r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • 11d ago

PoliticalTea 🗳️ How negotiations actually work...

Post image

To the inevitable response from MAGA that Obama gave 'pallets' of cash...he released frozen Iranian assets. Meanwhile the current Iran conflict has directly cost $38 billion militarily and a currently projected $87 billion in extra gas and diesel expenses. Not to mention that the strategic oil reserves have been depleted to the point that experts warn that the caverns they're stored in could collapse.

24.8k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

1.1k comments sorted by

View all comments

16

u/Sewcraytes 11d ago

Just to play along… if Michelle O was elected and Barack was trotting the globe trying to make something out of the rubble left by dt, do you suppose the R politicians would grant him the complete absence of commentary they are currently giving JARED?

Spoiler: no, they would not. Fox would be howling 24/7/365 about how he has no legal position to negotiate with other countries on behalf of the US.

2

u/onetimeataday 11d ago

So wtf are we going to do about it. Why do we tolerate a society mediated by these Fox News losers. Why, of all people who consistently show up in the conversation, it’s the cynical millionaire entertainers of Fox News?? Wtf does Jesse Watters have to do with global geopolitics? Why does Tucker Carlson’s opinion get to sway elections?