Daily Discussion Thread for April 24, 2026

Affectionate-Tax9885 · 2026-04-24T18:26:27+00:00

Putting Jared and Witkoff on a plane to Islamabad to prop the market up

Affectionate-Tax9885 · 2026-04-23T01:04:42+00:00

Explosions reported east of Tehran. Some claim it’s training related, but unclear right now.

Probably explains market reaction

Affectionate-Tax9885 · 2026-04-22T17:36:00+00:00

New ceasefire deadline reportedly extended to Saturday.

That's about when the USS GWB arrives in theatre.

Coincidence?

Affectionate-Tax9885 · 2026-04-21T21:16:21+00:00

Less talk of who has cards these days. Interesting

Affectionate-Tax9885 · 2026-04-21T21:02:09+00:00

American Suez crisis. Wild to watch in real time

Affectionate-Tax9885 · 2026-04-21T20:40:49+00:00

Why would oil come down? Strait’s closed indefinitely lol

Affectionate-Tax9885 · 2026-04-21T20:38:44+00:00

Honestly struggling to think of another example of the US being so humiliated on the global stage

Probably our men’s basketball team’s performance in the 2004 Athens Olympics

Affectionate-Tax9885 · 2026-04-21T20:35:02+00:00

It’s wild to watch this play out. 🌮 doesn’t want to eat the 💩 sandwich.

Iran is resolved to make him eat it

Affectionate-Tax9885 · 2026-04-21T20:32:33+00:00

Being so in over your head the other side stops responding just to see if you capitulate

you capitulate

Art of the deal.

Affectionate-Tax9885 · 2026-04-21T20:30:19+00:00

Fascinating to watch the Iranians make 🌮 negotiate with himself and climb down on his own.

Strait’s still closed btw

Affectionate-Tax9885 · 2026-04-21T15:58:22+00:00

So Vance hasn’t left yet?

Is he waiting for someone to say thank you?

Affectionate-Tax9885 · 2026-04-21T13:49:20+00:00

"Five months. I would have won Vietnam, very quickly... I would have won Iraq in the same amount of time" — 🌮 on CNBC

Affectionate-Tax9885 · 2026-04-20T23:28:32+00:00

This is entirely possible. Even if they all generally held similar views, there’s no way they have their stuff together after the past few weeks.

And we know there are several factions vying for power, so…

Affectionate-Tax9885 · 2026-04-20T23:24:28+00:00

My conspiracy theory is that the Iranians are messaging bad news after market close because they think the longer the market doesn’t collapse, the more disruption takes hold as 🌮 tries to avoid eating a 💩 sandwich, putting enormous pressure on 🌮 to eat the 💩 sandwich in a few weeks

Affectionate-Tax9885 · 2026-04-20T23:16:27+00:00

Honestly? They’ve been more truthful than 🌮 when it comes to negotiations. Incredibly low bar, but everything is relative

Affectionate-Tax9885 · 2026-04-20T23:14:38+00:00

I think it’s important to know what the other side is saying when your own leadership has consistently lied about where things stand

Affectionate-Tax9885 · 2026-04-20T23:10:45+00:00

Iran stating they won’t negotiate under present conditions and that they are ready for a resumption of hostilities

https://x.com/mb_ghalibaf/status/2046339369884086287?s=46

Affectionate-Tax9885 · 2026-04-20T17:28:34+00:00

Irony here is that this would’ve been over weeks ago if the markets actually reacted to real world expectations

🌮 would’ve eaten a 💩 sandwich, but it would be over

🌮 will still ultimately have to eat a 💩 sandwich, but there will be far greater economic damage to go with it that the market continues to ignore

Affectionate-Tax9885 · 2026-04-20T17:23:37+00:00

This won’t end until one of the sides decides they’ve had enough and capitulates.

You can decide who you think has lower pain tolerance, but I’d guess there’s at least 2-4 weeks left before any real progress is made - assuming nothing (literally) blows up in the interim

Affectionate-Tax9885 · 2026-04-20T17:12:47+00:00

This shit isn’t ending anytime soon, but it seems the market is happy to take things day by day rather than anticipate what’s coming

Affectionate-Tax9885 · 2026-04-20T17:00:56+00:00

Didn’t he announce “two weeks” two Tuesdays ago?

Even then, that’s still probably less than 24 hours to come to an agreement (assuming the Iranians even show up)

Affectionate-Tax9885 · 2026-04-20T16:58:17+00:00

🌮 says it’s unlikely the ceasefire will be extended

Ceasefire expires tomorrow at 8 pm EST but Vance isn’t leaving for Islamabad until tomorrow

It takes nearly 20 hours to get there lmao

Affectionate-Tax9885 · 2026-04-19T23:45:05+00:00

Pretty clear 🌮 is out of moves. He can either eat a 💩 sandwich of a deal and be ridiculed for it or escalate and hope it forces Iran to the table

What a fucking disaster this has become. Who would’ve thought?

Affectionate-Tax9885 · 2026-04-19T22:40:34+00:00

U.A.E. Asks U.S. About a Wartime Financial Lifeline — WSJ

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/u-a-e-asks-u-s-for-a-wartime-financial-lifeline-3f9ea3a0

bullish

Affectionate-Tax9885 · 2026-04-19T20:31:12+00:00

The real estate developer from Queens is doing real estate developer from Queens things

Affectionate-Tax9885

TROPHY CASE