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@ThomasSowell It’s inconceivable that it took THAT debate disaster for them to “suddenly realize” he was impaired. It’s either stupidity or a dereliction of duty (or both). I hope they all lose their jobs Then they learn to code Then they lose THOSE jobs.

Jake Tapper looks back on the Trump–Biden debate.

@EnergyMix_UK @PolitlcsGlobal @thetimes …And they aren’t the Islamists

@PolitlcsGlobal @thetimes So funny. Two of his biggest clients are Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

🚨🇬🇧 NEW: Tony Blair says “we must end the left’s unholy alliance with the Islamists” [@thetimes]

@ACPMain A ton of dead Russians and Chinese told me to hate communism, fucktard

The CIA told you to hate Communism. MI6 told you to hate Communism. Israel told you to hate Communism. Epstein told you to hate Communism. The media told you to hate Communism. You can't call yourself anti-establishment while believing their lies about Communism.

@hairygrowler71 @C_3C_3 Bernie was kicked out of a COMMUNE for being too lazy

@C_3C_3 Yeah, now do trump. He’s scammed 1.4 billion in just over a year. Why are you Maga Muppets so fucking stupid, you’re slagging Bernie Sanders off for pocket change compared to what Trump has scammed you people out of over the last 10 years.

Bernie Sanders is a total fraud… 3 homes… House #1 Burlington, VT $700K-$800K House #2 Washington, DC $700K-$800K House #3 Champlain Islands, VT $700K-$800K The millionaire communist. Anyone that still falls for Bernie's act is a sucker. Bernie is the Oligarchy.

@varadmehta @KurtSchlichter Ozzy’s boneyard plays a not inconsiderable amount of Rush. He was apparently something of a fan of them I’d be inclined to agree re: eddy grant

I need verdicts on a couple of questionable SiriusXM programming choices: "Electric Avenue" by Eddy Grant on First Wave and Rush's "Working Man" on Ozzy's Boneyard. I think I'd give a thumbs down to both as inappropriate for their respective channels. But what say you?

@NYMag “Awry” like the pizzas didn’t get delivered? “Awry” like they didn’t dress for the weather? Or “awry” like one of them shot a cop?

After a protest went awry outside Prairieland Detention Center in North Texas, a group of activists was accused of having ties to antifa and supporting terrorism. Meagan Knuth, a legal expert, breaks down the case and its implications. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

@KevinCastley We just saw the entirety of china’s gen V Air Force

We don’t talk enough about just how badly the US would get COOKED if it were foolish enough to start a war with China We often hear in the news American politicians demonizing China and threatening a war over Taiwan— an island they don’t even recognize as a state… But if they were to make good on their threats and appease the reddit libcon-zionist Atlantoids who post B2 dam memes and uphold cartoon dogs on blu*sky— they would get so pulvarized it’s not even funny Let’s look at each traditional dimension of a war with China: air, land, and sea. I won’t get into AI and satellite warfare because that’s beyond obvious in favour of China. China leads AI development and was first to shoot down a satellite But in the air, the US has the most favourable matching. The US has more stealth aircraft and could do some damage. But Chinese air to air missiles are superior these days. Pakistan SMOKED India’s Air Force last year armed with Chinese missiles Once China detects the US it’s ejection time for their pilots They will have a challenge staying out of radar detection even with their stealth In sea it’s not close. US ships are technically better, but China has more ships. But more importantly, China has 200x the shipbuilding capacity of the US So once both navies have sustained a large amount of damage, China can rapidly replenish their numbers The US is down and out once they lose their ships. It will take them decades to rebuild their navy On the ground they will be unable to get very far because China has a larger army equipped with drones and goodies to throw at the US And they can’t paratroop troops from stealth fighters or bombers so they won’t be able to get far inland without getting shot down The only things the US can really do is hit their critical infrastructure and manufacturing. But if they go in that direction, China can do the same to the US with their ICBMs. The US doesn’t have a path to victory They don’t even have a path to victory against Iran. It’s beyond goofy for them to claim they could take China The People’s Liberation Army would COOOK the US 🔥

@SenDuckworth What happened to “no kings”?

Trump could have paid the TSA workers this whole time.

In an effort to take over "No Kings" protests on March 28, far-left and open-border extremists are telling their followers to occupy and shut down airports as revenge for ICE helping with TSA staffing issues.

@andre_berliano @MrJohnson041786 @Credib1eGuy @_10delta_ Their strategy of using their leadership to eat all those bombs is really paying off

@MrJohnson041786 @Credib1eGuy @_10delta_

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.

@flak_henry @PretzelLogic @_10delta_ Gotta have oil to make stuff.

If you do some research into what China is doing it - is exactly that. My whole post was a critism of MAGA thinking that going all in on OIL dominance while simultaniously reversing on renewable is studid. China's coal consumption has been set up as a backstop/ gap filler during their transition. I never suggested RN would be 100%.

@_10delta_ @monsterhunter45 From your mouth to God’s ears

@biggestofdaves1 @RiskyDave @TheRabbitHole So??? …would you rather be the red (poor) guy on the left or the one on the right?

@RiskyDave @TheRabbitHole They also don't get equally more wealthy. Wealth inequality has never been so high

Capitalism creates so there’s more for everyone. Socialism is the weaponization of greed and envy making everyone worse off.

@DTzvetkovsky @RiskyDave @TheRabbitHole Too right is not to scale, is the problem. They should both be much taller (capitalist poor not as tall as socialist rich, to be sure…but you get the idea)

@RiskyDave @TheRabbitHole 3rd and correct option is that the pie increases for everyone Innovation creates capital for everyone Bureaucracy kills it for everyone

@Truthful_ast @RioBravo2023 But will they be JEWISH space cat lasers?

Unfortunately most people including space fans, have no understanding of building infrastructure on the Moon. A bunch of small construction vehicles sent by Starship can build a mass driver in just few short years. Humans suck at comprehending future scale and it’s worsened by how long and difficult it is to build things down here on Earth due to regulations but such things do not exist in space and are driven by companies who actually need to lay down the foundation. Everyone needs to sit down and binge watch ANTHROFUTURISM on YouTube! The 2030s will be a turning point in human history.

@RexCorvinus @redsteeze If you haven’t ever done it, look up “jar jar, Sith Lord“ on YouTube. I’m totally convinced

@0596Simon @redsteeze Darth Binks (or whatever) would have been an exceptional twist. Think of the implications for Palpatine: he doesn't only value overt martial power/skill in his agents. Esp as valuing misdirection & patient subterfuge are big parts of his character.

Because everything in this movie prior to it and everything in Star Wars movies that came after it suckled. And everyone stood in line for it for 3 hours only to be entertained for 12 minutes, like a roller coaster. I'm still on your side. Star Wars fans are stupid and this is when they should've walked away and said we're done.

@Officer273 @bestofstarwar Jar jar was supposed to be the bad guy in the end

@bestofstarwar When it came out in 99 it was almost universally loved. It wasn’t until about 15 years ago when in retrospect people looked at Jar Jar and went, ehh, that was over the top.

“I genuinely can't understand how the previous generation saw this in 1999 and said "this sucks".”

@bestofstarwar That part is okay So is the bit in Ep ii where Anakin takes out the sandpeople. That was legit badass So was the fight on Mustafar. The problem was the 7 OTHER hours of suck

@redsteeze 10 minutes between the 3 of them And Jar-Jar should have been the bad guy. Lucas chickened out

That was the entire problem with the prequels. Every film was two hours of complete laughable nonsense you didn't understand with 10 minutes of Lightsaber battles at the end and EVERYONE CLAPPED

@iowahawkblog Oooooh. Catholicism is good…but beer doesn’t suck

BREAKING: IN HEAVEN THERE IS NO BEER