Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉

Man, Orange Cheeto surrendered.

I thought the US was just going to commit a bunch of war crimes and get away with it. And now, the Mossad, the CIA, the Israelis and the Americans have been shown to be a collection of incompetent criminals.

The hubris of Trumpism really infects everything it touches.

And yet, Iran is committed to extract the guarantees from these losers that it demanded since the start.

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Show threadMiguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉Mar 23
What are the odds
Show threadMiguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉Mar 23
Oops https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/us-secs-ex-enforcement-chief-clashed-with-bosses-before-leaving-sources-say-2026-03-23/
Show threadGabriel NMar 24

@Migueldeicaza

“Remarkable”

(in the soothing voice of Terry Gross, from NPR)

Show threadJohn RegehrMar 24
@Migueldeicaza I hope people are taking good notes and I hope there's enough of a trail left to do something about this, assuming we end up with a government here
Show threadMiguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉Mar 24
@regehr i want a solid swing on the other direction. Like pendulum going batshit insane
Show threadHenryk PlötzMar 24
@Migueldeicaza Some people have all the luck!
Show threadMartin SeegerMar 24
@Migueldeicaza I always have to think of the play "Mother courage and her children" when all her children have been killed in the war and she says the final line "I have to get back into business".
Show threadViolet MadderMar 24

@Migueldeicaza

OUR LIVES ARE VIDEO GAME BLIPS TO THESE ASSHOLES

Show threadMarjorieRMar 24
@Migueldeicaza what's the odds?
Under the Trump mal-administration this happens every time. What's the point of engineering or even stumbling into a crisis or u-turn if you don't also make a profit by front-running the market reaction?
Show threadR Tyler Croy 🦀Mar 23
@Migueldeicaza 🌮
Show threadMiguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉Mar 23
@rtyler haha exactly
Show threadKat the LeopardessMar 23
@Migueldeicaza Trump making sure your Cassandra Complex goes brrrrrrr every day of the week.
Show threadDFYXMar 23

@Migueldeicaza CNN: 'Trump says US held 'productive conversations' with Tehran, but Iran's foreign ministry denies any dialogue with Washington.'

What do we want to bet that his underlings just put him in a video conference with a random guy who looks vaguely middle eastern to keep him occupied?

Show threadDFYXMar 23

@Migueldeicaza And to be honest, that sounds like a good first step for proper containment.

Slowly replace all outside contact with paid actors until we have him in a full Truman Show where he can act out his power fantasies while the rest of us can move on.

Show threadHuman Brain EnthusiastMar 23
@Migueldeicaza I don’t know if they’re just that stupid or if it’s some extremely criminal market manipulation literally paid for with blood, taxpayer money and alienating allies.
Show threadMiguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉Mar 23

@thomasfuchs I think that both are happening. They are certainly doing a lot of insider trading, but not everyone is catching every opportunity.

I think they also had plans along the lines of “Iran is done in a week” that blew up in their faces, and some of those shorts/puts have gone sideways too.

Show threadBillMar 23
@Migueldeicaza Maybe @unusual_whales can dig a little deeper and figure out who is benefiting when mangotits manipulates the market like this?
Show threadPanderito Mar 23
@Migueldeicaza they still made money from it.
Show threadjwzMar 23
@Migueldeicaza Continually amazed that I share a planet with people who can see a graph that shows "added $2 trillion in ~15 minutes" and understand that as something other than "someone typed some zeroes in a spreadsheet of made-up bullshit".
Show threadThe Penguin of EvilMar 23
@Migueldeicaza So now go look who played the market for those movements and actually pocketed real billions as opposed to merely talked about hope value
Show threadEric VitielloMar 23
@Migueldeicaza it all looks like stock market manipulation. every damn time.
Show threadMiguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉Mar 23
@pixel like that way, multiple reports
Show threadEric VitielloMar 23
@Migueldeicaza oh geez I didn’t see your replies to your post
Show threadMiguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉Mar 24
@pixel I posted them after you brought it up. I saw it earlier today