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@itsbighonkin Gross icky trees

Took a fat bump of Bradford pear

Allergies have my sinuses acting like I was just railing lines for 10 hours this is uncouth

@DrJStrategy This is a Qanon “trust the plan” (there isn’t one) post for people who read good. Qanon was a conspiracy among other things- of trumps competence, people trying to explain inept flailing and emotional impulses as a strategy. Inept puddle of fail is a the best interpretation.

Food for thought. Trump, Hormuz and the End of the Free Ride For half a century, Western strategists have known that the Strait of Hormuz is the acute point where energy, sea power and political will intersect. That knowledge is not in dispute. What is new in this war with Iran is that the United States, under Donald Trump, has chosen not to rush to “solve” the problem. In Hegelian terms, he is refusing an easy synthesis in order to force the underlying contradiction to the surface. The old thesis was simple: the US guarantees open sea lanes in the Gulf, and everyone else structures their economies and politics around that free insurance. Europe and the UK embraced ambitious green policies, ran down hard‑power capabilities and lectured Washington on multilateral virtue, secure in the assumption that American carriers would always appear off Hormuz. The political class behaved as if the American security guarantee were a law of nature, not a contingent choice. Their conduct today is closer to Chamberlain than Churchill: temporising, issuing statements, hoping the storm will pass without a fundamental reordering of their responsibilities. Trump’s antithesis is to withhold the automatic guarantee at the moment of maximum stress. Militarily, the US can break Iran’s residual ability to contest the Strait; that is not the binding constraint. The point is to delay that act. By allowing a closure or semi‑closure to bite, Trump ensures that the immediate pain is concentrated in exactly the jurisdictions that have most conspicuously free‑ridden on US power: the EU and the UK. Their industries, consumers and energy‑transition assumptions are exposed. In that context, his reported blunt message to European and British leaders, you need the oil out of the Strait more than we do; why don’t you go and take it? Is not a throwaway line. It is the verbalisation of the antithesis. It openly reverses the traditional presumption that America will carry the burden while its allies emote from the sidelines. In this dialectic, the prize is not simply the reopening of a chokepoint. The prize is a reordered system in which the United States effectively arbitrages and controls the global flow of oil. A world in which US‑aligned production in the Americas plus a discretionary capability to secure,or not secure, Hormuz places Washington at the centre of the hydrocarbon chessboard. For that strategic end, a rapid restoration of the old status quo would be counterproductive. A quick, surgical “fix” of Hormuz would short‑circuit the dialectic. If Trump rapidly crushed Iran’s remaining coastal capabilities, swept the mines and escorted tankers back through the Strait, Europe and the UK would heave a sigh of relief and return to business as usual: underfunded militaries, maximalist green posturing and performative disdain for US power, all underwritten by that same power. The contradiction between their dependence and their posture would remain latent. By declining to supply the synthesis on demand, and by explicitly telling London and Brussels to “go and take it” themselves, Trump forces a reckoning. European and British leaders must confront the fact that their energy systems, their industrial bases and their geopolitical sermons all rest on an American hard‑power foundation they neither finance nor politically respect. The longer the contradiction is allowed to unfold, the stronger the eventual synthesis can be: a new order in which access to secure flows, Hormuz, Venezuela and beyond, is explicitly conditional on real contributions, not assumed as a right. In that sense, the delay in “taking” the Strait, and the challenge issued to US allies to do it themselves, is not indecision. It is the negative moment Hegel insisted was necessary for history to move. Only by withholding the old guarantee, and by saying so out loud to those who depended on it, can Trump hope to end the free ride.

@BrandonStraka How about conservatives quit being afraid of everyone

Victor Davis Hanson: "Europeans made a terrible mistake by denying us airspace ... All we wanted was NATO privileges, given we're the greatest provider of NATO services."

@Quorators @TrueAnonPod A weird form of authoritarianism, to belive people but not ideas

Do you think Charlie Kirk faked his death? Because @TrueAnonPod is working with someone trying to prove it

@ImtiazMadmood Clinton as SoS was on a comittee led by DoD and DoE that signed off on a Russian company buying a Canadian company with mining rights to uranium still *in the ground*. the sale, which in MAGAT world was run by Clinton, had nothing to do with her, but rubes gotta rube.

Hillary gave Putin 20% of U.S. uranium. Putin “donated” $145 million to the Clinton Foundation. Putin paid Bill $500,000 to speak, for 30 minutes. Obama gave Iran & Ayatollah Khamenei $150 billion, in cash. Iran used cash, to buy uranium. Putin sold uranium to Iran (Ayatollah Khamenei). Iran uses Hillary’s uranium to build nuclear bombs. And they investigated President Trump? P.S. Then, Hillary deleted 33,000+ emails, AFTER being served with federal subpoenas! - @DominguezH31015

@willchamberlain You believe him?

We don't deserve him.

@WakeUpPatriott The nothingburger? Just need to stare at more pics of his dick? The entire contents has been in the hands of movement conservatives from the beginning.

🚨BREAKING: In a bombshell revelation, CBS investigative journalist Catherine Herridge has gone public with explosive allegations: "CBS executives deliberately buried the 'Hunter Biden laptop story' and ordered her to wait until AFTER the 2022 midterms to help the Democratic Party." What's your response to this...??👀 MAKE THIS GO VIRAL ON 𝕏. LET’S GO 👏

@NewsCreature @Oilfield_Rando @Aristos_Revenge Yeah the Catholic network in my town got bought out by private equity and is now a much less pleasant place to work

@Oilfield_Rando @Aristos_Revenge It use to be ran on nonprofits and charities and by Catholic nuns

Hospitals running almost entirely off welfare is wildly unsustainable for a functioning society

@jeht_studio @Oilfield_Rando Pre Obamacare small network near me was paying 14million a year in bad debt/ charity care. Medicaid expansion made it so their broke rural client base actually had a payor.

@Oilfield_Rando Add to that, many rural hospitals have closed over the last decade since required to treat so many illegals for free.

@michaeljburry Trumps Justice dept only investigates people he doesn’t like. White collar crime is essentially legal if you’re a republican.

The nut of it is that OpenAI bowed out of the Oracle deal because it wanted NVDA Ruben and not the Blackwell, which are two different types of data center builds. Oracle borrowed heavily to secure the site and order all the hardware for the buildout around Blackwell, and OpenAI as the customer said the chips will be dated before the building is even ready. Duh. Then Nvidia got involved and paid $150 million to block AMD from getting the Oracle build contract. This is how NVDA throws its weight around to block AMD use by its customers. It is mafia-like and should be an antitrust case. The Justice Dept has been investigating NVDA for almost two years but I don’t think Trump’s DOJ will prosecute NVDA. I know Oracle and OpenAi are still partners, Meta took the build that OpenAI abandoned, etc. So the AIlluminati are already saying no big deal. But this is an absolutely huge deal. This is playing out as some of us said it would. The signs are showing up in several places, and they are the exact signs we said would show up. reuters.com/business/oracl…

@MaryBowdenMD @Oilfield_Rando @CMategra1 Medicare basically is the healthcare system for people over 65. Hospital pricing uses the Medicare reimbursement rate as a floor (they make up gigantic numbers as the price you pay uninsured and then negotiate something between that and Medicare for private insurance)

@Oilfield_Rando @CMategra1 Hmmm ….. the “nonprofits” in Texas are raking it in.

@sebsdetector @pamelagg01 @Oilfield_Rando MAGA is a giant wad of malicious resentment, not people interested in a functional healthcare system. They just want to hurt people for fun, including themselves.

@pamelagg01 @Oilfield_Rando This is mostly about rural hospitals which don't get enough revenue due to being in low population areas. You want hospitals only for city folks?

@pamelagg01 @Oilfield_Rando You mean old rural white people. MAGATs shooting themselves in the foot.

@Oilfield_Rando Shut them down. It’s because of the segment of the population that goes in when their toe hurts or they need Tylenol or they can’t go to the bathroom or any other ridiculous nonsense when there’s really nothing wrong with them and they don’t ever pay a dime. shut it down.

@Oilfield_Rando Medicaid isn’t welfare, it *is* the healthcare system for people over 65, assuming they’re not on Tricare.

@MattForVA -prices. But if one or two companies own the whole market, how do you determine what those prices are supposed to be? Shelves at CVS have dozens of brands all owned by two companies.

@MattForVA -after him, the age of venture capital downsizing and increasing monopoly- Under the Brandeis rules, “competition was the best disinfectant” and it was hard to get a company past 7% market share. Bork ruled that market share doesn’t matter, it’s as long as they never raise

This isn’t a small deal. Restaurant Depot is where most mom & pop restaurants go to buy inventory because Sysco is so expensive. Restaurant Depot was privately owned. Sysco is owned by… you guessed it, BlackRock & Vanguard. Now private equity can control pricing for food costs with zero competition. Just like they did with housing. This should be an anti-trust violation, but we have politicians that work for Big Corp, not us.

@CricketSurfing @MattForVA ….yet. Antitrust law was totally gutted by Robert Bork in the late 70s

@MattForVA If RD actually raises its prices too much, it will create an immediate opportunity for a disruptor to compete against it. Not an antitrust violation.

@JJCarrell14 He’s trying to do the hit and quit fast strike thing. Like with Venezuela, but Iran is a much more challenging target. Main problem is republicans have been using foreign policy to make themselves look cool since Nixon, with less and less connection to reality.

What the FUCK are we doing! My son will NEVER die for a foreign country! I voted for you 3 times, took abuse and fought for you and this is what you do! You do the exact opposite of what you railed against for over a decade!