@btxj@FFWorldShow Damn dude. What a day! Year 10 for me having King Henry in an Empire league that I’ve almost finished a couple of times….guy ages like my wine collection
DONALD TRUMP JUST SAID HE'S GOING TO ANNEX PART OF THE OCEAN
Not a lake this time. Not a golf course. The Strait of Hormuz. One of the most critical shipping chokepoints on the entire planet. Trump says once his Iran war ends, he's just going to declare it U.S. territory
Read that again. A president trying to claim sovereign territory that belongs to no one nation, that Iran and Oman have bordered for centuries, like it's a plot of land he's slapping his name on
This is a man who renamed a Great Lake by executive order four days ago now eyeing international waters like they're up for grabs too
Meanwhile gas prices are still elevated from the war he started, spiking again this week the moment he opened his mouth about Hormuz
So while you're paying more at the pump because of Trump's war, Trump's response is to threaten to grab the exact waterway that sets the price of oil for the entire globe
There is no legal mechanism for this. No treaty. No vote. No allies consulted. Just Trump, a microphone, and the assumption that saying it out loud makes it real
This is the same president who just carved up Venezuela's oil reserves with an unnamed private partner nobody can identify. Same instinct. Grab the resource, skip the process, dare anyone to stop him
Territorial claims over a war zone. Resource grabs with hidden partners. A lake renamed on a whim. A ballroom built on federal land the Supreme Court just let him keep building
This isn't foreign policy. This is a man treating the entire map like it's his personal Monopoly board
And every single time, the price gets passed to you at the pump while Trump gets to stand at a podium and pretend he's building an empire
This is not the beginning of restraint. This is the acceleration of none at all
@RossRaihala The opening acts were excellent. All told 5 1/2 hours of music with minimal down time. That is a lot of consumer value. It certainly wasn’t a subdued crowd when he had 70,000 people “jumping around”!
@HeartlandSignal Funny he talks about that at FarmFest. Farmers rarely pay income taxes. They mostly are concerned with property and estate taxes. Read the room Pillow Man!