The State of TAE August 2026

Yesterday:
Iran “goes on the offensive” by hitting nothing. Again. Israel panics because they were hit by nothing, again.

Go on, keep talking. This is fascinating.

We deploy an aircraft carrier that is already there and in normal rotation out of the existing one. IIRC, we generally have one (two) there, it’s expensive, and we’d like to save money by leaving and handing it all to the locals. Alistair is unaware of what an “Aircraft Carrier” is. Ah. Well, it’s only been the same since 1930, so I can see why he doesn’t understand yet.

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it” — Upton Sinclair

Alistair is paid by MI6, why, the most trustworthy people on the planet! His word is gold!

You know when you “Appeal to Authority” and that authority is “every international spy agency”, you’re in for a rollicking good time!

“Trump: 9 Months At Sea For USS Lincoln ‘Not Nearly Long Enough’
…and he promised to declare the Strait of Hormuz a US territory

Hilarious. And makes everyone chase their tails, bark at the moon, and be distracted from what he’s really doing. They are SO. DUMB. after 11 years they still fall for it Every. Time.

“If 47 years of sanctions haven’t broken Tehran’s will, more of the same is unlikely to produce any changes,” according to a Bloomberg Economics report led by Jennifer Welch.

“The Straits will never go back to normal.” Bessant: “That’s right. They will be fundamentally changed. We don’t want them back to normal.”(paraphrase) They will be just another body of water and already are. This goes with discussions – glad to see I’m not the only one – of Hundreds of ships transiting vs zero. Because transponders. But the volume of oil AT THE WELL HEAD can’t be gamed, and that is almost to previous levels. …Iran excluded of course, since they’re in mostly blockade.

So again, it seems Hormuz is irrelevant, even ahead of schedule.

“War On Iran: Six Months Later – The Astonishing Size Of The U.S. Defeat”

That in only 6 months, Iran has been leveled and the Strait made irrelevant. While oil price is low. Some defeat.
“We Just Say Things”

Also, Rich keeps bringing this up, yes there is a media control in Iran, but Iran shows NO pictures of themselves. That is, PR releases of us blowing up apartments and grocery stores. None. Why? You can be 100% sure they would show them if we were doing that, right? In fact ANY civilian tragedy would be Front Page, as you see, 99% of all reporters are Pro-Iran, they’ll literally say anything.

Okay, likewise, “The U.S. is losing” and Tehran is a happy place, having street fairs daily. Pictures, fake or real, headlining how irrelevant U.S. attacks are. We all know every “western” media would front page them as a demonstration of Trump losing. …But they don’t. No pics at all of how normal and prosperous Iran is despite our futile attempts. Explain?

That leaves Scenario Three: We are ONLY hitting the IRGC, so they can’t find Gaza-like genocides to print. And the nation is completely locked down and miserable, barely moving, like Afghanistan, and the leaders don’t want anyone to see how dismal it is.
Or else what? Iran is fighting our PR battle FOR us? And the media, they’re reduced to reporting on Aircraft carriers? That’s the best they can find? Are you kidding me?

NO PICTURES FOR MONTHS. Why? REPORTERS DON’T CARE IF IRANIANS DIE, that’s why. They don’t care what happens in the country. At all. Ever. Never have. That’s why they TACO every day and demand Trump bomb Iran.

If they could hurt Trump by helping every Iranian, they would do it.

And if they could hurt Trump by KILLING every Iranian on earth, they would do it.

Does anyone even doubt the truth of that statement? But that only goes to show, they don’t care about any Iranian, ever, any Iranian children or cabbies, ever, or Iran as a nation, ever. They only want to Hurt Trump, and if every Iranian has to die to do that, so be it.

Or so I hear here daily. Otherwise, you’d ask questions and post videos of IRAN sometimes. At least once. Instead of videos about sum dum guy TRUMP 100x a day. TRUMP is what’s in your mind, not Peace, not once, ever. HATE is your driving force, not Peace. You get what you pay attention to. You pay attention and empower dum-dum, you ignore and disempower your own ability, prosperity, and peace. And you are getting the fruits of your labor-attention. Focus on the happy, prosperous end-state you envision. Ignore the noise.

“not all the oil authorized in the SPR loan contracts has actually been taken.”

That is, remember Bessant? “Why did you bail out Argentina?” — Idiot Reporters “I didn’t bail out Argentina, we gave them a loan, which they then paid back with interest.” Reporters are just illiterate glue-sniffers, and also pathological liars.

Same here: It’s in the details, but the Petroleum reserve was NOT sold. It was loaned to U.S. Oil Majors. That oil has to come back, as listed here, and at a profit. Now I would have to dig in and see if the oil even LEFT the tank, or was just used to back oil contracts, and if so, can the majors get that oil back in time and are the pipes big enough. But it would seem the gas gauge on the car is inaccurate. Either just wrong, or we took the gas, put it in a 5-gallon in the trunk, and it’s still right here.

Is that TRUE? Well point of fact the first part is definitely true, I won’t claim the second part that they can return it in time, but seems very odd they would do that and just fail contract outright. As gameplay that makes no sense, so I would THINK they can get it back home in time.

This is public, but also not headlined, so. Trump doesn’t mind/care if everyone thinks it’s missing, SPR is empty, which is very interesting. Such is the screaming, but also the $4/gal vs $77/bbl which is way off. I think it was near $3 last time oil was $77. …Meaning oil companies can probably drop it there if they wanna, overnight.

“there is zero evidence whatsoever to support that 8M barrels per day are transiting via the Omani Route, and zero evidence that 9 mbpd is exiting the Strait of Hormuz per day. Zero.”

Crooke? Mr. MI6 spokesperson? THE $77 DOLLAR OIL PRICE IS YOUR EVIDENCE. I mean, ASIDE from all kinds of very official people are saying that millions in oil is transiting. But you wanted evidence. Did like 300M humans vanish from the planet, and that’s why they’re no longer using oil? No. Then that oil is getting to them.

Easy as counting to Two.

This is too hard for Globalists and the Derp State like Alistair.

“Trump’s pivot to economic pressure as the key to Iranian capitulation is not a credible strategy.”

Yes, because IRAN is not who we are blockading and pressuring. It’s YOU. MI6. And you know that. The pressure MIGHT work, but that’s not really the goal here. The goal is the OIL REVENUE, not the Iranian people. That Oil Revenue is banked in London, not Tehran. He many not be able to cut off Tehran, but Bessant can sure cut off illegal terrorist banking in the Western Economic Banking System! I mean, unless you want to fight him and have everyone on earth know that YOU are really the only ones backing the IRGC. That’s fine too – go ahead and admit the only reason the IRGC exists is because they can move multi-billions worldwide to Colombian drug and training facilities, to Hamas, and back to China, using LONDON shadow-banking, for which you’re soaking the Iranian people hollow. Go ahead and tell us all. It’ll be cathartic.

Because that IS happening, it has to be happening, and MI6 Alistair seems to claim we have a Iranian man in a speedo, swimming gold coins to UAE, a donkey and a saddlebag moving those billions to Turkey. No. That is definitely NOT what is happening, or ever has. It’s going through a BANKING system. A very, very, very, very LARGE banking system. The only banking system in existence. The GLOBALIST banking system.

Bessant is attacking ENGLAND, and GLOBALISTS, not Iran. You’re right: he may not be able to attack Iran. They’re bunkered up. But he can attack YOU, in Zurich. You have to have a working checkbook or you can’t pay your bodyguards and castle servant staff. You can’t hide.

Prof. Steve Hanke: Trump Unleashes Historic Economic Pressure—Iran Says “Bring It On”

I would say so, since that pressure isn’t on Iran (sort of). It’s on London. “Why don’t you and him fight?”

“Seyed M. Marandi: US on Imminent Attack Alert”

But you said we lost and Trump surrendered completely only 30 days ago! What gives?

“Larry Johnson: Iran’s FINAL Play in Hormuz- Israel Attack FALLS APART- Yemen Flipped the Script”

Okay Larry. This is the 42nd time the last thing has done, and Trump surrendered 110 days ago you said. So it Iran does anything else after this “Final Play”, I’m coming for you. Otherwise, it’s not “Final”, is it? You’re just lying and making everything up.
I always look to the CIA to decide who is moral and who to vote for. Thanks, Larry. That you hate Trump is the best recommendation I can have.

“Trump to soon declare Hormuz as American territory. PRAVIN SAWHNEY”

Hilarious. I suspect Oman and Saudi will decline to sign onto this plan. However, according to everyone, America has been an Empire, and therefore we’ve owned it for 80 years up to now. So which is it? Are we that Empire and owned it all along? Or not? Pick one. If you say we USED to own it, that’s fine, but that changes the statement doesn’t it?

“IRAN CEASEFIRE SET TO “EXPIRE” ON MONDAY, SITUATION STATIC – w/ Elijah Magnier

I wouldn’t fret yourself, clearly we’ve never had a ceasefire, and won’t have one this time either. Iran proves Trump right daily on this.

“Iran has reportedly given Washington a matter of days — not weeks — to change course on the Strait of Hormuz,”

Or else what? The Strait already has no geostrategic purpose. Keep it closed, I could care less.

“West Despairs At Kiev Lack Of AD”

There is no “West”. WE, in America, don’t despair about Kiev at all. Clearly. Nor all of Europe, actually. I could care less if they have Air Defense or what happens there. Figure it out. That’s what “Not Empire” means.

“Iran’s Warning: 2k ATTACK Boats Are Waiting”

They’re just waiting 160 days to use them to LURE us in. Once Hiroshima happens, THEN Japan will activate the Navy. Make sense? That’s what you/they’re saying here. When there’s only two Iranians left alive, THEN we’re going to jump into action!

“Michael Hudson: Trump Is Desperate To Save The Dollar Ponzi Scheme | GEH W/ Radhika Desai”

Quite the Opposite on every possible front. The U.S. dollar is in no danger at all right now, clearly. Also we are transitioning it back one level, toward real collateral and the Gold Standard. So if you mean the #OPPOSITE of everything you say, then yes.

We are desperate to get OUT of the Ponzi scheme self-same globalist forced on us, from Vietnam overspending, and killing Kennedy. And BACK on a U.S. gold standard where we make-and-do things, which apparently U.S. manufacturing is recovering at an amazing pace, far faster than I expected. I mean, look at Helium and Chips. So having that as backing, we have no problem at all merely undoing Nixon’s 1971 and going back ON a standard, and OFF the Ponzi, while demand for US$ is amazingly strong worldwide. Easy as falling off a log.

Why? Because Prosperity = WORK. A thing they forgot. We are willing to do WORK, were always willing to work, and there’s no ponzi when you do WORK and provide actual product and not financial promises and speculation. You might notice.

Nick Shirley Exposes WHY Kathy Hochul Is So Proud of Spending Taxpayer Money on Illegal Aliens

https://twitchy.com/grateful-calvin/2026/08/15/nick-shirley-exposes-exactly-why-kathy-hochul-is-so-proud-of-spending-taxpayer-money-on-illegals-n2431316