An example, by the way, of how rapidly dated a movie can become:
One of the Evil Warlords who attended the Super Secret Gathering Of Evil Warlords in #The355, a movie made in 2019/2020, was introduced by one protagonist as someone who wanted to shut down the Persian Gulf and make a killing in the oil markets.
Today, we call xem #DonaldJTrump and whoever is making those conveniently timed moves in oil futures.
The U.S.A. is ruled by a monarch, with unchecked powers, ruling by decree, and supported by a court of toadies and a Monarchist Party. This is obvious to those of us who already lived in monarchies.
For those who still haven't realized, here's another thing to add to the mountain of evidence:
#DonaldJTrump declared it treasonous to state that the U.S.A. is not winning the #TrumpWar.
You live in a #monarchy when contradicting the monarch is treason.
History tells us that even worrying about that is worrying about something that will be rendered moot by intervening events. Jet fuel is set to start running out in some countries by the start of next month.
It's a point that is reinforced time and again in so many big and little ways. It's not just the monarch; it is the tens of millions of loyal subjects as well, and also an entire royal court of toadies.
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That said, whilst I predicted back in 2024 that Trump's likely death in office and the advent of #PresidentVance will be what to watch for, the #FIFAWorldWar has changed my prediction.
More of the amusing things are that (a) the four kings all have a picture of #DonaldJTrump, and (b) none of the games is being played legally.
There are 5 cards, not 4, in a poker hand; that's not actually a checkmate on the chess board, and there seems to be too many/few of various pieces; and there are 3 throws in a darts round, not 6.
Even #Canada's reaction was underreported. Non-Canadian news organizations, apart from a few dedicated politics ones, didn't mention it, as far as I can see.
The big news, it seems, is that U.S.A. people who a few years ago would never have gainsaid #DonaldJTrump are now doing so publicly and often.
I wonder whether #PamBondi got rung up by a journalist for an opinion.
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As @JackTheCat has pointed out this morning, there has been very little response from the U.K. reported. But there has actually been very little response to that 'whole civilization' stuff reported from Europe as a whole, or Asia.
We got loads of U.S.A. politicians, the Pope, and the U.N. Secretary General.
Primarily, the domestic reaction is the most important to even non-U.S.A. newspapers.
Desperation, ego, and the sort of blindly obedient loyalty to another country that was then expected but not received from others in turn.
One can only imagine a world where the purported 'art of the deal' bloke had had the spine of those others, had said 'no' to joining in a war as they did, and had decided to keep on going with the then existing deal negotiations, instead.
The internal U.S.A. political fallout from yesterday has been massive.
@bodhipaksa makes a good point. Was there another mysterious set of high value market trades 15 minutes before *this* announcement?
It's a truly evil thing for someone to be profiteering off the back of threatened nuclear fallout (from bombing a nuclear power plant).
Perhaps the hacker of @keefeglise's account can explain the price dip + volume spike, about an hour before the Trump announcement, in WTI futures on the FT's chart.
We've really got to think of a better name for it than that.
Otherwise it's risking #NuclearWar as the result of a person who writes in all-caps on social media from the toilet having the same problem with being called 'chicken' as Marty McFly.
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