Operation Epic Clusterf*ck
Trump could not have botched this war worse than he already has
As I write this gas prices in my corner of Los Angeles are somewhere between $5.16 and $6.10 per gallon and every day they get higher. Across the country gas prices are going through the roof because Iran has close the Straits of Hormuz where twenty percent of the world’s oil supply passes through and that has raised the price of oil to over $100 per barrel.
And this is only the beginning.
The entire world is about to see massive economic shocks as the ripples of Trump’s attack on Iran reverberate around the planet. And in case there was any doubt as to how utterly incompetent Trump and his merry band of warmongering misfits are, it was reported this week that they had no plan in case Iran close those Straits.
From The Atlantic:
Astonishingly, President Trump and his aides were caught unprepared when Iran, under air assault from the United States and Israel, retaliated by targeting shipping in the Persian Gulf region and specifically through the Strait of Hormuz. Military planners have pointed out for decades that the waterway—through which one-fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas passes—is highly vulnerable to Iranian assault. But the Trump administration acknowledged in classified briefings, CNN reported last night, that it did not make provisions for a closure because officials assumed that such a move would hurt Iran more than the United States.
“Astonishing” is putting it lightly. Ever since the Revolution that threw the Western-backed Shah out of power and elevated the repressive Islamic Regime of Ayatollahs, Iran has expected the USA, and her Western allies, to strike back one day. And they’ve always maintained that they could very easily stop shipping through that narrow chokepoint using mines and land-based missiles.
But no. Trump was too stupid and arrogant to plan for such an eventuality. Nobody tells THAT guy how things work. Trump knows more than the Generals and Admirals, after all.
And to make matters worse, it was also revealed that Director of Beer Pong Kash Patel fired all of the Iranian counterterrorism experts before the attacks began. For the stupidest reason, of course.
Just days before the United States launched a major military operation in Iran, FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen agents and staff members from a counterintelligence unit tasked with monitoring threats from Iran, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
They were ousted for a simple reason: Each was involved in the investigation of President Donald Trump’s alleged retention of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
As a result, Patel hamstrung the Washington, DC-based FBI counterintelligence unit, known as CI-12, which handles cases ranging from mishandling of classified documents to tracking foreign spies operating on US soil.
I mean who needs experts anyways, right? Experts are so overrated.
Vote for a clown, expect a circus. A cadre of evil, stupid clowns. Clowns that consider the consequences of their actions. Clowns that love to break things, love to kill people, love to ruin entire economies just so they can feel powerful. Evil, demented clowns whose sole purpose is to make everything suck.
But don’t worry, America. Don’t worry, world. Oil companies are raking in record profits so at least someone is benefiting. It’s a big club and you ain’t in it. Gas prices might come down sometime in mid-2027. Just hold your horses.
Those midterms cannot come soon enough.