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Donald Trump the Megathread part II - Mod Warning updated in OP 12/2/26

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    #56222
    zell12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,524 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    Are oil shares gonna skyrocket when market opens tomorrow?



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    #56223
    Flex
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,191 ✭✭✭Flex


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124387720#Comment_124387720

    This is actually a major escalation. As stated earlier, of the millions of barrels of oil a day that transited Hormuz previously, the majority was to China, India, and other 'freindly Asian countries'. China and India bound ships were being allowed still get oil through, around 6m to 7m barrels a day. This blockade will supposedly now blockade China's primary source of oil, which they will (completely reasonably) not tolerate. This is at least the third time in a year MAGA-USA and Trump are bringing us towards WW3



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    #56224
    Strazdas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,062 ✭✭✭✭Strazdas


    It could take many months of this to impact on the Iranian economy. Trump clearly hasn't got a clue what he is doing.



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    #56225
    amacca
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,014 ✭✭✭amacca


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124387734#Comment_124387734

    What a gobshite.…the body language alone from those clips of him with epstein as a younger man was enough to identify him as a narcissistic, self important moron of the highest order.



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    #56226
    SuperBowserWorld
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,417 ✭✭✭✭SuperBowserWorld


    China needs a giant straw to get the oil out of the middle east. And Donnie is playing the dog in the manger.

    https://youtube.com/shorts/aWt724ZWmJg


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    #56227
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,305 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    Let's see how this works out for him

    "I have also instructed our Navy to seek and interdict every vessel in International Waters that has paid a toll to Iran. No one who pays an illegal toll will have safe passage on the high seas."

    https://twitter.com/i/status/2043313058005897580


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    #56228
    zell12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,524 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    "He did what? Oh"

    Comedy hour.


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    #56229
    ancapailldorcha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,551 ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124387848#Comment_124387848

    No, I'd say the impact to Iran's economy was felt more or less immediately. The difference is that their previous status quo would be much closer to where they are now, in other words the impact is relatively small given previous US measures against them.

    Nothing boosts a failing regime like a foreign attack. Thatcher's Britain is a great example. She was never popular but the Falklands war gave her a fillip and she won two more terms.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



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    #56230
    amacca
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,014 ✭✭✭amacca


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124387893#Comment_124387893

    Donnie is the boss of the world you see.....on top of the many many ridiculous things posted/said that's just another one

    Interdicting vessels in foreign waters that have paid for oil to keep their economies going

    If they even try such a thing....but of course it's all bullshit from the king of effluent.



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    #56231
    FishOnABike
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,370 ✭✭✭FishOnABike


    Untitled Image

    Nobody is allowed to hold the world to ransom (except US).



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    #56232
    Tazz T
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,468 ✭✭✭Tazz T


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124387836#Comment_124387836

    there'll be a gap up of around $10. Whoever made that massive trade 120 seconds before the close on Friday will make 'billions and billions'.

    They also had knowledge that the market would close 30 minutes ahead of normal close.



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    #56233
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,885 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    A byproduct of all this is Trump's manipulation of the market allowing him and his buddies to make a killing.



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    #56234
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,885 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124387985#Comment_124387985

    Trump's blatant manipulation of the market is enough to have him impeached, on top of everything else he's done.



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    #56235
    pad406
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 655 ✭✭✭pad406


    So, the US navy is really going to board/detain/prevent leaving a Chinese flagged oil tanker?

    I so wish I understood the rules of 4/5/(insert any random large number here)D chess.



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    #56236
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,885 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    Trump is blockading the Strait that was opened before the stupid war he started. He's a complete moron.



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    #56237
    Glenomra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,303 ✭✭✭Glenomra


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124388098#Comment_124388098

    Brilliant



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    #56238
    Manic Moran
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,994 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manic Moran


    I'm not convinced that blockading Chinese ships will go well. Are they really going to board or shoot up a Chinese flagged vessel if it decides to make a try at it?

    The argument goes just as well for the other side, though. The shooting has currently stopped. If the US sends ships through without Iranian permission, is Iran really going to poke the bear by restarting the fighting? Two US destroyers just did a quick in and out, doubtless the first step in the same strategy.



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    #56239
    Water John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,999 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    I presume we now will have Chinese navy vessels escorting their own oil ships through the strait, which is International waters. Best of luck with Trump stopping these.



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    #56240
    amacca
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,014 ✭✭✭amacca


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124388137#Comment_124388137

    I think if the US does block the strait then their ships will be fired upon

    How successfully I don't know...but I'd also imagine if their actions really put the squeeze on China they will supply Iran the kind of weaponry that would be a serious threat to US ships...if they haven't already

    If a US ship is sunk who knows what happens next...

    It wouldn't surprise me if Trump is angling fir further/greater conflict to keep himself at the helm tbh....that's the calibre of disastrous moron the world has to put up with at the moment



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    #56241
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,305 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124388137#Comment_124388137

    Luring them into a false sense of security



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    #56242
    Ferm001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 181 ✭✭Ferm001


    May see the Yemenis close the bab al Mandab strait in retaliation.



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    #56243
    Jelle1880
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,862 ✭✭✭✭Jelle1880


    So he's blockading the blockade ?



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    #56244
    Leroy42
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,453 ✭✭✭✭Leroy42


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124388137#Comment_124388137

    Poke the bear? The US has attacked Iran. What more do you think they are worried about?

    Yet again its the US CiC showing that he hasn't a clue. He was going to destroy an entire civilisation unless the strait was opened, but now he is getting the US to close it. And threatening any other country for trying to get any oil.

    This war is a complete humiliation of the US. Unfortunately its the rest of the world that is paying the price for YS voters putting glib catchphrases and funny nicknames ahead of their actual democratic responsibility



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    #56245
    Brief_Lives
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,351 ✭✭✭Brief_Lives


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124388223#Comment_124388223
    smart.gif

    oh yeah…. stable genius



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    #56246
    RickBlaine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,137 ✭✭✭RickBlaine


    Jesus Christ…just when I thought this whole clusterf*ck couldn't get any stupider, he goes and does something like this.



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    #56247
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,885 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124388223#Comment_124388223

    Iran needs to announce they are going to blockade the blockade that is now blockading their original blockade…..just for the craic.



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    #56248
    pad406
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 655 ✭✭✭pad406


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124388272#Comment_124388272

    Dumb & Dumber ^100, and he's only one man 😁



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    #56249
    FishOnABike
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,370 ✭✭✭FishOnABike


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124388275#Comment_124388275

    Sorry, no double dares allowed, I already crossed my fingers behind my back! If it wasn't so serious it would be comical!



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    #56250
    Deep Thought
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,128 ✭✭✭Deep Thought


    his idea is simple.. he will then say they have removed the blockade.. but not what blockade, the blockade that was blocking the blockade

    To him it’s a win.

    The narrower a man’s mind, the broader his statements.



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    #56251
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 46,345 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124388223#Comment_124388223

    Well duh! If you multiply a negative by a negative, you get a positive!

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