War with Iran

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:🇦🇪⚡ BREAKING – The UAE announces a ban on photography and warns against publishing any photos or videos of ongoing events, stating that all mobile phones are under full surveillance by national cybersecurity authorities.

That just tells me Iran must be hitting them very hard.

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Anonymous wrote:Here's where Trump's idiocy is going to bite MAGA in the ass... Oil prices are going to go up because a.) Iran has closed the Straits of Hormuz and b.) is attacking oil infrastructure -

The idiocy part of it is Trump attacking EVs, renewable energy, fuel efficiency standards, keeping us dependent on oil, including a lot of foreign oil.

WE NEED TO GET OFF OF OIL AS A FUEL. Period. Use it for lubricants and other things but it's stupid for us to be as dependent as we are on critical infrastructure. This even affects people who don't have cars because so much of our goods are shipped around the country via long haul diesel trucks instead of electric trains and other means. We should have made the pivot decades ago but instead we have been systematically lied to with literal billions poured into disinfo undermining renewables from the fossil fuel industry.

I guess Iran said that if Israel/USA are going to frack up their infrastructure and oil economy with the support of Arab countries, some of them will feel some similar pain. Interesting how hard they are going after the UAE, first the hotel, the port and now oil tanker. I found this political comic is interesting for how some in the region are feeling.
https://x.com/RwigaraA40318/status/2028124279242400219/photo/1

How is the futures stock market looking? They were bragging about the dow breaking 50,000 except that already receded due to a crappy PPI inflation report Friday plus was already lower after Trump doubled down on tariffs after the SC decision.

The US is BLEEDING jobs under Trump. And now it will get worse.

We shall see in about 18 hours, but I think investors may have already built this war into their investments> the market dropped heavily the past two days

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Libs love Iranian suppression of women and gays.

What they hate is freedom and capitalism.

Trump is a existential threat

WTF is wrong with you? What Dem has praised Iranian suppression of women and gays? Cite specifics.

What Dem has condemned Islamic oppression of women?

Their women don’t feel oppressed. Who are we to tell someone they’re oppressing women? America won’t even elect a woman president
And ignores sex trafficking of young girls happening right here in the US

A whole lot of women in Iran do not want to wear the hajab and follow other draconian practices. This is what I mean by turning a blind eye!

A whole lot of women in Iran do not want to die either

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:🇦🇪⚡ BREAKING – The UAE announces a ban on photography and warns against publishing any photos or videos of ongoing events, stating that all mobile phones are under full surveillance by national cybersecurity authorities.

lol. They don't want to show panic.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Here's where Trump's idiocy is going to bite MAGA in the ass... Oil prices are going to go up because a.) Iran has closed the Straits of Hormuz and b.) is attacking oil infrastructure -

The idiocy part of it is Trump attacking EVs, renewable energy, fuel efficiency standards, keeping us dependent on oil, including a lot of foreign oil.

WE NEED TO GET OFF OF OIL AS A FUEL. Period. Use it for lubricants and other things but it's stupid for us to be as dependent as we are on critical infrastructure. This even affects people who don't have cars because so much of our goods are shipped around the country via long haul diesel trucks instead of electric trains and other means. We should have made the pivot decades ago but instead we have been systematically lied to with literal billions poured into disinfo undermining renewables from the fossil fuel industry.

I’m in my 50s. I remember lots of people saying this in the late 70s after the Iranian revolution and the opec stuff left us all sitting there with lights off and warm cardigans and gas lines. I also remember people saying it after 9/11 when it became clear our gas money had funded our own attack. It is constantly amazing to me that republicans aren’t concerned about this as a national security issue. I feel like the majority of my life has been spent in a stupid merry go round on this issue where we end up in exactly the same place — still dependent on middle eastern oil instead of figuring out a sustainable way to make our own energy.

Also, doesn’t this all help Russia? It probably just gave them enough economic juice to continue on ….

Yes it helps Russia. The US and Israelis did not target the drone facility making all the Russian drones used against the Ukrainians. Wonder why?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Here's where Trump's idiocy is going to bite MAGA in the ass... Oil prices are going to go up because a.) Iran has closed the Straits of Hormuz and b.) is attacking oil infrastructure -

The idiocy part of it is Trump attacking EVs, renewable energy, fuel efficiency standards, keeping us dependent on oil, including a lot of foreign oil.

WE NEED TO GET OFF OF OIL AS A FUEL. Period. Use it for lubricants and other things but it's stupid for us to be as dependent as we are on critical infrastructure. This even affects people who don't have cars because so much of our goods are shipped around the country via long haul diesel trucks instead of electric trains and other means. We should have made the pivot decades ago but instead we have been systematically lied to with literal billions poured into disinfo undermining renewables from the fossil fuel industry.

I’m in my 50s. I remember lots of people saying this in the late 70s after the Iranian revolution and the opec stuff left us all sitting there with lights off and warm cardigans and gas lines. I also remember people saying it after 9/11 when it became clear our gas money had funded our own attack. It is constantly amazing to me that republicans aren’t concerned about this as a national security issue. I feel like the majority of my life has been spent in a stupid merry go round on this issue where we end up in exactly the same place — still dependent on middle eastern oil instead of figuring out a sustainable way to make our own energy.

Also, doesn’t this all help Russia? It probably just gave them enough economic juice to continue on ….

Yes, I was explaining this yesterday. If the war is short-lived, it will be fine. The truth of the matter is, Iran cannot defy all their neighbors plus Israel plus the US all at the same time. It's in a bind, because the only cards it can play are cards that hurt its immediate neighbors, who have oil to move in the Persian Gulf. How badly is each neighboring country going to react? We don't know yet. But if the conflict drags on and the straights of Hormuz stay unsafe for months on end... Russia might get enough of a boost to make the difference in Ukraine.

Hitting oil fields isn’t just hitting at their neighbors. Oil is the center of the global economy. The house of cards falls once gas prices rise which means grocery prices rise, electricity prices rise, the price to commute to work or airline. travel prices rise, consumer spending dips when gas prices skyrocket, market confidence shakes. We saw this tailspin before with the Iraq war in 2008 oil crisis. Remember when gas was 5 dollars a gallon and then suddenly people stopped spending like crazy, then the market crash happened? This is all connected

PP you replied to. Calm down. Right now Iran is locked into a race against the clock to hit as many US and Israeli-linked bases as it can, including ships, to preserve its missile launch capacity before it gets taken out. It's a sitting duck. Oil rigs are not a priority at all (and may have been a mistake, or even fake news - don't forget that some people will try to recirculate old videos from years past).

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[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:🇦🇪⚡ BREAKING – The UAE announces a ban on photography and warns against publishing any photos or videos of ongoing events, stating that all mobile phones are under full surveillance by national cybersecurity authorities.

That just tells me Iran must be hitting them very hard.

The Iran regime is not going anywhere. The old conservative cleric who allowed inspectors on their soil was killed. Wonder what the next will do?

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First US deaths have occurred.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:🇦🇪⚡ BREAKING – The UAE announces a ban on photography and warns against publishing any photos or videos of ongoing events, stating that all mobile phones are under full surveillance by national cybersecurity authorities.

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Never a good sign if government officials want no witnesses/evidence . 🤔

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Anonymous wrote:Here's where Trump's idiocy is going to bite MAGA in the ass... Oil prices are going to go up because a.) Iran has closed the Straits of Hormuz and b.) is attacking oil infrastructure -

The idiocy part of it is Trump attacking EVs, renewable energy, fuel efficiency standards, keeping us dependent on oil, including a lot of foreign oil.

WE NEED TO GET OFF OF OIL AS A FUEL. Period. Use it for lubricants and other things but it's stupid for us to be as dependent as we are on critical infrastructure. This even affects people who don't have cars because so much of our goods are shipped around the country via long haul diesel trucks instead of electric trains and other means. We should have made the pivot decades ago but instead we have been systematically lied to with literal billions poured into disinfo undermining renewables from the fossil fuel industry.

I guess Iran said that if Israel/USA are going to frack up their infrastructure and oil economy with the support of Arab countries, some of them will feel some similar pain. Interesting how hard they are going after the UAE, first the hotel, the port and now oil tanker. I found this political comic is interesting for how some in the region are feeling.
https://x.com/RwigaraA40318/status/2028124279242400219/photo/1

How is the futures stock market looking? They were bragging about the dow breaking 50,000 except that already receded due to a crappy PPI inflation report Friday plus was already lower after Trump doubled down on tariffs after the SC decision.

The US is BLEEDING jobs under Trump. And now it will get worse.

We shall see in about 18 hours, but I think investors may have already built this war into their investments> the market dropped heavily the past two days

It dropped heavily for other reasons though (dropped as soon as Trump reinstated tariffs, then again when the PPI inflation report was bad and way over estimates Fri morning)

[Anonymous]

“The U.S. airbase at Iraq’s Erbil international airport is on fire following counter attacks by Iran.“

[Anonymous]

So pathetic that in 2026, men still believe that killing each other is a good way to solve disagreements.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Trump got what he really wanted: mass distraction from the Epstein files and those missing pages with the underage credible witnesses making accusations against him.

+0.75. (I agree Trump wanted a distraction from Epstein; don’t know one way or the other about the underage witnesses or whether they’re credible.)

Let’s make sure it doesn’t work.