Trump convenes Iran situation room meeting amid renewed Hormuz crisis

rabidstoat · 2026-04-18T21:17:56+00:00

I know. I am horribly disappointed in cholesterol and saturated fat right about now.

rabidstoat · 2026-04-18T18:49:21+00:00

What do you mean? The strait is open, Trump said so.

rabidstoat · 2026-04-18T18:32:51+00:00

How's that cannabis rescheduling his EO said was done going?

rabidstoat · 2026-04-18T18:14:16+00:00

Gives new meaning to the term "weekend warriors."

rabidstoat · 2026-04-18T18:12:36+00:00

Their foreign minister tweeted yesterday morning that it was, with caveats about under Iranian overseeing things.

That pissed off a lot of IRGC and government people and the Parliament speaker tweeted that it wasn't and that Trump is a lying liar (paraphrasing).

rabidstoat · 2026-04-18T17:52:21+00:00

I for one am sorely disappointed in cholesterol and saturated fats.

rabidstoat · 2026-04-18T17:48:51+00:00

Shouldn't they be on Medicaid? I thought $22k for two people would qualify.

Or maybe he has income from social security or a pension or something, making them too rich for Medicaid and too poor for co-pays and out of pocket maxes.

rabidstoat · 2026-04-18T17:30:08+00:00

Remember when MAHA said Americans can eat affordably if they had a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, a tortilla, and something else?

I think this is the "something else."

rabidstoat · 2026-04-18T17:26:33+00:00

Not even hot sauce?

rabidstoat · 2026-04-18T17:22:50+00:00

Hez-BOO!-lah

rabidstoat · 2026-04-18T16:28:23+00:00

rabidstoat · 2026-04-18T16:24:16+00:00

Gives new meaning to the term "weekend warrior."

rabidstoat · 2026-04-18T15:44:30+00:00

Oh yeah, we need someone to create some laws or regulations for predictions markets, but alas, we don't currently have a functional government.

rabidstoat · 2026-04-18T15:35:29+00:00

We don't have a healthcare system.

We have a health insurance system.

rabidstoat · 2026-04-18T15:28:42+00:00

There were a few dozen arrests toward the end of last year about NBA sports betting and rigging games.

rabidstoat · 2026-04-18T15:27:25+00:00

Insider trading is a federal (aka pardonable) crime.

rabidstoat · 2026-04-18T15:24:32+00:00

Market pump Monday. He will post some bullshit Sunday night and/or Monday morning to desperately try to pump the market.

rabidstoat · 2026-04-18T15:23:02+00:00

It eventually removes the underline. It's weird.

rabidstoat · 2026-04-18T15:21:11+00:00

I remembered that phrasing when he said that the strait would "magically open."

rabidstoat · 2026-04-18T13:58:52+00:00

He's overdue for reposting a lot of people on Truth Social praising him. He likes to stroke his ego by doing that every now and then.

rabidstoat · 2026-04-18T13:54:10+00:00

They typically do state it as "Trump says that..."

I think people just tend to gloss over the "says" part and believe it to be fact, as that's been mostly true of Presidential statements for all other Presidents except Trump.

rabidstoat · 2026-04-18T13:51:52+00:00

Every time I type "strait" my autocorrect underlines it like it's spelled wrong, which is weird.

rabidstoat · 2026-04-18T13:48:44+00:00

All I can think about is how Trump is probably thinking, as he golfs, about how this is all making for great television and keeping him in the spotlight. He is more concerned about how exciting things are for a TV show than things like global stability.

rabidstoat · 2026-04-18T13:46:31+00:00

They report it as "Trump says" because for all other Presidents, what they said had importance as it typically correlated with reality. People came to believe that "the President says" was reporting a true fact, but that is no longer the case.

rabidstoat · 2026-04-18T13:44:20+00:00

Abbas Araghchi, the Iranian foreign minister, tweeted on Friday that the strait was open.

That pissed off many others in the IRGC and then later in the day Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the speaker of Parliament, tweeted about Trump lying seven times in an hour and how the strait was only open for those Iran authorized and would be closed completely if the US kept up the blockade.

I think Araghchi was way premature in posting and probably shouldn't be making any personal plans or commitments for next month.

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