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@GavinNewsom What about these two fat guys? (And NO ONE has ever told Trump that he looks like Elvis. Totally made up to make himself feel better about his own ugliness.)

They still don't get it.

When Gavin Newsom does it, it warrants ridicule. When this buffoon does it and compares himself to someone he looks nothing like, Fox fawns like it’s their crush. Also, NOT A SINGLE PERSON has ever told Trump that he looks like Elvis…except maybe that they were both fat.

@JoJoFromJerz @atrupar Oh, yeah. She’s…from Toronto.

@atrupar You don’t know her. She’s Canadian.

Q: Who is Steve Witkoff speaking with in Iran? TRUMP: A top person Q: Who is it? TRUMP: I can't. I don't want them to be killed

BREAKING: The Strait of Hormuz is no longer closed. It is no longer open. It is something the world has never seen before: a permissioned corridor run by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, priced at $2 million per vessel, payable in yuan. Three ships transited in the last 24 hours. Three. Out of a pre-war average of 60 per day. Total throughput: 310,000 deadweight tonnes. Three percent of normal. Four hundred vessels are waiting outside the strait right now. One hundred and fifty tankers. One hundred and twenty bulk carriers. One hundred and thirty others. Waiting for permission from the IRGC Navy to enter a 5-nautical-mile channel between Larak and Qeshm islands inside Iranian territorial waters. This is how the gate works. A vessel operator contacts approved intermediaries with IRGC connections, submitting full documentation: IMO number, ownership chain, cargo manifest, destination, crew list. The intermediaries forward the package to the IRGC Navy’s Hormozgan Provincial Command for sanctions screening, cargo alignment checks that prioritise oil over all other commodities, and geopolitical vetting. The toll is approximately $2 million per tanker. For a VLCC carrying 2 million barrels, that is $1 per barrel. Preferred currency: yuan. If the vessel passes, the IRGC issues a clearance code and route instructions. Upon approach, VHF radio hail, AIS verification, patrol boat escort. One ship at a time. Through the narrowest channel of the most important waterway on Earth. Iranian crude is still flowing. Approximately 1.1 to 1.5 million barrels per day, mostly to China, at near pre-war levels. Iran’s own oil transits the strait it controls. The blockade applies to everyone else. Iran is simultaneously the gatekeeper and the primary beneficiary. The toll funds the IRGC. The IRGC maintains the gate. The gate generates the toll. The circle is self-sustaining. Now look at what is NOT transiting. Fertiliser. Gulf nations supply 49 percent of the world’s exported urea. Ammonia requires the natural gas that Qatar declared Force Majeure on and that Iranian strikes disrupted at South Pars. Effectively zero fertiliser vessels have received approval through the permissioned corridor. The IRGC is prioritising oil because oil generates revenue. Fertiliser does not. The molecules that feed four billion people are trapped behind a gate that only opens for molecules that fund the gatekeeper. The yuan preference is the structural shift that outlasts the war. Every tanker that pays in yuan instead of dollars establishes a precedent. Every precedent weakens the petrodollar architecture that has governed energy trade since 1974. The IRGC is not just blocking a strait. It is building an alternative payment rail under live fire. The $2 million toll in yuan is not a fee. It is a proof of concept for a post-dollar energy settlement system, stress-tested in the most extreme conditions imaginable: a three-front war with the world’s largest military. The world’s central banks are trapped by the same strait: the Fed cannot cut, the ECB is hiking, the BOJ is tightening. Six countries are rationing fuel. Japan’s 10-year yield hit a 27-year high. Slovenia has QR codes at the pump. South Korea is barring government vehicles one day per week. And behind all of it, 400 ships wait outside a 5-nautical-mile channel for a clearance code from the IRGC Navy, payable in a currency that is not the dollar. Twenty percent of the world’s oil supply. Controlled by a VHF radio call and a yuan transfer. The strait did not close. It changed ownership. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

@mattklewis In Toronto?…

His girlfriend lives in Canada

@FoxNews Yeah, first the ultimatum was 48 hours. Now he's giving Iran 5 days. NO ONE thinks Trump is "winning" except dipshit Fox viewers.

BREAKING: “We’re giving [Iran] five days… I think it could very well end up being a very good deal for everybody.” “As good as if we went all the way and literally annihilated the place , which if we don’t have to do that, that would be a good thing.” – President Trump

George Lucas traded $350,000 in directing salary for something Fox executives thought was worthless: the right to sell Star Wars toys. It was 1976. Over 40 studios had already passed on his script, including Disney. Fox only greenlit the project because they wanted Lucas for other films. Nobody at the studio expected to make money on a space opera with no stars, so when Lucas offered to cut his directing fee from $500,000 to $150,000 in exchange for merchandising and sequel rights, Fox said yes on the spot. Movie merchandise was a dead business. Fox had lost money on Doctor Dolittle lunchboxes a decade earlier. They thought they were getting the better deal. Lucas couldn’t even find a toy company that wanted in. Kenner, a division of cereal company General Foods, finally bought the licensing for a flat $100,000. Then Star Wars opened. Between 1977 and 1978, Kenner sold $100 million worth of toys off that $100,000 investment. They couldn’t make enough for Christmas ’77, so they sold empty boxes with IOUs inside, promising to mail the action figures later. Parents paid real money for cardboard and a promise. Nobody around the production saw any of this coming. Alec Guinness, who played Obi-Wan, privately called the script “fairy-tale rubbish.” But he was shrewd enough to negotiate 2.25% of royalties instead of a flat fee. About 20 minutes of total screen time earned his estate somewhere between $50 million and $100 million. Lucas himself was so convinced the film would flop that he offered Spielberg a bet while visiting the Close Encounters set: swap 2.5% of each other’s profits. Spielberg took it. That handshake has paid him around $40 million. And then the money started compounding. Lucas poured his Star Wars profits into ILM, the effects house he’d built for the film. When its computer graphics division got too expensive to maintain, he sold it to Steve Jobs in 1986 for $10 million. Jobs renamed it Pixar. Disney bought Pixar twenty years later for $7.4 billion. Then in 2012, Disney came back for the rest, buying Lucasfilm itself for $4.05 billion. Total franchise revenue today sits around $46.7 billion, over $20 billion from merchandise alone. The filmmaker 40 studios passed on is now worth $5.3 billion according to Forbes. Fifty years ago today, cameras rolled on a desert in Tunisia. The $350,000 pay cut that made it all possible might be the best trade in business history.

Strange situation where we await a statement from Iran to check whether there's any truth to what US president is saying.

@FoxNews Yeah, “talks.” Clown can’t even reveal who he’s having talks with - BECAUSE THERE ARE NO TALKS. Only a gullible 5 yr old and Fox News viewers believe his horseshit.

JUST IN: President Trump orders War Department to postpone strikes on Iranian energy sites, citing “productive” talks to end the war.

@FoxNews @MariaBartiromo Actually, TACO caved with 12 hrs to spare, ensuring his entire threat only took place while markets were closed over the weekend. Now that the markets are open…it’s TACO Monday!

BREAKING: Trump tells @MariaBartiromo Iran wants to make a deal badly, could be within 5 days or sooner

@FoxNews Who knew there was such a thing as TACO Monday?…

BREAKING: President Trump announces he's instructed the Department of War to "postpone any and all military strikes" against Iran's energy infrastructure for a five-day period, as negotiations continue toward a "complete and total resolution" to end hostilities in the Middle East.

the gallaghers may have a reputation but they ALWAYS make time for their young fans regardless of where they are

@FoxNews Funny your shitty network isn’t outraged by Trump’s classless post….but I’m sure when the same is said about Trump one day, your on-air clowns will melt down in “outrage.” Isn’t that right, @seanhannity @JesseBWatters @IngrahamAngle @HARRISFAULKNER @RCamposDuffy?

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BREAKING NEWS: Former FBI Director Robert Mueller, who led the Trump-Russia collusion probe dead; Trump says he's "glad."

@yashar Clown. 🤡

Kid Rock: “You f*ck with Trump. You f*ck with me.”

Don’t laugh! This could be an actual news story!

@FoxNews That’s not a compliment. That’s an honorable and implicit way of saying “You started this mess, and unfortunately you’re the only one who can stop this mess from getting bigger.”

BREAKING: "I firmly believe that it is only you, Donald, who can achieve peace across the world." -Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae

@FoxNews Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with your idiot president?!?!

JUST IN: President Trump poses for a photo with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi during a high-stakes Oval Office meeting.

What a dick!

@FoxNews What he actually meant was: “I really don’t know anything.”

'NOT AFRAID OF ANYTHING': REPORTER: "The Iranian regime has told Sky News if you put boots on the ground in Iran, it will be another Vietnam. Are you afraid of that?" PRESIDENT TRUMP: "No... I'm really not afraid of anything."

@FoxNews UNFIT FOR OFFICE: A president should also not have to take a cognitive exam - designed for dementia patients - multiple times.

UNFIT FOR OFFICE: Trump questions Newsom's fitness for the presidency, citing his admitted dyslexia and 960 SAT score. 'A president should not have learning disabilities,' Trump told reporters Monday. foxnews.com/politics/trump…