Grifting With The Aliens

Those aliens are going to starve

Did Donald Trump commit treason? Yeah probably. Did we go to war just so Donald Trump and his buddies could make a few bucks? Maybe, and it is a definite possibility. We are talking about a lowlife and some vile motherfuckers here.

Over the weekend, Donald Trump gave the Iranians 48 hours to open the Strait of Hormuz, or he would start bombing their power grid, which would amount to a war crime because that is a civilian target.

But at 7:05 AM Monday, about 12 hours before the deadline he gave the Iranians to open the strait, Trump called the whole thing off, delaying the bombing of Iran's power grid for five days because he claimed he was in intense negotiations with them to end the war.

“Who could've seen this coming?” asked Nobel laureate Paul Krugman. That answer is the person or people who bought large quantities of stock market futures and sold large quantities of oil futures around 15 minutes before Trump’s announcement.

As CNBC reports, at around 6:50 a.m. in New York, S&P 500 e-Mini futures trading on the CME recorded a sharp and isolated jump in volume, breaking from an otherwise subdued premarket backdrop. With thin liquidity typical of early trading hours, the sudden burst stood out as one of the largest volume moments of the session up to that point.

A similar pattern was observed in oil markets. West Texas Intermediate May futures also saw a noticeable pickup in trading activity at roughly the same time, with a distinct volume spike interrupting otherwise quiet conditions.

What makes this even more suspicious is that the Iranians claimed that they were never in negotiations with Donald Trump. It's a sad state of affairs that the United States president has less credibility than the brutal fundamentalist, totalitarian murders Iranian regime, yeah, that is the case.

Did Donald Trump only claim he was in negotiations to end his war in Iran just for it to affect the stock market? Did he tip someone off before he made the announcement? Did Donald Trump engage in insider trading? It looks like either he or someone else in the White House did.

Donald Trump has consistently used the Oval Office to enrich himself since he returned to it last year, so it is not far-fetched that he is using this war to make himself even richer.

Later on Monday, Donald Trump said that he knew he was talking to the right people in Iran because they had sent the United States a very valuable gift worth a lot of money, though nobody knows what the gift is. But saying something has value because it's worth a lot of money is exactly who Trump is. Everything to him is about money. And yes, I believe he will put money over the lives of American service members.

Donald Trump is gone from talking about Iran murdering its own people, to eliminating their nuclear capabilities, to eliminating their missile program, to them sending us a valuable gift worth a lot of money. Not only can't he get his story straight for why he started this war, but he can't get it straight for why he wants to end it. It appears that his demand for “unconditional surrender” may have a few conditions.

Yesterday, MAGAt cartoonist Al Goodwyn claimed that Trump's war with Iran was only about oil to Democrats. And then, some MAGAt bought $1.5 billion in S&P 500 (ES) futures while another MAGAT sold $192 million in oil (CL) futures. And the person or persons who made these trades are anonymous. How much in oil stock would you like to bet that Al does not address this, even after accusing Democrats of being all about the oil? Al may not be smart enough to see the hypocrisy.

During the State of the Union, Trump said he was appointing JD Vance to lead a brand new anti-fraud task force. If JD wants to find fraud in Washington, he needs to start in the White House, and not to make it too easy for him, but he should begin in the Oval Office.

Someone is making money off this war, and it wouldn't surprise me if that someone is the same someone who started it.

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