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TRUMP STRAIT???

Damn straight!

James Joyner
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The commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces, the sole decider on the unleashing of the world’s foremost nuclear arsenal, sent this out on his personal media account earlier today:

Food for thought.

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12 responses to “TRUMP STRAIT???”

  1. Harry Kirschner Avatar
    Harry Kirschner

    Makes Gen. Jack Ripper look sane.

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  2. Daryl Avatar
    Daryl

    No one who wears that much make-up and hairspray, not to mention high heels, is strait.

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  3. Kathy Avatar
    Kathy

    I ask again: if El Taco controls Hormuz, why is he keeping shipment through it bottled up?

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  4. reid Avatar
    reid

    Just how many people voted for Trump and all of this resulting babbling idiocy because of Kamala’s laugh…? I guess her laugh wasn’t “hot”.

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    1. Daryl Avatar
      Daryl

      And the original sin; “…but her emails!!!

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  5. Scott Avatar
    Scott

    Who to believe?

    Divide between energy trackers and the White House deepens over how much oil is getting through the Strait of Hormuz

    This Monday in the Strait of Hormuz was either a great or terrible day for the global economy, depending on whom you ask.

    Ship-tracking service Kpler reported that “traffic declined sharply,” with just five ships crossing on Monday, the same day that the US and Iran exchanged fire for the first time in a month. The data platform documented a mix of official ships as well as shadow vessels using concealment tactics.

    Yet the picture from the Trump administration couldn’t have been more different, with Energy Secretary Chris Wright saying in a CNBC interview that over 17 million barrels of oil passed through the waterway on Monday. Wright called it a record since the beginning of the conflict.

    Now the largest supertankers can carry up to 3 million barrels. So both could be right?

    Wright’s figures are rooted in claims from the Trump administration that dozens of ships are being assisted by the US Navy each night, undetected by commercial shipping trackers. Kpler and others use satellite imagery and other tools to gauge traffic in the waterway that is about 21 miles wide at its narrowest point.
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    The IMF and Oxford University have documented fewer than five oil tanker crossings per day and overall crossing numbers in the single digits for weeks — far below the pre-conflict level of roughly 120 vessels (including dozens of tankers) per day.
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    Maritime crude oil tracker TankerTrackers.com on Wednesday offered its latest estimate of crude oil movement specifically, saying that since a ceasefire between the US and Iran broke down in mid-July, an average of about 4.9 million barrels of oil have passed through the strait per day.

    1. Daryl Avatar
      Daryl

      Wright’s figures are rooted in claims from the Trump administration that dozens of ships are being assisted by the US Navy each night, undetected by commercial shipping trackers

      Of course they are super secret double invisibility tankers. Just take our word for it.

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  6. gVOR10 Avatar
    gVOR10

    I’ll grant Trump that at the moment the Strait is “hotter” than before.

  7. Moosebreath Avatar
    Moosebreath

    I prefer the Canadian proposal to rename the canal ships take to avoid Niagara Falls as the “Strait of Our Moose”.

  8. Scott F. Avatar
    Scott F.

    This is a renaming I fully endorse. Please do it now, starting today.

    Then tomorrow the headlines start…
    War continues in Trump Strait.
    Another tanker damaged in Trump Strait.
    Insurance rates for passage through Trump Strait are extreme.
    American casualties in Trump Strait.
    No ceasefire in sight for Trump Strait.

    If he’s so jacked up to put his name on things, let him put his name on this shit show.

    This reminds me of how the Republicans put the name Obamacare on the ACA thinking it would be derisive. Now, something people value has Obama’s name all over it. Oops.

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  9. steve222 Avatar
    steve222

    What is sad is that half of the country supports this talk and behavior.

    Steve

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  10. JohnSF Avatar
    JohnSF

    Please, just do it, Donald.
    The humiliation resulting would be … magnificent.

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