The cost we’re paying for the war – which is on-hold for the moment – is down. But it is still high. Regular unleaded is under $4 per gallon, nationally – but it used to be under $3 per gallon, before the war started. That means most people are still paying $15-20 more for every tankful. That is – by far – a heavier tax than the sales taxes paid at the grocery store. It amounts to about $1,000 per year – and that’s assuming you have a medium-small crossover or similar with a roughly 15 gallon capacity gas tank. If you drive a truck or SUV with a 22-24 gallon tank, your tax is considerably higher.
The question on everyone’s mind is: Will the tax go away entirely or will it just go down some, temporarily?
The answer gets into whether the “deal” isn’t choreographed kabuki.
We are led to believe that Trump has yanked Netanyahu’s chain. Public disclosures of supposedly private phone calls. Political necessity dictated this. The war was/is a double problem for Trump in that most Americans don’t support it or at best support it tepidly and – far more of a problem – the war hasn’t gone well. It is probably true that most Americans would have cheered Trump like a latter-day MacArthur had the Iranian “regime” collapsed into its own footprint after just a few days of the usual “shock and awe” bombardment. This of course reflects horribly on America in that it shows Americans – not all, of course but lots of them – are all for war when it goes well. That is to say, when it costs them nothing but the other side everything. A better America would abjure wars of choice and conquest. Unfortunately, that America ceased to exist a long time ago. It may never have existed, truth be told. Even as long ago as just after the American states secured their independence (this was prior to America becoming a consolidated state) many Americans were gung-ho to go to war with Britain for the sake of France. Lee Greenwood wasn’t around then, but his spirit was.
Anyhow, it was necessary for Trump to put some plausible space between himself and Netanyahu. To tamp down the perception that Israel runs America and that Trump is a kind of major domo of Netanyahu’s. Hence the very public disclosures of angry personal phone calls. It is – it could be – kabuki. Trump looks like his own man again; “Bibi” gets put in his place.
But has “Bibi” been put in his place?
This seems unlikely, if only because “Bibi” is not the kind of guy to be put in his place. He is the kind of guy that puts guys like Trump in their place. He is, after all, the guy who literally did put Trump in his place – as major domo of the satrapy that styles itself The United States. Without the support of “Bibi” and his legions, it is doubtful Trump would be president because it is unlikely (nigh impossible) for anyone who is not obeisant toward Israel to become a congressman, let alone president. This hardly requires further discussion. 
Maybe the kabuki goes something like this:
Trump makes a big deal about the “deal” he has struck with the Iranians. He makes an even bigger deal about putting “Bibi” in his place. Americans are relieved, even though they are still paying an extra $15-$20 at every fill-up. It beats paying an extra $40-$50 at every fill-up. Or not being able to fill up at all – which might well have happened if the war had remained hot for another few weeks. The situation is something like being glad the cop loosened the handcuffs a little bit.
So we get a little relief, for a little while. Maybe it lasts through the 4th and the gauche festivities that are planned. Including the playing of that insufferable Lee Greenwood anthem. Then the tail is pinned on the Iranian donkey. There is an “attack” upon the “Homeland.” They are after our freedoms, again! If the attack upon the Homeland is spectacular enough, it won’t be necessary to play the Lee Greenwood anthem.
Maybe Americans ought to be thinking about this scenario ahead of time – and asking themselves why the Iranians would want to “attack” the “homeland” when they have already won the war.
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‘America’s loss of control of the strait of Hormuz in 2026 is exactly analogous to England’s loss of control of the Suez Canal in 1956.
The humiliating Iran peace deal “changes everything in the same way that the 1956 Suez Crisis ended the British Empire,” because England:
“didn’t have the power to settle things the way they wanted. The US did. America took Britain’s place as the ruler of the Middle East.
With this the US has shown that it does not have the power to impose its will on the 34th biggest economy in the world.”
At this point, Carlson’s resentment against the wogs in Iran becomes too big to ignore:
That is the obvious conclusion of this document. There is something sad about it; there’s something bitter about it, considering it was predictable. It’s not Somalia [those wogs, again] and it never will be Somalia.”
At this point, the real villains emerge:
“The Neocons … have every reason to hate this; that’s for sure. They’re upset for good reason. The administration didn’t do this to alienate its last remaining pocket of supporters. No. We did this because we had no choice.”
At this point, it’s worth asking, as Tonto once did to the Lone Ranger, “what you mean ‘we,’ paleface?”
His use of the term “we” clearly excludes the Jews, but is he referring here to Americans in general or the tattered remnant of the WASP Deep State which Carlson inherited from his father’s generation, when America ruled the waves as the world’s sole superpower?
Is Tucker looking forward to a more modest republic built on values that are universal and therefore enduring, or is he gearing up for MAGA 2.0 sans les juives? Either way, the current situation is dire:
“The two things you need to understand is 1) we’re running out of weapons. The United States has expended about half of all its existing missile defense in seven weeks.
If you can’t defend your allies in the region, you can’t continue.
We have reached the limits of our industrial capacity. The United States can’t defend itself. It doesn’t have the industrial capacity to replenish those stocks.
So, we are very vulnerable at this moment and with every passing day we become more vulnerable. . . .
2) Our strategic petroleum reserve is at its lowest point since 1983.
So, we’re running out of oil and we’re running out of weapons.
And it’s not because we were beaten in some type of artillery exchange with aircraft carriers.
The conflict is asymmetrical and we have reached the limit of our ability to fight it short of using weapons of mass destruction against Tehran, which no normal person wants . . . because the downstream consequences are unimaginable. We actually don’t have a choice.
The Trump administration is boxed in. We lost in a meaningful way.
This [the MOU] is less bad than if we continued. . . . The president believed Israeli estimates about Iran’s nuclear program about its strength and critically how it would respond to the decapitation of its leadership class.
The Iranians had created a system that was impervious to decapitation.
The Trump administration knew very early that this war was no going to produce the results that were promised and Trump was very angry about that.
The US president blames Netanyahu for misleading him and that’s why . . . Trump blamed Netanyahu early. So what’s their [the Jews’] response to this settlement? Well, it’s completely hysterical, but it’s also revealing. of their motives and their wisdom.[3]
So before we join in the celebration of the 250th anniversary of America’s founding by launching another war to end all wars, it’s worth pondering America’s humiliating defeat in Iran following its humiliating departure from Afghanistan, events which signaled the end of the American Empire.
America’s hasty departure from the Strait of Hormuz had uncanny parallels not only to England’s departure from Suez, but also with France’s humiliating withdrawal from Algeria, which ended France’s African empire.
Unlike the collapse of the British empire in Suez, France’s withdrawal from Algeria resulted in an open rebellion in the French military which found expression in many attempts to assassinate Charles DeGaulle for abandoning the pied noirs, the French settlers.’
https://www.unz.com/ejones/the-day-of-the-jackal-2-0-tucker-carlsons-irredentism-and-the-coming-civil-war/
Wow!
Someone that actually studies history… and does not fall for 2 minute sound bites!!!
In Bullshit , usa usa landia??? Holy Chit Mang,
Dude, we have to party!
Hey, do youse got a particular country/continent…you are interested in….??
Let me know…..There’s some WILD chit out there mang….
Let’s do a Tellus “walkabout”…..those are superKool! I’m coming up on 70 and the only medication I fortify against pathogens….Is Ethanol….
Quite available .. even in Koranic countries…Honest Injin.
Oh yeah….
As a “Round eye Yanqui Dog”….always remember
All the Global Kool looking shit you are “Ooooie, Ooooieing” over …
From a tour bus ..is quite proximate to some ordinary dude’s backyard…
And that’s a geographical fact…..Onward thru the fog….
It is still…Asskicking Kool…especially if you are on site ….and then a tourist bus pulls up..
Yessiree Bob…..I’m a fully “Seasoned lonely planet FIT”…
DH…
I’m having a Forrest Gump moment!!…Hmmm “WOG”? definitely UK. Righty Right?
The last time I had Marmite was in, get this Kool Brag factor location..Ottery St. Mary ..in
Devon England! July 86.
My Mom’s Latvian cousin lived there and was a Nurse. Her husband was a hippy high school teacher that drove a VW bug AND had a guy named George Micheal (of Wham) as a student..
I crashed in an excellent tool shed on property.
Forgot to mention as former USMC….the only foe that Terrified that organization happened to be ……
Drunk Manchester United FC (Soccer Fans)!! Fuck the bullshit SAS.
I’m presently dipping a toothpick into a jar of Marmite….
As I suck down a couple Tanguery and Tonics…..
That “umami” taste is a trip!
Any one with half a brain knew that Iran, if attacked, would close the Strait of Hormuz. That’s why no president until Bone Spurs Orange Man was dumb enough to be suckered into the Zio-twerps from the Synagogue of Satan and their wet dreams of unchecked hegemony in the Middle East.
We’ve expended hundreds of millions dollars worth of our hard-to-build “smart” wonder weapons and Iran was able to beat us on the cheap with old ballistic missiles and slow drones they can build by the thousands.
This is the worst beating ever administered to this country in a war. For all pf the Trumpster’s narcissistic braggadocio, we are humbled. We are a paper tiger. Consequences will follow.
“This is the worst beating ever administered to this country in a war.”
Umm… no.
Look, I’m not defending Trump here, clearly this is a strategic loss for ZOG. But compared to Vietnam? Trump didn’t get 58,000 Americans and countless Vietnamese killed for nothing.
How about World War I? 100,000 Americans died fighting a country that never did and never could attack us. Wilson demanded Germany become democratic… and the NSDAP won enough seats to form a government in democratic elections in 1932-33. So we conscripted troops to go over there and kill Germans again — and committed war crimes against their civilians.
Yes, Trump is an asshole. Yes, the war was a huge mistake.
But compared to LBJ or Woodrow Wilson? Let’s keep things in perspective.
And the rockets’ red glare is back on as of this morning.
As some have speculated, there will be another false flag attack to blame on the ragheads. It is practically being promised by some in the Israeli military structure. Here is but one example in which an Israeli GovCo official is rooting for another “Pearl Harbor or 9/11”
https://tinyurl.com/2u6anecm
One can only hope and pray that the masses don’t take the bait. Remember, we didn’t have the internet and social media to react to nahn-levn like we do now. Only the war whoopers such as Aunt Lindsey and the other McCain-iacs will be so quick to react.
At what point will non-Jews in America wake up to how they’ve been manipulated since 1948? It WILL happen.
“The answer gets into whether the “deal” isn’t choreographed kabuki.”
I think it is kabuki theater and orange man is a clown on the zionist stage. And they are desperate to make you think Trump is his own man, but that is clearly not so. Israel can see that support for it stateside is rapidly receding, they need to make it look like we have our own president. We don’t. Trump is a Zionist stooge owned and controlled by Tel Aviv.
Is BB still alive? I have my doubts, Iran said they got him on March 2nd. More telling, BB has not come to D.C. since the war began – but last year he was visiting Trump 7 times. Hmmmmm.
About the talks? Why bother, they are a ruse, Trump is now striking Iran again, the 2nd time this weekend, Orange blowhard said Iran may not exist soon. MoU was complete ruse, as I said all along. The MoU was a false narrative the Trump regime fed the Amerikan goy like pig slop.
https://www.unz.com/article/israels-suicidal-rupture-with-the-u-s/#comment-7669941
If you wondering why Donald Trump is a slavish whore to Israel it is because Trump is a Rotchild agent, and Israel is the private fiefdom of the Wrathchilds. Trump does not work for the USA, he works as an agent of British Jews, the Jewish financial oligarchs, both Israel and Trump work for the same agency, the House of Rothschild. What you see on TV is acting, Trump is an actor telling you lies while the real Zionist agenda is carried out. Thus not only is Israel an existential threat to the United States, so is Trump and his Zionist cabinet.
Mike Rivero, who runs What Really Happened website (excellent), posted once again that giving even a single penny to Israel is completely illegal under US laws. See the Symington Amendment and Glenn act.
Israel has nukes and has not signed the NNPT. Thus Trump can not give Israel any money legally.
https://www.whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/israel_south_african_nuclear_bomb_documents.html
I can’t stand how the jews crop dust us, particularly on the weekends, with heavy metals and all kinds of weird shit. Fake clouds annoy me. But it’s jews in particular who are to blame. When I stub my toe I know which way to turn. My mind is made up – I saw it on t.v.
And now my crop dusting of this ghost of a forum is complete for the week.
Hi Max,
You never responded to my fact-based criticisms of Israel. I think that’s telling.
I fear they’ll do another nahn’levin in order to gin up support for this.
Good analysis regarding Trump and BB. Reading the tea leaves has always been Trumps only real asset. It’s how he came out of the 15 man primary field the undisputed winner. He tapped a deep vein of discontent in right leaning Americans that existed since daddy Bush. In some cases this discontent borders on real hatred of our political class. That hatred doesn’t exist on the left. Theirs is based on petty envy, and failure as humans, ours is based on distaste for corruption and incompetence.
Long ago the elites agitated for an equalization between us and Europe. How 7-8$ a gallon gas was what we should pay here. TPTB haven’t achieved that yet, but, the gap is narrowing pretty quickly. I never understood why, until I understood that the elites hate everyone who is not in their club. That would be all of us, the carbon they want eliminated. Trump is a fool for going along with this. I always thought since he had his own money he had insulated himself from being a stooge of the bankers. Turns out he is more owned by the Rothschilds than even the Lowest wage slave in many ways. They found his weakness and will now exploit it until America is ground into dust, maybe. Not sure the next false flag will go as they planned. That disgusting Lee Greenwood figure has worn thin. Only the oldest calcified clingers still love his pablum, I propose throwing that shit into the landfill and replacing it with Brooks and Dunn, Only In America. A true anthem for a maturing country.
“the elites hate everyone who is not in their club”
I don’t believe that. They neither care nor think about the plebes at all, other than to throw a bit of goyslop media at them, precisely because peasants have no power in their theater of operations. Do you think or care about the termites that are eating your house before you exterminate them?
And if Simon Dixon is right, it’s not the Jews (only about 1% of the elite, if his figures are correct). Who Really Runs the World? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZL3U1etEW4
This situation is a mess. Basically Trump has the choice of capitulating to Iran’s demands or driving the entire world economy into extreme depression…
Israel and the USG have no allies left…the peoples of countries like every European country do not support this madness. The so-called leaders do not care.
Iran won the war….by using modern, relatively cheap weapons to overwhelm the expensive, essentially poorly functioning weapon systems of the West. The US is fighting with no strategic direction using WW2 tactics almost a century after they became obsolete.
The current Israeli state represents the most evil regime since Mao’s China, Stalin’s USSR and Hitler’s Third Reich….no person worthy of respect denies that at this point.
For any hope at peace, the current state of Israel must be treated as the Nazis were at Nuremberg, with the difference being that punishment must go from top to bottom….afterwards return the land to the Palestinians….
Elvis.
The last time we went to Graceland, during the early days of The Koof, I saw “Dr. Strangelove” playing on one of the TVs in the living room of the mansion.
I don’t know if it is a loop and running on the TV all the time or just a coincidence.
Hi Roscoe!
I’ve also done the pilgrimage. It was a surreal experience because I drove straight through to Memphis from the DC area, which is a long and boring ride. Got to Graceland at about 2 in the morning and crashed at a flea bag motel; I was so wired I couldn’t sleep. So I just got up after a few hours of staring at the ceiling and went to the nearby Pigly Wiggly. Got some goy slop and waited for the gates to be opened at Graceland. Did the whole tour, reverently.
Remember the King!
Oy vey, the goyim are onto us!
‘Those who have studied or steered the U.S.-Israel relationship say that the strains and tensions are fast becoming worrisome for Israel.
“I’m extremely concerned,” said Asaf Zamir, a deputy mayor of Tel Aviv who was Israel’s consul general in New York from 2021 to 2023. All three [NYC Democratic Socialist] candidates made fierce criticism of Israel central to their campaigns and political identities. “And they say it out loud in the most Jewish city in the world, after Jerusalem.”
‘Mr. Zamir, the Tel Aviv deputy mayor, said, “I’m waking up and hearing that we’re ‘genocidal’ and ‘apartheid.’” — NYT
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/27/world/middleeast/israel-new-york-iran-war-mamdani.html
Ooohhhhhh — savor the tear-jerking, garment-rending kvetching: “They say it out loud in the most Jewish city in the world.”
This is wounded entitlement speaking. Israelis are shocked — shocked — that after establishing so-called antisemitism as a de facto Thoughtcrime, they are (factually) accused of mass murder by Americans under the protection of the First Amendment. How dare they?
Likewise Zamir’s ‘waking up and hearing’ that his tribe is ‘genocidal’ and ‘apartheid’ — both matters of established fact.
Israel delenda est.
What cracked me up was two Jews running against each other for the same seat, and the one who lost accused the winner of being “antisemitic”. LOL, that tired old smear is well past its expiration date, give it up.
“Antisemite” is about as meaningful as “Nazi” at this point.
Israel is a belligerent terrorist nation: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AhvpNRZQuAI
‘Has “Bibi” been put in his place?’ — eric
Let’s ask him and his henchmen:
‘Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said that the US hasn’t asked Israel to withdraw its troops from southern Lebanon. “We are not withdrawing and – this is a diplomatic achievement – there is no American demand for Israel to withdraw from Lebanon.”
“There will be no civilians and no terrorists. Soldiers in, residents out. The infrastructure is destroyed, the houses are dangerous and ruined. We are not withdrawing,” he added.
“As long as I am prime minister, we will maintain the security zone in southern Lebanon,” Israeli PM Netanyahu said. “We will be the first in the world to solve the explosive drones problem.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/katz-says-us-hasnt-asked-israel-withdraw-lebanon-wouldnt-do-it-anyway
Ziotollah Netantahu’s claim is b.s., of course. The Ukies’ long-distance drone attacks on Russia traverse much longer distances. Israel just needs a fig leaf for its ongoing, criminal zionist land grabs.
‘Bleeding Lebanon’ is the rock in our shoe that won’t go away. Israel’s occupation of it is patently illegal. But the US quisling regime, ruled from Jerusalem, won’t say ‘boo’ about it in the UN Security Council, undermining the entire structure of international law.
Trump never was anything but a greasy Jewish mafia gangster. Now the US gangster regime is facilitating a permanent state of war in the middle east, as little Shitrahell refuses to yield stolen land. Donnie Fubar wants US taxpayers to cough up $88 billion — on top of exorbitant gas prices — as a down payment on this zionist clusterf*ck: America Last!
Screw the stinking war.
And seriously, screw US tax dollars going to IsraHELL in particular. It pisses me off that there was so little outrage (or noticing) when James Donald Bowman (a/k/a “JD Vance”) in his phony “angry” speech at the genocidal apartheid colony spilled the been that “only friend they have” is funding them with American tax dollars. No attempt to hide it. Until heads of the Zionist owned whores in DC are decorating pikes along the National Mall I am not celebrating shit.
Yep. A false flag ginned up by Mossad/ZOG/CIA would get the rubes whipped up into wanting to “nuke them raghead bastards ’till they glow,” wouldn’t it?
Hell, it’s not as if they haven’t been planning this kind of thing for over six decades…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods
I think Col McGregor on Judge Napolitano’s show basically expected a false flag.