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yellowcanine

(36,777 posts)
Mon Mar 23, 2026, 09:45 AM 7 hrs ago

Looks like Trump is doing a TACO in Iran....

So the question has to be asked, what exactly has been achieved beyond killing a lot of people, combatants and noncombatants alike, and blowing up buildings? Same regime is firmly in place and the populace is even more repressed and suffering.

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Looks like Trump is doing a TACO in Iran.... (Original Post) yellowcanine 7 hrs ago OP
What are you saying? gab13by13 7 hrs ago #1
He's still chickening out so the taco meme fits. Blues Heron 7 hrs ago #3
He doesn't get it Jilly_in_VA 7 hrs ago #2
Some folks call it a TACO. Others call it market manipulation. Midnight Writer 7 hrs ago #4
This is a criminal war of aggression against Iran and it should stop. David__77 6 hrs ago #5

gab13by13

(32,160 posts)
1. What are you saying?
Mon Mar 23, 2026, 09:48 AM
7 hrs ago

I would certainly hope that Krasnov would back off from committing a war crime. You didn't want him to go through with blowing up nuclear power plants did you?

The idea of blowing up power plants is insane and should have never been suggested in the first place.

Jilly_in_VA

(14,344 posts)
2. He doesn't get it
Mon Mar 23, 2026, 09:56 AM
7 hrs ago

once you start a war (or get in it, for that matter) it's almost impossible to get out. JFK and LBJ both wanted to get out of Vietnam, and look where it got them. Bobby too. Darth Cheney got us into Iraq and what did it do for Shrub? Shitler is too stupid to get it.

Midnight Writer

(25,360 posts)
4. Some folks call it a TACO. Others call it market manipulation.
Mon Mar 23, 2026, 10:06 AM
7 hrs ago

There are some very wealthy interests who are becoming much more wealthy from all this volatility.

Just think. If you had some money to invest and there was some way you could know in advance what the President was going to say that would churn the markets, you could make a killing.

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