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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBreaking News: Trump is holding a "high level" meeting in the Situation Room about Iran .
First Trump and Iran both said the Strait was open, but Trump said the blockade of Iranian ports would continue.
Iran called bullshit on that and has closed the strait, even firing on tankers attempting to cross the Strait.
I wonder if the Trump Boys placed bets on the price of oil prior to Trumps announcement about the blockade continuing?
senseandsensibility
(25,165 posts)but about "psychedelics" with Joe Rogan standing behind him? The "press" fell for it again.
RockRaven
(19,549 posts)consists entirely of short term (12-24 hr) headline and market manipulation. That's it. Eight decades of experience on this earth and that is all he is capable of. There is nothing else there. Everything else is outsourced -- and these days very badly.
ShazzieB
(22,708 posts)If a problem can't be solved by bullying and bluster, he's lost, because those are the only problem solving "skills" he has!
BaronChocula
(4,629 posts)When you're a turd, everything looks like a toilet.
cloudbase
(6,288 posts)Prairie Gates
(8,298 posts)leftstreet
(41,056 posts)Unless he agrees to stop the slaughter in Lebanon, these "meetings" are a joke
blue blues
(75 posts)yaesu
(9,375 posts)malaise
(296,866 posts)He and his cabinet are greedy rank amateurs who are clueless and capable of blowing up the entire planet.
Life is a video game or BSing ones way on social media.
Fuck this kakistocracy
struggle4progress
(126,429 posts)1. We go around the table and talk about how great Donnie is
2. Donnie starts a sentence about Iran but switches to a long digression on corner stores, big strong men, the 2020 election, and how much he hates the New York Times
3. Brief interlude to film another Doordash spot then we eat mcnuggets
4. Donnie asks everybody to stand and dance to the YMCA song
5. We go around the table and talk about how great Donnie is
patphil
(9,136 posts)milestogo
(23,138 posts)maxrandb
(17,461 posts)Winning political power is first on the agenda, but DAMN!!! Some of these corrupt fucksticks need to rot in a federal prison. That should be high on the "to do" list.
Their fucking obscene wealth...their fucking "companies"....their fucking stock portfolios...their "social media" companies...their 3rd and 4th mansions in the fucking Alps....they all need to be seized, liquidated and distributed to the fucking Americans that currently require a fucking 3rd job and roommates just to pay rent and live in squalor.
Norrrm
(5,249 posts)
gordianot
(15,776 posts)Someone is bound to win.
canetoad
(20,820 posts)Is a total farce. Sadly, people died for this piece of theatre.
patphil
(9,136 posts)First announce and agreement and watch the stock market soar, then Iran calls bullshit on the blockade, and shuts it down. Then the market falls.
Buying and selling on the waves is very profitable.
And, our government can claim Iran broke the agreement, even when it's obvious our government did.