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surfered

(13,663 posts)
Sun Apr 12, 2026, 08:23 PM 5 hrs ago

Breaking News...

President Trump has announced a blockade to block the blockade that’s blocking the Strait of Hormuz that wasn’t blocked before being blocked due to a war of choice launched by Trump, a stable genius.

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Breaking News... (Original Post) surfered 5 hrs ago OP
Are you telling us that trump blocked mercuryblues 5 hrs ago #1
... that's exactly what the Strait of Hormuz needs ... magicarpet 5 hrs ago #8
A 3H enema... oldsoldierfadingfast 4 hrs ago #14
Granny Smith Apples work! jfz9580m 4 hrs ago #18
So do prunes; but... oldsoldierfadingfast 4 hrs ago #19
DJT is getting an enema if he has seen this jfz9580m 2 hrs ago #20
Got it Deuxcents 5 hrs ago #2
Who will tell the people? M$M can't write headlines like that. /nt bucolic_frolic 5 hrs ago #3
Agree - great headline. Kudos, to the surfer. yellow dahlia 5 hrs ago #6
Well written.... Lovie777 5 hrs ago #4
Makes total sense. OAITW r.2.0 5 hrs ago #5
Well said! yellow dahlia 5 hrs ago #7
A great synopsis! The news networks should use it. Vinca 5 hrs ago #9
What do you expect from a blockhead? usonian 5 hrs ago #10
Next thing you know, he'll order the navy to fire missles straight up and let gravity take over. Buddyzbuddy 5 hrs ago #11
Nobody Just Jerome 4 hrs ago #15
See now that's test of cognition I can back jfz9580m 5 hrs ago #12
Does a woodchuck chuck? questionseverything 5 hrs ago #13
The Navy is clearing mines to reopen the Strait so they can then blockade it. SamuelAdams 4 hrs ago #16
I'm stealing this edbermac 4 hrs ago #17

magicarpet

(18,687 posts)
8. ... that's exactly what the Strait of Hormuz needs ...
Sun Apr 12, 2026, 08:42 PM
5 hrs ago

... a laxative or a warm enema.

What an idea.

jfz9580m

(17,311 posts)
18. Granny Smith Apples work!
Sun Apr 12, 2026, 10:01 PM
4 hrs ago

It has been verified by studies!

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24837942/

Hey don’t blame me! I was raised by creepware from Si Valley and creeps in general and compulsively advertise for no clear reason now without any products either! But Granny Smith Apples seem harmless as things to shill go.

Si Valley should not ever again be allowed near education or healthcare anymore than Trump should be allowed near 13 year old girls.

Unless you want to end up like me. And if you do, you truly need help.

A cautionary tale though this:

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/381883-facebook-approached-hospitals-to-request-patient-data/

(Less depraved schools (from hearsay) like say Johns Hopkins, Vanderbilt (your icon looks a bit like Vanderbilt’s - I know someone who went there) would be well advised to avoid practices from the sleazy Stanford Medical School, Harvard, MIT etc.)

It will someday inexorably lead to this:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/university-north-texas-corpses-dissected-unclaimed-bodies-rcna170478

Sylvia Trent-Adams is doing well though. She is now with something called IHI.

The worst part of covid was all the attacks on medical professionals, a community I am somewhat sympathetic to (if for largely self serving reasons like not being able to heal myself with bear fat and rat puke and so on).

At least true where it is not the worst hospitals or corner cases. And I generally like doctors and think nurses are underpaid. But hospital admins are another matter and I am not optimistic about the hospitals where I live as they are being acquired by this sleazy private equity giant Blackstone.

Outright shameful though that Dr. Fauci needed a pardon, especially when all the Epstein associates, including the POTUS, are doing quite well. I felt very sympathetic to Dr.Fauci sans any Stockholm Syndrome. A rare decent public figure. That lab leak and beaglegate shit was a disgrace and so hypocritical given the wide berth society gives to horrors at scale like factory farming and ventilation shutdown. Purely political attacks on scientists who cannot just say what people want to hear. Poor Dr. Fauci.

Critical thinking is not a feature of these fine societies.

jfz9580m

(17,311 posts)
20. DJT is getting an enema if he has seen this
Mon Apr 13, 2026, 12:05 AM
2 hrs ago

Unfortunately as a woman who has entirely unwillingly developed a knack for these things, this stood out in the pile of Epstein rot.

If I read him correctly, Lucien Greaves of The Satanic Temple alluded to this.

The strategy seems to have been to flood the zone with so much trash that the public just starts to normalize this shit.

Women’s rights are already in the toilet.

I would be shocked if this didn’t check out. I wasn’t even paying that much attention till I saw this. I saw this a few weeks ago and even my outrage fatigued brain recognized it as the most serious allegation I have seen to date.
Till then I was thinking we already know he raped E Jeanne and no one cares apparently.

But sexual molestation of a 13 yo and this story my, what you Americans call Spidey Sense, flagged as almost certainly credible enough to warrant a far more serious investigation than is ongoing. Saw it on The Daily Beast first.

I really felt for that kid. She seems to have lead a relentlessly hard life.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/key-details-of-13-year-old-trump-accusers-accounts-are-verified/

I am 80% genuinely sympathetic to the child..well woman now. She self describes as a tomboy as well. I found all the Esptein survivors very sympathetic.
But when I read about this kid biting the shit out of Trump’s dick I felt an even stronger affinity.
It is 20% self serving to the extent that after the fall of Roe v Wade and the state of society overall, if this obscenity passes (that too given how Trump came into power using qanon rumors attacking Hillary as a witch or something. I am not really a follower of Clinton but it is ott if you can get into office using bs like that and then this flies) what hope can anonymous older women like me with more pedestrian complaints about attacks on livelihoods have?

Troy Farah, this writer I follow, talks about how our primate brains are not adapted for challenges like these. So I can only vaguely feel it. But I always know it.

Surely this is a “have you no shame moment”?

I am inured to other such overtly bad shit and I know it is not acceptable. More like the Texas Cadaver Scandal with undertones of blatant disregard for women’s rights and dignity plus moral policing (I am a marijuana user) and speech and joke policing (and foul mouthed though I have never had racist or phobic thoughts. I have creepist thoughts that may be “biased” the creeps I have been harassed most by who tend to be from “my culture”!!).

But if this kid gets justice well at least it is something and really - how do I put this? Yes he raped E Jeanne and is in office. But this is a 13 yo kid. Whats next? I don’t check the id of women I assault!!!!! I didn’t know she was 13 when I assaulted her!!!! Because odds are that this story is true. There is another news story. Can’t find it:

https://dailyboulder.com/new-report-verifies-multiple-details-in-13-year-old-trump-accusers-story/

Best case she was 15. And either way, it is splitting hairs. I can totally believe that the Daily Beast may have picked the trashier headline. It is why I generally avoid TDB.

But the other article was less spectacular and it gave a picture of the accuser that struck me.

13 or 15, the point is it is worth investigating. To hell with Megyn Kelly.

It was the narrative of screwed over underage person. I am inclined to believe her. If I am wrong then I made a mistake.

Those are typically very costly for MeToo complainants.
Shrug..it is a hunch I stand by regardless.

They are flooding the zone with trash. One is hopeless, but still hope never dies. Truth matters. To hell with the Three body problem’s methods. Just creative speculation I indulge in about “How these fine societies I am cheerfully not a part of think”. I could be “jaded”. Lol

Lovie777

(23,129 posts)
4. Well written....
Sun Apr 12, 2026, 08:33 PM
5 hrs ago

you should apply for a journalist position because most articles being written is complete bullshit.

😇

Buddyzbuddy

(2,704 posts)
11. Next thing you know, he'll order the navy to fire missles straight up and let gravity take over.
Sun Apr 12, 2026, 09:09 PM
5 hrs ago

jfz9580m

(17,311 posts)
12. See now that's test of cognition I can back
Sun Apr 12, 2026, 09:14 PM
5 hrs ago

Let’s see:
Blocked the blockade that was blocking the blocade that blocked the Strait of Hormuz that was open before the bullshit war Trump started.

Did I get it right?
Well no. I didn’t.

Trump has announced a blocade to block the blocade that is blocking the Strait of Hormuz which was open before Trump’s war in Iran.

I shed the one excess blocade and now it is correct. And I misspelt blocade the first time.

Hey lay off! I went to Trump University! And all I got was a handshake with a cutout of Trump.

That is actually pretty close to me experiences with privatized education in the U.S.: EECS (2000-2001) & EECS adjacent departments filled with edtech shills (2011-2012) from Google destroying education in concert with bogus healthcare also from Google etc. destroying healthcare. I did get shoved into a straitjacket so I got screwed over by both privatized education and privatized healthcare!
I have experienced life!

Lol..all true though.

Thankfully your natural sciences were still pretty decent between 2001-2011. Those are probably all defunded by now. But Google Gemini continues to misinform people so things are moving in the right direction!

It is all about what your personal and societal goals are! Mine are to generally enrich creepy billionaires like Sundar Pichai and molesters like Trump at great personal cost. I contribute!

But at least now I will remember it better.

Thank you Surfered.

Good morning. I am in India and restarting work today after a choppy 15 years or so. Wish me luck. I will need it. I have a paper to finish in a year.

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