Thoughts Out Of Season

President Donald Trump's targeted assassination of Iran military commander Qassim Soleimani will have an immediate effect on gas prices due to a narrow but very important body of water. The Strait  of Hormuz is the only passage from the Persian Gulf to the open sea and moves 20% of the world's crude oil along with a third of its liquid natural gas. This important body of water is bordered to its South by the United Arab Emirates and, menacingly, Iran to its North. Iran considers The Strait of Hormuz as one the country's most important strategic points with one former prime minister calling it " Iran's Jugular vein". Iran acts as a potent presence in the region,at times stopping and seizing ships under a variety of pretexts to make its importance known and to flex it's muscles ( the seizure of two British ships in 2019 are just an example)  There are concerns that Iran, if it wished, could close the Hormuz Strait leading to chaos to the world's fi...

What started as a protest against increased petrol prices has spiraled into the greatest existential threat to the Iranian regime in 4 decades. Millions have taken to the streets demanding government change, the end to corruption,police and government brutality Woman, it has been noted have been a driving force in these protests. The government has responded with brutal force, shooting and killing unarmed civilians, injuring over 3,000. These are just weak estimates as the government has virtually turned off the country's Internet apparatus in an attempt to hide what many believe are even greater atrocities. It is feared that many of those arrested will be executed. But the actions of the regime has not served to cower the people but to enrage and embolden them even more. Many tweets I've read contained the cry "Why does the world not hear us?". The United States is practically oblivious to the existential threat to the Iranian regime which it has complained has...

Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer must be home downing Imodium like M&M's right now. They thought they were walking into that office with their 300 years combined in politics (aka thievery) and were going to make Trump look like shit. Imagine the tightness they felt down there when Trump dismissed them like two reporters from some rural Iowa newspaper? You saw their little speech where they calmly went over the meeting with Schumer saying " Well he had a temper tantrum". Imagine them back in the car alone, no reporters around. Pelosi: "Who the f--k does that son-of-a-bitch think he's talking to? I've been around since the light bulb. I know more about politics in my little finger than Trump will ever know" Schumer: "I hear you Nancy. If he didn't have all those Secret service men around him... Pelosi: "Shut up ya limp dicked prick" Schumer: "Now Nancy dear that's no way to talk... Pelosi; "Driver! Sto...