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6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, April 30, 2026 2:01 AM

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Originally posted by second:
Maybe Trump won't fail, assuming the Iranians are worse at tactics/strategy/policy than he is. Personally, I wouldn't bet that Trump performs his duties well and keeps control of himself.

As much as we know you'd love to see it, he won't fail. And this will be wrapped up well before election day.

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The Wall Street Journal isn't ready, yet, to declare Trump lost:

It’s Way Too Early to Declare Defeat in Iran

No shit. Anybody claiming we were defeated by Iran hates Trump so much that they are cheering for America to lose. You're all braindead meat puppets.

WSJ also said this today...

Iranians Feel the Pain as Their Economy Descends Into a Death Spiral

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/iranians-feel-the-pain-as-their-
economy-descends-into-a-death-spiral-47dba669?st=3nEQei

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Daily struggles

Government revenue has dried up just as the needs of its population are rising.

The war has thrown around one million people out of work directly and another million indirectly, according to early estimates cited by Gholamhossein Mohammadi, an official at Iran’s Labor and Social-Affairs ministry. That is a significant portion of the roughly 25 million people who are normally employed in Iran.

The cost of living has soared, with the annual inflation rate reaching 67% in the month through mid-April from the same period a year earlier, according to Iran’s central bank. The subsidized price of red meat, which was mostly imported through sea routes, has gone up to the equivalent of around $3.60 a pound, beyond the reach of most in a country where the minimum wage is around $130 a month.

Iran’s national currency on Wednesday hit a record low of 1.8 million rial to the dollar.

“Living is not affordable anymore,” said Mahdi Ghodsi of the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies. “Iran is at its weakest point.”

Businesses across the country—from manufacturers to retailers—are closing, residents said. The lack of steel and other raw materials is hampering production in various industries. Electronic goods, which are mostly imported, are in short supply and expensive.

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Be Nice. Don't be a dick.

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Thursday, April 30, 2026 10:01 AM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Maybe Trump won't fail, assuming the Iranians are worse at tactics/strategy/policy than he is. Personally, I wouldn't bet that Trump performs his duties well and keeps control of himself.

As much as we know you'd love to see it, he won't fail. And this will be wrapped up well before election day.

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Be Evil. Be a dick.

There were Nixon voters certain that Nixon was winning in Vietnam. They got very angry when told that the Vietnam War had been lost ten years earlier, when Ngô Ðình Diem, the first president of South Vietnam, was assassinated on November 2, 1963, following a CIA-backed military coup d'état. No facts ever changed the minds of those goddamn buttheads who voted for Nixon. Facts won't change the minds of those who voted for Trump. What thrills me is what happened to the most extreme Nixon supporters -- a series of sad stories, followed by early deaths. I believe the same will happen to Trump supporters because I see them declining in health and dying early all around me. Keep up your self-destructive habits, Trumptards. The World will be better once you are dead from personal ineptitude. And 6ixStringJoker, keep smoking. Refuse to believe "every cigarette you smoke is another nail in your coffin". Instead, cigarettes are your declaration of freedom from rules that sane people follow.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, April 30, 2026 2:41 PM

Wow. You are so smart dude. We're all just in awe of your intelligence.

Especially your knowledge from those countless books you've never pirated, let alone ever read.

I'm just wondering now, when all of your idiots fall flat on their faces when the Iran situation turns out well and that nobody with any credibility or integrity will be able to say otherwise in retrospect, what will be the next big thing that your party runs on? I mean, we all know it will be Anti-Trump, but will we go back to an old stand-by, or are you going to cook up something new to scream about?

Don't you ever grow tired of yourself?

Meanwhile, this will be another big I Told You So from the bag, and it will be just one more thing you don't ever apologize for or even admit that you were wrong in the first place. You will immediately go to pretending that the Iranian conflict never happened in the first place, you will never mention it again, and you will ignore any threads made on the topic completely. Because this is exactly what you do all of the time.

But you keep going on and talking about my addictions and personal issues every day and lord over your false sense of moral superiority you get to have over me because you've never once displayed any proof of humanity or even a personality with your posts over the years. You don't even understand how basic human interaction works.

I can only imagine what horrible things you've done and maybe even still do that you hide from the world under all the manufactured virtue a veteran sociopath can muster.

You should know. We really take your personal insults to heart because we have all the respect in the world for you. Not just for you, but for your always correct opinion on any topic. We are truly blessed to be graced with your presence here everyday and your approval means the world to us.

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Thursday, April 30, 2026 4:35 PM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Wow. You are so smart dude. We're all just in awe of your intelligence.

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Be Evil. Be a dick.

Figure this one out, genius: the Vietnam War ended for the US when the troops were withdrawn by the President. North Vietnam wasn't surrendering to the US, no matter how many bombs the US dropped on it. Two months ago, Trump could have ended his Iranian War by not starting it in the first place, but Benjamin Netanyahu wanted the Ayatollah dead and Iran destroyed just because he felt like it. Iran will not be surrendering, no matter how many bombs the US drops on it. (If this war had really been about Iran's enriched Uranium, Trump would have obeyed the treaty the US signed with Iran about, wait for it, enriched Uranium. But Trump cannot control himself, and he cannot obey.)

I know what has been keeping 6ixStringJoker alive: voting for Trump.

Older Americans who vote live longer than those who don’t – new research

Published: April 27, 2026 8:17am EDT

A study found that voting, like good nutrition and exercise, could extend your lifespan.

Most people know the basics of healthy living that become more important as you grow older: Eat plenty of vegetables, exercise regularly, sleep well, have a social life, limit your alcohol consumption and don’t smoke.

We found that voters were 45% less likely to die within five years after the 2008 election, 37% less likely to die 10 years after the election, and 29% less likely to die 15 years later.

https://theconversation.com/older-americans-who-vote-live-longer-than-
those-who-dont-new-research-279933

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, April 30, 2026 5:25 PM

I should probably keep my replies to you under 3 sentences from now on.

You're clearly an idiot.

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Thursday, April 30, 2026 5:49 PM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I should probably keep my replies to you under 3 sentences from now on.

You're clearly an idiot.

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Be Evil. Be a dick.

How about not replying at all? Instead, continue to kill yourself with tobacco, one of the few legal forms of suicide. I've seen many Trumptards end themselves, so why not you?

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Thursday, April 30, 2026 5:49 PM

Trump tells aides to prepare for an extended blockade of Iran

https://attentiontotheunseen.com/2026/04/29/trump-tells-aides-to-prepa
re-for-an-extended-blockade-of-iran/

The Wall Street Journal reports:

President Trump has instructed aides to prepare for an extended blockade of Iran, U.S. officials said, targeting the regime’s coffers in a high-risk bid to compel a nuclear capitulation Tehran has long refused.

In recent meetings, including a Monday discussion in the Situation Room, Trump opted to continue squeezing Iran’s economy and oil exports by preventing shipping to and from its ports. He assessed that his other options—resume bombing or walk away from the conflict—carried more risk than maintaining the blockade, officials said.

Yet continuing the blockade also prolongs a conflict that has driven up gas prices, hurt Trump’s poll numbers and further darkened Republicans’ prospects in the midterm elections. It has also caused the lowest number of transits through the Strait of Hormuz since the war began.

Since ending the major bombing campaign in an April 7 cease-fire, Trump has repeatedly walked back from escalating the conflict, opening space for diplomacy after earlier threatening to destroy the entirety of Iranian civilization. But he still wants to tighten the grip on the regime until it caves to his key demand: dismantling all of Iran’s nuclear work. On Monday, Trump told aides that Iran’s three-step offer to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and save nuclear talks for the final phase proved Tehran wasn’t negotiating in good faith, The Wall Street Journal reported.

For now, Trump is comfortable with an indefinite blockade, which he wrote Tuesday on Truth Social is pushing Iran toward a “State of Collapse.” A senior U.S. official said the blockade is demonstrably crushing Iran’s economy—it is straining to store its unsold oil—and sparked fresh outreach by the regime to Washington.

Trump’s decision represents a new phase of sorts of the war and highlights the fact that the president, who always seeks a quick and salable victory, is devoid of a silver bullet. [Continue reading…]

As the UAE decides to leave the powerful OPEC oil cartel, Pakistan has opened itself as a land corridor that could help Iran get around the Strait of Hormuz blockade – so where do these developments leave Donald Trump’s long term plans for the Iran war and the shape of the Middle East?

In this episode of The Fourcast Indicators Matt Frei and Mark Urban delve into the latest developments in Washington and Tehran and look at how Hezbollah’s new drone tactics could be forcing Israel to recalculate it’s approach in Lebanon:

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Thursday, April 30, 2026 6:34 PM

Transcript: Krugman on How Trump Accidentally Screwed Himself on Iran

As the president continues to struggle with the Iran fiasco’s global economic fallout, Paul Krugman explains how Trump has boxed himself into a corner—and why it could soon get much worse for him.

The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent / April 29, 2026

https://newrepublic.com/article/209630/transcript-krugman-trump-accide
ntally-screwed-iran

Paul Krugman: Good to be on again.

Sargent: So Trump rejected that proposal from Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, perhaps in part because it would not address Trump’s demand for total termination of Iran’s nuclear program. But the New York Times had an extraordinary detail about the Iranian offer: “A U.S. official also said that accepting it could appear to deny Mr. Trump a victory.” Paul, apparently that’s the single most important factor in all of this, right?

Krugman: That’s what’s been holding everything up. For most of us, by about a week into the war, it was obvious that basically America lost. But Trump cannot bring himself to acknowledge that.

He’s been trying—he’s threatening to bomb them back into the Stone Ages, and he’s been threatening war crimes, and he’s been imposing counter-blockades against the blockade—all of which seems to be because he cannot seem to accept that actually he screwed up badly. There is no good outcome for the United States here. All we can do is accept something that actually leaves Iran stronger than it was, but he won’t do it.

Sargent: Well, we just learned that gas prices rose on Tuesday to the highest level in four years. It’s well over $4 a gallon on average. Brent crude is over $100 a barrel again. Paul, can you just walk us through the basics of how those developments are tied to the Strait of Hormuz remaining closed?

Krugman: Yeah. Before this war, about 15 percent of the world’s oil flowed through that strait. And it’s other stuff too—natural gas, helium, fertilizer—but right now let’s focus on the oil.

So 15 percent of the world’s oil goes through that narrow passageway, which is extremely easy for Iran to block. That 15 percent—there’s really not much of an exit. There’s no real way around the Iranian blockade. A little bit of stuff can go by pipeline, but not much. And that’s a lot of oil being denied to the world market. And of course, the price of oil has gone way up.

But if this continues, he ain’t seen nothing yet. Because the really interesting thing—I cited some numbers from Goldman Sachs in the Substack—although the price of oil is way up, consumption of oil is only down a little bit. And mostly what’s happening is that they’re drawing down inventories of oil, that people who have oil in storage tanks, with oil that was already on tankers, is being used up, which is all happening out of the belief that the strait will reopen soon and prices will come down.

As people start to realize that that’s not about to happen—which has been happening just over the past couple of days—then the prices have to go much, much higher.

Basically, the price of oil has to go high enough to inflict enough economic damage—we have to somehow or other stop, reduce the consumption of oil by another 11 million barrels a day. Convenient thing is that right now, world oil consumption is about 100 million a day. So that’s also about 11 percent. And it takes a huge price increase to do that.

It’s not easy to wean yourself off oil, in the matter of weeks, which is what we’re kind of expecting has to happen. So this can get much—it’s ugly already. It’s ugly politically, obviously, for Trump and the Republicans to have gas hitting its highest level in four years. But it’s going to get a lot uglier very soon unless Trump swallows his pride and accepts that he actually lost this war.

Sargent: Well, just to clarify what you’re saying here—in other words, in order to get the world to demand less oil in keeping with the fact that there’s less supply, the prices really have to go up a lot.

Krugman: I mean, think of it. There’s a certain amount of oil avai

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Friday, May 1, 2026 7:10 AM

The Iran War Comes for the ‘King of Chemicals’

The conflict is wreaking havoc on an obscure sector that is more important than you’d think.

By Christina Lu | April 17, 2026, 2:10 PM

https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/04/17/iran-war-sulfur-supply-chain-sulf
uric-acid-fertilizer-mining/

For a commodity essential to everything from pharmaceuticals to agriculture and mining, sulfur rarely makes headlines. But the Iran war is showing why the world should pay closer attention.

That’s because by throttling global energy markets, the widening conflict is also wreaking havoc on the global trade of sulfur, which today is largely produced as a byproduct from the oil and gas sectors. Once converted into sulfuric acid—known as the “king of chemicals”—it powers operations across the fertilizer, metals, and pharmaceutical sectors. Which means that any disruptions to the sulfur market reverberate far beyond it.

Given its dominance in energy production, the Middle East is also a sulfur powerhouse. The region accounts for about half of all global sulfur exports, with top destinations including China, India, Indonesia, and the United States, said Meena Chauhan, the head of sulfur and sulfuric acid research at Argus Media, which provides global energy and commodity market intelligence.

But the Iran war—as well as the resulting standstill at the Strait of Hormuz—have strangled those flows, scrambling supply chains worldwide.

“Now we’re in uncharted territory really, because of how important the Middle East is,” said Chauhan.

Part of the problem is that even before the Iran war began in February, the sulfur market was already quite tight. Prices had been nearing three- or four-year highs as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, as well as new demand from the fertilizer sector and Indonesia’s nickel industry, said James Willoughby, a research analyst at Wood Mackenzie, an energy research firm.

All of those pressures have only intensified with the Iran war. As the conflict has bludgeoned energy production, sulfur prices have skyrocketed, indicative of just how intertwined both sectors are. The sector has now come under so much strain that countries are taking measures to insulate their own economies from the shock. Turkey announced a ban on sulfur exports last week, and India is also mulling its own export restrictions, Reuters reported.

Starting in May, China is reportedly also planning to stop exporting sulfuric acid produced as a byproduct of copper and zinc smelting. China is the leading global sulfur importer as well as a major sulfur producer, with Chinese production last year accounting for about 16 percent of the global market—although all of those volumes are consumed domestically, said Chauhan.

At the same time, China is also the world’s biggest single exporter of sulfuric acid, with those exports last year accounting for 20 percent of the global sulfuric acid trade, Chauhan said. Top destinations include Chile, which relies on sulfuric acid in its copper sector; Indonesia, which has a booming nickel industry; and Morocco and Saudi Arabia, which use sulfuric acid for processed phosphates, she said.

Beijing’s potential measures are likely aimed at shielding its own economy from external pressures, analysts said. “It’s very clear, given what an important commodity this is, the ban is in effect a strategic reaction to protect domestic consumers,” said Sangita Gayatri Kannan, who researches mineral and energy economics at the Colorado School of Mines.

But all of those trade restrictions, which come on top of the Iran war’s economic shock waves, are only set to continue to drive up prices and squeeze a market that was already facing immense pressure. That’s because sulfuric acid isn’t easily replaced or immediately substitutable, and it will be difficult for anyone to cobble together enough sulfur supplies to make up for the trade that has been disrupted by conflict in the Middle East.

“Even combining all of those potential