Ég var einu sinni giftur tvíbura og fólk spurði stundum hvort ég ætti í erfiðleikum að þekkja þá í sundur. Gurrý var yfirleitt með rautt naglalakk og Doddi var með tittling.
So let me get this straight
Today, Donald Trump posted that the Strait of Hormuz is completely open for business. At the exact same hour, Keir Starmer flew to Paris to co-host a forty-nation virtual summit with Emmanuel Macron about how to, and I am not kidding, reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
AND they did not invite the US Navy. The Navy that cleared the mines, turned back the tankers, and actually reopened the strait.
Forty flags. Zero destroyers. Zero mines cleared.
One (1) excellent buffet, probably.
This is forty guys showing up to a house fire three hours late with a PowerPoint titled "Fire Response Coordination Initiative," while the homeowner is already back inside watching TV.
Meanwhile, Iran's foreign minister fully capitulated on camera today. Oil crashed 11% in minutes. Iran has reportedly agreed to suspend its nuclear program indefinitely and will not receive any frozen funds. Trump says the deal is mostly done.
And the S&P 500 is at an all-time high. That is the market, which has no feelings and no podcast, looking at all of this and saying: yeah, this is working. Where are all the Panicans now?
None of this is really about Iran, though. It is about Xi.
Panama is out of Belt and Road. Venezuela is cut off from Chinese oil. Indonesia just signed a defense deal with the US. The Philippines is in. Iran just folded. That is Hormuz, Malacca, and the Luzon Strait. Roughly 80% of China's seaborne oil, all within one phone call of being squeezed.
When Trump sits down with Xi, there is no real negotiation left.
Xi is already picking which hand to lose first
🚨BREAKING: Poland's new President Karol Nawrocki signs a bill exempting parents with two or more children from paying income tax
Poland is leading from the front. 🇵🇱
My rooster died in glorious single combat at the door of the coop, protecting the flock from a red tailed hawk. He was a noisy pain in the ass, but his did us all proud in the end.
My rooster died in glorious single combat at the door of the coop, protecting the flock from a red tailed hawk. He was a noisy pain in the ass, but his did us all proud in the end.
BREAKING.🚨
"Several of the officers we spoke to said this was indeed being reported and acted upon as a FULL BLOWN MEDICAL EMERGENCY, insisting that a simple positive Covid-19 test would not have warranted such a drastic, massive response."
@JordanSchachtel *VERIFIES* that Joe Biden did experience a medical emergency while in Las Vegas.
"The Dossier obtained independent testimony from over half a dozen law enforcement officers who participated in the president’s security detail, and others who spoke from firsthand knowledge of the incident that unfolded that day..."
"For this story, we worked with Turning Point Action to secure the testimony of several sources and vet their legitimacy."
Here is what the officers told the Dossier:
"Officers working the president’s detail describe that Wednesday as chaotic from the very start. President Biden was already way behind schedule before the incident. Several sources said things really went haywire after he had been present at a famed local Mexican restaurant called Lindo Michoacan, where he was doing the rounds shaking hands and greeting donors.
Then suddenly, when he was supposed to be scheduled to deliver the Unidos US speech, all hell broke loose.
Several law enforcement officers on duty that day were informed over the radio that the president was dealing with an unspecified medical emergency. Far from a case of the sniffles, this was sent out on encrypted police airwaves as if something akin to a five-alarm fire had broken out.
Our sources estimate that it was 'easily' hundreds of Las Vegas Metropolitan officers and employees who heard the broadcasts live, so a curious media shouldn’t have a problem reporting any follow-ups to this story. The dispatches made clear that this was much more than a mere change of plans, because it set into motion so much of their on-duty emergency response apparatus.
Radio dispatchers responsible for coordinating with the president’s detail requested an immediate 'surge' of law enforcement resources into the area, both to secure the vicinity and to expedite the president’s movement."
Joe Biden has reportedly not been seen in public since that day.