Lipo Davis

My dad's Navy Cross citation. #Worldwar2 #Yamato #USSBunkerHill #Okinawa

Why would anyone on earth listen to a word you have to say about any of this?

@_david_defender @EthanforMD @AIPAC That's precisely what he is.

@EthanforMD @AIPAC That’s because you’re a Nazi.

The DNC just killed a resolution condemning @AIPAC dark money. Why? Because 2028 hopefuls reportedly called members personally to kill it. Meanwhile, Democratic primary voters oppose AIPAC-backed candidates by a 44-point margin. This is exactly why I don't take their money — and why I'm endorsed by @TrackAIPAC. The base sees it. Leadership doesn't.

@EthanforMD @_david_defender @AIPAC Foreign interests my ass. You're a god damned antisemite.

@_david_defender @AIPAC Because I condemn the power of foreign interests in American politics? Ew, David.

@EthanforMD @shazzie555 @AIPAC The fuck you didn't.

@shazzie555 @AIPAC Did I ever say any that? *checks notes* No, I did not.

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.

POTUS to Iran: don’t charge tolls in the Strait

So let me get this straight... JB Pritzker thinks ICE agents, aka Americans, are "invaders," but the illegal aliens who ACTUALLY invaded the country aren't? Make it make sense

@DylanRatigan You resigned from Fast Money? I hadn't noticed.

You know the moment is coming when Europe is going to insist that the American NATO bases leave — and the Americans will freak out and demand they must keep their troops in Europe to protect everyone.

@DylanRatigan Why would the United States want to keep bases in Europe at great expense?

Thoughtful analysis.

Spain has withdrawn its ambassador from Israel and reopened its embassy in Tehran. Everything you need to know about Pedro Sanchez' Spain, now an open ally of the Iranian Axis.

@AndreasSteno I doubt it.

I get that many Americans don’t want to de facto pay for NATO anymore. I get it, I understand that the US paid more than others for a long time. It is all very well understood. We can take care of ourselves. It is ok. You don’t need to lecture us day in and day out about it.

I don't give a crap, to be honest. I'm talking about all of you spoiled infants squandering your power because WAAAAA Israel. It's grotesque.

@DennisKoch10 @SquawkCNBC @CNBC I love Joe Kernen. Great American.

Joe Kernen has to resign or be fired from @SquawkCNBC I think America has enough problems without this Far Right Wingnut. Ho one can take him seriously any more. Tired of his gaslighting and mumbling. Besides he always loses. #CNBS #USA #Trump #uspoli @CNBC

@Arrogance_0024 I hope so.

High time to kick the US 🇺🇸 out of NATO.

Your terms are acceptable

@NBCNews Good.

Immigration arrests of people without criminal convictions have increased eightfold under President Trump, report says. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/a…

None of these claims have any support in reality. They are more opportunistic snippets by unpopular people, who have no agenda that anyone could vote for. This is the lurid language that Al Gore popularised, getting him a thoroughly undeserved Nobel prize, which of course means the Nobel name is now utterly meaningless. Don't forget Obama's Nobel gift. Leticia James is probably the most immoral lawyer who ever lived. Her entire intention was to degrade the law to target her innocent political opponent, Donald Trump, and did so by breaking the law herself. James is now entering the virtue laden world of a climate messiah, which she knows vastly less than sho does about the law, or about honesty, fairness or impartiality, the bedrock of all systems of law. So give this post a thumbs down. If people like James are willing to break the law so blatantly, then her public career should never see the light of another day.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he would use the military to capture Russian ships using the English Channel to deliver oil to support its war in Ukraine. Well, Russia sent a war ship to protect its assets moving through the channel today and the UK did nothing.

@brhodes Indefensible? Bullshit. Israel is defending itself. I know you don't like that.

This is outrageous and indefensible. The attacks on the Lebanese people need to stop.