Can't get blood from a turnip

 

Delusional Don

 

Massive numbers! Right now.   

No, they're not.  

A picture worth 1,000 words

 

The last thing they want is peace

 

The Bush family is ecstatic.  

Also, he says over the next two to three weeks.  Just yesterday (wasn't it?) he said, when asked how long until he ends the war, two weeks.

And, just what the everlasting fuck is this?

Just a brilliant idea.  Any volunteers?

Like so many, the older he gets, the more insane he becomes.

Good for Cuba, though

 

I'm sure Putin got word to Trump.

The threatener in chief has spoken

 

Is Bibi still alive?

UPDATE 03/23/2026:

From Zeteo newsletter:

Donald Trump initially said Iran had until Monday evening to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, or he would “obliterate” power plants – an act generally considered a war crime itself. He said this morning he was postponing any strikes on Iran’s power plants for five days.

You knew he wouldn't carry it out.

He manipulates the market with his pronouncements.

From the newsletter:

In multiple scenarios, if Donald Trump were to invade and try to occupy Kharg Island for an extended period of time, American casualties would very likely be “considerable,” one of the people familiar with the matter says. Some estimates, the first two sources tell us, are easily in the dozens for an initial phase of occupation, with numbers likely to rise sharply if President Trump wished to hold the island for an extended duration.

Trump has long been fascinated with Kharg Island, which holds the bulk of Iran’s oil exports. During his Art of the Deal book tour in 1988, Trump said he would “go in and take it.”

Harrison Mann, a former US intelligence analyst, has written for Zeteo about why a Kharg Island invasion is a bad idea. He writes further for the Quincy Institute’s Responsible Statecraft blog: “For the troops unlucky enough to receive orders to take Kharg, the operation would land somewhere between a suicide mission and a self-imposed hostage crisis.”

As he explains, it’s not clear what the point of the Kharg mission would be, because securing Iran’s oil infrastructure might not necessarily create much leverage for Trump. “The opportunity to inflict a mass casualty event that could sap limited US public support for the war, or to hold entire battalions as de facto hostages, may well appear more valuable to Tehran than oil revenue,” Mann adds.

Joe Kent, Trump’s former director of counterterrorism, who just resigned over Trump’s Iran war, told the Washington Post that a Kharg invasion “would be a disaster.”

“It would essentially be giving Iran a bunch of hostages on an island that they could barrage with drones and missiles,” he said.

Trump is every blowhard rooster you've ever met. Manipulating the market into movement that enriches him personally is the reward for his bluster and bloviating. He has no sense of shame or embarrassment, so the fact that we call him TACO Trump doesn't really concern him. He just counts his coins and continues.

My eyes just rolled.

UPDATE 03/23/2026 08:32 am:

Yes, exactly.

And juice the stock market.

"I am please to report..."  "...conversations, witch will continue..."*

You can make money only when the market moves.  Up or down doesn't matter if you know it's going to happen.

*Somebody cleaned it up...

UPDATE 03/24/2026:

Only one trader?  Well, let me see....who was the one person who knew Trump was going to do what he did?  It might take me a while.

How's that Iran thing going?

Three weeks into the war, the Iranian regime is signaling that it believes it is winning and has the power to impose a settlement on Washington that entrenches Tehran’s dominance of Middle East energy resources for decades to come.

[...]

Netanyahu said Thursday that the war would end “a lot faster than people think.” Trump said this week the U.S. would wrap up the conflict in the “near future” even as the Pentagon dispatched thousands of additional Marines to the Middle East.

[...]

Iran has retained the ability to fire dozens of ballistic missiles, and many more drones, every day across the Middle East.

Instead of declining, the rate of fire actually picked up in recent days compared with 10 days ago. Iranian strikes inflicted catastrophic damage this week on key energy installations in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates—while Iran’s own oil exports kept booming.

Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, the Persian Gulf’s chokepoint, remains only possible with Iranian permission.

[...]

“The Iranians aren’t ready to end the war because they have learned an important lesson: They can, comparatively easily and cheaply, cause a lot of damage and disruption. They now want the whole world to learn that lesson, too,” said Dina Esfandiary, an analyst on Iran and author of a book on Iran’s foreign relations.

[...]

Tehran has pledged that it will agree to a cease-fire only if Washington and the Gulf states pay a steep price.

[...]

Iran is planning to enshrine a “new status” for the Strait of Hormuz to require every passing ship to pay fees to Tehran for the privilege.

[...]

“This hubris is dangerous because they are not smart enough to understand that President Trump will never let them win. They don’t understand how far he’s willing to go,” said Jason Greenblatt, who served as the White House special envoy for the Middle East in the first Trump administration.

[...]

A U.S. effort to secure shipping lanes through the Strait of Hormuz would be “a simple military maneuver” with “so little risk,” Trump said Friday in a Truth Social post blasting European allies for refusing to join the mission.

  WSJ

Sure, Jan. Then why this...

The Trump administration is temporarily lifting longstanding sanctions banning the “sale, delivery, or offloading of crude oil or petroleum products of Iranian origin” for the next month in hopes of curbing the meteoric rise in oil prices.

  Independent UK

Thereby giving Iran (and Russia) a huge boost in dollars to spend on war.

A “General License” issued by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control released late Friday permits the purchase of Iranian oil that has already been loaded onto “any vessel” — including ships that have already been sanctioned — by waiving 10 separate sets of sanctions that have targeted both Russian and Iranian oil.

The sanctions that are being temporarily set aside have been in place for years, with many originating during Trump’s first term.

[...]

By waiving the sanctions, the U.S. will allow Iranian and Russian oil that is currently at sea to be purchased and unloaded without penalty until April 19, at which point the sanctions will resume unless the Treasury extends the waiver.

Any bets?

UPDATE 03/21/2026:

One of the missiles failed in flight, and a U.S. warship fired an SM-3 interceptor at the other, according to two of the people. It couldn't be determined if an interception was made, according to one of the officials.

Iran’s targeting of Diego Garcia, about 2,500 miles from Iran, implies its missiles have a greater range than Tehran has previously acknowledged.Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said last month that Iran has deliberately limited the range of its missiles to around 1,250 miles.

  WSJ

Not any more.

UPDATE 03/22/2026:

Was this a mistake or intentional?

"We were shocked"

 

Who's "we"?  Nobody I know or have read was shocked.

If you were shocked, why were you so ill-informed?  You're the fucking President of the United States.

By the way, Iran is hitting oil facilities.  Your gasoline isn't going to get cheaper.

LOfuckingL

 

We know where they are and yet we haven't rounded them up for deportation?  Instead, we're taking innocent, hard working people off the streets.

But only 2 weeks to build a nuclear bomb.  Oh wait.  His latest BS was 7 days.

Also...

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Hope has always been an effective war strategy.