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News & Current Events Apr 23, 2026 at 1:15 PM

Trump orders 'shoot-to-kill' action on Iranian vessels choking Strait of Hormuz

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Trump orders 'shoot-to-kill' action on Iranian vessels choking Strait of Hormuz
The Economic Times
Trump orders 'shoot-to-kill' action on Iranian vessels choking Strait of Hormuz
President Donald Trump has taken a firm stance, instructing the US Navy to respond with lethal force against any vessels engaged in mining the crucial Strait of Hormuz. This order emerges as the Gulf experiences heightened tensions, particularly after the recent capture of two ships by Iranian forces.

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Capt_Blahvious 2 days ago +9663
The strait is clopen.
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absat41 2 days ago +4720
Schrodingers Strait
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Nene_Leaks_Wig 2 days ago +1378
Thats what i’d call the “straight” men i slept with.
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ArrowheadDZ 2 days ago +1308
LOL, “I’m not bi-curious, I’m Schrödinger straight.”
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Nene_Leaks_Wig 2 days ago +434
The LGBTQIA+ acronym just gets larger by the day
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ArrowheadDZ 2 days ago +551
The Schrödinger acronym would be LGBTQIA+/-
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zyzzogeton 2 days ago +647
LGBTQ+-hbar^2 / (2m) * d^2/dx^2 psi(x) + V(x)psi(x) = Epsi(x)
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Onastik 2 days ago +555
And here's me about to comment with "The Strait of homoz"
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jarfin542 1 day ago +292
That's disrespectful to straitz, homeaux, international shipping lanes, misguided idiot tyrants, the bespectacled, King Harold Godwinson, marsupials, and the entire village of Smythewick on Cardamom. Expect a visit from the superhero known as "Verb". He's a man of action.
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hobarthicus 1 day ago +103
I like every part of this reply.
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eemack67 1 day ago +128
This is pure gold! Are we solving for X or solving for ALL of our exes?
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AxiomaticProse 1 day ago +39
If i could solve for all of my exes id be in a much better place.
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Dazzling-Kitchen1922 2 days ago +43
God, love this comment.
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One-Consequence-6869 2 days ago +21
This was the laugh I needed
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WakeoftheStorm 2 days ago +89
It's not gay if the wave function hasn't collapsed
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Not_Just_Any_Lurker 2 days ago +142
Sorry. Misunderstanding . I asked for the menu, please. Not the men you please.
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failbotron 2 days ago +85
but unlike Schrodinger's cat, the Schrodinger's Strait is open when you don't look, but closed when you do. 100% of the time.
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Flatus_Diabolic 1 day ago +27
So you’re saying observation changes its state?
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mattblack77 2 days ago +43
🇺🇸 The home of Schrodinger’s Ceasefire 🇺🇸
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Blando-Cartesian 2 days ago +99
Fluid of Hormuz rejects openness as geopolitical construct.
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Mental-Surround-5042 2 days ago +389
"The straight of Hormuz is entirely open except for the Iranian military shooting at ships" -Hegseth
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loug1955 1 day ago +240
Hey Pete, hold a press conference and claim America has fully opened the Straight of Hormuz for sea water to pass through. 🇺🇸
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Hopsblues 1 day ago +41
..and the blockade, but otherwise, totally open..
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JuiceSuspicious5768 2 days ago +61
Really makes you wish they had a sign for that.
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Charlie_Warlie 2 days ago +14
We're done here.
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Ghrave 2 days ago +298
The Strait of Hormuz is...Aladeen
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Hazzamo 2 days ago +95
Is it Aladeen news?, or Aladeen News?
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AscendedViking7 2 days ago +71
I'm afraid you are HIV Aladeen
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freakedmind 2 days ago +36
Strait of Aladeen
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DrStalker 2 days ago +18
Yesn't.
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Cyrax89721 2 days ago +95
The Cloaca of Hormuz.
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Oakashandthorne 2 days ago +40
What a terrible day to be literate lmao
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Consistent-Energy507 2 days ago +19
Good god
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hildenborg 2 days ago +15
The largest object so far to be put in a superposition.
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QuirkyWish3081 2 days ago +2922
Why does everything have to be over the top
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Araminal 2 days ago +1282
Because he lives his life through media coverage.
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given2fly_ 2 days ago +562
Amazing that's what happens when you elect a guy who has only ever been successful as a Reality TV host...
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AdHefty9996 2 days ago +193
He was praising The Apprentice ratings from 2004 yesterday.
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Otter_Pockets 1 day ago +74
He was praising his insanely long and getting longer signature the other day too. Somebody give him the cookie he’s been wanting all this time already.
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ZAlternates 2 days ago +123
“Successful” Dude was in debt and bankrupt numerous businesses until he figured out how to sellout the government.
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Pasty_Swag 2 days ago +51
Some of those businesses that went bankrupt were *casinos*.
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Ecliphon 2 days ago +208
Because the Epstein files won’t forget about themselves. 
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Crashman09 2 days ago +749
It's what America wanted
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Boomshank 2 days ago +41
You wanted WWF in politics. You got a weird ass WWF character for a president.
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mrpersson 2 days ago +24
Leave the world wildlife fund out of this!
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kewlbeanz83 2 days ago +289
Getting what they voted for
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kryonik 2 days ago +174
But I mean Harris *maybe might have* started a war with Iran and we couldn't take that chance!
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BugTrousers 2 days ago +112
Also: woman! And god knows we can't have THAT!
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suz_gee 2 days ago +94
They're so emotional, they might just start wars base on vibes
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MoonIsCheese4Sho 2 days ago +66
YEAH, if Harris were elected, the world might have seen the USA as weak, impotent and ineffectual. Completely controlled by outside interests, and rotten to the core with insider corruption! Fortunately with Trump, we're a beacon masculinitude. /s
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nursejohio96 2 days ago +36
But but…she wasn’t pushing hard enough for an Israeli ceasefire… meanwhile Cheeto Jesus is drafting plans to pave over all of Gaza
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arthurvandl 2 days ago +29
Isn’t that how we keep our FreEduMbs
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Zefrem23 2 days ago +58
The Will of the People (as in Last Will and Testament)
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ICanLiftACarUp 2 days ago +26
Kayfabe*. Everything has to be WWE glam.
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didi0625 2 days ago +21
Markets go up and down faster
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europeanme 2 days ago +75
Because that’s how illiterate people speak
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DrAstralis 2 days ago +26
I've read backs of cereal boxes with a larger vocabulary than trump has XD
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Not_A_Clever_Man_ 2 days ago +8134
Oh man, I bet Barron made a killing on the prediction markets on this one!
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Spork_Warrior 2 days ago +2020
Yet his expression never changed.
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avocadosconstant 2 days ago +911
>his expression 😒
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ProcedureSeveral9058 2 days ago +908
He constantly looks like he is shitting his pants
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G-Sleazy95 2 days ago +738
Like father like son
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lurkquidated 2 days ago +431
Shit apple don't fall far from the shit tree, Rand.
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OldRancidSoups 2 days ago +168
We’re in the eye of the shiticane
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exploding-girl 2 days ago +142
when you plant shit seeds, you get shit weeds
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CrazyAstronomer2 2 days ago +58
Greasy
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Responsible_Ad4436 2 days ago +48
Is it greasy or greheheasy
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thekinginyello 2 days ago +56
Like a shit hawk.
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Wasatcher 2 days ago +51
Shit hawks are circlin' Rand
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Streamjumper 2 days ago +57
"I learned it by watching you, dad!"
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Rejestered 2 days ago +105
TBF if that was my family, that would be my expression too.
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vardarac 2 days ago +61
like pattinson's bruce wayne but his trauma is that his parents are dead inside
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azrael815 2 days ago +160
Can have all the money in the world but his parents guaranteed him that he would likely never find happiness. He removed the likely by immediately following in his father's footsteps when he hit adulthood.
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Dash_Harber 2 days ago +13
He inherited his mom's bad plastic surgery.
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DlphLndgrn 2 days ago +354
I'd believe that Barron is making a killing on the predictions if it wasn't for the fact that I don't think he knows the president very well.
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diliudia 2 days ago +196
Yeah, why do we keep assuming his Dad talks to him?
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DlphLndgrn 2 days ago +184
Yeah, like I get the joke and all, which is in line with the level of obvious open corruption of the administration. But I honestly don't think they talk at all or know eachother. Barron used to have a eastern European accent for gods sake.
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3-DMan 2 days ago +166
Yeah I kinda doubt Trump has ever really talked to his kids - I saw his Easter footage where he's talking about Biden's f****** autopen to 7-year-olds.
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amishengineer 2 days ago +121
Give him enough time and he'll start telling the 7 year olds about all the woman he slept with.
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Streamjumper 2 days ago +91
And how hot he thought his own underaged daughter was.
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-o-DildoGaggins-o- 1 day ago +13
And how hot he thinks some of them “will be.” (I threw up a little in my mouth, typing that out. 🤢)
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Cptn_BenjaminWillard 2 days ago +52
"Maybe you'll be next"
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NikaChica2006 2 days ago +37
Only talked to Ivanka because he always wanted to fk her, probably since she was about 8
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sheeshman 2 days ago +37
Judging by the company he keeps, I can easily see him taking advantage of his position and betting on prediction markets. It doesn't even have to come from Trump. The whole administration is a bunch of sycophants and I have no doubt some of them would want to get in good with Barron. He probably wouldn't even have to seek out information. They probably give him unsolicited advice as a "favor".
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fangelo2 2 days ago +18
Trump once made the comment that Melania has a son
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EnglishBob84 2 days ago +48
Oil Barron
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murrtrip 2 days ago +48
Robber Barron
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seekAr 2 days ago +1366
That peace prize is in the bag for 2026
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Araminal 2 days ago +329
The NFL Peace Prize, or the FIFA one again?
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NH787 2 days ago +292
Don't sleep on the UFC Peace Prize
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IgnoranceIsYou 2 days ago +14
Make him climb into the octagon
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LincolnHighwater 2 days ago +15903
That's quite a ceasefire you've got there!
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angry-democrat 2 days ago +5553
it's a concept of a ceasefire.
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Pragmatist_Hammer 2 days ago +1255
It’s the math RFK Jr was talking about yesterday that doesn’t math
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ImRickJameXXXX 2 days ago +527
Or the math of Patel yesterday about his vacation taking time
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iCandid 2 days ago +298
To be fair to Patel he had about 5 beers before attempting that math.
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Teamanglerx 2 days ago +126
I tried to use Patel math with HR once. Got written up.
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QiTriX 2 days ago +103
600% fewer wars!
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Fit_Explorer_2566 2 days ago +78
You’ve gotta start some wars so you can take credit for stopping them. So much for that Noble Peace Prize.
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Sislar 2 days ago +305
11 % of a plan?
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absat41 2 days ago +266
A Peacefire if you will
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poco 2 days ago +106
A Pleasefire
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Destination_Centauri 2 days ago +43
More of a... shall we say... PeaceWar.
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Recent-Association56 2 days ago +24
Its not a war, its a peace regine change
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sck178 2 days ago +81
Barely a concept
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Hamonwrysangwich 2 days ago +43
We'll see in two weeks.
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VeterinarianThese951 2 days ago +38
A Doncept
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sth128 2 days ago +68
It's "you there, cease!", then "fire!". It's the American way: "stop and I'll shoot!"
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UTgabe 2 days ago +63
Seize/fire
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Xollector 2 days ago +233
It’s a seas fire! Or sees fire!
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Winter_Body4794 2 days ago +33
A yes, the ICE diet I see it, I eat it.
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SyntheticSweetener 2 days ago +152
Yep, the plan was for Iran to cease while he fires.
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Little_Machinez 2 days ago +129
Trump: No new wars! Also Trump:
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dem0nhunter 2 days ago +95
No, new wars!
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Grunn84 2 days ago +25
Shouldn't have that FIFA peace prize logo on there either.
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Elsior 2 days ago +71
It's a beautiful ceasefire. They tell me it's the biggest ceasefire ever seen.
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timfountain4444 2 days ago +27
You forgot bigly and that they forget to thank him.
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Jackadullboy99 2 days ago +54
First “rounds” of negotiation..
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ShrimpCrackers 2 days ago +69
Yes everyone the straight of Iran is open for business, this is true because Trump said it himself, Iran has already had a regime change to something completely new and different and nothing to do with the old one.  God I hate this place
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Flipwon 2 days ago +706
Oh you meant seas fire
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Kind-Plantain2438 2 days ago +57
I remember like In 2011 when memes were booming, and one of them said something like "here's us when the world is ending", and it was trollface making a meme as a mushroom cloud took the background. And here we are lol
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Chumlee1917 2 days ago +1539
At least we know what Game of Thrones would have looked like if Joffrey was an 80 year old dementia patient 
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parkmann 2 days ago +191
Where’s Olenna Tyrell when you need her
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Perfect-Difference19 2 days ago +71
Oh, what a awful thing to say! Seeing Trump die by choking on his own vomit in the middle of a big party while everyone there laughs at his fate is just... just... Wait, was 'awful' the right word?
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Ok_Condition- 2 days ago +59
It's actually impressive to be less trustworthy than Joffrey
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MarkdownUpdog 2 days ago +159
Pretty sure Orange McHamberder is closer to the Mad King. The more interesting question is, who in that hypothetical situation would be Jaime Lannister?
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BigWilly526 2 days ago +77
No the Mad King actually had competent people surrounding him before the end
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MarkNutt25 2 days ago +28
The best I can do is Tucker Carlson.
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EudaimonicAttempt 2 days ago +14
Gotta be one of the secret service no ? Pretty much the equivalent to King's Guard
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AslanPahar 2 days ago +20
He's more like lord elder Frey.
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GeshtiannaSG 2 days ago +2103
Does he know what a ceasefire means?
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deviled-tux 2 days ago +1181
Cease, fire. 
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Crott117 2 days ago +592
Cease? Fire!
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4DimensionalToilet 2 days ago +157
Works on contingency? No, money down!
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[deleted] 2 days ago +1750
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smurfsundermybed 2 days ago +249
Comb the desert!
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Cockalorum 2 days ago +161
We ain't found shit!
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doodlar 2 days ago +303
>President Trump has a different way of calculating percentages! \- "Raccoon D*** Lover" FK, Jr.
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FuguSandwich 2 days ago +144
If you went to any studio in the world and said, "I have an idea for a movie. The protagonist is the son of the most prominent family in America. He gets addicted to heroin, snorts cocaine off the toilet seats in public restrooms, gets infected with a brain worm that eats part of his brain, takes his grandchildren to swim with him in raw sewage, and straps the head of a dead whale to the roof of his car on a family trip resulting in everyone inside getting drenched with whale juices. Also, he collect raccoon dicks that he cuts off roadkill. Eventually he becomes the Secretary of Health and Human Services." they'd laugh you out of their office. Even if you told them no, it's a satirical comedy, they'd still say it's too ridiculous of an idea.
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ncfears 2 days ago +48
That's not even the weird part of his life
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kezow 2 days ago +103
I order triple the minesweeping!!!!
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Brief_Hospital_1766 2 days ago +38
lol that's basically it. It's just the latest Trump 'Steiner Moment'.
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Pooglio17 2 days ago +12
All covfefe-class minesweepers are standing down and standing by for your orders, sir! 💀
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Falsus 2 days ago +47
Trump is a symptom of a larger system of corruption. Like mould, the visible growth is only a tiny fraction of the larger issue.
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Brief_Hospital_1766 2 days ago +34
The entire disinformation ecosystem has been running 24/7/365 since 1980. It's no wonder the cultists are ready to go to the comet.
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cleo22270 2 days ago +678
I can guarantee that you just put more thought into this in a throwaway Listnook comment than this administration has in their “planning” of this operation.
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Diligent_Plane_9526 2 days ago +49
I think they are always distracted by their manipulated market trades.
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Smaynard6000 2 days ago +36
This is f****** hilarious. Acting like it is so easy to triple productivity like this is assuming that they were just being lazy and not trying very hard to clear the strait before.
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onarainyafternoon 2 days ago +30
Triples is best. Triples is safe.
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GeshtiannaSG 2 days ago +60
Do they actually have the minesweepers? I thought they were still in Japan?
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TheBlack2007 2 days ago +64
Any ship can be a minesweeper once. Just do what your Navy is best at: throwing Burkes at problems /s
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QuincyQueue 2 days ago +20
Zap Brannigan school of naval warfare.
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Demortus 2 days ago +29
As it turns out, mines have a preset kill limit..
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ken_the_boxer 2 days ago +144
He just ordered the Navy to have minesweepers.
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doodlar 2 days ago +41
I DECLARE.....MINESWEEPERS!
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CasimirGabriev 2 days ago +28
No no no, he means he has dudes PLAYING minesweeper.
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Gipetto 2 days ago +14
Baron is good with the cyber. He’ll have the mines cleared by noon.
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MaksimilenRobespiere 2 days ago +696
So, he ordered the continuation of the war. Ceasefire ended. Got it.
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Fritzo2162 2 days ago +55
Damn it, this is going to make us win like 7 more times before this is all over.
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Time_Owl_2589 2 days ago +18
I know England is looking at us from across the pond and asking "Are you winning, son?"
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neklok 2 days ago +206
We’re living in a dementia patient’s war fever dream.
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big-papito 2 days ago +161
The market is just refusing to believe this is going to go on much longer.... Speaking of. Does anyone know how to get oil **spot price**, not futures? It seems like that data doesn't even exist.
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galaxy_horse 2 days ago +90
Market loves this. It's a b******** game with a rigged deck, and the dealer is winking at the high roller at the end of the table as he's dealing cards. Meanwhile the rest of us are getting turbofucked.
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somniforousalmondeye 2 days ago +76
Yeah it makes me think a lot of the market is fake. Like suddenly the investors will go to fill up on gas and there is no gas to be had and they will pull up the market and it still shows good.
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OneRougeRogue 2 days ago +43
Stock buybacks are keeping the market afloat. S&P 500 companies spent [over a trillion dollars on buybacks in 2025](https://www.fool.com/research/stock-buyback-statistics/), and Q4 2025 hit a new quarterly buyback record. Juat imagine the capital needed to keep the prices from.tanking since.January.
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AdHefty9996 2 days ago +12
We've only seen what the people involved with "the market" want prices to do. Supply and demand reality hasn't really been felt. The reality is that this will take months to unwind if it ended today, full stop.
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D3A7H_6R1P5 2 days ago +473
Pentagon quietly admitting it'll take 6 months to clear the mines out of the strait if they started now. And there's a lot more than "20" mines in there. This is him trying to cope
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Aelig_ 2 days ago +302
If the strait actually stays closed for 6 months, 2008 is gonna feel like good times in comparison.
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PensiveinNJ 2 days ago +139
I just assume Trump will do something to somehow make the strait impassable for the rest of time. I don't know what but his fuckups are so incredible he'll find a way.
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Inevitable_Box9398 2 days ago +52
He’ll somehow set off every single mine at once and it’ll cause the battleships’ munitions to cook off as well somehow and just completely annihilate the strait
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imagei 2 days ago +14
You mean annihilate the peninsula and from there on it’ll be the Straight of Hormuz?
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AbjectAppointment 2 days ago +63
The good times are killing me.
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MrApplePolisher 2 days ago +20
Got dirt, got air, got water and I know you can carry on Shrugged off, shortsighted, false excitement and oh what can I say? Have one, have twenty more "one mores" and oh it does not relent...
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DavidlikesPeace 2 days ago +90
2008 will look like heaven soon. We had good leadership back then capable of fixing problems.  Obama was there to crisis manage. Even W Bush knew domestic economics better than this fool. Almost as important, John McCain wasn't wrong when he said "the fundamentals of our economy are strong".  The world faced fewer threats to the gas market. The Main Street economy was fairly stable. We had no AI threatening to either strangle the labor market or create a bubble.  Leadership matters, especially in crises. The main problem is Trump. He can yell at the tides all he wants. He is not a problem solver
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[deleted] 2 days ago +42
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XTurbine 2 days ago +36
Piggy having another tantrum?
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Brave-Dragonfly3798 2 days ago +95
So not ceasefire as much as cease or we fire.
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apsblues 2 days ago +20
That was a typo...what they meant was "Please Fire"
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Chezzabe 2 days ago +98
You know I'm starting to feel like this was never about freeing the people
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LordTegucigalpa 1 day ago +36
He keeps threatening to destroy them all instead
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Chezzabe 1 day ago +19
Maybe he ment freedom from this earthly realm?
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thecity2 2 days ago +80
I told them I said shoot to kill. Shoot to kill. You know they say shoot to kill. Just like in the movies. I like to say shoot to kill. Shoot to kill. Shoot. To. kill. You shoot and it kills them. It’s a funny thing. One minute you’re shooting and then they’re killed. I said Joe. Talking about Drunken Joe Hegseth not Sleepy Joe Biden. I said Joe. Let’s shoot to kill. Shoot to kill!
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Glittering_Nobody402 2 days ago +443
Very peaceful- thank God Harris isn't president or we'd be in no new wars to protect pedophiles...
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QuarterFlounder 2 days ago +58
"It'll be WWIII!" -Trump
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Rasputin_mad_monk 2 days ago +18
Hurry. Someone nominate him for the Nobel peace prize
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Feisty-Weird-9941 2 days ago +83
But she laughs weird
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SipoteQuixote 2 days ago +13
She also is too young and out of touch with the older billionaire crowd.
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androk 2 days ago +25
Guess we know why the secretary of the navy was fired.
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ryan8954 2 days ago +22
That Fifa peace prize speaks loudly.
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TheFrenchmansCumsock 2 days ago +25
I remember when the FIFA Peace Prize used to mean something.
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ObviouslyRealPerson 2 days ago +52
Seems redundant when he claims to have already destroyed the Iranian Navy in the same post So, he's issuing shoot to kill orders on top of shoot to kill orders... Somebody's backed into a quagmire of their own making
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williamgman 2 days ago +126
77 million Americans voted for all of this.
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No_Recognition_3729 2 days ago +74
Bold of you to assume they thought about the consequences of their vote beyond "minorities bad"
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FattyMcBlobicus 2 days ago +41
They didn’t even think that far, all they know is that Trump makes liberals mad and that’s literally their entire political platform
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scarab1001 2 days ago +134
Shoot to kill a navy already destroyed in the first 3 days. Did Iran suddenly build loads of craft or was the Orange A****** lying? Guess we'll never know
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ToolTimeT 1 day ago +15
The object of this war is to open the strait that was open before the war started.
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MySockAccount 2 days ago +29
There goes the stock market again. Wonder how many of his buddies just made millions placing trades and buying puts right before his announcement.
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pitifullittleman 2 days ago +13
We destroyed their nuclear program, but had to bomb them again to kill their head of state and stop them from making nuclear bombs. We destroyed their navy but now are ordered to shoot and kill their navy on site. There is a ceasefire but ships are being attacked, the straight is open but no ships are going through. This has been without a shadow of a doubt the worst and most confusions war messaging I have ever witnessed.
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PilotKnob 2 days ago +12
Mr. Ousted Naval Guy had a problem with this, apparently.
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