"Trump’s presidential legacy will be littered with political failures, broken guardrails, and the normalization of lying with impunity to the American people. We can repair much of this, but the loss of our allies and the empowerment of our adversaries will be harder to fix.
And it didn’t have to be."
~ Dan Rather
#Trump #Iran #war #NATO #StraitofHormuz #oil #gas #economy
/1
"Was the war just another distraction from the Epstein files? Or the tariff fiasco? Or the economy as a whole? Or Minneapolis? Was the Bondi firing a hoped-for distraction from the unpopular war? We have come full circle with diversion after diversion, as a deeply flawed president continues his efforts to redirect the narrative away from his latest failures."
#Trump #Iran #war #NATO #StraitofHormuz #oil #gas #economy
/2
"The White House mistakenly uploaded Donald Trump’s remarks at an Easter lunch, which was supposed to be closed to the press, to YouTube Wednesday, before realizing its error and making the link private."
~ Hafiz Rashid
#Trump #Iran #war #NATO #StraitofHormuz #oil #gas #economy
/3
https://newrepublic.com/post/208535/white-house-accidentally-easter-lunch-trump-speech
"In the speech, which Business Insider’s Bryan Metzger uploaded to X in full, Trump fantasizes about being a king, admits there’s no money left for health care or childcare because of the war he started, and daydreams about seizing all of Iran’s oil."
#Trump #Iran #war #NATO #StraitofHormuz #oil #gas #economy
/4
"The war in Iran, which Israel and Saudi Arabia prosecuted for their own purposes, is a perfect example of the type of trap that someone like Trump and the idiots he surrounds himself with would fall into. Believing they know better than the people who came before them, they thought the operation would conclude as quickly as the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro."
~ Jared Yates Sexton
#Trump #Iran #war #NATO #StraitofHormuz #oil #gas #economy #stupidity
/5
https://jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-plot-is-lost-leaderless-at-the
"Donald Trump last night vowed to bomb Iranians 'back to the Stone Ages, where they belong.'
That’s a phenomenally racist, crude and cruel thing to say.
But it’s also a promise to commit war crimes. It would require the mass destruction of civilian targets. …
Major news organizations are not covering this with the appropriate level of alarm or urgency."
~ Dan Froomkin
#Trump #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #oil #gas #economy #WarCrimes #media
/6
https://criticalread.substack.com/p/are-you-ready-for-some-war-crimes
"Stocks fell and oil prices soared, reaching $110 per barrel, on Trump’s vow 'to escalate attacks on Iran' in the words of the Associated Press. …
On Wednesday, Politico reported that the current price of oil (about $100 per barrel) is 'a baseline' for the White House."
~ John Stoehr
#Trump #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #oil #gas #economy #markets #StockMarket
/7
"They expect it to keep going up. Politico said they are not 'ruling out the possibility of prices rising as high as $200 per barrel.' That would put the national average price of gas at around $8 (or diesel at $12). …
So far, the lies have been working. Markets have shown a stunning willingness to believe him when he says the end of the war is around the corner. But the lies may soon stop working."
#Trump #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #oil #gas #economy #markets #StockMarket
/8
@wdlindsy Remember how Richard Nixon signed the Environmental Protection Act into law, creating the EPA, saving the Bald Eagle from extinction, cleaning up or air and waterways (aided by the Clean Air Act, etc)? Despite all the bad he did, there was that.
Trump may be remembered for ending the fossil fuel industry and ushering in an era of renewable and environmentally friendly energy sources. He could possibly destroy the oil industry. Wouldn't that be a hoot?
William Lindsey 
Karen E. Lund 💙💛