Look up how long it takes to restart oil production after it’s been shut down. There has been a lot of reporting on that since this war started. As usual, he has no clue what he’s talking about. It takes a long time to return to normal. We’re talking weeks, if not months.

The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit

What the fuck does that mean, they’re making the ships line up alphabetically like in kindergarten when you’e going to recess?/0

Need new, large, placebo-controlled studies for well-established vaccines that have been used by millions of children for decades: Kennedy Also Kennedy: a 16-person phone study is enough evidence to license my pet drugs. Every scientist: tears their fucking hair out.

I remember when Barack Obama had to denounce Jeremiah Wright.

It’s actually kind of remarkable how “Whatever Cramer says/does, do the opposite and you’ll be fine” is the correct life advice every single time. He’s like the human embodiment of a Goofus and Gallant comic.

Yeah it’s Navarro. He’s actually this dumb, it’s not an act.

Who does Bessent think he’s fooling? Does he not think everyone can see what the reality is in real time?

Success at what?

The president expresses a desire for a rare intermeeting rate cut. The last one occurred on March 15, 2020, as the Covid shock overwhelmed financial markets. The Fed's next scheduled policy decision announcement—widely expected to be no change in rates—is in five business days.

Wait, there were attacks at a synagogue in MI and Old Dominion in VA at the same time? You know, when Trump said yesterday his admin is monitoring sleeper cells in the U.S, I assumed he was making shit up like usual; and I’m not suggesting that’s what this is, but maybe we need to follow up?

Have they tried giving him the bad news in a good way?

So, to recap: - Trump has said multiple times that the United States would be backing insurance, but no one in his admin has any idea how that market works - Has said the U.S. is providing escorts already, even though we aren’t and can’t - has said the war is over, even though Iran is escalating

It's like the bank rush scene in IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE but he's trying to explain that all our money is in ExxonMobil's house, and ConocoPhillips' house, and ...

“High gas prices are good, actually” is an economic take I guess.

"U.S. officials called London insurers and brokers, trying to figure out how the market operates, industry insiders said." When applied to the current administration, I urge caution in using terms like "plans," "strategy," "policy," or "doctrine." www.wsj.com/finance/u-s-...

The FBI is now just a Make-A-Wish Foundation for Kash Patel

So Iran isn’t agreeing to end the war and Trump can’t simply declare victory and pull out? Inconceivable, who could have predicted and such?

Also Ellison (either David, or maybe it was Larry) literally promised Trump that if Trump put his thumb on the scale for the Ellisons, the Ellisons would make “big changes” at CNN. It was the Ellison’s actual pitch, that they would completely change CNN if Trump helped them acquire it.

So we can’t just “seize” it? Because I was assured we were seizing control? Also that “we won,” “the war is basically over,” Iran has “nothing left”? Which other nations are stepping up? All our allies the admin has been relentlessly attacking? It becomes clearer every day they had no plan at all.

NO SHIT

My cat sleeps all day and then keeps me awake all night so this gave me a good laugh. Credit - @dagnylill on Instagram

clipping this one for pride month

Wait, so the claim Trump is making here is that there are terrorists in the country *right now,* that the Trump admin knows where they are, but they aren’t going to arrest them, they’re just going to wait and see where things go?

The Trump regime has no idea what it’s doing hour to hour, just in case you thought there was some grand strategy in Iran

Are we speed running the entire 1970s or something? We blasted past Watergate, and now the writers are trying to cram the fall of Saigon, the hostage crisis, and the oil shock into one 48 minute episode.

Israeli assessments put it at least a year out. This according to a minster who was speaking to Chanel 13 after a security briefing yesterday. And Trump now is looking for an exit that may already be shut.

Yes, completely forgot about this. This might be the most pressing issue actually.

Oil is going to start going up again once markets see ships aren’t moving anytime soon. That will make *everything* go up. Trump’s insane tariff BS will push inflation higher. And Trump is about to nominate a Fed chair who’ll cut rates for him. Something’s gotta give. AI can’t hold us up forever.

I'm not a commodities guy but I don't know how many more events like this the markets will be willing to overlook because Trump occasionally shouts, "nearly done!" at a reporter from his golf cart.

I’m so old I remember when Reagan proudly said that what distinguished America was that anyone could become equally an American, regardless of where they had been born.

Links to the wrong article but it’s ok I know this one: GET. VACCINATED.

He should do some photo ops of him sailing through the strait himself, just to prove how safe it is

Trump has pledged that the U.S. is backing the insurance for all of these ships, which is going to be astronomically expensive, we haven’t got the means to provide an escort yet which will also be astronomically expensive, and he’s telling people to just Leroy Jenkins it.

Whew! Boy, good thing the FBI director didn’t recently fire all the agents specializing in Iranian-linked terrorism, because those seem like the kinda experts you’d want right about now, yeah?

The immediate response to him whenever he says this should be, “Ok, well, I just fucking told you, so now you know. [repeat initial question]?”

20 years from now this will be the image they use in high school history textbooks for the “Fascism in America” chapter.

Could really do without snakes. Also hippos. Hippos are terrifying.

If Biden kept using nonexistent words like “mutilization” it would be front page news for the rest of our lives; but Trump does it while talking about bombing a country past the point of recovery, and somehow it won’t be widely alarming* to half the country.

Apart from the fact that Iran is in no way a threat to our freedom, and the fact that the justification for and objectives of this war remain undefined, Biden saying high prices were only temporary ended his presidency and reelected Trump; and here’s a MAGA Republican telling us to “Suck it up.”

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION BELIEVES OIL PRICES WILL NOT BECOME A POLITICAL ISSUE FOR THE NEXT FOUR WEEKS, ACCORDING TO A SOURCE CLOSE TO THE WHITE HOUSE CITED BY POLITICO #BREAKING

Trump admin:

Hegseth drove himself this morning, I see

Trump yesterday: “Tanker crews: show some guts! Sail through the Straight of Hormuz!” Today:

Pushing all my chips in on “Didn’t know Iran could do that.” He reacted to the report about mines like the hitchhiker in THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY when Ben Stiller says someone could come out with Six Minute Abs.

That’s strange, because previously he said Cuba was contacting him because they’re desperate to “make a deal.” Gosh, was that another lie?