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[[[ So now it’s "Economic D-Day" against Iran to try to force them to make a deal. It seems Trump never went to war to win, as all he’s done is gone to war to try to make deals that make him look good, while all his supposed deals have done is fail.

 

The hell with Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the hell with their worldwide terrorist actions, the hell with the Iranian freedom fighters being executed by the day, the hell with the Iranian people who are still begging for help, all Trump cares about is making deals with terrorists.

 

And now to add insult to injury any country who aids Iran in any economic way… I guess that encompasses food and medical aid as Trump did use the words  "economic lifeline"… will face (as per Trump) severe economic consequences by the US. and isolation on the world stage.

Our president has no idea what the hell he’s doing, and maybe it’s time that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio rein this man in, because the way things are going he could well start a real World War III. My opinion, and I stand by it! ]]]

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Field Trip to Mamdani's Socialist Supermarket Goes Hilariously Wrong

Teri Christoph /' RedState

 

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's plan to open five government-controlled grocery stores – one for each borough! – is going about as well as you'd expect a taxpayer-funded socialist supermarket experiment would go. Not great.

On Wednesday, city officials took a group of prospective vendors to tour the site of the Harlem store, dressing them up in hardhats and high-visibility vests. Everyone was ready for a muddy-boots tour of the construction site, hyped to be wowed by this socialist utopia coming to life. 

They were greeted by an empty parking lot with no construction whatsoever. Even worse, there was trash blowing across the vacant lot and nary a sign to suggest Mamdani’s socialist supermarket was arriving anytime soon.

Big Apple officials took prospective bidders on a pathetic tour Wednesday of a trash-strewn empty lot in East Harlem where Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s planned $30 million city-owned grocery store is supposed to become reality.  

Read more, see Xs and videos here.

Iran says Trump’s ‘economic D-Day’ will fail as Strait of Hormuz shipping traffic remains unchanged

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said President Donald Trump’s “economic D-Day” against Iran will fail, dismissing it as a distraction from America’s growing national debt. Trump said Wednesday that the economic campaign he plans to wage against Iran would be the most “crushing” operation of its kind ever attempted.

Covered by: James Cirrone and Emma Bussey / FoxNews 

 

WHAT TO KNOW

• President Donald Trump urged U.S. allies and countries around the world Wednesday to cut off Iran economically, saying there would be consequences for anyone who "provides a lifeline."

• Iran largely dismissed Trump's economic threat, with Kazem Gharibabadi, Iran's deputy foreign minister for legal and international affairs, saying this pivot comes after the U.S. military operation "didn't yield results."

• As of Wednesday, there are no talks scheduled with Iran, according to Trump.

• Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remains unchanged from Wednesday, according to shipping data.

• Traffic has slowed further at the other major transit chokepoint in the region, the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, which connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden.

• Amid sustained disruptions to oil exports in the Middle East, Brent crude is now hovering at $94 per barrel, a 2.5% jump from Wednesday morning. Read live updates here.