Donald Trump erupted at the United Kingdom Tuesday morning over its refusal to join the United States in its war against Iran, issuing the European nation a notice that the United States would no longer be offering it “help.”

“All of those countries that can’t get jet fuel because of the Strait of Hormuz, like the United Kingdom, which refused to get involved in the decapitation of Iran, I have a suggestion for you: Number 1, buy from the U.S., we have plenty, and Number 2, build up some delayed courage, go to the Strait, and just TAKE IT,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.

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    What is a king if his crown is worthless? Not a man of the people, but surrounded by cultists. Praised by the loudest, loved by the thoughtless. Crowned not by honor, but by lies that were endless.

    His walls crumble as whispers grow louder, Causing once-shaking hands to grip blades ever prouder. The throne he once clutched, now colder than stone, His fate sealed by the seeds of ruin he’d sown.

    He feasts while his kingdom is left to rot, Drunk on his power yet blind to the plot. A puppet on strings, now tangled and caught. If he ends up dead, then that is his lot.

    The crown on his head, a mockery now, A hollow gold band on a sweat-ridden brow. No glory remains, no trumpets resound, Only silence and ash on the burning ground.

    Betrayed not by foes but those he called his closest friends,

    Their daggers ensuring his rule meets its end. No prayers are whispered, no mourners will weep, For kings who sow torment shall fall just as deep.

    When he ends up dead, the people have spoken, A crown polished with falsehood is a crown that is broken. And a kingdom built on cruelty is one which ends with dread,

    The crown on his corpse was always a crown of the dead.

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    1 hour ago

    Trump: “what if we pissed off everyone

    Generals: pissing of all countries who-

    Trump: “I said everyone! Every single person on the planet! I want them pissed all the time!

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    At some point, some world leader should do a dressing down of this fuckface right there in the world stage.

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    At least the ruling class isn’t hiding behind diplomacy anymore while they rape and pillage the world. They are showing their true colors in their political and economic wars and in their personal behaviors (Epstein).

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    7 hours ago

    And yet during this entire thing, like a battered spouse, Starmer has still been allowing US planes to use their bases. And will continue to do so.

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    I’m not saying the system was good (far, far from it) but this asshole walked into office and started dismantling 100 years of economic diplomacy and peace through trade. There’s no way you can tell me he isn’t a useful idiot for Russia.

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      And all it took was letting someone capture him doing the most vilest and evilist shit to children.

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        All it took was for virtually no one to do anything to stop him from doing whatever he wants

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    This being is the embodyment of pure evil. The accumulated evil and greed of the whole of America.

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      6 hours ago

      i cant wait until america takes that big shit. You know the one I mean. Everyone will feel so much better.

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    7 hours ago

    Probably said the same thing to his creditors - “Go get your own money. I can’t help you”.

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      His creditors, contractors of any scale he hires (meaning this for the …ahem “real estate” portion of his career lmao, decades ago) - apparently anyone, doesn’t matter - the strongarm “fuck you, grab you by the pussy” - now just openly - continues to fucking WORK.

      And we have people constantly, everywhere, in this thread of course, misunderstanding him as “stupid”. Absurd, beyond frustrating.

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    10 hours ago

    the U.S.A. won’t be there to help you anymore

    They weren’t helping anyone else before.

    At best, they were helping themselves (mostly) without actively interfering with others ability to do the same.

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      46 minutes ago

      No dispute on all the many many harms done or anything in that vein, I’ll never defend the US for countless things.

      BUT there was some arguably good, compassionate work done that was effectively dismantled recently, and we shouldn’t lose that detail.

      We should remember that the federal govt for a country this huge can never be a monolith (and I do also mean that encouragingly, moving forward…).

      We should remember also, that many quiet, gentle people who fundamentally deeply dislike the lived experience of the rat-race of capitalism - paradoxically find themselves seeking the stability and straightforward “work toward an anodyne but useful purpose” offered by many federal government sub-branch-agency-bureau whatevers. Too many to list in my already long comment, that function(ed) both as jobs programs, but also ways that decent Americans end up - by dint of sheer math - placing a very different set of moral values and actions into the broader US govt conduct.

      Not a thing to give up quietly, but of course the bigger disasters (again, no dispute, there are many, and probably engineered to be such) will necessarily consume all oxygen in the room, so to speak.

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    We (the UK) don’t need oil from the Strait of Hormuz. Most of that goes to Asian countries.

    They’re far more likely just to pay Iran a nominal amount to keep it flowing.

    The UK actually imports more from the US than anywhere else. We should stop propping up tinpot regimes, and buy from local friendly countries, or better still, just use a lot less of it.

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      10 hours ago

      or better still, just use a lot less of it.

      Ultimately that would be the winning strategy.

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    All friendships burned, all choices burning themselves, digging their own grave deeper and deeper. Total collapse is inevitable.

    Remember all those Hollywood productions about post apocalypse worlds, only showing the US? I always wondered how the rest of the world would be. I guess just normal, it’s just the US being a post apocalypse hell hole.

    And Trump did all of that just to try to distract everyone from him being a pedo sex offender buddy of Epstein.

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      Well that, and the footage they got of him decades ago in Moscow when he tried to get his businesses up over there. Golden showers and whatnot they say. By now it should be obvious to everyone what his assignment is: Final blow in the divide and conquer scheme that has been running in US since the soviet days. Social media and of course China joining the cause behind the curtains really gave this campaign a big boost.

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        Sounds like AfD has their marching orders from Putin as well. Trump has created a zeitgeist that would benefit the German far right and make in roads to dismantling NATO in short order.