“Targets included missile launch sites and Iranian boats attempting to emplace mines. U.S. Central Command continues to defend our forces while using restraint during the ongoing ceasefire.”
The strikes come just hours after Trump said negotiations with Iran were “proceeding nicely.”
What’s most fucked up about this is it is strictly 100% about manipulating the markets and making money, that’s it.
And that it happens every fucking Tuesday.
Find what you need, turn them into the enemy, fight them and steal what you wanted. It’s only failed a few times
He never knew how to make a deal, did he?
Fart of the squeal.
Bakrupts casino
Decides that’s not big enough
Bankrupts the US and plunges the world into a depression
If anyone could bankrupt the casino economy of the the post reagan america, its Trump.
the casino folded but he walked away with his investors’ money. hey wait a minute
THREE casinos
How in the actual fuckity fucking fuck do you bankrupt ONE casino, let alone fucking three of them
Intentionally.
Hey guys, invest money in my new casino! It’s a license to print money!
Cool, now I’ll just pay myself from the casino funds for my contribution to marketing, interior design, management, consulting, and it’s gone. It’s all gone. Oops, bankrupt. It happens, business is risky.
Hey guys, invest money in my new casino!
And suppose that the investors were using dirty money for the investments, and trump was giving it back to them after the fact with just a little skimmed off the top for himself, also getting in their good graces and accumulating favors for laundering that money. It sure would explain all the ties between him and the Russian mob, huh?
easy, you do it on purpose to defraud your marks
True. He is a conman after all.
Probably a whole lot of money laundering going on, too.
Art of the steal
Anyone who thinks President JD Vance is going to end the the war is going to get rug pulled harder than folks holding the HawkTuhaCoin bags.
I have no illusion things will get better under the other motherfucker. I just want things to get worse for that one motherfucker.
He’ll die sooner or later.
Just tired of all the Nostrodamuses who think they’ve got the day pegged.
Nostradamus was a prophet of doom. I’m just a Joe Average who, after 18 months of having to watch this shitshow unfold, seeks some much-deserved solace in the knowledge that one particularly despicable sack of shit is finally with the worms.
Champagne is in the cooler, waiting to be popped. You’re not going to take this away from me, mate. ;)
one particularly despicable sack of shit is finally with the worms.
There’s a line of shit out the door and around the corner to take his place. If Trump did not exist, Ted Cruz would be president and nothing would be any better.
These problems aren’t individualistic. They’re systematic. In a better world Trump would just be filling the shoes of Joan Rivers, not commanding a nuclear arsenal.
Losing sight of the reactionary forest for one big orange tree is how we ended up with Joe Biden flubbing it for four years during the Trump interregnum
If you’ve got haemorrhoids, it’s OK to want them gone, even if you know they’ve got underlying cause. Likewise, you can do both: see the systemic problems that enabled Trump, and still be happy to see the motherfucker meet his timely demise.
If you’ve got haemorrhoids, it’s OK to want them gone
You’re just pointing to one orange bump and praying it goes away
You don’t have to be Nostrodamus to predict that the 80 year old man who really looks their age and has near monthly “routine” health checks and brags about passing the kinds of cognitive tests they only give when they think you have dementia is going to die soon…
I’ve been hearing he’s going to die soon for over a decade
I think people are getting their hopes too high expecting him to expire any day now. Actuarial tables for men give only like a 5-6% chance of death in a year for men his age. While he’s obviously not in peak condition, the average Americans those tables are based on certainly aren’t either and unlike most of them he does have the benefit of insane resources to throw at whatever medical challenge (ex. the experimental Covid therapy that saved his life when he got infected with that) and very regular scanning. Plus genetics is a factor and his dad lived to 93 while his mom got to 88.
it’s just a matter of time indeed.
Every week is like groundhog day. Trump declares victory, claims that peace talks are underway, and then they drop more bombs, without any deal being reached.
It amazes me that there are still people gullible enough to believe that this isn’t another forever war for us and that gas isn’t going back down any time soon.
It dropped 5% for the holiday weekend. Never seen that happen before. The art of the deal
There’s a sucker born every minute and 30+% of the population still think he’s a good president
It dropped 5% for the holiday weekend.
Off an 80% spike since the year started.
30+% of the population still think he’s a good president
As a person in the O&G industry, I regret to say he’s good for me. My salary/bonus is fully outrunning inflation. Nevermind the compound stock gains juicing my 401k.
Trump’s still shit in my book. But if I started out a Republican, why would I object to any of this shit?
A Global Crusade Against The Wretched Islam, ballooning profits, violent police actions against all those horrible minorities we don’t like, that cool new ballroom, kidnapping the president of Venezuela, our SCOTUS is rigging the next election, what’s not to love?
O&G was booming under Biden as well though? Like the endless expansion in the Permian Basin was going full throttle, just with a least some oversight. The companies weren’t even drilling all their leases because they didn’t want to drop the price of oil.
Yeah, but what if it was booming EVEN MORE? Checkmate athiest…
O&G was booming under Biden as well though?
It was actively competing with Alt Energy that the federal government sought to subsidize and promote.
Nobody in the Biden administration was paying TotalEnergies a billion dollars to abandon plans to build offshore wind farms off the coasts of New York and North Carolina
It’s only a forever war is we don’t remove the motherfuckers who refuse to stop him.
November may be our last chance. I know not everyone here loves the Dems, but they really are our only hope at this point, and we need to support them in the general election.
Isn’t pretending to have peace talks while bombing them a war crime or something
Didn’t Japan do the same thing with the US as they were bombing Pearl Harbor?
Not exactly. Roosevelt scheduled talks with Japan, and then had the diplomats to Japan skip the meetings. He did this multiple times. IIRC that was either the 12th or 13th meeting that the US delegation didn’t attend. At that point Japan decided that the US wasn’t actually interested in peace talks and attacked.
So in that case, as an American, I am inclined to believe that Japan was genuinely interested in the peace talks. We weren’t, or more specifically our president wasn’t interested in peace talks.
Wilson also didn’t help matters by setting the stage for WWII.
Japan, champion war crimerer
The US wasn’t even in the war until pearl harbour
Exactly. And there were peace negotiations taking place between the two nations in the hours before the attack.
“Perfidy” I think is the term for it
This is it, the reckoning we have all suspected was on the way. The inevitable backlash of all America’s sins consolidated under one presidency. One violent, insular ignoramus to rule them all. A completely dysfunctional government laid bare for all to see. Decades of “full spectrum dominance” brought to its inevitable end. No nation has ever existed solely by the power of it’s military dominance. Every nation that has attempted to do so has fallen.
I’m seeing in the billionaire-owned media that they were “self-defense” strikes. SMH.
So they are accurately quoting the CENTCOM spokesman … how dare they!
It is irresponsible to report blatant lies without the context demonstrating that it’s a blatant lie.
Exactly, you can still report “centcom said this…” while also reporting the actual facts.
Love a good military stenographer
There is a difference between reporting and writing opinions.
Lolz.
Great Depression later this year.
Why wait…
Any media that’s pretending to be honest needs to, if they’re going to quote Trump, either precede or proceed the quote with a disclaimer that he lies about everything. That’s basic integrity. Otherwise, you’re becoming the media that’s complicit.
I would settle with them giving the full quote completely in context. The only reason Trump has gotten so far is the media sane washing everything he says and adding whatever spin the talking heads want to it.
Any media that’s pretending to be honest
Honest is just another word for Woke.
We’ll have none of it
There never was a deal.
Even if he did, this asshole thinks that things on the global stage work like they did when he was running “deals” for his dad’s shitty real-estate company.
So very out of his depth.
Expecting any other behavior at this point is light-years beyond foolish. The word of the president has been proven useless time and time again. He has made it now impossible to deal with the US, as any deals are subject to be altered at his petty whims. We saw this with the tariffs and we will continue to see it.
jesus fuck what an incompetent malignant freak
The thing that amazes me is that media even bothers to report what Trump says about anything. The chances he’s lying is only exceeded by the chance that he has absolutely no fucking clue what he’s talking about.
Manipulating the markets again.
Weirdly the markets no longer seem to care. Strait is closed? Meh, new all time high.
No clue what is going on.
The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent
After 2008, what’s the worst that can happen?
The House is covering all bets.
They’re gambling with monopoly money.
It’s only monopoly money if they lose the bets
There is just no where else to park money in the amounts the markets currently service. That is it, simply that there is so much capital just sitting around in the market that it becomes a self fulfilling cycle.
Market prices are based off of amount of money put in the market --> There is not another place to get returns on investment as good as the market --> More money is put into the market (stock buy backs instead of hiring for example) --> Markets rise to “new all time highs” --> Those with assets in the market gain as prices are based off the amount of money put in the market --> Those gains have to be used in some investment (otherwise they erode due to inflation) --> There is not another place to get returns on investment as good as the market… And loop over and over.
The markets are now de laminated from the real economic reality, and as they grow they become more so. Investments in real things (and not wild schemes like crypto and LLMs) becomes less and less desirable compared to just putting the money back into the market. Bonds and other securities used to compete with the stock market and worked as a grounding force to the market, but not anymore. So now all the capital is off in la la land and since the market can’t crash if there is more money always being put into the market, the market will see “all time highs” as long as there is money to be put into the market. How does this cycle end? No idea really, you could have something else show up that gives better returns making the markets finally crash or you could have this continue until functionally money will not exist outside of the market (both situations are so wildly outlandish that it seems nothing will change).
How does this cycle end? No idea really […]
October 24th, 1929 sound familiar?
Different system now, too many “failsafes” and too few alternatives.
But where the “gains” come from? Somebody is losing in order for other to win
The money entering the markets. Its not the same amount in the pool but an ever growing amount, not sustainable but at a scale that makes it seem like it is. There are losers and winners in the system but overall the market goes up as long as more investment goes in then out. The real losers will become apparent when capital starts being removed from the markets, but at this time there is not a valid place other then the market to put that money so here we are in an endless seemingly stable ponzi scheme.
Sorry, I am too ignorant on the matter for this to make sense to me. Would you please eli5/12 me this?
The market used to represent how well the business on it where doing. Earnings and fundamentals would dictate market value and or dividends for shareholders. Businesses do good, shareholders get rewarded.
Now businesses market value is (generally) wildly over inflated, not really tied to real world results. The market is demand driven however so if shares are still being bought more then sold the value goes up. Although individual companies on the market will go up and down the overall market always goes up (and faster then inflation mostly) as long as more money goes into the market overall then comes out (more “buys” then “sells”). There is no competition really for investment outside the market more money is always being put into that market.
Basicly, line goes up now only due to the expectation that line goes up. Not company does well, but that more money goes in then out and therefore more demand then supply of shares. Most know this is how it works but since there is no where as good to invest there is no reason not to put all into the market and they know as long as everyone does the same; line go up.
Doesn’t this inevitably ends with money itself losing its value?
It seems that people is paying and receiving money for purely speculative reasons, no?
Did the Pumpkinhead even have any deal?
