Follow the Money: How the War in Iran Deters China’s Economic Ambitions

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— The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) May 11, 2026

In a leading indicator that escaped notice when MirrorIndy reported it last week, Dem turnout in Indianapolis’s Marion County friggin exploded for Hoosier State’s primary election: Overall turnout was at 15.8 percent, the highest since 2010, and 80 percent of that was from registered Dems up from about 60 percent in 2022 and 2018 – the Blue Wave year that saw the Ds flip 39 House seats,

“Last night is proof that Marion County Democrats are fired up and ready to fight,” said Myla Eldridge, chair of the Marion County Democratic Party, in an emailed statement. “The frustration Democrats feel right now is real and voters showed that yesterday. We are going to channel that frustration into organizing and turning out Indy Democrats in full force this November.”

In a total act of election interference, Reuters reports that the Philippines House of Representatives on Monday voted 255 to 63 to impeach psychopath Vice President Sara Duterte – daughter of Hague-imprisoned former dictator Rodrigo Duterte – on articles of misuse of public funds, amassing unexplained wealth, and threats against President Ferdinand “BongBong” Marcos Jr, the first ‌lady and the ​former house speaker, putting her presidential ambitions in serious jeopardy.

It’s not clear when the trial will begin but the defendant will likely put on a hell of a show.

A violent "teen takeover" resulted in 22 arrests, mostly of individuals under the age of 18, in Tampa, Florida.

Police seized two guns during the operation. pic.twitter.com/DGNiLV0aon

— Fox News (@FoxNews) May 11, 2026

“Iran has been playing games with the United States, and the rest of the World, for 47 years (DELAY, DELAY, DELAY!), and then finally hit ‘pay dirt’ when Barack Hussein Obama became President. He was not only good to them, he was great, actually going to their side, jettisoning Israel, and all other Allies, and giving Iran a major and very powerful new lease on life. Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and 1.7 Billion Dollars in green cash, flown into Tehran, was handed to them on a silver platter.”

“Every Bank in DC, Virginia, and Maryland was emptied out – It was so much money that when it arrived, the Iranian Thugs had no idea what to do with it. They had never seen money like this, and never will again. It was taken off the plane in suitcases and satchels, and the Iranians couldn’t believe their luck. They finally found the greatest SUCKER of them all, in the form of a weak and stupid American President. He was a disaster as our ‘Leader,’ but not as bad as Sleepy Joe Biden!”

“For 47 years the Iranians have been ‘tapping’ us along, keeping us waiting, killing our people with their roadside bombs, destroying protests, and recently wiping out 42,000 innocent, unarmed protestors, and laughing at our now GREAT AGAIN Country. They will be laughing no longer!” posted convicted felon President Trump on Sunday, evidently tired of being laughed at so cruelly.

The every bank in DC/Virginia/Maryland lie is interesting. Wonder why he doesn’t just go bigger on that one and say that Fort Knox and the Federal Reserve Bank were emptied out too.

As part of their plan to turn things around for the Republican Party’s prospects in this November’s midterms amid headwinds wrought by soaring gas prices, convicted felon President Trump’s regime plans to release 70 hours of then-former Vice President Joe Biden’s 2017 convos with his ghostwriter acquired by special counsel Robert Hur’s 2023 documents probe, Politico reports.

Biden plans to fight the release but holy shit this is even dumber than it first appears. If the logic is to make Biden look old and doddering and take things out of context then what the hell is audio from nearly a decade ago, long before actually being president degraded him going to do?

Jackass Secretary of Energy Chris Wright on Sunday was made by NBC’s Kristen Welker to watch a March clip of himself predicting sub-$3/gallon gas by the summer on the exact same show, leading him to sheepishly walk back his ability to predict anything. “Look, I can’t predict the price of energy in the short or even medium term, but what we’re doing is ending a 47 year conflict,” Wright then said when asked if Americans should be prepared for $5+ a gallon.

Remember that old MAGA yarn about “Soros-paid rallygoers”? Well because every accusation is a confession, Iowa Starting Line reports that a text blast reading “Gentlemen, Jake Swanson here. I wanted to invite you to join me in seeing Vice President JD Vance this afternoon in Des Moines. I do some work for an ethanol company and so if you’re able to join, I will give you $100, and for anyone that you recruit, an additional $25. No limit on referrals, so if someone recruits a group of 20 to show up, that’s $500,” was sent out to an unspecified number of contacts on an unspecified list in his network prior to the Tuesday afternoon rally starring the hillbilly novelist-turned-Numero Dos.

The fact that he was paying them $100 each to show up doesn’t exactly scream that they were friends or at least warm-enough acquaintances who would do Jakey a solid. Nor does it scream that the rally would be well-attended by regular Iowans who wanted to see their beloved Veep.

Let a million conspiracy theories about it actually being all AI-generated video or some shit go forth and prosper as a Utah judge on Friday ruled that “alleged” Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson’s murder trial will be televised, Fox News reports in anticipation of the ratings.

The shitdicks on the Virginia state Supreme Court on Friday overturned the will of the Old Dominion State’s voters and quashed last month’s redistricting referendum win, reverting the state to the prior maps. This, coupled with the US Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act puts Dems roughly 14 seats in the hole in this year’s redistricting wars, just weeks after the score was roughly even though in all likelihood still nowhere near enough to prevent the House from flipping.

The other upshot is that one of the dickhead justices on the 4-3 majority’s term is up in January and the Dem majority state legislature will appoint a replacement. This ain’t over by a long shot.

In what few had anticipated to be an actual groundbreaking, mindblowing disclosure effort, the Trump Regime on Friday dropped a batch of 162 previously classified UFO-related materials from the military and the FBI, a lot of it subject to heavy redactions and honestly pretty boring.

A 2001 State Department cable reading “On October 28-29, there was an incident alleged by the Georgian Foreign Ministry that Russian aircraft had violated Georgian airspace and bombed areas of the Kodori Gorge. Russians denied any of the claims and said that it could have been UFOs. Cable authors note that Russians typically engage in the ‘bold lie’ when they wish to conceal actions,” is how banal this gets. Next they’ll tell us Jimmy Carter saw a UFO once in the 1960s.

FBI probing Senate Intel Democrats for possible classified leaks, spurred by NSA criminal referral https://t.co/vIYj9Cd573

— John Solomon (@jsolomonReports) May 8, 2026

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour party took an absolute beating in Thursday’s local elections, losing control of nine councils and at least 265 seats as the far right Reform UK party flipped friggin 405 seats, the balance of the win coming from the Tories, Sky News reports.

Former FBI Director James Comey is seeking to skip having to drive down to Greenville, North Carolina for his next court appearance Monday in the incredibly effing stupid “8647” Trump “threat” seashells case, the AP reports, adding that embarrassed federal prosecutors agree with him.

It was too late in the day for grandpa to be handling questions from ABC’s Rachel Scott, who the old man called “that bitch” to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, who laughed on Thursday.

“US military just carried out strikes on Iran’s Qeshm Port and Bandar Abbas: Senior US official tells me, but this is NOT a restarting of the war,” tweeted Fox News’s Jen Griffin, verbatim.

I guess Luke Skywalker was not just the biological son of Darth Vader, but took on the depth of Vader's evil heart. Hollywood produces some sick, sick people. This level of hate is demonic. https://t.co/69MgtdJGsE

— Ambassador Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) May 7, 2026

Brazilian President Luiz Lula on Thursday left the White House more than three hours after an unexplained and unannounced hiatus of a scheduled 11:15 AM joint media availability in the Oval Office with convicted felon President Trump, News Nation reports via clip guy Aaron Rupar.

Shorty after that the fat bastard’s Truth Social account posted “Just concluded my meeting with Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the very dynamic President of Brazil. We discussed many topics, including Trade and, specifically, Tariffs. The meeting went very well. Our Representatives are scheduled to get together to discuss certain key elements. Additional meetings will be scheduled over the coming months, as necessary,” the correct spelling and punctuation raising more questions than answers.

Especially the “á” in “Inácio.” That there is one hell of a tell that something is up. Doesn’t necessarily mean anything actually serious – but if it is then you can bet it will leak sooner rather than later.

Ruh-roh. Reuters reports that a Chinese media outlet says an unnamed oil tanker owned by an unnamed Chinese energy concern came under fire in the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday. Further details were unavailable but that was not such a smart move by the Revolutionary Guard Corps.