A gallon of regular unleaded costs on average about $4.10 as of Aug. 25, 2026 – a record high for this time of year – six months into the catastrophically stupid, evil war Trump chose to start. This is what it cost the day after Trump declared what will likely prove to be an equally catastrophic and stupid “economic war” on Iran, which he failed to defeat militarily.
What is it going to cost as the “economic war” ramps up and America loses that one, too?
Iran held out against months of concerted bombing. Trump seems to believe it cannot hold out against weeks – maybe months – of economic sabotage. The more apt question is whether Americans can hold out against it. Never mind whether they want to. Aside from the roughly 33 percent that still say (according to most polls) they support Trump, most Americans (the other 67 percent) do not.
This majority, of course, doesn’t matter in “our democracy.” Remember that one? The new mantra – purveyed derisively by Republican apologists to mock the pretended opposition – is the opposition’s “affordability” messaging. As if that didn’t actually matter to people not of the Dow Jones class. Which curiously enough is the other 67 percent that do not support Trump and his war.
Alistair Crooke, in his piece just published over at Unz, says the following:
“The Strait of Hormuz remains – as at the outset – at the centre of the conflict, and effectively shut. Meanwhile the possibility of escalation has become much closer – one might say almost inevitable – as Iran (has) indicated its intent to pro-actively escalate against American and Gulf infrastructure targets unless Trump abides over the next 3-4 weeks by the well-known Iranian preconditions.”
Italics added.
The Iranians are going to fight back – again. Trump – and Israel – are going to assure this happens. Crooke continues:
“One early Iranian precondition is no longer implicit, but explicit: The Iranians have specified that the Palestinian arena that must be covered by the ‘the ceasefire for all, or ceasefire for no-one’ precondition. Of course, Israel won’t do this. They are escalating violently – a veritable “land grab” – against Palestinian refugee camps and villages in the West Bank. Plainly, Iran’s preconditions are unlikely to be accepted by Trump. For, combined, they represent an unmistakable Iranian demand for the wholesale dismantlement of the U.S. military infrastructure of the siege surrounding Iran – effectively U.S. capitulation in West Asia.”
The implications of this are even more unpleasant to contemplate than the probability the 80-year-old president wears an adult diaper. Him shitting his pants being far less consequential than him deciding to drop a nuke or two on the Iranians in the hope that will win this catastrophically stupid, evil war.
What it would certainly do is end what since 1945 has been a kind of unspoken gentleman’s agreement to not use nuclear weapons first but only in response to a nuclear attack. This doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction kept the nukes at bay for the past 80 years. Trump seems poised to end the gentleman’s agreement, which isn’t surprising given he is the farthest thing conceivable from a gentleman. He is Tony Soprano with a spray tan. And Tony Soprano had some good qualities. He was a reasonable man, for one thing. He understood that it benefitted no one to burn the world down. Trump appears to not understand – or not care – about that.
Lurking in the background of all of this is the etiolating diesel fuel metastasis. While the cost of regular unleaded is up about ten cents, the cost of diesel is up more. As of Aug. 25 it is averaging about $5.60 nationally (and much more in some states, such as California). People will be paying the War Tax at the supermarket – and everywhere else – in addition to what they are paying at the pump. The cumulative burden, so far, is probably a couple thousand bucks on average – but that’s incidental compared with what it will cost us if the increasingly deranged old man who is nursed by a deranged much younger woman isn’t, somehow, restrained from doing what feels like it’s coming as inevitably as winter.
God help us all.
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GasEeeVee Tax Report‘Volkswagen Group CEO Oliver Blume was reportedly met with audible boos from disgruntled employees at the automaker’s Wolfsburg headquarters during an address aimed at winning over support for the executive’s restructuring plan, which could include as many as 100,000 job cuts and possible plant closures across Germany.
‘The meeting was attended by more than 10,000 workers at the brand’s Hall facility, during the first of a series of town-hall gatherings slated to take place across the country over the coming days. Blume outlined the need to cut an additional 50,000 jobs on top of the 50,000 already agreed upon by the local trade unions in an effort to bring VW’s costs in line.
‘Blume cannot make these sorts of major decisions alone; labor leaders and the state of Lower Saxony have the ability to veto decisions.’ — Road & Track
Mein Führer … why have we sunk billions into Scout Motors, which employs but a handful of Germans? Hitler reacts to Jaguar’s rebranding … and wonders whether Volkswagen will follow suit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKt3R2W8qzY
Morning, Jim –
These out-of-touch CEOs are like out-of-touch politicians. Blume, like Trump, is a rich guy who suffers no consequences for the consequences he imposes on others.
$3.32 a couple hours ago. Could be a lot better, sure, but that AAA chart Eric posted shows pretty clearly it is largely a tax and regulation problem.
Why not load up a tanker in Indiana and make a buck a gallon reselling it in Illinois? Because no one with any sense wants to get tossed into Cook County jail.
Cheapest here is $3.52 in Indiana “Today’s Gas Prices By State: Gas Above $4 Nationwide
Audited & Verified: Aug 25, 2026, 9:27am”
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/personal-finance/gas-prices-by-state/
https://www.gasbuddy.com/home?search=fort+wayne+in&fuel=1&method=all&maxAge=0
Lowest I see is $3.29 this morning.
Yeah, I get it these are not audited, but they are usually pretty close.
Bullshit, Steve –
Even your $3.32 is much higher than it was before this stupid, evil war that you continue to defend.
I think that’s what I said. I no longer remember exactly what it was in January. Upper 2s lower 3s would be my guess, because we were finally starting to get Canadian oil back into our refinery, which had been dropped to around 25% capacity because of the Biden thing’s mishandling of Keystone XL. Much of our gas had been brought in by truck. We were, at the time, paying more than they were in Illinois.
Regardless, it still has a $1 arbitrage opportunity that no one is taking advantage of. If that is war-related, and not commie Illinois related, why has no one bothered trucking fuel in and making ~$10 grand per load
Hi Steve,
I’m gonna hone on in something. You wrote, in passing: “it still has a $1 arbitrage opportunity that no one is taking advantage of.”
This is the ne plus ultra of the wheedling-peddlering-grifting that characterizes this economy, which no longer rewards productive, honest work but enricher grifters and wheedler-peddlerers. Trump being the king of them all.
But these “opportunities” only exist because governments make the rules. Why would libertarians not be opposing the restraint of trade that makes gas 33% more expensive a couple hours away? Can’t we at least agree on that?
Diesel prices aren’t even half of the shitshow that’s coming. The national debt just eclipsed $40 trillion. To put that into perspective, was “only” $5 trillion in 2000.
It has gotten to the point where investors are starting to balk at buying the debt, which is causing a rise in interest rates to a MERE 5%. ZOG cannot handle $40 trillion of debt at 5% or above. Consequently, the homosexual Treasury Secretary Bessent, a protege of the Jewish swindler Soros, tried to “repurchase” the government debt from the long-term bond-holders.
How’s that for a con game?
But it didn’t work.
If interest rates continue to rise, it will collapse the stock Ponzi and debt house of cards. ZOG will be unable to borrow money to pay Social Security and Medicare, as it has been doing for decades.
Goodbye America, hello Weimar…
It’s not that Bessent failed so much as the previous SecTreas have already rolled down the majority of long-term bonds. There just is not that much left to roll down.
CMS (Medicare and Medicaid) is pretty much the entire increase in spending. CMS will have to roll back, or it will collapse. It would be relatively easy to roll back — just start enforcing the monopoly and price-fixing laws that the medical system ignores. Maybe 1/3 of the current health care “workers” (mostly administrators and insurance paper pushers) will get laid off, which would mostly fix it by itself.
So do we have anyone with the balls to do it? Not in Congress. Probably not in Trump, especially if the midterms go poorly. Maybe in Blanche, if he doesn’t get distracted with all the other “priorities” people are trying to force on him. Things which, really, are not priorities. Not relative to $40tn and growing debt.
“CMS (Medicare and Medicaid) is pretty much the entire increase in spending. ”
What a liar you are! Medicare and Medicaid have been cut, while the WAR BUDGET was doubled to $2 TRILLION dollars!
(AI): “Yes, both Medicare and Medicaid face major federal funding reductions under recent budget reconciliation legislation (H.R. 1) passed by Congress.Medicaid CutsOverall Reduction: The law cuts federal Medicaid spending by nearly $1 trillion over the next decade.State Funding Caps: It places strict caps on state-directed payments and provider taxes, forcing states to absorb massive fiscal shortfalls.Eligibility Rules: The package adds new administrative hurdles, including beneficiary work requirements and more frequent checks.Immigration Limits: Full federal Medicaid benefits for certain lawfully present noncitizen groups are scheduled to be restricted starting October 1, 2026.Medicare CutsPAYGO Sequestration: The budget law’s overall increase to the national deficit triggered automatic spending cuts under the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) Act.Funding Reductions: These mandatory sequestration cuts are estimated to reduce Medicare spending by $45 billion in 2026 alone, totaling more than $536 billion over a decade.”
The other increase is DEBT SERVICING (and if interest rates go up because of the pedophile pervert’s impeachable war for Israel on Iran it will drive the debt servicing up further): AI “Annual U.S. interest payments on the national debt have roughly doubled since 2022, rising from $476 billion to over $1 trillion.Current Interest CostsTotal Spending: The federal government now spends between $1.2 trillion and $1.37 trillion each year just to service its debt.Budget Impact: Debt servicing has become the second-largest item in the federal budget, beating out spending on national defense and Medicare.Monthly Growth: Monthly net interest on public debt jumped by 36% in a single recent year-over-year tracking period.”
You can’t have failed to figure out those 10 year projections are completely meaningless. No Congress has been nor ever will be bound by the legislation of a previous Congress.
PAYGO came out during Obama, for cripe’s sake, back when the debt was like $13tn. If they had really followed the pay-as-you-go legislation, why is the US now $40tn in debt?
You are so fucking stupid!
And now I think I’ll go back to the firepit for a bit.
Calling people “stupid” that you don’t personally know online is typical of you jews who think you know it all. That is the mark of a small-minded mentally and socially insecure person.
Keep posting Stevie, your defense of genocidal israel is showing your true roots.
Your jewish insecurity (victimhood) is outshining your mentally ill notions of yourself and your tribe’s supposed superiority.
I give it a year–you won’t have a country (israel) to call your own…
>That is the mark of a small-minded mentally and socially insecure person.
Exactly. Ad hominem attacks seem to me to be the last resort of the intellectually desperate.
LOL! Now you are a psychoanalyst? Able to make a diagnosis over the internet? What does it tell you about those who, for example, start out a post with, “What a liar you are”?
@AJC, I did a real search for CMS today and it turns out Karl Denninger has something on it this mornng. Argue your AI BS to argue with him. Be warned, I suspect he will be even less charitable in his responses to you.
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=255886
Morning, Steve –
I’d prefer the “balls” to stop throwing money at the War Machine. At least Medicare benefits Americans, to some extent. Mind: I am not endorsing Medicare. But I am absolutely condemning the skewed priorities. Trump and other tools of the War Machine think unlimited spending on “the military” is (to use Trump’s favorite and seemingly only term of approbation) “beautiful” while gyping broke old Americans out of their pittance SS and Medicare is a necessary belt-tightening.
This attitude is why the GOP is going to die soon, by the way.
This is very blackpilled, but he ain’t wrong:
“I’ve painted a dark picture, but it is a true picture based on unequivocal facts, not some nonsense narrative spun by liars, thieves, and pedophiles. When you see the Chinese central bank add 60 tons of gold in the 1st six months of the year, bringing their three year accumulation to 14 million troy ounces, along with central banks across the globe increasing their gold holdings, you can discern there is trouble brewing and countries are positioning themselves to survive whatever conflagration the American empire ignites during its ongoing death throes.”
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/08/25/they-know-whats-coming-because-they-planned-it/
I’d like to agree, and I probably would have even a year ago, but I’ve since seen videos of how Russia-Ukraine is going. I’ve seen Ukraine’s parades of its drones. I’ve seen unmanned drones that can probably beat our best fighters unless they just fly away. (So far, I don’t believe there are any supersonic drones.)
Upshot is warfare is changing, and if we don’t start thinking about getting rid of the old reliable horse and buggy and looking into these newfangled horseless carriages, we will be the new serfs.
“Will be,” Steve?
That process is already well under way – courtesy of Trump.
It’s been going on a long time, Eric. Since at least the time you were posting things about your chickens and ducks. (Whatever happened to that positive, problem-solving Eric? I miss him.) My great grandfather complained about the enserfment back in the ’40s. (According to my dad, anyway.)
That debt was always a swindle, it never was and never is going to be honestly repaid. As such it is irrelevant and so long as the fed can produce fiat which IS THE GLOBAL CURRENCY, it doesn’t matter.
As to the Iran war, I didn’t want it and I don’t like it, but taking a longer view allowing militant Islamic zealots to control a choke point on world commerce should have been addressed long ago, while the danger was small and readily managed. Israeli interests be damned.
It really hurts paying over $5 for diesel fuel and over $3 for gas. But that has always been the threat of Hormuz, and that is why it’s being addressed.
In a year or two these troubles will be over, but if communists are allowed to regain power because of short term pain, there will be true long term pain. Instead of slowly repairing the damage of the 20th century progressives, we will be struggling for basic survival.
‘ No previous American war had ever been so unpopular from the very first day, and much of that was because Trump and his administration had made no effort to obtain broad public support before he began it.
Official Congressional declarations of war had long become passe, but presidents had traditionally sought at least some sort of political fig-leaf for their planned attacks.
Later historians have rightfully castigated President Lyndon Johnson for having fraudulently persuaded Congress to pass the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution that he then used to justify our military involvement in Vietnam. When no Iraqi WMDs were found, President George W. Bush was vilified for “lying us into the Iraq War.”
LINKBOOKMARKBut in the case of Trump, those criticisms did not apply. Iran was a country the size of Western Europe with more than ninety million people, so the war was certainly our largest military undertaking at least since Vietnam.
Yet Trump made no effort to obtain any sort of political approval but just began the war upon his sole authority, demonstrating the total collapse of our traditional constitutional system.
In some of his braggadocio, Trump has likened himself to Stalin, Hitler, Attila the Hun, and Genghis Khan.
Obviously none of those powerful autocrats had ever been required to seek approval for the wars that they initiated, instead merely giving the order on their sole authority, and Trump felt that he could do the same.
One obvious reason that he avoided any effort to enlist support for his planned attack was that it would have forced him to forego the vital element of surprise.
Indeed, Trump later boasted that he had modeled his assault against Iran upon the notorious December 7, 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
The necessary element of surprise would have been lost had he sought to enlist the support of the American people, let alone negotiated with Congress to grant him the necessary legal authority. So he never considered taking those steps.
Throughout our long Cold War against the USSR and during the decades that followed, strategists had always considered the military scenario of a decapitating first strike.
This concept was widely discussed in the media and even included in the plotlines of countless popular films, television shows, and fictional thrillers. However, prior to Trump, I’m not sure that anyone in modern world history had ever actually carried out such a bold and ruthless operation.
But Trump began the conflict by suddenly killing most of Iran’s top political and military leaders in the massive wave of missile strikes that constituted our official declaration of war.
The impact of Trump’s unexpected initial attack was further magnified by the circumstances under which it took place.
Trump had lured the Iranians into peace negotiations, pressing them for major concessions, and they had expressed their willingness to make these.
But such a crucial decision obviously required that their top leadership meet together in one location to debate the proposal, thereby rendering them vulnerable to all being killed in the decapitating strikes that began the war.
Considering those circumstances, I initially gave Iran little chance of avoiding a swift and crushing defeat against the combined forces of America and Israel, and that was the widespread consensus. But as I sketched out late last month, matters soon followed a very different trajectory.
At the time, few observers believed that Iran could survive that massive onslaught. In recent years, our own annual military spending had been more than one hundred times greater than that of Iran, while the renowned Israeli military historian Martin van Creveld had once rather boastfully declared that his own country’s armed forces were the second or the third strongest in the world.
Caught by surprise and faced with such overwhelming enemy power, Iran seemed certain to crumble, suffering a rapid defeat.
However, contrary to all those expectations, the Iranians absorbed those heavy blows and held up. Drawing upon their huge concealed arsenal of ballistic missiles and powerful drones, they began inflicting serious damage upon some of our local bases, destroying several of our most important strategic radar installations, very difficult and expensive to replace.
Most importantly, the Iranians closed the Strait of Hormuz to unfriendly cargo traffic just as they had always threatened to do if attacked. Trump had disregarded that possibility, assuming that the Iranian government would surrender within a few days and reopen the Strait.
But when that didn’t happen, he grew frantic over the global economic consequences of the potential loss of 20% of the world’s oil supply and equal or larger shares of the world’s LNG, fertilizer, and other vital commodities…
As Trump considered his military options for forcibly reopening that crucial waterway, he discovered that none of them were viable.
Over the previous decade, we had invested more than two trillion dollars in our navy, with one of its most important missions being maintaining the security of the Persian Gulf waters, but it proved totally useless at that task.
Trump deployed many thousands of Marines and airborne troops to the region, but he was told that a ground assault had very little chance of dislodging Iranian control and would only result in heavy American casualties.’
https://www.unz.com/runz/donald-trump-iran-nuclear-warfare-and-biological-warfare/
Very good write up. I would surmise Trump made the calculation that once the war was launched, none of our corrupt congress would rock the boat, even after the war powers act time expired. So far he has won that bet.
Even if there is a massive power shift in the mid term elections, even if the communists impeach him and remove him, none of them will have the balls and integrity to end this war. And they won’t set the precedent of handing him over for war crimes.
Iran has lost militarily, but that doesn’t mean they’ve lost. Just like the lack of a clear victory doesnt mean the US has lost. This is in fact the worst possible outcome, a sort of stalemate which will take years to resolve. And the world, already on the brink of economic catastrophe, will continue to wither due to expensive energy.
With all this in mind, I hope Trump pulls it off and the Iranian economy collapses to end this mess.
Hi Ernie,
How has Iran lost the war militarily? It has lost no territory. It is not occupied by a foreign power. It has operational control over passage through the Strait. It has humiliated the military of the US and Israel.
Just curious.
Okay, today really sucks.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/music/articles/dolly-parton-country-music-legend-dies-at-80-just-4-days-after-saying-i-still-have-so-many-things-i-want-to-achieve-175053595.html
RIP Dolly.
Are you serious, RG? She was one of the most prominent vaccine shills of 2021. (No, I’m not celebrating her death, but neither should it be lamented.)
I know she helped fund the Moderna vaccine trials, but she also did a lot of good for her community of Pigeon Forge, Imagination Library, Dollywood. She did seem a genuine person.
Maybe she did some good for Pigeon Forge, but she didn’t create Dollywood — she just bought Silver Dollar City and put her name on it. As for whether she was genuine, I don’t know. My last memory of her was from a couple of years ago when she dressed up like a scantily-clad teeny bopper to perform a concert. It was very undignified, and in appropriate, for someone of her age.
LOL This is a woman that created her persona of big wigs, lots of makeup and 40DD. You are worried about her dressing up as a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader for the halftime Thanksgiving show.
To each his own. I liked her and her persona. She seemed to be a fun lady that loved her husband and truly made something of herself coming from the backwoods of Appalachia. I remember watching her and Kenny Rogers Christmas specials as a kid.
Poor dear probably “nodded off” and ASPHYXIATED.
Hi RG,
I also liked Dolly, definitely a good person; she was just recently talking about creating an avatar/hologram or some such thing to preserve her music, I wonder if she knew her days were numbered but didn’t share that.
Regarding her persona with her wigs and such I remember her quote “it takes a lot of money to look this cheap”. RIP Dolly.
Hi Mike,
My maternal grandfather met her after a small concert she performed in the late 1970s. She chatted with everyone in attendance. He said she was absolutely delightful.
I think her health took a turn for the worst after the death of her husband last year. Like you, I think she knew her days were numbered.
She had mentioned digestive issues and kidney stones. Wondering if she was having kidney issues and needed dialysis.
Vaccine, Vaccine. . . I used to like Dolly Parton, but she lost me during the great poisoning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8LgC1t5ndU
Maybe the jab finally took its toll on her.
Wow, Mister – I hadn’t seen that before. I used to like Dolly also. Ugh. Now – to be fair – she may have meant well and thought the “vaccines” were a good thing (initially). I can abide that. What I can’t abide is the pushing of drugs – by anyone. If she wanted to get “vaccinated,” that is her right. But spare me the song-lecture about it.
She was something special when she was young. So special, that she never seemed to get over it. Seemed to always be chasing it. I can’t respect anyone who mutilates their own body so extensively. Her voice was never great, but her songs were.
My favorite:
“Evening Shade”
My train of thought was broken by a sudden burst of laughter
Something badly needed to brighten up the chores
Seemed old Mrs. Bailey had accidentally fell
In the water being used to scrub the floors
Now Mrs. Bailey was the meanest matron at the home
She believed in lots of work with little play
And we laughed till we bent double
Though we knew we’d get in trouble
But trouble’s all we had at evening shade
Now evening shade was where they claim to teach you understanding
To teach you love and keep you off the streets
And all the kids that live here are said to be a problem
Juvenile delinquents so to speak
But understanding isn’t learned from punishment and anger
An iron has no gentle touch and love ain’t learned from hate
The reason we were here is ’cause we had no one who cared
But they cared even less at evening shade
Little Susan Bradley, one night had wet her bed
Mrs. Bailey took the razor strap and beat her half to death
And I knew that something must be done to put an end to this
And so I started talking plans with the older kids
Plans were that Joe Johnson would steal the kerosene
And I would get some matches when nobody seen
Beckie Adams would make sure the kids were all outside
Billy Watson would look out for the evil eye
Now Mrs. Bailey took a nap at three o’clock each day
We knew that she’d be a’sleeping as the plans got underway
Now that its all over and the sun is going down
There’s no evening shade ’cause we burned it to the ground
Funny … I was just thinking of Dolly today. Specifically, these lyrics of hers were running through my head, while I was painting the shed:
They laugh at my talkin’ and clothes I wear
They put me down and they call me square
But tonight I’m going home where I belong
I’m a-goin’ back to the people I love
Back to the place that I dream of
It’s true that there’s no place like home sweet home
Tonight I’m going back where I belong
And there’s no doubt she did, on angels’ wings.
That actually made me tear up a little bit, Jim.
Worrying is bad for your health, you should only do it if it can’t be avoided. Y’all should really look harder at nukes and really be honest about what proof you have seen. The threat of them sure has been useful.
Amen, bro. We lost power for almost 2 weeks, so had a chance to test out preps. Came out quite well.
Mrs. Steve and I took the chance to “rough it” — sit around a firepit in the evening looking at the stars, being thankful for all our blessings. Does not take that long to get your head back into the right space.
Was almost too bad the power came back on, and everywhere I look on the ‘net, people are complaining about crap they can’t do a thing about, and in the grand scheme of things, are not all that important anyway. I’m half tempted to go throw the main breaker.
In Gaza they haven’t had power for three years now. Too bad they can’t get their heads into the right space because the IDF is still treating Gaza like a free fire zone and blowing them off even in “safe zones:” “CAIRO: Israeli airstrikes and gunfire killed two young children and at least two other Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Monday, health officials in the territory said. Medics and relatives said 10-year-old Amal Abu Khater was hit by a bullet in her back while she was eating inside her family’s tent in the enclave’s southern city of Khan Younis. The fire came from Israeli forces to the east, they added. The Israeli military said it was not aware of any incident involving a 10-year-old girl.” [Times of Israel had an article but the link is broken which still comes up if you google this incident but the link is broken.]
Here’s a Gaza boy destroying his home-made kites because Netanyahu said IDF will treat any escaped kites that land in Israel like a drone attack!
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dcc7m4fot-e/
P.S. WE CAN AND WE WILL DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS! And we will do something about our Israeli-occupied government too!
Presumably you have done at least a tiny bit of investigation, not simply parroting the BS you read on the ‘net. Israel filmed the strike on the mosque. You should watch it. Buildings don’t tend to have high explosive secondary explosions unless they are being used as arsenals.
But, shoot, you need to count your blessings. Gloom and doom is bad for you.
P.S. What exactly can and will you do about it? I mean, other than whine on internet boards?
The girl shot in the back was in Khan Younis. They also blew up a desalination plant yesterday in addition to the TWO mosques they hit: “In the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of Gaza City, to the north, residents said a water desalination plant was bombed at a time when they were suffering from water shortages.
The Israeli military said it targeted a Hamas weapons storage facilities near the plant. [but just somehow happened to miss it and destroy the water supply] A four-year-old boy was meanwhile killed in an air strike in Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza.
The Israeli military said it was not aware of the incident in Khan Younis, but that it had issued an evacuation order in Bureij before carrying out a strike on what it described as a Hamas weapons storage facility.
At least 1,296 Palestinians, including 300 children [Isn’t that more than was killed on 10/7?], have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza since a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took effect last October
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8x1rdgp3lo
P.S. Keep your eyes and ears open. Minutes ago according to YNET (this is for MQ) 21:27 “US: Man arrested near Capitol with guillotine in vehicle. Capitol Police in Washington arrested a 35-year-old man from California after a guillotine was found in the pickup truck he was driving. According to police, the man, Phelan-Tam-Duy Le, was arrested after he illegally parked his vehicle near the Capitol complex. Investigators are examining why he drove from California to Washington and what the purpose of transporting the device was.”
F*ck the Jews.
Israel delenda est.
“Economic war” sounds like the road and ruse to lead us straight to “you will own nothing and be happy.” With both Iran and Russia, no aircraft carriers targeted, no financial districts targeted, no major knockout attempted, just tit-for-tat destruction of the infrastructure of middle class living standards. Meanwhile, Paul Craig Roberts for the 1000th time laments Putin’s inability to grasp the situation, when over a year ago he acknowledged the view that some of his readers had that Putin was bought off was possible.
The image of that vile she bitch daughter of his is sickening. Her picture could suffice for the dictionary definition of (off) white female privilege. Feckless whores parading as daughters are the number one weakness of boomer men. IMO, of all of Trumps mountain of faults, this one stands at the apex.
What’s wrong with Ivanka, Norman?
Maybe it’s her surfin’ skills.
https://pagesix.com/2026/08/24/celebrity-news/ivanka-trump-shows-off-surfing-skills-during-family-costa-rica-trip/
Politics aside, that’s one sharp looking 44 year old! Ranks well on the SSS. (Sparkey’s Scale of Spankability).
Gals, if you think your man doesn’t notice these women you’re deluding yourself. And if he denies it he’s lying.
Sparkey’s ancestor tracing takes me all the way back to ancient Babylonia, right to Emperor Depravious.
Sparkey’s Scale of Spankability
LOL
As I tell my SO….we are married, not blind.
Cher was 43. Post-menopausal women take on aircraft carriers, but Daddy (hubby/men in general) like blushing young things.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n3A_-HRFfc
The time it’s out of joint. It’s like AOC freezing her eggs at 37–that’s when you should be done having children/having your last child.
AOCs only freezing her eggs for the sheer enjoyment of future abortions.
Besides being the epitome of unearned privilege, she is behind many of Trumps worst decisions. No excuse for Trump as I’m now at a place of loathing the man.
Imagine being given the tools, opportunity, and public sentiment to roll back the worst parts of safety culture and destroy collectivism for a generation, yet still finding a way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. At least his bad behavior is leading new converts to understand there really is little difference outside of the packaging. Maybe this time the remaining believers can vote hard enough to make the difference.
Just out of curiosity, Norman, what decisions were those? At least to me, she seemed a calming influence on him and kept him focused on more “America First” during his first term. With her stepping aside he seems pretty freaking nuts and he has put this country in a worse predicament.
First term, “accidentally” deleting the applications of millions of patriots applying for federal jobs, thus his ‘excuse’ for relying on captured deep state operatives. And, the constant whispering in his ear to this day about the ‘good people’ and ‘Hard working gimmie/grants.’
Second term, Even though she’s less visible, he still relies on her, as evidenced by the close Kushner RealEstate ties to the Gaza genocide, and, leaving Soros as untouchable. Despite the carefully crafted narrative of her stunning and brave accomplishments, Its BS. Same as her husband, same as her friend Alex Soros. These pukes demonstrate the kind of infinite lifetime privilege only reserved for kids from the shallow end of the trust fund gene pool.
If I saw her or her husband in public, I’d walk over, stick my finger as far down my throat as possible, and heave all over them..
Re: deleting applications, that was one of the promises he kept — rolling back the federal workforce. You don’t do that by hiring new people. This term he’s already cut the civilian, non-postal service federal workforce by around 400k, out of somewhere around 2mil.
I was quite irked at how she and Jared pushed Donald into stupid progressive policies. I’m drawing a blank at the moment for specifics. I just remember being ticked off about it as they came up.
Did you see where he met with Hakeem Jeffries — guess they’re buying off the new house majority leader.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/23/hakeem-jeffries-jared-kushner-meeting
Did not see that. It would make sense he is insulating the Kushner/Soros line while throwing his father in law under the bus. Sounds like something a jew would do. Wish we could be rid of all of them, including that low rent punk Hakeem.
Are you sure his father-in-law didn’t send him to buy off the democrats; “make a deal”? FYI in case you didn’t know, Bessent (the married sodomite w/children) was Soros’ hedge fund manager.
AI: “Scott Bessent is the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and a former hedge fund manager who served as the Chief Investment Officer for Soros Fund Management.Career with George SorosBlack Wednesday (1992): Bessent was a leading member of the team at Soros Fund Management in London that bet against the British pound, helping earn the firm over $1 billion.Managing Partner (1991–2000): He managed the London office for George Soros’s fund.Chief Investment Officer (2011–2015): He returned to serve as the global CIO for Soros Fund Management before launching his own firm.”
I knew Bessnet was connected with Soros. Not to the degree you’ve shown. So…Maybe Bessnet is part of bringing down Dollar Bill. It’s a life long dream of Soros. Thats tracks. As for Trump, it wouldn’t surprise me. He was a democrat for the longest time and he’s obviously playing both sides, cause he’s not certainly not playing for we the people.
$5.09 for 87 yesterday here in central WA, 10% ethanol, top tier, farm co-op.
Puget Sound Seattle area $5.41 gas, $6.41 diesel averages.
Another thing to consider is between fertilizer shortages and drought along with higher diesel costs is whether some farmers will even bother harvesting the crop. As the cost of drying the grain along with those farmers that spray the fields with Roundup to kill the plants so the grain gets partially dried in the field, either way more costs.
Yep! Watch YouTube videos wheat harvest in the Palouse, that’s a lot of square miles to cover. A Class 10 combine (big dog) burns 24-30 gallons diesel per hour. Then you’ll need the big truck for offloading also out in the field, good times!
Then the barge costs down the Snake & Columbia rivers to a port facility.
So, at what cost point does it just stop since grain price isn’t likely to rise to cover this craziness.
We have only begun to pay the price of this megalomaniacs stupidity. The increase in diesel and fertilizer costs have barely shown themselves at all, so far. Now he wants to end trade with Canada? I had little confidence in Trump when he first appeared on the scene. It has not increased. Quite the contrary.
He has pulled out his Trump card, and is considering the use of tactical nukes.
I read that the emperor is going to rename Lake Ontario. Honestly it wouldn’t surprise me
I ask myself why I would purchase a truck requiring horse piss to run in the first place?
I must have known I was buying into another layer of grift ?
This process of truck hating is hard to understand.
As if Iran blocking oil from through the Strait of Hormuz isn’t bad enough Donnie Demented is now starting a trade war with Canada, just because. Good for PM Carney to politely (he is Canadian after all) tell the Orange A*hole to go f*ck himself, and put tit for tat export taxes on stuff the USSA needs badly, such as oil and lumber. How’s a 50% increase in those costs gonna work out for “affordability”? Most of the Canadian crude oil gets refined into diesel, there’s a double whammy for the American consumer. A brief news item that didn’t get much notice a couple days ago was that Buffalo International Airport was out of jet fuel and any planes landing there better have enough left in their tanks to make it to their next destination. If I was Mark Carney I would cut off exports completely, see who blinks first.
You’re blaming it on Trump, but maybe it’s the same guy that brought us 9Epstein 11Lutnik (and murdered his own brother), Howie Lutnik. Canadians are definitely blaming the scuttling on him.
https://www.thestar.com/business/opinion/trumps-negotiators-saved-canada-from-making-a-big-mistake-and-reminded-us-who-were-dealing-with/article_59785404-d0ad-47b1-a3bc-c122fd0456ae.html
Drudge yesterday and today has the WSJ blaming it on Trump: “WSJ: Don’s Dumbest Yet”
Lutnik wasn’t mentioned except in the Canadian press as the one to blame. Today google it and you get headlines like this:
Bloomberg, Japan Times, Financial Times: “Lutnick’s intervention in Canada talks draws praise, blame”
DeepDive: “Lutnick Reportedly Tightened “Generous” US-Canada Deal After Metals Industry Pushback”
It’s not as one-sided as you imagine. Canada has long-term contracts with a lot of countries, and they use our port facilities to load. There’s only one fairly major pipeline to the Canadian west coast at the moment, none to the east. They stop the oil into the US, they default on all those deals. Not only do they lose the income, they also have to pay the penalties for defaults.
Canada is not in a place of strength with this. It would be much cheaper and easier to just say, “OK, we’ll stop buying reprocess steel from China.”
Steve, The only thing worse than being peddlered unasked in your car, is being Jew (lie) peddlered. The tariffs Trump is imposing will be paid by Americans. These are the Drudge links:
-CANADA THREATENS ELECTRICITY CUT TO USA…
-Hits Back at U.S. With Tariffs Targeting Midterm Hot Spots…
-Collins blasts ‘mistake’…
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford: “President Trump is the type of person that would steal your lunch money the first day, he’d steal the toque [hat] off your head the second day, and the third day he’d steal your running shoes.”
Trump’s Response: Donald Trump fired back on Truth Social, mocking Doug Ford by calling him the “less charismatic, intelligent, and overall unimpressive brother” of the late Toronto Mayor Rob Ford. He also labeled Ford a “flunky” and a “loser”.
Ford’s Retaliation: When asked about Trump’s personal attacks, Ford doubled down by calling Trump a “dictator” and the “King of bankruptcies”. He bluntly added: “I have a lot of real estate on my ass, so he has a lot of room to kiss my ass.
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Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew: “Everybody knows the American president by now, he’s erratic, he’s irresponsible, and he’s not to be trusted. And this is the person that we were supposed to make a deal with, and we’re going to make additional concessions for it. That’s why I say you can’t make a good deal with a bad person, because who’s to say it’s not going to be undone?”
The Canadians are saying the same thing about Trump as Iran!
Ah. And, of course, Canadian politicians have every incentive to be objective and honest.
Can you at least pretend to think from time to time?
It will probably be roughly a wash. Canada has been running 25% tariffs on US goods, mostly agricultural goods they didn’t want to compete on, for years. Here’s what the Canadian government says it’s had tariffs on.
https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/programs/international-trade-finance-policy/canadas-response-us-tariffs/complete-list-us-products-subject-to-counter-tariffs.html
Scroll down and click on the header tab “Effective up to August 31, 2025” and go through the 37 pages of tariffy goodness.
Canadians have 25% tariffs so U.S. imposes 50% tariffs?
“Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Imposes Additional Tariffs on Canada. The White House July 20, 2026. Today, President Donald J. Trump signed three Proclamations pursuant to Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930 to impose additional 50% tariffs on certain goods of Canada in response to Canada’s discriminatory treatment of American products. By doing so, President Trump is offsetting the burden and disadvantage on U.S. commerce from Canada’s discriminatory treatment of U.S. commerce and is leveling the playing field for crucial American exports—cars, alcohol, and dairy.”
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/07/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-imposes-additional-tariffs-on-canada/
According to “Business Insider” This is “What smart people are saying about Trump’s escalating trade war with Canada:” [I recommend if you are interested you read entire article–not sure why you lost power, but can be life threatening at all times to some people but for all people in winter.]
“…The move comes after President Donald Trump’s 50% tariffs on some Canadian goods took effect on Saturday, and after Trump threatened on Monday to impose another batch of 50% tariffs on Canadian-made products. Those tariffs would affect cars, trucks, auto parts, and steel, and would take effect on January 1…Paul Krugman…pointed to specialized Canadian lumber, heavy crude oil used by Midwestern refineries, and hydropower that is an important part of the electricity supply in New York and New England. He also said disrupting cross-border auto and auto-parts trade would be “immensely disruptive” to the industry on both sides of the border…David Whiston, an auto analyst at Morningstar, said the biggest assembly exposure for Ford and GM is in pickup trucks. That’s the most profitable part of each car company’s US business.
“GM builds some Chevrolet Silverados in Canada, he said, while Ford is set to bring 100,000 units of annual Super Duty pickup capacity online at its Oakville plant in the fourth quarter.
“The math on that just got a lot worse for them,” Whiston told Business Insider.
“He said Canada’s retaliation has little direct impact on the auto industry beyond motorcycles. But he warned that the broader trade war would still raise prices.
“A trade war is almost always bad for everyone,” he told Business Insider. “It’s effectively a giant tax being levied on a variety of goods, and it gives domestic producers leeway to raise prices.” …
“Jay Goldberg, North American affairs manager, Consumer Choice Center…”Making goods more expensive for consumers isn’t the right response to Trump imposing additional taxes on American consumers.”
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The Hill. 8.24.26 “Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), who faces a tough reelection race this November, blasted President Trump’s latest tariff threats against Canada as a “mistake,” arguing that the United States and especially her home state have a “beneficial” trade relationship with Canada….
““I really want us to go back to the very friendly, economically beneficial relationship that we have with our Canadian neighbors. We produce a lot in Maine — our blueberries, our potatoes, our lobster, our lumber — that is processed across the border. If it comes back with a huge tariff on it, perhaps as much as 50 percent, that increases the cost of eating, building homes and merch[andising] our best-known products,” Collins said.,,
“Trump on Monday then [in the midst of trade talks] threatened to enact a 50 percent tariff on cars, trucks, auto parts and steel. It would go into effect Jan. 1, 2027.
“That followed 50 percent tariffs on $20 billion in Canadian imports such as hockey sticks, whiskey, goose-down jackets, ice skates, furniture, lumber and other products going into effect over the weekend.
“The on-again/off-again trade talks between the U.S. and Canada lead to higher costs, risk, and uncertainty for Maine businesses. If the Administration proceeds with these tariffs, they will increase costs for Maine families, as most businesses will have no choice but to pass on the tariffs to their customers through higher prices,” Collins wrote Saturday on social platform X.
“She noted that Maine imports approximately $2 billion in nonpetroleum products from Canada each year.
“Collins has urged U.S. and Canadian negotiators to resume talks”
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But, of course, the me-first genocidal morons who run the “Jewish State” are now running the U.S. (into the ground).
If the tariffs turn out to be long term, all your experts will likely be right. If, instead, they are just bargaining tools, intended to get the Canadians to get rid of their tariffs, and it works, things will be much better off.
Interestingly, CUSMA (the replacement for NAFTA) supports what Trump is doing. If he plays it properly, it’s probably SCOTUS-proof, because it is a treaty which specifically addresses the options if one of the three countries (Canada, US, Mexico) enters into a bilateral trade agreement with a non-market economy. That is, Carney’s deal with China (which will destroy the Canadian steel industry) is specifically addressed.
‘Since 1945 [there] has been a kind of unspoken gentleman’s agreement to not use nuclear weapons first but only in response to a nuclear attack.’ — eric
What rendered this gentleman’s agreement unworkable, over half a century ago, is that little Israel acquired nuclear weapons, using stolen US enriched uranium. Then, with characteristic chutzpah, then-Israeli PM Golda Meir demanded and got a commitment from US president Richard Nixon to participate in Israel’s policy of nuclear ambiguity by refusing to confirm or deny it.
Every US president since has observed this sordid undertaking, despite a Sunday Times article in October 1986, based on Israeli nuclear worker Mordecai Vanunu’s revelations, exposing Israel’s nukes to the entire world.
Israel’s undefined nuclear status means that, unlike Iran, it is not a signatory to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and does not submit to IAEA inspections. This, despite the disturbing fact that Israel constantly violates the borders of neighboring states to bomb them, and has been illegally occupying and colonizing growing swathes of stolen land for 57 years.
Should Israel ever use its nukes, the United States — which corruptly extended a shroud of secrecy over them — will be revealed for all time as a country with defective judgment, compromised quisling ‘leaders,’ and a withering contempt for the rest of humanity.
Death, death to the IDF.
The USA political state is so compromised by israel that it will probably be the USA that uses its own “tactical nukes” against Iran.
You see, ALL JEW$ worldwide (not just zionists) live and operate under a different set of rules than the “rest of us” goyim and as self-declared “masters of the universe” can do no wrong.
Judaism is not a religion, but is a foreign worldwide political system that infects whatever it touches. It is a cancer upon the world that for humanity’s sake MUST be eradicated.
I call jewish actions as the “Pontius Pilate syndrome” always getting others (gentiles) to do their dirty work for them. Throughout history, jews have started wars that they will not fight themselves.
The Austrian painter had the right idea–reduce if not eliminate jewish power.
“Poor little israel” as presently constituted has to be wiped off the map.
ALL JEW$ worldwide must be put on notice that collectively, they are all responsible for all jewish actions in the middle east and elsewhere. Putting the heat on ALL JEW$ worldwide is the only way to resolve the middle east situation.
Thankfully, on an increasing scale, israeli tourists are being denied goods and services around the world, being recognized as enemies of humanity. Their arrogant behavior does them no favor either…
There is absolutely nothing good about judaism–NOTHING. It is a cancer thrust upon humanity that must be recognized as mortal to the world body politic
Yes
Maybe some bumper stickers:
DD2TIDF
Just a thought.
Trump having dinner with Nuttyyahoo and Miriam Adelson
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SKDX-qJaJ08
Gas and diesel are major concerns.
But, what of DEF?
Made from urea that is also being blocked by the Hormuz blockade could be the Achilles Heel for Western countries. The reality is a diesel engine can run on fryer oil if need be but, the computer won’t let it run without the DEF.
Interesting times, indeed.
The mind boggles.
Without DEF, stuff goes into “limp mode” and we live life at a more relaxed pace. Until someone decides to just override the computer and run without.
OK, not a good answer. But urea is not that difficult to produce. And we have scads of natural gas to make it from. Rather than turning it into LNG and shipping it to Europe, we could easily start making our own DEF, and wait for the idiots in Congress to tell the idiots at EPA to go jump in a lake.
Diesel deletes are quite easy to do, if the tune isn’t too extreme the owner will gain both power and mileage. And while under the communists fronted by Biden small shops and people were being persecuted (yes prosecuted but really persecuted) for it, that has stopped under Trump.
DEF and DPF are silly and stupid solutions to non problems.