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Certainly, he's proven he knows how to sell guns.

And speaking of Iran...

verything having to do with the United States government, up to and including its word among nations, now functions on the basic principle that has animated the president*’s entire business career–“Yeah? So, sue me.” So he went on TV with his Serious World Leader face screwed on tightly, and he told the world that the good faith of the United States is now worth as much as a degree from his phony university.

  Charles P Pierce

I think the world has been seeing it coming.

You all know that he had no fcking clue what he was talking about, right? If he’s read the text of the agreement with Iran past the first comma, I am Xerxes of Persia. The whole speech was abject gibberish; it was framed as though Iran already has nuclear weapons, which they bought with the bags of cash that Barack Obama personally delivered to Tehran. He was handed some truthless lunacy from some crackpot like John Bolton, and he read it on television.

John Bolton, and don't forget Benjamin Nuthouse Netanyahu.

The Saudis took a break from slaughtering people in Yemen to praise the president*, which I’m sure warmed his orb for him. And, finally, if we haven’t mentioned it, the president* had no fcking clue what he was talking about.

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At least he didn’t say he didn’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud. Man, I hated 2002 the first time around.

But the deeply hopeless part of the speech came at the end, when the president* assured the Iranian people that, while we may have to blow some of them up, we’re really on their side.

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When I make promises, I keep them.

That’s the funniest damn thing he’s ever said. All over New Jersey, subcontractors are doubled over with laughter.

No, I didn't watch, and no, I didn't read the speech. A person can take only so much.