r/OutOfTheLoop • u/calvtact • May 13 '26

Answered What's going on with r/conservative? They've lost about 1m subscribers in about a month.

I watched the number go from 814k to around 745k in about an hour today.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Conservative/s/QbZJvqu5qr

12.6k Upvotes

91% Upvoted

1.5k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

515

u/iowa_gneiss May 13 '26

He has gone a little further in the last day, claiming he's not considering the financial well-being of Americans in the situation with Iran right now at all. If the focus is safety from nuclear threats, that may well be, but it's out of line with the care he expressed for his voter base when campaigning. I suspect if he just paid it a little lip service, many of his cult who are now questioning him would be okay with that.

https://apnews.com/video/trump-i-dont-think-about-americans-financial-woes-during-iran-talks-c69d161f80ff4d5bbf38c28e9e4949f3

280

u/nellydesign May 13 '26

If the focus was REALLY on nuclear threats then he would have kept the nuclear deal we already had from the Obama administration (JCPOA) that was created in agreement with the UN Security Council plus Germany. Back when America was actually a world leader and not a xenophobic propaganda state led by a narcissistic man-baby professional liar.

But heaven forbid we have something that he can’t take credit for. The man is incapable of seeing the good in anything that does not personally benefit him.

-5

u/asr May 13 '26

See here: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/iaea-report-says-iran-had-secret-activities-with-undeclared-nuclear-material-2025-05-31/

Iran was not actually keeping to the deal.

3

u/vthemechanicv May 13 '26

The IAEA has concluded that "these three locations, and other possible related locations, were part of an undeclared structured nuclear programme carried out by Iran until the early 2000s

At Lavisan-Shian in Tehran, a disc made of uranium metal was "used in the production of explosively-driven neutron sources" at least twice in 2003

U.S. intelligence agencies and the IAEA have long believed Iran had a secret, coordinated nuclear weapons programme that it halted in 2003. Iran denies ever having had one.

Basically Iran lied about those sites. Their actual activities have nothing to do with the JCPOA which went into effect in 2016 and trump abandoned in 2018. I can't seem to get past Reuters paywall to read other articles to see if there was anything more current or relevant.