Sunday, March 08, 2026

“Nothing Less Than World Domination!”

Like this:
BARTIROMO: Trump had an interesting exchange about troops on the ground. Moms are worried we're gonna have a draft and see their kids get involved in this. What do you want to say about the president's plan for troops on the ground?

LEAVITT: President Trump wisely does not remove options from the table
Trump is not the sovereign monarch. He doesn’t have the authority to declare a draft by EO.  Congress still won’t approve a military draft, and the Administration has proven itself incompetent to organize a two car funeral procession. Re-establishing selective service and a draft lottery, and then administering it, all for a war already underway, speaks of a commitment to this war effort that is shocking.

And also moronic. This is not worth worrying about, except as another example of the incompetence of this administration. A military draft is as likely to happen as Trump is likely to become as eloquent a speaker as Barack Obama.
Great minds thinking alike.

And speaking of world domination:
"I wish I had better news: the world is now a little more than a week into the largest oil disruption ever in history,” McNally said, appearing on CNN Sunday. “The 20 million barrels a day that have stopped flowing from [Strait of] Hormuz to the world is twice the amount of the biggest last disruption, which is all the way back in the 1950s, the Suez Crisis.”

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“This is an authentic crisis, it needs to stop soon. We need to get freedom of navigation going and that flow through Hormuz restarted,” McNally continued.

“Before this started, people didn't think it was possible, no one thought that an adversary could shut down the Strait of Hormuz, that didn't happen even in the 1980s during the tanker war. Now everyone's asking how long can it last. Can't take another few weeks of this, I think we're going to see galloping further increases in oil prices, and it's going to start to hurt equities as well.”
So, sure, let’s drag this out until we need a draft 

Did I mention the world is very different from what it was in the ‘50’s, at least as regards oil consumption? And from what I understand, the canal is shut down because insurance companies won’t cover the damages possible. Which is probably what’s changed since the ‘80’s. Missile technology, in brief.
I think Trump has pretty much taught that lesson to everyone likely to learn it.
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3 comments:

  1. jim, some guy in iowa6:00 PM

    Well, it seems Iran has a new boss, same (almost) as the old one. Won't get fooled again, indeed. Does this make it harder for Trump to declare victory and get out (which I had expected sooner rather than later)?

    I'm no Derek Guy, but I have learned from him- my own experience of almost 50 years of wearing gimme trucker caps is that the one Trump wears to funerals (except on Fox, they "fixed" that) are among the cheapest caps out there. The "tell" is the pointy front of the crown- instead of the traditional six panels stitched together, they save a bit of sewing and have one large panel on the front, which creates the point. They are more of a golf course cap than a baseball or farmer cap, and relate to the latter the same way a Tesla Cybertruck relates to a Ford F-250.

    Lindsey Graham is out of his ever-lovin' mind. Even Meghan McCain is telling him to dial it back.

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  2. Rmj7:30 PM

    In all sincerity, thanks for the information on the cap. 🧢 I’d seen Trump’s headwear described as a “golf cap, but I thought “looks like a gimme cap to me.” Now I remember the old man wore golf caps (when he was playing golf), and up close, they were different.

    Though I’m pretty sure he never paid $55 for one. They were pretty well made, though, because he didn’t go through a lot of ‘em.

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  3. jim, some guy in iowa7:59 PM

    Your dad probably did have better caps. Derek Guy is opposed to disposable "fast fashion" and that's what has happened to the gimme cap business. Used to be they'd go through the washing machine and you could wear them for years. Now once through and they just kinda disintegrate. Any time I've actually handled a cap like Trump is wearing it's flimsy and cheap, and I see no reason to believe he'd sell a quality product to *anyone* ever.

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