Augustus Tiberius

@ThomasMHern These are videos of antifa literally running checkpoints 2021. Second video is them with long guns. A fucking checkpoint. This has been a hostile insurgency for the past 10 years, and it should be delt like a hostile insurgency. youtu.be/kEWQ_7UeCwY?si… youtu.be/YHsAzYA-jEw?si…

Sydney Sweeney is the all-American girl.

@ElyonMan Where are the colorful scarves.

Han prohibido el color en Hollywood.

@SockTiger Deep down, you know who it’s going to be…🥔😳

im callin it RIGHT NOW BRAD PITT OR TOM CRUISE

3 weeks ago I argued the US goal in Iran is to seize the global oil spigot. Venezuela in January -> Iran in February. Neutralize every supply channel outside the dollar system within 90 days. Achieve a compliant successor government and complete energy dominance. The oil thesis was the obvious layer. However, when you zoom out & view the last four years as a single sequence rather than isolated geopolitical events, the architecture of the grander US plan becomes visible. 1st was Europe, which laid the groundwork. The Ukraine conflict provided the justification for sanctions that collapsed Russian pipeline gas from 150 billion cubic meters to 40. Then Nordstream was destroyed, which rewired the entire European energy system permanently. The US went from supplying 28% of Europe's LNG in 2021 to 58% by 2025, exporting a record 111 million MTs, the 1st country in history to break 100 MT. Europe was transformed from a customer with options into a captive market now purchasing its survival in USD. 2nd was Syria. The fall of Assad severed the critical node connecting China's Belt & Road Initiative to the Mediterranean. The trilateral railway linking Iran, Iraq & Syria, designed to bypass Western maritime chokepoints, was completely destroyed. This isolated Iran geographically & cleared the path for what came next. 3rd was Venezuela. In January the US effectively took control of the world's largest heavy crude reserves. The US Gulf Coast has the most advanced refining complex on earth, specifically built for heavy sour crude. Phillips 66, Valero & the rest are now positioned to process hundreds of thousands of barrels of Venezuelan crude daily. The US captured a massive strategic reserve & solidified its position as the dominant exporter of refined petroleum products, an industry worth $110 billion in 2025 alone. Venezuela & Iran were the two major oil supply channels that existed outside the dollar system. Both produce heavy crude sold primarily to China & evaded US financial supervision. Both now being neutralized within 90 days, which leads us to.. 4th is Iran & the Middle East energy shock. Israel struck Iran's South Pars gas field, the world's largest natural gas reservoir. Iran retaliated against Qatar's Ras Laffan, the single largest LNG facility on earth, responsible for a fifth of global supply. QatarEnergy's own assessment is that 17% of export capacity is gone and recovery will take up to 5 years. The Strait of Hormuz is closed. European gas prices spiked 70%. Asian spot prices doubled. The only remaining scaled supplier? The United States. If Iran falls & a successor government is installed that the US controls or influences (the Delcy model described weeks ago) then roughly 40 to 45 million barrels per day of global production out of 103 million is effectively under US control. OPEC becomes irrelevant because the US coalition is now the marginal producer. Now add the gas dimension & it goes beyond oil. This war is solidifying the petrodollar system as it evolves into a hybrid petro/LNG-dollar. The old system was built on Saudi crude priced in USD. The new system is built on American crude plus American gas from the Gulf Coast, with no alternative supplier of comparable scale. The dependency is deeper because LNG infrastructure requires long term contracts & regasification terminals that lock buyers into supply relationships for decades. Europe & the Pacific allies (Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, etc.) cannot pivot away as there is nowhere left to pivot to. They're now locked into the US energy system. The market confirms this. DXY went from 96 to 101. Gold down ~20% from its January all time high. Bitcoin down 20% on the year. Brent above $100. European & Asian institutions are liquidating precious metals and crypto to buy dollars because they need dollars to buy the only remaining scaled energy supply. The world is selling its gold to buy American energy in American currency. The dollar is now being weaponized through energy dependency. The structural repricing is happening regardless of how the conflict resolves. But the US grand strategy goes deeper.. Artificial intelligence is a physical industry. It runs on power and chips. Data centers require massive uninterrupted baseload electricity, primarily provided by natural gas. Semiconductor fabrication requires helium & rare earths. By choking the Strait of Hormuz & crippling Middle Eastern LNG & helium production, the US is systematically degrading China's ability to power its data centers & fabricate semiconductors at scale. The US is energy self sufficient, especially with newly captured Venezuelan reserves & expanding Gulf Coast capacity running on domestic gas. On the other hand, China is import dependent & every joule it imports effectively now transits chokepoints the US Navy controls.. Iran was the Belt & Road's overland energy bypass, the corridor that allowed China to mitigate the Malacca Trap. With Iran neutralized that corridor is severed. China faces a world where its compute infrastructure competes for scraps on a depleted global LNG market, while American data centers run at full capacity on domestic energy. Russia is next in the sequence. A post-war Iran reopening under US influence competes directly with Russia for the same refineries in China & India at lower cost. Iran's production costs are lower. Russia loses its last structural advantage in heavy crude & its economic lifeline. Additionally, under the Iran war cover, Ukraine has been opportunistically destroying Russian energy infrastructure & all signs point towards Russia being at the end of the line. The message from Washington becomes very simple: we dismantled two regimes in three months, your economy is about to get crushed, sign the Ukraine deal. Then Trump sits down with Xi holding every card. Complete energy dominance. The hybrid petro/LNG-dollar fortified, Iran cleared, Russia cornered, & China facing the Malacca Trap fully closed with no remaining energy bypass. Israel & the GCC are absorbing the kinetic cost of a conflict whose primary beneficiary, counter to the mainstream narrative, is actually America (First). Qatar offline for 5 years reprices the entire global gas market in favor of US exporters for the remainder of the decade. The Gulf states face years of rebuilding. Europe faces its 2nd energy crisis in four years. Sure, the average American might face temporary moderate inflation & higher gas prices. But if you are the architect of the US empire & you view the rise of China & Chinese ASI as an existential winner takes all scenario, the collateral damage is acceptable cost. Whoever controls the energy corridors controls the monetary system. Whoever controls the monetary system & the energy supply simultaneously controls the compute infrastructure that determines which civilization builds ASI first. The US is seizing all 3.

@dom_lucre Saving Private Sweeney

🔥🚨BREAKING: Sydney Sweeney’s little brother has been deployed overseas. Sydney wrote ... "Thinking of all our boys and girls overseas and sending my love! Thank you for your service." 25-year-old Trent is an Airman in the U.S. Air Force, but his current mission is unclear. Trent first entered the Air Force around April 2020, and he's previously been deployed to South Korea in November that year.

@kristanovva Omg! He’s AURA farming!

>what's wrong, Potter? Having a cortisol spike?

@QTRBlackGarrett That cover do go hard though!

My brother told me to get it last year then I saw people on here digging it and decided to get it off the cover alone almost. Glad I did.

Holy fuck I’m only 5 chapters in. Biblical demons, the plague, disgraced knight with heart of gold deep deep down. Grounded Dark Fantasy to the max. I don’t even want to describe the first battle. Just read it

@NYMag When you agree with the premise, but can’t get past that “expecto’-ing” stunt.

“I guess I don’t know what I was ‘expecto’-ing,” writes Rebecca Alter. The first teaser trailer for HBO’s TV adaptation of ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone,’ which came out on Wednesday, looks like the original ‘Harry Potter’ movie, but much grayer. The sets — like Hogwarts, the Hogwarts Express, the Quidditch pitch, and Harry’s little room under the stairs — are just as you remember them, with slightly worse lighting and some tiny, unplaceable details altered. The characters are dressed and styled like they were in the movies, too, but their faces are all different. “In these ways, watching this all-new look at a sort of new ‘Harry Potter’ is like having a dream where you go back to your elementary school, and it’s uncanny enough to teach you the lesson that you can never go back in time,” writes Aalter. Read more: nymag.visitlink.me/4Z3fir

😂🤣😭 omg lmao

I'm going to again pitch the idea thatt Rowling's wizarding world has SO MANY INTERESTING PLACES TO SET STORIES. WE DON'T NEED HOGWARTS. Look - imagine a series set in Durmstrang, an school in which the headmaster literally was a Death Eater and was murdered for betraying the cult. The adventures would be fabulous. Also bear in mind that they need to be constantly bedeviled and enchanted by the wicked witches of Beauxbatons. I know in the books Durmstrang & Beauxbatons aren't all-boy or all-girl but it could make the series super interesting particularly because all the school dances and festivals they'd have to mix, and the general separation would lead to the teenagers being even more socially clumsy than the idiots at Hogwarts which would be hilarious.

What game is this?

@PotterWorldW To be honest I’m not into the color palette their using. Everything shot I’ve seen so far looks drab and dull. Not really magical and whimsical, it’s only towards later on in the movie series that the colors turn darker and it takes on a more serious tone.

Completely different vibe with the Dursleys now compared to the Dursleys back then.

@LadyAliBooks @PotterWorldW I thought they looked like American Suburbanites.

@PotterWorldW They removed what looked british about it

@PotterWorldW They look like American suburbanites.

Japan has agreed to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and escort oil tankers.

I understand why people lose the will to live

@YellowFlashGuy Flash is not fat, but he has some work done on his mouth. This is the most accurate generated idea of what underneath the mask.

5 7 Kevin!

@WillAttract Women don’t understand what Involuntary Celibate is.

Women are mad that they're becoming incels? 💀💀💀

@Condorito43 @retro_anime 11 yo Chappell Roan fan smiling at her.

That death was brutal 😭