Stan Brown

"To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil." -- Charles Krauthammer, 2002 I call this the Krauthammer axiom.

@PresentWitness_ @martyrmade Stupid

The issue with the war in Iran is that even if ‘we’ win, ‘we’ don’t actually get anything. There are no benefits to the average American, while he must bear all of the costs.

@paulsperry_ Horowitz is just a Democrat operative.

BREAKING: Former DOJ IG Horowitz falsely testified in 2019 that Carter Page was the "only" Trump campaign official targeted for FISA wiretapping by the FBI, when in fact newly declassified FBI 302s reveal Trump campaign official Walid Phares also was surveilled under FISA for a full year

BREAKING: New data shows that there was an entire foreign adversarial apparatus plotting how to spread Joe Kent and Tucker Carlson’s interview. With hundreds of accounts, all within seconds of each other, posting the exact same clip and caption.

@xnoesbueno JT just wishes he could get his hands on those indulgences and pay for parties in Vegas.

Either that or it freed millions from papal hierarchy, elevated the individual, paved the way for democracy. America splits from Mother England, takes the ball, runs with it. Bans religious discrimination, state religion along the way. Sets an enduring example for the world. Without those wack Puritans, for whom the Anglican Church was too Catholic, it doesn't happen. That said, the 30 Years War was a flaming shitshow, yeah. And the Puritans were no picnic. But what wasn't and who was back then?

@MichaelWatsonDC Shocking that observing authorities lie relentlessly about every single aspect of covid should make people think they are shameless liars. Weird.

Oh, and because THERE IS ALWAYS A LABOR ANGLE, the American Association of Pediatrics flip-flopped on school reopening (while Europe was successfully returning to in-person schooling) because Trump wanted to reopen schools and Randi Weingarten didn’t.

@xnoesbueno They repudiated the principle of peaceful transfer of power. That's a declaration of actual, shooting war.

Or like weaponization of govt vs political adversaries like with Biden

@TraditionSarah She hates. Her hate is what makes her a liberal. Her hate is what gives her life meaning. Her hate is what makes her feel good about herself.

A few months ago my “best friend” of nearly 30 years decided we can’t be friends because I didn’t mourn Renee Good. She claimed we had “moral differences”. Prior to that, we obviously knew we had differences in politics but just didn’t discuss politics. She ended our last conversation saying she was going to talk to her therapist and I never heard from her again. It’s her birthday today. I want to tell her I love her (even if our politics aren’t the same), I want to wish her happy birthday, I want to catch up on what’s been going on in our lives. But I can’t do that because of a crazy lady who tried to run over an ICE agent with a smile on her face and I apparently needed to side with her to be morally just. The left has taken so many people from me. I may swallow my pride and text her happy birthday, but I also feel like she really crossed boundaries and maybe our book is finally just closed for good.

@aGuyOnMyPhone @IMAO_ You lie and slander because you're evil.

@IMAO_ This is inane back patting by people who are very often wrong. Social conservatives were aggressively and ludicrously wrong about a whole host of things: women voting, cruelty towards gay people, no fault divorce, etc

I think it was Douthat who pointed out that social conservatives tend to be right, but by the time they're proven right, no one cares anymore.

@IMAO_ Not exactly.

@Th_Midwesterner Democrat shitholes don't become shitholes by accident.

Whitmer’s Legacy: Michigan slides from 18th to 40th in per capita income since 2000 themidwesterner.news/2026/03/whitme…

Durham was a coverup. A limited hangout.

If you're keeping score, this this is the third FBI agent assigned to the Mueller probe -- that we know about -- who raised concerns about the investigation being politicized.

@MorosKostas Elizabeth lies because she hates. She hates because she's evil.

Elizabeth Banks says requiring a passport as an alternative way to vote is not OK, because getting a passport costs $100 and a lot of people can't afford that. We have sued Santa Clara County because a carry permit from them costs $2,000 in total expense, 20x what she complains about in this video. We look forward to working with Elizabeth Banks to prepare a promotional video in opposition to that far worse unconstitutional burden on the Second Amendment.

@monsterhunter45 The Clintons flooded some California congressional districts with letters telling the illegal aliens they could vote and encouraging them to do so.

Nobody could possibly be so incredibly fucking stupid to believe that number. Even democrats don't believe that number. They just pretend to because they like cheating.

@libsoftiktok @UncAvl Lefties ain't happy unless they're hating.

Unhinged liberal student at @UncAvl vandalizes pro-life table after calling them "fascists." They always accuse you of what they actually are. He should be expelled and arrested

@sergiustrading @libsoftiktok @UncAvl Put him in jail for a while.

@libsoftiktok @UncAvl tbh, calling for expulsion and arrest over a vandalism incident feels extreme; maybe we should aim for dialogue instead of escalating punishments.

@BeetleJ38 @ClayTravis Suicide by cop is not ICE's problem. Batshit crazy, f'ed up commies need to stop killing themselves.

@ClayTravis Saved 1 Kill 4 immigrants gets you into heaven I guess 🤷🏾 .

An ICE agent saved a one year old’s life yesterday.

@Tim_Sheahan @ClayTravis ZERO

@ClayTravis And how many lives have they taken?

@matthewstoller No one is really this stupid. You're faking for engagement.

This Iran fiasco will likely wipe out huge amounts of American prestige and treasure, and reduce our standards of living. We will need a genuine accounting for the leaders across every institution - politics, law, business, banking, academia - who allowed it to happen.

@SourApples11 @_10delta_ Canada is fast becoming a shithole run by idiots and traitors.

@_10delta_ How does Canada play into this? They've aligned themselves more China and have enormous oil fields.

3 weeks ago I argued the US goal in Iran is to seize the global oil spigot. Venezuela in January -> Iran in February. Neutralize every supply channel outside the dollar system within 90 days. Achieve a compliant successor government and complete energy dominance. The oil thesis was the obvious layer. However, when you zoom out & view the last four years as a single sequence rather than isolated geopolitical events, the architecture of the grander US plan becomes visible. 1st was Europe, which laid the groundwork. The Ukraine conflict provided the justification for sanctions that collapsed Russian pipeline gas from 150 billion cubic meters to 40. Then Nordstream was destroyed, which rewired the entire European energy system permanently. The US went from supplying 28% of Europe's LNG in 2021 to 58% by 2025, exporting a record 111 million MTs, the 1st country in history to break 100 MT. Europe was transformed from a customer with options into a captive market now purchasing its survival in USD. 2nd was Syria. The fall of Assad severed the critical node connecting China's Belt & Road Initiative to the Mediterranean. The trilateral railway linking Iran, Iraq & Syria, designed to bypass Western maritime chokepoints, was completely destroyed. This isolated Iran geographically & cleared the path for what came next. 3rd was Venezuela. In January the US effectively took control of the world's largest heavy crude reserves. The US Gulf Coast has the most advanced refining complex on earth, specifically built for heavy sour crude. Phillips 66, Valero & the rest are now positioned to process hundreds of thousands of barrels of Venezuelan crude daily. The US captured a massive strategic reserve & solidified its position as the dominant exporter of refined petroleum products, an industry worth $110 billion in 2025 alone. Venezuela & Iran were the two major oil supply channels that existed outside the dollar system. Both produce heavy crude sold primarily to China & evaded US financial supervision. Both now being neutralized within 90 days, which leads us to.. 4th is Iran & the Middle East energy shock. Israel struck Iran's South Pars gas field, the world's largest natural gas reservoir. Iran retaliated against Qatar's Ras Laffan, the single largest LNG facility on earth, responsible for a fifth of global supply. QatarEnergy's own assessment is that 17% of export capacity is gone and recovery will take up to 5 years. The Strait of Hormuz is closed. European gas prices spiked 70%. Asian spot prices doubled. The only remaining scaled supplier? The United States. If Iran falls & a successor government is installed that the US controls or influences (the Delcy model described weeks ago) then roughly 40 to 45 million barrels per day of global production out of 103 million is effectively under US control. OPEC becomes irrelevant because the US coalition is now the marginal producer. Now add the gas dimension & it goes beyond oil. This war is solidifying the petrodollar system as it evolves into a hybrid petro/LNG-dollar. The old system was built on Saudi crude priced in USD. The new system is built on American crude plus American gas from the Gulf Coast, with no alternative supplier of comparable scale. The dependency is deeper because LNG infrastructure requires long term contracts & regasification terminals that lock buyers into supply relationships for decades. Europe & the Pacific allies (Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, etc.) cannot pivot away as there is nowhere left to pivot to. They're now locked into the US energy system. The market confirms this. DXY went from 96 to 101. Gold down ~20% from its January all time high. Bitcoin down 20% on the year. Brent above $100. European & Asian institutions are liquidating precious metals and crypto to buy dollars because they need dollars to buy the only remaining scaled energy supply. The world is selling its gold to buy American energy in American currency. The dollar is now being weaponized through energy dependency. The structural repricing is happening regardless of how the conflict resolves. But the US grand strategy goes deeper.. Artificial intelligence is a physical industry. It runs on power and chips. Data centers require massive uninterrupted baseload electricity, primarily provided by natural gas. Semiconductor fabrication requires helium & rare earths. By choking the Strait of Hormuz & crippling Middle Eastern LNG & helium production, the US is systematically degrading China's ability to power its data centers & fabricate semiconductors at scale. The US is energy self sufficient, especially with newly captured Venezuelan reserves & expanding Gulf Coast capacity running on domestic gas. On the other hand, China is import dependent & every joule it imports effectively now transits chokepoints the US Navy controls.. Iran was the Belt & Road's overland energy bypass, the corridor that allowed China to mitigate the Malacca Trap. With Iran neutralized that corridor is severed. China faces a world where its compute infrastructure competes for scraps on a depleted global LNG market, while American data centers run at full capacity on domestic energy. Russia is next in the sequence. A post-war Iran reopening under US influence competes directly with Russia for the same refineries in China & India at lower cost. Iran's production costs are lower. Russia loses its last structural advantage in heavy crude & its economic lifeline. Additionally, under the Iran war cover, Ukraine has been opportunistically destroying Russian energy infrastructure & all signs point towards Russia being at the end of the line. The message from Washington becomes very simple: we dismantled two regimes in three months, your economy is about to get crushed, sign the Ukraine deal. Then Trump sits down with Xi holding every card. Complete energy dominance. The hybrid petro/LNG-dollar fortified, Iran cleared, Russia cornered, & China facing the Malacca Trap fully closed with no remaining energy bypass. Israel & the GCC are absorbing the kinetic cost of a conflict whose primary beneficiary, counter to the mainstream narrative, is actually America (First). Qatar offline for 5 years reprices the entire global gas market in favor of US exporters for the remainder of the decade. The Gulf states face years of rebuilding. Europe faces its 2nd energy crisis in four years. Sure, the average American might face temporary moderate inflation & higher gas prices. But if you are the architect of the US empire & you view the rise of China & Chinese ASI as an existential winner takes all scenario, the collateral damage is acceptable cost. Whoever controls the energy corridors controls the monetary system. Whoever controls the monetary system & the energy supply simultaneously controls the compute infrastructure that determines which civilization builds ASI first. The US is seizing all 3.