Grande Chefe

The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit

yes, there's a big difference doing this from ahead and when things have already started

Satirical map illustrating the ongoing Strait of Hormuz crisis in March 2026. References Super Mario video game series ("Collect star," "Power through while invulnerable") mocking unserious responses to the situation (such as digging a 100km canal).

The President: "Lay down your arms and surrender!"

SecDef: "No quarter, no mercy!"

If you're Iranian, are you gonna gamble that Trump is being consistent and Hegseth is just kidding?

we should make American voters get a tattoo on their arm that says DON'T TRUST THE REPUBLICAN PARTY because otherwise they're basically all that guy from Memento every second election cycle.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...

In the last two days, Iran struck:

- Oil tankers in Iraq, killing an Indian crew member
- A French base in Iraq, killing French soldiers
- An oil depot in Oman
- Fuel tanks in Bahrain
- Buildings in Dubai hit by missile debris
- A Thai cargo ship
- Various Israeli targets

Still no censure of Tommy Tuberville, Randy Fine, or Andy Ogles, who are openly promoting hate against Muslims while the US is bombing Iran, killing the Ayatollah, and people like Lindsey Graham are calling it a "religious war" DURING RAMADAN.

How do you think this all ends, folks?

owillis.bsky.social 18 hours ago Democrats are on the path to winning this year, but it is by default. The party has done a horrific job on politics from almost the minute Trump was defeated in 2020. So, sure, they are winning right now - but it's because we have no other choices. Not exactly a ringing endorsement.

This world weary cynicism poses as knowledge but it’s actually just the mirror image evil twin of Murc’s Law. Only Democrats have agency *when they lose*, but when they win it’s only by default and because of Republicans’ agency.

RAMIREZ, SECURE THE BURGER KING AT THE TIP OF THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ.

a while back a guy I knew was trying to justify having gone to Curtis Yarvin's wedding, and his girlfriend said "Don't you find him thrillingly contrarian' and I said 'That's how boring people excuse being racist'

Strap gellar fields onto the ships, send them through the warp

Noah Smith in the 19th century would scream that the Democratic party is a puppet of Romish popery because they have a base of urban Catholic immigrants.

Republicans getting played ny an obvious geographic chokepoint in their war of aggression.

>bunch of geopolitics fetishists, don't understand the geo

>bunch of Nazi map game players, don't know how to read a map

>bunch of missile and drone tech bros, didn't know Iran has missiles and drones

If Dems couldn't sell "we're controlling inflation" when it was true, how well do you think you can sell "everything is cheaper", an explicit lie, in the middle of very visible gas price hikes?

It's amazing how utterly dumb the DOGE bros are and how little they let their total lack of intelligence, accomplishment and talent get in the way of breaking things that actually intelligent, accomplished and talented people had built.

I understand the temptation to use this as leverage, but this is an illegal war of choice made unilaterally by Trump. It should be rejected completely, not given tacit congressional approval

Normally I'm a big fan of civil servants becoming elected officials, but ICE needs to become a liability, cursed ground that kills or at least hinders careers

I'm not Minnesotan, but if my state were swarmed by ICE thugs, I wouldn't support the "moderate" ICE lawyer

To be blunt a lot of these groups should've thought about the consequences of supporting attempts to suppress pro-Palestinian freedom of speech and even in some cases supporting the kidnapping of Arab students for their speech. *You* helped make him a cause celebre among liberals and left-liberals.

"Why won't the Iranian just give us a ceasefire when we broke our not!treaty with them and keep attacking them every nine months? Why don't they take us at our word??"

The College Republicans of America have named Kai Schwemmer as the organization's political director. Schwemmer is an avowed and overt supporter of racist antisemitic white nationalist Nick Fuentes. www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

That line of his is followed by "That's what we do. It's gonna be fun"

Fascist stuff

Historian of French Revolution here to say that in periods like this, squeamish compromisers do as much to drive radicalization as do ideologues. If you keep making excuses for the unfit king, eventually folks come for you and him.

I give up