TRUMP'S INSANITY CONTINUES

If the president intended for his incendiary post Sunday to calm the markets, it has had the opposite effect, instead sending oil prices even higher on Sunday, CNN reported. The cost of Brent crude rose 1.4 percent to $110.60 while U.S. crude rose 1.8 percent to $113.60, their highest in over three years. Gas prices are at their highest since June 2022, having risen by over 38 percent since the war began to a national average of $4.11 on Sunday. Meanwhile, stocks fell on Sunday after markets were closed Friday, with Dow futures down 0.69 percent, S&P 500 futures down 0.76 percent, and Nasdaq futures down 0.91 percent.

Today, Trump held a press conference completely divorced from reality. After an hour of propaganda about how well the war is going, Trump took questions. He is not living in reality as evidenced by his claim that the Iranian people want to be bombed. In response to questions about his crazed post yesterday (I am posting the entire reply, so everyone can see the insanity) He said:

“Yeah, of the regime. Regime. They would be willing to, they would be willing and it’s suffering. They would be willing to suffer that in order to have freedom the Iranians have, and we’ve had numerous intercepts. Please keep bombing bombs that are dropping near their homes. Please keep bombing, do it.

“And these are people that are living where the bombs are exploding. And when we leave and we’re not hitting those areas, they’re saying, please come back. Come back. Come. These are the people. I don’t know what they do. All I can tell you is they want freedom. They have lived in a world that you know nothing about.

“It’s a violent, horrible world where if you protest, you are shot. Remember the great woman protests where they had 400,000, 500,000 women and they were all enthused and they were gonna protest, and everybody said, oh, the regime’s gonna come to an end, and then all of a sudden, boom. Boom. Five, six different areas.

“A woman would go down, right between the eyes. They had snipers, they had five snipers. That’s all it took. And those four or 500,000 women said, oh my God, what’s that? Oh, look over there. What’s that? A woman shot right between the eyes and after five or six of them go down, then you start hearing the pur through the vast number of people.

“And then they said, oh my God, who would do that? And they’re incredible people, but they’ve lived so horribly. They’ve lived so horribly. You know, Iran was a great country. If you go back 25 years ago or so. Uh, the Persian people, the, they’re incredible smart, brilliant actually. And I know so many I know coming from New York originally, I, I know so many people from arena.

“They’re incredible people. Incredible energy. And, uh, very, very brilliant people. And, but when you’re standing in a group and protesting and you have a woman, in the case of a woman, remember the Great Woman March. Everybody was started, oh, this is the end of the country. And then snipers selectively picked, every single one was shot right between the eyes from a long distance.

“They were on top of buildings. Nobody even knew where they were, where they coming from. This wasn’t like a machine gun, which is also very bad. They’ve done that too. They did that recently. This was snipers sitting on the top of buildings aiming and hitting women. And when they see people go down and all of a sudden there’s a riot in the reverse direction, and they never came out again.

“And a lot of the, the news doesn’t talk about that. They talk about, oh, women’s rights. You wanna see women’s rights, you’re not gonna see it there. It’s amazing when I see, uh, some of the stupid people like, you know, a OC plus three, all that group, they talk about, oh. Freedom for Iran. They don’t tell you the real facts.

“Women, men, gays. How about gays for Iran? They kill the gays. They throw ‘em off buildings. So I, I wonder what, what’s going on? I, I can only say this. They want us to keep bomb. Yeah, even if it jeopardized because their life is in much greater danger. They want freedom for Iran, but it’s very hard for them to protest.

“I actually tell ‘em, I said, don’t go out. I fully understand nobody in this room would go out. I don’t think there’s any, because frankly, it’s not a question of bravery. We’re all brave, right? You’re brave. I’m brave. We’re all brave, but we’re also intelligent. If you have people shooting at you, expert shots with the best, what rifles you can get.

“And hitting you right between the eyes every single time. And you’re looking here and you’re seeing, and you’re looking here, you’re out of there.

At the concusion, Trump issued a serious threat for Iran: “The entire country could be taken out in one night. And that night might be tomorrow night.”

An Iranian official responded to Trump’s Sunday Truth Social post by asserting that the strait will remain closed until the country is “fully compensated” for the damage it has suffered during Trump’s war. He also dismissed Trump’s threats as a sign that the U.S. has “resorted to obscenities and nonsense out of sheer desperation and anger.” He went on: “The international community and all states have legal obligations to prevent such atrocious acts of war crimes. They must act now. Tomorrow is too late.” When the truth about events comes from the Tehran Mullahs, we are definitely no longer in Kansas.

With “friends” like Nitwityahoo in Israel, we need no enemies: Israel hit a major petrochemical plant in southern Iran this morning. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said the Israeli military struck the largest petrochemical facility in Iran, which is located in the South Pars natural gas field that Iran shares with Qatar. The gas field, located in the Persian Gulf, is the largest in the world. Iranian state media reported that there were no casualties and no significant damage. The strikes, which hit the coastal town of Asaluyeh, mark the second time that the Israeli military has targeted the Iranian facility. Israel also struck the area in mid-March, prompting Iran to strike at a Qatari gas facility. Netanyahu pressed Trump in a phone call yesterday not to pursue a ceasefire at this stage and expressed concern over the risks involved in such a move, an Israeli source said,” Ravid said on Monday in a social media post on X. “Trump told Netanyahu that if Iran agrees to the US demands, a ceasefire might be achieved, but he emphasized that he would not back down from his demand that Iran hand over all the enriched uranium in its possession and agree not to resume enrichment, according to the Israeli source.” Trump’s decision to launch an attack on Iran was “partly motivated by pressure from outside allies,” including Netanyahu, who’s currently wanted by the ICC for his war crimes.

Here’s a cat picture to calm things:

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