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https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/2076676057525100919
UnattendedDeviant
Those like the imgur Mars account probably believes his nonsense, but most intelligent people know this is just more rambling nonsense from Trump.
hsalonen3000
Iran's Foreign Minister says they will do it cheaper:
https://x.com/araghchi/status/2076728062662557961?s=20
meowingintensifies
rugmibackward
All that is missing is for him to say that anyone refusing to pay will have their ships boarded and confiscated since the lack of payment "clearly" indicates they are Iranian customers.
Eleshar24
So... naval piracy?
RenaissanceFaireMan
Naval extortion.
narcoleptiKnickers
Pirates of the Barbary Coast
AyatollahBahloni
Wait, does that make the USA the bad guys?
Fishy820
What an asshole like usual, anything for him to personally pocket more money
PileOfWalthers
Just wait until tomorrow, when he says the exact opposite.
20rooster
I miss not knowing anything about the fucking Strait of Hormuz.
IamIntoleranceIntolerant
Did anyone NOT see this coming?
RetrogradeLlama
Thank you for your attention to this idiot.
mrthewhitee
So pirates then.
DDet
"We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world—a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just Whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts. We are human scum, and that is how history will judge us. . . No redeeming social value. Just whores. Get out of our way, or we’ll kill you."
-Hunter S. Thompson
Edgarflaps
Team America World Police https://media2.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1NWFjbTN0bDN2OHdhdzJwa3kxc3F3ZWpsYnh4ZWMwemJnN3FqaXQwayZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/6YJZuwLne3fO0/200w.webp
Resistance1000
"It's closed and I need NATO's help. But it's open, too. I don't need anyone's help anyway. Screw you, NATO, just go there and take your oil. Let's all make money. War? What war? I'm gonna bomb them back to the stone age. I already obliterated them. Twice. They sent me a nice gift. Iran just announced they permanently opened the Strait. Praise be to Allah! I closed it again. Squirrel! Joe Biden never opened it as many times as I have. Thank you for your attention to this matter."
SleepyHollowAppleTree
Why can't he shut the fuck up.
Dybidude5
Because he just shows what a fucking hostile and destructive nation the US is towards the world and humankind.
At least one is showing the broken culture and evil values of it.
vilecomfort
Who cares it will change by the middle of the week.
PinbotWizard
400%, 500%, percents like no one has seen before.
RenaissanceFaireMan
A big man came up to him, a tear in his eyes and said, "You're the best at putting a 20% tax on good going through the strait. Thank you sir!"
RenaissanceFaireMan
SirButcher
We in the UK are paying over $8 / US gallon. In the Netherlands, it is over $10 / US gallons. It is extremely funny to see US citizens complaining about the price of fuel.
RenaissanceFaireMan
I hear you. Quick question, how's your public transportation?
SirButcher
Dude, we worked and fought hard for our public transportation, it not a special feature of this continent, it is something that we pay for and select our politicians for. Our (ex)mayor (Manchester, UK), for example, made an amazing transformation of the local mass transit, and guess what, it is reducing traffic as well! (Ex mayor since he got elected to be the PM of UK, I hope great things from him, he was amazing here)
UneventfulLover
Quite an incentive for the rest of the world to keep working on the transition to other energy sources.
hogeyegrex
He is a deluded fantasist. How, exactly, does he think he’s going to secure the Strait? Iran has some nasty missiles and I don’t think we’re going to put an AEGIS on every tanker going through the Strait.
BastardMan1977
jesus fucking christ I hate my fucking government
Rhythmaster
Everyone does. Nobody outside the USA likes what the USA govt is doing. Maybe Putin and Xi are cool with it, but I bet even they wish for a more stable and predictable adversary...
philmoregraves
If you think you hate YOUR government you should see MINE! (probably the same)
FortifiedWhine
We hate your government too...Signed, Rest of the fucking World.
MechKelly
Russia and Israel seem pretty happy controlling our government.
PerthAussieMike
No basis in International Law allowing him to do that. He's just going to alienate even MORE countries. Besides which, we all know he CREATED this situation in the first place. Dum-Dum :(
MechKelly
Laws only matter if they're enforced.
RenaissanceFaireMan
Like a firefighter/arsonist, he makes the fire and then asks to be paid to put out the fire.
Frencheeseater
Next World War will be the Rest of the World against USA + Israel if it continues like this.
PlainlyPuzzled
I've come to be in an absurd place, where the Iranian regime (may they all die a slow and painful death) seems to be the more rational one from my perspective. "Dear" US - when will you end this grotesque shitshow?
RenaissanceFaireMan
So the USA starts a war, after bombing Iran, and then taxes every ship? How convenient.
OliverClothesoff70
How much of the 20% collected fees will go to Trump’s personal finances?
LitterBoxKing
But tell me, Donnie, why is that section of the world so volatile?
TheWombatStrikesAgain
"No idea. Every time we see something we don't like, we drop a lot of bombs on it. But for some reason things we don't like keep happening."
IgnisInvictus
Couldn't have anything to do with the unprovoked bombing of a girls' school in the middle of Ramadan, could it?
Nah! The Iranians must just be jerks!
S/
usernametakenisthestoryofmylife
"20%"? That's quite an exuberant extortion. Who gets this money?
witheredspoon
20% PLUS expenses like missiles and salary for the navy etc.
CptRobotNinja
Yeah I know it's not really the main thing here, but 20% is just a wild fucking number.
RenaissanceFaireMan
"Look, if yous want your goods to go through this here port, you're gonna has to pay....like twenti percent, or else yous and me are gonna have sum problems. Capeesh?"
TheoryOfRelativeTea
His "Board of Peace"...
FlyingTigerRose
Trumpelthinskin and Company.
lightfoot2
trump of course.
RetrogradeLlama
Cough.
unluckyandbored
Who do you think?
RenaissanceFaireMan
"How to make oil cost people 20% more, but ask gas companies to drop their prices"
DemonicFruitfly
Frencheeseater
fknbastard
Ugh. He’d love that pic. That’s why it’s the same picture they want to use on money, buildings, and statues. His mugshot is apparently the only one his anger doesn’t look feckless.
Frencheeseater
zufallszahlen
That doesn't sound like mercenaries, it sounds like pirates.
zHurk777
Stupid Pirate. Spending $$$-Billions to close the strait, charging $-millions to open it.
stayingalive4life
Just imagine, in another 100 or so years later, Disney is going to come out with a new movie called Pirates of the Hormuz: Curse of the Orange Bastard.
RenaissanceFaireMan
IK, call it "Treasure Planet"!
DemonicFruitfly
Piracy only applies to private actors in maritime waters outside the 12-mile limit. It would be piracy if you or I did it and the strait was wider, but it can't technically be piracy because it involves state actors, and the Strait of Hormuz is not wide enough. I wish it was piracy because piracy carries a mandatory life sentence under US Federal law.
Bastetsmorlock
So if you do pirate stuff inside territorial waters it’s just sparkling robbery?
DemonicFruitfly
Yes
Questionablysensible
Its not THEIR territorial waters, tho. That said both piracy and privateers require that it be done by private individuals. This is just state sponsored extortion
icantbelieveistillhavetoprotestthiscrap
it sounds like bullshit
YouRadicalizedMe
Off with Trump's fucking head already!!! - Sincerely Canada
IhopeUgetwhatUvoted4
Mercenaries can be pirates.
PumpkinDriver5
Other canals and things do charge transit fees but they’re nowhere near that high.
RenaissanceFaireMan
Sounds like extortion, a mob shakedown.
RenaissanceFaireMan
"Look, if yous want your goods to go through this here port, you're gonna has to pay....like twenti percent, or else yous and me are gonna have sum problems. Capeesh?"
RenaissanceFaireMan
"Leave the cannoli"
RetrogradeLlama
Privateers - they're licensed by a state to do this.
azgrak1
Someone has watched The West Wing.
pocketpython
Yep, because that worked SO well for England when they decided to stop supporting their independent naval contractors"(TL;DR Pirates of the Caribbean could have well fit into the same time period where the Privateers decided to go into business for themselves and set themselves up in places like Tortuga and other Caribbean Pirate towns)
CaldariBob
The government would have to issue a letter of marque, wouldn't they?
layinginbedfeelinglikeaquesarito
The government doesn’t need to issue the marque to itself, but the problem is that stop being privateering and just becomes war
RetrogradeLlama
LOL... Yeah, I guess they would.
Sorry, that I missed that. I'm a little rusty on my privateer legal matters.
rangerconlin
You could say your response... Missed the marque?
ultradongle
No worries, it's been a couple centuries since we have had to worry about this shit, no?
CaldariBob
Yarr, yarr...