Trump logic

CNN's Ashley Allison walked right into this one with... Scott Jennings! "By your logic. If Joe Biden wanted to go after Donald Trump, the Attorney General should able to do it." "They DID go after Donald Trump!"show more

Donald Trump isn’t clever. He doesn’t have an imagination.... He’s not capable of logic or deductive reasoning. He’s a evil, insecure moron. And this is a confession.show more

A video has been unearthed showing Trump-appointed prosecutor Robert... Hur claiming that Bush v. Gore happened in “2001” or “2002.” It happened in 2000. By his own logic, he must have dementia.show more

This is hilarious. 😂 🇺🇸 Trump: "We started this... war to stop Iran's authoritarian regime from getting nuclear weapons." 🇺🇸 Reporter: "Then why are you giving 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia—another authoritarian regime—a green light to build a nuclear program that could pave the way for nuclear weapons?" 🇺🇸 Trump: "...Next question." 🤣 No one exposes Trump's logic better than Trump himself. 🤡show more

🇺🇸🇨🇳 Trump logic: “China’s collapsing—so let’s help them by... cutting tariffs.” But if China’s really collapsing, why help at all? Maybe the truth is simpler: it’s not China in crisis. It’s American supply chains falling apart.show more

This is ABSOLUTE CINEMA 🔥🔥 🇺🇸Reporter: "Is it true... Iran planned to assassinate Donald Trump?" 🇮🇷Araghchi: "No. Never. How many US leaders has Iran assassinated till now? It’s zero. 🔥🔥 In fact, Trump killed our leader, our kids, our commanders, and our scientists. I still don’t find any logic behind this. 🇺🇸TRUMP IS A COWARD. That’s why he is playing this assassination card." 🔥👏 Araghchi is an absolute genius. He completely cooked Trump. 🔥💪show more

Trump: “when this is over, you’ll have a world... without a nuclear weapon with Iran.” Only Iran doesn’t have one. Meanwhile, the U.S. & Israel, both nuclear-armed, are threatening a country that isn’t, because it’s “dangerous.” By that logic, they’re the dangerous ones.show more

TDS is when you say something devoid of logic... just because it is against Donald Trump. I asked this protestor in NYC... "Do you think Iran or the United States is more of a dictatorship?" "I don't know, I've never been to Iran."show more

🇺🇸 “The fact that they landed a boat there... 500 years ago doesn’t mean they own the land.” — Trump wants to decolonize Greenland What other territories can then also be “decolonized” if we reapply this logic further? Argentina can take the Falkland Islands back? What else?show more

VP VANCE on AMERICA FIRST: "Under the leadership of... Donald J. Trump, we have turned that stupid logic right on its head. We are going to reward companies for investing in the United States of America and we're going to punish companies for building in China and Mexico."show more

🇺🇸TRUMP at 5:00 PM: "Netanyahu said Iran was 1... week from a nuke. We had to go to war." 🇮🇷ARAGHCHI at 6:00 PM: "North Korea has nukes. World was at PEACE. Pakistan, Russia, China have nukes. World was at PEACE. But Israel tells Trump Iran is 1 week away, and suddenly there’s a war? What logic is that?" Araghchi completely shut it down. He is a strategic genius 👏show more

🚨 KHARG ISLAND: IRAN’S ECONOMIC LIFELINE Reports indicate that... Donald Trump is weighing options involving Iran’s Kharg Island, the strategic oil terminal responsible for handling roughly 90% of Iran’s crude exports. The island sits just off Iran’s coast in the Persian Gulf and serves as the primary loading hub for Iranian oil tankers, making it one of the regime’s most critical economic assets.U.S. officials have reportedly discussed scenarios ranging from additional strikes to the possibility of seizing control of the island, though no final decision has been confirmed publicly. Strategically, the logic is clear:Control Kharg Island, and Tehran’s main source of oil revenue—and a major pressure point on the regime—could be severely disrupted.show more

The world economy is currently doing its best impression... of a Trump casino. Markets are cratering. Gold is sliding. Silver is sliding. Oil is hitting records. And unlike every other crisis in living memory, there is no off-ramp, no bailout phone, no adult in the room ready to talk everyone down from the ledge. Just the sound of chips hitting the floor and a man in a red hat somewhere telling everyone it’s going brilliantly. Which brings us, with a certain horrible logic, to Atlantic City. Because before Trump got his hands on the global economy, he practiced on a smaller scale. Three casinos, one boardwalk, and a financial philosophy that can be summarised as follows: borrow enormous sums at ruinous interest rates, collect a fat salary, and let someone else hold the bag when the whole thing goes sideways. He refined this technique over twenty-five years and four bankruptcies. It is, in retrospect, less a cautionary tale and more a dry run. Trump arrived in Atlantic City in the early 1980s with gold letters, junk bonds, and absolute certainty that he was about to reinvent American gambling. He ended up doing something rather different. His first casino was Trump Plaza, opened in 1984. Then came Trump’s Castle. Then the centrepiece: the Trump Taj Mahal, whose $1 billion construction was financed by junk bonds at an interest rate of 14 percent.  Trump called it the eighth wonder of the world. It went bankrupt in 1991, less than a year after opening. That was just the warmup. His casino companies made four trips to bankruptcy court, each time persuading bondholders to accept less money rather than be wiped out. But the companies repeatedly added more expensive debt and returned to the court for protection from lenders.  The holding company Trump Entertainment Resorts filed for bankruptcy three times – in 2004, 2009 and 2014, weighed down by debt each time.  Here is the part Trump doesn’t mention at rallies: even as his companies did poorly, Trump did well. He put up little of his own money, shifted personal debts to the casinos and collected millions of dollars in salary, bonuses and other payments. The burden of his failures fell on investors and others who had bet on his business acumen.  A Temple University law professor who studied the casinos concluded they lost more jobs and money than competitors and went through more bankruptcies than any other major business in America.  Trump’s response to the 2004 bankruptcy: “I don’t think it’s a failure.”  Trump Plaza was eventually demolished in February 2021 using 3,000 sticks of dynamite.  It took about ten seconds to come down. The loans took rather longer. And now, with gold and silver falling, oil surging, and equity markets convulsing from Seoul to Sydney, one is left with an uneasy feeling that the man who perfected the art of the managed collapse has simply found a larger venue. The boardwalk was just the dress rehearsal. Gandalv / Gandalvshow more

⛽ HERE'S THE PART NOBODY EXPLAINS TO YOU ABOUT... GAS PRICES! Trump is right: Oil companies are playing both ends against the middle! A gas station owner does not set his own fuel cost. He buys his gasoline wholesale from a refiner or distributor, often locked into a supply contract with a major oil company brand. That wholesale price is set upstream. By the refiners. By the majors. Not by the guy running the register. So why is wholesale still high when crude is sitting at $68 a barrel. The industry's answer is inventory lag. Refiners are still selling fuel made from oil they bought weeks ago at higher prices. Chevron's own CFO has said publicly that lower crude prices take time to work through the supply chain before drivers see real savings. Fine. But here is the question that breaks that excuse wide open. If stations are selling old inventory bought at yesterday's price, why does the pump price jump the second crude spikes, before that expensive new oil has even been delivered. You cannot have it both ways. Slow to fall because of old cheap inventory, but instant to rise before the new expensive inventory even arrives. The real answer is something called replacement cost pricing. Retailers price gas based on what it will cost to refill the tank tomorrow, not what they paid for the gas sitting in the ground today. That is why prices jump like lightning when crude rises. But somehow that same forward looking logic disappears the moment crude falls. Suddenly everybody remembers the inventory they are still working through. That is not a supply chain mystery. That is a choice. Economists call the pattern rockets and feathers. Prices shoot up like rockets the second crude spikes. They drift down like feathers when crude falls. The same companies pricing forward on the way up are mysteriously pricing backward on the way down. Trump named the companies directly. ExxonMobil. Chevron. Shell. BP. He said it plainly in the Oval Office, that they are the ones not passing along the savings they should already be passing along. California gets singled out too. Gas there averages over five dollars a gallon, with state taxes piling on top of everything else. This is not Trump bullying small business. This is Trump asking the companies holding the lever why the logic only runs in one direction. Lower oil should mean lower gas, with the same speed it took to raise it.show more

🚨🇮🇷 US IN PANIC: Iran’s Hormuz-2 missile targets ships... by their own emissions This missile changes the logic of naval survival. It’s built to hunt fleets that rely on radar, datalinks, and electronic dominance and to turn those advantages into liabilities. Hormuz-2 is a radar-seeking ballistic missile designed to strike moving naval targets. Instead of needing constant external guidance, it homes in on emissions coming from ships themselves. And here's the trap: • Radar on means detection and targeting • Radar off means blindness • Either choice carries risk Unlike cruise missiles, Hormuz-2 attacks from above at very high speed. Reaction time shrinks. Interception windows narrow. Defensive layers are stressed all at once. What matters here isn’t perfect accuracy. It’s forcing fleets into impossible decisions. Do you keep sensors on and reveal yourself, or go dark and lose situational awareness? In confined waters like the Persian Gulf, that dilemma becomes acute. Large surface ships depend on constant emissions to survive. Hormuz-2 is designed to punish that dependence. It makes presence dangerous, expensive, and uncertain. Would Trump really be reckless enough to strike Iran directly and test weapons like this in real combat?show more

Strait of Hormuz over the last 24 hours: the... 8th deal? Since the TACO yesterday, Iranian news reported that the US may be willing to let Iran control inbound tanker flows. This is funny as shit because whoever controls inbound tankers essentially controls outbound flows. But who gives a shit about logic these days. Just as the market was set to open on Sunday, the US sent a convoy through the Oman lane where a panamax, Velos Amber, was spotted with its AIS turned off right before it entered. You can see it in the video from MarineTraffic. Shortly after, UKMTO reported that Iran fired something at the tanker. It did not hit, but it was likely another warning signal. What's clear is that the Oman lane is still active with firms like Kpler and other showing flows close to 3-5 million b/d. What's unclear is when the Iranians will implement enforcement on the Oman lane, especially for inbound tankers. I suspect we are near the end of this TACO nonsense. From an oil inventory standpoint, inbound VLCCs to the US will push commercial crude inventories to operational minimums just as SPR runs out at the end of August. Trump, along with the IEA, will have to announce another round of SPR. It's now or never.show more