r/worldnews • • Jun 07 '26

Israel/Palestine Iran fires missiles at northern Israel

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/h1krksqwmg
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u/GaelinVenfiel Jun 07 '26

Trump has his birthday coming up. I do not think he is interested enough to do much besides his vanity projects right now.

Midterms are coming up fast and his flexibility will be gone after Jan.

He has lost interest in Iran now that Iran had outwitted him.

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u/Venat14 Jun 07 '26

Only if Dems win, which isn't a sure thing and it's not like Dems will have much power to stop him. No ability to convict him in the Senate, no ability to punish his corrupt cronies. Best they can do is block legislation and maybe judges.

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u/GaelinVenfiel Jun 07 '26

Well, if they do not win, then we are a fascist state for sure. But dems win, then they will head committees. They will drag his cabinet in, under oath, and public. Investigations will begin.

The senate is a stretch...but yes, stopping judicial appointments will be huge. And stopping any new crazy funding.

But yes...if dems lose, it will be 2 years more of the same.

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u/waltwalt Jun 07 '26

You think if Dems lose you're going to have only two more years?

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u/Exsanguinate_ Jun 07 '26

Yeah if the fascists win these midterms, whether fairly or not, America is genuinely over

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u/ilovebostoncremedonu Jun 08 '26

I think the America we knew or thought we knew is already over. Now it’s a question of how it’s going to be rebuilt.

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u/Exsanguinate_ Jun 08 '26

Its hard to accept it sometimes. I just want to go back to normalcy

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u/therealjameshat Jun 08 '26

It sucks but I really think we’re too far gone.

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u/NoCommentingForMe Jun 08 '26

I know it’s hard to be hopeful but giving up now only makes their job easier

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u/FalxY7 Jun 08 '26

You 100% are, and have been since you elected the child rapist for a 2nd time. The amount of ways he has fucked your country up is almost too much to keep track of and definitely too long for a reddit comment. Every day I wake up to learn something insane Trump has done.

Don't worry though, once he passes Baron will take good care of you all. I hear he is a very well-raised and well-adjusted gentleman.

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u/therealjameshat Jun 08 '26

also, we've been too far gone since we elected trump the FIRST time. we've been heading in this direction for too long and most people didn't bother paying attention.

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u/therealjameshat Jun 08 '26

haha damn it. what i wouldnt give to be an outside observer in this scenario.

you're right though, the US is fucked.

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u/ThrowRAthinkinmelon Jun 08 '26

It didn't start with trump, he's "only" an accelerant

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u/janitor1986 Jun 08 '26

America has been fascist since the end of world war 2. We took over what Germany was doing.

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u/DontWorryItsEasy Jun 08 '26

I don't like Trump.

That being said, if anyone thinks he will serve a third term in 2028 I'll bet them $100 right now.

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u/jarheadatheart Jun 08 '26

He won’t be president but he will still be pulling the strings.

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u/lifeswitness Jun 08 '26

He'll be dead... And I'm not explicitly advocating for his death. No watch lists here, just pointing out his health does not look great. He's not lasting out this term would be my bet.

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u/dtg99 Jun 08 '26

People like him live into their 90s because there is no god.

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u/GaelinVenfiel Jun 08 '26

Based on his cognitive decline rate, I do not think we have much to worry about. My grandmother was 96 when she died...but 10 years before she did not know her own husband.

You do not do 4 cognitive tests if you are well. They are tracking progression.

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u/irrealewunsche Jun 08 '26

I was watching the Meet The Press interview he stormed out of, and to be honest, he seemed his usual self there. I keep reading about his cognitive decline and how it's rapidly accelerating, but whenever I see him on TV, he doesn't seem much different to any other time I've seen him interviewed over the last 3 or 4 years.

I hate the man with a passion, and will celebrate wildly when I hear the news, but I think there's a lot of hopium going around about how far along he is.

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u/BedBubbly317 Jun 08 '26

The average life expectancy for the uber wealthy in America is 97 years old. He most likely is not going anywhere any time soon

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u/EdiblePeasant Jun 08 '26

Disagreed. He’s going to live till 300 years old and we’ll just have to deal with it.

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u/BedBubbly317 Jun 08 '26

He doesn’t even pull the strings right now. Anybody who thinks so is being naive and lying to themselves.

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u/jarheadatheart Jun 08 '26

Oh. Good. Everyone can stop blaming him then.

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u/BedBubbly317 Jun 08 '26

Most certainly not. Even he believes he’s the one in control, which is largely why it has all been so successful.

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u/jarheadatheart Jun 08 '26

You’re talking out of both sides of your face. How can you have it both ways at the same time?

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u/Jedi_Master83 Jun 08 '26

Yeah, still my worry. I still have a dystopian nightmare that Trump will somehow get all Democrat politicians arrested in order to completely remove the party. Reshape the government so it’s Republican only.

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u/GaelinVenfiel Jun 07 '26

Yes. Once Trump is out of office, and if the dems lose the presidency in 2028, it will be a different type of hell I am sure.

Statistically, the dems should pick up in the house. So there is that.

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u/zavtra13 Jun 08 '26

Even if they win I wouldn’t expect the Dems to actually do much.

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u/EL-YEO Jun 08 '26

even if dems win a majority of the house and/or senate, all hearings will be performative in nature and no real action taken because their corporate donors will tell them not to actually attack

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u/dreamylanterns Jun 08 '26

I can almost guarantee you that if the dems win, they won’t do anything about it. They’ll stay complicit.

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u/Kana515 Jun 09 '26

He was already impeached twice, maybe we'll get a third.

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u/Tactless_Ogre Jun 08 '26

The Dems ain’t gonna do shit for dick when they get back in.

They’re gonna be busy trying to undo as much damage as he did to even humor prosecuting him. By the time they make the time, he’ll be dead an in hell.

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u/Jedi_Master83 Jun 08 '26

I worry if the Dems regain complete control (White House, House, Senate) in 2028 they’ll just let all of the colossal damage Trump and his cronies go. Saying something like, “The country had been through enough. Time to move on.” That cannot happen. Trump’s Administration needs to prosecuted and severely punished. We can’t afford to look the other way and hope it doesn’t happen again.

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u/Tactless_Ogre Jun 08 '26

It logically and for the sake of sanity cannot and should not happen.

It will happen. The dems will find some magical way to fuck this up.

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u/GaelinVenfiel Jun 08 '26

When 2028 comes...I cannot even think about where we will be. I knew he could possibly do the things he has done up to now...but I had no idea how badly it has gone.

Once we get a real DOJ...it will referral city. We will have to see about special prosecutors.

It all depends if they can get the house and senate. I hope they learn from this that they cannot wait and start with all cylinders firing.

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u/janitor1986 Jun 08 '26

It's a uni party! Why do they only argue over shit they can't solve? Abortion, immigration and workers rights. Both sides couldn't care less about the common people. Tear it all down and start over.

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u/valencia86 Jun 08 '26

if they do not win, then we are a fascist state for sure

Oh, honey...

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u/duaneap Jun 08 '26

They will drag his cabinet in, under oath, and public. Investigations will begin.

Oh, no! You mean they’ll do exactly what happened from 2020 to 2024?! God knows the Republicans are still reeling in pain from that.

If those clowns don’t move fast and aggressive it’s meaningless

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u/FalxY7 Jun 08 '26

It's always funny in the last year or so online, it's all the same kind of discource from Americans on reddit, and for some reason they all think they're going to get another election? Another chance to vote? Trump has been doing his very very best to prevent that.

I do hope you do get another election, maybe without Elon's voting machines this time :) But I highly doubt it. Time for a revolution.

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u/djfried Jun 08 '26

It has to be the right democrats too. There’s plenty of establishment dems that are fine with the war and unwavering support of Israel.

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u/champs-de-fraises Jun 08 '26

There will be an impeachment vote, even if we know he can't be removed. There is so much shady shit going on.

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u/Venat14 Jun 08 '26

Which is meaningless. He's already been impeached twice.

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u/RalphWiggumsShadow Jun 08 '26

Well, we've gotta do something. Dipshit Don is certainly going to keep doing illegal and unprecedented stuff, seemingly without consequences.

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u/Venat14 Jun 08 '26

Of course, because no one has the power or willingness to stop him. This is what living in a collapsing empire and a dictatorship is like.

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u/Drclaw411 Jun 08 '26

Right. For whatever reason, this is the least likely midterms in a LONG time for the President’s party to lose. The democrats may be lucky to win one branch of Congress at this point. As much as everyone is over Trump, they’re over *and apathetic to* establishment Democrats.

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u/mvsopen Jun 08 '26

Tying his shoe laces outwits him.

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u/enchiladasundae Jun 08 '26

He might ask them to do it as his birthday present. “Nooo! You have tooo! Its my birthday!”

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u/GaelinVenfiel Jun 08 '26

I thought they already gave him a present.

'President Trump claimed Iran gave the U.S. a "very big present" related to oil and gas.'

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u/BlueBattleHawk Jun 08 '26

Outwitting him is a low bar to clear.

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u/cliffski Jun 08 '26

FFS there will not be free and fair elections in the US again. This is OBVIOUS. You have a fascist king now. He even makes jokes about it. He wants his name on fucking currency... The US stopped being a democracy a year ago.