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@JCalvin8230 @JohnFromCranber Needs exponential ramp up. No deal in 3 days hit 5 targets hard. Another 3 days , no deal, 25 targets then 125..... rinse and repeat .

@JohnFromCranber I'm a bit with you on this one. There's such a thing as waiting around too long. 2 or 3 days without action from Iran, break something. Give them another 2 or 3 days and do it again. There seem to be plenty of IRGC resources sitting around that could be targets.

Trump: No Need to Rush Anything With Iran Frankly, I would rather see action rather than talk I would like to see oil prices and inflation back down And I am sick and tired of Iran poking us in the eye on the world stage, and making it look like we're desperate for some sort of exit strategy it's way past time to end this - unleash hell! newsmax.com/newsfront/dona…

@DavidCraft59571 @EK_2C4M @CynicalPublius David: It's a continuing head-scratcher to me that those obsessed with the idea that the "Epstein Files" if fully disclosed would take down Trump ignore the complete absence of an such damning material being leaked out by Obama/Biden .

@EK_2C4M @CynicalPublius You conveniently forget that the Biden administration held those files for 4 years and did nothing with them. They hated Trump and those around him yet said nothing. If there was anything they could have used against him it would have been front page news non-stop. But, nothing.

REMINDER: The worst scandal in U.S. history is the Trump/Russia Collusion Hoax. This was literally a coup attempt, executed by a sitting incumbent President (to block his successor) and the losing Presidential candidate (to overthrow the man who defeated her in a fair election). WORST SCANDAL IN U.S. HISTORY. And we are all so used to the crazy things the Democrats try to do that we lose sight of the sheer, awful magnitude of this scandal.

@mtmanjaro10 So much for NO KINGS

We just don’t have the fighters like LBJ was. If Abigail Spanberger had any spine she would sign the map to law and say “fuck the courts”

@LDonivan @blkprofcct Every individual voter who is black gets to vote for whoever "they" want.

@blkprofcct It's wild how they genuinely don't understand the idea that black voters choosing their own representative is the point, not that a black person gets elected.

To be clear, it’s about Black voters ability to elect a candidate THEY WANT (not just a Black person). In D9 (2024) Cohen overwhelmingly won in Shelby County (Memphis) which is 54.2% Black; Bergmann won Tipton County (only 18.5% Black). So, no, this doesn’t empower Black voters.

@libsoftiktok Attention Todd Blanche

SOMALI FRAUDSTER FACES ZERO JAILTIME Said Awil Ibrahim pleaded guilty to carrying out massive Medicaid fraud, and will receive NO JAILTIME after taking a plea deal from MN Attorney General Keith Ellison. Ibrahim will instead be given 5 years probation with a requirement to help track a missing fugitive co-defendant. Minnesota officials are IN on the fraud

@lawler4ny Democrats thought they could win the gerrymander arms race because they figured that Red state in-kind responses would be stymied by the Federal courts based on Voting Rights Act grounds. Louisiana v. Callais just flipped that buffet table over.

Actually, you did start it. New York did mid-decade redistricting last cycle and tried again this cycle. This is your fourth attempt at partisan gerrymandering since becoming governor.

@OliLondonTV Love the idea of two leftist females, whose together sum total contribution to the advancement of humanity is exactly 0 bitching in full agreement that the rich "white dudes" are an existential problem.

Gwyneth Paltrow, who is with $200 million, complains about “super rich white dudes.” “Now all that matters is these kind of super rich white dudes who are breaking rules, setting rules- seemingly like not caring so much about the downstream impact on everything that they say.”

@Krusher_MS @JoshWilliamsOH By your logic drawing voting district lines to favor a racial "minority" group dilutes the voting power of citizens who are of another race. How about just sticking to the principle that racial discrimination is wrong.

What's nonsense is your dumb ass completely ignoring the fact that they intentionally would cut up majority minority areas to dilute their voting power so they would have less power in choosing their representatives. Anyone too stupid to see that shouldn't be in any form of government.

I'm a black Republican who currently represents a majority-white district in the Ohio State House and is running to represent a majority-white district in Congress. The idea that black Americans need special districts carved out just for them is complete nonsense. It's a violation of the law and blatantly unconstitutional. Glad the Supreme Court made the right decision.

@Polit1cswithM @shanaka86 "... its war of attrition strategy." LOL

@shanaka86 you missed a lot of points but it's OK. Iran doesn't need to confirm your analysis. The less you know about Iran's strategy, the more effective Iran is in its war of attrition strategy.

JUST IN: Iran just pulled a thirty-year-old empty supertanker out of retirement and began towing it toward Kharg Island. She is moving so slowly that a voyage that should take a day and a half is taking four days. Her name is NASHA. IMO 9079107. Built 1996. A two-million-barrel very large crude carrier that has been anchored empty off Kharg for years. TankerTrackers confirmed her reactivation yesterday. Gulf News, Iran International, and Fox News all picked it up within hours. The reason she is moving at all is that Iran is running out of places to put the oil. Kharg Island handles roughly ninety percent of Iran’s crude exports. Its onshore tanks had about thirteen million barrels of spare capacity when the US blockade began on April 13. Net inflow since has been running at one million to one point one million barrels per day because exports have collapsed to single digits of vessels while upstream production continues. The math is mechanical. Roughly twelve days of spare capacity. The calendar says that window closes this week. NASHA is not a strategy. NASHA is what you do when you have run out of strategy. A two-million-barrel floating storage vessel buys Iran approximately forty-eight hours of continued upstream production. After that, either the wells get shut in or the crude goes somewhere else. The parallel options being pursued, ship-to-ship transfers in the Riau Archipelago, AIS-dark transits, sanctioned VLCCs returning home through the blockade line, are not enough. Lloyd’s List Intelligence has tracked roughly twenty-six Iran-linked vessels evading since April 13. That cannot absorb a million barrels a day. The wells will shut in. The question is which wells, for how long, and whether they come back. The Asmari and Bangestan carbonate formations that sit under most of Iran’s giant southern fields are high-permeability, strong-water-drive systems. The Society of Petroleum Engineers literature on this specific reservoir class is unambiguous. Remove continuous pressure support for a prolonged shut-in and four damage mechanisms activate simultaneously: water coning upward through the fracture network, fines migration into pore throats, formation compaction under increased effective stress, and clay swelling under altered salinity and pH. The damage is not theoretical. It is documented. And it is measured in months to years of recoverable production capacity, not days. Maleki and Gordon estimate three hundred to five hundred thousand barrels per day of permanent capacity loss if the current shut-in trajectory completes. That is a directional estimate, not a lab measurement, but the direction is not in dispute. NASHA is the archaeological signature of the clock. When a country with the world’s third-largest oil reserves reactivates a thirty-year-old retired tanker to float on top of its main export terminal and buy forty-eight hours of time, the institutional systems designed to absorb shocks have already failed. The insurance market, the shadow fleet, the diplomatic channels, and the reservoir physics are all converging on the same conclusion at different speeds, and NASHA is the one that shows up on satellite. The market is pricing a ceasefire. The Pentagon is pricing six months of mine clearance. Iran just pulled a corpse out of the Persian Gulf and asked it to buy two days. That is not how a reversible crisis looks. That is how a regime tells you, operationally, that it has run out of options between the blockade and the shut-in. The reservoir does not negotiate. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

@shanaka86 It would be a real shame if NASHA sunk before any oil could be loaded on to her.

@MikeSigman4 @weijia What Trump accomplished may not be a perfect or permanent solution to the problem. But it sure beats hell out of shipping the mullahs pallets of cash and granting visas to hundreds if not thousand of Iranian regime affiliates and family.

@weijia The problem isn't Trump ... it's Iran and how untrustworthy they are. But watch all the lefties smearing Trump because they hate Trump and America.

NEWS President Trump tells me: -No ground troops will be required to remove enriched uranium from Iran -Iran has agreed to stop backing all proxy groups like Hezbollah and Hamas -I asked if Iran has agreed to stop enriching uranium *forever.” He said, “They’ve agreed to everything.” cbsnews.com/news/trump-say…

@LedenUnor @DerekPederson3 @OsborneInk Well to answer your question:" Very Few" , except perhaps in some feminist dystopian fantasy world in which most men are roaming predators who go about "assaulting" women and "abusing children. And why did you leave out torturing animals ?

@DerekPederson3 @OsborneInk Nope. No conspiracy theories. How many high profile people, including politicians, have been shielded by a tacit acceptance of assaulting women and abusing children ? You’re naive unfortunately.

Young women are substantially more politically radicalized than young men in all the survey data that I've seen but this almost never gets acknowledged.

@btothebaker @overton_news Not possible

@overton_news Ya but we just created an entire generation of people who hate us. More than they did.

Douglas Murray just shattered the “failure” narrative with receipts after Bill Maher declared the Iran operation a disaster and called for the U.S. to “cut and run!” MAHER: “We did it and it didn’t work.” “Now what? Do we cut and run or do we stay the course?” “I hope Donald Trump is the abandoner he’s always been.” “We always cut and run!” “We did it in Vietnam, we did it in Iraq, we did it to the Kurds, we did it in Afghanistan, we did it in Beirut.” “That’s us. No lifeguard on duty.” “If you get in with us, we are going to fck you, and that’s Donald Trump. He’s an ashole but he’s our a*shole.” Murray pushed back with a blunt assessment of what he says actually happened on the ground: MURRAY: “I disagree because I think once started, you have to finish this.” “I don’t agree that it’s failed.” “It’s been an incredibly successful operation in lots of ways.” “Supreme leader dead, Iranian air force destroyed, nuclear sites attacked again.” “The Navy of Iranian Revolutionary government at the bottom of the ocean.” “These are not small things.” “It’s not the case that the Iranian Revolutionary government has come out of this well.” “I know that some people are wanting to say that after four to six weeks of war, this is some kind of loss for America.” “It isn’t.” “It’s an amazing strategic success but everyone wants to know what the out is.”

@Kurtbelgard @wretchardthecat The only way to find out if you are spending enough on defense is to find out you are not spending enough . And then its too late.

@wretchardthecat People forget that a single penny less than is needed for defense is a very bad bargain and can make the funding of all other wants impossible. Because one doesn't know the future, one can never know which penny that is cut will be the one needed.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine and Iran's interdiction of the Straits of Hormuz and the Bab al Mandeb and the resulting decline in 'fossil fuel' supply have started a chain reaction in the UK, Ireland, Western Europe. 1) Created fuel shortages that windmills and solar panels could not offset. 2) Pushed governments, who already taxing their workforce to the max to support welfare, migrants and woke to subsidize energy costs forced to increase it again 3) Created demands for more drilling and nuclear power that are anathema to the Left 4) Exposed the inability of Woke governments to provide any meaningful energy or international security because they have already spent everything on welfare. Some politicians, like Starmer, are frantically trying to restore the status quo ante without any means to do it. It is like a whole house of cards has seen the props knocked out.

@MMTLabour @WmWAustin @SenWarren Yes ! Disempower politicians.

@WmWAustin @SenWarren You don't see the risks to democracy in people who are so rich they can buy politicians?

Jeff Bezos has $222 billion. If he paid my wealth tax this year, we could fund insulin in America for everyone who needs it plus free school lunch for every kid in Texas—and have plenty of money left over. And Bezos would still have $215 billion dollars to spare.

@StrangerThnRedz @WilliamThibeau Not accurate. In addition to gravity bombs B52s can deploy JDAM (Joint Direct Attack Munition) and standoff missiles like the AGM-86 ALCM.

@WilliamThibeau In all of this not a mention of the fact all the B-52s do is carry expensive cruise missiles which the US is fast running out of stocks

B-52s overland describe the ceiling of what airpower can achieve. Here is what is happening beneath it. Two developments from the past 72 hours, one that validates the air campaign and one that complicates its trajectory. Iran International reported that President Pezeshkian warned the IRGC that Iran's economy faces total collapse within three to four weeks without a ceasefire. He demanded executive authority over war decisions be returned to the civilian government. IRGC Commander Vahidi rejected both. Israeli Channel 14 reported Pezeshkian told Vahidi he wanted to negotiate directly with Washington. Vahidi's response: "That's exactly why you can't be involved. You'll give up everything for a deal." Pezeshkian reportedly told associates afterward that he feels like a hostage reading scripts the IRGC hands him. This is the fracture a sustainable air campaign produces. B-52s loitering at low cost-per-sortie create compounding pressure that Iran's civilian leadership now measures in weeks. The IRGC sees escalation as leverage. Pezeshkian sees economic extinction. Oil revenue collapsed to roughly 5% of the national budget, down from 32% the prior year. Taxes increased over 60%. Food prices climbed at least 50%. ATMs across major cities are running out of cash. Now the complication. On March 27, Iran struck Prince Sultan Air Base with six ballistic missiles and 29 armed drones. Photos geolocated by CNN and OSINT analysts show E-3G Sentry serial 81-0005 destroyed on an isolated taxiway, tail section severed, its 30-foot rotating radar dome separated from the airframe and on the ground. The base had dispersed high-value aircraft across isolated taxiways to complicate targeting. The strike found the E-3 anyway, with damage concentrated on the rotodome, the aircraft's most critical and visually distinctive component. That could be chance, or it could be the result of more precise targeting infrastructure. The U.S. had 16 E-3s at the start of the year. Now 15. The replacement, the E-7 Wedgetail, will not arrive until the 2030s. This is not a loss the force can absorb on a wartime timeline. The E-3 detects and tracks Iranian drone and missile launches at range, providing the early warning that enables intercepts. Losing ISR capacity while the threat environment expands, Houthis entering the war, PMF deploying inside Iran, continued launches across the Gulf, degrades the defensive architecture at precisely the moment the campaign demands more of it. The B-52 flies unchallenged because Iran's air defenses are gone. The force on the ground, the tankers, the AWACS, the basing infrastructure enabling those sorties, remains vulnerable to cheap, dispersed systems Iran continues to employ with apparent precision. Air supremacy protects platforms in the air. It does not protect the logistics chain on the surface. The Pezeshkian-Vahidi rift confirms the air campaign is creating conditions for a diplomatic resolution. The E-3 strike confirms Iran retains capacity to impose costs against the coalition's highest-value ground assets. The question is whether the diplomatic window the B-52 opened arrives before accumulated damage to ISR platforms and interceptor stockpiles narrows the operational margin. The clock runs in both directions.

@TJH19571 @RealSLokhova "Mentioned" well that pretty much wraps it up.

@RealSLokhova Lies. More and more MAGA lies endeavouring to obscure the fact that Trump is mentioned 1,000s of times in the Epstein Files.

I am not kidding Hillary promised Shifty the CIA DIRECTOR job Schiff got angry that President Trump won and he Shifty didn’t become the CIA Director so he started plotting against the President He started off by leaking fake but classified information that President Trump’s National Security Advisor had an affair with a Russian spy, with me falsely portrayed as a Russian spy. That started the Mueller Witchhunt When that failed Shifty moved on to the fake Ukraine Impeachment conspiring with CIA operative Eric Ciaramella and the fat, treasonous twins, the Vindmans Shifty was involved in the Classified Documents Hoax together with Brennan’s former deputy Arvil Haines Shifty has been plotting against the President for 10 years, to this day

@bfhermann @MaryBowdenMD 1. Why are we importing almost 7k foreign medical graduates every year and not expanding the seat capacity of US medical schools ? Plenty of very qualified US college grads get turned away from medicine every year.

@MaryBowdenMD Rage-bait Mary doesn’t mention that the US students not matching are trying to get into ultra-competitive specialities while the foreign grads generally match into the least competitive specialties that wouldn’t fill otherwise.

1367 US medical students did not get a US residency spot. 6733 international, non-US medical students got a US residency spot.

@LitElectro @bitchuneedsoap You need to struggle more. From the US Dept. of Labor website: "The intent of the H-1B provisions is to help employers who cannot otherwise obtain needed business skills and abilities from the U.S. workforce."

@bitchuneedsoap Are the H1B workers being paid less or exploited? If not i struggle to see the issue with Disney basically saying “we think they can do this better”. On them if it does or doesn’t work out that way

In 2015, Disney called 250 IT workers into a meeting. They thought they were getting bonuses. Disney told them they were being replaced by workers flown in from India on H-1B visas, and if they didn't spend the next 90 days training those replacements, they'd lose their severance. Leo Perrero testified before Congress about it. Appeared on 60 Minutes. "Someone was flown in from another country to sit at my same desk and take over what I was doing. It was the most humiliating thing I've ever gone through in my life." Two workers sued Disney, HCL, and Cognizant for colluding to illegally displace American workers. Courts dismissed it. Disney Magic.

@IDoDeclare83 @NoahPollak Yes! Will we ever return to the normalcy of Bill and Hillary Clinton ?

@NoahPollak Donald Trump and Kash Patel aren't normal. What is happening in the USA is not normal. Hanging out with them, accepting invites from them, is not normal. People keep trying to normalize Trump, even through his illegal and immoral conduct and behavior. So no, its not normal.

This is a special genre of leftist fake journalism in which some normal people do something completely normal that commie journos don't like, and instead of just being honest and saying (in this case) "It really triggers us to see Americans happy about a win for our country, because we're unhappy people and we hate our country" they make up a tedious self-licking ice cream cone narrative in which the same people "reporting" that hockey players are "facing questions" are the ones asking the questions in the first place.