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One of the craziest and stupidest ideas Trump has had... The US Navy is ordered to keep the Red Sea open by escorting oil tankers.

How can this work? Don't they have Navy stuff to do? Don't they have to go home eventually? They'll probably ACCIDENTALLY sink more oil tankers than the Iranians do.

Did nobody tell him the worst case is that the new leadership is WORSE and more dangerous?

Update: Reza Pahlavi has named himself transitional leader for life

Basically it's for stealth MAGAs who like many of Trump's policies but wish it was done tastefully in a smart way, instead of loudly in the stupidest way possible

Update: Reza Pahlavi has named himself transitional leader for life

BTW I mean this fairly literally...

He's not the most untrained and incompetent person Trump could FIND, obviously, but Hegseth is likely the most untrained and incompetent person in America who could have gotten confirmed.

Hungary’s Orban orders extra security, alleges Ukraine attacks plot PM Viktor Orban and his Fidesz party face their strongest challenge in parliamentary elections scheduled for April 12.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/...

Hungary’s Viktor Orbán seeking to drum up votes by doing down Ukraine EU’s longest-serving leader hopes to retain power by telling voters the main threat to country comes from Kyiv

Part of some kind of scheme to rig or cancel the election

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

DOD Panics That Iran War Will Use up All U.S. Air Defense Supplies Pentagon officials are worried about the operation lasting “more than a few days.”

Trump WANTED this. Trump intended catastrophic blunders to happen regularly, which is why he drove out experienced generals and named the most untrained and incompetent person he could find as Secretary of Defense.

newrepublic.com/post/207205/...

US: I'm attacking Iran because they have nuclear weapons World:Why don't you attack Russia? US: Are you crazy? They have nuclear weapons

Keep in mind The Atlantic loves regime change. They're egging him on, cheering him on.

Attempted assassin tried the old judo chop to the back of the neck

If Iran is going to be handled like Venezuela, does that mean it can remain an outlaw state but now it has to kick
some money upstairs to the Capo di Tutti Capi?

Just checked in to Twitter to see how things are going these days.

Just normal stuff, like spammers are trying to expose all the users to child pornography.

Classic wartime president - fussing over the drapes and thinking about how his solid gold ballroom is coming along

Dunno, that's probably a LOT of nuclear power plants in orbit, as geosynchronous orbit is too far away

OPERATION EPIC NAME

Too late to save CNN's reputation as they have platformed Jennings' lies and propaganda for years

What to know about Reza Pahlavi, a potential successor to lead Iran Pahlavi called the U.S. strikes "a humanitarian intervention, and its target is the Islamic Republic."

Nobody knows anything. I sure don't know anything. And yet I *do* know that the Iranian people aren't having the Shah's family come back and take over in the absurd guise of restoring democracy.

www.axios.com/2026/02/28/u...

Anyone who bought Bitcoin since Trump took office last year is now underwater. In fact it's dropped almost 50% in the past 4 months and is dropping again this weekend.

“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”

TRUMP KILLS AGAIN

Former neighbors remember him as quiet, unmemorable, mainly kept to himself

If it is really pretty much the same terms, it could simply be that the person in the Oval Office was demanding a multi-billion-dollar kickback for putting US national defense in the hands of this company or that company.

Anthropic and/or Altman and/or Hegseth must be lying their ass off. These stories do not add up.

I don't think they're being taught North Korean ideology or Taliban ideology. The only logical reading of this is that the guy in charge of the Pentagon thinks educated Americans are the enemy.

Don't get me wrong, I applaud all efforts to reduce methane emissions and wasteful energy practices

Only achievable way I'm aware of to do that is increasing hydroxyls

Why are you so certain he's innocent, Mr. President?

It's clowns all the way down

Noem’s luxury ‘deportation’ jet is the tip of the ICE-berg Kristi Noem’s DHS has acquired at least nine new aircraft in recent weeks, with another one on the way. Half are luxury jets.

gillianbrockell.ghost.io/noems-luxury...