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[barry_day]

TACO Tuesdays.

[Houli_Dooli]

Hantavirus may have spread between passengers on cruise ship, WHO says

[premature_rookie_ele]

You can have your war crimes, killing your own citizens, stacking if the judiciary, but for the love of god please stop randomly capitalising words you ■■■■■■■ cretin.

[Alan_Noonan_10]

His German ancestry…although they don’t do it randomly…mainly nouns.

[tassiehammer]

So…. nothing really.

[saladin]

Wait, so he’s STOPPING the movement of ships through the straights, claiming it as some sort of favour!!? A day after Hegseth and CO declared that they could safely bring ships through. Lol. Nothing to do with the fact that Iran have hit at least one more ship trying to transit the straight , of course.

[dingus]

@saladin

Nothing to do with the fact that Iran have hit at least one more ship trying to transit the straight , of course.

Which obviously must have been from their commercial fishing fleet or small but thriving parasailing industry, because the navy has of course been wiped out.

Or is it “completely obliterated”?

Which is the one where it’s completely gone but six weeks later is an “imminent, existential threat” requiring billions of missile expenditure and the massive, unnecessary disruption of the world economy?

I always get them confused.

[tassiehammer]

Surely if you’re going to bomb someone back to the stone Age then the parasailing industry is one of the first targets, along with the leather strip bracelet market stalls

[barry_day]

Assuming Iran agrees to give what has been agreed to, which is, perhaps, a big assumption, the already legendary Epic Fury will be at an end, and the highly effective Blockade will allow the Hormuz Strait to be OPEN TO ALL, including Iran. If they don’t agree, the bombing starts, and it will be, sadly, at a much higher level and intensity than it was before. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
President DONALD J. TRUMP

[dingus]

@tassiehammer

Surely if you’re going to bomb someone back to the stone Age then the parasailing industry is one of the first targets, along with the leather strip bracelet market stalls

And the artisan bakers.

Which is ironic, really.

[dingus]

@barry_day

Assuming Iran agrees to give what has been agreed to, which is, perhaps, a big assumption, the already legendary Epic Fury will be at an end, and the highly effective Blockade will allow the Hormuz Strait to be OPEN TO ALL, including Iran. If they don’t agree, the bombing starts, and it will be, sadly, at a much higher level and intensity than it was before. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
President DONALD J. TRUMP

Of course, none of this diminishes his argument that this is an entirely separate operation (won in 59 days, coincidentally), and therefore does not require a congressional rubber stamp.

[Ants]

@tassiehammer

Surely if you’re going to bomb someone back to the stone Age then the parasailing industry is one of the first targets, along with the leather strip bracelet market stalls

Trump started with the girls’ schools….

[tassiehammer]

Little bit of humour turns into something dreadful.

[Loflyer]

@dingus

Which obviously must have been from their commercial fishing fleet or small but thriving parasailing industry, because the navy has of course been wiped out.

Or is it “completely obliterated”?

Had they used the word ‘decimated’ it would’ve been one of the few times in recorded history that dumbfux like these have possibly used it correctly

[dingus]

@theDJR : thoughts?

[theDJR]

Yes, I can confirm they are dumbfux.

(now stop filter-dodging)

[barry_day]

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

Trump’s abrupt U-turn on a plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz came after...

[barry_day]

Peter Eavis (@eavis.com)

US says “you’re good to go”. A few moments later, “why didn’t you tell us”.
What a clusterfark.

[dingus]

@theDJR

Yes, I can confirm they are dumbfux.

(now stop filter-dodging)

“Parasailing”?

I apologise, I was not aware.

[user_name]

It’s popping off again. Iran must have rejected peace deal. US bombed Iran. Iran hit US warship with missile.

Edit - Who knows though. This is what the US is saying:

From 33m ago

07.43 AEST

US Central Command says it conducted ‘defensive strikes’ against ‘unprovoked Iranian attacks’ in strait of Hormuz

And now we have some confirmation of fresh strikes from US Central Command.

US forces intercepted “unprovoked Iranian attacks” and responded with “self-defense strikes” as US Navy guided-missile destroyers transited the strait of Hormuz, Centcom said.

“Iranian forces launched multiple missiles, drones and small boats” as three US destroyers transited the waterway, Centcom said. “No US assets were struck.”

Centcom added that it “eliminated inbound threats and targeted Iranian military facilities responsible for attacking U.S. forces including missile and drone launch sites; command and control locations; and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance nodes.”

Edit - And Iran:

Iran says it is attacking US military vessels after US ‘violated’ ceasefire with fresh strikes

Iran has accused the United States of violating the ceasefire by targeting two ships at the strait of Hormuz and attacking civilian areas, the country’s top joint military command said early on Friday (local time in Tehran is almost 1am).

The US targeted “an Iranian oil tanker travelling from Iran’s coastal waters near Jask toward the strait of Hormuz, as well as another vessel entering the strait of Hormuz near the Emirati port of Fujairah,” a spokesperson for Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters said in a statement carried by state media.

“At the same time, with the cooperation of some regional countries, they carried out air attacks on civilian areas along the coasts of Bandar Khamir, Sirik, and Qeshm Island.”

Iran’s armed forces responded by attacking US military vessels, “reportedly inflicting significant damage on them,” the spokesperson said.

There’s been no word yet from the US military.