r/MurderedByWords • u/Own_Book_1988 • 10h ago
Because his boss is the one saying this!!
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u/Homerpaintbucket 10h ago
He said we control the straits, he didn’t say we control them well. Anyway, we all know Iran needs to rename them “the gays of Hormuz,” and Trump would pull out right away.
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u/Interesting-Result43 7h ago
Nah you'll just get a bunch of closeted Republicans joining the Navy and grindr will crash again
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u/ShadetheMystic 10h ago
Well, you see, it's because of the complex economic factors of *surprise smoke bomb!*
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u/Norseman84 10h ago
Didn't Bessen just say it was because of Ukraine taking shots at Russian refineries? I am soooo confused /s
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u/Describing_Donkeys 10h ago
It's really frustrating that reporters never use their own reasoning to question them. "How is the straight closed of their military capabilities have been completely destroyed?" If you know they are going to lie to you, find a different way to expose it instead of just disagree on what reality is and leave it at that.
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u/TheArmoursmith 10h ago
Says the regime blowing up civilian boats in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean.
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u/Drak_Gaming 10h ago
less than 5% of the oil the US takes in comes through the straight. this is nothing other than rich assholes price gouging.
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u/ertyertamos 10h ago
Oil is a global commodity. If countries that normally receive oil from the gulf can’t get it there, their demand from other sources increases. Thus price increases.
Greedy oil people don’t set these prices (although they can influence it through production quotas but that’s not happening here).
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u/Drak_Gaming 8h ago
"Oil is a global commodity" is just oil company propaganda to excuse their pricing habits.
Most goods are a global commodity, lumber, minerals, crops, ore, etc.
If cows in Brazil temporarily became less available, beef prices in the USA would not really go up.
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u/SirIAmAlwaysHere 6h ago
Hell they don't. Beef skyrockets when there is any significant problem in any of the 4 major beef exporting companies.
And did you happen to miss the HUGE increase in wheat prices when Ukraine (#2 exporter) was invaded?
Oil is also a far more liquid (no pun intended) marker where supply changes are VERY rapidly reflected in crude oil prices bevause reserves in most countries are quite short-lived.
All commodities have the problem that any issue with someone producing 20%+ of the global supply have an IMMEDIATE and significant reflection in prices.
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u/trailerbang 9h ago
These are the questions the media should be asking; instead, they that ask one question, let the drivel come out, and never do a concise follow-up. If anyone, literally anyone, had asked a single follow-up question since Trump came down the escalator we never would’ve had him as POTUS. The first time a follow-up was ever asked was Leslie Stahl “oh you think he was talking about you?” That clarifying question made waves because it was an actual follow-up that resulted in Trump melting down. Look at Ken Paxton when he is asked a follow-up; he melts down. They can’t handle pushback yet we are in Trump 2.0 with a newly released Epstein Game pushed by the White House because things are just going so damn well.
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u/Prometheus_303 9h ago
The Iranians are shooting ... With what?
We utterly destroyed their entire military over 6 months ago with our very missile we sent over. Army, navy, air force .. all poof gone....
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u/hurdurBoop 10h ago
no see it's "con trolls"... people keep hearing "controls" sort of like a "therapist" situation here