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@ChrisinKY23 @Chet_Cannon "A lot of people." Which people? The ones inside your head?

@Chet_Cannon A lot of people are saying that JP Morgan paid him a large sum of money to retract his statements and say that it was fabricated. If true, it’s possible there was at least some truth to his statements although it seems like most if not all was fabricated.

I mean this sincerely: Chirayu Rana, who fabricated the entire thing, deserves life in prison. Someone who is willing to ruin another’s life in the most egregious and damaging way has no place in polite society. How awful for this lady and her family.

@NonicknameTX @kirawontmiss True. There's also standing around admiring a problem instead of fixing it, which is what we see going on here. I side with fixing problems.

@kirawontmiss Being able to make light of uncomfortable situations can have a calming effect on those who freak out. The less emotional you feel the better your chances of finding a solution.

A girl goes viral after getting stuck in an elevator with a group of immature guys and shut them all down when they started laughing😬

Left behind in Kabul. Alone. He waited 47 days. K-9 Chaos was not a dog who did his job. He was a dog who had DECIDED, completely, permanently, without reservation, that Lieutenant Marcus Webb was coming back for him. No matter how long it took. At Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, on the morning of August 30th, 2021, a three-year-old Belgian Malinois sat in an empty aircraft hangar. The last American plane had left six hours ago. The evacuation was over. Chaos had been left behind. Not intentionally. The chaos of the withdrawal. The panic. The rush. Webb had been separated from Chaos during the final evacuation. Put on a different plane. Told Chaos would be on the next flight. There was no next flight. Chaos survived the first day alone. Waiting at the hangar where Webb had left him. Chaos survived the first week. Scavenging food from abandoned military supplies. Chaos survived 47 days in Taliban-controlled Kabul. Alone. Hiding. Waiting. Because Chaos survived on the belief that Webb wouldn't leave him forever. Back in the United States, Webb was losing his mind. Filed reports. Called congressmen. Contacted rescue organizations. Went on the news. "I left my dog in Afghanistan," he said on CNN, his voice breaking. "I left my brother. And I'm going to get him back." The military said it was impossible. Kabul had fallen. Taliban controlled the airport. No way to extract a dog. Webb didn't care about impossible. He contacted Pineapple Express, a veteran-run extraction operation. Gave them Chaos's last known location. Sent photos. Videos. Anything that could help. For 47 days, Webb didn't sleep. Didn't eat properly. Just waited for news. On October 16th, 2021, his phone rang. "We found him," the voice said. "We found Chaos." A rescue team had infiltrated Kabul. Used Webb's intel. Found Chaos still at the hangar. Still waiting. Forty-seven days later. Chaos was emaciated. Dehydrated. Traumatized. But alive. The extraction took three days. Smuggling Chaos out of Taliban-controlled territory. Through checkpoints. Through danger. But they got him out. On October 19th, 2021, Chaos landed at Dulles International Airport. Webb was waiting on the tarmac. When they opened the crate, Chaos didn't move. Stared at Webb like he was seeing a ghost. "It's me, brother," Webb said, kneeling down. "I came back. I promised I'd come back." Chaos stepped out slowly. Walked to Webb. Collapsed into his arms. The reunion video went viral. Seventeen million views in three days. But what people didn't see was what happened after. For six months, Chaos wouldn't sleep unless Webb was in the room. Wouldn't eat unless Webb fed him. Wouldn't go outside unless Webb went first. "He's terrified I'll leave him again," Webb said in an interview. "And I don't blame him. I left him once. In the worst place. At the worst time. He waited 47 days for me. And I'll spend the rest of my life making sure he knows I'm never leaving again." Three years later, Chaos still sleeps with his head on Webb's chest. Still follows him everywhere. Still making sure Webb doesn't disappear. K-9 Chaos. Survived 47 days alone in Kabul. Extracted by heroes. Reunited with his handler. Home. facebook.com/share/1HLX9dCv… #LostAndFound #doglover #seniordogs #animalwelfare #militarydog #k9hero #dogrescue #Kabul #47Days #LeftBehind #BroughtHome

I am a managing editor at a national news organization you have heard of. I have held this title for nine years, which means I have attended nine White House Correspondents' Dinners, killed four stories, and produced a newsroom that hasn't won a Pulitzer in six years but hasn't lost an advertiser in four. Let me tell you how American journalism works. I am telling you because nobody told me. I had to learn it the way everyone learns it. Slowly. And then all at once. Every morning I attend a 9 AM editorial meeting where eleven people decide what 340 million Americans should care about. Our combined household income is roughly $2.8 million. None of us has ever staffed a newsroom that covers a community where the median household income is under $45,000. We live in Washington. We live in New York. We live in the zip codes our readers were priced out of in 2019. We decide what matters. That is the job. I have killed four stories in nine years. Only four. My predecessor averaged eleven per year. We do not call it killing. We call it deprioritizing. Sometimes we call it revisiting the angle. Sometimes we call it timing. A story about an advertiser's supply chain practices gets revisited. A story about a senator's stock trades gets revisited. A story about a pharmaceutical company that spends $1.4 million a year with us gets revisited for fourteen months until the reporter who brought it stops bringing it. That's editorial process. A metro reporter brought that pharmaceutical story to the meeting once. Fourteen months of work. Solid sourcing. Three former employees on the record. The room went quiet. I said we needed to revisit the angle. She revised it. I said we needed to revisit the timing. She revised it again. I said the sourcing needed to be bulletproof. She added two more sources. I said we should circle back after the quarterly review. She left the paper eight months later. She works in communications for a nonprofit in New Mexico now. Makes $38,000. I did not raise my voice. I did not send a single email about that story. I did not have to. Silence is the editor's veto. It requires no memo. It leaves no evidence. And the reporter learns. They always learn. That's editorial independence. I have reassigned two reporters who pushed too hard. Nobody told me to reassign them. That is important. Nobody tells you. The architecture does the work. You learn which stories get praised in the morning meeting and which ones produce silence. The praised ones involve the people we had dinner with last month. The silent ones involve the people who pay for the dinner. I keep the WHCD pins in a bowl on my desk. Nine of them. One from each year. When new hires visit my office they see the pins and they understand what a successful career in journalism looks like. That is mentorship. My editor taught me the same way. 2004. My first year at the paper. I had a story about a defense contractor billing the Pentagon $1,200 for a component that cost $35 to manufacture. Four sources. One on the record. My editor said the sourcing needed work. I revised. He said we should circle back after the appropriations vote. I waited. He said maybe the defense beat reporter should take the lead. The defense beat reporter had a profile series running on the same contractor. He needed access. The profile ran three months later. It won a regional Murrow. I did not bring my story back. My editor kept his WHCD pins framed above his desk. I remember counting them — fourteen — while he explained the timing wasn't right. Now I keep mine in a bowl. The bowl is bigger. That's training. In 2025, Gallup measured public trust in mass media at 28 percent. The lowest in the poll's fifty-year history. The first time it dropped below 30. When Gallup started asking in the 1970s, it was 72 percent. We have lost 44 points of public confidence in two generations. I was on the task force. Seven editors. Two consultants billing $400 an hour. We met for four months. I brought the Gallup numbers to the first meeting. I did not bring the advertiser revenue spreadsheet. Nobody did. We identified the problem in the second meeting. Misinformation. Social media algorithms. Media literacy. The problem was external. We were certain. The consultants were certain. We drafted a transparency initiative and proposed a series of op-eds explaining our editorial standards to the audience that no longer reads us. I wrote one of the op-eds. It was about our commitment to fearless, independent journalism. I wrote it in the same office where I had deprioritized the pharmaceutical story six months earlier. The op-ed ran on a Tuesday. The pharmaceutical company renewed its contract the following quarter. The other 72 percent have a media literacy problem. Six corporations control 90 percent of American media. In 1983, it was fifty. I know this because I have worked for three of them. Each acquisition was announced with a town hall. Each town hall included the phrase "editorial independence." I have attended eleven town halls. The phrase has never not been said. BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street hold top shareholder positions in all six. The same three asset managers that own my newsroom also own the defense contractor from my first story, the pharmaceutical company whose ad revenue holds up my floor, and the insurance conglomerate whose CEO sat two seats from me at last year's dinner. I did not make this connection in the editorial meeting. I made it at 2 AM on a Saturday reading a ProPublica investigation written by someone who left our paper in 2019. She does not attend the dinner. Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post. Marc Benioff bought Time. Patrick Soon-Shiong bought the LA Times. Laurene Powell Jobs bought The Atlantic. I was at the dinner the year Bezos came for the first time. He was seated at the head table. The room applauded. I clapped. I remember clapping. That's civic engagement. I attend the White House Correspondents' Dinner every year. Have for nine years. I have the seating chart saved on my phone from the day the assignments come out. The theme is always about the First Amendment. The banners always say something about a free press for a free people. This year the WHCA replaced the comedian with a mentalist — a man who professionally performs what he describes as "embellishment and partial truths" — because the comedy slot had become unpredictable. The last comedian called the president what he is. They stopped inviting comedians. The mentalist is better. He deceives people in what he calls "an ethical way." That's programming. The WHCA president — a CBS White House correspondent — described the dinner as a chance for the press and the president to get together in a different context and recognize the important relationship, despite how complicated it might be. I found this eloquent. It is exactly what I would have said. We want to be around our subject. Not adversarial to it. Not above it. Around it. Close enough to be invited to the after-party at the French Ambassador's residence. Close enough that the press secretary knows your first name. Close enough that a rescinded dinner invitation would feel like a professional consequence rather than an editorial decision. That's access. Access is how you build trust. Trust is how you get the story. Getting the story is the job. 250 journalists signed a letter asking for a "forceful defense of press freedom" from the podium at this year's dinner. The letter named the president. It listed his actions in detail. It was sent to the organization hosting the dinner where the president would be the guest of honor. The dinner is a celebration of the First Amendment held in the presence of the man who is arresting reporters, threatening to revoke broadcast licenses, and using the FCC to selectively enforce the equal time rule. The letter asked for a forceful defense. What it got was a mentalist. That took courage. Two hundred and fifty signatures. Meanwhile, 136 newspapers closed in 2025. Two per week. Since 2005, 3,500 newspapers have shut down or merged. Fifty million Americans now live in communities with limited or no local journalism. Newspaper employment has dropped 75 percent since 2005. Web traffic to the hundred largest newspapers fell 45 percent in four years. A hedge fund called Alden Global Capital owns more than two hundred of those papers through a holding company. Their model is efficient. Buy the paper. Cut the newsroom. Extract the revenue. Let it close when the revenue stops. They have done this to the Denver Post, the Chicago Tribune, the San Jose Mercury News. My colleagues at other outlets call this vulture capitalism. I call it a different business model. Everyone has one. That's portfolio management. We did not cover this at the editorial meeting. We were discussing the seating chart. The seating chart matters. Proximity to the head table correlates with source quality. I have the data. The pipeline runs one direction. A journalist's median salary is $60,280. A public relations specialist makes $69,780. Corporate communications exceeds $150,000. We train investigators for five years on $34,000 starting salaries and then export them to the companies they were supposed to investigate. That is not a pipeline problem. That is talent development. We contribute human capital to the broader communications ecosystem. Google and Facebook take more than half of every digital advertising dollar. We compete for what remains. The pharmaceutical company's $1.4 million is not an advertiser. It is a load-bearing wall. That's the business model. Jen Psaki left the podium and went to MSNBC. Ari Fleischer left the podium and went to Fox. I have had drinks with both of them. Not at the same event. At the same event it would suggest the podium and the press table are interchangeable. They are not interchangeable. The career paths are simply adjacent. That's networking. Networking is how you build a career. A career is how you serve the public interest. I am writing a book. My agent says it could advance in the low six figures if the sourcing holds. The sourcing requires access. Access requires that my sources trust me. Trust requires that when I write about them, they recognize themselves. I sent the first three chapters to a source last month. He returned them with two corrections. Both were accurate. One removed a detail about a policy decision that would have been embarrassing. I accepted both. The detail was not essential to the narrative. The source is essential to the next three chapters. The sources get the manuscript before publication. The public gets the book fourteen months later for $28. The advance will pay for the renovation I have been putting off since the last round of layoffs made me nervous about spending. That's the craft at its highest level. Last month I saw her name. A newsletter published by the nonprofit in New Mexico. She was covering water contamination on tribal land. Nine thousand readers. Clean sourcing. The kind of work that wins the awards we give each other. I typed three words into an email and deleted them. Then I pulled up next year's WHCD guest list. That's priorities. Yesterday, a satirist wrote a fictional piece about journalists at the correspondents' dinner. It reached 3 million people. A Fox News White House correspondent with 188,000 followers called the satirist a "lunatic." She wrote: "No part of this is true — including the timing of events he couldn't even manage to get right in fabricating this BS." Her tweet reached 357,000 people. She used a platform built on the First Amendment to fact-check a fictional job title in a satire about journalists who prioritize the wrong thing. Someone added a Community Note. To fiction. A New York Post columnist with 869,000 followers wrote a defense of the wine-taking. "What is this guy's problem?" she asked. "The wine was there for the guests to drink." She asked if the satirist wanted everyone to start screaming hysterically. She did not ask why 3 million people found the piece more credible than the institution it described. Others called it AI. "AI" is what you call writing that makes you uncomfortable when you cannot argue with what it says. The institutional immune system activated exactly as designed: identify the threat, classify it, neutralize it, resume operations. That's media literacy. The satirist wrote that a woman checked the vintage during an evacuation. The profession reenacted it in the replies. The satirist said journalists would prioritize the wrong thing. The journalists responded by prioritizing the wrong thing. The correspondent checked the byline. The columnist defended the wine. The Community Note verified the fiction. Nobody verified the 28 percent. That's editorial judgment. I have been in this industry for twenty-two years. I have watched us go from 72 percent trust to 28 percent. In any other industry this would be a catastrophic product failure. In ours it is an audience problem. The audience does not understand us. We will fix this with a podcast. I have been asked about all of it. The closures. The consolidation. The revolving door. The dinner. The trust numbers. I have answers for each one. Good answers. The business model changed. Scale creates efficiency. Government experience makes better journalists. Proximity to power is how you hold it accountable. Trust is a lagging indicator. I have given these answers at conferences. I have given them on panels. The foundation that funded the last panel on "Restoring Public Trust" is a subsidiary of the holding company that closed eleven of the newspapers. These are separate issues. Unrelated. I have been doing this for twenty-two years and I can tell you with certainty that the declining trust, the consolidation, the proximity to power, the revolving door, the advertiser sensitivity, the dinner, the wine, and the silence in the editorial meeting are all separate issues. I am one of the good ones. I track the trust numbers. I attend the dinner for the right reasons. I keep the pins because I believe in the mission. The proximity is incidental. The access is necessary. The silence in the editorial meeting is just how editorial meetings work. Once a year, we put on black tie, sit next to the people we are supposed to hold accountable, toast to the First Amendment with wine we didn't pay for, and call it a free press. The wine is $76 a bottle. It was included. I am already looking at next year's seating chart.

@seemsrisky @JackPosobiec I see this sort of stuff posted almost hourly on FB by acquaintances. If I reported them all, it would be a full time job.

@JackPosobiec What's so horrific about this is his posts are indistinguishable from any other leftists online profile. They are all like this.

Should I tweet out the WHCD shooter's BlueSky posts?

Old man energy. It's a real thing.

@Met47ron @mandatoryfunday One really only needs to learn two phrases: 1. Dos cervases, pit favor. 2. Donde es las banos?

@mandatoryfunday partied so hard I learned Spanish in 20 mins and had to evacuate!

New Years Day, 1984, the USCG icebreaker WESTWIND was beset on the Larsen ice shelf and sustained a 120 foot gash in its side (about half its length.) Until moments before, they had been rolled such that the damage would have been below the waterline - they used fire hoses and shifted ballast to roll sufficient to keep the damage just above the waterline. They did initial damage control and limped into a remote Chilean weather station where additional material for stabilization could be flown in by C-130s. The CO of the weather station assured the CO of WESTWIND that no alcohol would be available on the island. Neither accounted for the generosity of the Chilean soldiers, who emptied their footlockers of their private stashes. Thus ensued a celebration of survival that had many wishing the next day that they had died. Many were too drunk to cross the brow on their own and were simply hoisted aboard as a group in a cargo net. The weather station itself was also significantly worse for the wear. The Chilean soldiers themselves managed a weak salute from shore as they lay prostrate where they had fallen. Such are the things that never make it into the ships log and merely live forever in the memories of sailors.

It's all true.

@johnkonrad The history, the education, and the street cred. Voted for him when he was running for office a few years ago. I'm delighted to see him take on this responsibility.

KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK Introducing your next Secretary of the Navy. The Honorable Hung Cao 🔥👇

Can’t hide that I was critical of Secretary of the Navy John Phelan. I blasted him this morning. I also can’t pretend I’m not excited for @HungCao_VA to take his place. That said, Phelan was a fantastic first year SECNAV. He did not shy away from hard decisions. He killed the Constellation-class frigate program when it became clear the math no longer worked: 80% of a destroyer’s cost for 60% of the capability. He drove the Golden Fleet forward and brought us the first new American battleship design since World War II. He reorganized and streamlined several internal divisions. He worked directly with shipyards on economic viability. He restructured USNA leadership to boot DEI. He transformed Navy promotional content from bland to actually compelling. He worked with OMB to grow the Navy shipbuilding budget by 50%. He pushed for new funding on the sealift and logistics fleet. 🎉 He got us fireboats 🎉 He supported the White House Maritime Action Plan. He backed CENTCOM during the Iran strike. That is a lot to accomplish in one year. We are in a much better position because of John Phelan. He was the right man for the moment. So why was he fired? I can’t say for certain. But my criticism stands. Phelan was not great with the press and looked uncomfortable on camera. Shipbuilding is the President’s top priority and, throughout history, that has never been pulled off without strong, charismatic leadership at the top. He did not push back on the “experts” and PhDs fighting the Golden Fleet tooth and nail. After his chief of staff was fired he began taking advice from some wrong people. He hasn’t effectively cut dead wood from his staff and dampered the morale of great ones. He did little to explain to the public the extraordinary job our Navy has done in recent operations. Naval officer culture is insular and reflexively hostile to change. He didn’t fire enough Admirals or otherwise steer the culture to absorb presidential priorities. He was overly protective of staff who failed to implement reform. He still has not appointed key positions, including Comptroller and ASN(RD&A). He did not provide sufficient top cover for the Under and Assistant Secretaries who are moving fast. He is not a Navy insider. Hung Cao is. We needed an outsider to set the conditions, but insular naval culture will not let an outsider go the last mile. That’s the short list. There is more, both positive and negative. But those are the broad strokes. Bottom line: Phelan laid the groundwork for a once in a century reinvigoration of the U.S. Navy, but he did not have the bold strength or charisma to carry it across the finish line. He was the right man for the job and I am very grateful for John Phelan’s service to the country. I am very excited the baton is being passed to Hung. Fake news is already spreading false rumors about him. Stand fast, patriots, and thank John on his way out. 🫡​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ This is a win-win. Not every piece of news needs a negative spin despite what MSM tells you.

Whoever made this, nailed it!

@providenttds @Mean_Curmudgeon @mercoglianos @CENTCOM You absolutely captured the flavor. Ignore the deckies showing up to do what deckies always do.

You're right, it is a 62 caliber gun and not at 54 caliber gun. I considered that maybe it was a BL&P round vs a HE round but I don't know. If you spent time in the engine room of a container ship then you would know that the engine rooms are usually unmanned except for the watch engineer in the control room and maybe a day worker. Also, this isn't an account of what actually happened, it was just a silly post that I put together but judging from your responses and a few others, your more interested in being right about something than you are in understanding what it is that you're reading.

The statement from @CENTCOM is very enlightening. Instead of conducting a boarding, USS Spruance warned Touska for 6 hours it was in violation of the blockade. It is not clear if the ship was suppose to divert or stop to be boarded. The ship continued toward Iran and crossed the blockade line from the Arabian Sea to the Gulf of Oman. When Touska refused to comply, Spruance moved off from the ship, sent a warning to abandon the engine room and then proceeded to fire with its 5 inch/Mk 45. The gunfire either disabled the machinery or the crew brought the ship to a stop. Marines from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit then conducted a boarding and seized the ship. It is surprising to see that the ship was fired upon and not boarded via helicopters as was done against Venezuelan tankers earlier this year. It is unclear what damage was inflicted to the ship, but it is showing Not Under Command on its AIS. More to follow.

"....and I would then remind him that this type of bullshit situation is why engineering officers hate deck officers the world over." 😂

@vsync In a formal letter, yes. Internal memorandum is signed simply "by direction."

@Rumennation would they usually write it out like that though?

🚨Heavy Handed removal of retiree benefits: A retired LCDR was just banned from all Navy bases and facilities in the Hampton Roads area for accidentally having a personal weapon in his vehicle at the base gate checkpoint. The retired naval officer has a Concealed Carry Permit. He also followed all directions provided to him by base security while voluntarily discussing his CC permit and noting that he had mistakenly had the weapon in his vehicle. Security suggested he turn around and come back without the weapon. He did so gladly and immediately returned back through the same gate (without the weapon of course) while the same security guards offered apologies for the inconvenience. The subsequent ban was an unexpected shock and a grave heavy-handed response to an honest mistake. The JAGs and Commander at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek have unilaterally removed all retiree benefits (except retiree pay) from an honorable man. He can no longer attend base functions, work a job on the base, use MWR facilities, or the commissary (military grocery store). Based on Secretary @PeteHegseth’s desire to ensure Second Amendment rights are defended by our Institutions, and that those exercising these rights are not unlawfully weaponized against, I pray this ban is quickly reversed.

@vsync @RealUCBfosho No. It means the XO has signature authority for most administrative matters. Typical for an XO to have such authority. This letter would be a routine action taken under a policy issued by the base commander or higher authority.

@RealUCBfosho is it normal for the XO to carefully note "By direction of the Commander" or was that a special addition in this case?

Hello Mr. Woods, (1/4) I appreciate you engaging, sincerely. You're one of the few people in this space who actually responded, and your tone was decent. So I want to return the courtesy... and this is my first multi-part Hello. You wrote: "Is any organized effort that involves people working from across the aisle necessarily a conspiracy?" No. It isn't. And I haven't called it one. I've called it what it is: a funded, coordinated, strategically managed field. Let me start with you. You are the National Ambassador of Braver Angels. Braver Angels pulled in $5,651,273 in 2024, up from $958,681 in 2019... mostly from major foundations. But your public videos repeatedly frame it as a "grassroots" or "national citizens" movement. These two things cannot both be true. A $5.6 million-per-year operation funded predominantly by major foundations is not a grassroots citizens movement. It is a professionally managed nonprofit. There is nothing wrong with that... unless you describe it as something it isn't.

Newly released video footage from the splashdown of NASA’s Artemis ll in the Eastern Pacific on Friday, April 10, 2026, shows the moment that U.S. Navy Divers cracked the door open and entered the Orion to greet the Astronauts, welcoming them back to Earth after their journey around the Moon.

I probably need to sign off for the day. I am disgusted beyond belief at the people who suddenly are acting pious for political reasons when they have forever vocally supported: 1. Murdering unborn children by the bushel. 2. Nuns being persecuted for adhering to the doctrines of the Catholic Church. 3. The mutilation of confused children to satisfy their parents’ Munchausen Syndrome. 4. The beatification of Barack Obama, Anthony Fauci and Robert Mueller as holy figures throughout the media. 5. Harsh criticism of any Trump Administration official who favorably mentions God or Jesus. 6. The ending of religious assembly during COVID. 7. A generalized disdain for orthodox Christian and Catholic persons and beliefs. 8. Hatred for the most orthodox, intellectual and Catholic of recent Popes, Pope Benedict. 9. Embrace of all manner of perversions enumerated specifically in the Bible as sins. 10. Silence on the murder of 30,000+ Persians by the Iranian mullahs and the violent murder and persecution of Christians in large swathes of the Muslim world. Pope Leo is using the Gospel as an excuse to meddle in purely political affairs, and politicians throughout America who hate the Gospel are using feigned faith as a political cudgel. It is disgusting beyond belief. OUT.

Trump: You don't have to close the Strait of Hormuz... It's an important waterway. Iran: You're nuts... The Strait is in our backyard and we have closed it. Trump: This is not good for the world economy; please reopen the Strait. Iran: We're not reopening anything. It is closed and that's final. Trump: we can't even reopen it... We already have enough oil and are willing to sell to interested buyers. Iran: 😂😂😂 you're now afraid of our mines in the Strait. We told you. IRAN IS WINNING!!! Trump: okay! That's perfectly fine. We can even help you close the Strait completely. Iran: I don't understand. I can't remember asking for your help. Trump: you don't have to. What are brothers for. We're going right into the Strait to close it completely. Iran: you can go in there. We have mines all over the place and we have forgotten where the mines are. Trump: don't bother yourself. We'll find the mines, remove them and close the Strait completely. Iran: you don't have to do that... Can you just calm down let's talk over this 🙏 Trump: don't worry. The Strait would be closed completely tomorrow, no ship enters your port and no ship leaves your port. Iran: 🙆🙆🙆 you're already taking this thing too far... Besides we're even planning to reopen the Strait tomorrow. Trump: don't bother again kid bro... Let's do it your own way. Iran: this is serious but you said you're going to keep negotiating with us. 😭 Trump: we'll come back later but for now the Strait is blocked. Iran: please, can you just allow me send this 4 million barrels to China, they've already paid. Trump: of course you will, just forward the receipt of your $8 million dollars toll fee to Vance. Iran: Truuuuuuuuump!!!!!