Extremely important Threads post about how Trump made a disastrous mistake in dumping the previous nuclear deal because they can no longer keep sanctions on Iran. They run out in October and the U.S. is powerless to stop it. Iran hasn’t been negotiating with the US at all. They’ve just been waiting for the clock to run out.
https://www.threads.com/@anmonck/post/DK1UvTaKbZ0?xmt=AQF0eb1M9R9g-SAh6u8ND2DoDhzUcct8xl3cYl5S8vdGcQ
I’m not saying this was a good strategy. I have no idea. I just think that the view Trump couldn’t stop Israel, or that Israel proceeded without US approval is not realistic imo.
I don’t have the same view as most on here regarding Trump. I believe Trump cooked this up with Israel as a back up plan to talks. With talks failing, Trump said fuck it let’s have Israel attack them so the U.S. doesn’t get blamed.
I went to Twitter for the first time in a long time, and one of the first posts from some dumb woman was that exact question. probably a Russian bot.
There is also a video circulating that a guy on the plane two hours earlier showed that nothing electronic on the flight was working. AC, entertainment system, attendant lights, etc
A few weeks ago my wife and I were coming home and noticed a young girl walking down the street by herself, maybe 5 or 6 years old.
We turned back around and by the time we reached her she was another several hundred yards down the road, no one in sight. We pulled over, shut off the car, got out and tried to talk to her, figuring out what’s going on. She didn’t know her last name, her parent’s name, her address, where she came from, nothing. She didn’t know whether she had brothers or sisters or a dad. She gave conflicting answers. it was crazy.
She wanted to get in our car! But we said oh hell no. I called police. They came out within about 15 minutes. As I prepared for the police officer to shoot me, neighbors were driving by whispering about our abduction of a child.
After the officer also struck out asking her questions I got the bright idea to post the situation and her first name on Facebook. Within 10 minutes I think we had a thousand houses in the neighborhood trying to figure out who she was. I got contacted by the PTA. Nuts.
We finally left her with the police officer. When we drove back by an hour later we ran into the cop and he said the parents were at dinner when their Facebook blew up with info about their daughter. They rushed back home. Babysitter had their head up their ass and hadn’t noticed she slipped out and was gone.
Holy shit I leave for vacation over two weeks ago after reading a few celebrity encounter posts, and it’s still going. That was entertaining catching up. Some funny stuff. Scholz getting told he’s a terrible actor by Eckert still has me cracking up.
Not really. It doesn’t look at what really matters. Debt as a % of GDP. And it doesn’t show who actually had control over a budget when it was set. This post from the mortgage thread does. The Republicans are not the wonderful stewards of money they claim to be, and Donald Trump was and is looking to be again a disaster.
Fiscal Year
President Responsible
House Control
Senate Control
Deficit (USD)
% of GDP
2012
Barack Obama (D)
Republican
Democratic
$1.327 trillion
8.5%
2013
Barack Obama (D)
Republican
Democratic
$680 billion
4.1%
2014
Barack Obama (D)
Republican
Democratic
$485 billion
2.8%
2015
Barack Obama (D)
Republican
Republican
$442 billion
2.4%
2016
Barack Obama (D)
Republican
Republican
$585 billion
3.1%
2017
Barack Obama (D)†
Republican
Republican
$665 billion
3.4%
2018
Donald Trump (R)
Republican
Republican
$779 billion
3.8%
2019
Donald Trump (R)
Democratic
Republican
$984 billion
4.6%
2020
Donald Trump (R)
Democratic
Republican
$3.132 trillion
14.9%
2021
Donald Trump (R)†
Democratic
Republican††
$2.775 trillion
12.4%
2022
Joe Biden (D)
Democratic
Democratic
$1.375 trillion
5.5%
2023
Joe Biden (D)
Republican
Democratic
$1.695 trillion
6.3%
2024
Joe Biden (D)
Republican
Democratic
$1.833 trillion
6.4%
2025
Joe Biden (D)
Republican
Democratic
$1.9 trillion
6.5%
Footnotes:
† Although Donald Trump was president during part of FY 2017 (starting January 20, 2017), the FY 2017 budget was mostly planned and signed into law during the Obama administration. Trump later signed supplemental appropriations.
†† Senate control in FY 2021 was effectively split 50-50 after the January 2021 runoffs in Georgia, with Vice President Kamala Harris (D)casting tie-breaking votes, giving Democrats functional control starting late January 2021 — but this occurred after the FY 2021 budget was largely set under Republican control.
I think this chart sums it up pretty well. Barack Obama did a pretty good job as President keeping spending under or around 3% of GSP after the 2009 financial crisis died down. Trump was an absolute disaster because he panicked during Covid and wildly overspent. Biden was ridiculously overspending, and here we sit with Trump in office and in control over both houses of Congress and the House passed a budget that will be the worst yet. Specifically for FY 2026, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimates that the deficit could rise by nearly $600 billion, bringing the total deficit to approximately $2.3 trillion, or about 7.3% of GDP . Fucking disaster.
Your inability to see that a QB is nowhere near as influential to the outcome of games as a single women’s softball pitcher doesn’t make you look like the genius you think you look like right now.
OP’s post will go down in Shag history as one of the worst predictions ever. Even if you are a staunch conservative, you’d have to admit that the country is currently run by a bunch of childish “leaders”. It’s historic.
Every year I over-rate the Aggies. And they then proceed to underachieve. But I look at their roster and it’s really not that great. They do have a better head coach than in the past, but the rest of the staff is questionable. So if I’m thinking the ceiling is 8-4, then history would suggest 7-5 or 6-6, and it’s only that good because of such a weak schedule.
I’m not talking about just this one pitcher or this series. I’m talking about the game overall. One player has way too much influence on the outcomes of too many games in a season.
This sport sucks. With one pitcher, any team can make their way to the championship. It’s too dependent on one player. Imagine if a Cy Young pitcher in MLB could pitch every game. I wish they limited innings pitched by a pitcher so that the overall games would be more interesting.