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A Very Inexpensive Price
Read more . . . →He started a war with Iran, gas hit $4.36 a gallon, diesel cracked a record at six bucks, and he called it “a very inexpensive price to pay.” Then he flew to his golf club in Ireland and told Zelensky to stop hitting Russian refineries because it was making his numbers worse. Not the Strait of Hormuz he closed. Not seven months of bombing. The diesel shortage is Ukraine’s fault, apparently. Three weeks from midterms and the man is panic-shopping for oil. Begged Putin for diesel on a call he described as “wonderful.” Promised not to bomb Iran again until...
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Day 196 and a Tee Time
Read more . . . →It’s Day 196 of the war with Iran. Twenty-nine people have been executed in connection with anti-war protests. And the President of the United States is at a golf tournament in Doonbeg, Ireland, at a course he owns, the one that paid him $20 million last year. Five cargo planes full of armored Secret Service vehicles flew across the Atlantic so the man who started a war could sit in a hospitality tent and watch the Irish Open. Ireland footed a €20 million security bill for the visit. The Secret Service is booking rooms at his hotel, buying food at...
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Small Potatoes
Read more . . . →Eighteen American soldiers are dead and the president called it small potatoes. That’s a direct quote. Donald Trump sat in the Oval Office on Thursday and said the war he started with Iran is “small potatoes” because only eighteen Americans died. He compared it to Vietnam, the logic being that because fewer people died than in a war that killed fifty-eight thousand over twenty years, this one barely registers. Eighteen is a rounding error. Eighteen is within the margin of acceptable loss. He delivered this with the same energy you’d use to explain why you’re not tipping. Those eighteen people...
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The Child Was Infrastructure
Read more . . . →The US military bombed a wedding in southern Iran on Monday. Five dead, including a child. Sixty-eight wounded, fifty of them women and children. The Pentagon called it a strike on Revolutionary Guard infrastructure. The infrastructure was a family home in Kuhestak where people were celebrating a marriage. The guests were infrastructure. The child was infrastructure. Central Command released a statement about “IRGC assets.” An asset, in Pentagon English, is whatever was standing where the missile landed. This is the third time a US strike in this war has hit a civilian gathering. In Minab they hit an elementary school...
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Your gas bill is Trump's war tab
Read more . . . →The Strait of Hormuz has been closed since February. Used to carry 25% of the world’s seaborne oil. Now it doesn’t, because Trump and Israel bombed Iran and the Iranians shut the door. Gas is up 27% since the war started. Brent crude crossed $107 this morning. Trump canceled peace talks this weekend. Iran says it won’t negotiate under threat. Trump says they can “call us.” The standoff holds — and the cost lands at the pump, the utility bill, every week, no ceiling in sight. Delivery drivers and small shop owners are eating the tab for a war they...
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Joe Rogan feels 'betrayed.' Millions of workers felt it first.
Read more . . . →Joe Rogan says he feels “betrayed” by Trump over the Iran war. Tucker Carlson went on air and apologized for “misleading” his audience. Eight of the fourteen bro-podcast hosts Trump campaigned with have turned against the war. Day 56 of a conflict the no-more-wars candidate started — he’s blockading Iranian ports and just cancelled peace talks because the flights were “too long.” These are the guys who handed Trump the keys. Rogan gave him three hours of softballs. Carlson gave him months of uncritical coverage. They sold the no-more-wars line to millions of people and now they’re doing the confused...
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Mission Accomplished, Iran Edition
Read more . . . →Trump declared victory in Iran. Big speech, flag backdrop, the works. One problem — he didn’t accomplish a single thing he said the war was for. Iran can still attack its neighbors. The nuclear program is intact. And the regime is more entrenched than ever because nothing rallies a population like getting bombed by a foreign power. Zero for three, but the photo op looked presidential, so I guess that’s the bar now. This is Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” banner except dumber, because at least Bush waited a few weeks before the lie fell apart. Trump’s doing it live while the...
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'A Whole Civilization Will Die' Is Not a Foreign Policy
Read more . . . →“A whole civilization will die.” That’s a direct quote from the sitting president of the United States, on camera, about Iran. Not a warning — a promise. Iran froze nuclear talks this week and Trump’s response wasn’t to regroup or find another angle — it was to go on TV and threaten to erase a country from existence. This is what happens when your foreign policy is run by a guy who thinks diplomacy is losing. We went from “we’re open to a deal” to genocide cosplay in a single news cycle. Iran walked away from the table — which,...
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28 Percent of Americans Support This War and Trump's Already Declaring Victory
Read more . . . →So we’re a month into a war with Iran that nobody asked for, 72 percent of the country opposes, and the president went on primetime TV to tell us it’s basically already won but also needs to keep going for a few more weeks. Pick one. You can’t “mission accomplished” your way through a conflict while simultaneously asking for more time and more money. Oil prices are through the roof, people can barely afford to fill their tanks, and the guy responsible is up there taking a victory lap. This is what happens when foreign policy is just content strategy...
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"Winding Down" Is a Weird Way to Say Deploying More Marines
Read more . . . →Trump posted that he’s “winding down” the Iran war while the USS Boxer and thousands of Marines are literally sailing toward the Persian Gulf right now. He also had to lift sanctions on Iranian oil because his own war spiked gas prices so bad his Treasury Secretary is panic-buying barrels like it’s a Costco run. Starting a war you can’t afford and then buying your enemy’s oil to clean up the mess is peak American foreign policy.
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