Of course it is.
And when hostilities start again, it is a new 60 days. Correct?
And when hostilities start again, it is a new 60 days. Correct?
President Trump announces military strikes on Iran: Operation Epic Fury
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The U.S. is intensifying efforts to cut off Iran’s most vital financial lifeline—its secretive oil trade with China https://t.co/OURsYHI8sB
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) May 3, 2026
🔴 BREAKING: Iran has dropped some of its previous conditions and agreed to include its nuclear program in talks with the United States, sources tell Al Arabiya.
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) May 3, 2026
The sources said Tehran has proposed limiting uranium enrichment to 3.5 percent and gradually reducing its existing… pic.twitter.com/CEwWsQaTP3
Announcing uranium enrichment to 60 percent sends a message that Iran has joined the ranks of nuclear threshold powers. Other states considered to be in that category include Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea.
What do they all have in common?
What do they all have in common?
The U.S. Army just handed Raytheon $441 million to build PATRIOT missiles and wants them delivered in five months. All paid upfront.https://t.co/lsxQWKiQ0v
— The Defence Blog (@Defence_blog) May 3, 2026
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!boognish_bear said:1/ This is what $200 per barrel of oil would mean for US gas prices, which currently average $4.30 per gallon. It could go much higher. As one analyst says, once oil stockpiles are functionally exhausted by the end of May, "price increases become exponential rather than linear." https://t.co/wttIO4UWml pic.twitter.com/vWRP9WmXfJ
— ChrisO_wiki (@ChrisO_wiki) May 3, 2026
JUST IN: Trump announces the U.S. will launch “Project Freedom” on Monday to escort stranded ships out of the Strait of Hormuz.
— Polymarket (@Polymarket) May 3, 2026
Anyone know how accurate this article actually is?
Repairing damaged US military bases will add billions to Iran war cost, sources say | CNN Politics
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/29/politics/us-iran-war-25-billion-cost-estimate-low
Repairing damaged US military bases will add billions to Iran war cost, sources say | CNN Politics
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/29/politics/us-iran-war-25-billion-cost-estimate-low
Iran Issues Serious Threat That They Have A Massive Reserve Of More Serious Threats https://t.co/hF7MgA7QpJ pic.twitter.com/LbjtpGK2GJ
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) May 2, 2026
BUDOS said:
Anyone know how accurate this article actually is?
Repairing damaged US military bases will add billions to Iran war cost, sources say | CNN Politics
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/29/politics/us-iran-war-25-billion-cost-estimate-low
It's confirmation of what alt media were reporting weeks ago. US bases throughout the region are cooked.
Reporter: How long are you prepared to maintain the blockade? Several more months?
— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) May 4, 2026
Trump: Well, the blockade is genius. Now they have to cry uncle. 'We give up.' That's all they have to do pic.twitter.com/2NRi9Ce8IP
boognish_bear said:Reporter: How long are you prepared to maintain the blockade? Several more months?
— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) May 4, 2026
Trump: Well, the blockade is genius. Now they have to cry uncle. 'We give up.' That's all they have to do pic.twitter.com/2NRi9Ce8IP
By the end of the month Europe will be crying
Uncle in Urdu
Actually I believe something will happen by the end of the week. There is lots of chatter from a lot of different directions stating "Finish the job".
I think it's a primer for more military action
LIB,MR BEARS said:boognish_bear said:Reporter: How long are you prepared to maintain the blockade? Several more months?
— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) May 4, 2026
Trump: Well, the blockade is genius. Now they have to cry uncle. 'We give up.' That's all they have to do pic.twitter.com/2NRi9Ce8IP
By the end of the month Europe will be crying
Uncle in Urdu
Actually I believe something will happen by the end of the week. There is lots of chatter from a lot of different directions stating "Finish the job".
I think it's a primer for more military action
Trump cannot legally take more action. Congress has to weigh in now.
🇺🇸BREAKING: The Pentagon just announced fifteen thousand service members, guided-missile destroyers, over one hundred aircraft, and unmanned platforms deployed to the Strait of Hormuz. Operation begins Monday morning.
— Brian Allen (@allenanalysis) May 4, 2026
A senior U.S. official then told CNN, on the record, that… pic.twitter.com/TaURHGChxo
it want be hard to bait IRGC into firing a shot at a military target or a ship the US is escorting. When they do, Trump will have the US react with overwhelming force and call it retaliation.Porteroso said:LIB,MR BEARS said:boognish_bear said:Reporter: How long are you prepared to maintain the blockade? Several more months?
— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) May 4, 2026
Trump: Well, the blockade is genius. Now they have to cry uncle. 'We give up.' That's all they have to do pic.twitter.com/2NRi9Ce8IP
By the end of the month Europe will be crying
Uncle in Urdu
Actually I believe something will happen by the end of the week. There is lots of chatter from a lot of different directions stating "Finish the job".
I think it's a primer for more military action
Trump cannot legally take more action. Congress has to weigh in now.
Israel will jump in too and hit a few power relay stations in key locations too. It will cut power while not damaging power production
The Trump-announced US mission to guide ships out of the Persian Gulf will not involve US Navy escorts -WSJ
— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) May 3, 2026
The US will instead instruct ships on safe avenues of passage through the Strait of Hormuz, and coordinate with shipping and insurance companies.
boognish_bear said:JUST IN: Trump announces the U.S. will launch “Project Freedom” on Monday to escort stranded ships out of the Strait of Hormuz.
— Polymarket (@Polymarket) May 3, 2026
"Update: (6:30pm ET): It appears that Trump's Operation Freedom is just the latest jawboning nothingburger. As the WSJ explains, Project Freedom "is a process through which countries, insurance companies and shipping organizations can coordinate moving traffic through the Strait, according to a senior U.S. official. It doesn't currently involve U.S. Navy warships escorting vessels through the strait, the official said." In other words, as we mused earlier, this is not the announcement of an escort mission just now, and is just filler for another post from Trump."
President Trump did not announce an escort mission just now, US officials say.
— Alex Ward (@alexbward) May 3, 2026
Project Freedom, earlier called the Maritime Freedom Construct, is a coordination cell.
It’ll tell US-flagged ships and others the safe lanes to navigate the Strait of Hormuz (aka no mines, etc.)
Porteroso said:LIB,MR BEARS said:boognish_bear said:Reporter: How long are you prepared to maintain the blockade? Several more months?
— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) May 4, 2026
Trump: Well, the blockade is genius. Now they have to cry uncle. 'We give up.' That's all they have to do pic.twitter.com/2NRi9Ce8IP
By the end of the month Europe will be crying
Uncle in Urdu
Actually I believe something will happen by the end of the week. There is lots of chatter from a lot of different directions stating "Finish the job".
I think it's a primer for more military action
Trump cannot legally take more action. Congress has to weigh in now.
I think you're operating under the misunderstanding that anyone inside the beltway is still using the Constitution. The last administration put a trigger warning on it, after all.
🚫 CLAIM: Iranian state media claims that Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps hit a U.S. warship with two missiles.
— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) May 4, 2026
✅ TRUTH: No U.S. Navy ships have been struck. U.S. forces are supporting Project Freedom and enforcing the naval blockade on Iranian ports. pic.twitter.com/VFxovxLU6G
{ sipping Freedom coffee }
{ eating Freedom donut }
Wow!!!
- el UF
D!
Go Bears!!
{ eating Freedom donut }
Wow!!!
- el UF
D!
Go Bears!!
pro ecclesia, pro javelina
Porteroso said:LIB,MR BEARS said:boognish_bear said:Reporter: How long are you prepared to maintain the blockade? Several more months?
— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) May 4, 2026
Trump: Well, the blockade is genius. Now they have to cry uncle. 'We give up.' That's all they have to do pic.twitter.com/2NRi9Ce8IP
By the end of the month Europe will be crying
Uncle in Urdu
Actually I believe something will happen by the end of the week. There is lots of chatter from a lot of different directions stating "Finish the job".
I think it's a primer for more military action
Trump cannot legally take more action. Congress has to weigh in now.
If Trump uses the same use of force resolution from the Bush administration in 2001 that Obama used, then Congress is not obligated to act.
NEW: Trump considered a plan to send ships through Hormuz to open it by force, but opted for a more cautious approach at the last minute, at least initially.
— Axios (@axios) May 4, 2026
“The president wants action. He doesn't want to sit still,” a senior U.S. official told Axios. https://t.co/RVWx8whMp8
BUDOS said:
Anyone know how accurate this article actually is?
Repairing damaged US military bases will add billions to Iran war cost, sources say | CNN Politics
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/29/politics/us-iran-war-25-billion-cost-estimate-low
Non US media is saying that's accurate. I've read where we have extensive damage at every base in the region.
LIB,MR BEARS said:Porteroso said:LIB,MR BEARS said:boognish_bear said:Reporter: How long are you prepared to maintain the blockade? Several more months?
— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) May 4, 2026
Trump: Well, the blockade is genius. Now they have to cry uncle. 'We give up.' That's all they have to do pic.twitter.com/2NRi9Ce8IP
By the end of the month Europe will be crying
Uncle in Urdu
Actually I believe something will happen by the end of the week. There is lots of chatter from a lot of different directions stating "Finish the job".
I think it's a primer for more military action
Trump cannot legally take more action. Congress has to weigh in now.
it want be hard to bait IRGC into firing a shot at a military target or a ship the IS is escorting. When they do, Trump will have the US react with overwhelming force and call it retaliation.
Israel will jump in too and hit a few power relay stations in key locations to. It power while not damaging power production
You guys really think this will "end" it? I hope you are right the longer it goes on the more of the US will be impacted.
Just hope we are not 1914 Britain and Trump is Churchill, looking at everything through our prism.
FLBear5630 said:LIB,MR BEARS said:Porteroso said:LIB,MR BEARS said:boognish_bear said:Reporter: How long are you prepared to maintain the blockade? Several more months?
— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) May 4, 2026
Trump: Well, the blockade is genius. Now they have to cry uncle. 'We give up.' That's all they have to do pic.twitter.com/2NRi9Ce8IP
By the end of the month Europe will be crying
Uncle in Urdu
Actually I believe something will happen by the end of the week. There is lots of chatter from a lot of different directions stating "Finish the job".
I think it's a primer for more military action
Trump cannot legally take more action. Congress has to weigh in now.
it want be hard to bait IRGC into firing a shot at a military target or a ship the IS is escorting. When they do, Trump will have the US react with overwhelming force and call it retaliation.
Israel will jump in too and hit a few power relay stations in key locations to. It power while not damaging power production
You guys really think this will "end" it? I hope you are right the longer it goes on the more of the US will be impacted.
Just hope we are not 1914 Britain and Trump is Churchill, looking at everything through our prism.
Depends on which "it" you're talking about: the blockade, military action. Iranian regime?
D. C. Bear said:Porteroso said:LIB,MR BEARS said:boognish_bear said:Reporter: How long are you prepared to maintain the blockade? Several more months?
— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) May 4, 2026
Trump: Well, the blockade is genius. Now they have to cry uncle. 'We give up.' That's all they have to do pic.twitter.com/2NRi9Ce8IP
By the end of the month Europe will be crying
Uncle in Urdu
Actually I believe something will happen by the end of the week. There is lots of chatter from a lot of different directions stating "Finish the job".
I think it's a primer for more military action
Trump cannot legally take more action. Congress has to weigh in now.
If Trump uses the same use of force resolution from the Bush administration in 2001 that Obama used, then Congress is not obligated to act.
Congress - or more specifically the career politicians who huddle under the guise of being Congress - has largely abandoned its key roles, and we are where we are as a result.
Congress holds the purse strings, we are told, but almost no one remembers the last time Congress actually put together a budget, let the public know what was in it, debated and passed it and then it was signed into law. Instead we get continuing resolutions which raise the debt (which is always blamed on the President, sometimes because of pet projects he adds and sometimes so Congress can duck explaining the waste) and in spite of some virtue signaling the crisis only grows worse.
As for war, we have not had a declaration of war since 1941, but that has not prevented a lot of military adventures - some wise and necessary, some reckless and wrong, and many controversial. Congress only seems to debate a military action according to politics, and the public is presented only with binary options of going along with the package of actions or rejecting everything.
I dislike some of Trump's political tactics in managing the Iran crisis, but he is operating under rules put in place long before he set foot in the Oval Office, and he is no more guilty than a dozen Presidents before him who had to handle crises with a fickle and irresponsible Congress.
- Following a report from the UAE National Emergency Crisis and Disaster that the country's "air defenses are now dealing with a missile threat", we have gotten reports of explosions in Dubai, which has sent oil higher and Emini futures into the red.
D. C. Bear said:Porteroso said:LIB,MR BEARS said:boognish_bear said:Reporter: How long are you prepared to maintain the blockade? Several more months?
— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) May 4, 2026
Trump: Well, the blockade is genius. Now they have to cry uncle. 'We give up.' That's all they have to do pic.twitter.com/2NRi9Ce8IP
By the end of the month Europe will be crying
Uncle in Urdu
Actually I believe something will happen by the end of the week. There is lots of chatter from a lot of different directions stating "Finish the job".
I think it's a primer for more military action
Trump cannot legally take more action. Congress has to weigh in now.
If Trump uses the same use of force resolution from the Bush administration in 2001 that Obama used, then Congress is not obligated to act.
It would not be legal to claim the AUMF as a basis.
D. C. Bear said:Porteroso said:LIB,MR BEARS said:boognish_bear said:Reporter: How long are you prepared to maintain the blockade? Several more months?
— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) May 4, 2026
Trump: Well, the blockade is genius. Now they have to cry uncle. 'We give up.' That's all they have to do pic.twitter.com/2NRi9Ce8IP
By the end of the month Europe will be crying
Uncle in Urdu
Actually I believe something will happen by the end of the week. There is lots of chatter from a lot of different directions stating "Finish the job".
I think it's a primer for more military action
Trump cannot legally take more action. Congress has to weigh in now.
If Trump uses the same use of force resolution from the Bush administration in 2001 that Obama used, then Congress is not obligated to act.
If Trump uses the same use of force resolution from the Bush administration in 2001 that Obama used, then we should cut our losses and just disband congress and end the charade of checks and balances.
To be clear, that is not an endorsement of Obama's use of the resolution either. Quite the opposite. A president (regardless of party) should not be able to deploy the military unilaterally for any material length of time. I get the arguments about appropriations, etc. and the delegation doctrine, but the last time I checked we haven't done the budge process properly in years either.
Porteroso said:D. C. Bear said:Porteroso said:LIB,MR BEARS said:boognish_bear said:Reporter: How long are you prepared to maintain the blockade? Several more months?
— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) May 4, 2026
Trump: Well, the blockade is genius. Now they have to cry uncle. 'We give up.' That's all they have to do pic.twitter.com/2NRi9Ce8IP
By the end of the month Europe will be crying
Uncle in Urdu
Actually I believe something will happen by the end of the week. There is lots of chatter from a lot of different directions stating "Finish the job".
I think it's a primer for more military action
Trump cannot legally take more action. Congress has to weigh in now.
If Trump uses the same use of force resolution from the Bush administration in 2001 that Obama used, then Congress is not obligated to act.
It would not be legal to claim the AUMF as a basis.
You got a court ruling saying it was wrong back then?
303Bear said:D. C. Bear said:Porteroso said:LIB,MR BEARS said:boognish_bear said:Reporter: How long are you prepared to maintain the blockade? Several more months?
— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) May 4, 2026
Trump: Well, the blockade is genius. Now they have to cry uncle. 'We give up.' That's all they have to do pic.twitter.com/2NRi9Ce8IP
By the end of the month Europe will be crying
Uncle in Urdu
Actually I believe something will happen by the end of the week. There is lots of chatter from a lot of different directions stating "Finish the job".
I think it's a primer for more military action
Trump cannot legally take more action. Congress has to weigh in now.
If Trump uses the same use of force resolution from the Bush administration in 2001 that Obama used, then Congress is not obligated to act.
If Trump uses the same use of force resolution from the Bush administration in 2001 that Obama used, then we should cut our losses and just disband congress and end the charade of checks and balances.
To be clear, that is not an endorsement of Obama's use of the resolution either. Quite the opposite. A president (regardless of party) should not be able to deploy the military unilaterally for any material length of time. I get the arguments about appropriations, etc. and the delegation doctrine, but the last time I checked we haven't done the budge process properly in years either.
I'm not saying what should be, I'm saying what is.
303Bear said:D. C. Bear said:Porteroso said:LIB,MR BEARS said:boognish_bear said:Reporter: How long are you prepared to maintain the blockade? Several more months?
— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) May 4, 2026
Trump: Well, the blockade is genius. Now they have to cry uncle. 'We give up.' That's all they have to do pic.twitter.com/2NRi9Ce8IP
By the end of the month Europe will be crying
Uncle in Urdu
Actually I believe something will happen by the end of the week. There is lots of chatter from a lot of different directions stating "Finish the job".
I think it's a primer for more military action
Trump cannot legally take more action. Congress has to weigh in now.
If Trump uses the same use of force resolution from the Bush administration in 2001 that Obama used, then Congress is not obligated to act.
If Trump uses the same use of force resolution from the Bush administration in 2001 that Obama used, then we should cut our losses and just disband congress and end the charade of checks and balances.
To be clear, that is not an endorsement of Obama's use of the resolution either. Quite the opposite. A president (regardless of party) should not be able to deploy the military unilaterally for any material length of time. I get the arguments about appropriations, etc. and the delegation doctrine, but the last time I checked we haven't done the budge process properly in years either.
Congress is way to busy raising funds, skimming funds and trying to get re-elected to do their jobs.
The sooner we recognize this hard truth—that there’s no military solution to the conflict with Iran—the better off the United States will be.
— Joe Kent (@joekent16jan19) May 4, 2026
Sheer military force cannot reopen the Strait of Hormuz without escalating the war and sucking us into another endless, bloody quagmire…
Mitch Blood Green said:BUDOS said:
Anyone know how accurate this article actually is?
Repairing damaged US military bases will add billions to Iran war cost, sources say | CNN Politics
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/29/politics/us-iran-war-25-billion-cost-estimate-low
Non US media is saying that's accurate. I've read where we have extensive damage at every base in the region.
I've read that Bigfoot exists.
President Trump tells Fox if US ships are targeted in the region, Iran will be “blown off the face of the earth” pic.twitter.com/AfKNkqqgun
— Acyn (@Acyn) May 4, 2026