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Miles Archer

(23,686 posts)
Sat Apr 18, 2026, 11:51 AM 17 hrs ago

Iran Deputy Foreign Minister: "Trump talks too much. He says contradictory things within the same statement."

MeidasTouch

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Iran Deputy Foreign Minister Saeed Khatibzadeh: The U.S. is trying to sabotage the path of the diplomatic effort through this diplomatic circus that they are adopting…Trump talks too much. He says contradictory things within the same statement

Iran Deputy Foreign Minister Saeed Khatibzadeh: The U.S. is trying to sabotage the path of the diplomatic effort through this diplomatic circus that they are adopting…Trump talks too much. He says contradictory things within the same statement

MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) 2026-04-18T13:34:06.507Z
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Iran Deputy Foreign Minister: "Trump talks too much. He says contradictory things within the same statement." (Original Post) Miles Archer 17 hrs ago OP
If only his MAGA cult was smart enough to understand this. nt City Lights 17 hrs ago #1
The "red hat" memes... Miles Archer 17 hrs ago #2
The citizens of New York have long known Hey Joe 17 hrs ago #3
Yup! City Lights 16 hrs ago #4
More and more, I have become convinced that mwmisses4289 15 hrs ago #5
The GOP gets people to vote based on their emotions. yardwork 14 hrs ago #8
This hardly makes him a good, decent person but he put a coherent sentence together Boomerproud 15 hrs ago #6
Welcome to our world sarisataka 15 hrs ago #7

Miles Archer

(23,686 posts)
2. The "red hat" memes...
Sat Apr 18, 2026, 12:19 PM
17 hrs ago

...I see them all the time. Split image. On the left, Obama or Biden saying something, MAGAts in a RAGE. On the right, Trump saying basically the same thing, but whatever he's proposing is ultimately VERY HARMFUL to them, and they're all high-fiving each other and yelling "YEAH!"

I think I've stopped trying to understand it, because really...what COULD anyone tell us about how they process his nonsense that would make us go "Well, yeah, I can see that..."

I've said it many times...I thought he was a boorish, annoying pig LONG before he came down the escalator.

And I do get the "HE hates all of the people WE hate" thing, but when he says things like "I like uneducated people. Smart people don't like me," and they cheer, I really don't think they fully understand what they're cheering for.

Hey Joe

(688 posts)
3. The citizens of New York have long known
Sat Apr 18, 2026, 12:34 PM
17 hrs ago

What a shitass Fuckwit he is.
That’s why the entire business community never trusted him or his old man. They knew just how crooked they were.
Stealing money from a children’s charity they set up, cheating on his taxes, etc…

City Lights

(25,918 posts)
4. Yup!
Sat Apr 18, 2026, 12:59 PM
16 hrs ago

The other day when he was speaking in front of a live crowd and he came upon the line about the "corner store," I noticed that after he made the comment questioning who wrote that line, and said he never heard of that phrase before, his cult laughed. The rest of us were like, "WTF is wrong with him?" Too much goes right over their heads.

mwmisses4289

(4,415 posts)
5. More and more, I have become convinced that
Sat Apr 18, 2026, 02:09 PM
15 hrs ago

to be a t suppoter/magat means one has some form of mental illness.
A few seem like they can be helped, but most should probably be locked away in a mental institution for their own good and the good of society.

yardwork

(69,466 posts)
8. The GOP gets people to vote based on their emotions.
Sat Apr 18, 2026, 02:47 PM
14 hrs ago

Fox News, hate radio, internet sites, podcasters, influencers... they get people riled up and emotional: mostly anger and fear.

People stoked on anger and fear don't use logic to make decisions. They lash out. They go in the voting booth and gloat that their vote for Trump will make other people unhappy. The people they've been told to resent and fear.

Boomerproud

(9,322 posts)
6. This hardly makes him a good, decent person but he put a coherent sentence together
Sat Apr 18, 2026, 02:21 PM
15 hrs ago

while someone we know cannot.

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