@realnysafetyguy @ChrisMurphyCT I think we need give @SecScottBessent at least a little credit for that “financial genius”😉.
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Sy Maleki
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@SyMaleki @ChrisMurphyCT If only Congresspeople understood the financial genius of Trump.
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Trump is suspending sanctions on Iran and Russia, which will put over $15 billion in their treasuries to help them fund the wars against us. It’s stunning. We have never ever seen this level of war incompetence in American history.
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Thanks for the reply, Sue, but let's stay on topic. My post was specifically about the economics and tactical design of a narrow, 30-day Treasury waiver on pre-loaded Iranian (and Russian) oil cargoes, aimed at crashing prices after Iran's own Strait blockade attempt spiked them, delivering lower gas and inflation relief to American families right now.
You responded with a list of unrelated grievances: COVID ventilators, newborn health issues, service member deaths in the current conflict, a Venezuela oil story from years ago that doesn't match the mechanics here, and Iran's 30-year-old rhetoric about closing the Strait (which everyone knew, and which is precisely why Treasury is now using those very barrels against Tehran to blunt the pain).
None of that engages with the actual policy I described: time-limited, targeted at stranded tankers, structured to minimize regime net gain while flooding supply to protect U.S. consumers and deny Iran the economic warfare win it sought. The oil-price drop in the hours after announcement isn't spin; it's market data.
If you want to debate the waiver's merits on its own terms, whether it truly stabilizes markets without meaningfully enriching adversaries, whether "maximum pressure forever" is more effective even when it means $5+ gas at home during active conflict, I'm happy to go there point by point.
But pivoting to a laundry list of past Trump criticisms doesn't refute (or even address) the energy statecraft realism at issue here. It just changes the subject.
If you're actually concerned about adversaries getting funded, the pragmatic question remains: do you prefer Americans absorbing the full inflation hit from Iran's price spike gambit, or do you prefer a tactical counter move that uses their own oil against them while we maintain pressure elsewhere? Pick a lane on this specific decision.
Respectfully, try engaging the argument rather than the man. That's how we get somewhere useful. 🇺🇸
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Tell all of this to all of those people on ventilators who died because of Trump. Tell all the parents of newborns with problems whose baby's just died because of Trump. Tell that to the parents of 13 service people who've died for this war. And Trump might do exactly what he did with Venezuela. He took all the loaded oil ships sold the oil himself and took the $200 million that he got for it to a personal bank account in Qatar instead of giving half of it to the Venezuelan people. There are now massive food shortages in Venezuela. As far as the strait of Hormuz Iran has been claiming for 30 years now that if they're attacked they will close it. Trump claims he didn't know this.
You're backing the wrong horse and on the wrong side of history.
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When you kick a hornet's nest, it's the hornets which decide when it's over
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@georgegalloway Yes…from the brutal regime that has terrorized it’s people and held them hostage for 47 years.
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This is the same deal Obama had in place. 🤣
Frank Luntz@FrankLuntz
The U.S. wants Iran to make 6 commitments: 1️⃣ No missile program for 5 years. 2️⃣ Zero uranium enrichment. 3️⃣ Decommissioning of nuclear reactors. 4️⃣ Arms control treaties with regional countries. 5️⃣ No financing for regional proxies. 6️⃣ Strict outside observation protocols around the creation and use of centrifuges.
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Schumer out here losing his mind over a 30-day waiver on some old Iranian oil that's literally already sitting on ships, like it's the end of the world. '$14 billion windfall' lol come on man, that's the Axios spin, it's stranded barrels Trump is basically using to screw over Iran's pricing power and bring gas prices down for Americans while we're in the middle of cleaning up their terrorist mess.
But let's talk real quick about what Chuck and the Dems have actually cheered on or straight-up enabled over the years:
- They screamed the Iran deal was garbage in 2015... then cried nonstop when Trump killed the same garbage deal they hated. Pick a lane dude.
- Obama/Biden literally handed Iran 150 billion+ in sanctions relief + straight-up cash shipments that armed the Houthis, Hezbollah, and every proxy killing our guys. But THIS limited move to flood the market with existing oil? Suddenly that's treason?
- Your boy Biden let Iran enrich uranium to basically nuke levels and funded attacks on U.S. bases through their little friends, crickets from you guys.
- You fought Trump's max-pressure sanctions every step, the ones that actually had the mullahs hurting and begging.
- Meanwhile Dems push open borders (cartels + who knows what slipping in), defund police chaos, kill U.S. drilling so we're begging OPEC again, weak Russia policy even as Putin buddies up to Iran... but Trump's the reckless one?
The guy starts (or finishes) the job on Iran because weak Dem foreign policy let them get this crazy bold, then uses THEIR OWN DAMN OIL to crash prices and help families at the pump instead of letting China hoard it cheap. And you're calling HIM dumb?
Nah Chucky, the only thing dumb here is watching you lecture on strength and security after 30+ years of your party coddling or straight-up funding the people trying to kill us. Sit this one out.
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The Trump administration in a nutshell:
1. Launch a war with no plan or strategy
2. Lift sanctions on the country you went to war against
3. Do all of this to solve a problem that was created by your reckless, dangerous, and impulsive decision to launch said war in the first place
Our "commander-in-chief" is exceptionally dumb.
Barak Ravid@BarakRavid
🚨U.S. to allow Iran to get ~14 billion dollars (!!!) in oil revenue 🚨This is a huge financial concession to Iran by the U.S. 🚨It is the first time U.S. is buying Iranian oil since 1996 🚨It's all happening in the middle of a war against...Iran
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@SenBlumenthal Sit tight, Dick… let’s check back in on your prediction mid next week. I’m guessing you’ll be proven wrong, like always.
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ICE agents at airports will only aggravate delays & lines—disrupting checks, interrogating travelers, dragging parents from children, detaining citizens, brutalizing families, shooting & even killing. politico.com/news/2026/03/2…
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@RepDonBeyer Don, I know you can read. Please do it and ponder a while before posting such nonsense and drivel.
I honestly dont understand how we end up with such lazy, inept and clueless representation in Washington.
Virginia, do better please.!!
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Just 3 days ago Trump was awfully concerned about the “pallets of cash” sent to Iran a decade ago, but is now going to give them nearly 10x that amount in the middle of a war. Clown show doesn’t begin to describe it.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent@SecScottBessent
Iran is the head of the snake for global terrorism, and through President Trump’s Operation Epic Fury, we are winning this critical fight at an even faster pace than anticipated. In response to Iran’s terrorist attacks against global energy infrastructure, the Trump Administration will continue to deploy America’s economic and military might to maximize the flow of energy to the world, strengthen global supply, and seek to ensure market stability. Today, the Department of the Treasury is issuing a narrowly tailored, short-term authorization permitting the sale of Iranian oil currently stranded at sea. At present, sanctioned Iranian oil is being hoarded by China on the cheap. By temporarily unlocking this existing supply for the world, the United States will quickly bring approximately 140 million barrels of oil to global markets, expanding the amount of worldwide energy and helping to relieve the temporary pressures on supply caused by Iran. In essence, we will be using the Iranian barrels against Tehran to keep the price down as we continue Operation Epic Fury. This temporary, short-term authorization is strictly limited to oil that is already in transit and does not allow new purchases or production. Further, Iran will have difficulty accessing any revenue generated and the United States will continue to maintain maximum pressure on Iran and its ability to access the international financial system. So far, the Trump Administration has been working to bring around 440 million additional barrels of oil to the global market, undercutting Iran’s ability to leverage its disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz. President Trump’s pro-energy agenda has driven U.S. oil and gas production to record levels, strengthening energy security and lowering fuel costs. Any short-term disruption now will ultimately translate into longer-term economic gains for Americans – because there is no prosperity without security.
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@ciclones13 Do you think Mexico bows to Washington too?
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🇲🇽🇨🇺 BREAKING: Mexico will send oil to Cuba. Trump's blockade has fallen.
60 years of embargo. 60 years of trying to starve an island.
Now Mexico breaks the siege. Oil shipments. Solidarity. Sovereignty.
The US can sanction. Can threaten. Can block.
But neighbors help. Neighbors deliver. Neighbors don't forget.
Cuba has been alone too long. Mexico just changed that.
The blockade isn't gone. But it's cracked. And cracks spread.
Mexico sends oil. The world watches. The empire fumes.
Solidarity wins. Every time.
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@MarioNawfal Mario, you do realized that the majority of the people of Iran, as well as the Iranians around the globe, are ecstatic about this, dont you?
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Everyone was up in arms when Iranians were being massacred in January, me included
Well, those same Iranian people massacred by the regime are being bombed right now, toxic fumes and oil raining on them and burning their skin.
Why are the same loud voices from January silent?
If you really cared about the Iranian people, you’d be making your voice heard today
Here’s where we are:
Iran’s economy in shambles, over a thousand people killed and over 10k injured, and the regime is still in power with a more hardline leader.
Iran is slowly turning into a failed state, and I highly doubt the remnants of the regime care. They likely thrive more like this.
This entire war is because of the global energy race between the U.S. and China, and the obsession for regime change by Israel
The biggest losers?
The people of Iran
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The Trump story is one of corruption. Every family business deal, every foreign trip, every tariff, every envoy. This is a grift the likes of which we've never seen in the history of this country.
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Come on Michael. Your CFA designation says that you’re smarter than this post…its premise collapses immediately. A 330k federal workforce reduction would be the largest in modern history and would be obvious in data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, which it isn’t. It also assumes a fixed 1.5–2× government employment multiplier that economists have never found evidence for. If multiplying government payroll created growth, every country would simply hire more bureaucrats.
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330,000 federal government jobs eliminated since October 2024.
11% of the total federal workforce. Gone.
Each government job supports 1.5-2x in private sector activity.
That's potentially 500,000-660,000 total jobs impacted.
You can't fire your way to GDP growth.
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@SyMaleki @donwinslow @SecWar Like when he was removed from the service detail for the inauguration because they worried he might become a domestic terrorist? That record?
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Honestly, I just think @SecWar Pete Hegseth is a weak, horrifically insecure little boy masquerading as a tough guy. I am deeply troubled by the reported stories of this person with women across many years and cannot imagine a less qualified or bigger asshole as Sec Def.
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WHO THE FUCK WILL SAY IRAN SURRENDERS YOU KILLED ALL THE DECISION MAKERS HOW THE FUCK ARE PEOPLE THIS FUCKING STUPID THERE IS NO FIRST AND LAST NAME TO IRAN FUCK OFF
The Kobeissi Letter@KobeissiLetter
BREAKING: Brent crude oil prices surge above $90/barrel for the first time in 2 years as President Trump says "there will be no deal with Iran" and tells Iran to "surrender."
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🚨🇺🇸 🇮🇷 THE CONCERNING SHIFT: LOSS OF AIR SUPERIORITY
Lt. Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski highlights the significance of a U.S. F-15 being allegedly downed by Iraqi air defenses.
Nearly a week into the operation, the goal of decimating air defenses has clearly not been met.
The U.S. no longer holds air superiority over much of the region, placing pilots at extreme risk.
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal
THEY NEED BOOTS ON THE GROUND - Ex-US Lt. Colonel Kwiatowski x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
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@leadlagreport Probably a few of those “morality police” fellas still slithering around and looking for a way to save their necks…but it probably makes sense that we give the women of Iran a swing at them first.
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It is INSANE how gullible people are.
“Iran is open to negotiating with Trump.”
TRUMP KILLED ALL THE FUCKING NEGOTIATORS.
HOW THE FUCK ARE PEOPLE THIS STUPID.
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