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Yet another new message from the Dumpster….
President Donald Trump has a new message for Americans paying over twice what he promised they would for gasoline: $4 a gallon is “okay.”
Trump delivered the message Friday during an appearance at the Nassau County Police Academy in Garden City, New York, where he appeared alongside Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, the Republican nominee for governor.
“So, for you to pay a tiny, little bit more for your gasoline, just remember, you’re doing it so that a very evil country cannot have… a nuclear weapon,” Trump said. “So, remember that, when you have to pay a little bit more, you’re at $4, it’s okay.”
“I will never apologize,” Trump added. “I did the right thing.” via meidasnews.com
And just look at what $4 a gallon has brought the world so far…
Iran WarTotal killed — all parties (as of 2026-08-08)8,983–18,317Combined confirmed and estimated deaths across US (18–20), Iranian military (1,800–7,650), Iranian and Israeli civilians, Lebanese civilians, Hezbollah fighters, and Gulf-state casualties. Wounded are tracked separately and run far higher. Sources conflict sharply — see the full sourced data table below for the per-category breakdown. – via miltaryspend.org
Of course, a small price to pay so that Iran doesn’t have the nuclear weapon they’ve never had.
Trump says he will declare Strait of Hormuz a US ‘territory’ amid Iran war – via aljazeera.com
United States President Donald Trump has announced plans to declare the Strait of Hormuz a “territory” of his country as tensions boil with Iran.
Speaking in New York on Friday, Trump told supporters that the US would soon claim the vital waterway, which is critical for the global supply of oil, natural gas and fertiliser.
“After we finish defeating Iran, which is being very badly defeated, pretty soon I’ll be declaring the Hormuz Strait a territory of the United States,” Trump said, with a chuckle.
This dipshit doesn’t even believe his own bullshit. I thought Iran was already defeated, as you told us many times now. We’re still finishing the job?
This white trash loser declares all sorts of things, but about all that he can truly declare is that he’s accomplished declaring bankruptcy six times. Why, I do declare….what a talented businessman!
But the man can grift…
Trump Pocketed $2.2 Billion in 2025 While American Families Lost $219 Billion to Rising Costs, New Report Finds – meidasnews.com
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If We Could See Everything, It Would Radicalize Us All Instantly
It’s hard to wrap your mind around the abusiveness of the imperial status quo, partly because it’s all we’ve ever known, and partly because it’s too big to perceive all at once.
The statistics don’t show you the true human impact. The personal anecdotes just show you small snapshots of individuals suffering in their own lives. A working single mother crying in her car in a TikTok video because the endless toil necessary for survival is all-consuming and overwhelming. A news report about child labor in DRC cobalt mines. An Instagram reel about a father in Gaza carrying plastic bags he’s been told contain the remains of his daughter.
Individually, such stories are heartbreaking and enraging. But they are not merely personal anecdotes from separate individuals. These stories are unfolding all around the world, every moment of every day, affecting the lives of billions of human beings in different ways and to varying degrees.
If we could see it all, it would radicalize everyone against the empire instantaneously.
But we cannot see it all. We simply can’t take in all the suffering that is happening in all the ways it is being inflicted upon innocent people all around the world.
The most powerful weapon our rulers have is the fact that homo sapiens are incapable of perceiving everything all at once. If everybody could perceive all the consequences of the decisions being made by powerful people on a deep experiential level, most of humanity would rise up to overthrow the established order, and there’d be hardly anyone willing to defend it.
The only thing keeping the heads of the oligarchs and empire managers attached to their necks is the limitations of human perception.
Which of course is why they work so hard to maintain the present limitations of human perception. All the propaganda, internet censorship, AI shenanigans, algorithm manipulation and government secrecy we see from the capitalist empire is there to keep us from seeing too much, because unadulterated truth tends to have a radicalizing effect on the mind.
That’s why they’re scrambling to roll out police drones, AI mass surveillance and autonomous weapons systems while doing everything they can to slow down our access to information and insight: it’s a race to get us fully locked down in a capitalist dystopia policed by militarized robots before humanity’s unprecedented ability to share inconvenient facts and ideas lets us see enough to awaken a revolutionary zeitgeist in our collective consciousness.
So in that sense there really is a kind of worldwide struggle between light and darkness — not in a religious sense, but in the sense that there is a direct ongoing conflict between the agenda to see and to know versus the agenda to keep things hidden. Humanity’s higher impulses are trying to bring things into the light of awareness, while those representing our lower nature are trying to keep things obscured in the darkness of ignorance and confusion.
I don’t know which side will win in the end. I just know it makes sense for every well-intentioned person to spend as much the time and energy as they can muster trying help make the abuses of the empire as visible as possible for everybody.
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Tonight’s musical offering:
Ravel: Boléro (Full Performance) | Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra | Han-Na Chang
Dispatches from the Asylum 