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Well, at least [cough] it will [clears throat] - excuse me - spur Americans to embrace [snort chuckle] EVs, solar [phbbt!] and vegetable - [phbbbt] hee hee hee - protein hahaha OMG we’ll drink it straight from the gas pump and bathe in it we’d give up sex first … Hang on - let me try that again …

Playing "Bridge Troll" as a protection racket is at least partly why the KKKristofascists and their Mango Messiah have been yammering about the Panama Canal and got involved in this Iran holy war bullshit. Iran turning that back around is hilarious.

I didn't know that example! you should get more folks on social realizing everything new in the news is really just regression to something old.

Who says Trump is not a job creator - Iran needs tollgate operators who can also shoot drones

Couldn't the depraved trump regime counter this by attacking whatever ships Iran does allow through? Forcing an 'everybody passes through or nobody does' policy.

#Trump #Hormuz #Iran #FAFO

Thanks Obama?

I’m sure Taylor Sheridan will find a way to blame it all on big city liberals and the women on The View…

honestly good for them

Hopefully our CIA can destabilize them by infiltrating Trump's tariff experts into their plan

Later, when they're tolling the straight and we're not bombing them.

The Art of the Deal!

Society if death to the Great Satan.

Since he murdered hundreds of children, this is still insufficient

Honest question I haven't seen reporting on. If theyre tolling then they're letting traffic through. If they were shouldn't crisis be easing? If they're not than tolling is on tiny transit for tiny revenues, right?

Which is why USA and Israel are furiously destroying Iranian infrastructure right, so the price tag for repairs will be bigger than Iran's gains.

Now they don't need to actually build a nuclear weapon. Trump has fucked up so badly, he's actually made the world a safer place.

And settled in what currency exactly? Renminbi? Say hello to the Petro-Yuan.

Trump even brought it up in his concession speech last night.

And here's Trump, rewarding Iran for permantly raising the price of petrochemicals.

They could kill the Petro dollar. That would hurt.

Yeah, I know they're doing it already, it depends how far they push it, and whether they make it ideological and insist on Chinese or other allied currency, or if they start accepting yen and euros for example.

So Trump did MIGA, Make Iran Great Again

I think this kind of money for Iran is going to be a red line for Netanyahou. This won't be the stable system state.

This administration is comprised of immature, little brats at every turn. Way past time to take the tvs, video games and laptops from every member of the administration.

Oh yes, both #Netanjahu and #TRump lost the war now. Time to face the facts: open.substack.com/pub/tilmanei...

And tolls are, in fact, paid by outside companies and countries.

Trump 2023: Biden and the Dems caused Oct. 7 by giving Iran $6 billion. Trump 2026: [Gives Iran $114 billion]

It sure sounds like something Trump would do if he had the chance. Panama canal gonna be back on his radar soon i bet…

I agree that this could be what's happening, just we're getting mixed reporting if its $2m per vessel (with an implicit assumption that the typical VLCC has ~2m barrel capacity) or $1 per barrel. If its $1 per barrel then we know the typical volume is 20m b/d through the strait.

And, Iran will never accept or go back to the prior sanctions regime. I also suspect that they will shortly confirm that they are pulling out of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty.

Trump en 2018 rompió unilateralmente un acuerdo con UE e Irán de no proliferación nuclear, hasta esa fecha tuvieron acceso total los inspectores de la UE a todas sus instalaciones de enriquecimiento de uranio, por su culpa no pudieron entrar más, ahora no se sabe que hicieron o no.

I'm sure this was his plan; he does nothing unless there is something in it for him.

The Iranian regime is realizing they are now in a better position thanks to Trump's stupidity. Couldn't have happened otherwise.

The standoff was: if Iran tolls the strait, the US will bomb them. But the US did the punishment. And is still doing it. So there's literally no downside for Iran to toll the strait now. It's pure upside now. Brilliant strategery from the USA.

They don't call him senile orange for nothing.

Trump's authority ends at the water's edge and on Jan 20th 2029 unless he is removed from office first.

They're Walder Frey and Trump is Tywin Lannister. Crazy.

And Russia!

Fantastic article. Thank you for sharing here. Since the use of military force to open the Strait would at best result in a pyrrhic victory, guessing Iran will remain in charge of their toll waterway for the time being. How the shooting resolves is a whole different matter.

Iran should name it the Trump-Epstein Toll

Open the Strait or we'll kill your leaders. "You are killing our leaders anyway." Open the Strait or we'll bomb your facilities. "You are bombing our facilities anyway." Open the Strait or we'll invade your islands. "We welcome the opportunity to slaughter your soldiers."

…I think, at least for the international audience (and to further annoy Trump), coming up with an appropriate nickname that includes Netanyahu somehow would be most appropriate…..I like that ‘BB gun’ is so diminutive — maybe ‘BB Trump toll gate’ or something similar….

Thanks to that genius … uh, I mean dickhead … Trump

It occurs to me now, in a "should have been obvious" way, that Trump thought killing Khomeini was a big Win Button because the reverse would be true in his mind for the US. Narcissism is a hell of a drug.

Inverse Barbary pirates.

After 80 years, American stupidity has reached the top.

Denmark did that for centuries. The straits of Malacca will be next.

Like when you finally put a fence up to keep the pigs out of your garden.

There's always his eye-linered, sycophantic, squeeze box VP.

Trump will offer Putin complete ownership of USA policy plus Texas for one trillion dollars cash and all ownership rights to Kaliningrad Oblast.

Vaya yo me pregunto que hubiera sido de los MAGA, si a Trump le hubieran dado el tiro en el culo en vez de la oreja, no quiero ni imaginar el espectáculo. 😳😳😨😨😨😱😱😱😱 🤣😅😂😆😀😄🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲