Trump made his most believable statement ever today. 
The Big Lie Then the Truth
- Big Lie: They [Iran] is really in submission. They just don’t know it yet.
- Big Truth: Look, my preference has always been take Kharg Island. [Iran’s major oil export terminal]. … I don’t know that America has the stomach for it to be honest with you. We would make a fortune. But I don’t know that America has the stomach. I think they’d like to see us come home. But we did it with Venezuela. We’ve taken millions and millions of barrels out of Venezuela.
This is exactly how this amoral “grab em buy the pussy” degenerate thinks. Anything he thinks he can get away with is fair game.
Greenland is another example. I want it, so I’ll just take it. But America might not stomach the result and the deaths it would take, so he won’t.
What that comment, this admitted thief, pedophile-protecting rapist, and power-hungry racist just told the truth. A third of the country cheers.
They cheer when he break deals with Canada. They cheer his lies about inflation, literally, anything. Cheering is a cult requirement.
And Trump is now attempting to steal the midterm elections while accusing the Democrats of doing that.
For discussion, please see Trump and Elon Musk Fuel Preposterous Vote Fraud Claims in California
I was going to write about the today’s war events in this post as well, Instead, I will cover the war and more Trump lies in another post. Spoiler alert: Another TACO and lies about a deal.
But if you are looking for a believable statement from Trump, you now have one.
If TDS could be collected for energy like in the Matrix, this post and the comments would be a goldmine! 🤣🤣🤣
While growing up in Oak Ridge, TN, the sit-ins started, blacks going into whites only cafeterias and sitting down. Many heads broken. Then school integration came, and the mental giants in nearby Clinton, TN dynamited their public high school, destroyed it beyond use, rather than have their little angels sit next to a …These are the Magas that overwhelmingly voted him in. Times have not changed for these people. There will still be trouble after he fades. Ignorance is taught at the dinner table, or not.
It’s worth re-listening to this from 2016 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3SbsZVfBGzI&pp=ygUhTWljaGFlbCBtb29yZSB0cnVtcCBiaWdnZXN0IGYgeW91&ra=m
why do so many people go for this garbage?
Because so many people ARE garbage.
Certainly a lot hanging out here!
This is America
That’s inarguable
American obsessions with class, sex, ethnicity, and gate-keeping
Hmmm
and Venezuela will lie back like a scared and scarred 12 yo girl as the rapist brags to his buddy Jeff ???
Its been clear for a long time that Trump is a complete garbage can of a human, filled with hate, ignorance, and bullshit. He’s just an awful human being, always was, always will be. Unfortunately he is beloved by a significant chunk of the US electorate, which should make clear how sick American culture has become. So sad
Trump is a turd, full stop. But he’s also a ‘has been’ and while he can still muck things up pretty bad, the real story is going to be what comes next. And what is next? Well the “cult” has split between those that are anti-Israel (The Tucker clan) and those that are pro Israel (degenerate MAGA boomers like Trump).
The boomers will be as extinct as dinosaurs roasting in hell where they belong in due time over the next few years but the Tucker cult will not, they will grow into their power and guess what their top priority is going to be. Take a wild guess. And oddly enough, the world will embrace that scenario with full colors.
And that’s just one layer of a multi-layer sh!t cake America has become….
Got exit strategy?
Tucker cult? Never heard that one. I have no idea what their top priority is, aside from saving the US from being controlled by Israel. What do you think their top priority is?
mo $
Trump lost the war the moment he started it. What a colossal blunder.
Iran has learned that they can exercise tremendous leverage through controlling the strait of Hormuz. This means they can easily give up the desire for a nuclear weapon to protect themselves in the future. They can agree to what they had under Obama, with international inspections, etc. And they come out way ahead with control of the strait.
Their terms of surrender include 1. Control of the Strait, 2. Release frozen funds, 3. Remove all sanctions, 4. Remove the Blockade, 5. All hostilities to end, including Lebanon, 6. US Forces to leave the region, 7. Reparation payments
I wonder if the truth will come out that shows the losses we incurred in terms of lives, and equipment.
It will be interesting to see if Iran and the US can actually agree to an MOU to negotiate all the above. If they do, Iran will want the first 5 items in exchange for giving up the nuclear ambitions.
I think Iran will require the first five just to open the Strait. Hopefully they’ll go ahead and develop a retaliatory atomic missile capability, since that’s the only thing that will prevent Israel from attacking them again (and again). The Iranian ability to shut down the Strait isn’t sufficient to deter Israel from striking. It didn’t stop Israel this time and it wouldn’t in the future. Israel obviously doesn’t give a single shit about the global economy. Libya and North Korea have made clear the path Iran needs to take: never give up your nuclear program.
democracy works. amerikan empire has been plundering the world for decades now. the uniparty voters are twisted. trump is just the most recent and quite brazen collective ID of our nihilist society. trump and biden are amerika.
In today one of the articles –
any final agreement would require the removal of enriched nuclear material, dismantling of enrichment infrastructure, limits on missile production, and an end to Iran’s support for terrorist proxies
Final agreement is very near discussing initial proposals.
I think better ask unconditional surrender for once and for all.
Not gonna happen. Trump can get angry all he wants, but Iran won’t budge on their red lines. They can agree not to build a nuclear weapon, but a lot of other demands are going nowhere. That enriched nuclear material is staying in Iran (maybe outside chance they would agree to Russia taking custody). It’s also clear they will not not abandon support for Hamas/Hezbollah as Israel continues genocide both in Gaza and southern Lebanon, and everyone can forget about limitations on their ballistic missile program.
meanwhile: N. Korea leader’s sister says nuclear program ‘non-negotiable’
https://globalnation.inquirer.net/326371/n-korea-leaders-sister-says-nuclear-program-non-negotiable
As mish has stated many times, Obama negotiated a reasonable deal with Iran and things seemed stable then Trump happened
What a piece of shit he is. He would happily sacrifice a couple hundred thousand American troops lives to seize Iran’s oil which he could have easily purchased for lowball prices before he ordered a sneak attack on Iran while negotiating…
Appeciate your calling out the Lie’n King. I can only hope is base learns reality before they die. SUCH A STAIN ON THE COUNTRY AND HISTORY.
They are so munumentaly stupid it deies description. I’ve long said society’s maturity and progress can never really progress because those learnings are not cummulative across generations. Every one can repeat the same human folly every cycle.
Damn! What fantastic post Mish! Straight to the point, and no BS! Love it! This is why I tune into you!
I’ve thought for a while that the clever thing to do, if the logistics make it feasible, would be for America to seize Kharg Island, and start offering to buy oil from the producers and sell it to the consumers, on commercial terms. That would put the oil producers in Persia in the position of being on the American side, and do a favor to China, Japan, India, Malaysia, and probably a few other countries that need Persian oil.
The Islamic Guard or whatever they are called would then be in the position of having to fight their own oil producers and all the people in Persia who depend on the oil exports for a living.
No doubt there would still be trouble, and the American military could then bravely help the good Persians to protect themselves from the bad Persians. The Europeans, the Australians, and all the other timid people hiding behind American arms could then do their bit by sending soldiers, specialists, or hardware. Everybody except the Shiite Islamic militants would eventually be happy. That’s what happens to evangelistic religions that try to impose their “truth” on the world.
I might be a bit sorry to see the American-Jewish empire expand a bit more into the hinterlands, but that’s life. At least the Jews don’t want to kill us all. I assume the Chinese do.
Going all moral about what Trump does is just childish. Do you know how oil was discovered in Persia in the first place? As I understand it, it was discovered by a crooked Australian businessman who made his money by double-crossing his partners in a share-rorting scheme in the company that owned the very large (for its day) gold and copper mine at Mt. Morgan, Queensland, Australia, just fifty or so miles from where I am writing. He took his money to England and used it to discover oil in Persia. As I recall it, his name was William Knox Darcy.
A very bright but non-crooked businessman I once knew, once commented that at least the Russians didn’t get the oil: we (the West) got it. That is the way that realistic people think about international affairs: ordinary interpersonal morality doesn’t apply.
Are you making a movie soon called “Bad Analyst”? My god, if Trump took what you wrote and inverted almost all of it, peace and prosperity would have a chance.
Wow! I think your post is longer than Mish’s.
I do talk too much.
Yeah, you talk
Why don’t you knock your crap off. Iran SHOULD be in control of their own oil duh. Just like they should be in control of their own land and water. Just like every country in the world.
America has become a joke. It is nothing more than a criminal syndicate that KILLS and STEALS. The rest of the world knows this. USA USA USA USA man the intelligence level of Americans is at the bottom of the barrel. It could be worse it could be underneath the bottom panel.
Everything in the U.S. has been rigged or manipulated in one form or another. The white man and yes that includes the jews has been involved in mass genocide in west asia for decades. You’re just too daft to realize what the jews have done.
He who controls the financing controls the agenda.
He who controls the media controls the narrative.
So I’m pro-Palestine and don’t recognize ISN’TREAL does that make me an anitsemite? The Palestinians ARE semites not the euro white jews. Lesson of the day….
I’m mostly on your side. I’m pro-Palestine (I think you mean pro-Palestinians) too. I think we should evacuate the Jews: they’re our problem, not the Arabs’. But accepting that that’s not going to happen, the next best thing to do (if you’re not just going to leave it alone) is to pacify the place. That means that there must be ONE power with the big fire-crackers, and that power has to be Israel, with the help of its at least partially owned subsidiary, the U.S.A.
Israel has been making plans to send the Palestinians to Somaliland. The Jews already have a place they could go: the Jewish Autonomous Oblast. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Autonomous_Oblast They can go there and speak Yiddish and eat blintzes.
Use to be China…until the Russians stole and slaughered all the Chinese that lived there. The Chinese have suffered greatly esp. the last 150 years; I doubt China want these “semites” so close to their current borders. Look what they’ve done to the U.S., U.K., and Russia.
I suggest the moon….
evacuate the Jews? I know Madagascar! If only that was my winning Jeopardy answerr
That was Adolf’s idea, wasn’t it? It might have worked then. Nowadays we consider that Negroes are people and have rights, so I don’t think you could send the Jews there.
“Palestine” doesn’t exist, as per Jerry Seinfeld. 🤣
Nobody’s going to read all of that if you’re the author. LOL.
You should realize that by your second paragraph, half of the Middle East has no desal, at Iran’s hand. What is the contingency for that?
It’s been known for a while that Trump wanted to take Kharg Island, as it’s belived to be the economic backbone of Iran. This was a long standing boots on the ground strategy, if he ever decided on boots on the ground and he still might (despite what Trump says of a deal forthcoming) with his military advisors.
And after Venezuela it doesn’t surprise me that Trump saw, in taking Kharg Island, the opportunity of just looting its oil and using money from it to pay US government bills.
Should we be shocked? No.
Should we be shocked or appalled that a large portion of society (corporations, govt employees, joe-six-pack and everyone in between) still supports Trump in lieu of reality? No.
Should we be shocked about prices, supply shocks, and the deaths that are coming in the future? Possibly.
This is what happens when govts are on the edge of bankruptcy. They tax to high heaven, they put price controls in place, they fudge elections, and they loot other countries, and even from their own citizens. They don’t always go in this order, but you’ll often see all five before it collapses.
Thus should we be shocked that Trump signifies, and continues to signify, the death of the empire? No.
Americans on Kharg Island would be sitting ducks.
Not enough Mishelin stars in the world for this post.
Trump’s father was a rich real estate developer.
Trump was born rich and also a real estate developer.
They know exactly how to enrich themselves. Obviously a crook businessman.
They don’t know how the poor suffer.
He is running the country exactly he ran his business.
I don’t know if the country will be better or not but I’m sure he and his family will be much richer than before by abusing his presidency status.
Don’t blame the orangutan, but the culture that engendered such a sociopath and his voters.
Blame Fox News and its advertisers for being his propaganda outlet.
The very wealthy people who fund the republican party / pick the politicians we have to vote for/ fund all the conservative news /talk shows/ and those who are along to grift.
Shaping things behind the scenes. .
Not every german was a nazi. There were nazis/ people who mostly agreed with the nazis / those who slightly agreed and went along. But everyone in the country ww2. And a destroyed nation.
I am afraid we are on similar course.
He’s in the ‘Doesn’t give a Shit’ phase of his political career.
I thought that wouldn’t happen till the final year or so but he’s entered it now with everything he says about taking things from foreign countries and not caring about inflation (or the American people etc).
It’s likely worse than that, with real cognitive deficits and possibly other health issues. He hasn’t gotten yet to the Biden moment where most go “holy shit, THAT guy is making decisions for America?” but that could be coming if he doesn’t get impeached first. It’s already at the point where people who have known him are confiding he’s not the same person as he was first-term, or even a few years ago.
Edit: okay, so perhaps (hopefully) a majority of Americans already think “holy shit” at this point, but many probably chalk it up only to being evil/corrupt. Based on what people are saying, and the behavior we are all witness to, I’m willing to accept it’s all of the above. We are in big trouble.
He reminds me of the WWE Undertaker. Everybody loves to hate him and the more nasty he is the more orgasmic they become.
The Democrats literally have to just sit back and do nothing. Trump is doing everything he can to hand the Democrats the House and the Senate this fall. I now believe Texas will elect its first Democratic Senator in decades. It’s really quite amazing to behold.
As the amoral sociopaths that they are, while thousands of people are being killed abroad and the specter of hunger haunts people stateside, that’s all good, as long as the deplorables are owned.
Taco Thursday replaced Taco Tuesday this week.
I don’t know one person who believes one word that comes out of the mouth of our deranged “leader.”
Except the stock moved by over a %. So obviously a lot of people believe him
And his inner circle sycophants traded it for a profit.
Trump trades are in before the announcement and market movement. High Frequency Traders scan media and Trump’s account on Truth Social for “positive Iran news”. Since HFT firms have their computers linked directly to stock exchange computers they can trigger HFT orders at the rate of 100,000 or more per MINUTE. That times the number of HFT firms leaves everyone else with the “left over crumbs”.
giving the appearance there are people in the system, retail traders, do it when it’s just computers running alorithms made by the squints
Not sure they believe anything about him. Just can’t ignore risk-on and risk-off realies and slumps. Until shi* really sticks.
Of course, his billionaire associates, insider traders and his family trust him.