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Olympus Is Laughing (@isolympus.bsky.social)
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Olympus Is Laughing (@isolympus.bsky.social)
@IsOlympus
Just here for the laughs. BlueSky: @isolympus.bsky.social Mastodon: @[email protected] https://t.co/qtxCIXzzsX: @isOlympus Threads: @OlympusIsLaughing
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@IsOlympus @micahr238 @johnkonrad Sorry. I'm a real woman, blonde, not quite that muscular, much shorter, and I have zero tattoos.
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Over the past 24 hours, I’ve talked to a number of leading shipping and energy sources in Europe and Asia.
Overall mood: panic.
Talked to dozens of key people in the USA.
Overall mood: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Allied navies might have to reopen the strait simply because, after getting yelled at for so long, Americans no longer care.
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@66EarlyBird @micahr238 @johnkonrad You’re right - we don’t “NEED” a lot, as long as we’re willing to adapt to a pre-industrial agrarian lifestyle!
Shit, maybe we should make hunter gatherers great again!
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@IsOlympus @micahr238 @johnkonrad We import a lot of things as part of trade negotiations. Did you think we NEED to import steel?
We do not NEED to.
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@micahr238 @66EarlyBird @johnkonrad And the cost will stay low right? Fuck you people are the dumbest motherfuckers on earth. Seriously.
If energy becomes cripplingly expensive, those price increases will ripple through EVERYTHING. Good luck.
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@johnkonrad Okay grandpa. Meatloaf tonight - your favorite.
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As some of you know I live in the most liberal small town in the most liberal state.
Previous No Kings rallies took over downtown and the chants could be heard for miles.
I didn’t go downtown today but I live along the walking path to it. I noticed no signs and heard no chanting.
Very little of the usual litter when I did go downtown for church at 4pm
Maybe they only have enough fraud cash left to fund the big cities?
DataRepublican (small r)@DataRepublican
🧵🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: A $15+ MILLION DOE contractor and NoKings protest organizer with active nuclear security contracts is on camera recommending a color revolution "how-to" 🚨🚨 His name is Steven A. Cash. Former CIA officer (Balkans, Clinton era). Under Biden: Senior Advisor to the Undersecretary at DHS Intelligence & Analysis. The day after Trump's 2016 election, Cash co-founded "The Steady State" — a network of more than 340 former intelligence community officials who decided Trump was an "existential threat". When Biden won, the threat was gone. Cash went into Biden's DHS. His own words: "we disappeared." Then Trump won again. "Suddenly the existential threat was back." The Steady State reactivated and is now a planning partner with NoKings. In the clip below, their meeting recommends "Bringing Down a Dictator" — the Otpor documentary about toppling Milošević — as "a how-to." Meanwhile, Cash's company Deck Prism LLC holds $15+ million in Department of Energy contracts. Almost every one: sole-source or non-competed. One is for the National Nuclear Security Administration — our nuclear weapons program — justified because "disclosure would compromise national security." His FEC records: 20+ donations over 20 years. 100% Democratic. Zero Republican. Including $1,001 to Kamala Harris on August 4, 2024, while his NNSA nuclear contract was active. I have the USAspending receipts, the FEC filings, and him on camera twice. As always, patience as I pull together the thread. 👇
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I am a conservative.....with an economic & investment background.
Most of what is actually going on is not top of the news feed either. The more chaotic things seem, the easier actual actions can be accomplished in the background.
And most of what we're seeing on social media right now is either propaganda, AI or past news they're just now rolling out for public consumption now.
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@66EarlyBird @micahr238 @johnkonrad Explain why we import nearly 25% of our steel then?
Whomp whomp.
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@IsOlympus @micahr238 @johnkonrad We have our own steel plants.
Do you do any research or just spout nonsense?
Our steel also happens to be top quality.
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@FOE_IDer @DonJohnson93497 @johnkonrad “When you got nothing, just hurl the weakest insults possible to look badass.”
Look at you. Regular Billy Badass.
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@IsOlympus @DonJohnson93497 @johnkonrad Says the bluesky poster who probably thinks you can change your sex and that we're all just atomic space dust with no purpose.
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@IsOlympus @66EarlyBird @johnkonrad Also the whole idea of tariffs was to get companies to manufacture inside the United States.
Moving to a place that still has energy is definitely one way to do it. Never mind the existing companies that have already made the move.
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@IsOlympus @micahr238 @johnkonrad The best thing to come out of the covid lock down psyop was people learned to appreciate staying home and hobbies more than being out & about all the time.
I hope the changed lifestyles are here to stay.
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Have you ever considered most of the "cheap stuff" from overseas that Americans buy are not a necessity?
I know of no one with only 1 television or computer. We have 6 tvs (news and history junkies) and so many computers I could set up an internet café.
Maybe the shortage of material bullshit will be good for everyone.
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@FOE_IDer @DonJohnson93497 @johnkonrad I wish I shared your childlike sense of wonder about how the world works.
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@FOE_IDer @DonJohnson93497 @johnkonrad Cool, how are we gonna import anything that we need when the rest of the world doesn’t have the energy to produce it?!
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@micahr238 @66EarlyBird @johnkonrad Awesome! Now how are we gonna get all our cheap stuff from overseas if they don’t have the energy to manufacture it?
Do you see how this “we have all the oil we need,” talk is fucking stupid in a global economy?
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@IsOlympus @66EarlyBird @johnkonrad Emergency powers restricting the export of oil for the sake of national security can be signed.
Which will keep the price lower domestically while raising the cost everywhere else.
And apparently it's already a law...
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@DonJohnson93497 @johnkonrad And when domestic producers realize they can make a killing selling it abroad, it’ll be even less here! Absent strict export controls and government subsidies or outright nationalization, there is no reality where oil is 1/3 the price domestically.
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@johnkonrad @IsOlympus If it’s exported that means it isn’t here anymore, dumb dumb.
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@Synk556 @johnkonrad And we’ve already lined up pledges from American oil producers to not chase maximum profits by exporting all of their production, and offering it instead cheaply on the domestic market?
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@IsOlympus @johnkonrad Because we are a net exporter, dipshit. We don't need world oil.
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@66EarlyBird @johnkonrad And when American oil companies chase better profits selling more of their oil abroad, and American customers have to pay those higher prices… how “energy independent” you gonna feel?
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@IsOlympus @johnkonrad We're energy independent.
Where have you been?
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@johnkonrad So we’re nationalizing the oil companies and placing export restrictions on them to prevent them from selling all of their oil into the international market so they maximize their profits? Bold strategy for an administration that hates socialism!
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Great news, everybody - we're doing forever wars and nation building again!
Rapid Response 47@RapidResponse47
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@CynicalPublius Counterpoint: if you think this analogy hits, your brain is irreparably broken.
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In the Soviet Union innocent people would plead guilty to crimes they never committed so that their family would not be murdered.
And if you think that analogy is too far over the top, then you have not been paying attention.
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