@jonchevreau
Semi-retired journalist. Focus on Financial Independence but also post on Politics & the Arts. Seldom answer DMs. Canadian, eh, but would vote Blue if became 51st state. #FinSky #markets #USpol #CanadaSky #Cdnpoli #EconSky #stocks FindependenceHub.com
The bottom line is Trump sacrificed 8 American lives (& counting) and more than 1,000 Iranian lives (& counting) for nothing. He hurt the US & global economies, destabilized the Middle East, & will pull out with the same Iranian regime in power. There's no silver lining.
A senseless, criminal waste
Ted Lieu Tells Loser Rubio, The
Facts.......
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Trump’s Iran Press Briefing Was an Incoherent Disaster
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"Follow the money"🇺🇸: How Jeffrey Epstein became filthy rich🔥
NO 👇 LIES DETECTED.......
Trump's statements seem to be incoherent, but he can talk the markets up and down. I guess that he, his family and his friends know in advance what they can expect.
As millions of Americans were losing their SNAP benefits the Pentagon spent:
🔹️$6.9 million worth of lobster tails🦞
🔹️$15.1 million for ribeye steak 🥩
🔹️$2 million for Alaskan king crab 🦀
🔹️ and even $98,329 on a Steinway & Sons grand piano
✏️ by @newrepublic.com
Market manipulation on top of war crimes.
It’s so strange how US markets follow the President and not reality.
Are we allowed to get the rest of the Epstein files now?
“He is, of course, a serial liar & prone to espousing completely contradictory positions within moments of each other.” It is extraordinary to me that journalists continue to ‘analyse’ Donald Trump without adding this constant caveat. It does readers, listeners & viewers a grave disservice.
TONIGHT: @vermontgmg.bsky.social talks to @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social on The #LastWord at 10pm ET.
And on Day 11 of the 3 Day SMO, Trump admits defeat.
Question is now more how on Earth EU and China will stop Iran from following the US Navy back home to the US to continue the war there.
The most bungled up war in 100 years.
Congrats US!
But…
He said it was “very complete, pretty much.”
The ignorant kumquat has spoken.
Just the earliest #Iran strikes cost the #UnitedStates $5.6 billion in munitions, #Pentagon estimates
The figure, accounting only for the #Trump #war’s first 2 days, is likely to intensify concerns in #Congress that #US forces are churning through a scarce supply of advanced weaponry […]
#Trump threatened to escalate the #war with #Iran if it blocked #oil shipments from the #MiddleEast, even as he predicted a quick end to the conflict.
Trump's warning came at the end of a day that saw global financial markets seesawing on concerns that Iran's #security establishment was […]
Iran escalates attacks on Gulf Arab countries as it keeps up pressure on the Mideast
https://www.newsbeep.com/427072/
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran launched new attacks on Tuesday at Gulf Arab countries as it…
Check out Lawrence: Donald Trump says it's time to 'show some guts' in a warzone where no Trump would ever go from The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell on Amazon Music. #USpol #Iran
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He has no idea how to stop the war in #Iran: NYT Gifted #USpol #EconSky www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/o...
Asia #markets rebound, #oil dives as Trump says #Iran war could end soon - www.reuters.com/world/china/...
more: "the thing about the Shah of Iran is that he was a repressive piece of shit who was hated by his people, and his fuckery led to the Iranian Revolution of 1979 — and that’s how Iran went from being a repressive monarchy to being a repressive theocracy. meet the new boss, yadda yadda."
everything was hunky-dory until 1953. that’s when shit truly went sideways, after Mossadegh broke the eleventh commandment — Thou Shalt Not Fuck With Big Oil — by nationalizing Iran’s oil industry. our CIA and Britain’s MI6 got themselves worked into a Big Mad over this, and engineered a coup that overthrew Mossadegh and turned Iran back into a monarchy, restoring Reza Pahlavi as the Shah. the thing about the Shah of Iran is that he was a repressive piece of shit who was hated by his people, and his fuckery led to the Iranian Revolution of 1979 — and that’s how Iran went from being a repressive monarchy to being a repressive theocracy. meet the new boss, yadda yadda. that’s why we’re in this mess right now — because we couldn’t leave well enough alone 73 years ago.
did you know Iran used to be a western-style democracy, with an elected prime minister? but then one day in 1953, the CIA ousted him in a coup, and restored the repressive and corrupt Shah to power — that's REALLY how this mess all got started. you can read all about it in my post: bit.ly/4lfWn7c
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a graph of crude oil prices, which opened at $115 today and fell down to $85.13
they're calling it the most normal and stable price action of any commodity in global history
US indexes all close higher #stocks #Iran #markets #oil #USpol #EconSky www.marketwatch.com/livecoverage...
Smartest guy in the room.
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