Saturday, April 18, 2026

Green light red light in the Strait.

 


"War, what is it good for? Absolutely, nothing" ~ Edwin Starr~ 

Before Trump's war, also known as Operation Epstein, most Americans would have thought that the Strait of Hormuz was just the name of a bad Disney movie.  I am pretty sure that the Trump team did not think this war with Iran thing through, because from the way things are shaping up, they never heard of it either. If they did, they would understand how important that tiny stretch of water is to the world's commerce, and how easy it is for the Iranians to control it. 

Trump is dying to get an off ramp to end his ridiculous and pointless war, but the Iranians do not seem willing to give it to him. This past Friday he declared that the Strait of Hormuz is officially open, and that all ships will be allowed to pass through, thanks to the blockade being created by the mighty United States Navy.  But just this evening Iran announced its own blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. So sadly, those gas prices will not be going down anytime soon.  Reports are now coming out that the Strait of Hormuz is in "absolute chaos ", because Iran is once again firing on ships. 

Autocrats like Trump, of course, love wars. They don't care about the cost of human lives or what it will cost in terms of actual dollars. It gives them a sense of power, and it stifles debate. They view it as another tool in their tool box to hold on to power.  The American people (MAGA cult members excluded) see right through this charade. Most of us know that there is no point to this war, and that after all the carnage, destruction, and money spent; nothing has changed in Iran. Yes, a lot of bombed out buildings, but the Revolutionary Guard is still in control, they still have a large stockpile of  enriched uranium, and  they still control the Strait of Hormuz. So what was the point of all of this?

I will give you a two letter hint: J E. 

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Anonymous said...

What war??

Anonymous said...

People
Eating
Tasty
Animals

Anonymous said...

Nothing burger

Anonymous said...

Biden obama

Anonymous said...

Pure nonsense

Anonymous said...

https://x.com/i/status/2048253417777193299

Anonymous said...

Activist judge. What rape??

Anonymous said...

TDS. clean your litter box

Anonymous said...

Incorrect pilot. Democrats still up to old tricks manipulating black voters.
Replacing blacks with illegal aliens.

Anonymous said...

Delusion

Anonymous said...

And just like that

The SLPC is out of the

News.

See how that works……

Anonymous said...

Trump is great!!

Anonymous said...

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/04/26/suspected-whcd-shooter-donated-to-democrat-fundraising-machine-actblue/

Anonymous said...

https://www.prometheanaction.com/saturday-class-its-being-built-baby-built-april-25-2026/

Anonymous said...

https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/president-trump-calls-for-2020-election-to-be-voided-if-splc-fraud-allegations-are-proven/

Anonymous said...

“False flag operation. Dems trying to change news cycle off the waste fraud and abuse.”

If this were a “false flag operation,” it would make more sense for it to be distracting from TRUMP’S waste, fraud, and abuse.

Given his own epic thievery, he probably shouldn’t have decided to go after Minnesota Democrats over the fraud committed (by others) in their state. This is the ultimate “people in glass houses” scenario. It was about as smart as his promising his adoring cultists to get to the bottom of that whole Jeffrey Epstein scenario, since the “bottom” is where you’d find Jeffrey and Trump hanging out together.

mike from iowa said...

Magat mra needs to spend way most bucks teaching magats to shoot straighter and less on lavish lifestyle for Wayne lapeepeetail.

mike from iowa said...

Thanks to felonious rapist, China spends most on research than shithole murrica.

dinthebeast said...

I don't advocate for political violence because it never works the way you want it to, but reading the New York Fucking Times puzzle over the shooter's possible motive is darkly hilarious.
He's Donald the fuck Trump.
That's your motive, brain-wizards.

-Doug in Sugar Pine

Anonymous said...

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/thanks-trump-us-now-controls-worlds-major-oil/

Anonymous said...

Define what a woman is.

Anonymous said...

What felony and rape? China is evil.

Anonymous said...

The left is violent. History proves this.

dinthebeast said...

They are mostly you, little pig people:


Andrea Junker
@Strandjunker
Apr 24
Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss:
🇦🇺 0
🇨🇦 0
🇩🇰 0
🇫🇮 0
🇫🇷 0
🇩🇪 0
🇮🇸 0
🇮🇪 0
🇮🇹 0
🇯🇵 0
🇳🇱 0
🇳🇴 0
🇵🇹 0
🇪🇸 0
🇸🇪 0
🇬🇧 0
🇺🇸 530,000

There’s a lesson there.

-Doug in Sugar Pine

dinthebeast said...

Losers keep on losing:

A Virginia circuit court has refused to block the implementation of Democrats’ new congressional map, which voters approved in a statewide special election last week.

-Doug in Sugar Pine

Anonymous said...

“What felony and rape? China is evil.”

China’s government are indeed authoritarian thugs. And yet they are still making better economic decisions than the authoritarian thug occupying our White House.

How lucky we are to be ruled by a guy who wants to rule as brutally as the Chinese government, but who is way dumber than they are.

dinthebeast said...

It's not just that China is beating us, it's that our whole system is degrading in ways that don't just come back when you fund them again:

https://theconversation.com/china-surpasses-us-in-research-spending-the-consequences-extend-far-beyond-scientific-ranking-and-clout-280543

-Doug in Sugar Pine

mike from iowa said...

So are hemorrhoids for magat assholes like you!

Anonymous said...

https://truthsocial.com/@JackPosobiec/posts/116477331434561910

Anonymous said...

False. With President Trump we are beating china.

Anonymous said...

False

Anonymous said...

Yes, its called obama care. Designed to fail.

Anonymous said...

Democrats running out of options

https://x.com/i/status/2048770509651751128

Anonymous said...

Where is maxinne?

https://x.com/i/status/2048777618418241660

Anonymous said...

You do not want govt health care.

Anonymous said...

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/breaking-whcd-shooter-cole-allen-charged-attempted-assassination/

mike from iowa said...

Shithole white house blames Dems for political violence magats cause

Anonymous said...

“False”

True.

Virginia court rules in favor of Democrats in redistricting case

None of this is decisive, of course. Both the ruling on the merits and the injunction that have happened in the lower courts will ultimately make their way to the Virginia Supreme Court for a final decision.

dinthebeast said...

Yes I do want "gov't health care", I would have been blind since 2014 without it.

-Doug in Sugar Pine

mike from iowa said...

So, in order t op be charged with attempted assassination of the felon/rapist is fire a gun in the same area code.

dinthebeast said...

No, Fergus is dismantling the way science is done in the US because it's not enough for him to be a dumbfuck, he needs for there to not be anyone actually good at what they do:

https://nyti.ms/4ebeHx6

-Doug in Sugar Pine

dinthebeast said...

Well, one floor and several security checkpoints away...

-Doug in Sugar Pine

dinthebeast said...

The war on science persists: “The Trump administration on Friday dismissed members of an independent board that oversees the National Science Foundation, which finances much of the public scientific research in the United States. On Friday afternoon, National Science Board members received a terse email ‘on behalf of President Donald J. Trump’ that said their position was ‘terminated, effective immediately.’”

-Doug in Sugar Pine

dinthebeast said...

So Fergus' plan to sue himself for $10 billion and have us pay him has run into a snag, but don't worry, the grift is doing just fine, Mike Flynn is getting a second bogus DOJ payout:

President Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS over the leaking of his tax returns ran into turbulence Friday as a judge ordered a hearing on whether the Constitution allows the president to sue the federal government he oversees.

U.S. District Court Judge Kathleen Williams has asked Trump’s private attorneys and Justice Department lawyers representing the IRS to address whether his control over the government’s actions in the case means it’s the kind of dispute federal courts cannot consider.
“It is unclear to this Court whether the Parties are sufficiently adverse to each other so as to satisfy Article III’s case or controversy requirement”

-Doug in Sugar Pine

Anonymous said...

https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2026/04/26/shooting-suspect-allegedly-wrote-manifesto-attended-no-kings-protest/

Anonymous said...

The left is violent

Anonymous said...

Soy gibberish

Anonymous said...

Democrat marxists are violent

Anonymous said...

Maor lefty horse crap

Anonymous said...

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/breakthrough-trump-backs-psychedelics-veterans-as-suicide-crisis/

Anonymous said...

https://youtu.be/0u6LMzfdiak?si=zF3Ucv1bTBJUb5FE

Anonymous said...

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/google-co-founder-sergey-brin-turns-left-warns/

Anonymous said...

Speaking of science. Define what a woman is. How many genders are there. Men cannot get pregnant.

dinthebeast said...

A woman is a female human who will never, ever have sex with a MAGA moron like you.
New York Times: “For more than a half-century, a prestigious scientific arm of the federal government did groundbreaking research aimed at saving American lives. It studied fertility, asthma, wildfires, drinking water, climate change and myriad other health threats.”

“In just one year, it has been almost completely dismantled.”

-Doug in Sugar Pine

dinthebeast said...

The woke lefty Kochs:

Tuki
@TukiFromKL
5h
the CATO Institute.. a libertarian think tank funded by the Koch brothers.. just published a study showing immigrants paid more in taxes than they received in benefits every single year from 1994 to 2023..

not a left-wing university.. not a Democratic PAC.. the Koch brothers' own research institute..

they reduced the deficit by $14.5 trillion over 30 years.. they earn less per hour but work at higher rates.. which means higher per capita income.. which means higher taxes paid..

the country spent 30 years being told immigrants were draining the system.. turns out they were funding it.. and the people who told you that knew the numbers the whole time

-Doug in Sugar Pine

Anonymous said...

“So, in order t op be charged with attempted assassination of the felon/rapist is fire a gun in the same area code.”

To be fair, the dude did leave a manifesto announcing he intended to wipe out Trump and all of his scummy minions.

Except for, strangely, Trash Patel. For some weird reason, the shooter was not planning on shooting Patel, in particular. Our FBI director must be upset at his exclusion. “Am I not terrible? Am I not a scummy minion? Am I not part of the team with the big kids?” It’s like when no one picks you for kickball on the playground. Very hurtful.

Anonymous said...

The Onion nails it:

Trump Claims Correspondents’ Dinner Shooting Reinforces Need To End Journalism

Published: April 27, 2026

WASHINGTON—Declaring that the frightening incident underscored a point he had been making for many years, President Donald Trump claimed Monday that the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner reinforced the need to end journalism. ‘Over the weekend, there was an act of horrible violence that never would’ve happened if we didn’t have a free press,’ said Trump, adding that the senseless crime would have been impossible if anyone had taken his repeated pleas to repeal the First Amendment seriously. ‘I’ve spent years trying to warn people of the danger involved in holding my administration accountable for its actions, and look where we are now. We can’t undo the past, but I hope this terrible event proves once and for all that journalism must be banned and banned right now. If it isn’t, then it’s only a matter of time before there’s another, and even more tragic, shooting.’ Trump later conceded he was cautiously encouraged by the growing number of media outlets that had assumed some responsibility and made progress in letting him get away with everything.”

PilotX said...

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/4/16/usaid_whistleblower

dinthebeast said...

The +/- half million people the demise of USAID has already killed is beginning to challenge Fergus' first term body count from the mishandling of the covid response, and if not reversed soon, will start to give the Nazis a run for their money. Ten to fourteen million dead in five years.

-Doug in Sugar Pine

dinthebeast said...

In somewhat encouraging news, so far Fergus has not been able to open any of the concentration camps he's trying to build to hold people without trial, even though he has 38 billion dollars to spend on doing so.
Everywhere they buy giant warehouse facilities (often at double market value) local governments have shut them down by passing local ordinances prohibiting them or refusing to connect them to water and sewer service.
He may eventually get some of them open, but it is an underreported story that these concentration camps are being so successfully resisted at the local level.

-Doug in Sugar Pine

dinthebeast said...

The war that is stopping the UAE from doing the business that supports its economy.

-Doug in Sugar Pine

dinthebeast said...

Trophy hunters don't usually eat what they kill. Otherwise they would kill animals that made more sense to eat.
I stopped hunting a long time ago, but I did hunt for fifteen years or so.

-Doug in Sugar Pine

Anonymous said...

“The +/- half million people the demise of USAID has already killed is beginning to challenge Fergus' first term body count from the mishandling of the covid response …”

Depressingly, all of this mass death is not very visible, so Trump can substantially dodge responsibility for it. The million or so Americans killed by COVID were distributed across the country, and they skewed older/unhealthier, and they died quietly in hospitals, so there was a certain amount of denial that any of it was even happening. You can imagine the shit Trump would have taken if he’d failed to lift a finger to prevent a disaster that caused a million to die screaming on CNN and left their mangled corpses in one giant bloody pile in … I dunno, say, downtown Dallas. The public revulsion would have been unimaginable. But the hidden-away COVID deaths produced a much less visceral reaction.

As for the deaths caused by “feeding USAID into the wood chipper,” as Elon bragged of doing, those won’t be noticed by Americans at all. The starvation and disease will all happen completely out of sight, on the other side of the planet.

Anonymous said...

https://x.com/i/status/2048921004555096399

mike from iowa said...

I watched video showing half a dozen SS officers completely do nothing as shooter ran towards them down the hall. Their first reaction happened when he was among them shooting. The felon must have personally hired these incompetent bastards.

Anonymous said...

False

Anonymous said...

This comes from someone who doesnt know what a woman is.

Anonymous said...

Pure propaganda.

Anonymous said...

False. Democrats gave billions to illegal aliens

mike from iowa said...

What is a woman? Look in the mirror.

Anonymous said...

Climate change is a hoax.

Anonymous said...

Why does the SPLC gIve money to the KKK???

Anonymous said...

https://www.deseret.com/politics/2026/04/22/southern-poverty-law-center-indictment-3-million/

mike from iowa said...

Which has exactly nothing to do with above post

Anonymous said...

https://www.breitbart.com/news/supreme-court-clears-texas-to-use-new-gop-favored-congressional-map/

Anonymous said...

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2026/04/27/cnns-keilar-dhs-shutdown-has-extended-this-long-because-of-democrats/

Anonymous said...

Illegal aliens are illegal. Cannot reside here. They are breaking the law.

Anonymous said...

BREAKING: The United Arab Emirates has announced it will withdraw from OPEC after more than 50 years, with the move set to take effect May 1.

The decision would allow the UAE to boost oil production without OPEC quota limits — a major shift that could impact global oil prices.

The move is also being viewed by some as a potential win for President Trump, who has repeatedly accused OPEC of inflating prices and “ripping off the rest of the world.”

Anonymous said...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4pxwlr52yo

mike from iowa said...

Indictment likely to be tossed on no merit grounds.

Anonymous said...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/minneapolis-federal-agents-daycares-suspected-fraud/

Anonymous said...

“Why does the SPLC gIve money to the KKK???”

Why do cops give money to criminal informants to take down drug dealers and terrorists?

mike from iowa said...

The felon/rapist would know about ripping people off.

mike from iowa said...

How can a person be illegal, dumb fuck?

dinthebeast said...

Why does Blanche keep lying about the SPLC?:

https://emptywheel.net/2026/04/28/splc-wants-todd-blanche-to-stop-lying/

-Doug in Sugar Pine

dinthebeast said...

So does that mean the UAE failed to get Fergus to backstop their economy, or is this in addition to that?

-Doug in Sugar Pine

Anonymous said...

“Why does Blanche keep lying about the SPLC?”

This whole crusade against the SPLC is rooted in the most ludicrous and audacious of lies. Wingnuts’ laughable claim here is that there are no actual white supremacist organizations for the SPLC to fight against, so the SPLC has to create them by providing all their funding. Racism is over, guys! Get with the program!

This argument would be a lot more convincing if our daily news headlines weren’t regularly filled with the misdeeds of our nation’s largest white supremacist organization, known as the Department of Homeland Security.

Anonymous said...

Polling indicates that 77% of Americans blame Donald Trump for high gas prices. (Because it is actually his fault, and not that of Joe Biden or moonbeams or Martians.)

Gosh, that can’t possibly be bad for Republicans in November, can it?

Anonymous said...

False

Anonymous said...

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dinthebeast said...

New York Times: “Gasoline prices in the United States rose on Tuesday to their highest level in four years as peace talks between the United States and Iran appeared at an impasse.”

“The average cost for a gallon of regular gasoline is $4.18, according to the AAA motor club. The price at the pump has not been that high since April 2022, shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine.”

-Doug in Sugar Pine

dinthebeast said...

The GOP house majority is toast, now here comes the senate:

A new Texas Public Opinion Research survey finds James Talarico leads both John Cornyn, 44% to 41%, and Ken Paxton, 46% to 41%, powered by leading margins with moderates and independents.

Key finding: “Affordability is the top issue in Texas. 21% of likely voters cite affordability and the cost of living as the issue elected officials should prioritize most — more than double the next-closest issue.”

-Doug in Sugar Pine

dinthebeast said...

...And he will stay on. And just to burn Fergus' duck all the more, he's staying on because of Fergus' bogus investigation of him:

“I’ve said that I will not leave the board until this investigation is well and truly over with transparency and finality, and I stand by that. I’m encouraged by recent developments, and I’m watching the remaining steps in this process carefully,” Powell said near the beginning of his post-meeting news conference.

-Doug in Sugar Pine

Anonymous said...

FALSE

Anonymous said...

Joke Of The Week:

Question:
What is the meaning of "COITUS INTERUPTIS?"

Answer:
Trying to "PULL OUT" of Iran without making the "Emperor With No Clothes" look like an even bigger FOOL.

Haaaa Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!!!!!!!!

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