Rubio Says ‘Epic Fury’ Is Over, as Flare-Ups in Strait of Hormuz Tests Fragile Ceasefire

https://time.com/article/2026/05/05/rubio-iran-epic-fury-over-strait-hormuz/

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tirateimas@lemmy.pt · 66 pts · 115d (16 replies)

So, all this disruption for things to stay the same in Iran. With the addition of the strait being closed, soaring prices, supply chains being messed up, among many other side effects.

Can we now call it by its real name: Epic Failure?

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 27 pts · 115d (2 replies)

Things are not the same. The oil price is much higher and the US's reputation is even further in the shitter.

newton@feddit.online · 2 pts · 115d

Yep ,when shit hits the fan .....

Malyca@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 113d

I fear that was the plan

resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe · 6 pts · 114d (6 replies)

The US just made a tollbooth for Iran, so not ex ante status quo.

ayyy@sh.itjust.works · -10 pts · 114d (5 replies)

This is an English language forum, you can just say “so not like it was before”.

deft@lemmy.wtf · 12 pts · 114d

I'll be honest. His comment made more sense to read than yours genuinely had to pause to understand what the fuck you were saying and why

resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe · 3 pts · 114d (3 replies)

Res ipsa loquitur.

DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 3 pts · 114d (2 replies)

https://youtu.be/6gSj1G4Vf0w

Obligatory Latin lesson

resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe · 2 pts · 114d (1 reply)

In vino veritas. 🍷

Sub rosa.

DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 2 pts · 114d

Egregius!

DiarrheaSommelier@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 114d

Not to mention they are for sure going to finish making their nukes now.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 114d

epstein distraction failure.

Wrufieotnak@feddit.org · 3 pts · 114d

Nah I like Operation Epstein Files much better. Better conveys why they did it and also what everybody should focus on.

Spacehooks@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 115d

I hope history books label it such.

a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 114d

*Epstein Failure

mrdown@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 113d

Operation trust me bro

DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 48 pts · 115d (13 replies)

So, we lost?

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 58 pts · 115d (3 replies)

We lost the minute Trump was elected.

varnia@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 15 pts · 115d (1 reply)

Fixed: You lost the minute you let this Pedo get elected, again. I mean seriously: twice.

Akasazh@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 115d

The previous comment could be read as: they lost when he was elected the first time. Which it's even more apt.

JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 114d

God damnit! His opponent had a funny laugh! Quit making fun of us!

TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca · 14 pts · 115d (3 replies)

That implies you're done losing

DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 2 pts · 115d (2 replies)

Not really.

I mean, it's like a football season.

When someone says 'we lost' it's referring to that week.

TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca · 3 pts · 115d (1 reply)

This week ain't over yet

DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 2 pts · 115d

Now you're making my point for me

DiarrheaSommelier@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 114d (2 replies)

Just like every other war the USA has been involved in for the past 80 years.

laz@pawb.social · 2 pts · 114d (1 reply)

Technically the last war that America was i n was world war 2. Everything since then hasn't been a war officially.

DiarrheaSommelier@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 114d

True. They've managed to out-spend the entire rest of the world militarily while not fighting any "wars" and still lose at every sneaky evil thing they send their military to do, despite murdering 60+ innocent civilians for every soldier they lose.

So maxed out spending, 60:1 K/D ratio, no wars, still lost every fight.

HeartyOfGlass@piefed.social · 5 pts · 115d

Again

newton@feddit.online · 5 pts · 115d

And .....Again

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 44 pts · 115d (1 reply)

They're trying to cheat the 60-days limit for use of force without congressional authorization. Nothing else has changed.

Master167@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 114d

“If we change the name of the operation, no one can accuse us of bypassing Congress.”

-Some Heritage Foundation analyst

Monument@piefed.world · 37 pts · 115d
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 22 pts · 115d (2 replies)

‘Epic Failure’

resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe · 14 pts · 114d (1 reply)

Epstein Failure.

Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 114d

[golf clap]

ProfThadBach@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 115d (2 replies)

TACO

Flower@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 115d (1 reply)

NACHO

Not A Chance Hormuz Opens

ProfThadBach@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 114d

LOL!!! 😆

MrNesser@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 115d

Over with a huff and a puff and high oil prices

HubertManne@piefed.social · 14 pts · 114d

now starts operation legal loophole!

Weirdmusic@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 115d

Hahahaha Mwahahaheeahahaha hahahaha

Greyghoster@aussie.zone · 14 pts · 114d (2 replies)

But is Operation Epstein Fury?

elucubra@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 113d (1 reply)

Cuba is next, remember.

Greyghoster@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 113d

Operation Epoc Fury?

rayyy@piefed.social · 9 pts · 115d

Of course. The old orange pedophile is going to star a new and improved war for the next 60 days.

stumu415@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 114d (5 replies)

Does anyone actually knows what the objective was?

jontree255@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 114d (3 replies)

The objective(s):

  • Open the Straight of Hormuz and revert it to its previous state of “open”
  • Kill the ayatollah at the request of Israel
  • Give Israel cover to expand their genocide to Lebanon
  • Get the US media to stop talking about Epstein and the fact the president is a pedophile
  • Get the US media to stop talking about how ICE is terrorizing and killing Americans and Immigrants
  • Boost Trumps poll numbers by stating a war in the Middle East that no one wanted and that he campaigned against.
  • Raise gas prices so oil companies can make a ton of money while the average citizen eats the cost.
  • Give Pete Hegseth a hard on from all the murder he gets to order
  • Make Trump feel like a big strong “war president”
kubok@fedia.io · 2 pts · 114d (1 reply)
  • "Which Epstein files?"
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 114d

all of them.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 114d

also to distract from getting replaced by TODD blanche as the AG.

redsand@infosec.pub · 9 pts · 114d

For Israel to annex southern Lebanon and to distract from the Epstein files.

They're probably planning to take all of Lebanon. See the map of greater Israel from Epstein's home

finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 115d (1 reply)

Unrelated, but that photo looks like they're in some evangelical church waving their hands in the air, praising Jesus, while Oral Hobbits up there works them into a frenzy.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 114d

looks more like trump doing the wierd accordian hands that rubio picked up

Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 115d

Is a medal to be struck for this war?

Yes, for the Iranians.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 115d

The next Dem admin should bring meaning back to these names:

  • Operation Kegsbreath
  • Operation TACO
  • Operation Dumb Blondie
  • Operation Concepts of a Plan
Crackhappy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 115d

I watched his liecast sponsored by lies, and I all I heard was "lie, lie! lie! lie? LIE! lIE, Lie. Comforting Lie for idiots Like some more. You believe ourlies right?"

ptolemai@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 114d
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Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 114d (1 reply)

rubio, your chances of a presidency is still non-existent, as is a another senate run. you should really quit while ahead.

SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 113d

... He's ahead?