Shane
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Shane
@BurnTheStinkbug
The Hudson valley
Hudson Valley, New York Katılım Ağustos 2015
36 Takip Edilen159 Takipçiler
@GasBuddyGuy When gas prices go high enough, Trump will lose his entire base.
MTG and Joe Kent were just the beginning.
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from touting $1.85 gas just weeks ago to now seeing $150+ crude (some blends)… the narrative shift is doing a lot of work here.
Acyn@Acyn
Trump on High Gas Prices: I expected worse. I really thought oil prices would go much higher.
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@RussellDutton @WillErazo440 @cryptivaaa @sentdefender Iran is not Iraq. It's not a dictatorship centered on a single despotic leader. It is a deeply entrenched system with command and control split among numerous leadership structures independent of each other to prevent this sort of thing. You sound like the early days of Vietnam.
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@BurnTheStinkbug @WillErazo440 @cryptivaaa @sentdefender I think if they know the Americans are coming they will scarper just like Iraqi forces did
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Pentagon officials have made detailed preparations for deploying U.S. ground forces into Iran, with senior military commanders having submitted specific requests aimed at preparing for such an option if such a decision is made by President Trump, multiple sources briefed on the discussions told CBS News.
Preparations include how to handle the possible detention of Iranian soldiers and paramilitary operatives, such as where Iranian prisoners-of-war would be sent, two sources said, with the U.S. Army’s Immediate Response Force (IRF) under the 82nd Airborne Division and roughly 5,000 Marines from 11th and 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit deploying to the Middle East.
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@WillErazo440 @RussellDutton @cryptivaaa @sentdefender Yeah, Iran has 3 times as many people as Ukraine and a much more defensible terrain.
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@BurnTheStinkbug @RussellDutton @cryptivaaa @sentdefender Defending their homeland, especially 90 million people
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@RussellDutton @WillErazo440 @cryptivaaa @sentdefender Russia had similar thoughts in Ukraine, and they had a land border to surge troops across.
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@WillErazo440 @BurnTheStinkbug @cryptivaaa @sentdefender Just my opinion chief. 🫡
There is too riding on this for it to fail.
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@RussellDutton @WillErazo440 @cryptivaaa @sentdefender That would require a ground invasion of hundreds of thousands of troops and turn into a quagmire.
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@WillErazo440 @BurnTheStinkbug @cryptivaaa @sentdefender The Iranian regime will be gone long before then
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@RussellDutton @cryptivaaa @sentdefender Oh I'm not blaming the commanders, they had to follow the orders of the commander in chief. I am blaming one man. Reports are he shrugged off the generals concerns as overblown only to have them come true immediately.
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Mate there is no way you deploy the amount of forces they have deployed in that region and were for weeks with no plan. Do me a favour. Are you saying that senior commanders in the pentagon aren’t aware of the targets they have to hit and the results expected? They aren’t going to tell us what the plan is are they? I can only imagine the goal is regime change for the good of the Middle East
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@RussellDutton @cryptivaaa @sentdefender Nah they just didn't have any plans. He thought the regime would fall if they killed the Ayatollah and are panicking that it didn't and they closed the strait of Hormuz.
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To overthrow the regime with help from the population.
I cannot imagine for the life of me that the President has thrown all this resource at this with the ambition of leaving this regime in charge and certainly Israel won’t stop till they are gone now. They will never have a better chance
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NEWS: Pentagon officials have made detailed preparations for deploying U.S. ground forces into Iran, multiple sources told @CBSNews. @ellee_watson @JimLaPorta and me
cbsnews.com/news/trump-adm…
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@DransomGSM @Huskerblue4 @ForecasterEnten It happened during the height of the campaign and they kept him pretty under wraps after it because he had a serious speech impediment while recovering, though he did do a debate after the stroke.
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@Huskerblue4 @ForecasterEnten didn't all this happen prior to the election?
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John Fetterman's had a 108 pt drop in his net approval with PA Dems since 2023.
His net rating is -40 pt net approval with them.
His net popularity with his own party is worse than all senators who lost a primary this century.
There's no historical analog to his unpopularity.
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@tomas_s242 And it took literal brain damage for him to get there.
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when people complain about bernie and progs supporting fetterman in 2022 it makes no sense because how tf were they supposed to know that THIS guy would turn into trumps favorite democrat in four years
John Fetterman@JohnFetterman
I am running to be the 51st 🔵 vote on transformative policies. Not to sell out Pennsylvanians or be petty. If you trust me with your vote in this Primary, I can promise you that.
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@no_itsmyturn I mean do they even pay these things out? Like I know crime stoppers rarely if ever pays out their rewards for criminals within the US.
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Larijani and Khatib are now dead.
Does that qualify for $20 million?
Rewards for Justice@RFJ_USA
Got information on these Iranian terrorist leaders? Send us a tip. It could make you eligible for a reward and relocation.
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@NickSzabo4 @citrinowicz Yeah but for say Saudi Arabia those rules are going to involve expelling all American troops and paying massive reparations at a minimum, if they would even entertain the idea.
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@citrinowicz Anybody who is not Iran's enemy actually has a quite easy way to get their ships through Hormuz.
Have your ships follow Iran's rules.
Hormuz is open. You just have to play by the new rules of the new sheriff.
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News flash from the future:
Even a blockade of Kharg Island would not force Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
This (yet again) reflects a persistent misunderstanding of Iran’s strategic doctrine. For Tehran, control over the Strait is not just economic leverage—it is a core component of regime survival and deterrence.
Under pressure, Iran is more likely to escalate than concede.
Reopening the Strait would likely require one of two extreme options: either regime change, or a large-scale military campaign to seize and secure the waterway. Such an operation would take months and still wouldn’t prevent Iran from disrupting traffic through asymmetric means.
There is no silver bullet to the Iran problem. The regime will hold onto Hormuz the same way it defends every pillar of its survival—with persistence and escalation.
If reopening the Strait is the strategic objective, policymakers should recognize the cost: a prolonged, high-intensity conflict, and likely retaliation against Gulf energy infrastructure.
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Clash Report@clashreport
BIG: Trump is considering seizing or blockading Iran’s Kharg Island to force reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, but no decision yet. “He wants Hormuz open… if he has to take Kharg Island, that’s going to happen.” Plan may require more strikes + troops before any ground move. Risks are high, with doubts it would work: “We need about a month to weaken the Iranians… then take the island.” Source: Axios
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@Paulosophy5150 @clashreport The article is paywalled but this screenshot says oil and gas so I imagine it is not crude.
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@clashreport And who is going to refine that for Cuba?
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Two Russian ships carrying oil and gas are on their way to Cuba, despite US pressure and sanctions under Trump.
The shipments come as Cuba faces a severe energy crisis, highlighted by a recent nationwide blackout and months without fuel deliveries.
The extra supply could help ease shortages that have disrupted hospitals, transport, and daily life.
Source: FT
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@GeorgeWHerbert @HeerJeet They said extensive damage. I don't think it was just a storage tank.
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@HeerJeet It really depends on what was hit and what else burns before they have it put out. A facility can be hit with little lasting damage or capacity limitations. A single storage tank for example isn’t that significant.
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It's hard to even process how catastrophic this is.
Javier Blas@JavierBlas
BREAKING: Qatar says that its Ras Laffan industrial city, home to a massive LNG plan, was hit by Iranian missiles. "Emergency response teams were deployed immediately to contain the resulting fires, as extensive damage has been caused." Note the wording: "extensive damage"
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@RantusMaximus @Kramburglar @HeerJeet Who wanted war with Russia? Biden and the rest of the world pleaded with Putin not to invade Ukraine.
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@Kramburglar @HeerJeet But all of you wanted war with Russia right?
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@DenisonBarbs @Acyn I mean I knew it and I'm just some guy who spends too much time on Twitter.
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@Acyn Did we expect someone with no law enforcement experience to answer this? Mullin has experience running his families plumbing business. He is grossly unqualified to be the DHS.
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Gallego: What is the primary mission of Homeland Security investigations?
Mullin: Every agency—we have specific missions that we are targeted to look at our aspect of protecting the homeland. Different directions have different paths—we all need to be the same boat and rowing in the same direction.
Gallego: HSI specializes in dealing with human trafficking, human smuggling….
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@lakeboating2021 @Jonesieman What? Why don't I go up against the illegally and now expelled AUSA for New Jersey? It is not an elected position. I am not a resident of New Jersey, or a member of the bar. I still seem more competent than her though. Are you retarded?
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@BurnTheStinkbug @Jonesieman If you think she's incompetent why don't you go up against her?
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BREAKING: In a wild New Jersey hearing, a judge fiercely questioned a prosecutor about whether Alina Habba still had some operating role in the U.S. attorney's office, ejected the office's head of appeals from court and ordered its 3 leaders to testify nytimes.com/2026/03/17/nyr…
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@JetSetGent @PatRyanUC @atrupar @PeteSessions Until the suicide drones start raining down on their heads. We cannot even protect our established bases in Kuwait. How do you expect to protect them on an island 16 miles off Iran's coast?
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@PatRyanUC @atrupar @PeteSessions Um, he is not wrong. Taking and holding an isolated island is nothing like trying to control population centers
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WTF @PeteSessions?!
Tell that to the men & women bravely risking their lives for our country as we speak.
Tell it to the families of those who have already died.
Giving up every ounce of dignity to spout BS like this on TV doesn’t make you look tough.
It's pathetic.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Rep. Pete Sessions: "I believe that what these 2,500 Marines would be is to secure the island. The island is not, in my opinion, boots on the ground in combat circumstances. It's not like inside Iran in the cities."
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