Rural Pundit

@paulxweb3 Can it outrun an A-10?

أسرع قارب حربي في العالم.. "حيدر-110" الإيراني ☫ يضرب بهدوء في هرمز بسرعة 203 كم/ساعة يتفوق على كل القوارب الحربية في العالم. مازالت ايران تمتلك تكنلوجيا ستبهر العالم

@Osint613 Clearly, a society with too much electricity.

Iran's state Broadcasting Research Center says 66% of people consider Iran the winner of the war. - Tasnim News Serious delusion in the pro regime camp in Iran

@TJKashin My house is in the middle of my pasture. Our "Yard" is however big we choose to keep mowed. Maybe 1.5 acres. 60" zero turn will do it in about 30 minutes.

Is 4 acres too much yard?

@oelma__ Wouldn't know ...... does she sing?

Can you think of ONE..

@PramilaJayapal 76 million American families (Tax Units) paid zero federal taxes. Musk gets 1 vote. Tesla alone supports approximately 500,000 indirect jobs. Why should people that dont contribute get more votes than those who do?

Elon Musk's net worth: $805 billion. That's more than the bottom 53% of Americans combined. His effective tax rate: 3.3%. A truck driver pays 8.4%. Tax the rich.

@Geopolitik_2030 Have you ever researched how many times Larry Johnson has been proven an idiot and a liar? Its pretty easy to do, unless you just want to believe his lies. Thats how he makes his living you know ...... lying to people that want to be lied to.

SE CONFIRMA QUE: El analista retirado de la CIA, LARRY JONHSON reveló que DONALD TRUMP en una reunión en la CASA BLANCA,buscó acceder a los códigos nucleares para atacar a IRÁN, pero que el general DAN CAINE se levantó de su asiento y le respondió que NO, dado que EEUU no corría ningún peligro existencial, TRUMP enfureció y armó un enorme escándalo…DAN CAINE es general de la fuerza aérea y presidente del estado mayor conjunto.

Because its impractical for most people. Its supporters want 100% of the people to pay for something only 1% would use. I dont think most people have any problem with private investors wasting their money on it, but public money and land confiscations is where the problems arise.

Why do you think there is so much resistance to high speed rail in the US?

@SolidKroket Cool

Menciona UNA cosa que Estados Unidos le ha dado al mundo

@Maga4liberty What about genocide, slavery, and cannibalism? And yes they committed rape. Including sodomizing male captives. All before a white man ever sat foot on the continent. What are your sources that they did not?

What would you say to her?

You might want to check your numbers. 25% of Iran's GDP is directly or indirectly related to crude oil and gas exports, with the energy sector also contributing over 70% of government revenue. Also, if all power plants were taken offline, Iran's GDP would suffer a near-instantaneous, catastrophic collapse, effectively dropping to near zero for any sector reliant on electricity. Modern economies are fundamentally reliant on electricity to function; removing this power means that manufacturing, finance, logistics, and digital services would halt immediately. Ukraine also has western sugar daddies, who's going to help Iran, if Iran doesn't have any crude or money to trade?

If the U.S. blockade severs all Iranian oil exports, Iran would lose ~$45 billion in annual revenue, or roughly 10% of its GDP. Ukraine has lost 20% of its GDP in the war with Russia — and it’s still fighting. @defpriorities

@kylegriffin1 Has he ever been wrong about them?

Trump just called Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson a "Low IQ person." He has a long history of calling women of color dumb or 'low IQ'.

@TheMoneyApe This talking stage could last years in Europe ........ and thats by design. They plan to run the clock out by talking about the problem until it goes away. Talking somehow makes them feel still relevant.

🚨 EUROPE PUSHES ON HORMUZ 🚨 SPAIN & DENMARK BACK KEEPING STRAIT OPEN. CALL FOR SECURE, TOLL-FREE NAVIGATION. ALSO URGE LIMITS ON IRAN’S NUCLEAR PROGRAM. EUROPE STEPPING UP AMID GLOBAL SHIPPING RISKS. IRAN MAY OPEN HORMUZ IF TRUMP... Show more

Well I didn't take Trigonometry in high school, but I did have a job that required me to setup a total station instrument in the middle of a large project and lay out all building corners and piers from one spot, using angles and distance. Proving you dont need to take a class in Trig, you just not to know how to use a calculator that knows how to do trig.

I’m 42 years old and I am yet to ever use the Pythagorean theory in a real life setting… Another reason why financial education should be taught in schools instead of trigonometry

Well, from what I understand, 90% of Iran's Power Plants run on Natural gas. And the main trunkline that feeds all the plants starts at a single Gas plant near the Pars South gas field, conveniently located near the coast. So it wouldn't take years to shut down all electricity production, it could be done in a single night. ..... and then not only would they not have any electricity to keep making missiles and drones, put it takes power to make the parts to fix the problems. ..... all those people ...... sitting in the dark hot summer nights ...... food has spoiled, fuel pumps dont work ...... nothing to do but set around and blame the regime for bringing their quality of life down to Houthi levels.

Iran has 300,000 bridges, around 400–500 power plants, 2,000 to 5,000 substations, 80,000 transformers, 130,000 km of high-voltage lines, and 1.3 million km of network. It would take years for an enemy to attack and destroy these assets, but within a few days, Iran would send the entire Middle East back 50 years.

@Mach_Tactics The days of your weapon manufacturing plants on the other side of the planet being out of the enemy's range are over. How exactly do you win a war after your cities are vaporized?

All the manufacturing is done in China, not The West. China has the ability to design and manufacture weapons, at scale, while The West does not. If there is World War 3, China will win.

Kinder? ...... I dont know about that. There was more direct human contact ...... which if you were mouthy led to kinetic outcomes ...... so, people were kinda more polite than they are post-anonymous social media. We didnt talk politics so you didn't realize there were so many libtards around.

Question for those alive during pre-internet or nascent internet days. Were people actually kinder to each other overall before social media? I've always wondered if that was actually the case or just rose-tinted nostalgia talking considering how every era has social problems.

@Osint613 Which side has the guns and are willing to use them against the other side.

Here’s the dynamic when it comes to the nuclear negotiations, as I see it: Inside Iran, there isn’t one unified position. It’s a split. For the IRGC, the nuclear program, ballistic missiles, and weapons stockpiles are not bargaining chips. They see them as the core of regime survival. Give that up, and you lose deterrence, leverage, and ultimately control. From their perspective, disarmament is not a deal, it’s surrender. And if the outcome is losing power either way, their logic shifts: fight, escalate, and if necessary embrace martyrdom over capitulation. On the other side, parts of the political leadership appear more pragmatic. They understand the economic and military pressure and are at least open to exploring a deal to preserve what they can. That’s the deadlock. One side sees compromise as survival. The other sees it as the end.

Union Blockade (1861–1865): Also known as the "Anaconda Plan," this was the largest naval undertaking in US history until World War I. The U.S. Department of State notes it was intended to strangle the Confederate economy by cutting off exports of cotton and imports of war materials. While blockade runners frequently slipped through, the operation successfully choked the Southern economy. Spanish-American War (1898): The Naval History and Heritage Command details how the US Navy established blockades of northern Cuba and Puerto Rico to isolate Spanish forces during the conflict. World War II Submarine Campaign (1941–1945): The US Navy conducted a "brutally effective" submarine blockade against Japan, targeting merchant shipping and oil supplies from the Dutch East Indies. This campaign crippled the Japanese war economy and drastically reduced civilian caloric intake. Korean War Blockade (1950–1953): US and UN naval forces maintained a blockade of the North Korean coast. The Blockade of Wonsan was the longest naval blockade in modern history, lasting 861 days. Cuban Missile Crisis "Quarantine" (1962): To avoid the legal implications of an act of war (blockade), President John F. Kennedy termed the naval barrier a "quarantine". This strategic move was used to prevent Soviet ships from delivering nuclear missile components to Cuba. Vietnam War (1965–1975): Through operations like Market Time and Game Warden, the US and South Vietnamese navies blockaded the North Vietnamese coast to prevent the sea-based smuggling of supplies to Viet Cong forces. How can you have a war without a blockade?

I hope those cheering for the blockade are thinking about the implications of this new precedent for the South China Sea and Taiwan. For a long time, the US has stood for freedom of navigation in international waters. That policy has served our security and prosperity well.

1812 ...... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppositio…. That's when members of the opposition party first realized that no matter what the party in power did, they were duty bound to oppose it, or else there was no way they would ever get back in power themselves. The roots of our current divisiveness were written into our Constitution. Unity cannot survive an election cycle. Imagine if all Democrats acted like John Fetterman. Open minded and not afraid to state that the President, a member of the opposing party, was doing a good job. It would be chaos inside the opposition party. Representative Democracy is a blueprint for obstructing the agenda of whoever won the last election.

What was the moment our politics started to go off the rails?

@visionergeo Oh shit ..... the Mahdi must have returned from the well.

🇮🇷🇺🇸 Sayyed Mohammad Marandi, a member of Iran’s negotiating team, wrote on X: “Everyone must immediately leave the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait. Also, all sailors on ships in the Persian Gulf must prepare to abandon their vessels. This is especially urgent for ships near the Strait of Hormuz, which will be the first to be destroyed. Time is running out.”