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@OsirisEyesAll9 @mtracey So Obama funded ISIS, which was for Israel. But trump then bombed ISIS out of existence, which I presume was also for Israel?

@mtracey Obama presiding over that whole funding ISUL moderate rebels to overthrow Syrias elected leader was for who? The US people? get the fuck outta here. Biden and Kamala gave how much to Israel even well after it was clear genocidal results were result.

Tucker darkly asks: "Why can't this president, or any president, say no to Israel?" Obama enacted the Iran Nuclear Deal over Israel's bitter objections. Biden declined to support Israeli strikes on Iran. Even GW Bush refused! This is a Trump issue, not an "any president" issue

@DavidAstinWalsh No, not really. It suggests that America needs to reorient what it spends its massive military budget on toward new technologies that can counter the new abilities of lesser powers. Not sure why people assume the wealthiest country in the world can’t also evolve its capabilities.

I’m no military expert but the demonstrated ability of middle powers to produce incredibly cheap precision drones capable of destroying billions of dollars of U.S. military equipment really does suggest the era of American global dominance is over.

@femelafemela @mtracey It makes it pretty clear that there are a multitude of reasons to want the destruction of the Iranian regime that don’t involve being puppets of Israel.

@mtracey For once can you please make your own analysis and claims. Are you saying that acknowledging Saudi support for this war is in some way incompatible with Israeli influence? Please spell out the implications for us benighted observers.

It seems like a lot of people are bitterly resistant to acknowledging this, because it would interrupt other narratives they're strangely over-invested in

@ggreenwald Sounds like you’re excited about it

The fucking audacity these people have. They spend years vaporizing innocent people that they regard as sub-human, incinerating and starving entire families, starting wars, and then think the world will see them as pity-inducing victims the minute anyone fights back.

@CurtMills You think we should soften our demands after absolutely crushing them?

This is imbecile hour. This is near identically the same list of demands antebellum, and might be even more severe. This is, frankly, an Israeli list. And it guarantees more war, which is their goal

@FormerlyWas @GraduatedBen Their religious fanatics and they haven’t exactly done a great job of running Iran.

@GraduatedBen I guess that’s the case if you believe Iran is a sociopathic serial killer of a state that would nuke USA/Israel first knowing their whole country would melt & glow next. But you’re not a retard. You know no leadership/military organization of serial killers can run a 90mm county

If the Iranian missile program was getting to the point of being able to hit Diego Garcia, suddenly the timing and urgency of this war makes a lot more sense.

@vigilpamela1 @white1straight1 @TheNotoriousJTG @RnaudBertrand Yes, we could take out the power grid and domestic energy production in an hour.

@white1straight1 @TheNotoriousJTG @RnaudBertrand The U.S. is playing nice??? We attacked them and immediately killed 165 schoolgirls the first day. We have hit hospitals, bombed residential areas and energy, causing acid rain to come down on Tehran.

Iran seems to be following a strategy of unveiling more and more impressive military capabilities as the war goes on. They just fired long-range ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia, one of the most strategically significant U.S. military bases in the world (hosting B-52 bombers, nuclear subs, etc.), nearly 5,000km away from them in the middle of the Indian ocean 👇. Diego Garcia has never been hit before in any war in its 5 decades of existence, and no-one knew Iran had these types of capabilities (Iran themselves said their ballistic missile range was limited to 2,000 kilometers). Two days ago, they also took down an "unkillable" F-35 fifth-generation fighter jet, something which has never happened before (militarywatchmagazine.com/article/footag…). They've also managed to take control of the world's most strategic oil chokepoint, and have proven they can hit any strategic target in the wider Middle-East, even the most protected ones (such as Israel's Haifa oil refinery: aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/19…). All in all, it sounds almost unbelievable but Iran appears to have a genuine form of escalation dominance over the United States military, with its trillion dollar budget. In a very real way, it's even more impressive than Vietnam or Afghanistan: those countries resisted a superpower, Iran appears to be competing with one. It also makes you think: what comes next? And that's exactly what escalation dominance is all about: keep raising the stakes until the other side blinks. It's about making Trump think "wait, I thought I was picking a fight with the skinny kid and turns out he's Bruce Lee."

niggas used to chart m2 global money supply vs wif

@RichardHanania Former conspiracy theorist here. Libertarianism led me down the conspiracist path. Objectivism rescued me from the brink. I’m continually amazed at how retarded I find many of my past views. Views that, at the time, I was astounded other people couldn’t understand or agree with.

I’ve seen people with bad political views develop good political views. But I can’t remember ever seeing a conspiracy theorist develop a rational outlook. At best they get demoralized and turn away from politics.

@Luciu_satrninus @TonerousHyus It’s in the article you posted. It helps to read them.

@TonerousHyus Because this from 2 days ago for example doesn't back your claims at all reuters.com/business/energ…

One of my fav things I read a week ago was that the Saudis took their east-west pipeline from 800k bpd to 7 million redirecting 85% of their crude output to the Red Sea. Not one media outlet has pointed out 10 million barrels total has been redirected from the Strait

@tenobrus Have you seen how large and clunky the lidar equipment is? How do you make a Tesla look like a sports car with that on it? I’m not saying that’s elons reasoning but seems like an obvious fault to me until the sensor tech gets significantly smaller.

tesla's decision to point blank refuse to touch lidar has proven to be one of the most insane self owns of any technology company ever. they easily have the research talent, and waymo has proved they could be doing millions of fully autonomous rides. at this point it's a choice

Unreal numbers 👀⚡️ "JPMorgan estimates that, had Germany not phased out nuclear power, the country would have generated 50% less electricity from fossil fuels and 84% less electricity from natural gas in 2024. Electricity prices in Germany would have been around 25% lower, and the country would have imported half as much electricity.."

Milton Friedman: “I am not a conservative. I’ve never been a conservative. Hayek was not a conservative.” “We are liberals in the true meaning of that term: concerned with freedom. We are not liberals in the current distorted sense—those liberal with other people’s money.”

@ArthurMacwaters This is backwards. America is the greatest superpower bc it’s a country founded on individual rights that lets you say whatever you want, build whatever you want, and make as much money as you want as long as you don’t harm others. The military protects this but isn’t the source.

also, we wouldn't get to live in a country where you can say whatever you want, raise millions of dollars of money as a 24yo, and build cool technology that helps people, if we didn't also have the most incredible military in human history none of the things we enjoy here are 'default' they only work because America is, in all practical ways, an empire.

The European mind cannot comprehend the extent to which Americans unapologetically enjoy obliterating terrorists This is a real video released by the official white house account, and we will look at this and unapologetically be like 'f*ck yeah, that was dope' x.com/WhiteHouse/sta…

@adamscrabble I think you have the backwards.. the people saying Iran is winning now are the people who said Russia would win in two weeks.

Totally disgusting that the exact same fukcing people who lied and lied and lied about “Ukraine will beat Russia in weeks” “Russia running out of missile” “leopards are a game changer” bla bla bla Are now the same fucking people lying about “Iran is winning” ”$1b in damage” bla bla bla And if you cite these “open source intel” x accounts you are a certified idiot and should touch grass

@ArmchairW I can’t tell if you actually believe this shit or if you are an intentional propaganda account.

We're somehow fighting Schrodinger's Iran where they're launching random, desperate pinprick attacks and at the same time they're systematically dismantling the Coalition's integrated air and missile defense network with effective strikes on key nodes. This... suggests things.

Iranians looking out and laughing as dozens of bombs drops with surgical precision on their tyrannical government all around them A remarkable video for so many reasons

@inustwanttoread @MarioNawfal He doesn’t have credibility. He pushes fake news 24/7.

@MarioNawfal Platforming this joke of a person is a mistake and takes away your credibility

🚨🇺🇸 🇮🇷 Political commentator Jackson Hinkle just said what nobody in Western media will say out loud. "Any ship can sink. Aircraft carriers from the U.S. can sink just like any other ship." Iran has sea-skimming ballistic missiles that travel just above the waterline. Nearly impossible to intercept. China had a spy ship in the region during the 12-Day War. It's there again right now. "I wouldn't be surprised if there are Russian and Chinese submarines out there." The Abraham Lincoln didn't move far from the coastline by accident. @jacksonhinklle

As a constitutional originalist, I appreciate that a lot of folks feel this action against Iran is "illegal" because there was no Congressional declaration of war. But here's the sad reality of constitutional mechanisms for balancing power...if you gut the teeth behind the mechanism you essentially gut the mechanism itself. Under the original construction and understanding of the Constitution, the United States of America did not have a standing army and Congress was given the power of the purse. This established a similar situation to what had long prevailed in English constitutionalism...that the power of the executive to wage war was limited without the legislative willingness to fund the war and provide the financial capacity to raise up an army to prosecute the war. In other words, the "teeth" of the declaration of war power of the legislative branch under the U.S. Constitution is the power of the purse, the necessity to seek funds from Congress to prosecute a war. And, for better or worse, United States policy had to shift from the original conception of peacetime military power, first establishing a standing army and then expanding that standing army to be able to prosecute major war at a minute's notice. And this has more or less rendered the declaration of war power into a formality, since the President no longer needs immediate funds from legislative exercise of the power of the purse to fund a war. This is why, for example, the only formal declarations of war in the last 120 years were World War I and World War II, when the state of the military at the onset of hostilities was NOT capable of waging the war without legislative exercise of the power of the purse to fund the war effort. So, whether or not Pres. Trump is proceeding under the traditional strictures of the Constitution, he is nevertheless proceeding under the reality of a large, standing army capable of waging wars without new, additional funding from the legislative...as has virtually every President in the 20th and 21st centuries. This reality is nothing new nor is it novel. Our country faced this reality and its consequences well over half a century ago with a decade long conflict in Vietnam with thousands and thousands of American dead...with no declaration of war. Our country faced this reality 75 years ago with an intense, brutal conflict in Korea with many more thousands of American dead...with no declaration of war. The sad fact is, the President has de facto ability to do what he is doing because no efforts have been made, despite the obvious nature of this new status quo, to find ways to return teeth to the declaration of war power. The President is operating under what is now long-established executive precedence as Congress, the Courts, and the People have chosen not to act in any meaningful way to alter this precedence. And again, this is a new reality that we knew about, we had clear evidence of, and chose not to act. And this situation reflects the broader problem with the way so many people have responded to the first and second Trump administrations. The response has been directed solely at Donald Trump, as if his actions are completely beyond the pale, when in reality most of the things he has done fall well within what previous Presidents have done. The more meaningful response, the direction so many people keep failing to take, is to recognize that it is the Presidency itself and the gutting of Congressional checks and balances against the President that is the problem. We need to find ways to restore and renew the original intent and process of the Constitution, not simply defeat just one President out of the dozens who have operated upon the slowly developed precedence of a political office allowed to operate with increasingly unrestricted power. The current situation is indicative. For all the noise coming from the Democratic Party over the things the Trump admin is doing, whether its tariffs, using the military domestically, foreign entanglements abroad, etc., the Democratic Party made no efforts whatsoever during the Biden admin to address the powers of the presidency or restore Congress as an independent and powerful deliberative body. They direct all their anxiety toward Donald Trump the person while focusing absolutely zero effort toward the office that Trump holds. And that reveals the ongoing hypocrisy of negative partisanship. The difference between what Donald Trump is doing today in Iran compared to what Barack Obama did in Libya is a matter of size rather than one of kind. And this ultimately holds true with every presidency going back decades and the various military engagements taken without Congressional approval. Far too many people, and especially Democrats and NeverTrump types, are railing against the President today as if he's engaged in some bold, new, exertion of executive authority that is completely and entirely illegal. And they may be right according to a very strict reading of the Constitution. But they ignore the functional reality that this is the Presidency they themselves and especially their ideological forebears created...and took great pains to create.

Bernie Sanders is asked why he thinks the US has more successful businesses than Europe. It's clear he has never thought about this, gives a total non-answer and goes back to his stump speech. Excellent question by @MacroscopeEcon