David Holliday

@HollidayDB Yeah, and they were 100% militarily destroyed as of weeks ago and the Strait is open yet they attack anything that passes without their authorization and we keep blowing up military targets 🤔. It's almost like what the pundits and politicians are telling you is 100% bullshit.

$4.51 billion that they didn't have access to before which will now be used to reconstitute their weapons programs. So...much...winning...

You’re right that I missed that $4.51 billion got through. Your post implies it was a blunder on the part of the United States. I don’t agree. I think it was a calculated risk. One that will have little impact on the war going forward. I think you’re missing the bigger point. They were given an opportunity. They blew it. Not unexpectedly. Trump reportedly said it was a trap. Only in the sense of the regime being Coyote and the United States being Roadrunner. They aren’t smart. They are extremist. They are predicable. The United States needed to demonstrate to the World they were choosing sophistry over honesty. That they really weren’t interested in peace. The regime was happy to oblige. Now the United States has taken the gloves off. The regime has no credibility. The Gulf State nations are joining the fight. $4.51 billion seems like a small investment to demonstrate unequivocally that the regime never wanted peace. Never intended to honor its commitments. Is never going to give up its objective to acquire nuclear weapons.

The revocation of the waiver, that was in effect for the 1 month period we're talking about here, doesn't fully go into effect for 3 more days and the blockade doesn't go into effect for several hours yet. So back to your original claim that the US Treasury and Bessent can stop them from getting the cash that isn't based in reality. It's a product of listening to your favorite pundits who say everything is magnificent.

The US Treasury and Secretary Bessent can't do anything about it. The US waived ALL sanctions on Iranian oil since shortly after the MoU was signed until the 10th of July. The waiver did not include any provisions relating to the funds of the sales. This made Iran selling their oil just as legal as anything on the shelf at your local Walmart. The only restriction included in the waiver were no sales to North Korea, Cuba and Russian occupied Ukraine.

They’re still screwed. The waiver was revoked. The blockade reestablished. They are still highly restricted. $4.51 billion sitting in the bank when they are pretty much limited to trading with China isn’t going to save their ass. Especially with them getting their ass kicked every night. They definitely pulled a “fast one” on the United States. So many countries just dying to be in their place.

LOL... With the waiver of the sanctions, there's nothing that Bessent or anyone else in the US gov can do. They could've included a mechanism in the sanctions waiver to control the funds, but they didn't, so that cash went right into Iranian bank accounts. More efficient than flying pallets of it over there, for sure.

The MOU and ceasefire were an opportunity given to the Iranian Islamic regime to show the World they weren’t bent on obtaining nuclear weapons and set on destruction. The target audience wasn’t so much the United States as the Gulf States and the rest of the World. It was a direct counter to the two-faced approach to “diplomacy” carried out by the regime. That regime chose poorly is not a surprise. However, since they chose that path it cleared the way for the United States to do what it is doing now. Unleash hell on them. Not only that but the regime’s neighbors are joining in. People keep saying Trump is a businessman. But they aren’t internalizing it. What do business people do? They think about the future. They invest in it. Their solutions are long term. Example, how do you solve poverty? Democrat/liberal, you give people money. Republican/conservative, you create job opportunities. Short term versus long term. Example two, how do you “fix” Iran? Democrat/liberal, you give the regime money. Republican/conservative, you promote regime change. Trump is taking the path with the highest probability of long term success. There are no guarantees. But there are opportunities. Whether he will succeed or not is unknown. But the ROI, for even a partial success, will be huge.

I'm starting to think Trump agreed to the cease fire just so it wouldn't ruin his birthday party for America.

Spot the CO2-induced tropical cyclone crisis

@scifiengineer You have opinions -- I have data. Bye for now. In the meantime, please take the time to study data versus dogma.

800,000 years of ice core data and the Arctic never hit 38°C. Solar cycles were running the entire time. This isn't solar, it's us.

Okay. As a weather nerd, this is super cool! I plotted this morning's 06z GFS forecast precipitation over the CONUS for the next five days and animated it. See that white elliptically shaped area over the Northern Plains where little rain is expected to fall? That's where the high-pressure ridge is situated, which is suppressing convection. Ain't weather fun?! 😄

90 years ago today, more than 26% of the U.S. land area reached 100°F (37.8°C). At least one location in 33 states reached the triple-digit mark. They were: 🌡️ 118°F (47.8°C) in CA 🌡️ 115°F (46.1°C) in AZ 🌡️114°F (45.5°C) in WI 🌡️113°F (45.0°C) in IL, IN, and KY 🌡️112°F (44.4°C) in IA, MI, and MO 🌡️111°F (43.9°C) in ND 🌡️110°F (43.3°C) in AR, MN, and NV 🌡️109°F (42.8°C) in NE and SD 🌡️108°F (42.2°C) in KS 🌡️107°F (41.7°C) in TN 🌡️106°F (41.1°C) in MS, OH, and WV 🌡️104°F (40.0°C) in TX 🌡️103°F (39.4°C) in AL, NY, SC, and UT 🌡️102°F (38.9°C) in GA and PA 🌡️101°F (38.3°C) in LA and MD 🌡️100°F (37.8°C) in FL, ID, NM, and WY The 112° reading in Mio and Stanwood, Michigan, and 114° reading in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin were both new statewide high temperature records that remain in the books to this day. Obviously, this event was just weather, but if this were to occur today, climastrologists would be 100% certain that this was “virtually impossible” without so-called “fossil fuel pollution.”

Only 2 summers since 1958 have seen temperatures in the high Arctic failed to reach the mean: 2013 and 2014. This summer so far is blowing them away and is forecast to remain below normal for the next 46 days

CO2 makes up just 0.04% of Earth's atmosphere, just four one-hundredths of one percent. It's been that way for decades and it's projected to stay that way for the foreseeable future. Yet this trace gas is blamed for driving every drought, flood and storm on the planet. Even if CO2 doubled, it would still be less than one-tenth of one percent of the air around us. For context, nitrogen and oxygen make up 99% of the atmosphere, while water vapor, the dominant greenhouse gas, sits at around 2%. Without CO2, plants couldn't grow, crops would fail and all life would collapse. CO2 is essential, not catastrophic. The more of it the better.

@ConstitustionX Please fix your post. Unless you are just going for click-bait. These are B-52s.

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@MikeConsti31151 @ccdeditor @TheChiefNerd Palantir f’ed up moving to Colorado, otherwise known as California lite, but recently corrected the error (at least in part) moving it’s Headquarters to Florida.

@TheChiefNerd It is Gavin's California that turned its back.

Gavin Newsom Says Elon Musk is ‘Turning His Back’ on California “Regulation in California created the conditions that allowed him to take the risk to become the multi-billionaire, maybe trillionaire, that he’s become … Now he’s turning his back on the state that promoted him.”

I posted that was the case a while back. Explained how the wording was purposely favorable to Iran. How the United States offered incentives and opportunity. How the United States coordinated the response with the Gulf States. It was an opportunity but they F’ed it up. It wasn’t surprising. They are extremist to the core. They had no intention to ever give up attempting to acquire nuclear weapons. The boldly lie because they think God favors them. They’re dumb as rocks. They’re just too stupid to realize it.

Trump: Iran MOU was built to test.

Antarctica is colder and more icebound today than at any point in the past 5,000 years. Research by Hall (2023) found that West Antarctica cooled by more than 1.8C between 1999 and 2018. Satellite data confirm continent-wide cooling, as do multiple glacier studies. Piccini (2024) found the Collins Glacier was 1km farther back 6,000 years ago and began re-advancing about 1,000 years ago, which is clear evidence of cooling since the Medieval Warm Period. Even the biology of the continent documents this shift. A millennium ago, the Ross Sea hosted around 200,000 elephant seals as far south as 78 degrees. Today, those colonies are gone. They disappeared as the region froze over: too cold and ice-choked for breeding or foraging. The Hall paper concludes: "The last few centuries, including the present, represent the coldest, iciest conditions in the post-glacial period." Modern Antarctica is not warming, it's freezing.

Floods are nothing new. This is not “climate change,” it’s weather and poor city planning. Much like your usual fare, this post is just another emotional, evidence-free rant. Unlike you, I prefer backing my claims up with evidence. So, let’s take a look at that evidence to see what it reveals. A recent study published in AGU’s Water Research Journal, Xiao et al. (2025), found that there has been no statistically significant trend in major flooding events across China since 1963. They state, 🗨️ “𝘞𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘺𝘻𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘷𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘶𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 [in China] 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 1963 𝘵𝘰 2022. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘷𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺. 𝘖𝘯 𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘦, 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘹𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘪𝘹 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘭𝘶𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 (𝘥𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 ≥3 𝘥𝘢𝘺𝘴, 𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘢 ≥95,000 𝘬𝘮²) 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳. 𝙒𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙚 𝙖 𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙧𝙚𝙜𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙨𝙪𝙜𝙜𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙨 𝙖 𝙨𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚 𝘪𝘯 𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 (0.2 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘦), 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘯-𝘒𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙙 𝙞𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙨𝙞𝙜𝙣𝙞𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙣𝙩, 𝙨𝙪𝙜𝙜𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙝𝙞𝙜𝙝 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙣𝙪𝙖𝙡 𝙫𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙗𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦.” 🔗 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/20… The biggest increase in flooding counts, intensity, affected area, and duration have been in southeastern China, which just so happens to be where the most urbanization has been. And a lot of that is smaller, localized flash flooding that the study didn’t encompass. 🔗 drroyspencer.com/2023/11/exampl… Flash flooding in urban areas has indeed increased, but that’s primarily because the landscape that was once covered in absorbent grassland has been replaced by impermeable surfaces like concrete and asphalt. 🔗 resinbondedaggregates.com/blog/uk-floodi… I’ll put this science in emojis to help you grasp it better: ⬆️ 🏗️ 🏢 & 🛣️ + 🔁 🌧️ = ⬆️ 🌊 Why? 🤔 ⬆️ 🏢 & 🛣️ = ⬇️🌱 = ⬇️ 💦 🧽

@ConstitustionX I would love to see Trump come down just as hard on RINO imposter @LeaderJohnThune.

🚨 BREAKING: PRESIDENT TRUMP EXPLODES — Exposes the ULTIMATE BETRAYAL in Our Ranks! Democrats in disguise are INFILTRATING the MAGA Movement like wolves in sheep’s clothing! Just NOW, Trump goes FULL BALLISTIC on Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) — the so-called “moderate” who took a pardon from 47 after Biden’s vicious lawfare… then stabbed us ALL in the back by running for reelection AS A DEMOCRAT! “I am fighting him for his seat because his views are WEAK — nothing like the powerful Judge Tano Tijerina who’s STRONG on the BORDER, slashing taxes, and rebuilding our Military!” Trump drops the hammer: Cuellar and his wife were headed to prison for 20 YEARS thanks to Radical Left weaponization over the Southern Border invasion. Trump showed mercy with a pardon… and this infiltrator spits in our face? No more Mr. Nice Guy. These RINO imposters and Dem sleeper agents are poisoning MAGA from within! We MUST purge the fakes. America First or get OUT! Who else is hiding their true colors? Comment below and TAG a patriot! #MAGA #Trump2028 #DrainTheSwamp #NoMoreTraitors #AmericaFirst

Greenland is posting record snow and ice gains in the middle of its melt season. DMI data shows surface mass in July 2026 spiking well beyond the 1981-2010 mean. Mid-July is when Greenland should be losing several gigatons a day. Instead, the ice sheet is adding mass with the July 12 map showing gains across broad areas. The season's accumulated surface mass is sitting around 580 gigatons, well above the long-term mean with barely any net decline since the June peak. It's July 2026 and we're seeing unprecedented Greenland snow and ice gains in data back to 1981 -- but the media is ignoring it.