SplicketyLit 🇺🇸
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@PressieMoonBoy @_10delta_ They have already destroyed US bases so US is in difficult situation to reestablish the base and if US run away from war then game over for dollar...
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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.
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@AshtonForbes I scan through his guests now about every 2 weeks after listening to every single drop for several years. Now I only listen to the science and ufo shit now. The comedians with politics is fucking done for me.
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Joe Rogan's influence and views fallen off a cliff because his content has become unwatchable.
He repeatedly brings on the dumbest, most uninformed guests who no one is interested in hearing their opinions.
Dave Smith is a random nobody failed comedian who should never have been elevated to the national stage.
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SplicketyLit 🇺🇸 리트윗함
America was nearly lost to a cabal of NGOs, think tanks, foundations, specialty media organizations, compromised mainstream media organizations, quasi-governmental organizations and all other manner of other well-funded (often with taxpayer dollars) players dedicated to preserving extra-governmental controls over the average American, all outside the scope of what Americans vote for.
The men and women behind these organizations claim to want to benevolently advance public policy, when in reality their singular purpose is to maintain and grow the nefarious personal power they have achieved. Above all else they must defend their fiefdoms, the good of the nation be damned.
When reformers try to undo any part of this cabal, those reformers are inevitably smeared, libeled, slandered and threatened. The goal is to prevent them from engaging in that necessary reform by intimidating them into silence.
Food for thought.
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@0hour1 Democrats do NOTHING for THE PEOPLE. They only do for THEMSELVES!
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Exactly right! Crazy how these same people ALMOST had me on Israel, Charlie, etc etc. So glad I got my head back on straight.
Bill Mitchell@mitchellvii
BECOMING ANTI-TRUMP ONE YEAR INTO HIS SECOND TERM IS STUPID MARKETING: I keep seeing these supposedly MAGA pundits and podcasters turning against Trump only one year into a second term! I don't get it. What are they going to do for the next 3 years? Promote Democrats or something? They've painted themselves into a corner. Obviously once this Iran War is over, gas prices collapse and the economy surges Trump's popularity is going to soar! And where will these turncoats be then? It's one thing to back another horse in an election year. That's what primaries are for. BUT TRUMP IS THE PRESIDENT NOW AND WILL BE FOR THE NEXT 3 YEARS! THERE IS NO PLAN B. Anyway, the Tucker Carlson's, Megyn Kelly's, MTG's, Candace Owens' and Hodge Twins', etc turning on Trump now are just wrecking their own brands - dumb. That's my take anyway. What do you think?
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Good God…this is amazingly accurate and in my opinion, #Firethune before we lose anymore time!
DataRepublican (small r)@DataRepublican
Hello Senator Thune, Let's expose what you're really doing with "reconciliation." You announced it yesterday, eleven months after the House passed the SAVE America Act. You're not trying to pass this bill. You're trying to kill it in a way you can blame on process. Here's how we know: Reconciliation requires the Senate parliamentarian to rule that provisions are "budgetary." Citizenship verification is not budgetary. Photo ID mandates are not budgetary. The parliamentarian will gut the bill. Then you'll shrug and say "we tried." We see through you. Meanwhile, you WON'T use the tools that actually work: Rule XIX limits each senator to two speeches per legislative day. Keep the Senate in continuous session, file cloture daily, and the filibuster exhausts in ~12-20 days. You dismissed it as "complicated." Because if you tried and succeeded, you'd have to actually pass the bill. Harry Reid nuked the filibuster in 2013 when he wanted results. Mitch McConnell changed Senate rules THREE times and canceled the August recess. Chuck Schumer used reconciliation within months on a 50-50 Senate. You have 53 seats. You've changed nothing, canceled nothing, and waited eleven months. Now let's talk donors: • Goldman Sachs: $150K to you - top H-1B user • Google: $75K - lobbies against E-Verify • Meta: $72.5K - Zuckerberg's FWD[.]us pushes mass immigration • Wells Fargo: $90K - banks undocumented immigrants Same corporations sponsor Punchbowl News, where you sit for "Fly Out Days" which nobody watches except Congress staffers and K Street lobbyists who pays premium bucks for legislative intelligence. Their reporter then telegraphs to the audience the SAVE Act "will ultimately fail." Corporate money flows to you AND to the outlet that frames your inaction as inevitable. We see the loop. You called grassroots anger a "paid influencer ecosystem." YOU are the paid influencer. You take the wrong side of a 80% issue because you are indistinguishable from a K Street mouthpiece, and an ineffective one to boot who won't bend the rules to get anything passed. What we want: 1. Force a real talking filibuster. 2. Stop hiding behind process. 3. Pass the SAVE America Act. YOU will become the reason that we will have our butts kicked in midterms. Not Candace Owens, not Nick Fuentes, not anyone else. You and you alone, and all because you want to make the 200 or so viewers of Punchbowl Fly Out Days happy. You're living in a K Street information bubble, addicted to the comforts and praises of lobbyists masquerading as journalists. You mistake the steak and martini dinners you get invited to as your own constituents. You are not "moderate." The SAVE America Act has 98% support among Republicans. Name one other thing that has 98% support. You are an extreme minority who prides himself on being a calm leader, when in reality you are well in the running for the most ineffective Majority leader of all time. Prove me wrong. Do the bare modicum of effort. Not symbolic. Actual effort. Cancel the recess. Get SAVE America Act passed.
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Pass it or #firethune!
Dustin Grage@GrageDustin
People keep asking why we still need to verify legal status to vote when we could just pass photo ID. This is important, so let me walk you through it. Democrats blocked a “not for voting” indicator on the bill signed by Tim Walz that gave driver’s licenses to illegal aliens. Then Democrats passed automatic voter registration tied to drivers licenses. They’ve also admitted those same licenses can be used to vote without a challenge at the polls. Minnesota has no provisional balloting. Once an illegal vote is cast, you can’t take it back. Not a fluke. It’s by design. Photo ID alone doesn’t solve the problem. There are many purple and blue states Republicans could flip if we simply cleaned this up. Pass the SAVE America Act. @elonmusk @chiproytx @BasedMikeLee
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🚨 BIG: Rep. Tim Burchett says UFO Scientists Found DEAD After Testifying to Congress About UFO Files:
BURCHETT: "Something dark is going on. I know these scientists and researchers. They have testified. We've got to get to the bottom of it. It's just too much, too much is going on right now -- And by the way, I'm not suicidal."
Here is a list of mysterious disappearances or deaths:
- Retired Air Force Maj. Gen. William Neil McCasland—missing since Feb 27, 2026
- Aerospace/materials scientist Monica Reza vanished June 22, 2025, while hiking in Angeles National Forest
- MIT fusion physicist Nuno Loureiro—shot & killed Dec 2025 at his home.
- Caltech astrophysicist Carl Grillmair—fatally shot Feb 16, 2026, at his home.
- Novartis scientist Jason Thomas—body found in March 2026 after disappearing in December 2025.
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Hey literally said out of HIS OWN MOUTH, the people they care about most are illegal aliens..
This is the Democrat party of today. His social contract is with citizens. Not illegal aliens, but here we are…
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@LegendaryEnergy Dude…how far you have fallen. Real shame.
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Pete Hegseth is a leftover neocon with the vibe of a D list actor cosplaying a military general.
The entire Trump administration is a complete embarrassment.
Clash Report@clashreport
Hegseth on Iran: We negotiate with bombs.
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@FBIDirectorKash is clean as a whistle!!
Hans Mahncke@HansMahncke
The subpoena released this morning by Chuck Grassley in connection with the fraudulent Arctic Frost investigation is absolutely staggering. It didn’t just ask for Kash Patel’s phone records, it asked for everything he did from 2020 to 2023. Just to name a few, they requested all usernames and screen names, every address and email, complete billing and payment details including credit card and bank account numbers, every device ID, and a full log of every call, text, and voicemail showing who was contacted, when, and for how long. They also obtained all internet session data, including the exact IP addresses. So this wasn’t just about who Kash called. It was basically a complete view of his entire life, mapping his daily routines, travel, relationships, finances, and even tracking the specific hardware he used. In short, they got a full digital shadow of his life. To have come through all of this without so much as a scratch tells you just how clean he is.
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In January, the Trump FBI, with DNI Gabbard present, raided Fulton County for hundreds of thousands of ballots from the 2020 election, with a focus on mail-in ballots.
Now the Supreme Court will rule on the definition of “Election DAY”.
Fulton County, Georgia, was where we had the infamous “pipe burst”, that turned out to be an overflowed toilet, which caused the massive delay in tabulation of absentee/mail-in ballots in the wee hours of the morning, then massive batches of Biden mail-in ballots continued to trickle in, well into the following days, flipping the state from Trump to Biden. Similar delays in counting happened in other swing states around the nation, like Arizona, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin, all states which Trump was winning, flipped to Biden, long after Election Day was over, via massive arrivals of mail-in ballots to deep blue districts.
So what’s my point? If the Supreme Court rules that Election Day means that elections must be decided on Election Day, the Dems will no longer be able to utilize their mail-in ballot harvesting scheme. They will no longer be able to delay elections, so they can calculate where they need to send their harvested mail-in ballots, to then flood deep blue counties with fraudulent mail-in votes, to flip entire states and national elections. If we have same day elections, their mail-in ballot scheme doesn’t work.
This leads me to believe that the Trump FBI, along with DNI Gabbard, found legitimate proof of fraud in the 2020 election when they raided Fulton County, and now they have to shut down this scheme.
I think we, the public, are close to being shown the official evidence that 2020 was indeed stolen via fraud, which would mean the 2020 election was a continuation of the treasonous coup, launched by the Obama admin.
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SplicketyLit 🇺🇸 리트윗함
BOMBSHELL: Senator Mike Lee just proved Biden's FBI ILLEGALLY WIRETAPPED Trump's campaign manager, Susie Wiles, during a privileged call with her lawyer.
The lawyer never consented.
FBI hid the recording by marking it a "prohibited file."
Lee's verdict is SIMPLE & ALARMING: this abuse DWARFS Watergate because it weaponized official government power against the leading opposition candidate.
PURE ELECTION INTERFERENCE EXPOSED.🔥
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@AGEllison Oh ok…never mind thousands of criminal illegals running around killing ACTUAL citizens right?? Do your job!!
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BREAKING: I'm suing the federal government for access to evidence in the shootings of Renee Good, Alex Pretti, and Julio Sosa-Celis.
It's astonishing this lawsuit is even necessary, but in Minnesota, nobody is above the law.
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