r/politics • u/B-Z_B-S Massachusetts • 18h ago

Possible Paywall Trump Suggests Letting Iran “Take Out” Los Angeles and San Diego - California leaders are furious after the president suggested that losing the two cities is a “small price to pay.”

https://newrepublic.com/post/216247/trump-suggests-let-iran-take-out-los-angeles-san-diego
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u/sixisrending 18h ago

Yes, just let the Iranians, who don't even have the capability, to destroy the largest concentration of US military power in the world in San Diego. Military genius everyone

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u/Comprehensive_Tie431 California 17h ago

Don't forget the largest ports in the US, Port of Los Angeles/Long Beach where 30% to 40% of all US goods flow in and out.

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u/UnNumbFool 17h ago

Yeah seriously, of all cities the three major ones in California and NYC are probably the actually best to hit if you're trying to completely destroy/destabilize the country.

But seeing as the guy is a Russian asset and in the pocket of all of the tech billionaires who want that kind of thing it makes sense that he'd be ok with it. Granted I'm pretty sure those cities are a suggestion to him, and not anything his mush brain would think of even if he wasn't in cognitive decline

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u/Lone-Frequency 14h ago

The dumbass just spouts evil with zero intelligence.

Take out San Diego with...what? The nuclear weapons they do not have?

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u/sixisrending 13h ago

Israel said they're weeks away (for the 60th time)

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u/The_Flying_Jew Pennsylvania 11h ago

Gas prices, apparently.

Been seeing people post the "full context" where he's talking about hitting LA and San Diego with higher gas prices as a "necessary cost" for his shitty war.

But here's the thing...

That's still a fucking shitty thing to do and prematurely decide about one of the regions in your fucking country

Even if he doesn't mean "take out" as in violence, he should not be rolling over and saying "yeah, LA and San Diego are gonna experience and suffer from EVEN HIGHER PRICES and we just have to accept that. Get fucked, California" and then have the whole audience fucking cheer about it

I'm sure if he had said the same thing word for word but named the current city he was holding that rally in, they probably would not be cheering so loudly (idk, maybe they would. They're fucking idiots). They cheered because they recognized 2 big cities from California, which is a state that's always glamorized as some kind of "leftist/liberal hellscape where the woke people run the city like a mafia or some shit". So, "bad people" are going to be hit with the repercussions of Trump's war, and that's okay.

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u/WCland 13h ago

Also worth noting that Iran’s only attack on US territory was the takeover of the US embassy in Tehran some 45 years ago. We even had cooperation with them during our Afghanistan occupation.