Tulsi Gabbard left no doubt when she testified to Congress about Iran’s nuclear program earlier this year.

The country was not building a nuclear weapon, the national intelligence director told lawmakers, and its supreme leader had not reauthorized the dormant program even though it had enriched uranium to higher levels.

But Donald Trump dismissed the assessment of U.S. spy agencies during an overnight flight back to Washington as he cut short his trip to the Group of Seven summit to focus on the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran.

“I don’t care what she said,” Trump told reporters. In his view, Iran was “very close” to having a nuclear bomb.

  • FistingEnthusiast
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    10126 days ago

    He’s an idiot who has never been able to distinguish between his fantasies and reality

    He’s spent a lifetime making shit up, and never being held to account for it

    He’s a child, and what’s worse, he has dementia.

    He also lies as easily as he breathes. Truth means nothing to him. He sees being honest as a weakness

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      Just the person to entrust the most powerful military of the world with.

      • @[email protected]
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        2226 days ago

        “But what choice do we have? Entrust the military to a lady? We’ll take the dementia-addled toddler instead”

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            26 days ago

            Didn’t matter. Look at the three elections that Trump ran, and his performance against the candidate with a penis vs. the ones without one.

            The American electorate will vote for a Black penis-haver (particularly if he is a baller) over any vagina-haver right now. They still won’t say “I’m a sexist pig” in the exit polls, though, so we get reasons like “She didn’t explain her policies enough” or “She wasnt authentic enough” instead.

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              1126 days ago

              Maybe I’m just being hopeful, but I don’t think the vagina thing is as big of an influence as it seems. First, we only have a sample size of two.

              One of them, Clinton, was just an objectively awful person. She wasn’t popular with anyone, including women.

              The second, Harris, had an abbreviated campaign caused by Biden’s unwillingness to step down. She also wasn’t built up in preparation fora campaign during her VP term. On top of that, she was very unexciting policy-wise. Basically status quo when everybody is clamoring for progress.

              Contrast that with Obama, who ran on “hope and change” and got people excited for actual progress. Which he didn’t deliver, but that’s another story.

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                25 days ago

                Hillary Clinton was the most qualified Presidential candidate you’ve had since Eisenhower.

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                125 days ago

                I don’t agree. Take the same political stances and ethos, but have it come from Keith Harris (or even Kailash or Kenan Harris) instead, and he is seen as decisive and likeable.