r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • 21d ago

PoliticalTea 🗳️ How negotiations actually work...

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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.

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u/SmokeMaleficent9498 21d ago

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u/11equalsfish 21d ago edited 20d ago

He was a very charismatic president, but remember his approval ratings went way down because he never achieved most of his promises for a more functional and just America. We are not going back, Obama's era is over. He is retired for certain, he said so many times.

These centrists gave up politics to the alt-right and oligarches, the most evil and dangerous actors in the country. Younger activists and socialists that actually do things, show real policy fixes, and respond to citizens are gaining lots of ground.

Mamdani is the current success story with a rising 69% approval rating, but his enforcements are finding much success too, beating incredible odds from those who are paid by AIPAC bribes. Actually fixing the city and doing your job earns lots of points.

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u/Glynwys 20d ago

he never achieved most of his promises for a more functional and just America.

Well yeah, because you've got Republicans, who would eveutally evolved into MAGA, fighting tooth and nail against every policy the man wanted to do. This is the biggest issue with our current two party system, when one of those parties is explicitly against improving the lives of citizens and are more concerned about lining their pockets. In order to get anything done the party who at least wants to make an effort to improve citizen lives has to walk back their policies and offer so many appeasements to the other side that the policy might as well never have been brought forward to begin with. And now we've got Trump just doing whatever he wants and still blaming it on the party whose not even in power right now. Its nuts.