| second: President Donald Trump says "death, fire and fury" will rain upon Iran if it continues to hinder the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz which has led to a surge in global oil prices. Trump on social media said the U.S. would hit Iran "twenty times harder" and make it "virtually impossible for Iran to ever be built back." [go to link] Trump either is the most patriotic and sincere President in history or a bellicose nutjob. You decide. |
| second: Trump ally Lindsey Graham issues threat to Saudi Arabia over Iran war. Republican senator warns of ‘consequences’ if Saudi Arabia does not join US strikes against Iranians. [go to link] It would be easy for Trump to invade Saudi Arabia and take their oil. So, why not do it while the US Navy is conveniently in the area? |
| second: The U.S. war against Iran has triggered the largest oil supply disruption in history.
About 20% of the world’s oil supply has been disrupted for nine days now as tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remains at a standstill. The biggest disruption before the current war was during the Suez Crisis of 1956. In that crisis, about 10% of the world’s oil supply at the time was disrupted.
The disruption triggered by the closure of the Strait is nearly three times the size of the shock caused by the Arab oil embargo of 1973. The Arab embargo disrupted about 7% of global supplies. [go to link] |
| 6ixStringJack: [go to link] |
| second: The president was asked about an American Tomahawk cruise missile destroying an Iranian girls’ school. Trump replied, “Well, I haven’t seen it, and I will say that the Tomahawk, which is one of the most powerful weapons around, is sold and used by other countries. And whether it’s Iran, who also has some Tomahawks—I wish they had more—but whether it’s Iran or somebody else... a Tomahawk is very generic, it’s sold to other countries.” Another reporter asked, “You just suggested that Iran got its hands on a Tomahawk and bombed its own elementary school on the first day of the war.” Trump replied, “Tomahawks are used by others, as you know. Numerous other nations have Tomahawks; they buy them from us,” Despite what Trump said, Iran did NOT buy a Tomahawk. [go to link] |
| 6ixStringJack: Losers. |
| THG: Trump has started a world war, so I was right |
| THG:
Iran ACTIVATES Global Sleeper Cell Attack Forces |
| THG: If you think $150 a barrel is high, wait until you hear what’s next |
| second: U.S. Military Refuses to Endorse Trump Claim That Iran Bombed Girls’ School.
President Donald Trump claimed that Iran, not the U.S., struck an elementary school in the southern Iranian town of Minab, the attack with the highest civilian death toll in Trump’s second Iran war.
Three current and former defense officials, however, pushed back on his claims. Even Trump’s own Pentagon chief, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, refused to back him up. U.S. Central Command appeared to suggest that Trump’s comments were “inappropriate.”
“This is another instance of Trump lying and just talking out of his ass,” said a U.S. government official who reviewed satellite images of the Shajarah Tayyebeh school. “This clearly was not a failed rocket from the IRGC base.” [go to link] |
6ixStringJack: Oh boy! It could be! We're only 3 days into it!!!!! The fucking sky is falling because Trump, Trump, Trumpety Trump!  Loser. |
| THG: This Could Be the Largest Oil Supply Disruption in History |
| 6ixStringJack: Loser. |
| second: Trump murders criminals because he'd rather not arrest them: The U.S. military said it killed six men Sunday in a strike on an alleged drug-smuggling vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean as part of the Trump administration's campaign against alleged traffickers. U.S. strikes on alleged drug boats have done little to stop the flow of illegal drugs. Sunday's attack brought the death toll to at least 157 people since the Trump administration began targeting those it calls "narcoterrorists" in small vessels in early September. [go to link] |
| second: Thanks to Trump, we are closer to nuclear war than most Americans realize per Dr. Ira Helfand, who is a two-time Nobel Peace Prize Laureate for his decades of work as a physician on the dangers of nuclear weapons. [go to link] But because 6ixStringJackass voted for Trump three time, 6ix won't see the connection between Trump being a belligerent jackass and nuclear war. Why not? Because all the Trumptards that I know are built in way that makes it impossible for them to connect their frequent misfortunes to their routine bad behavior. |
6ixStringJack: Remember that your guy did that just by cutting oil production and trying to force EVs on us by 2030, and you fucks celebrated it at the time. Stephen Colbert said he hoped that gas went up to $15 per gallon and got a standing ovation for it. Nobody wants to hear you two little bitches whining about gas prices today.  |
6ixStringJack: P.S. : "The highest average annual gas price in the U.S. was $4.88 per gallon (adjusted for inflation) in 2022, according to the Department of Energy (.gov). On a nominal basis, 2022 also holds the record with an annual average of roughly $3.95 to $4.06 per gallon, with prices peaking over $5.00 in June of that year." In other words, SHUT THE FUCK UP IDIOTS.  |
| 6ixStringJack: Losers. |
| THG: Isn't it sad SECOND how Jack had complaint after complaint for every other president and political leader, but to Jack Trump is perfect to suit his needs. Because Jack has nothing, what he wants is for everybody else to have nothing. Sick... |
| second: Meanwhile, gas prices went up about 60 cents a gallon in the war’s first week. The Dow fell 453 points Friday. (It’s currently well below 50,000, so I guess that means, per Pam Bondi, that we’re now allowed to take the Jeffrey Epstein scandal seriously.) Also on Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the U.S. economy lost 92,000 jobs in February. In the year and change since Trump returned to office, the economy has added around 140,000 jobs. In a year. The St. Louis Fed estimated last spring that simply to keep pace with the growth in the number of people who age into the labor force, the economy needs to add around 150,000 jobs a month.
In other words, everywhere you look, the news isn’t merely bad. It’s terrible. [go to link] |