Everything about this clip was made in a lab to piss me off

goddamn is this a breath of fresh air after Allred 2024

That Venezuela-DR game is gonna be a fuckin barnburner

People paid millions of dollars to forecast risk failed to forecast “Trump will create risk”

INDOPACOM rn

I mean, when's the last time Tesla stock has been an accurate reflection of its value as a going concern?

Ben Shapiro excusing the murder of 160 girls in an illegal war as "collateral damage" kinda stuck with me today. There is no evil the Right won't excuse and handwave away.

Would the military refuse if he ordered a nuclear strike? Would we want them to refuse? Who would remove him from power after that?

Maturing is realizing Big Ag and GMOs are good actually

Wait this would be a very funny way to pressure the US to lift financial sanctions if they continue to hold the Strait hostage. Iran is like in real time discovering they have a trump card.

It’s nearly impossible to lose Grenell, but Ogles pulled it off.

I really think Netenyahu's tenure has been an existential disaster for Israel.

The Strait of Hormuz is like a comical piece of geography. Something Tolkien would put in as a plot point.

the key here is officials and donors: the basse is more like Vance than Rubio now

That's not a good thing!

It would be funny if the outcome of this is Iran normalizing relations with the Gulf and China

it will not be over from an insurance and reinsurance perspective, either.

San Luis Obispo should be guangzhou

Can the Democrats please stop trying to fix things and let the American public touch the stove please?

The next president will need to push through a 1986-style comprehensive, base-broadening tax reform that also deals with Social Security. It isn't really a choice, unless she wants the US to become late 1780s France.

Everyone who affects US financial markets has adopted Trump's solipsism and decided that nothing outside Trump exists. That would be inconsistent with the axiom of war that the enemy always gets a vote. And, as far as I am aware, the Strait of Hormuz is still closed.

I wish I could be a fly on the wall of Iran's internal deliberations. Like all they have to do is launch/explode some drones over the Strait to make everyone panic.

Everything is so dumb

If you get into a “who can cut taxes more” battle with the GOP, you’re going to lose because they are far more shameless and antagonistic to the idea of living in a functioning society. Don’t concede to their framing that taxes are nothing but a problem to be solved.

Do Israel and Iran know that?

It's me, an Indian sea captain piloting an unarmed, unarmored, horizontal skyscraper full of liquid hellfire through a narrow strait full of mines, drones and commando boats because an American who makes seven figures to sit on a couch and wants an arrow on a TV to turn green called me chicken.

1. The OBBBA will massively increase deficits in the medium term 2. The share of working age people paying into the system are decreasing 3. The share of older people taking out of the system is increasing Yeah, any future Dem is gonna be in a spending crunch.

very cool that the money guys are this in the tank for Trump lol

We actually need to be raising taxes :)

Cool, no sovereign state is going to agree to any of that and Iran has the global economy by the balls

ngl, thinking that the issue here is just that "US is rational and stable" is a load-bearing assumption for a lot of things so people default to it. because house of cards collapses entirely if assumption is put into severe doubt

HUR right now

There is apparently credible evidence that the president of the United States is a pedophile. The comforting phrase “accused him without evidence” no longer fits this situation, and journalists must resort to the more perfunctory “hasn’t been formally charged.” www.thedailybeast.com/key-details-...

1A & 1B:

Probably the worst part of the oil rain in Tehran is that so many people's barrels and rain collectors are contaminated now

None of this stops—it can't even stop getting worse—until Trump and his whole crew of constitutional wreckers are removed from power.

When President Trump voiced hope last weekend that the air war he was unleashing against Iran would topple the country’s regime, he was making a bet against history.

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Ali Khamenei, despite his reputation, actually limited Iran in certain aspects to try to maintain the chance of relations with the west. It annoyed the IRGC deeply. Anyway, congrats to China, who will likely have, within five years, a treaty ally with its dagger at the throat of the global economy.

Iranian journalist reports in front of the flames of a burning Oil depot.

Trump alone can’t fix this. He has to get Israel to heel and Iran to basically publicly promise not to endanger the Strait of Hormuz. Do either of those things seem exceptionally likely rn?

Fucking finally

Americans have no idea how much the world is shook, folks. Here in Thailand they have a running tally of how many days' worth of fuel the country has left.

I hate him so much man

:)

This is absolutely what Republicans would be doing to us if Biden started a war that raised gas or food prices by 5%. Gas prices are going to go up a lot more than that before they go back down. Kick-start the cycle. To borrow a phrase from our Secretary of Defense, punch them while they're down.