The fall of the Islamic Republic of Iran

[Motown Bombers]

 

[1984Echoes]

On 5/3/2026 at 12:32 AM, Motown Bombers said:

 

And I'll wager naziholic doesn't have the balls to come in here and admit how completely and totally the Brainless **** of a Moron that he voted in as President has ****ed this up.

[1984Echoes]

10 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

 

Yeah... this too.

[CMRivdogs]

The Military Jazz group ran out of tunes. All the good stuff was probably redacted by DOGE.

 

[gehringer_2]

2 hours ago, Motown Bombers said:

 

The report is that Iran hit the terminus of UAE's pipeline bypassing Hormuz - if true that's maybe another million BBL/day taken off the market.

[smr-nj]

1 hour ago, gehringer_2 said:

The report is that Iran hit the terminus of UAE's pipeline bypassing Hormuz - if true that's maybe another million BBL/day taken off the market.

Get ready for $7 gallon @ pump 

[Netnerd]

2 hours ago, smr-nj said:

Get ready for $7 gallon @ pump 

That’s if the pump has gas. Brace for shortages.

[chasfh]

14 hours ago, smr-nj said:

Get ready for $7 gallon @ pump 

Already at $7.09 for premium here in Big Shoulders.

[gehringer_2]

49 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Already at $7.09 for premium here in Big Shoulders.

No good info on how much of the refinery Whiting has back up and running and they still have the employees locked out so management/engineering staff is doing operations. That might mean no maintenance is being done because even if the engineers know how to operate the plant, they don't have the skills to fix stuff that breaks, not to mention no engineering work is getting done. They are probably also double shifted so the question is how long they go before they start making mistakes. OTOH, they might already have a non-union maintenance staff. Not uncommon for operators to have gotten operations and maintenance split into union/non-union.

Edited Tuesday at 02:17 PM by gehringer_2

[Motown Bombers]

 

[gehringer_2]

9 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

 

This admin is wearing out the old cliche that it would be comic if it weren't so tragic.

[RatkoVarda]

only the MAGA cult could believe this:

Iran has fired at us; we have fired at Iran; cargo ships are on fire in SOH; ceasefire remains in place.

We don't need any help in opening the SOH; but we have begged China, South Korea and our other allies to open the SOH.

We have already achieved all our goals; total victory; but we are not leaving until we achieve all our goals.

[CMRivdogs]

13 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

 

All the Kings horses and all the Kings Men…..

[romad1]

Epstein was worth all of this?

[Netnerd]

3 hours ago, romad1 said:

Epstein was worth all of this?

Epstein must be quite the deal.

[chasfh]

12 hours ago, Netnerd said:

Epstein must be quite the deal.

I think the Epstein thing is far worse for Trump than people believe, and that's even after people have already baked in the idea that he is a serial sexual abuser of minors.

[gehringer_2]

57 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I think the Epstein thing is far worse for Trump than people believe, and that's even after people have already baked in the idea that he is a serial sexual abuser of minors.

Do you think it's out of gas at this point though? What I mean is that they've survived the pressure to release anything more to this point, and I don't see where there is any leverage left to get past the current stonewall. So you have the possibility that like everything else with Trump, it will just recede into the rear view mirror. Fox will latch on to some story about a trans high school athlete and the RW outrage machine will back page Epstein. I have the same question about IRAN. It's done more to dent Trump's popularity than anything, but will the voters remember 30 days after if gasoline prices start back down?

[Motown Bombers]

 

[gehringer_2]

50 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

 

Let's see what Netanyahu tries to do to torpedo it.

[chasfh]

6 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

Do you think it's out of gas at this point though? What I mean is that they've survived the pressure to release anything more to this point, and I don't see where there is any leverage left to get past the current stonewall. So you have the possibility that like everything else with Trump, it will just recede into the rear view mirror. Fox will latch on to some story about a trans high school athlete and the RW outrage machine will back page Epstein. I have the same question about IRAN. It's done more to dent Trump's popularity than anything, but will the voters remember 30 days after if gasoline prices start back down?

I don't know whether the Epstein issue is out of gas, but the fact that you're even asking the question suggests that it might out of gas with you. And if that's true, then yes, there's a chance that the issue is out of gas with the general public at least at this particular moment. But that doesn't mean it can't be resurrected once the MAGA fever breaks, and given that the nature of the charges likely transcends statute of limitations laws, it's going to be a long time before all the people who are in range of the long arm of the law die and escape true accountability for good.

[gehringer_2]

1 hour ago, chasfh said:

given that the nature of the charges likely transcends statute of limitations laws, it's going to be a long time before all the people who are in range of the long arm of the law die and escape true accountability for good.

This is true, but I think whether as a matter of justice, the hammer finally lands on some of these guys is a separate issue to whether it continues, increases or decreases its importance as a political liability for Trump and/or his political enablers. From that perspective I'm not even in the loop. We were just hosting a friend with conservative siblings and she was telling us that even now, her brother, to whom she will not talk about politics, quite literally doesn't understand what she doesn't like about Trump. I mean, even if you support him, how can you not even understand  the sources of other people's doubts/opposition to him? That seems inconceivable to me, but I met her brother years ago, he's just an ordinary Indiana guy. So at this point I try to remind myself not to bother weighing what I think MAGA may do against my own sensibilities.

Edited 4 hours ago by gehringer_2

[Motown Bombers]

 

[gehringer_2]

wow. when the last time the Saudis were the good guys?

Of course they may have blocked Trump more out of pique than principle, but I'll take it either way.

Edited 1 hour ago by gehringer_2