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Maybe you should start wearing a military helmet to protect your delicate brain from reality? You won't realize that Trump lost in Iran until gasoline prices rise another dollar per gallon.

Gasoline Futures Pricing
https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/gasoline

Gasoline and Diesel Fuel Update
https://www.eia.gov/petroleum/gasdiesel/

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Remember these two dates separated by 25 months.
U.S. Withdrawal from Vietnam March 29, 1973
Saigon's Collapse on April 30, 1975
https://www.britannica.com/event/Vietnam-War/The-fall-of-South-Vietnam

For 25 months, Republicans were claiming victory in Vietnam before it was obvious they had lost. Republicans are again doing the same thing, but in Iran. Trump and Hegseth are attempting to obscure the loss by claiming victory. Only Trumptards are retarded enough to believe Trump just as only Nixon supporters were stupid enough to believe Nixon:

Fact-checking Trump and Hegseth's claims of U.S. 'victory' in the Iran war

Apr 9, 2026 5:14 PM EDT

This article originally appeared on PolitiFact.

After announcing a ceasefire in the weekslong war with Iran, President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared that the U.S. had emerged victorious.

When Trump declared April 7 that the U.S. would suspend bombing Iran for two weeks to allow for negotiations, he said the U.S. had "already met and exceeded all military objectives."

"Total and complete victory. 100%. No question about it," Trump told Agence France-Presse.

Hegseth was similarly triumphant. "Operation Epic Fury was a historic and overwhelming victory on the battlefield, a capital-V military victory," he said during an April 8 Pentagon press conference. "Epic Fury decimated Iran's military and rendered it combat-ineffective for years to come. "

It will take time to fully assess what the U.S. achieved — as well as any shortcomings or failures. More details will emerge to answer key questions: Will commerce flow through the Strait of Hormuz at its previous levels? When will gas prices decline? How will Iran's new leaders exercise their power? And how long will it take for the U.S. to restock its now-depleted military arsenal?

Much more at https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/fact-checking-trump-and-hegseths
-claims-of-u-s-victory-in-the-iran-war

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Trump said in a Truth Social post Sunday that “For Iran, the Clock is Ticking.” Pretty soon, Trumptards will realize that Trump lost to Iran because gasoline prices will zoom higher.

Oil inventories globally are depleting at a record pace as the Strait of Hormuz remains closed. “Rapidly shrinking buffers amid continued disruptions may herald future price spikes ahead,” the IEA said.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/18/oil-today-brent-wti-iran-trump-hormuz-
iea-supply-crude-.html

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Monday, May 18, 2026 10:06 AM

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Donald Trump : "I had a total military victory, but the fake news, guys like you, write incorrectly. You’re a fake guy. Guys like you write about it incorrectly. We had a total military victory. We’ve had a total victory, except by people like you that don’t write the truth. You know, you should write—I actually think it’s sort of treasonous what you write. You and the New York Times and CNN I would say are the worst."

Donald Trump doesn’t understand why the world won’t admit that he’s won a world-historical victory over Iran. In one of his angriest rants ever, he berated a reporter at great length for questioning his success, even accusing the reporter of treason. It’s no accident that this eruption occurred on his flight home from China. The media coverage has been quite harsh, brutally revealing that he failed to make any real headway with China on Iran, among other things.

So we’re talking today with political scientist David Faris.

Sargent: David, has Trump won the resounding victory he claims?

Faris: Obviously not. The Iran war has not gone at all the way that Trump and his allies thought it would. They were expecting a quick victory, decapitation of the regime, and then replacing it with somebody more compliant—sort of the Venezuela scenario. In fact, they seem to have handed power to people who are even more hardline than the ones that they replaced.

And despite many decades of planning around the possible closure of the Strait of Hormuz, it doesn’t seem like anybody in the Trump administration thought for five seconds about what might happen if the strait was indeed closed for some period of time. Trump is in this pickle. He can’t get the Iranians to capitulate. He can’t change the regime without ground troops. And he can’t reopen the strait without a massive escalation that has no guarantee of success anyway. So he’s really between a rock and a hard place right now.

Much more at https://newrepublic.com/article/210551/transcript-trump-rages-wildly-j
ourno-and-exposes-big-iran-blunder

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Trump Admitted There’s No Reason to Continue His War With Iran

By Fred Kaplan | May 18, 2026 2:33 PM

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/05/trump-iran-war-nuclear-rea
son-why.html

On a Fox News show on Friday, host Bret Baier asked Trump whether it might be feasible to retrieve Iran’s enriched uranium. Trump replied that it would be very hard for either the Iranians or U.S. troops to get at the material because his attack last June—a bomber raid on three sites encased inside a mountain—left the “nuclear dust” (as Trump called it) buried under heavy granite rubble.

“It was hit so hard,” Trump said, “the mountain literally collapsed on it.”

This seemed to startle Baier. “Why isn’t that good enough?” the host asked. “If your goal was to set back …”

“It is good enough,” Trump replied, “but you know what, it isn’t good enough public-relations-wise.”
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/fox-bret-baier-confonts-trump-123614176.html

This wasn’t a one-time gaffe. In a separate Fox interview, aired on Thursday, Trump said, “We have nine cameras on that site, on those three sites, 24 hours a day. We know exactly what’s happening. Nobody’s even gotten close to it.” If the Iranians did try to dig out the material, Trump could bomb the sites again.

One might infer, as Baier suggested in his Friday interview, that Iran’s nuclear ambitions are thus effectively contained. But then Trump went on, “I’d just feel better if I got it, actually”—that is, if he somehow removed, or if Iran agreed to remove, the uranium. Then he added, digging himself into a deeper hole: “But I think it’s more for public relations than it is for anything else.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-says-he-wants-iran-s-uraniu
m-mostly-for-public-relations/ar-AA23eeuZ?ocid=fujitsudhp

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Monday, May 18, 2026 8:30 PM

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You and the people who make the media you consume are a bunch of fucking losers.

You keep trying to repeat your lies 100 times per day and see if they stick anymore.

SPOILER ALERT: They don't.

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You and the people who make the media you consume are a bunch of fucking losers.

You keep trying to repeat your lies 100 times per day and see if they stick anymore.

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Trump Is Twisting In The Wind

By Trying To Seem Strong, Trump Is Projecting Weakness; Iran's Delcy Rodriguez Is Known And It Is A Doozy

Phillips P. OBrien
May 20, 2026

This was actually an interesting week because, supposedly, Trump almost did return to the air attack on Iran. He remains as he has been for months stuck. His blockade is not having the quick effect that he first hoped/thought and the Iranian regime is showing no flexibility in the negotiations. In some ways, of course, that means nothing has changed (as always). However that is not entirely true as Trump is getting so desperate and that is making him more erratic. As he twists in the wind like this, he could lash out, though waiting as he is makes that even more risky. Its a really dangerous dynamic.

Other stories that are worth noting this week are that the excuses Trump gave this time not to restart the bombing (other countries asked and the negotiations are going really well) are the exact same ones he has used now for almost two months. They are almost certainly making things worse as in his desire to project strength he is only underlining how weak his position really is. The final story is a quick one that just came out. We have some evidence of whom the US and Israel expected to play Delcy Rodriguez for Iran, and its a doozy.

Trump Is Twisting In The Wind

Trump really did try to convince others, and indeed maybe himself, that he was going to restart the bombing of Iran this week. The White House was spreading the story far and wide (many people at the security conference in Tallinn who have strong Washington connections said an attack was imminent). I also heard from someone else in Washington that it was going to happen that “there is nothing more dangerous than an old king”.

The reality is that Trump got cold feet. He was trying to work up the courage/craziness to go back to direct military attacks and in the end he (once again) blinked.

I suppose it is a good thing that Trump has not lost all sense. The problem is, that his desire to restart military action and then his last minute backing off shows a few things that are very worrying for the USA. I would list them as:

The US Government does now understand that the blockade will take much longer to work than Trump originally claimed. As far as I know, no Iranian oil wells have exploded because of the blockade. Yes, the Iranian government will undoubtedly be faced by an economic problem, but that is not going to have them immediately bend the knee and Trump seems to get that.

The US Government seems to understand that restarting bombing will stand only a very small chance of achieving any of Trump’s strategic aims—especially his big one which is to get a concession on the nuclear question enough to say he got a better deal than Obama under the JCPOA. If Trump believed that there would be any reasonable chance to achieve anything by bombing, he would take that risk. Clearly the odds are judged to be not high.

The markets no longer react to the President’s claims of possible success. For once the oil markets took Trump’s claims for the BS that they are. The price of oil (here is Brent Crude) had a tiny fall on May 18 when Trump tweeted, but immediately rose back to the level it was before he spoke. The fall did not last long enough for insider traders to cash in.

Much more, including Trump’s unhinged tweets, at https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/midweek-update-11-trump-is-twis
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Strait of Hormuz Live Tracker — Real-Time Shipping & Oil ...

Hormuz Strait Monitor

Live monitoring dashboard for the Strait of Hormuz crisis. Real-time ship transit counts, oil prices, stranded vessels, insurance premiums, throughput data, ...

https://hormuzstraitmonitor.com/

Today's traffic is 2% of normal. Since it is not 0.0%, the war must be over.
Trump calls that a total victory!

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Trump ignored warnings from defense experts [that Netanyahu was lying about nuclear bombs]

By Alex Henderson | May 20, 2026 07:37AM ET

https://www.alternet.org/trump-iran-robert-gates

. . . "Interviewed by CBS, he said that Netanyahu had told him, in July 2009, all the same things he had told Trump in the Situation Room in February. Gates said he had pushed back during that 'no-punches-pulled discussion' of Iran, telling Netanyahu he was underestimating the resilience of the Iranian regime. 'He was saying, in 2009: the regime is fragile, it'll crumble at the first attack, and they won't have time to do anything else.… I told him then, he was dead wrong.'"

Wood adds, "Netanyahu has — almost comically — been warning that Iran is weeks or months away from getting a nuclear bomb for decades."

Trump, Wood notes, "did not have to take Netanyahu's word" about Iran moving closer to developing a nuclear bomb."

"His own intelligence services contradicted the alarming claims," according to Wood. "Before last year's bombing, the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, told a Senate committee that the U.S. intelligence community 'continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader (Ayatollah Ali) Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program he suspended in 2003.' At the time, Trump declared, 'I don't care what she said. I think they were very close to having one.'"

Wood points out that CIA Director John Ratcliff dismissed Netanyahu's nuclear bomb claims as "farcical," while Secretary of State Marco Rubio called them "b– –."

"Carlson said he warned Trump that a war with Iran would destroy his presidency," Wood observes. "If it does, he has only himself to blame…. So far, in less than 18 months of his second term, Trump has bombed not only Iran, but also Yemen, Somalia, Nigeria and Venezuela. He has threatened to attack Cuba, Panama, Greenland and even Canada. Though Netanyahu may have manipulated Trump, he was only feeding Trump's deep desires. Whatever regrets he might have, Trump owns this war."

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U.S. bears brunt of Israel’s missile defense, Pentagon assessments show

May 21, 2026

https://attentiontotheunseen.com/2026/05/21/u-s-bears-brunt-of-israels
-missile-defense-pentagon-assessments-show/

The Washington Post reports:

The U.S. military has depleted much of its inventory of advanced missile-defense interceptors after expending far more high-end munitions defending Israel amid hostilities with Iran than Israeli forces used themselves, according to Defense Department assessments described to The Washington Post.

The imbalance, according to three U.S. officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive security matters, underscores the extent to which Washington has shouldered the burden of countering Iranian ballistic missile strikes during Operation Epic Fury, and raises questions about U.S. military readiness and security commitments around the world.

The United States launched more than 200 Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, interceptors in defense of Israel — roughly half of the Pentagon’s total inventory — along with more than 100 Standard Missile-3 and Standard Missile-6 interceptors fired from naval vessels in the eastern Mediterranean, said the U.S. officials, who, like others in this article, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive security matters. By contrast, Israel fired fewer than 100 of its Arrow interceptors and around 90 David’s Sling interceptors, some of which were used against less sophisticated projectiles fired by Iran-backed groups in Yemen and Lebanon.

Military analysts said the data described to The Post offers a rare window into how the United States and Israel work together.

“The numbers are striking,” said Kelly Grieco, a senior fellow at the Stimson Center. “The United States absorbed most of the missile defense mission while Israel conserved its own magazines. Even if the operational logic was sound, the United States is left with roughly 200 THAAD interceptors and a production line that can’t keep pace with demand.”

The shortage of U.S. interceptors has alarmed U.S. allies in Asia, particularly Japan and South Korea, which rely on the United States as a deterrent to potential threats from North Korea and China. “That bill risks coming due in theaters that have nothing to do with Iran,” said Grieco.

U.S. and Israeli officials routinely tout their close cooperation and the strength of Israel’s multilayered air-defense system. But the Defense Department assessments suggest a more lopsided dynamic.

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Trump’s Endgame Is Surrender

He seems to hope to slip away without Americans noticing the magnitude of this defeat.

By Robert Kagan | May 21, 2026, 4 PM ET

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2026/05/trump-surrender-iran
-endgame/687252/

The outlines of President Trump’s endgame in the Iran war are now emerging. In a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday, Trump reportedly explained that the United States was negotiating a “letter of intent” with Iran that would “formally end the war and launch a 30-day period of negotiations” on Iran’s nuclear program and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. The purpose and effect of such an agreement should be clear: The United States is walking away from the crisis. Trump may launch another limited strike to look tough and satisfy the demands of the war’s supporters, but it would be a performative gesture. Endgame in this case is a euphemism for “surrender.”

Trump has blinked many times in the confrontation with Iran—ever since March 18, when Israel attacked the Pars gas field and Iran retaliated with a strike against Qatar’s most important natural-gas-production facility. Trump then called for a halt on U.S. and Israeli targeting of Iran’s energy infrastructure, and the war effectively ended.

Trump’s repeated threats to resume attacks since then have proved to be bluffs. The leaders in Tehran have been calculating for two months that Trump would not launch another attack, and for this reason they have made no concessions despite the damage they suffered from 37 days of relentless strikes. On the contrary, their terms for a settlement are those of a victor: They demand war reparations, no limits on uranium enrichment, recognized control of the strait, and an end to sanctions.

For Trump to respond to this defiance by now calling for another 30 days of cease-fire and talks is a tacit admission of defeat. If he does launch a performative attack in the next few days, the Iranians will understand it for what it is. No one believes that he is going to resume a full-scale war a month from now. Among other reasons, with 30 more days to heal, rearm, and fill its coffers with tolls, Iran will be a more formidable adversary.

In 30 days, moreover, the new Iranian strait regime may already be firmly in place. As the Institute for the Study of War reports, Iran has been using the cease-fire period to “normalize” its control over the strait by “compelling oil-importing countries” to establish transit agreements with Tehran and charging fees on vessels from nations without such deals. According to Iranian officials, the new strait regime will give Iran’s strategic partners, such as Russia and China, priority and allow nations friendly to Iran, such as India and Pakistan, to negotiate their own transit agreements. Vessels associated with nations that Iran regards as an adversary will be denied access to the strait entirely.

Several nations, including South Korea, Turkey, and Iraq, are reportedly already negotiating at least temporary transit agreements. Now that Trump has made clear he has no intention of fighting to reopen the strait, the stampede to get good terms with Tehran will begin. All nations heavily dependent on energy from the Persian Gulf will want to cut their deal quickly to get the oil and gas and other commodities flowing and rescue their battered economy. Those nations currently allied with the United States and friendly to Israel will feel pressure to distance themselves and make their peace with Iran. The international sanctions against Iran will collapse, and even more money will pour into the country’s accounts as its newly central role in the global economy becomes normalized. By the end of 30 days, most of the world will have a stake in the new arrangement and will oppose any resumption of hostilities, even in the unlikely event that Trump wanted to go back to war.

Trump no doubt hopes that he can slip away without Americans noticing the magnitude of this defeat. The financial markets may stabilize if it is clear that oil will eventually start flowing again through a reopened strait, even if under the new Iran-controlled system. A major strategic setback for the United States need not affect Wall Street. The president may also hope that he can change the subject by launching another military operation, this time against the government in Cuba. And the news media have indeed begun writing more about Cuba than about the unfolding disaster in Iran.

According to one U.S. official, Netanyahu’s “hair was on fire” after the call with Trump—for good reason. The Iran war may end up as the single most devastating blow to Israel’s security in its brief history. On the present trajectory, Iran will emerge from the conflict many times stronger and more influential than it was before the war. It will exercise leverage with dozens of the richest nations in the world, all of which will have an acute interest in keeping Iran happy. They will be unlikely to take Israel’s side in any conflict that it has with Tehran or with its proxies in Lebanon and Gaza, because Iran will have the means to punish them if they do. Israel will emerge more isolated than it has been at any time in its history—and not least from its only reliable protector, the United States. When Trump turns his back on Israel, as he must do to implement this policy, MAGA will gladly follow. The bipartisan anti-Israel consensus in the United States will grow and harden.

Will Israel go gentle into this good night? That is the wild card that may disrupt the financial markets’ dreams of a new stability in the Gulf. A stronger, richer, more influential Iran will mean new life for Hamas and Hezbollah. It will mean the end of the Abraham Accords, as the Gulf States will have to make their own peace with Tehran so that their economies can survive. Trump says that Netanyahu “will do whatever I want him to do.” But can Israel stand by while Iran replaces the United States as the arbiter of power in the region?

Most likely, the new normal in the Persian Gulf will be chronic instability and frequent disruptions in shipping. That’s what happens when the hegemon cedes hegemony.

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Donald J. Trump 11/29/11 In order to get elected, @BarackObama will start a war with Iran.

Donald J. Trump 1/17/12 @BarackObama will attack Iran in order to get re-elected.

Donald J. Trump 9/16/13 I predict that President Obama will at some point attack Iran in order to save face!

Donald J. Trump 11/10/13 Remember that I predicted a long time ago that President Obama will attack Iran because of his inability to negotiate properly – not skilled!

Every accusation is either an admission of guilt or something he plans to do.

Between 2011 and 2013, Donald J. Trump made multiple statements predicting that then-President Barack Obama would attack or start a war with Iran. He repeatedly claimed that Obama would use military conflict as a political distraction to win re-election, save face, or compensate for perceived poor negotiation skills. These predictions did not materialize during the Obama administration. Former President Obama never launched an attack on Iran, but instead pursued diplomatic negotiations that culminated in the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear agreement.

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Friday, May 22, 2026 3:40 PM

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I remember when Barack Obama ran on ending the Electoral College, and then immediately told you that wasn't important after he was sworn in.

So what. Go fuck yourself, stupid.

You've got the brain of a 6th grader, zero ability for critical thinking, and you're completely incapable of holding two conflicting ideas in your hands at one time. That's why propaganda works so well on you every day.

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Friday, May 22, 2026 3:43 PM

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You and the people who make the media you consume are a bunch of fucking losers.

You keep trying to repeat your lies 100 times per day and see if they stick anymore.

SPOILER ALERT: They don't.

But you go right ahead and knock yourself out, loser.

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The media is repeating Trump's words. The lies are Trump's.

Yup. Just like the media repeated Trump's words in Charlottesville.

That's called soundbytes. And they're all taken out of context. Always.

You are a moron and not worth having any discussion with.

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Why Trump Lost

The president failed to deliver on his Iran bluster, and in the end fooled only himself.

By David Frum | May 24, 2026, 10:45 AM ET

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/05/why-trump-lost-iran/68729
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The first surprising thing about President Trump’s impending defeat in the 2026 Iran war is that he already fought and won a successful war against Iran last year. In June 2025, U.S. and Israeli air strikes badly damaged the Iranian nuclear program in 12 days of bombardment. Exactly how badly remains controversial. But they didn’t do nothing. If Trump had quit while ahead, he could have banked his gains from last June as a solid if imperfect win.

The second surprising thing about Trump’s impending defeat is that he does not seem to have cared at all about the only evident reason to resume fighting in 2026: the Iranian people’s rebellion against their brutal oppressors. Trump has never given any evidence of caring about Iranian democracy or human rights. He promised the Iranian people “Help is on the way” on January 13, but military operations did not commence until thousands were dead and the rebellion was already effectively crushed. During military operations, Trump made clear that he sought a deal with the existing regime. He made no effort to support or cooperate with Iranian dissidents before, during, or after the uprising.

The third surprising thing about Trump’s impending defeat is that even he himself seems never to have understood why he went back to war against Iran. What exactly did he think he would achieve? He kept saying that he wanted to ensure that Iran never developed a nuclear weapon. He also insisted that he had effectively prevented it from doing so in August. He seemed genuinely to believe that claim. If so, why resume the fighting? If, however, those words were wrong, then why not simply hit the nuclear sites again? Why the need for this bigger war?

Trump started the February 28 war for reasons of personality, not strategy. He is on his way to losing the war for the same reasons of personality.

Trump is arrogant. Think how often Trump mocks his predecessors as “dumb” and praises himself as “smart.” Those predecessors, from Jimmy Carter through Ronald Reagan to Joe Biden, all had to ponder military responses to Iranian terrorism and aggression. They all ultimately decided not to wage a major war against Iranian national territory. Among the prime deterrents to action: the Strait of Hormuz problem. Trump apparently decided that a problem that was too hard for everybody else would magically disappear for him, because he is tough and growls in his official photographs.

Trump is reckless. Trump is not a plan-ahead guy. He plunges into desperate adventures without any clear endgame in mind. What really was Trump’s plan on January 6, 2021? After Mike Pence was seized by rioters and forced at gunpoint to recite the magic words Trump wanted him to say, what was supposed to happen then? The 81 million American majority who’d voted against Trump in 2020 would submit? The military, CIA, and FBI would follow blatantly illegal orders? In 2021, Trump provoked violence and hoped it would all somehow work out. He followed the same approach again in 2026.

Trump hates procedure. A lot of the apparatus of the modern presidency exists to force confrontations with unwelcome realities. Cabinet officers are confirmed by the Senate to assure the country that major offices are filled by people of character and competence. The National Security Council is supposed to process challenging data to ensure that the president receives necessary information. But to run the Department of Defense, Trump nominated and the Senate approved Pete Hegseth. Instead of choosing a national security adviser to replace Mike Waltz after Waltz’s resignation on May 1, 2025, Trump tapped Secretary of State Marco Rubio to take on the role. But to double up that particular job dooms the job not to be done at all, especially because Trump has shriveled the NSC’s staff and subjected it to loyalty tests demanded by his most screwball supporters.

Trump is panicky. For all his bluster and boasting, Trump cannot take the heat. Presidents who believe in their decisions ride out bad polls. Trump panics and reverses course. Trump has been signaling since mid-March that he wants an end to the Iran war at almost any price. The Iranians have read those signals. For all the damage the U.S. military inflicted on Iran, the Iranians seem to have gambled that they could outlast Trump. They’ve been proven right.

Trump is gullible. As Trump’s present secretary of state observed back in 2016, Trump is most fundamentally a con artist. But Trump is often a self-defeating con artist who falls victim to his own con. Trump demanded “unconditional surrender” from Iran. Instead, he’s negotiating an exit that concedes most of Iran’s demands and leaves Iran in a more dominant position over Persian Gulf oil traffic than it occupied before the war. But Trump seems genuinely to have convinced himself that he’s won a mighty victory, and he seems truly baffled that others decline to endorse his flim-flam.

Trump can’t lead. Trump’s method of governance is command. He cannot work across party lines, and he cannot speak to any part of the American nation beyond his MAGA base. A war leader, however, must be a national leader. War imposes costly sacrifices. Leaders who take the nation to war must explain those costs and inspire those sacrifices. Trump simply cannot do any of that work, and he has no idea how it could be done.

For three years in his first term, Trump benefited from the strong economy that he inherited. Then the pandemic struck, and his first instinct was to hunt for someone to blame. In this second presidency, his main work has been spectacular self-enrichment, even as the economy has sagged under the weight of his catastrophic trade wars. He made no case for an Iran war to the public and never sought approval by Congress. There are some Iran hawks on the Democratic side, especially in the Senate. Trump never tried to ally with them.

Trump’s vision of the presidency is authoritarian and kleptocratic: Issue orders, grab money, luxuriate in flattery, erect monuments to oneself. That’s no way to lead a nation through the hazards and difficulties of war. Now the war is ending on disadvantageous terms for the United States. Trump’s old methods will be turned to a new task: trying to deceive the American people and the world into believing that the war he lost was really a big win, the biggest ever, so big you cannot believe it. He’s likely to discover that, indeed, nobody does believe it.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Monday, May 25, 2026 8:02 AM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I remember when Barack Obama ran on ending the Electoral College, and then immediately told you that wasn't important after he was sworn in.

So what. Go fuck yourself, stupid.

You've got the brain of a 6th grader, zero ability for critical thinking, and you're completely incapable of holding two conflicting ideas in your hands at one time. That's why propaganda works so well on you every day.

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Just checking if you got the story right. You didn't, but that is not surprising from a Trumptard. Trump twists facts out of shape, and so do his followers:

Barack Obama famously supported eliminating the Electoral College during his time as an Illinois state senator, notably stating during a 2004 debate that the system was breaking down. However, as he transitioned into the presidency, he never actively pursued its abolition. He addressed this shift in perspective directly during a December 2016 press conference. When asked about reforming the Electoral College, he acknowledged its drawbacks but explained that changing it was not an actionable priority. He cited the following reasons: Massive Constitutional Hurdles: Abolishing the system entirely would require a difficult constitutional amendment (requiring a two-thirds vote in Congress and ratification by 38 states).Priorities in Office: During his terms, he focused his political capital on issues like the Affordable Care Act, economic recovery, and other legislative priorities rather than structural constitutional reform. Ultimately, he noted that if the popular vote and Electoral College align, the system functions as designed without widespread public outcry, though he acknowledged it puts a premium on swing states.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Monday, May 25, 2026 2:35 PM

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Why Hasn’t Oil Hit $150?

By Robert Rapier - May 25, 2026, 9:00 AM CDT

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Why-Hasnt-Oil-Hit-150.html

Global oil inventories and floating storage have acted as temporary shock absorbers against the Hormuz disruption.

OPEC spare capacity has stabilized markets, but it cannot fully replace lost Persian Gulf exports indefinitely.

Prolonged disruption could eventually exhaust market buffers and trigger a much sharper oil price surge.

The Market’s Hidden Shock Absorbers

The biggest reason the oil market hasn’t reacted more violently to the Strait of Hormuz closure is simple: the world entered this crisis with more inventory than many analysts appreciated. Those barrels have acted as a shock absorber. They don’t eliminate the problem. They just delay it.

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Monday, May 25, 2026 6:32 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Awwwwwwwwwww...

You sound disappointed, bitch.

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Monday, May 25, 2026 6:35 PM

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Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I remember when Barack Obama ran on ending the Electoral College, and then immediately told you that wasn't important after he was sworn in.

So what. Go fuck yourself, stupid.

You've got the brain of a 6th grader, zero ability for critical thinking, and you're completely incapable of holding two conflicting ideas in your hands at one time. That's why propaganda works so well on you every day.

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Be Evil. Be a dick.
Just checking if you got the story right. You didn't, but that is not surprising from a Trumptard. Trump twists facts out of shape, and so do his followers:

Barack Obama famously supported eliminating the Electoral College during his time as an Illinois state senator, notably stating during a 2004 debate that the system was breaking down. However, as he transitioned into the presidency, he never actively pursued its abolition. He addressed this shift in perspective directly during a December 2016 press conference. When asked about reforming the Electoral College, he acknowledged its drawbacks but explained that changing it was not an actionable priority. He cited the following reasons: Massive Constitutional Hurdles: Abolishing the system entirely would require a difficult constitutional amendment (requiring a two-thirds vote in Congress and ratification by 38 states).Priorities in Office: During his terms, he focused his political capital on issues like the Affordable Care Act, economic recovery, and other legislative priorities rather than structural constitutional reform. Ultimately, he noted that if the popular vote and Electoral College align, the system functions as designed without widespread public outcry, though he acknowledged it puts a premium on swing states.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

I'm not complaining about what he didn't do after the fact, and I'm not suggesting that you do either.

What you should be pissed about is that he knew full fucking well that it was NEVER, EVER going to happen, but just like all of your chronic lying Democrats do, he ran hard as hell on the "fact" that it was going to be a top priority for his administration.

They get away with doing that every election. Over and over and over and overa again..

Because you are fucking stupid.

So don't talk to me about politicians who don't keep their promises if you're only ever going to talk about Trump.

Show me a politician that doesn't renege on most of their promises and I'll show you a fucking unicorn.
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Tuesday, May 26, 2026 2:59 PM

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‘Worse than Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan Combined’:
Donald Trump faces a political crisis like no other if Hormuz isn’t opened by Labor Day

By Harry J. Kazianis | May 26, 2026

https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/worse-than-vietnam-iraq-and-afghan
istan-combined-donald-trump-faces-a-political-crisis-like-no-other-if-hormuz-isnt-opened-by-labor-day/

Labor Day 2026 falls on September 7. From today’s date, May 26, that is 14 weeks away. The Strait of Hormuz has been effectively closed to normal commercial traffic since the opening of Operation Epic Fury on February 28, which means we are already at the 13 week mark of a disruption that energy analysts originally modeled as the worst-case sustained closure scenario.

If the strait remains effectively closed through Labor Day, the United States will be at the twenty-seven-week mark of disruption — more than double the duration the global oil market was designed to withstand without permanent damage. The SPR (U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve) would be at the lowest level in more than three decades. Brent would likely trade well above $130 per barrel under that scenario, with the upside ceiling energy analysts have circulated at $175 per barrel, representing sustained physical scarcity rather than a financial market panic. Gasoline at American pumps would reach $5.50 to $6.00 per gallon. Inflation, already running at 4.5 percent PCE through Q1, would accelerate sharply again. The Federal Reserve would face the choice of either tightening monetary policy into an active oil shock or accepting the kind of sustained price increases that produced the political destruction of the Carter administration in 1979 and 1980.

But, to be frank, the above is a more optimistic scenario. Some experts I have talked to are firmly convinced that if we get to Labor Day and there is no deal to open the Strait, a deep recession is very possible. These experts believe we will draw down the SPR much faster, creating an energy crisis we could only dream of. Think 1970s gas lines sort of stuff.

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Tuesday, May 26, 2026 4:38 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Maybe we'd take your warnings seriously if you didn't scream your fucking heads off all day, every day about every little tiny thing.

You're almost always wrong about everything too, so there's that.

Nobody cares about your opinions, Second, or those of the idiot assholes you get them from.

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Wednesday, May 27, 2026 8:05 AM

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The Military Strikes Do Not Hide The Fact That The US Has No Good Military Options Against Iran

Phillips P. OBrien
May 27, 2026

https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/midweek-update-12-we-are-witnes
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Will Trump get some form of words from Iran about a nuclear deal that he can sell to the US population as better than that negotiated by President Obama under the JCPOA? The problem is that nothing he is getting so far, as he seems to grasp, is as good as the JCPOA. As such, it seems to be dawning on him that he might have to accept a deal that leaves Iran in control of its nuclear destiny. He even tweeted about it late on Monday in what looks like a clear attempt to prepare his supporters for this eventuality.

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
The Enriched Uranium (Nuclear Dust!) will either be immediately turned over to the United States to be brought home and destroyed or, preferably, in conjunction and coordination with the Islamic Republic of Iran, destroyed in place or, at another acceptable location, with the Atomic Energy Commission, or its equivalent, being witness to this process and event. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DJT

Anything “destroyed in place or, an another acceptable location” means out of US control—nothing more or nothing less. Maybe Putin’s Russia will do? It certainly would qualify under Trump’s criterion.

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Trump called on almost all the Arab states in the region to agree to join the Abraham Accords and recognize Israel.

It was the reaction, or lack thereof, that was really illuminating of US decline. Trump did not just tweet this; he was very serious about it and mentioned it in a conference call to the leaders of key Islamic states. The response of those leaders was stunned silence, so much so that Trump was worried that the call had been dropped. As one story said:

“There was silence on the line and Trump joked and asked if they are still there”

Since then, not a single state has agreed to Trump’s request and no one even seems to be taking it seriously. The truth is that the states Trump was trying to cajole into joining the Abraham Accords are now more than acquainted with US weakness and unreliability. The last thing they are going to do is jump to the tune of a declining US that is being outmaneuvered by Iran. It used to be that when the US president suggested a major foreign policy move, people would at least respond.

The US is being defied by its enemies and dismissed by its friends and it is all happening in front of our eyes.

https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/midweek-update-12-we-are-witnes
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