With no good options available, you can count on Trumpolini to choose the worst one.  Kharg Island seems the most likely, even though the main result would be to further restrict global energy supply for a longer period of time.  It's unlikely to do anything to get the Iranians to surrender.  However, Trumpolini's moving 5000 grunts halfway around the world.  He's not doing that to have them sit on the boat twidling their thumbs.

RE

Amazing how Wall Street will jump on Tweets from Trumpolini without accepting the obvious realities.  There's no dialogue with the Iranians, regardless of his pronouncements.  There's no way His Trumpness and the Ayatollah are going to run the Straight of Hormuz "together". lol.  There's no way the FSoA is going to pay reparations and grovel apologetically.  Most of all, there's NO FUCKING WAY the oil supply market will return to normal in 2026.

Regardless of all of this, it's being ignored and they go ahead and bid upp the market simply because El Trumpo makes an obviously false statement based on his own fantasies.

On the upside, the return to reality should be spectacular.

RE

I am amazed, the America I once knew would never have watched Bibi and Trump have gay sex through a keyhole.  Being anybody's bitch would have been inconceivable to a nation that thought they were the greatest in the world.  The savior of democracy.  The winner of WWII.  If my mental image bothers you, then imagine watching your wife or whatever flavor your significant other may be, cheating on you behind that keyhole.  And you are not into it.  It is not your monkey.  Watching is not your thing.

Trump gives treasure, your treasure, to a foreign power.  Is that more palatable.  Do you like it?  If so, then so be it.  Different strokes they say.  But the truth is raw, and it is in your face, and it is up your ass.  And people are dying so those who have more already will have even more than they have now.  The "Greatest Generation" would be having none of this.  For them, not being alive to see what Trump has done to this country is a blessing.  Trump sells off what they built with blood and sweat.

The inheritance of 1945 is pawned off for gold and crypto.  A once-unrivaled giant stands outside the room, watching through a keyhole as its future is spent and taken away by a man who treats national honor as a line of credit for foreign presidents and kings.

Quote from: TDoS on Mar 23, 2026, 05:18 PMSure you can. It is called a fact at that point. Peakers, amusingly enough, didn't even get it right AFTER it happened. Because it kept happening!

Facts aren't predictions.  Nor are facts always factual.  Nor are even factual facts always interpreted the same way.  In any event as Kdog points out, the thread isn't about peak oil, it's about the conditions in Cuba under the Trumpolini oil embargo.   If you have something worthwhile to say about that, feel free to post it here.  You've already been warned about going off topic to beat your dead peak oil horse.

RE

Quote from: TDoS on Mar 23, 2026, 05:18 PM

Quote from: RE on Mar 22, 2026, 09:08 PM

Quote from: TDoS on Mar 22, 2026, 06:36 PMBut it ain't happened yet

Of course it hasn't.  You can't predict something that has already happened. 🙄

RE

Sure you can. It is called a fact at that point. Peakers, amusingly enough, didn't even get it right AFTER it happened. Because it kept happening!

TDoS - You have one warning.  I don't want to hear another peep out of you about peak oil for 1 week.  That will be March 30th.  You will have another vacation away from the Diner if you bring it up.  I am sick of your tedious bullshit.

This thread is about an actual ongoing energy crisis, and is not about your whining never ending rant about peak oil definitions.  Which is really just a veiled way of pissing on the Diner.  You could at least find an appropriate topic to post in instead of venting your sociopathic affinity for the dark side here.

Quote from: RE on Mar 22, 2026, 09:08 PM

Quote from: TDoS on Mar 22, 2026, 06:36 PMBut it ain't happened yet

Of course it hasn't.  You can't predict something that has already happened. 🙄

RE

Sure you can. It is called a fact at that point. Peakers, amusingly enough, didn't even get it right AFTER it happened. Because it kept happening!

Quote from: K-Dog on Mar 22, 2026, 07:50 PMWhen the Titanic struck the iceberg at the ship didn't immediately sink. Many passengers felt a slight jar and went back to bed. Sycophants on the upper decks carried on as if all was well.  The lights stayed on, the band played, and the champagne was cold.

Indeed. But expand the time frame...allow it to cover the overarching concept of Apocalyticism, the category within which our decades of doomer experience resides within (if not centuries once religious collapsologists get involved) and the Titanic has been sinking since before you were born, before your parents were born, is still sinking, and all along the way, people have BELIEVED it will, and will die believing it. Collapse never having arrived, all along the way.

But it isn't any fun thinking of Apocalypticism instead of doom right around the corner is it?

It isn't a hobby. It isn't a cool frame work to hang websites around, without the time component, EXACTLY as you have framed it with the Titanic. DOOM IS HERE! YOU SUCKERS JUST DON'T KNOW IT! WE CLEVER FOLKS ARE IMBUED WITH KNOWLEDGE AND ARE TRYING TO WARN THOSE SMART ENOUGH TO BELIEVE AS WE DO!

Just don't mention todays doom is naught but one in a string claimed, predicted, pretended to be happening in the moment (peak oil 2005 comes to mind, Planet X is coming, Yellowstone is exploding) events. All of these are just examples on RE's websites, Apocalypticism goes back a millennium.

The Titanic angle doesn't work is someone knows any history on the overarching topic. It is no different than me using a GRB, that no one can see yet, but certainly might be coming, to do the same thing. And a GRB is FAR sexier. But hard to pitch something that hard to see...but you could try the Titanic angle for that doom the same way. And a GRB is WAY cool.

Add Market Manipulation & Insider Trading to Trumpolini's list of High Crimes & Misdemeanors.

RE