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Bread and Circuses

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4. Heck NO!

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Thu Mar 12, 2026, 06:22 PM

23 hrs ago

My tax payer is not for escort services.

If oil companies need an escort, call up Ghislane Maxwell

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Bessent says 'international coalition' could escort tankers through Strait of Hormuz [View all] BumRushDaShow 23 hrs ago OP

BULLSHIT!! bluestarone 23 hrs ago #1

An international coalition?! 🤣 It's your war and no one wants to accept your invitation Deuxcents 23 hrs ago #2

Note: "Admiral" Bessent is the Secretary of the TREASURY. Grins 23 hrs ago #3

Good question under normal circumstances BaronChocula 21 hrs ago #14

It's hard to tell one Trump pawn from another. ananda 21 hrs ago #16

Heck NO! Bread and Circuses 23 hrs ago #4

Why haven't we billed SA for providing protection services to get their product to market? OAITW r.2.0 23 hrs ago #9

umm that shoulda been put together before launching attacks on a girls school. dumbass nt msongs 23 hrs ago #5

"this was always in our planning" Skittles 20 hrs ago #25

Too late for that dimwit billionaire. Klarkashton 23 hrs ago #6

International Coalition sez.... OAITW r.2.0 23 hrs ago #7

Bessent is... GiqueCee 23 hrs ago #8

Malcomn Nance said on the Stephanie Miller Show... ybbor 21 hrs ago #18

Says the Secretary of the Treasury, with no military experience, who managed investment firms. surfered 23 hrs ago #10

"so, we know that they have not mined the straits." - no we don't, you ring-ring ring-a-ding-dong progree 22 hrs ago #11

The kakistocracy strikes again. bluescribbler 22 hrs ago #12

That would have to be us. mahina 15 hrs ago #31

Um, Scotty? lonely bird 21 hrs ago #13

Sure buddy, suck other countries into your disaster. Nt BootinUp 21 hrs ago #15

Question: how does "escorting" a tanker through the Strait mcar 21 hrs ago #17

Oh yes, let's call upon our loyal allies mahina 20 hrs ago #19

Bullshit. The Strait pens tankers and escort ships into a killing field targeted by many types of weapons that can Martin68 20 hrs ago #20

Apart from all the other dumbfuckery, you clueless asshole, it is STRAIT, niyad 20 hrs ago #21

You broke it, you own it. Spazito 20 hrs ago #22

NEED THE WORLD TO BAIL US OUT OF THIS SHIT SHOW Skittles 20 hrs ago #23

Why is he involved? angrychair 20 hrs ago #24

Hey Scott is that international coalition there in the room with you now? Ritabert 20 hrs ago #26

He's just speaking outta his ass. This whole Figarosmom 18 hrs ago #27

"Look, that was always in our planning" nuxvomica 16 hrs ago #28

Maybe it was their plan to fuck up the global economy fujiyamasan 16 hrs ago #29

stfu Bessent Pas-de-Calais 15 hrs ago #30

Wait, NOW we need the allies Trump has been insulting for the past 10 years? Callie1979 11 hrs ago #32

What allies? Trump has basically alienated everyone! Ray Bruns 11 hrs ago #33

What international coalition? His Board of Peace members? sinkingfeeling 11 hrs ago #34

Bezos has 4 "super yachts" BumRushDaShow 10 hrs ago #35

""Look, that was always in our planning..." OldBaldy1701E 9 hrs ago #36