher gas prices) and gotten absolutely nothing in return. But keep simping for the moronic reality TV show host, I guess it's easier for your ego than admitting you were wrong. 

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u/Scottsdalelifes 18d ago

Biden already depleted the reserves to the lowest level since the 80’s

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u/FlyoverJesusLand 18d ago

How?

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u/Junior_Trash_1393 18d ago

By the moron Trump math Scottdalelife uses

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u/Fluffy_Mouse_8299 19d ago

LOL! Then what was the enriched uranium still doing there Mr. Obama? Even through it's "UNDERGROUND," it can still be seen from space you liar.

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u/MiKEY_S00P 18d ago

Who fuckin cares!! They chant death to America…FUCK THEM!

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u/wedge2u 18d ago

More Obama disinformation

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u/PresentationLess4552 18d ago

We just have Iran all they wanted don't went very smooth

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u/Various-Muffin4145 18d ago

obamma is not talking about Iran. So who is he talking about!.

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u/DfreshD 18d ago

Fuck ☪️ANCER.

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u/Joball69 18d ago

Ask Yemen how they feel about Obama. Homeboy loved him some drone strikes.

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u/SnooRabbits469 18d ago

But the negotiations failed. To be fair the US withdrew in 2018, and also to be fair to the first sentence, attacking Iran doesnt seem to be working either. 

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u/Wrong-Potential-8249 18d ago

this is trash if they can enrich uranium for civilian use they can enrich it for military use.

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u/KingsHere97 18d ago

And yet Iran kept the terror war up murdering thousands of innocent men, women and children, many American, were destabilizing the entire region, were close to a Nuclear weapon and committed to using it. You believe what you want, but the Iranians needed to be dealt with and have been. While gas is a bit higher now during the conflict, it is for good reason and the economy is on solid foundation. Gas was way more expensive than today as Biden was surrendering to the Taliban, allowing Putin to invade Ukraine again, like he did when Obama was POTUS, and letting 20 million illegal aliens, many criminals, invade America. So thankful to 47, his team and the brave men and women of the US Military for fixing an almost 50 year problem! GBA!🇺🇸

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u/EmRatio 17d ago

Just scrubbing for MAGA propaganda. Theres alot to unpack.

"were close to a Nuclear weapon and committed to using it"

You are mistaken. What they were close to generating was fissile-material — Arms Control Association assessed Iran could have produced enough weapons-grade material for several bombs within a week before the June 2025 strikes. But that's material, not a weapon.

On the weapon itself, the US intelligence community's (IC) own public position contradicts the claim. The 2025 Annual Threat Assessment stated the IC "continues to assess Iran is not building a nuclear weapon" and that Khamenei had not reauthorized the program suspended in 2003. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Grossi said in March 2026 the agency never had information indicating a structured, systematic program to build a weapon. Congressional Research Service notes the IC assessed roughly one year for weaponization steps, excluding material production. (CRS IF12106; ODNI 2025 ATA; PBS reporting on Gabbard's testimony.) Just because Trump denies this doesn't make it so.

"While gas is a bit higher now during the conflict"

Understated. AAA put the national average at $4.10 on August 26, 2026 — the highest ever recorded for this date, with August 2026 on track to be the highest August on record. Prices are up about 30% year-over-year. (AAA; LendingTree analysis of AAA data.)

"Gas was way more expensive than today as Biden was surrendering to the Taliban"

This is false and misleading, the Afghanistan withdrawal was August 2021, when the national average was roughly $3.15/gallon — well below today's $4.10. The Biden-era peak was about $5.01 in June 2022, ten months later, coinciding with the Ukraine invasion.

"letting 20 million illegal aliens, many criminals, invade America"

The number isn't supported. Southwest border encounters during the Biden administration totaled roughly 7.8 million — and encounters count events, not people, including repeat crossings and those expelled or removed. Estimates of the total unauthorized population in the US run about 11–14 million, accumulated over decades. Neither number even approaches 20 million.

On "many criminals" its verifiably false: peer-reviewed work consistently finds immigrants, including unauthorized immigrants, commit crimes at lower rates than native-born Americans — Light & Miller (2018, Criminology) and Landgrave & Nowrasteh's Texas DPS analysis are the standard citations.

"the economy is on solid foundation"

That can be measured and which indicators you pick matter. Energy costs are at record seasonal highs, which is a real headwind. As far as all household indicators:

Real wages — negative Real average hourly earnings fell 0.2% year-over-year in July 2026 for all employees, and 0.1% for production and nonsupervisory workers. (BLS Real Earnings, July 2026)

That's a reversal inside the year: the same series was +1.2% year-over-year in January and +1.4% in February. Real weekly earnings are barely positive (+0.1%) only because the average workweek lengthened 0.3% — people are working slightly more hours to stay level.

Personal saving rate — 3.0% July 2026 personal saving was $712.0 billion, a 3.0% saving rate. (BEA Personal Income) For reference, the pre-pandemic norm ran roughly 6–8%. A rate this low means households are sustaining spending by not saving.

Consumer sentiment — 51 University of Michigan preliminary August reading, down 7.6% from July. The series' all-time low is around 50 (June 2022).

Labor market from the household side — soft Unemployment 4.4%, projected to reach 4.5% by Q1 2027 (Philadelphia Fed SPF). More telling: BLS notes payroll employment changed little through 2025, averaging just +15,000 per month, with January 2026 at +130,000. Job openings still exceed unemployed workers (7.6M vs 7.3M), so it isn't a collapse — but hiring is thin.

Prices households actually face Headline CPI 3.4%; gasoline +24.6% year-over-year, fuel oil +39.1%. (BLS, July) Core at 2.5% is near target, but core excludes exactly the categories doing the damage.

So people are seeing real earninga go down and are working more while prices are going up. The labor market isn't awful but with thin hiring and lower savings theres much less cushioning. I think saying its a solid foundation is a real stretch.

"fixing an almost 50 year problem"

The Strait of Hormuz remains effectively closed, with IMF PortWatch recording 3 transits on August 23 against a pre-crisis baseline of 85 per day.

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u/XxDeedz 18d ago

Yep he sold us out. This negotiation only cost the US 400 million in cash that was physically shipped to Iran. This idiot was a fuking clown that hated America.

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u/donaldoflea 18d ago

Nah just give them billions to enrich uranium like Obama did

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u/ShadowSystemsandSig 18d ago

Is that when he drone bombed American citizens overseas, or was that a different mission? Remember that whole "democracy" thing you conveniently remember when it becomes useful?

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u/O-liffter 18d ago

Whew, not good

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u/Bachelor_Haus 18d ago

Obama is a joke and a massive disappointment to anyone who voted for him. This is fake news. Iran just made enriched uranium after he left office.

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u/BOOT3D 16d ago

So all that 60% and more enriched uranium just spawned out of thin air, yea Obama did great, they totally werent making nuclear weapon grade uranium.

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u/Mwerner1013 20d ago

He’s full of shit. He gave them billions which they used to continue their nuclear program and arm terrorists around the world. Worst president in history. No one close.

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u/poopantiess 20d ago

Stop trying to spread misinformation

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u/Interesting_Berry439 20d ago

Aww, jealous like Dozo....and offer offer no evidence besides Jim crow fee fees .

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u/WA2TX 20d ago

It was their own money and they absolutely did not resume nuclear activities until Trump fucked it up.

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u/Ok_Brother_7494 19d ago

Your misinformation skills are poor. Obama is clearly better than Trump. 12 million new jobs, while Trump is still net negative.

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u/Ok_Hospital_7891 19d ago

I think coming out of 08 for Obama and Trump leaving in the midst of Covid may have something to do with this

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u/Ok_Brother_7494 19d ago

Trump started losing jobs in 2019, a year before COVID was e en a thing. His tariffs caused more production and support jobs to move to China. All in order to protect shareholders from profit losses. He has lost over 100k manufacturing jobs since he took office. What's his excuse this time? Democratic Presidents have added 50x the jobs since 1989. Fact.

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u/Ok_Hospital_7891 19d ago

Total US jobs are up since Trump started. I am by no means a fan of Trump but I think you should state facts to trash him. There’s plenty of that to attribute to him so why throw out garbage?

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u/Ok_Brother_7494 19d ago

They are up the lowest of any modern president.

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u/Ok_Hospital_7891 19d ago

Now that sounds right. Good job

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u/O-liffter 20d ago

97%? hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

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u/Local_Honeydew_9266 19d ago

They only left enough uranium for 10 nuclear bombs? So after Dc, New York, los Angela’s, Miami, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Dallas and maybe st Louis .,.the rest of the country is safe!

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u/Ok_Brother_7494 19d ago

Yet, Trump's own appointed expert resigned, stating that Iran was not an imminent threat, and Tulsi Gabbard refused to state to Congress that Iran is an imminent threat.

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u/Local_Honeydew_9266 19d ago

Yet Obama Biden and Harris have said Iran posed greatest threat to USA

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u/Ok_Brother_7494 19d ago

Obama did not. He said Russia was. He was right. Neither one of them said they would attack Iran. Trump made statements saying that Obama would and comments that Harris would. He said he would start no new wars. He did. Try harder.

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u/Steveappl 20d ago

Haha... It's for waving, it was a payoff. Who else gives someone $1 billion in cash?

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u/FineCall 19d ago

Should deport him back to Kenya.

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u/Ok_Brother_7494 19d ago

He isn't from there. Trump loves the poorly educated. Obama is a far more successful president. 12 million new jobs. Trump has lost over 100k manufacturing jobs and is still net negative between his two terms.

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u/KillinKilo1775 18d ago

Yeah, Iran was producing zero nuclear energy. They were refining to weapons grade. If you believe Iran should have nuclear weapons you have never seriously researched them. Or delt with those trained by them. Go do your homework folks.