{"id":44294,"date":"2026-04-12T10:00:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T15:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=44294"},"modified":"2026-04-12T10:00:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T15:00:52","slug":"news-that-sounds-like-a-joke-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/04\/12\/news-that-sounds-like-a-joke-8\/","title":{"rendered":"News That Sounds Like A Joke"},"content":{"rendered":"

Headline from the CNN<\/strong> <\/em>front page:<\/p>\n

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Trump says US will blockade the Strait of Hormuz<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I mean, sure, I’ll supply the context for readers-of-the-future.<\/p>\n

We’re in the midst of the US & Israel attacking Iran, bombing, missile strikes, whatever. I don’t know what historians will call this, but I call it Trump’s War.<\/em><\/p>\n

For maybe the last couple of weeks, Iran has used mines and missiles to stop shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. As a large percentage of world-wide shipping transits the Strait for shipping time reasons, including nitrogen-based fertilizer as well as oil tankers, price inflation is occurring and threatens to get worse – all attributable to the actions of the US and Israel.<\/p>\n

A few days ago a cease-fire was agreed to between Israel and the US and Iran; the latter was to stop attacking shipping, thus saving Trump’s bacon.<\/p>\n

Peace talks began in Pakistan, but now CNN<\/strong> <\/em>notes in a picture caption:<\/p>\n

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The move comes after US-Iran peace talks collapsed<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Oh, sure, I can see the ham-handed attempt to win is explained thusly:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Blockade in the strait:<\/strong> President Donald Trump said the US Navy will start preventing ships<\/a> from passing through the Strait of Hormuz, risking an even greater spike to oil and gas prices as he seeks to maximize leverage over Tehran<\/a>. The US and other countries will sweep for mines<\/a> in the vital waterway during the blockade, Trump said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And it might be right; experts on this sort of thing are far and few between, and I’m not one of them. But if I were the Iranian government, I’d just tell the missile sites to shutdown and have a cup of coffee, ‘cuz the Americans are doing your jobs for you.<\/p>\n

And this all comes off as Trump trotting behind everyone else, watching everyone ahead of him in the race take a left turn, and singing out ten seconds later,<\/p>\n

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Quick, everyone, take a left turn!<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I should mail him a big plastic red nose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Headline from the CNN front page: Trump says US will blockade the Strait of Hormuz I mean, sure, I’ll supply the context for readers-of-the-future. We’re in the midst of the US & Israel attacking Iran, bombing, missile strikes, whatever. I don’t know what historians will call this, but I call \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44295,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44294\/revisions\/44295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}