Ken Tindell

Q: "You promised the Iranian people you would help them but it sounds like you're willing to end this fight…Is that a betrayal of the people?"

Trump: "Will I help them? I'd like to, if they can behave. But they've been very menacing."

So the war is not complete then, as he said two hours ago?

The continued habit of media to repeat what he says without qualification is mind blowing.

this guy loves making down payments on future 9/11s with other people's money

Trump claims you need an ID to "go shopping"

Evening.

"Spineless courtiers are too afraid to take off the ill-fitting shoes they've been gifted lest they make the President upset" is absolutely hilarious Mad King shit.

If you were planning a false flag attack inside the US to blame on Iran, this would be the first step: a disinformation release.

Waiter, I ordered medium rare Psychology. This is barely cooked.

He has also deported dozens of dissidents back to Iran, where they were likely executed.

Would this be the same Iran conflict Kemi Badenoch has just spent an entire week calling Keir Starmer a coward for not wanting to join?

Napster (example chosen advisedly) was Napster's first windows program and was, speaking purely in terms of software quality, total garbage. But, uh, it sure fucking was influential.

Tesla ‘Full Self-Driving’ drives through railroad crossing barriers in viral video A viral video shows a Tesla Model 3 on “Full Self-Driving” driving straight through railroad crossing barriers in the Los Angeles area, failing to detect the crossing gate entirely. The incident comes on the same day as NHTSA’s deadline for Tesla to turn over critical data from its investigation into FSD traffic violations — an investigation that specifically includes railroad crossing failures. more…

Tesla ‘Full Self-Driving’ drives through railroad crossing barriers in viral video

Add one word to a film to ruin it.

Epstein Treasure Island.

NTSB is the last exemplar of independent professionalism in federal government, because we used to think stopping plane crashes was a goal beyond partisanship

If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice

'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Party Where This Regularly Happens

oh just a thought if your plan for overthrowing the Iranian government depends on the Iranian public rising up, you likely shouldn't have defunded the American government run news agency that speaks in Farsi.

I should maybe stop monitoring this all the time

put it this way, if this situation last long enough for central banks to hike, they'll end up hiking into a recession

Might just post this every day

The last week has seen the worst US wartime atrocity for 70 years and the worst chemical attack on a civilian population in history.

And Congress is barely uttering a word of meaningful dissent, much less dragging the warmonger from office.

This period will stain US history forever.

Stood behind a woman in Sainsbury when she loudly exclaimed "we survived the blitz and we'll survive Iran too" and the whole queue looked at her with disgust because she was clearly only about 50 years old.

musician Gary Numan, born March 8, 1958, aged 68

actor Gary Oldman, born March 21, 1958, aged 67

Happy Gary Retrograde everyone!

The next two weeks are the only two weeks out of the year when Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman

Trump's decision to bomb Iran is now the greatest windfall to the Russian war effort on record. If it continues, it might save the Russian war economy.

Things look grim in the markets right now, but at least the U.S. economy wasn’t already being propped up by a massive speculative AI bubble that is highly sensitive to rising energy costs.

OK, initial shock has had an hour to stabilise, the basic message is oil is still nearly 20% up, and equity markets are anywhere from -1% to -6% down. bonds, non $ FX and precious metals all less than 1% lower. see you all tomorrow morning early UK time: