Now Let's Get This Strait or Welcome to the S.E.P.

In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, writer Douglas Adams posits ways to make things invisible.

Most involved complicated machinations involving mirrors and light distortions to make something invisible to the eye.

But what about making something invisible to the mind?

It starts with taking the thing you want to make invisible and doing something weird to it, such as painting a mountain bright pink.

Then you slap an "S.E.P." around it.  An "S.E.P." is a low grade telepathic field that makes something "somebody else's problem." Out of mind, out of sight, if you will.

I apply the term "S.E.P." to my job for things that come into our department that are not things our department actually does. And I'm proud to say the term is catching on.

In a team meeting,  a co-worker was discussing some requests we received that we simply do not and cannot do.  She remarked, "Like David says, that's an S.E.P."  

Now declaring something an S.E.P. is not to be taken lightly. We have to be absolutely sure it's something we are not set up to do, not trained to do, not supposed to do. And even then, we have a responsibility to communicate it to the correct parties who are set up, trained and supposed to do the thing. 

I consider calling something an S.E.P. as a near sacred trust. We can't declare a thing as an S.E.P. simply because we don't want to do it.  

Like clearing the Strait of Hormuz.

We're, what, 5 weeks into our war with Iran.  We've been bombing the shit out of Iran and they have responded by jamming up the Strait of Hormuz, thus blocking 20% of the world's petroleum products. 

Everbody predicted that any military action taken against Iran would cause Iran to block the Strait of Hormuz. 

Either Li'l Donnie didn't know that was something Iran could do or he was so starstruck by his own war propaganda that he didn't conceive of Iran being able to do such a thing after we bombed the shit out of them.  

So Iran blocks the Strait of Hormuz and now my goddam gas is $4 a fucking gallon.😠😠😠

Which is just the beginning of the pain. 😢

Higher prices at the pump means it costs for to transport shit so stuff at stores gets more expensive.

Natural gas is used to make fertilizer and farmers already fucked over by Trump's tariffs are now paying more for fertilizer.

So Trump hit up NATO and even China to help unclog the Strait of Hormuz.

The response was a deafening indifference.

Donald Trump has spent years denigrating and insulting member nations of NATO as well as China and he did not bother to consult them before he launched his war against Iran. 

So who would be surprised that these countries would be less than eager to clean up a mess they didn't make? 

Well, Trump seemed perplexed by their response but then, he's stupid.  

Last week, der Führer posted this proclamation on his mildew rotted Truth Social.

Trump is trying to make the Strait of Hormuz an S.E.P.   

Well you dumb fuck but we can still SEE the Strait is jammed up and NO, it is NOT somebody else's problem.

YOU started the war with Iran that caused Iran to retaliate (as everyone but you knew they would) to close off the Strait of Hormuz.

YOU! BROKE! IT!  And you can't make someone else buy it.

Well, I suppose we're buying it in the form of fucking four 😠 goddam dollars 😠😠a fucking gallon, you goddam 😠😠😠 motherfucker! 😠😠😠😠

Am I angry about that? Why, yes, yes I am. 

So after trying to make the Strait of Hormuz an S.E.P. by schlepping it off on to Europe, Trump pulled out his box of crayons and scrawled out this message:  

"Remember when I gave Iran ten days to MAKE A DEAL or OPEN UP THE HORMUZ STRAIT. Time is running out - 48 hours before all Hell will reign down on them."

Did he mean to say "reign" instead of "rain"? 

So bombing the shit out of Iran made Iran close the Strait of Hormuz.

So even more bombing more of the shit out of Iran will make Iran OPEN the Strait of Hormuz?

The beatings will continue until moral improves. 

Then on Easter Sunday, der Führer doubled down on his threats.

Aren't you glad we didn't elect a WOMAN as President who would be all crazy, hysterical and emotional? 

It's good that we have a MAN who is cool, calm and professional.  

Why, yes, I am being fuckin' sarcastic, you crazy bastards! 

Where was I? Oh yeah...

This whole damn war with Iran has been one continual cycle of contradictions and uncertainty. 

One minute Li'l Donnie is chastising Europe that it's THEIR problem to get the Strait of Hormuz open.

The next, Dumpster Trumpster* is making even BIGGER threats of action by OUR military to force open the Strait. 

*"Dumpster Trumpster is a new nickname I'm taking out for a spin. I haven't quite made up my mind if it will be a regular parrt of my repetoire.  

I really wish I could consider Donald Trump an S.E.P.  But my wallet won't let me do that.  😢