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It’s the end of the week. Time to stir up some instability for the insider trading.
Monday things will start calming so the insiders can collect their profit.
By Thursday Iran and darth Vader will team up again.
For all those keeping track at home, that say "who cares that Trump made some cash on the side", remember that the Iranians are playing along to this game. They're profiting off of this chaos too and only the regular people are getting screwed.
What? Iran isn't profiting off anything. They're hoping they can undo their pariah state status, and they might even be able to do it, but so far they haven't actually gained anything.
Imagine thinking that those sanctions are absolute in the age of crypto
What does that have to do with anything? There's still no way for Iran to profit from Trump's chaos.
You don't seem to get the point. Anyone in the world can trade and bet on how the market reacts to whatever chaos comes out of Trump's mouth; including Iran.
They can profit from their own reaction to his chaos. They cue proxies to short markets before they initiate action to close the strait or even disagree with Trump. Proxies profit and remit funds via crypto.
I don't think that's realistic if the sanctions on them are even remotely worth their salt. Do you have a source for that?
Respectfully, Iran is already asking for tolls in crypto. Do you have a source that they're not monetizing their political position?
The Iranian navy, having been defeated and completely destroyed for the 7th time since the beginning of the war, successfully mined the strait of Hormuz and seized two international trading vessels.
Keep going Donny, 8th time's the charm
What part of him stopping 8 wars did you not understand?
The man is in Super Extra Platinum Nobel tier at this point, a lot of people are saying it.
Maybe they're channeling their inner Romans and just keep building more fleets?
Donvict Drumpf loves the number 8...though that's usually the age of that things rape victims.
Let me translate that...
"Donald Trump" - pathological liar
"claims" - lies yet again
"that the US has total control over the straight of OrmuZ" - that the US has absolutely no control over the straight of Ormuz.
There.
Does he truly believe half the shit he says?
No, it's market manipulation.
He might, confabulation is not uncommon in advanced dementia. In the end it doesn't really matter though. Just imagine Trump is some sort of alien robot spewing nonsense and focus on what America does.
He is off his rocker for sure. But the party is in charge, which is worse. We don't get out of this without an organized popular opposition, which is shouted down still, on lemmy even. I am giving up on this part. This republic.
Another day, another blatant lie...
Trump claims... stopped reading
I’m going to blockade your blockade with my blockade-blockade-blockader.
Must have been the AI that took those ships.
Shit, we aren't that far from their part of the population just believing shit like that, if not there already.
Is the total control in the room with us right now?
this post was submitted on 23 Apr 2026
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