A Closed Strait of Hormuz Was Once Unthinkable

Monday, May 04, 2026

A fully closed Strait of Hormuz was long seen as unthinkable -- and unmanageable if it happened ...

Posted by reinheitsgebot at 11:30 PM | 11 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry |

After Scott Bessent earlier urged China to help the U.S. open the Strait of Hormuz, despite claiming the U.S. had "absolute control" over the Strait, Trump is now asking South Korea to help.

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-- MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) May 4, 2026 at 1:31 PM

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The disgusting orange chomo accomplished the unthinkable.

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-05-04 09:21 AM | Reply

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#2 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-05-04 09:28 AM | Reply

Unthinkable?
Uh ... no. In fact, blindingly obvious.
So sorry El Blimpo Naranjo, nope dope, no mulligans on this one.

#3 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-05-04 09:54 AM | Reply

Scott Pissant Begs China To Help Reopen The Strait Of Hormuz

financialpost.com

#4 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-05-04 11:00 AM | Reply

"US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called on US allies and on China to join an American operation to escort ships through the Strait of Hormuz even as he claimed the nation has total control of the vital waterway for the global oil trade."

The old Chicago Stockyards churned out less b.s. daily than this maladministration of lunatics, grifters, drunks, sex pests, druggies and morons.

#5 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-05-04 11:04 AM | Reply

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President Trump tells Fox that his military blockade on Iran is the "greatest military maneuver in history"

#6 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-05-04 01:38 PM | Reply

Mega-oligarch Scott Bessent has been reduced to a groveling schnorrer.

Watch this week faux Christian Marco "Empty Suit" Rubio uselessly head to the Vatican and Rome as Dummkopf Trumpf's mannequin/errand boy.

#7 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-05-04 02:22 PM | Reply

"If all the world were a golden ring, Ormus [Hormuz] would be the jewel in it."
Old Arab Proverb

#8 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-05-04 05:39 PM | Reply

For perspective's sake: This past month Iranians marked the 404th anniversary of the expulsion of the Portuguese from Hormuz.

#9 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-05-05 04:36 AM | Reply

Hi Doc Sarvis

And the idiotic Trumpf junta chose Cuba's annual commemoration of the April 1961 Bay of Pigs fiasco to send their high-level delegation to Havana.

#10 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-05-05 04:43 AM | Reply

It is unthinkable that this lunatic is still President and/or that Republicans in Congress expect any American to vote for them in November when they won't do their jobs!

president

#11 | Posted by danni at 2026-05-05 05:06 AM | Reply