When you burn every bridge and then need a boat: Trump's Hormuz Humiliation

You cannot spend a year humiliating partners, slapping them with tariffs and calling their leaders fools and then expect them to sail their warships into your war.

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Trump brands Dem. candidate James Talarico ‘insult to Jesus’ for pro-trans stance

Donald Trump has branded Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico an “insult to Jesus” over his pro-trans stance. 

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https://theshovel.com.au/2026/03/18/worlds-greatest-negotiator-a-bit-out-of-his-depth-now/

The Best Dealmaker the World Has Ever Known is beginning to realise that starting a war with a hostile nation of 90 million people is a little more complicated than buying an apartment block in Manhattan.

Just weeks after bombing a sovereign nation without any thought of the consequences, Donald Trump was today simultaneously asking NATO allies to immediately send help and insisting he doesn’t need their help, a technique negotiation experts call “an absolute fucking shambles”.

With the terms of the war worsening, the master negotiator apparently threatened to walk away from the deal, before being told by aides that he had commenced a complex Middle Eastern war, not a real estate contract.

“Shouting at someone until they fold may work when you’re negotiating a hotel development. It’s not quite so effective when dealing with a fundamentalist regime that wants to destroy you, and not in a metaphorical sense,” one negotiation expert said.

Despite criticism from experts, MAGA enthusiasts insist Trump knows what he is doing. “Oil prices are rising, international trade is under threat, people are dying and everything is getting worse. As usual, Trump has all of the leverage here,” one supporter said.

Others agreed. “He is the master,” one man said. “I mean look at the situation as it stands. Iran controls a piece of water that handles a third of the world’s oil exports, its leadership is ideologically driven and will fight until the death, and it has a huge supply of drones that cost them $20,000 but cost us $4 million to shoot down. Trump is holding all the cards here”.

#USPol #TuckFrump #FuckRWNJs #magamorons #FuckChristoFascists #FuckAllReligion #OrangeOaf #HeyFascistCatch
World’s Greatest Negotiator a Bit Fucking out of His Depth Now Isn’t He — The Shovel

The Best Dealmaker the World Has Ever Known is beginning to realise that starting a war with a hostile nation of 90 million people is a little more complicated than buying an apartment block in Manhattan.

The Shovel
Rep. Finke Was Right: Age-Gating Isn’t About Kids, It’s About Control

What’s at stake is whether “protecting children” becomes a legal pretext for embedding government control over the internet to enforce specific moral and religious judgments—judgments that deny marginalized people access to speech, community, history, and truth—into law.

Electronic Frontier Foundation
will the rest of the rock really be so foolish, craven, & sycophantic as to submit to the latest dopey demand from the orange oaf to send their navies to mop up his #iran mess?

#auspol #USPol #TuckFrump #FuckRWNJs #magamorons #FuckChristoFascists #FuckAllReligion #OrangeOaf #HeyFascistCatch
hypothesis

magamoron stephen miller is an OTT performative angry arsehole coz he rages against his visual similarity to richard o'brien, thus fearing constant revelations of enjoying gadding about in fishnets & heels

discuss

#USPol #TuckFrump #FuckRWNJs #magamorons #FuckChristoFascists #FuckAllReligion #OrangeOaf #HeyFascistCatch #rockyhorrorpictureshow
articles like this just annoy & irritate me

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/climate-change-binary-frozen-weather

imo scientists need to stop being terrified of loudly publicly stating
the bleedin' obvious, viz:

it ain't
everyone who is one of these stupid boiling frogs. it is explicitly, specifically, that cohort of fools blinded by their RWNJ politics, &/or their idiotic skyfairy delusions. otoh, we sane moral peeps who do not succumb to such toxic fantasies, know full fucken well the severe crisis our forebears created & which contemporary humans continue to accelerate. we despair, & rage.

#ClimateCrisis #NonLinear #TippingPoints #PositiveFeedbackLoops #FossilFools #RenewableEnergy #ChangeTheSystem #StateCapture #RightToProtest #Biodiversity #WeAreTotallyFscked #Misanthropy #Karma #NativeForests #StopLoggingNativeForests #FsckCapitalism #CognitiveDissonance #FuckRWNJs #fuckALLreligion
Why we fail to notice climate change

People quickly normalize extreme weather. Simple visuals highlighting abrupt change could help climate change break through our mental blind spots.

Science News
fwiw, i reckon this mission is gonna fail, & those astronauts be gonna enter cark city

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/03/flying-to-the-moon-for-the-first-time-in-54-years-is-risky-but-how-risky/

not only for reasons mentioned in the article, but also
especially for political reasons. how can anyone watching, from afar, merka's descent into widespread political societal madness, with education & science replaced by cant, hate, ignorance, religious ideology, & once-serious organisations destroyed by unqualified appointments of know-nothing sycophants, possibly feel missions like this to be untainted?

#nasa #moon #artemis #USPol #TuckFrump #FuckRWNJs #magamorons #FuckChristoFascists #FuckAllReligion #OrangeOaf #HeyFascistCatch
NASA officials sidestepped questions on Artemis II risks—there's a reason why

This ought to make for some good reading," NASA's mission management team chair said.

Ars Technica