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moniss

(9,019 posts)
Wed Mar 18, 2026, 05:50 PM 15 hrs ago

I don't buy for one minute that Crumb The 1st had

no idea about what Iran would do with the Straits of Hormuz and the effect it would have. I believe he was counting on it. They say follow the money and the ones who benefit we all know, like the oil companies and defense contractors, and his pal Putin gets a huge benefit from soaring oil prices and getting the sanction against Russian oil lifted.

But the media is out here selling the public the story that he "didn't know" and they are singing the incompetency tune which is fine for many things about Crumb The 1st. But the media is forgetting that he lies about everything and where did this idea of "he didn't know" come from in the first place? It came from the mouth of Crumb The 1st himself and from whispers within the cabal of fascists.

So they fed the media the desired meme to latch onto and true to form the media fails to see what is right before their eyes. Once and for all the media needs to understand that story for everything the fascists do is power, inflicting pain and financial gain for themselves.

I believe John Bolton 100% when he says he thoroughly briefed Crumb the 1st during his first term on the issues around what would happen regarding attacking Iran, what they would do and the effects it would have. Don't think for one minute that Crumb the 1st "forgot" how the price swings would be huge. Does anybody really think he would forget a chance at one of the biggest moneymakers of all time?

So he plays the "didn't know" card, the media sucks it up and the huge moneymaker keeps rolling along. While the bully at the FCC threatens them with a club.

So they can call me crazy but I'm not the one trying to get people to believe that this was done because Crumb the 1st and Netanyahu care deeply about the "liberation" of the Iranian people and about some nuclear threat that none of the experts say was imminent in any way.

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I don't buy for one minute that Crumb The 1st had (Original Post) moniss 15 hrs ago OP
Briefed? How about a damned MAP? This was implicit in their leverage underpants 15 hrs ago #1
He probably thought our allies would bail him out. Irish_Dem 12 hrs ago #2
I think he intends to moniss 12 hrs ago #3
Yes he is figuring out every angle. Military contracts, bribes, etc. Irish_Dem 12 hrs ago #4

Irish_Dem

(81,037 posts)
2. He probably thought our allies would bail him out.
Wed Mar 18, 2026, 08:35 PM
12 hrs ago

And he could blame them for everything that went wrong.

moniss

(9,019 posts)
3. I think he intends to
Wed Mar 18, 2026, 08:56 PM
12 hrs ago

milk it for every dollar and then try to blame it all on allies "not helping him" and he'll claim it could have been over in a week or some such crap.

Irish_Dem

(81,037 posts)
4. Yes he is figuring out every angle. Military contracts, bribes, etc.
Wed Mar 18, 2026, 08:58 PM
12 hrs ago

Yes then will blame the mess on everyone else.

As usual Dems will have to do clean up and refill the US Treasury.

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