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Dire Straits
May 7, 2026
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Trump doubles UP When is less more than double? When it’s U.S. missiles. How? That’s what Jon Stewart want to know. Will no one in the press pool ask Trump for clarification? Not when they can ask Trump about staging a UFC fight on the White House lawn. Stewart: “We are so f**ked.” Meanwhile in the Persian Gulf things are going Trumpily. Iran has set up an agency “in charge of clearing vessels for transit” through the Strait of Hormuz.
“The Treasury Department on Friday warned U.S. shippers that they could face sanctions if they have been found paying Iranian tolls to gain access through the Strait of Hormuz,” reports The Hill. And shipping companies? “Whipsawed,” reports The LA Times: With hundreds of vessels still stuck in the Persian Gulf and costs piling up, shipping companies are being whipsawed by uncertainty over how and when the Strait of Hormuz might reopen more than two months into the Iran war. The World’s Greatest Deal Maker still hasn’t made one. “It’s pathetic,” says an exasperated Rep. Seth Moulton (D) of Massachusetts. Trump created a global mess and is incapable of cleaning it up. Brandon Weichert, a national security expert, claims that the U.S. Navy doesn’t want to follow Trump’s orders to transit the Strait of Hormuz under the gaze of Iranian missiles and drones, of which Iranians still seem to have plenty. Go figure. One day this will all be history. So will we.
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