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    Henri Matisse Flowers 1907 • Turkey Is the Next Iran (Paul Craig Roberts) • Allies Balk As Trump Pushes Joint Military Action To Reopen Hormuz (ZH) •
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    #235003
    Topcat
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    The Gulf States are Going to Hell

    Happy International Blasphemy Day!

    blas·phe·my
    /ˈblasfəmē/
    noun
    noun: blasphemy; plural noun: blasphemies

    the act or offense of speaking sacrilegiously about God or sacred things; profane talk.

    #235015
    Topcat
    Participant

    Some Advice from your Dutch Uncle

    #235016
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Yesterday: Thankfully I went and did work and not this crap.

    Bizarrest end: Gold, Silver plummet. Huh? Oil under $100, USDX 100.

    Boy they are not looking at the war progress I’m looking at! Okay then. I just report it. Apparently fine, fine, this is fine…

    Eeeeeeveryone is on board with this. My job is to put the pieces together, not tell them what to do. They seem very on board.

    “Germany Merz election trouble. SPD collapse” The Duran•19K views

    The answer? ARREST MORE PEOPLE!! Yes, more AfD people, run by a gay woman and her immigrant wife. Nothing says Nazi like that. Kinder Kuchen Kirche.

    “In my 20s ‘treat ’em mean, keep ’em keen’ felt like power. In my 50s I see that dating strategy for what it is: fear I am capable, a woman of substance. Yet I get a ‘maybe’ from a man I meet on a dating app and I regress three decades” — The Guardian”

    Abuse everyone you can find, your whole life long. That’ll fix’r.

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    “I Regret Saying Yes To My Boyfriend’s Proposal I’m dreading getting married. Is this regular cold feet or a bigger problem? Bustle

    Engineer no family, no society, no defense. You’re helpless, owning nothing but your DoorDash Account online.

    ‘Like a Trap You Can’t Escape’: The Women Who Regret Being Mothers. — From mourning the life they no longer have to feeling never-ending pressure, women tell the BBC why they regret becoming mothers. BBC

    Happy Mother’s Day!!! Wow. they haven’t done enough already. “If ONE Briton (or white person) is left alive it is too many.” — Women of the BBC.

    “Berlin Youth Center Hid Girl’s Gang-Rape By The Usual Suspects To Avoid ‘Typical Muslim’ Label

    Some animals are more equal than others. Well it’s good to know it’s okay if they become mothers by rape.

    The women are apparently the ones that want this. The men are against it and would burn it down. It’s up to you to say the word, ladies. Why are we here? Why do these words have to come out of my mouth?

    See how all those articles are connected?

    “Yet Another Tech Titan Flees California For Texas

    Likewise they are fleeing Nazi Germany before the war. California brain drain. Well, the goal is to destroy it, and it’s going extremely well.

    “Sen. Mike Lee: We’ve ‘Turned Kind Of A Corner’ On The Save Act

    I don’t want to hear anything but you’ve passed it. Because even then the states will refuse. Thune’s plan is to go to the end, then Ooopsie!! We dun a mistake.

    Robert Barnes argues that Donald Trump underestimated the consequences of war with Iran and ignored warnings from intelligence officials and advisers.”

    BUT ALSO that they, being Generals, sold him triumphamism, that “let’s go to war it’ll be fine.” Both. Neither. Ai.

    You know history: WHICH do you think is more plausible? Every General in the Pentagon said “We hate war. In fact, you should probably close our bases and fire us.” Uhhh, no.

    You want the reality I can tell from here, being: Humans? Some said yes, some said no. Every General said Yes, BUT! But in our lay terms some were over the line and some under it. Again, there is only one man in the Universe, he is the only one who acts or matters. There is no Team. Trump is God, you say. No. I disagree with your TrumpIsGod theory. It’s embarrassing for you.

    “AI is dissolving our ability to decide what is true, what is real”

    That’s for sure. Right now 6 warships are both sunk and floating. Markets say floating.

    “the U.S. military must utterly defeat it and bring about a regime change, or else “you go through this, and then in five years you realize you put somebody in who’s no better.’”

    “Put somebody in”? That’s not our job. Now here’s the problem: if we don’t, China will. France will. Russia will. Do you want to be “So Godly you’re no Earthly good”, or what?

    “Iran is fighting for more than survival: Iran wants the USA gone from that part of the world, as well as the end of the Zionist occupation of Palestine.”

    Okay, so now IRAN gets to decide what all other sovereign nations do. It’s bad when we do it, but good when Iran and China do it.

    Because America is uniquely evil, they are unlike all other men in the world.

    “The government is wrong and is killing. If you think that is right then there is something wrong with you.”

    The Iranian killing is good tho’. People are ecstatic hearing Iran killed pepo.

    “IRGC’s 50th wave of attacks:

    It’s nice that they can count, what does that mean? They only have one hand grenade left each time? Is ‘our’ side on #5? #105? Iran only GIVES damage, never receives it. We only record damage done BY Iran, never TO Iran…unless it’s bad. C’mon, TRY to be fair and level here. That’s honesty.

    “risks provoking Iranian retaliation across Gulf countries.”

    Ummm… the past exists? “Risks”? “If we don’t look out, bombs MIGHT start flying??” I think that ship has sailed.

    “The Iranian Navy launched several strikes on the USS Abraham Lincoln, partially disabling it,”

    Sure. Why not? But then we’re seeing some weird reports that aren’t true either. They also are rotating out to re-arm.

    “Several European countries fear that the US-Israeli operation could trigger a large influx of migrants, potentially testing the EU’s reformed asylum system, Politico reports.”

    Huh? Why? Just say no. So they’re going to say “Yes, infinity please!” then blame the U.S. for not doing what nations have done for 10,000 years: exist for their Ethnos, their people. ALSO, do you have any idea how far away Iran is from Sweden? JHC, man. Holland and not India? I’d go to India. Russia is their ally, I thought. No? Door’s locked now? China hates their guts, I guess.

    A: Nobody has any responsibility or duty except the West. America takes all actions and does all things and there is only one man in that country. No one else has any responsibility at all.

    The Stupid. Coming out of their mouths. It hurts, it hurts.

    “Within less than 24hrs, Iran has struck Israel 15 times. Drone attacks are taking place around the clock.”

    They wanted it. Here you go. Btw 15 seems like nothing. There’s 15 shootings in Chicago each weekend. Or maybe 15 deaths and 115 shootings. Hard to tell. It’s a gun-free zone.

    “Trump just invited China to send warships”

    Just saw this from a crypto guy on the use of the Yuan. Snap! Burn! Man the U.S. won’t like that, ha ha.

    Why? We literally DO want that. We definitely, definitely want that. Every single thing done since 2016 shows we want that and have fought tooth and nail to get it. The quotes are legion, but they asked Powell – who almost only job is to keep the USD, the “Federal Reserve Note”, about competing currencies and he said “IDGAF. Do whatever currency you want. Bitcoin, Yuan, have at it.” Because that’s important, no one reported it.

    So Iran says they’ll open the strait to use Yuan? 1st, HOW DO YOU REALLY CHECK THIS??? Okay, nevermind, that’s not my point, that’s only plausible deniability for them. The second is: Of course and who cares? The only thing that can save us from Triffin’s Paradox and complete collapse IS to remove the US$ as Reserve. We all three of us – and probably Iran – are going on the gold standard.

    So all I hear in that statement is: “Iran opened the straits for no reason.” Ok, we won. Thanks. We opened them for China, just like Bad Man said. We now don’t need to be there, which he also said. I can’t stand the winning.

    “AI, hyper-intelligent, more intelligent than we can comprehend”

    Apparently he is illiterate. Frankenstein was a genius too. The monster. And Amoral. Went around murdering. Many very smart people go insane, often because of it, and AI appears more deadly than ever in that regard. So they are hell-bent to create a human-killing super-capable monster, here you go. I say Don’t??

    So you’re raising not ONE supergenius child, which maybe you have to do, but creating THOUSANDS on the assembly line, to make very, very CERTAIN you get an insane, murdering one. Great.

    But top admin officials say it’s bullshit ½”

    We can’t possibly know. The CIA does this all the time, and Tucker, being domestic, is somewhat illegal for them. …As if they care. Everyone can make up a story they like, but can they show it in court? It doesn’t seem Trump’s style – he’d do different things. But it does seem literally everybody else’s style, the Pentagon, CIA, Congressmen, either to screw them, or to feed Tucker false Info every day so he looks stupid.

    One thing all this DOES do is, if the war fails, Vance, Tulsi, and Tuck were against it.

    “They appointed the dull son, who is likely in a coma, and he can serve as a leader in the way Joe Biden served as the US president.”

    So he wasn’t hit by the U.S. at all but they just stabbed him? Why not? Hit him with a rock: Instant Joe Biden.

    “Israel is taking a bloody good hiding,”

    You can say that again. And they’re going to cease to exist (n their present form). That’s way worse than a hiding.

    1,000 Americans sounds about right. 750? Close enough. That’s not the population of the smallest town in the U.S., a nation with millions of towns.

    “Alastair Crooke : Trump’s Plan Is To Have No Plan”

    Yup, that’s why Bessant had the Insurance thing ginned up and ready to go, and why Russia was stocking oil for months. Because no plan except all the clues of plans we saw, and see, and he says openly, almost daily, like with China. Nice. Crooke wouldn’t be anywhere near London, would he?

    “Larry Johnson : Trump’s Trapped and Doesn’t Know It”

    No problem then! I guess! No brain, no pain! Markets agree with Trump though, so…explain?

    “They already have factories that produce completed vehicles almost totally with automated AI and without humans.”

    Yes, I can push a button on a vending machine too, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t millions of people in that Chocolate-coffee supply chain. Can’t look at one gear in a whole system.

    AI in space. Yes!!! Everything it said is true. …And false. Add ONE tiny rock. Day after month after year. And fragility, replacement cost, a panel breaking off… All things have costs. Entropy’s a b-tch. Maybe: they always talk about mining asteroid and not like, the 7-11. A 100 year old mine that already has train tracks and a power grid. It’s about the cost. The WORST place in Antarctica is 100x better and cheaper than the cheapest place in space.

    “US pivoting from carriers to long-range bombers?
    From sitting ducks to flying ducks?

    No. Luongo said they were fling B52s with the largest radar signal ever known to man, more or less immediately and have been all along. I dunno, but they sure are now! Days now. Carriers do different things, different planes.

    So they, Iran, both have NO air defense (clearly) but are ALSO unharmed and firing at will, sinking everything. Okay.

    “Prof. Jeffrey Sachs : Are We Drifting Toward a Global War?

    Not according to Russia and China. Don’t they get a vote? Without them, then…who? Uraguay?

    “Strategic Petroleum Reserve What a joke

    It’s not meant to. Wtf TOLD you it’s a fund for all oil use everywhere??? I just shut off Greg Hunter and Armstrong: “What if we blow up every dam everywhere, and blow up every drop of fresh water…????” …And then aliens land, and make us ice cream sandwiches, and roll us in crackers, and smoke us like a blunt?? WHAT ARE YOU SAYING??

    What if an asteroid strikes earth and eBola breaks out? Like, I dunno! How about something that MIGHT happen. We have reason to think is POSSIBLE to happen. Somebody has said WANTS to happen. Bc we’ve got a lot of that going on and Daddy is sorta busy right now? Go back to the kid’s table.

    Here, “JustDario” clips a pic “What if every other oil source on the planet magically disappeared and was replaced with butter taffy tomorrow? What then, smart guy?” Like, that’s not ever going to happen? That’s why I didn’t bother considering it?

    Please consider scenarios where ONLY the straits are closed. Or even ONLY the gulf oil mostly stops. Brazil and Russia are not going offline that we know.

    “Iran Launches ENDGAME Weapon” Asian Guy

    Yup. All wars have ended now. With the new Wunderwaffen. Hey, um…one question: Aren’t NUKES that exact weapon? That stops all wars and ends all weapons? And didn’t we already invent them? Wow, thankfully no wars in 1953, 1973, 1993, 2003, 2023… Yup! Wunderwaffe Iran has now conquered the Middle East to Algeria.

    To quote Inspector Clouseau: “It is, a bomb. It goes Boom.” It did not change anything.

    “Kremlin meanwhile is quivering from fear, watching the US losing the war”

    Why would the Kremlin quiver? If the U.S. disappears Russia is nearly preeminent. It’s like second-best outcome.

    Those Russians! Always sitting around, quaking in fear! We Make S–t Up! Did you know we invented this thing called a “Phone” so you can call them and ask?

    “Jeffrey Sachs: Israel Could Use Nuclear Weapons Against Iran”

    It depends. They’ve also been sharply degraded. If he means are WILLING to use them and give the orders then yes. Since day 1 when they got them.

    Pepe Escobar & Larry C. Johnson: Trump is LOSING Control – Iran WIPES OUT Strategic Military Targets

    Several problems: two guys that have been regularly wrong the last 2-3 years. Then the headline is “Hey, didja know things get blown up in wars?” A: “Noooooooo!!!!” –Sarcastic’s Anonymous.

    “20 Shermans’ were blown up in France.” Okay, this tells me nothing about if the Americans are advancing or retreating. See the problem?

    “The petrodollar is as absolute massive scam”

    It is but we’re trying to END it and give indications of it weekly for years.

    “The beginning of the end of the cabal”

    What is “The Cabal”? Which one? OPEC?

    “self destroyer class. When launched it blows itself up.”

    Absolutely. However they’ve also said that every day for 10 years. Now Israel is being blown up, Epstein is exposed, Empire is ending, and we’re returning to a gold standard. Everyone is mad.

    #235017
    Topcat
    Participant

    #235018
    Topcat
    Participant

    From the Empire of Lies:

    “Liar, Liar pants on Fire”

    Treasury Secretary Bessent went on television Monday and announced that the United States is “allowing” Iranian oil tankers to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.

    “The Iranian ships have been getting out already, and we’ve let that happen to supply the rest of the world”.

    Iran has been controlling who enters and exits that waterway since day 5.

    Chinese tankers have sailed freely since day 1.

    #235019
    Topcat
    Participant

    #235020
    Topcat
    Participant

    Trouble in River City

    Oops, someone didn’t get the Memo

    Fujairah got hit. Again.

    Its pumping equipment was targeted.

    The port that was supposed to bypass the Strait is offline.

    The bypass needs a bypass now.

    #235021
    Topcat
    Participant

    #235022
    Topcat
    Participant

    “The WTI futures market appears to have concluded the Iran war ended yesterday while forgetting to inform the refined product market, which continues to tighten. And the real achievement of all this jawboning is a delay in the production response the world actually needs to offset the shortfall.

    Paper says peace. Physical says war.”</

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    #235023
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Topcat, what are you doing here? I thought you signed up with the IRGC so you could kill your countrymen. Go act on your beliefs. You want all your neighbors dead, don’t just sit around and let Iran shoot them. Help!

    Aras Araghchi, is suddenly offering to give up those 440 kilos of 60-percent enriched uranium that are at the heart of this quarrel. Sounds a little surrender-ish” – Kunstler

    They’re winning so hard they’re losing. …Or something. They also said anyone could transit if they pinky-promise to use Yuan, which means everyone.

    “This is pretty serious power politics, but notice that China has not started World War Three over it.”

    Another thing I forget who said, wouldn’t it be Ironic if China started a war in Taiwan right now? Ha ha. Actually no: that would be the OPPOSITE of ironic, because that would be expected. AND we’re not going to do anything about it, since we have nothing to do that with. China very specifically has NOT. While they’re also supporting all of Trump’s moves. The other signal? There was a UN resolution Russia and China abstained from. This means nothing, just signaling, so it signals neither wanted their veto power. At no cost to themselves. To support an ally.

    Just what Trump says: he’s securing oil FOR China. And the rest of the world. AGAINST blackmail. And cutting the 15% insurance vig to London since it’s “dangerous” there so long as MI6 sells weapons and whispers lies in their ears.

    Again, markets agree.

    “Marjorie Taylor Greene Tells CNN That MAGA Feels ‘100% Betrayed’ By Iran War
    “It’s actually very split. And it’s split along generational lines…”

    Totally true. Now what.

    Cuba Suffers “Total Disconnection” Of Power Grid; Trump Says Deal With Havana ‘Pretty Soon’

    Another place Russia and China could easily help, but no one has any duties or responsibilities but the United States. There are no other non NPC actors on earth I guess.

    “It is currently illegal under Canada’s Criminal Code to possess any item for the purpose of self-defense.” –TDB

    What. Is this quote?

    SNAP: That framing assumes junk food is a non-negotiable line item. Recipients who want soda and candy remain free to purchase them… with their own money…”

    Positive and negative rights. You’re free to buy all the junk food you want…just not with my money. Is that so hard? Apparently yes. Because you’re free to sleep with zucchini, marry one, and wear a dress. But that’s not enough: they care about nothing else, cannot rest until – I – say, am forced to say, to stop whatever work I’m doing in my day, and say “You’re stunning and brave, the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen, better, greater, more majestic than any other human I’ve ever met, read, or heard about. Thank you for having a beard, wearing a dress, and doing things with zucchini in you bedroom. I am prostrate on my knees before your majesty. Thank you. Thank you.” …Or else they’ll stab me. From pure love and tolerance, of course!

    Negative vs Positive Rights. They matter. That’s “Liberty” and the entire United States’ premise of law is based on them.

    “We’re not winning against Iran. We’re not winning.”

    That’s not what markets say. Or China and Russia.

    “We didn’t have the required military forces to achieve any of the objectives that we were floating,”

    Everyone “Just Made Up” that we were going to land 5 million men and occupy for 80 years, then say “He lost” because we never planned that in the first place.

    THIS IS THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT

    The ENTIRE PLAN, the only thing that will save Europe and the Epstein Class, is to START WWIII. These guys are all helping. Every Ritter, MacGregor, Bannon, Mearshimer, all TRYING to start WWIII that lets Europe escape their debts and re-start the Matrix Banking system for the 6th time in the rubble. Under the new Fascism they’re feverishly installing there.

    They trotted out all that Millennial Eschatology no one here believes in. Americans don’t even know who Jesus IS. No one in Iran believes in. No one in Russia or Europe believes in anymore. All they need to win is for YOU to believe:

    “It is the SOUND, of the INEVITABLE, Mr. Anderson” – Agent Smith.

    That’s it. The war expands from Iran, on YOUR hate, YOUR love and elation of death, just as I’m seeing here. That’s all it takes. Which path, Western Man? Hate and love of death?

    “What’s in it for them is implementing the control grid and depopulation together.”

    That’s why they need the war. Van Der’Lyin’ is very exposed when she does all the tyrannical, fascist things when there’s no Russian enemy. It depended on “Thesis / AntiThesis” You have your side, but then you CREATE the other side to fight you. Out of thin air. Like the Cold War. Or Bannon. Or Republicans and Democrats, Left and Right. Pop! Suddenly appear, overnight, fully capitalized, waving expensive flags. Yeah, no. That’s ALL MADE UP. It’s all Kayfabe. They MADE Russia attack, yes. But they’re not inside Russia directing it afterwards, the way Churchill was during the Russian Revolution, and they’re not being the Bogeyman and opposition they desperately need.

    So it WOULD have made sense to do all this control, IF there was a war. …Which there isn’t. IF Russia was in E Germany. …Which they’re not. IF the U.S. took the bait and was in a clash of titans, not a safe Stock-and-Bond haven away from the lawless, confiscating Nazis on the continent.

    So it’s nowhere near as easy for them to attempt this, completely exposed right now, and all of us watching for any opening to whack them with a stick. They have to distract and channel our anger: “Look! 30 years ago! An Epstein!!” ; “Look! 80 Years ago! An Israel!!!” It’s working great because being mad about something 30 years ago means you can be perfectly LAZY now and not stop girls being raped in Rotherham. You don’t have to take on Thune and Theil NOW.

    …But there’s a limit, regardless of how well that’s working. On us. Sadly.

    “Ideologically driven wrong energy decisions have dire consequences.”

    I guess, but not one leader or bureaucrat will be inconvenienced and will get all the jam and wagu steak first, just like all Socialist regimes. The Proletariat will be crushed and bled white. So I’d call that a win! Why would they care? It’s going great!

    “• Turkey Is the Next Iran (Paul Craig Roberts)

    It is. And it IS next. But both are run by London to insure endless violence in the world. And in this case, contain Russia forever, Crimean War style, as London has been invading Russia non-stop since 1853. Turkey is their “Ukraine” to attack Russia again. But PCR wants this, I guess.

    Also, Why is Iran bombing Turkey, Paul? That seems important.

    “A bizarre intervention in the war came from Hamas, who called for Iran to cease attacks on regional neighbors. Hamas is well-known as an Iranian proxy,”

    Yeah, because Hamas is real. The IRGC is fake. So they’re asking what they’re doing by attacking themselves in the service of London. Good question! Track that thought to the end!

    “• Allies Balk As Trump Pushes Joint Military Action To Reopen Hormuz (ZH)

    Of course! They’re not allies, silly. They don’t want to PAY to do what armies do. They want to NOT pay, and have 90% of their oil magically appear by little shoemaking elves. I would too, but I’m not a lunatic and know that “Things” take “Work.” Sometime we call that “Work” “Money” as in 3% GDP to NATO they’ve skipped for 40 years.

    “• Judge Blocks RFK Jr.’s Appointees to Vaccine Panel (ET)

    Every Judge runs every decision. There is no government except unelected judges.

    ““I’m surprised that Zelensky doesn’t want to make a deal. Tell Zelensky to make a deal because Putin’s willing to make a deal,”

    But, but, the Ukraine war is all American, Alex!?! There is no impulse to war except from us! Here every move – this one, and ALSO all the oil and gas warning, then a war, — say “Europe you’re going to STOP THE RUSSIA WAR, or DIE.”

    …They wish to die, of course. Nazis have a romance with death. The citizens, however, do not.

    “Out Of Interceptor Missiles, Will Israel Turn To Nukes? (Paul Craig Roberts)

    It’s a thought. But are any of their sites able? Also, anyone seen Nutsy yet? So sad.

    “The Democrats have lots of money, but no serious candidates.”

    I wouldn’t bet on it. They were LITERALLY bankrupt, when Hillary bought them, then after BECAUSE Hillary bought them. Donations have been terrible. Etc.

    Trump’s Chief of Staff Susie Wiles Has Cancer (Sarah Anderson)

    Isn’t this a good thing since no one trusted her? I never got into it, but a lot of people were sure she was the mole most tireless against American interests.

    #235024
    Topcat
    Participant

    CENTCOM: “We have successfully destroyed over 100 Iranian naval vessels, and we aren’t done”.

    Clap like a Circus Seal.

    Arf, Arf

    100 boats. Hint dude: the boats were never the problem.


    Iran’s navy was always irrelevant……

    the fight was always missiles, drones, and coastal defense.

    Destroying 100 small craft doesn’t open the Strait.

    It’s like announcing you’ve won the chess match because you captured all the pawns……

    … while the Queen is still staring at your King.

    #235025
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Treasury Secretary Bessent went on television Monday and announced that the United States is “allowing” Iranian oil tankers to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.”

    Topcat believes the whole U.S. military combined is unable to sink a 1,000 foot supertanker going 6 miles an hour. You go with that.

    “Chinese tankers have sailed freely since day 1.

    Of COURSE. Yes, we are securing the Straits for CHINA. The Straits are OPEN. Pick one.

    …Tirelessly scouring the world, looking for any chart that looks even somewhat scary. Okay, let’s take your premise: ONE type of oil in ONE port in the world is up. What happened after the last spike on that chart, 2008, 2022? Uhhh…not much. Still here. Some of them had oil at $30 or NEGATIVE after. Singapore’s still there after every previous spike, last I checked. Since “Nothing ever happened” then this new spike on the new chart means… Nothing will happen just like last time?

    ““The WTI futures market appears to have concluded the Iran war ended yesterday while forgetting to inform the refined product market, which continues to tighten.”

    Uhhh…??? Yes? Let’s say we lose the railroad to the Copper smelter. Then the Copper backs up at the mine? In fact, price at the Mine might DROP. These two are not…related, or related as a non sequitur to your argument?

    I think what you’re looking for is, I dunno, Oil price is a high but tolerable $100 in London/NY but like $200 in…everywhere else. That’s not what a refined products chart is.

    If you’re saying it will cause costs downstream in the economy, then yes, the market already knows that and does not seem to be alarmed. Now I can’t explain that. As your argument goes, I agree with it. I’d think the market SHOULD be tanking and whot-not. However, IT’S NOT.

    You know what? That means I’M wrong, not the market. Everyone is NOT dum but me. They know something I don’t.

    #235026
    Topcat
    Participant

    The Beat Goes On

    Trumpturd had asked every NATO ally to send warships to the Strait of Hormuz yesterday.

    Japan, France, Germany, Switzerland. Today the list grew longer.

    Australia said no.

    Estonia – Estonia! – wants Article 5 invoked first.

    Canada won’t participate in offensive operations.

    South Korea will “think about it”, which is diplomatic speak for no.

    Germany’s Chancellor Merz made it official: “What does Trump expect from European frigates that the powerful American Navy cannot manage alone? It is not our war”.

    Every ally. Every single one.

    Hahaha, please make it stop

    Trump’s response evolved through the day.

    First he threatened NATO with a “very bad future”.

    Then he demanded countries come “protect their own territory, because it is their territory”.

    Then, in a moment of clarity: “Maybe we shouldn’t even be there at all. We have a lot of oil”.

    From unconditional surrender to maybe-we-shouldn’t-be-there in 16 days.

    Crazyland to the Rescue

    #235027
    Topcat
    Participant

    #235028
    Dr. D
    Participant

    All boats sinking are relevant…if they’re ours.

    All boats sinking are irrelevant….if they’re theirs. Ah.

    Iran was never going to use the Navy. To plant all the mines they have thousands of in reserve I’ve heard every day for decades in this exact scenario. If they weren’t going to use the Navy and plant mines, why did they buy and stock them? They’re expensive and dangerous. Is Iran retarded?

    No. The answer is, the Iranian Navy WAS relevant and they DID want to have that bishop on the chessboard to use. And ‘we’ removed it. You don’t want to admit ANY wins. Like Trump blowing up an “Austere scholar and loving father”, not ONE thing can be right. Never. Like every town Putin takes, all critical defenses until gone, then they were always totally irrelevant, ackshully.

    IRAN HAS OTHER PIECES. Great! More power to them. They have drones n’ stuff and even Trump said you can’t have a constant low-level harassment there because boats will still occasionally sink and that can’t be tolerated. (other discussion). I’m not saying Iran does NOT have that, I’m pointing it out to you.

    What I’m saying is the Iranian Navy was always relevant for 1,000 reasons or Iran wouldn’t have spent a billion dollars on it, trained, then drowned 1,000 strong and valuable Iranian men. Right? Navies are a thing that help attack other Navies, right? That’s why we built them, right?

    #235029
    Topcat
    Participant

    I love the smell of an Israeli Merkava tank burning in the morning

    Zionazi Merkava tank crew fried to death by a Almas anti-tank guided missile

    It was reverse-engineered from the Israeli Spike system that Hezbollah captured in 2006

    The IDF’s own technology, rebuilt by its enemy, fired back across the same border 20 years years later.

    Karma is a Bitch

    #235030
    Topcat
    Participant

    Hey, I was told Iran is out of missiles by the Empire of Lies Media Whores

    What’s Up Doc?

    Wave 55 of True Promise 4 landed with 357 impacts in a single salvo

    Submunitions and debris from recent Iranian missile strikes (March 2026) struck areas including
    Lod and Shoham, with significant impacts concentrated around Ben Gurion Airport, causing damage to infrastructure and creating large craters. The attacks, targeting central Israel

    The Zionazis can’t abandon ship very easily without an airport.

    Ben Gurion Airport out of commission, that’s a lot of Butthurt

    Ultra heavy hypersonic ballistic missiles

    #235031
    Celticbiker
    Participant

    Jews wanted a Hell on earth and they got it, all it took was $ printed and backed by 0. Yakking about the captured West changes nothing Not only does government ignore you, they want you dead. Focusing on these pedophiles and traitors is a waste of time, a new younger batch is waiting with anticipation in the wings. Doc John is right, plant a garden, fuck it, walk away. Happy St. Patricks Day.

    #235033
    those darned kids
    Participant

    will markets put the babies back together?

    #235034
    those darned kids
    Participant

    PRESIDENT FUDD ANNOUNCES GRAND COALITION OF WABBIT HUNTERS

    #235035
    those darned kids
    Participant

    President Fudd threatening to unleash new hypersonic missile, “The COFEFE”

    #235036
    those darned kids
    Participant

    It’s more fun to sink ’em

    #235037
    Topcat
    Participant

    Dubai International Airport the World’s Busiest

    But, but, but, I was assured Iran was running out of missiles…

    on the Dubai International Airport took a drone strike fuel depot.

    Fire at Terminal 3.

    British Airways, Lufthansa, Swiss, Austrian, Air France, KLM, Cathay Pacific, Singapore Airlines, Finnair, Virgin Atlantic – all suspended Dubai flights.

    Emirates rerouted. The busiest international airport in the world, and every non-Emirati carrier pulled out in 1 morning.

    #235038
    those darned kids
    Participant

    #235039
    Topcat
    Participant

    Attrition not Addition

    Equals Subtraction

    The UAE has officially lost its advanced early warning and air surveillance aircraft, the Saab GlobalEye.

    Today a $20,000 Iranian drone destroyed a $1 Billion UAE aircraft

    A billion dollars gone for the price of a Used Car

    #235040
    those darned kids
    Participant

    president fudd at his finest:

    https://t.co/hzMWWRuSW4

    #235041
    zerosum
    Participant

    The Strait is not, was not closed to anyone other than the US, Israel and their allies.

    the president presses China to help the U.S. reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

    The Houthis (another Iranian proxy) were giving signs that they are ready to escalate against shipping being diverted into the Red Sea to load crude cargoes at the Saudi port of Yanbu.
    Disruptions to Red Sea shipping – which the Houthis have proven adept at over the years – would close off the release valve of the Saudi East-West pipeline that is capable of redirecting 5-7mn bbl/day to offset the ~18-20mn bbl/day supply interruption.

    True or False.
    It doesn’t matter.
    Nobody wants to join the battle to try to open the Strait of Hormuz.

    U.S. Navy Destroyer SUNK by Iran —Next Days That Changed Everything
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    #235042
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    #235043
    those darned kids
    Participant

    holy mooly, when hisandherstorians go back and look at the statements of president fudd and his obvious path to madness,

    they are gonna dance the whiskey tango foxtrot like never before.

    <little mouse in corner> maybe he found hunter’s stash.. </little mouse in corner>

    #235044
    those darned kids
    Participant

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    #235045
    those darned kids
    Participant

    holy mooly, when hisandherstorians© go back and look at the statements of president fudd and his obvious path to madness,

    they are gonna dance the whiskey tango foxtrot like never before.

    <little mouse in corner> maybe he found hunter’s stash.. </little mouse in corner>

    ©2026 tdkmeme and partners, L.L.C., S.A. de C.V.

    #235046
    Michael Reid
    Participant
    #235047
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    #235048
    kultsommer
    Participant

    Cher and the ex-mayor of Palm Springs.
    For the late boomer generation that video can be from silent era movies as far as they are concerned.
    An eerie disconnect.
    And yet they are thrown with the same “privileged” basket with the early deliveries.

    #235049
    those darned kids
    Participant

    BiBi Brothers Productions Proudly Present!!!

    president fudd and his looney band of suckophants:

    president fudd
    vice president vancy duck
    sec of state speedy gusanez
    sec of ¡¡¡WAR!!! the petemanian devil
    sec of treasury porky scotty
    spokesmodel foghorn leavitt

    and far, far, too many more..

    will they ever catch that pesky باگز بانی?

    خبر چیست، کوچولو؟

    #235050
    zerosum
    Participant

    The situation in Iraq as of 17 March 2026 is marked by a severe escalation in hostilities between the Islamic Resistance in Iraq (IRI) and U.S. forces, while the relationship between Baghdad and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has reached a critical breaking point.

    As of today, the IRI claims to have conducted over 312 operations in the last 13 days. This morning (17 March), they launched their most intense assault to date, using at least five explosive drones against the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.

    All U.S. forces are expected to leave federal Iraq by September 2026, but most probably will be kicked out much earlier. While the Iraqi government has not “officially” dismantled the Kurdistan Region, on 15 March, Baghdad delivered a stark warning to the KRG: if Kurdish authorities do not prevent armed groups from using their territory to launch attacks on Iran, Iraqi federal forces will move to take control of the KRG’s borders. Baghdad is using the current instability to dismantle the Kurdistan Region altogether, and they will do that.There is significant “accumulated resentment” toward the U.S. occupation.

    Posted by: James | Mar 17 2026 8:26 utc | 653

    #235051
    kultsommer
    Participant

    This place is American as American pie.
    Gallon hats and all.
    Kunstler can find himself at home in there, producing satisfying farts in the local bagel shop while writing how the “rug-heads” are incompatible with the Western culture.

    #235052
    kultsommer
    Participant

    Better soundtrack for that dragonfly X-post.

    #235053
    those darned kids
    Participant

    wow, fleetwood mac can actually create good music..

    today’s silver lining!

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