Should anyone be suprised?
Should anyone be suprised?
Trump, the same Trump that killed boarder legislation because he didn't want to give biden a win?
Not him, no, never.
Isn't him doing that illegal? Like very illegal?
Do you think either Trump or Netanyahu gives a single shit about what's legal?
Maybe if they stopped sending billions in weapons to Israel they could make something happen.
I don't have a snarky something for this one, so here's another similar rhyme in history. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_October_Surprise_theory
Just when you think he couldn't be any more cartoonishly evil.
"Oh waiter, more genocide please"
Oh I'm just sure that Linkerbaan is reposting this as we speak. Since he totally wasn't lying about Trump supposedly trying to negotiate a ceasefire lol
man I'm against genocide as much as any reasonable person. but fuck that guy.
Zionist!! /s
Maybe this is known but he's linkerbaanned from this community. I just so happened to notice when browsing the mod log one day.
I like it. Now let's do the whole instance
I just blocked them since they seem like a cunt.
You obviously support genocide then!! /s
So like the alleged deal between the Reagan campaign and Iran during the hostage crisis to get elected and oust Carter?
Or Kissinger and North Vietnam to get Nixon elected. It's a time honored Republican strategy.
What do you mean? Oliver North took all the blame!
🎶 Ollie North 🎶 OLLIE NORTH 🎶
Oh no, you're thinking of Iran-Contra, the other treasonous act that Reagan committed involving Iran. OP is talking about the rumored deal Reagan made with Iran wherein Iran would not release the American hostages until after the 1980 election. Coincidentally, the hostages were released on January 20th, 1981, the day Reagan was sworn in.
Sidenote, has anyone seen the Netflix documentary about the octopus murders? I think the proof that Reagan made that deal is at the heart of that conspiracy.
Edit: I've just come across this in another thread. It seems the hostage deal between Reagan and Iran did, in fact, happen. https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a43368900/reagan-iran-hostages/
I do not recall.
I'm gonna need more than somebody's social media post on this.
Edit: Because right now it's "somebody's" social media post with an unsourced and undated quote from "someone" referring to "reporting," with a picture of a lady that has a PBS/NewsHour watermark. This is exactly the kind of thing you should be skeptical of in the absence of better confirmation, all up and down that ladder of vagueness.
You right, ill change my title.
Edit: Here's the original discussion w/ timestamp. I want to say, I've been avoiding xwitter for so long I really hate linking it right now.
Here's a couple links if anyone wants to venture down this rabbit hole
https://www.axios.com/2024/08/15/trump-netanyahu-gaza-hostage-ceasefire-deal-call
https://www.reuters.com/world/netanyahu-denies-report-he-spoke-trump-about-gaza-talks-2024-08-15/
Edit2:
Possible replacement for that twitter link, here's an article discussing Woodruff's comments - https://web.archive.org/web/20240820213405/https://newrepublic.com/post/185076/donald-trump-scheme-beat-kamala-harris-benjamin-netanyahu-ceasefire
- In his meeting with Netanyahu at Mar-a-Lago a day after the Fox News interview, Trump said the situation with the hostages is very tough and that they have to be returned immediately.
Yeah. The hostage situation is “very tough”. They’re not gonna ‘fix’ that for him its just right out there like that’s how leaders talk. As if. And, agreed, he couldn’t lead a Mongol horde out of a wet paper bag.
Non of those links confirm the tweet. Honestly this smells like fake news, as OP, has pointed out.
Agreed. The "lady" is Judy Woodruff, PBS anchor and correspondent since it was the MacNeill-Lehrer News Hour, so it would greatly surprise me if she didn't have some credible evidence behind "the reporting is".
But I missed that moment last night, so I'd want to be sure she said it.
She did, see link above.
Complete tangent but how did you edit your comment without causing an edit mark to appear on it?
I edited it within a very short time after posting it. There's some kind of "grace period" (at least on fedia.io), but I don't know exactly what it is.
It is crazy to me that all of the "Genocide Joe" crowd don't see that Netanyahu wants Trump to win so he can show the world what genocide actually looks like.
Well, not that crazy, considering a good portion of them are propagandists.
Where is our little rogues gallery right now? Every single thread for every little detail any Dem does, they are reliably in the comments screeching. "How wretched is this miserable party to stoop so low, how despicable their voters!" But I haven't seen any of them in this thread.
It all so closely resembles 2016. Remember the phantom Bernie Facebook groups? Remember "Bernie supporters" voting trump instead. They think we are idiots and some of us must be for falling for it, time, and time again.
Doesn't that violate some US law? He is not authorized to negotiate with a foreign power. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan_Act
Nobody has ever been convicted under the Logan act, and Trump is desperate to win to shield himself from much more serious charges. But yes, if likely does.
Reagan did the same thing with the hostages in the embassy in Iran.
Lol I was like "hold on, I've seen this one"
And Democrats will just allow the Republican to get away with treason 'for the good of the country', even though that's how we got into this mess. If Nixon actually went to jail, this whole era of Republican dirty tricks and corruption would've never happened.
ARRROOOOO
Something, something, Iran Hostage Crisis, something, something, more bullshit from the Reagan playbook
Boy, if this had happened twice I'd have two nickels.
OH WAIT
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_October_Surprise_theory
Republicans just genuinely don't have any original ideas.
Oh hey the traitorous traitor is doing traitor things.
The only reason I could believe it, is that it's happened before. See: Reagan and the Iran hostages.
Still, I'm going to need a better source. This seems uncharacteristically competent.
If that's true, it's absolutely abominable.
And illegal
Bibi: give us some MOABS and permission to build beachfront properties and you very got s deal.
the same Trump that killed boarder legislation
You're giving Trump way too much credit. Republicans couldn't pass a border bill under Bush Jr, when they had all three branches of government firmly in hand and "Protecting the Border" was a major campaign issue. A big chunk of the GOP wants to literally do a holocaust followed by a massive land grab along the US/Mexico border. Any legislation that doesn't grant this is DOA in the Republican-controlled House.
Trump got to be the face of why it failed this time. But it was Duncan Hunter and Tom Tancredo back in 2006. And it was Cornyn, McCain, and Graham who killed it in 2011. Then Republicans killed their own Border Security and Immigration Reform Act of 2018, back when it might have helped Trump.
Its so fucking easy to kill immigration bills in Congress. Nobody likes voting for them. Anything that can even be hinted at increasing the amount of legal immigration is a poisoned pill. They always fail.
Ooof. If true he probably just handed Harris Michigan.
Gonna need more proof though.
Doss a history of this behavior count?
"Russia are you listening?"
"Perfect Phone Call."
I don't want an end to killing because the killing helps me.
People will keep dying, but that's okay.
/s
It's a sacrifice he's willing to make.
Wow. What Dick move