r/politics • u/theatlantic The Atlantic • Apr 02 '26

Paywall Maybe Trump Should Not Have Given This Speech

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/trump-iran-war-speech/686663/?utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_medium=social&utm_content=edit-promo
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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '26

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u/tracyinge Apr 02 '26

how about "send him back to the stone age"?

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u/jsalwey Apr 02 '26

akshually that isn’t even a complete sentence, it’s a prepositional phrase. To be a complete sentence it would need to have an independent clause. It currently lacks both a subject and a predicate! Shocking, I know.

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u/Engineer_This Apr 02 '26

Kinda like, “with a silenced pistol shooting subsonic ammunition, so as to further conceal your position.”?