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@alexjordanATL Rare Noah W

if you aren’t blocked by Noah Smith: please don’t let him get away with pretending that he opposed this war lol

@wronglife__ @Zapataptap @LinkofSunshine Biden had a small majority as the GOP does now. Their only option would have been removing the filibuster which would have almost certainly backfired.

@Zapataptap @SimplyaDolf @LinkofSunshine The trifecta referred to in the original post includes a supermajority in the Senate, while Biden didn’t even have a majority in the Senate

Dems had a trifecta for like 41 days and immediately gave tens of millions of Americans healthcare

@Zapataptap @LinkofSunshine Not if you understand how things work.

@LinkofSunshine Strange they were able to pass that but not codify an abortion law with Biden isn’t it? Even with a trifecta. Weird.

@BILLS0505 @NikLentz The dog definitely won this one.

@Carbonar_i @NikLentz Lol millennial actually that is off today and board.. I appreciate your concern for my wellbeing!

“Trump can’t TACO this one... Iran controls the Strait and he can’t do anything about it.” “Alright... you win... I’ll take the short-term pain and let others deal with it.” “NOOOOOO you have to do exactly what I said you couldn’t do or you’re weak! Don't leave now!”

@AaronBastani politico.com/news/2026/02/2…

@AaronBastani Kellyanne Conway and Stephen Miller's wife are working to change that.

Yep. The right’s obsession with renewable energy as ‘woke’ is only going to look more stupid with time. Electrification is perfectly sensible from perspective of energy security. Cars, train, buses.

@_linnamon_ and North Korea says it's democratic lol, lmao.

China mainland government literally always say that they want peaceful reunification You westies think China is “elusive”, “secretive” etc. because you refuse to listen to whatever they say, and instead depend your understanding on the stereotype you have build in your mind

@cenkuygur No chance Iran is lying eh?

Trump says we had great talks with Iran. Iran says there were no such talks. There’s some chance Trump made that up to calm the markets. But there’s also some chance his advisers told Trump there were talks to appease him. The president living in an alternate reality is not good.

@BrianKatz114192 @RmSalih @TheValiant1905 The ones that are left totally love the regime now, trust me.

@RmSalih @TheValiant1905 Must be why they had to murder 40K of them in the streets and are still executing people in public today.

Here's some truth bombs for you: Iran is going for broke. It will not surrender, it will not open the Strait of Hormuz, and it will fight to the death no matter how much destruction Israel and America inflict. The people of Iran are completely behind the Islamic Republic in this holy war. I also think Russia and China will increasingly get involved in this conflict on Iran's side. Iran has the power to crash the world economy and is willing to do so. The whole world is going to suffer because Israel wants to eliminate an enemy and has used its agents in the White House to enact its plan. This may well go down as the biggest blunder an American president ever committed. I see only one solution: it's down to the American people to overthrow and imprison their treacherous president and his Zionist henchmen.

@RnaudBertrand x.com/dril/status/83…

You've got to hand it to Iran: that's masterful asymmetric warfare. If they pull this off and suddenly oil transiting through Hormuz is traded in Yuan, we're talking potentially close to $1 trillion less in annual demand for dollars (20% of the world's oil + LNG). It'd be insanely impressive to achieve this simply by controlling a 30-mile strait with a few missiles and drones. And it'd have compounding effects: $1 trillion less in demand for dollars means less foreign buying of US Treasuries, higher borrowing costs in the U.S., more inflation, etc. Heck even if this doesn't materialize, the mere fact they're suggesting it and that it's taken seriously by mainstream media like CNN is impactful in and of itself: at the end of the day dollar supremacy is also very much based on inertia. But inertia works both ways: once enough people start questioning it, the questioning itself becomes self-reinforcing. Imagine you're a central banker and you're seeing this: you're undoubtedly telling yourself "mmm, maybe it's time to hold a bit more yuan, just in case." It's also pretty ironic: the U.S. has weaponized the dollar against others countless times - including, of course, against Iran - but I can't think of a precedent of a country actively at war with the U.S. using the dollar's dominance as a weapon against them. Literally flipping the playbook, which sets an interesting precedent. All in all, in this war you really have the feeling to witness Sun Tzu's maxim about "knowing the enemy and knowing yourself" in real time: Trump obviously completely failed to understand what he was getting into. Iran, on the other hand, clearly studied its enemy's vulnerabilities, be it hitting Gulf countries until they question whether being a U.S. ally protects or endangers them, choking oil supply to inflict economic pain the US can't bomb its way out of, or now attacking the dollar itself. The U.S. only has bombs to reply, but hard to see how they could bomb their way out of problems that were entirely predictable consequences of their bombing in the first place, if anyone had spent five minutes thinking about what Iran might do in response.

@nypost No crying in the casino.

Kalshi refuses to pay winnings on $54M trade related to Khamenei's death, drawing user fury trib.al/pH5xw9h

@Calamondins1 @PeterZeihan My interpretation of his writings and theories was always that the US would stop upholding the global norms of the Post WW2 Order and begin to essentially act how it pleased without regard. Recent events to me support this much more than prove it wrong. May agree to disagree.

@Calamondins1 @PeterZeihan Step back from upholding globalism for other nations benfit yes, he explicitly mentions us being disruptive where and when we choose not a complete withdraw into isolationism. Disrupting/controlling energy flows to China gives US strategic leverage over them seen in both Iran&VZ

The Gulf states are rapidly running out of interceptors. They have already burned through more than half their stockpile trying to stop low-cost Shahed drones, and soon they may have to ignore drones entirely to conserve missiles for ballistic threats. That opens the door to direct strikes on oil fields, refineries, and loading terminals. The irony? Ukraine already solved this problem with low-cost interception. When Washington cut off military coordination with Kyiv, it severed the artery for transferring those tactics into U.S. doctrine and Gulf deployments. So now the United States is relearning, the hard way, lessons the Ukrainians have already paid for in blood. #iranwar #military #militarytech #geopolitics 📸: Lockheed Martin

@amlivemon They are going to unite the world by destroying their economy and water supply or something...

What bs lol… Nevermind that Islamic sects despise eachother and have zero military might…

@Calamondins1 @PeterZeihan He predicted we would stop upholding globalism and instead strike out when and where we please without regard for the impact on the world at large.

@PeterZeihan Aren't you the guy who predicted that the US would step back from the world stage? Aren't current events proving you spectacularly wrong?

@cd_hooks Evergreen post. x.com/MillennialWoes…

Again, you have to ask: Why does Texas need saving after 23 years of uninterrupted, unified, trifecta Republican rule?

@mtgreenee Good thing only Americans can vote in twitter polls.

This is what the real poll results on war with Iran looked like before all the bots swarmed on X. Americans overwhelmingly do not support more foreign wars!

@DintMentalFloss @dunkensheepguy @hutchinson He was grieving the death of his son.

@dunkensheepguy @hutchinson Do you know why Biden didn’t run in 2016? Because they party rigged the primaries to anoint Hillary. They were hoping the poser ass candidates like O’Malley and Webb would vive the dog and pony show with the entire party and media apparatus treating her as the nominee.

The number of votes circled in blue is bigger than the number circled in green by a margin of 3,707,303. The people who voted for Hillary Clinton in the primaries were not brainwashed or coerced into voting for her. They heard both of their pitches and they liked her pitch more.

@MospeadaG18716 @dennisw5 No one is raising families there though, birth rate is atrocious.

@dennisw5 They're winning hard because you don't need to be a millionaire to live a good life in China, to be safe and raise your family in peace. The US is losing because you fools are too busy fighting one another with all the freedom you have.

I really love folks who go to Beijing, stay in five-star hotels for a few nights, get wined and dined, get shown the same Xiaomi factory and the robotics center that everyone sees, and declare that China is "winning." Gotta hand it to the Chinese, Potemkin village propaganda remains alive and well.

@thewebpro Probably not, from the sound of it most adults won't have to submit to the checks, unless they post like an under age person, their experience won't change come March.

So.. is Discord doomed now? GG? What are we going to all switch to? Sorry, but I don't feel like having my face scanned to use a chat program.