Trump Just Made It Worse…

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Nationwide based on sportsbook predictions and free-to-play sports contest availability varies by state. Donald Trump in a spiral this morning, waking up to his collapsing presidency, waking up to the country he is destroying here. This is what he posted first thing this morning. Now that we have it under USA control, should we change the name of Hormuz Strait to Trump Strait? Like America itself, it would be hotter than ever before. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Donald J. Trump, of course, we don't have control over the Strait of Hormuz and the massive escalation of the catastrophic war in Iran that Trump engaged in yesterday resulted in the death of five individuals, the injury of 68 individuals at a wedding in Sirik County in Iran in the southern area of Iran. Meanwhile, the IRGC says that two additional oil tankers were struck in the Strait of Hormuz trying to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. Donald Trump, the U.S. Secretary of State, has said that the U.S. and the U.S. are on a very unauthorized route overnight. Iran responded to the United States strikes on the wedding in Sirik and to other U.S. strikes that took place in the coast of Iran. Iran responded with strikes in Jordan, in Erbil, Iraq, in Kuwait, in the United Arab Emirates. Iran claims that there are multiple U.S. casualties, at least in the strike against Jordan, which the Trump regime is covering up. Numerous Iranian, U.S. and U.S. officials have said that there are multiple U.S. Lemaire, sports hall. Kids slaughtered. The Kushtik wedding, that's in the Sirik area in southern Iran. Children killed with families. If a power acts like Satan, picks targets like Satan, and kills like Satan, it's Satan. Shields a junior Satan that does the same, it's the great Satan. And the Trump regime just goes out there and slaughters children. They escalate the attacks. So the Sirik wedding area, this has been geolocated. It's been independently verified by BBC and New York Times and others. So it's confirmed the Trump regime and Netanyahu at first tried to say, ah, it was Iran that struck its own people. No, it was a slammer, a unique missile. We know it's of a United States origin. We've seen the parts. It's 100% the U.S. that did it. Now, there was a telecommunication structure down the block from this residential area. And they struck the telecommunications area and they struck the residential area where the wedding was taking place. You can see the aftermath here of the U.S. attack on the wedding in Iran, where five people were killed. A four-year-old child was killed, 68 injured. We believe that number is going to go up. Here, play this clip. BBC's independent verification, Sarah Jalali over there at BBC, geoconfirmed this video right here of the aftermath as well. Let's play this clip. And so what is the Trump regime doing? We're heading close to the midterms. They got to cheat. They got to cheat for the midterms. So they're trying to shut down the voting locations, polling locations in areas like Tarrant County in Texas. And that's their plan. They want to screw with our mail ballots and they want to screw with the voting locations because they're authoritarians. And we've already been talking about how the Trump regime is trying to push through this rule with the Postal Service that's going to have a Trump voter rolls. And if you're not on the Trump voter rolls, the Postal Service will not just eliminate your ballot, but all 10,000 ballots in the same batch of ballots. They'll just throw it away. That's part of it. At Trump's discretion, everybody, because he's an authoritarian, because he is a wannabe dictator who knows his reign, that the people are rising up against this crap. But here's what happened in Tarrant. Our friends at MSNOW brought us this. Not a privilege. Making citizens jump through hoops to vote is the kind of cowardice engaged in by people who don't think they can earn our votes. The founders of our country would be appalled at how you treat people here with disdain and with your attempts to make it more difficult to vote. Commissioner's Court of Tarrant County voted on party lines, three Republicans, two Democrats, to close nearly 100 polling stations in a county that Kamala Harris won by 26 points. 116 polling places in that county, more than 2 million people. They voted today to close 92 of them. They say it's about the budget, two months before Election Day. Seems to me a pretty transparent effort to make it harder for people in the Fort Worth metro area to vote, knowing that Fort Worth numbers are going to be determinative for any statewide Democratic victory. And to suppress support for Tallarico in what is now a toss-up race. Donald Trump been putting out this weird 1930s fascist Nazi videos like this. Communism is the enemy of the free people. Everywhere. This is the stuff that they're putting out at the White House on the official White House account. Play this clip. Together we will defeat Communism, Socialism, and Marxism in America. We will not be a Socialist country. And of course, everything is falling apart in the Trump regime. Lots of people have been calling out the Venezuela deal. Within Venezuela, outside of Venezuela, we were, hopefully you thought we were, as soon as it was announced, we, you know, called it out. And I tried to give you a deep dive into what was really going on there. All the BS, all the corruption, that it was a fake deal. The Trump's $100 billion plan to boost Venezuela's oil production is facing major doubts from industry experts. Yeah, you think because the oil is not easy to refine. It's going to take decades to refine. It doesn't go into our strategic petroleum reserves. It's virtually uninvestable, Venezuela as well, under the Delcy Rodriguez regime. And so that's why Donald Trump, because he's a communist, an authoritarian communist, created a Trump oil company within Hegseth's defense department that did a deal with Alejandro Bentecourt, a bully Chico is what they're called, these young chavistas who took advantage of the people in Venezuela. He did the electricity grid in Venezuela and then took all this money for himself while there were all of these blackouts in Venezuela. He's the guy that the defense department is doing a JV with for the U.S. to have a 100-year exploitation rights of Venezuela's tarry, viscous, dense, sour oil that will take hundreds of billions of dollars to refine, maybe decades from now when it's finally achievable, and will not do anything with the price of oil right now, where the price of crude is heading over $100 a barrel for both WTI and Brent. And so, but with all of this going on, what do you have? You have the energy secretary, Chris Wright, arrived in Venezuela, and he was like, "We need American businesses. This is all for the American businesses." Look what he said when he was in Venezuela. You can see him for yourself. -. will lead to further investment by other American companies outside of the Chevron. Absolutely. The American investment in Venezuela is to grow the flow of private capital from a great number of American businesses. We want to see a lot of investment coming from the United States into Venezuela to grow opportunity and prosperity for Venezuelans, and for Americans, and for energy consumers around the world. -. when you anticipate meaningful. And as Carlos Rodriguez-Lopez says, "I'm aware that this press conference is in the middle of a runway. However, the fact that Secretary Wright is making such an emphasis on incentivizing investments from, quote, a great number of American businesses leads me to believe that the Trump administration is looking for American investment in Venezuela from a broad scope of American industries that's not exclusively American big oil." Because America big oil knows that you can't just do this in Venezuela. So one of the things that Trump's bringing in are the crypto bros and his tech oligarch buds. And so like Coinbase co-founder Fred Ursham is thinking about, you know, because the oil folks are like, "We're not going to do that." So they're bringing in, like, crypto folks and Coinbase folks and people like that. Meanwhile, remember when Trump regime threatened economic D-Day, that if you do business with Iran, if you do business, we are going to obliterate you. We don't care if you're China or you're Russia or you're whoever. Remember what happened right away? Pakistan was like, "Well, we're still going to do business with Iran." All the kind of middle power type countries said, "We're going to do business with Iran." Then Russia said, "Not only are we doing business with Iran, we're going to focus our investments on nuclear capabilities with Iran, investment in nuclear facilities in Iran." And then China, of course, came out with a statement through their foreign minister, Wang Yi, saying, "We're going to support Iran as well." And then Donald Trump and Besant were like, "China's actually working very, very productively with us." Well, China was apparently the sole holdout at the G20 finance ministers' meeting, blocking consensus on the Strait of Hormuz free navigation language, reportedly because it could set a precedent for the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea. In other words, China blocked an effort by the United States at that G20 summit in Asheville, North Carolina, to basically say that the Strait of Hormuz should be free for navigation. And China's like, "Of course, it should be free for navigation, but not with the way you're doing it, the United States. We don't support the way you're doing it." And China has been very clear that it's supports Iran and that it's standing side by side, shoulder to shoulder with Iran. Also, you're seeing lots of billboards like this go up all throughout Iran right now. Take a look over here. It is Donald Trump in the catering container with a cheeseburger and a Coke in his hands. And they're just mocking the hell out of him about what a coward America's so-called commander-in-chief is. And just look at this billboard right here. Trump hiding. This is, you know, in Tehran. Trump, this is what they put in Tehran. Trump hiding in a catering container with a cheeseburger and a soda. The humiliation ritual here in the United States. The shame that he's brought our country. How weak and pathetic we look. We look like a country of losers right now because we have a loser in the Oval Office. Thanks for watching. We'll keep you posted throughout the day. Hit subscribe. Get your copy of WTF America Now. We appreciate you. Have a good one. Before you go, our book WTF America is available for pre-order now. It's the story of how we got here and how we fight our way back. To pre-order, scan the QR code. our code or click the link in the description. Let's do this!