6ixStringJack: Trump, Trump, Trumpety Trump!  Shit Golem.
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| second: How Trump Failed to Secure the Strait of Hormuz in His Iran Deal.
President Trump signed an agreement that gave Iran control of the waterway — and global energy supplies. Now, Iran’s military is violently asserting authority.
Mr. Trump celebrated the agreement, reached on June 14, as the reopening of the strait. “Ships of the World, start your engines,” he wrote on social media. “Let the oil flow!”
But it actually formalized a reality that Iranian officials have made clear throughout the war: They now control the strait.
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| second: Aspiring to Regional Domination, Iran Is Ready to Escalate Over Hormuz.
New outbreak of fighting over the strait comes as Tehran sees itself as a winner in the war that would establish a new Pax Iranica in the Middle East.
The Islamic Republic will become even more of a gangster regime. Its takeaway from the war is that concessions are won through coercion—by attacking its neighbors, threatening the Strait of Hormuz and driving up the price of oil. Like Putin’s Russia, the Islamic Republic believes that its security depends not on the prosperity of its people, but on the insecurity of its neighbors.
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| 6ixStringJack: Great. What are you going to do about it, Shit Golem? |
| second: Headline: “Trump Cut Big Mine Deal, and Sons Stand to Gain, $1.6 billion Pact for Kazakhstan Tungsten Furthers Pattern of Self-Enrichment.” And honestly, you don’t really have to read another word of it, do you? Tungsten in Kazakhstan and his family is going to make a fortune! Well, what’s new? Not much, really. [go to link] |
| second: "We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to have daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things." - Trump. Yes, he really did: [go to link] Trump says we can pay for war in Iran but can't afford children, who will have to look after themselves. |
| 6ixStringJack: Nobody gives a fuck about your mental problems. |
| 6ixStringJack: No. You are not forgiven. And going forward, you will have the full force of the law bury you in the fucking ground. Keep pulling your bullshit and find out. |
| 6ixStringJack: Thanks for posting that article trying to explain away all the murderous tenancies of young Democratic Party voters, Shit Golem. |
| second: Success in school requires showing up, meeting deadlines, and tolerating authority. Success at work requires completing projects on time, absorbing criticism, and cooperating with colleagues. Yet the downwardly mobile were often convinced such requirements were beneath them. Their grandiosity and defiance hastened their slide.
As far back as 1987, a 40-year longitudinal study underscored this point. Even then, middle-class children who were emotionally volatile and prone to rage were more likely to experience downward mobility, and by midlife their occupational status was indistinguishable from their working-class peers. [go to link] |
| 6ixStringJack: Looks like Graham died of a Covid booster. Keep taking those. |
| 6ixStringJack: Great. Lindsey and McConnell down in one month. Most of the Boomer class on both sides might not live out Trump. |
| second: Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of President Donald Trump’s closest allies in Congress, has died after a “brief and sudden illness,” his office said. He was 71. Trump said Graham was “like a member of the family. It’s very tough.” The president said Graham called him on Saturday night after returning from a trip to Ukraine. Trump told NBC, “He sounded a little bit tired, but perfect.” May Trump soon be “perfect.” [go to link] |
| second: How far does Trump’s bad taste go towards explaining his presidency? A long way. Is it any surprise that Trump is turning the White House into Mar-a-Lago North? Anything approximating the Louis XIV style of Trump would have been considered monarchical and autocratic by the Founding Fathers.
The DJ Trump ballroom is a sign, not just of Trump’s personal vulgarity, but of the collapse of small-r republican norms. Trump is turning the people’s house into a palace fit for a despot partly because that’s his taste, but also to show everyone that he can. L’etat, c’est moi. - King Louis XIV. I am the government. – DJ Trump [go to link] |
| 6ixStringJack: Even Wikipedia doesn't hide that Heather Cox Richardson has a STRONG Left bias. We can take whatever she's ever written and throw that right in the toilet while we flush you down with it, Shit Golem. |
| second: Afraid of investigations into his actions, President Donald J. Trump abandoned all pretense of governing for the good of the country and is focusing on rigging the 2026 election. He will not sign the housing bill, which was designed to address the affordability of housing and which passed Congress with strong bipartisan majorities, “in PROTEST over the fact that the United States Senate is not capable of passing THE SAVE AMERICA ACT.” Trump’s message four months before the midterms is, “You’re not getting affordable housing unless you give up your voting rights.” [go to link] |
| 6ixStringJack: FUCK Alternet.org, loser. You are a fucking loser. You are a liar. You are a pussy. You make everyone fucking miserable and that's you're only purpose in life. Fuck you and fuck your ceaseless propaganda, Shit Golem. |
6ixStringJack: By the way, you stupid motherfuckers. We'd better never once hear you use the word Nazi again. You're the Nazis.  |
| second: The US is about to spend a billion dollars in taxpayer money on an emergency effort to get rid of screwworms because DOGE canceled the $15 million contract to control them.
Why can't Elon Musk and the DOGE boys pay the full amount with penalties instead of U.S. taxpayers? [go to link] |
| 6ixStringJack: What's that, Shit Golem? JK. Nobody cares.
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