@qasimrashid.com:
NYT reporting that under this ceasefire each ship will pay $2M to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. It was $0 before Trump launched this illegal war.
100-130 ships pass the Strait daily.
Trump just gave Iran an extra $100M-$130M per day. Masterful gambit, sir. Impeach and remove this fascist—NOW.
King Orange will never leave “his” WH. I bet he has dirt on many in his corrupt party, thus why they bow to his every fucking corrupt cruel thieving move and word. I bet he has dirt on Mark Carney too, thus why he’s been a blubbering fool when it comes to Trump, and gives him more than he demands.
Exactly what Putin ordered from his Poodle.
@saddletramp.bsky.social:
And there’s been no regime change. On the other hand, a few people made an awful lot of money and we all forgot about the Epstein files.
@danetchells.bsky.social:
And Israel have taken over a chunk of Lebanon…
And Trump has even more of an excuse to do nothing for Ukraine…
And Russia is richer…
@paranoidadnoid.bsky.social:
And China is now the stable option for a global hegemon.
@paranoidadnoid.bsky.social:
To be fair, $2m per tanker is a bargain. That’s only 0.8% the cost of rescuing a single downed pilot.
@paulhurt.bsky.social:
Is the US government going to pay the fee for every tanker that passes thru the strait? Maybe Trump and Hegseth could split the cost between them.
@stardust1618.bsky.social:
Sure. And Trump will receive a royalty to his Qatar bank account.
@paulhurt.bsky.social:
He’d try to add 15% sales commission for facilitating the payments, wouldn’t he?
50% surely. Thats a trump branded achievement, you got to pay for that trump “expertise”
Paul Hurt @paulhurt.bsky.social:
You know how I thought I was joking? Seems not so much. bsky.app/profile/ones…
@jowright1305.bsky.social:
He’s missing the detail that Trump, his family and acolytes have enriched themselves by gaming the markets from beginning to end.
@wokeyvegan.bsky.social:
3 more years? This “Government” needs emasculating in the midterms, quickly followed by impeachment, trials and prison sentences, or there will be nothing but civil war for the US.
@mackanory.bsky.social:
I don’t think this will happen at all. These ten years will be filed away as the next “late unpleasantness” in the spirit of moving on.
That the Dems stood by yesterday and did nothing with WW3 potentially hours away proved that your established opposition is utterly useless.
@godsowncountry.bsky.social:
Xi stayed quiet throughout and increased his standing in the world. Always respect the quiet man.
Netanyahu and Putin laughing this morning.
The ceasefire won’t hold, the US influence globally is now in the gutter.
At what stage will Arab nations evict US forces from the region?
Clusterfuck!
@xiratho.bsky.social:
Nothing has changed. Trump can/will just change his mind tomorrow.
Rhodes has it exactly right. Iran took brutal bombing by the US and Israeli forces for 6 weeks and was undeterred. They learned that they can hold world oil markets hostage applying immense pressure on the global economy. Many are dead, many $$ spent and the US is worse off – Iran is stronger.
@amirattaran.bsky.social:
Now, how’s Trump going to feel when Pakistani Prime Minister Sharif gets the Nobel Peace Prize this year?
TACO TUESDAY!
Trump has to cease firing on Iran, and Iran still controls passage into and out of Hormuz.
USA – 0
IRAN – 1
Iran did not control Hormuz before Trump had his tantrum of a war. Now they do. …
I cannot believe how arrogant and stupid Trump and his pigeons are, many of them raging lunatic anti-vaxxers, like many in Canada fuelled by Trump and Putin’s disinformation.
@bullwark.bsky.social:
Important to remember that 15 mins ago we were on the brink of World War III, global collapse and potential nuclear Armageddon and not a single person from either party in the federal government did a single fucking thing to stop it. He got cold feet of his own volition. They didn’t lift a finger.I think someone – perhaps Iran – reminded him of the tapes of him and Epstein raping and murdering kids
Most didnt leave their houses, no one canceled prior engagements, or booked emergency flights. There were no emergency zoom sessions or or demands. They had interns draft tweets and probably called their stock brokers. This entire government has abdicated any desire to actually govern.or, they knew Iran has copies of the tapes?
@deonandan.bsky.social:
Real talk:
- Trump doesn’t want to cross that line, but right now he doesn’t know how not to
- He has effective immunity against all war crimes, thanks to the Supreme Court
- The only mitigating card in play is that wealthy donors are leery of the decline of US prestige on the world stagetoo late
@dartmouthderek.bsky.social:
Anyways, check to see which of his cronies made millions manipulating markets again based on insider info relating to the timing of all these announcements.
@samthielman.com:
Personally I think when a world leader announces “Tune in tonight at 8pm Eastern to watch the world end” like it’s the fucking season premiere of Roseanne we should have a different leader the next day.
@maxwellfrost.bsky.social:
The President is openly threatening genocide. A crime against humanity. He must be removed from office.
The 25th Amendment must be invoked. If not, Congress has to do our damn job. Speaker Johnson, call us into session. War powers & impeachment. Remove this man from office.and put the sadistic monster in prison where he belongs
@tryangregory.bsky.social:
….any deal achieved by threatening genocide is extortion on the scale of a crime against humanity.
@jushinsuave.bsky.social:
I hope Americans are prepared for a very violent future. If we do not do something about this President and his threats/actions then we will not have peace. Globally we will be ostracized even after he is long gone. I don’t think people realize how bad this is.
@onestpress.onestnetwork.com:
In other words:
US doesn’t attack — Iran doesn’t respond.
Iran’s military controls the strait.
This is worse than what it was before it all started, and there’s no peaceful way out of it.
“The Art of The Deal”.
@jesseduquette.bsky.social:
Surround your state capitol, get to the White House if you can and remind these fuckers who they work for and serve.
@jamespmcleod.ca:
Canada should be working to oppose the United States, but I’m damn sure not going to be lectured about our responsibilities by a bunch of Americans who are doing far more to appease Trump than basically any other nation on Earth.
@my-random-name.bsky.social:
I just hope that Iran is smart enough to NOT trust the US or Israel.
@stevedemos66.bsky.social:
Consummated? Consummated?
It sounds like he’s negotiating a deal with Epstein.I bet Iran has copies of the rape and snuff tapes
@poe08.bsky.social:
So $4 a gallon is going to stay because of tolls we didn’t have 6 weeks ago…Just the most inept administration to ever hold power in the US.Gaosline will have to go much higher. Companies are not going to pay the Hormuz fees, we will. Time to pressure Trump and his criminal team to go EV.
@ssshupe.bsky.social:
Who would enter into a deal with Trump? His word is worthless.Ya, but there’s those tapes …
@sethabramson.bsky.social:
Trump is a terrorist. The news from Tehran is that highways running north from the city of 10 million have had traffic patterns changed so all lanes—on both sides of the road—let innocents flee north to avoid Trump’s Reign of Terror. Think of all the kids being traumatized today.and, kids around the world terrorized, including in America.
Ceasefire off to a great start
Trump on social media screeching about how CNN must be criminally prosecuted for the reporting below
Americans still not understanding that this psychopath would 10 times out of 10 kill 20+ million rather than admit he got his ass handed to him
@tryangregory.bsky.social:
And bigly.
I’ve said it before: as bad as the post-apocalyptic world will surely be, the current pre-apocalyptic world is exhausting.
@timothysnyder.bsky.social:
Trump lost this war in every possible sense — morally, legally, politically, economically, reputationally, and strategically.
@stewartprest.ca:
I hope we’re not going to memory hole the fact a sitting US President threatened to destroy an entire country and its culture—a “civilization”. That’s not something you can come back from. The fact that it is likely a crass performative bluff for bargaining leverage does not excuse it in any sense.
@soniasulaiman.bsky.social:
I honestly suspect that he vacillates like this in order to push what people will accept as a norm. The news cycle has moved on from him kidnapping the president of Venezuela, or threatening to invade Greenland, or colonizing Palestine or— it’s not distraction.
It’s abuser behaviour.
@AdameMedia:
I don’t trust Trump.
I don’t trust Netanyahu.
But I do trust Iran.Same. Iran showed incredible restraint, and is far superior than American, in many ways. People scream but, how Iran treats women. Well, I scream, how America treats women and girls; America is much worse.
They’ve played this war perfectly.
Why doubt them now?
AMERICA GETS:
- $40+ billion wasted
- Hundreds of Americans wounded
- Dozens killed
- Oil prices doubled
- U.S. bases wiped out
- Petrodollar dead
- Europe 📉
IRAN GETS:
- To keeps its uranium
- Sanctions lifted
- Charge tolls on the Strait of Hormuz
ART OF THE DEAL!
@self.agency:
he’s openly threatening genocide because he wants to take someone else’s oil and shipping lanes
@tlecaque.bsky.social:
“History will judge-” let me stop you right fucking there, history doesn’t do fucking shit, I’m a historian, let’s be clear here: elected officials need to do their fucking jobs, right now, before it happens, or future historians will judge THEM. Everyone knows and knew who Trump was.
@self.agency:
um so who’s bringing sanctions against the u.s.? why isn’t the unsc calling an emergency meeting? why aren’t democrats doing a full court press for impeachment? this shit makes putin look moderate by comparison.Trump is Putin’s Poodle, the world ought to know that by now
@sashafury.blackskycomra.de:
Mark Carney was elected specifically to oppose Trump yet cannot manage even the barest criticism of Trump’s unprovoked war and threats of genocide and nuclear attack.
@tryangregory.bsky.social:
Can’t even call out overtly genocidal threats by Trump. Elbows all the way down.
@tryangregory.bsky.social:
There is quite literally nothing Carney can do that his fans won’t praise. If he had called out Trump’s overt threat to commit genocide, they’d be cheering “Elbows up!”. If he does a spineless both sides, he’s brilliantly avoiding poking the bear. If he says nothing, he’s tactfully patient. If…
It’s staggering how committed they are to their invented image of him.
but Herr Carney will do nothing, but blubber and lie
@amirattaran.bsky.social:
Genocide is the severest crime.
Israel is doing a genocide. America is threatening one. Yet Canada holds they are allies while Iran is the enemy. Discuss.
@stunnedsilence.bsky.social:
Global consumer boycott of US goods, services and culture. Now.I’ve been boycotting their Nazi shit for a year
@marygillis.bsky.social:
I wonder how long it will take for Carney to release a statement urging both sides to not destroy any civilizations in Iran.
Trump in 2015: “I think, for me, nuclear is just the power, the devastation is very important to me.” He know this. He WANTS this. Source below: www.motherjones.com/politics/201…
@amirattaran.bsky.social:
Nice words, Mr Carney. So how about closing Canada’s airspace to all US military flights?
@brianplatt.bsky.social:
Carney on Trump/Iran: “Canada expects all parties in this conflict, in any conflict, to respect international laws, the rules of engagement, and that means not targeting certainly civilians or civilian infrastructure, and we urge all parties in this war to follow those responsibilities.”
@amirattaran.bsky.social:
Spain did. Austria did. What about you, Carney?
@amirattaran.bsky.social:
Now that Trump is threatening genocide–for that is what “a whole civilization will die” means–do states have a legal duty to stop him, including by lethal force if necessary? I think the answer to this is “Yes” and it needs to be discussed rationally.
The Genocide Convention makes it a duty of all states (whether they signed it or not) to prevent genocide. In the past, that duty has been interpreted to justify lethal force. Even America itself invoked it in Kosovo.
But Trump has not resorted to genocide yet. Lethal force is therefore uncalled for–but discussing it is timely, because he might cross that line as soon as tonight, he says. Which would make it timely, if carried out lawfully.
When can it be lawful? Two answers:
- When he issues an order to commit genocide. If the military refused his order and used deadly force against him as an act of necessity, I think that would be lawful.
- If the genocidal act actually happens. At that point, any state may use force against him.
We need a rational discussion, starting now, of these options. Such a discussion has been had about Putin, al-Bashir, and Netanyahu, among others. Time to have the same about Trump.
What if we do not have that discussion?
Then we have a madman capable of nuclear annihilation, openly threatening genocide. Not even Putin has done that.
Trump is already past the point where Putin won’t go.
Today is the day all American allies need to pull all cooperation with this war.
But do not take my word for it. This is what the US Government itself said in its Genocide Prevention Task Force, and simply put, America’s stated that it is lawful to use force to prevent genocide, even without Security Council approval:
@amirattaran.bsky.social:
He’s psychotic. Totally apeshit.
