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@TalksPolitics24 @bennyjohnson If that were true, why did the voters reject the non-redrawers? This is standard popular vote. More people wanted something different.

@bennyjohnson The people of Indiana didn’t want the maps redrawn. They listened to their constituents who they work for, not Trump.

Trump won Indiana by 20 points. Republicans control 70% of the Indiana House and 80% of the Indiana Senate. When GOP voters demanded fair maps, Indiana Republicans betrayed them -- then laughed in Trump's face. Tonight, they all got FIRED. LESSON to GOP: Play to win or go home

@sephius1999 Because actual MAGA voters aren't 'tired of trump.' Those are people who are so unendingly fickle in their voting pattern that their opinion on the matter carries no weight.

This why I don't trust white MAGA ppl when they say they're tired of Trump.

@jasuperfund @DrJStrategy Remind us. What exactly is the US blockading? You seem to assume that the blockade is preventing merchant craft from entering the strait. US blockading is stopping Iran military vessels (if they have any left) from occupying the strait.

@DrJStrategy By your logic, the US Navy blockade is a worse strategic mistake. The US shares the blame (perhaps the lion's share) for the world economic meltdown, but Trump still does not control Hormuz.

For the record. Iran’s Historic Mistake Carl von Clausewitz wrote that war is “the continuation of politics by other means.” President Trump grasped this from the start: Operation Epic Fury exists to stop Iran’s nuclear march and restore deterrence, not to pursue the familiar neocon fantasy of occupation and nation-building. Epic Fury is peace through strength in action: credible force applied decisively when adversaries mistake restraint for weakness. By weaponizing the Strait of Hormuz, Iran committed a strategic blunder of historic proportions. Tehran meant to punish America. Instead, it exposed every power built on imported energy, vulnerable sea lanes, and the delusion that globalization repealed geography. China is exposed. Europe is exposed. Britain is exposed. Iran has created a world where hard resource power decides outcomes. Start with China. Beijing’s industrial machine depends on imported oil and gas moving through vulnerable maritime chokepoints, the old Malacca dilemma in modern form. A great power reliant on long, exposed sea lines cannot be secure, regardless of economic scale. The Hormuz shock forced China to scramble for alternatives, proving that size is not resilience. Europe and Britain face the same problem. After escaping Russian dependency, they traded one vulnerability for another, leaning on imported LNG and maritime flows exposed to coercion. When chokepoints tighten, they absorb shocks rather than project strength. European criticism says less about American failure than about discomfort with a world where hard power still matters. Iran’s mistake is that once Hormuz becomes structurally unreliable, the world builds around it. That means bypass corridors, revived pipeline politics, and urgent planning for routes linking Aqaba to Mediterranean outlets near Gaza and the long-stalled Basra-to-Aqaba pipeline. The old energy order is cracking. The UAE’s OPEC exit signals cartel discipline giving way to national advantage under pressure. Trump deserves credit, not European scolding. Operation Epic Fury struck thousands of targets, degraded Iran’s offensive capabilities, and shattered assumptions that the West would absorb escalation without response. The administration acted while others lectured. It restored deterrence in the only language Tehran understands. The larger lesson matters more. Secure natural-resource hard power is what the Western Hemisphere possesses in abundance. The United States, Canada, and the Americas command hydrocarbons, LNG, farmland, freshwater, critical minerals, and strategic depth on a scale import-dependent Europe and Asia cannot match. This crisis clarified, not weakened, the Americas structural position. The financial dimension reinforces the point. Demand for Federal Reserve swap lines during crisis proves King Dollar remains supreme. When stress hits, governments run toward dollar liquidity, not away from it. Hard resource power and monetary power reinforce one another, and the United States sits at the center of both. That is Epic Fury’s real significance. Clausewitz wrote that “the political view is the object, war is the means.” Trump understood that. Iran tried to weaponize geography, Trump turned the confrontation into a demonstration of who is exposed and who is not. The Trump administration deserves far more praise than it has received, and history will likely judge that Iran’s greatest miscalculation was not merely closing Hormuz, but revealing which powers still command the real sources of strength.

@Acyn And they still have weapons grade uranium that needs to be removed. THAT is the real issue here. 1) Remove the means to manufacture 2) Remove the materials needed to manufacture.

Hegseth running into trouble early in today’s hearing Hegseth: Iran’s nuclear facilities have been obliterated. Smith: You said we had to start this war because the nuclear weapon was an imminent threat. Now you’re saying it was completely obliterated?

@joncoopertweets Texas redistricted to make the representation more accurate to the voting trend of the state. Virginia went from 6/5 to 1/10. THAT ISNT REPRESENTATIVE.

These two editorials by the Washington Post expose how the Republican Party and Democratic Party are held to completely different standards by the media. Texas gerrymander: “Not a threat to democracy.” Virginia gerrymander: “Power grab by Democrats.”

@HistoryBoomer Are they making a law with this post? Are the enforcing laws with this post? Nope. They are stating a cultural fact. Look to the founders religious orientation and then to the fact that all our money says 'In God We Trust' which, in the context of the founders = Christian nation.

This violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof"

@TheQuartering Be cause they all ran from the Open Dialogue of X.

@tommysantos14 It is simple. On Election Day, you go, prove you are a person by being there, cast a single vote, and walk out. Thats how you have the fairest election. Adding steps or complications just introduce increases in chance for Fraud

I have to keep pointing this out. Are these people not American, or just completely fucking stupid? They think it's a good idea to invalidate lawfully cast votes that simply aren't counted by 11:59pm on election day. This is "short bus" level stupid.

@GammaReigh It's almost as if ICE isnt racist....... >.>

So many non-white ICE agents is wild and disturbing.

@RubenGallego @BasedMikeLee You cant use a drivers license because states started giving them to non-citizens. Maybe if everyone followed the rules before, we wouldn't be here. BUT NOOOOOOO gotta give all the illegals free shit, right?

You can use REAL ID for all these actions. However under @BasedMikeLee bs bill you can not register to vote just using REAL ID.

@lorddrey 'toll-free' sure its toll free if you believe that the #1 sponsor of terrorism causes NO other problems for the world at large.

Iran has kept the Straight of Hormuz toll-free for decades despite being vilified, sanctioned, and Isolated. Egypt charges $300,000 – $700,000+ per transit through the Suez Canal. Ultra-large container ships or tankers can exceed $1 million. Panama charges $150,000 – $450,000 per transit. Large Neopanamax ships cost up to $500,000+ to pass the Panama Canal. Turkey charges fees for the Bosporus Strait. Canada charges fees for the St Lawrence Seaway. The United States charges for the St Lawrence Seaway. But Iran is a bad country.

@micah_erfan The economy is struggling because finally someone had the balls to do something about the stranglehold that Iran has on World Shipping and Oil. Iran are the main sponsors of terrorism in the world.

If you are becoming a Republican now of all times you are actually brain dead. GDP growth is down. Inflation is up. Unemployment is up. Trump’s DOJ is still cover up for Epstein associates (many of whom are in the Trump Admin). We are in a war that Americans don’t want.

@FoxNews Again.... Do people not understand that Elon Musk being WORTH billions doesnt mean he HAS billions of dollars. It isnt some massive bank account of billions of dollars.

SEN. SANDERS: “60% of our people living paycheck-to-paycheck, and one guy, Elon Musk, owns more wealth than the bottom 53% of American households.” “Think maybe that might be an issue that we should be talking about?"

@BillsOnReal NO. GOD NO. WE DONT NEED ANOTHER PRIMA DONNA WR

DEAL OR NO DEAL: Bills receive: - AJ Brown Eagles receive: - Pick 26 - Keon Coleman

@_nomadic_soul IT LEFT IT TO THE STATES. THAT WAS THE POINT YOU IDIOTS

Huh. Almost like revoking Roe v Wade didn’t do what was promised.

@AmericanaMama_ How about tell the kids that hit my kid to NOT HIT PEOPLE

Nah fam

@BrianAtlas TBH she looks exactly like I thought she would without makeup. This is the case for why this stuff is fine. If someone wants to put a 'look' together while still being themselves, who are we to stop them?

Alysa Liu without makeup. Makeup should be criminalized.

@maddenifico We do not care. Thats the perk of being American.

Congrats to Trump and his fascist authoritarian regime. Y'all have accomplished the impossible: Due to global hatred of Trump, the only country more unpopular than the United States is Israel. Never before in history has America been so hated worldwide.

@tommysantos14 You are blind.

When Trump leaves office: The Department of War will go back to being the Defense Department. The Trump Kennedy Center will go back to being the Kennedy Center. The Gulf of America will once again be the Gulf of Mexico. The unfinished East Wing (it won't be finished by the end of Trump's term) will be rebuilt by the next president, and it will not be a ballroom. Federal agencies packed with unqualified loyalists will fire those people and rehire the career experts Trump fired. The Department of Justice will go back to enforcing the law instead of protecting the president. Scientific agencies like NOAA, the EPA, and the CDC will go back to publishing research without political interference. The U.S. will re-align with its allies and not with its enemies. The presidential pardon power will stop being used as a rewards program for loyalists. Inspectors General will go back to investigating corruption instead of getting fired for it. The White House press room will go back to having briefings, with real journalists and not podcasters. U.S. foreign policy will stop revolving around flattering dictators. And the world will progress as though Donald Trump never existed.

@KyleKulinski So the warheads and military arsenal that they were building up was not a problem? The enrichment of uranium WELL PAST civilian usage was not a problem? I swear EVEN IF THEY NUKED US, yall would find a way to say 'Trump bad!'

Words cannot describe how much I hate this man. Obama’s deal quite literally worked perfectly. Iran was a non issue. And he fucked it all up.