Allies know nothing of Trump’s statements yesterday. Meanwhile, note bond yield breakout. 
Garbage Proposal Revisited
Yesterday’s Lies Exposed
How Many Days Does Iran Have?
Who’s Begging for Deal?
Circular BS
Iran is not begging for a deal. Trump is, sort of. It’s circular BS for going on two months.
Trump keeps making demands without offering anything. And Iran has no reason to believe what the world’s biggest liar says anyway.
“Find out soon” has been Trump’s constant message for weeks.
The ceasefire between the United States and Iran h began on April 8. It has been extended indefinitely by President Trump. Originally a two-week agreement, it was extended to allow for continued negotiations, though it remains on “life support” due to ongoing violations and tensions in the region.
It’s been on life support for weeks, And yesterday Trump cited progress on a deal. He has cited progress for weeks.
There Are No Miracles
Iran is used to this bluff.
Trump is afraid of war actually. He’s also afraid of a deal that makes him look weak.
So Trump sits paralyzed as the price of oil and bond yields soar.
Paralysis in Trump’s words.
Trump cannot even make up his mind now (not that he was ever believable).
Wait a second. In a matter of hours, two or three days (or whatever) is now “soon” whatever the hell that means.
Is this strategic ambiguity or strategic stupidity?
In case you missed it, please see Lacy Hunt, a Bond Bull for 44 Years, Now Forecasts Higher Inflation
“I did not have this on my bingo card,” quipped John Mauldin.
Also note Trump Rages at the Media Because He Has No Solution for Iran
Credit Jim Bianco at Bianco Research for the best analysis of the day.
For good measure, please consider Ground Beef Soars to $6.90 per Pound. Trump Has No Winning Actions
Trump is boxed in on agriculture and the War in Iran.
But that’s OK because it’s a small price to pay to prevent Iran from getting what we already said we prevented.
This is not sustainable. Seeing as no one in the US has the balls to halt this nonsense, someone either jointly or severally, are going to have to step in and do something. China, Russia, et al.
pointing out Trump lies is a waste of time. The media should report when Trump tell the truth.
Unbelievable … waste of time …
Now that Massie has lost his primary, Trump’s belief that Republicans are behind him on Iran will be reinforced. He’ll listen even more closely to the neocons and Israel lobby and launch new attacks on Iran. More cowbell. $8 gas here we come.
Trump has no off ramp and save face. He has no options but leave W. Asia with the Eagle’s feathers pulled and its talons clipped.
He embarrassed the US in China. Xi said no to his beggar bowl entreaties.
Every 21st president has told BiBi no about directly attacking Iran including incurios George.
Iran has won
The US has lost.
Trump has no allies except genocidal Israel.
What Republican can tell the emperor he has no clothes? None to his face.
Despite the Roberts Court gutting the Voting Rights Act by ignoring the amended 1982 Sec 2 of said act , the GOP will lose the House and the Senate this fall. How? The same way the Dems lost in 2020 -INFLATION.
The GCC except the UAE has dumped Trump. Europe has dumped Trump.
How long before the US plutocrats do the same?
Why would the plutocrats do that? They are happy with Trump. He is giving them the wars they crave, giving them fat government contracts and tax cuts, and he is allowing them to loot openly.
Because Trump is a tool of the plutocrats and his Iran War sponsored by the American Zionist lobby will cost the non Zionist plutocrats money after the US enters a recession or depression.
Floundering
He will flounder ever more as a maelstrom of events drags him along
Iran’s plan is simplicity itself: ‘Let’s stop the hostility’
It’s seriously too late. November electrions are months away and then so what? It’ll be another two months until anthing happens. At the rate the crime family is pillaging the US treasury there may literally be 0 dollars left! (Don’t believe me? $i.7 billion gone in what 3 days?)I don’t know what it will take to wake people up but it is going to most likely be something catastrophic. Trump doesn’t really care about America, only enriching himself. I am guessing we pay a steep, steep price.
My bet is that Trump does nothing until either Israel or some other agent forces his hand. He knows he holds the losing hand and has no good moves left so he is effectively paralyzed until someone or something forces him to act. Israel would appear to be the most likely to force an outcome.
Longer it goes on, the higher the price the GOP is likely to pay at the polls in November. As we know, this won’t be undone in a day, even if things are undone in literally a day.
It amazes me that he is still in office. The daily lying from the supposedly most important individual on the planet. Meanwhile his self dealing and outright corruption is on display – stock trading, cronyism, scams (crypto, phones, bibles etc) and absolute disregard for the law or any institution should rule him unfit. But instead the American public laps it up and says it’s better than the brown woman with the annoying laugh.
They’ll never invoke the 25th, Democrats are useless and won’t impeach and if they do the Senate won’t convict. Republicans are totally corrupt and are on their knees. That leaves an American super patriot or group who will reach the end of their patience and save the USA…..maybe. I wish it could be me, but that’s not possible, but if I get on that jury he/she will never be convicted….lol.
I would give my life in an instant if I knew it would roll us back to change the 2016 election outcome and run this sim once more. Not so I could have Hillary elected, but to avoid the damage wrought by Trump
I never thought this many Americans would passively tolerate or even cheer on such reckless rule, especially after claiming that Biden was so awful. He did not undo decades of relationships internationally, and threaten global pandemonium over his need to fellate his ego.
Find out, after these messages!
Time to lock in those high rates, this won’t last forever, no point in waiting. You know what they say, bears make money and so on.
It’s amazing to me that news even presents his demented utterances with a straight face anymore. It’s clear that he’s confabulating all of these phantom “negotiations.” All the better to juice the markets I guess.
The US MSM are stenographers. They are not journalists.
It may just end up being a game of who can tolerate the pain better while they are in this interregnum phase
Which country uses more pain killers per capita?
Trump called for a ceasefire after the bombing run failed in February. He knew he lost then. He’s been bluffing since. Iran has called his bluff. So much for the art of the deal.Iran has won the propaganda war and has most of the support of the Global South, China, Russia, and soon Japan,S.Korea, W.Europe, India, etc.,when they enter into a recession
The longer the quagmire the higher the price to pay.
Trump is a loser and can’t even declare “We Win” lately.
The biggest loser of all is Netanyahu / Israel.
BB is the sole responsible person of this war.
BB and the right-wing government is leading the country to the very dangerous situation.
Israel without US support in ME can’t be hegemonic.
Idk if he’s such a loser, he’s been using his time to decimate his neighbors without people really paying attention.
He is an actor following a script from Israel and Fox News with encouragement to follow the WWF’s format of suspended disbelief.
Ya don’t see any fact checking from our Israeli owned news networks or investigative reporting, just entertainment or advertisements for drugs and foods that make you need them.
I have said it before and it is worth stating again and again, Donald Trump has always gaslighted the press, his vendors, his employees, his banks, and of course his wives. Those who put him in office had to know that this is just who he is and that given the most powerful office in the world, he will gaslight voters, citizens, judges, politicians, diplomats, allies, and foes. He is unable to go toe to toe with anyone and play by the normal rules of negotiation. He only knows how to gaslight, threaten, and blackmail in order to get the person on the other side to capitulate. There is no such thing as win/win or even lose/lose, there is only win/lose and he will do anything to be seen as the winner, even if he has to recreate history in his mind and gaslight anyone who will listen to him to cast himself as the winner, in spite of actually being the loser.
He keep doing this and even become more brazen about it as long as he feels that he can get away with it. He has no conscious or moral compass to reign in his natural impulses.
You forgot to add his rape accusers to that list of those he gaslights. E Jean Carroll successfully took him to court for it. There are at least 28 others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_sexual_misconduct_allegations
Great catch! It is just an exhaustive list. It is inconceivable to me that a person, who has been given life on a silver platter is so self absorbed, thin skinned and vindictive from the beginning and these qualities only get more extreme as he matures. Worse is that the entire world must cope with this endless abuse that this man puts us all through.
Little Geoffrey Baratheon is all grown up.
What allies?
Even the hairdo has abandoned him.
At some point as economies shut down they will have to join one side or the other. Which may lead to ww3 and the end of days.
Its a three way religious war.
The gerrymander is just the start. The more unpopular trump becomes the more ugly the elections will get.
Ps there are still a bunch of true belivers who are buying what he says hook line and dinker.
Is there such thing as Stupid Clensing?
No i feel like were in the movie idiocracy. Where the smart people quit having kids and the dumb did not.
I was thinking about WWIII earlier today. I realized my opinion is that it most liekly began recently, per the future history books.
Trump needs some heifers. In the worst way. Pregnant heifers would be best. Could Iran offer him some knocked-up heifers for peace? Like 300 head of pregnant heifers?
What the actual fu<k? Someone is having their account churned.
President Donald Trump‘s first-quarter 2026 ethics filing reads less like a disclosure form and more like a trading floor transcript.
A newly released Office of Government Ethics (OGE) filing shows Trump’s portfolio executed 3,642 securities transactions in Q1 — roughly 58 trades for every U.S. trading day in the quarter.
https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/trumps-trading-disclosure-shows-activity-003125567.html?guccounter=1
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/how-corrupt-is-trump-here-are-the-numbers-trades-chips-nvidia-pardons-settlement-fund
It must be Tuesday.
I agree with many here, there is no way out for the orange clown. The damage to America will be pretty epic. I suspect, honestly, this is America’s last hurrah.
With Xi’s Thucydides Trap comment, the writing is in the wall for all to see.
2026/2027 will be the point of no return for this American Empire. How we deal with this will decide our future. I think England managed it very well considering. USSR did not.
How Corrupt Is Trump? Here Are the Numbers.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/how-corrupt-is-trump-here-are-the-numbers-trades-chips-nvidia-pardons-settlement-fund
Taco has lied and cheated so much that he doesn’t know the difference. Amazing how he is defrauded the government and putting the screws to those who voted for him. The only other president this country has had that rates at the bottom with taco was LBJ.
Trump Backs Ken Paxton In Texas Senate Race
The president’s endorsement is a blow to longtime Sen. John Cornyn, whom Senate Republicans had begged Trump to support.
In all fairness, Cornyn is a warmongering tool. But Paxton…
Is a corrupt, religious nutcase POS.
Twiddle Dee and Tweedle Dum.
Is ENERGY the Silver or GOLD?
In the original text, the silver slippers (representing the free coinage of silver) paired with the Yellow Brick Road (the gold standard) created a bimetallic monetary system. Theorists argue the story reflects the clash between agrarian populists and industrial capitalists:
The Wizard of Oz Is Actually About MONEY?! #shorts
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=youtube+wizard+of+oz+silver#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:e0683a0d,vid:ekBuzkvB9sc,st:0
In 1893, the use of silver in addition to gold as currency was the defining economic and political crisis of the era. The United States was shifting away from a bimetallic standard to a strict gold standard, triggering the Panic of 1893.
The struggle between pro-silver and pro-gold factions in 1893 fundamentally shaped American monetary policy:
TACO painted himself into a corner in a classic catch-22. A war will likely turn into a Vietnam with 50k+ US soldiers killed and Iran blowing up their neighbors oil production and this all ending Afghanistan style with nothing changing in the end.
Iran has a population of 92 million, even if only 10% fought for their country, that’s 9.2 million soldiers, young and more fit. Meanwhile, the US raises the draft age to 42 and most of those people are obese.
Two more weeks and the howls will be heard on the moons of Jupiter….two weeks. The bond yields and oil prices are the choir.
2-star Mishelin award issues on this post.
> Meanwhile, the US raises the draft age to 42 and most of those people are obese.
Plus 99% jabbed & boostered with the highly toxic experimental modRNA bioweapon resulting in 15% of the guinea pigs being long term vaccine damaged. This is the average observed in most countries these days though of course this figure will never be published in any narrative media.
Reminiscent of the 250k US armed forces vaccine damaged by the Anthrax jab, weakly camouflaged as “Gulf Syndrome” at the time.
“Long Covid”, anyone?
Already discussed at length in the 1977 “Vaccination – The Silent Killer” publication by MacBean and Honorof, page 41 chapter heading reading “Medical Treachery in US Army Camps”.
Copy, rinse and paste. They never learn.
…and many of them are kooks,
I’ve seen 2 weeks in Europe, closer to 6 for the US. But I don’t have access to solid numbers.
Oh so if Europe falls the US will be totally insulated? Lol. It don’t work that way bud. For all the talk about de-coupling from China for the past 20 years, there’s hardly been any change.
Sure China now routes their stuff through Vietnam, Mexico or wherever so it looks like things have changed but it hasn’t. Just look at BYD taking over the world and largely in part because of the orange clown accelerating the ascension.
In 2 weeks serious oil shortages will cause problems EVERYWHERE. Price will soar, the global economy will tank. Don’t be surprised if store shelves start going empty.
And then we’re heading into hurricane season too on top of all that, oh boy. The panic will be YUGE! The profits will be amazing!
There is No Way Out for TRUMP . . . the sooner he realizes this the quicker this stupidty will be over . . . The lose Cannon is the possibility of Israel going Nuclear to save itself . . .
Going nuclear will be the end of Israel.
Or just do nothing blame the dems and let things work itself out to the next disaster
Trump is doing himself, and the world, a disservice by not leaving the region. He just need to slink out of the region quietly and “declare victory”, then never comment on the matter again.
meanwhile: Trump envoy hands out MAGA hats to Greenland kids — and gets middle fingers in return
Donald is a constant Liar Liar but I don’t notice his pants on Fire? So the probable answer? Fireproof pants are specially designed garments made from materials that resist ignition and prevent flames from spreading.
The circularity of all this seems to suggest Trump is either (1) stupid or waiting for something to happen: (1) Iran to cave, (2) allies cave and join, (3) that non-allies convince Iran to fold, or (4) waiting on his military to come up with a plan he can sign off on.
I don’t believe Trump is so stupid as not to understand how his actions are hurting the world thus I believe Trump is waiting on something. What? I’m not too sure, but it has now gotten to the point that even markets aren’t responding to his BS.
It’s clear at this point that Iran isn’t gonna bow to Trump so if Trump doesn’t intend to attack he shouldn’t keep on threatening Iran. The problem with what he is doing (threatening) is that he’ll have to go through with attacking Iran even if he doesn’t want to just to gain credibility. And that’s a very sad situation to be in, and a very sad situation for the world including Americans.
I did read reports that China accepted to take the nuclear material, but Iran refused. I also read that Iran has dug out all its missiles that were buried by The US and moved them to different parts of the country; and I have also read that Iran has gained the ability to now track air threats which means they can easily shoot down planes.
I’ll be shocked if Trump actually attacks this month (I was really expecting June or July), but given how the Eastern world is dictating the terms of this situation and aiding Iran (Russia and China) he just might thinking he’d send the East a message. And in the end, should he be thinking this, he’ll still fail in taking down Iran and meeting the objectives of why he did this in the first place (unless he uses the nuclear option).
A musical ode to Trump and his verbal diarrhea: https://youtu.be/HmrGnOe-LVs
Note I’m not advocating anything bad to happen it’s more exhaustion from it all and the whiplash of his constant 180 turns.
Trump is stupid in the sense that he’s lost all of his bearings and is in the echo chamber of his own mind. Its the same as being stupid
We have a system to correct for this (congress) but political corruption has become so bad that the empire suffers. Not sure we can get out of this mess – history is not kind
Sitting in an echo chamber suggests cognitive dissonance, perhaps delusional tendencies, or maybe even willful ignorance.
Everyone of these require that they be chosen as a way to respond to things one refuses to believe. Thus because it’s a choice it doesn’t fall under the title of stupidity IMO.
But how can one square choices made which are bad, and thus refered to as being stupid? These are CHOICES which mimic stupidity, and thus don’t reflect the definition of a diminished cognitive capacity, again IMO.
You forgot option 5: maximize chaos and destruction of West following instructions from NWO “ordo ab chao” psychopaths controlling the game from the background, with their centuries old “masters of the world” hallucination finally within reach, with military-pharmaceutical complex successfully reducing world population while rounding up survivors in digital enslavement program courtesy of other group of psychopath oligarchs circling around Zion Don and their massive AI /data center investment as if there is no tomorrow.
The most interesting thing about the data centers, ai, and the coming digital enslavement is: how is this to work when nukes start dropping or an emp goes off?
That’s the thing about chaos – no one is in control of what happens. So IMO the idea that a single group of humans will be able to control the outcome is looney toons.
That said I do believe such groups exist, that is groups who think they can control the outcomes of chaos. But they’ve failed at every injection point since ww2: North Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan to name a few. Given those examples it seems they have to keep injecting chaos to control the chaos as the chaos spreads wider and deeper just to inject chaos?
It’s an example of failure, not control, and Iran is the biggest proof of this fact.
Agree that once the simulation has gone completely of control there’s no orderly way back.
Those who tried playing God in the past all went up in flames. Won’t be different this time around.
Transhumanist loonies on their way to hell or eternal suspension in grey matter whatever is worse. We need to stay optimistic.
Attacking Iran again and not achieving anything by it will be a worse humiliation. Imagine Trump bombing again, and Iran taking out Saudi Arabia’s pipeline to the Red Sea. Gas prices jump and Iran just makes its demands even worse and more humiliating. Trump is royally f’ed. Possibly the worst self-own in modern history.
Those in power see the world differently from those with no power. They literally can say (and do) things that are untrue or void from reality and people will support their claims. So much so historians end up writing fiction and not the truth.
You look at Trump stating that he doesn’t think about the financial situation of Americans, much less the world, is in due to the situation in Iran. “Not even a little bit,” Trump said. And he said this proudly as he redirected the focus on not allowing Iran to obtain nukes.
Trump can say things like this, and engage in war with another country and not feel anything because he’s never lived a life without power, money or influence. Therefore, I doubt Trump would feel any humiliation if he started to bomb Iran again. In fact he’d revel in the fact that he’s doing god’s work, and I’m sure there will be historians that will push this narrative.
Well if the Gulf nations decide to break away from their alliance with Israel/USA and become neutral as in closing airspace… then how is Trump going to attack? 100% carrier based?
One can’t be sure, but it seems that all the US bases in the Gulf have been severely damaged or destroyed, with US soldiers hiding out in hotels. So 100% carrier based may already be the case.
Does not matter the plan is for the US/EU/Israel to decline and BRICS+ to rise.
Ukraine eats money and Russia/China test new weapons, strategies, and train fighters native and foreign like NK.
Iran eats money tests new weapons and breaks confidence in western defense.
Look at the biggest picture not the tiny slices being offered.
The world realigned and few noticed nor cared.
The world hasn’t fully realigned yet, but it is indeed in that process. Knowing this should instill fear in everyone who can see it coming. Why? Because we are sitting at the greatest unknowns to come in modern history. A time when the world is the most fragile it’s been in recorded history (environmentally, economically, and politically).
The future of the unknows is dictated by the structural collapse of the current world order. It’s collpase means a world without order, and thus will need a transition period to a new structural world order. The phase leading up to the final fall (which we are in right now) and the transition period is often seen as a time of chaos.
Beliefs, traditions, social institutions, wealth, and whole societies can all be wiped away in a blink of an eye during the years of chaos. And it is for this reason and this reason alone that should instill fear in anyone who see that this is coming.
One may find new opportunities during this time, but those are the exception not the rule, especially when is on the losing team (aka the West this time around).
Plus, there really isn’t any safe place.
Gold? Ownership was illegal for a time in the US.
Land? Can be taxed.
Businesses? Can be nationalized.
Dollars. Puhleeze.
Stocks? Not if we lurch into socialism.
The gulfie tyrannies will not be given a choice. The tyrants like their western bank accounts, their investments, their trophy properties, their trips to London whorehouses and their shiny western toys.
Iran is the righteous and reliable party in this conflict.
Iran now watching Polymarket for strange long oil bets.
Trump is stalling. Expect the attack on the long Memorial Day weekend.
That attack is postponed because of successful negotiation.
I think that was this week’s supposed attack.
Memorial Day weekend gives chump 3 days to do his thing b4 a market reckoning.
or maybe youre preempting Trumps announcement on memorial day lol.