Dave R
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Dave R
@daveraad
If you're reading this, you need to ask when and why you suspended your disbelief. Be smarter, think logically, dont subscribe to obvious bullshit.
Low Orbit Katılım Kasım 2010
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President Trump’s top housing official Bill Pulte issued two new criminal referrals for New York Attorney General Letitia James on Wednesday, attempting to revive the administration’s ongoing legal pursuit of one of his political opponents.
cnn.com/2026/03/25/pol…
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@ResistThis42069 @MilesTaylorUSA @ScottJenningsKY Sue someone because they called you a pussy? What are you? 10?
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@MilesTaylorUSA Hey @ScottJenningsKY this kinda smells like slander.
You gonna let him spread known lies in an albeit feeble attempt to hurt your career?
I wouldn’t. Sue this lying PoS…
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You know who’s a perfect metaphor for the GOP? Scott Jennings.
A pundit who mocks Trump with us during commercial breaks — but fawns over Trump when the camera is rolling.
Brave enough to speak out… in the green room.
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@MilesTaylorUSA I dont see Scott Jennings in these comments calling bullshit
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@Idiocratese @TMZ Tell us you've never ridden a motorcycle without telling us
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@TMZ If he’s driving so fast he flips over the handlebars at his weight he was driving too fast in a development. The guy was a dick too and aggression on both sides so neither should be arrested for that. But he was definitely speeding
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@smerconish The latest information from the administration on its face seems untruthful. I think this poll is a reflection of that.
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Yesterday’s poll showed an overwhelming belief that the new U.S.–Iran talks will NOT be successful, with a large majority of voters expressing skepticism. Do you agree with this result?
Vote on today’s poll 🗳️ at smerconish.com
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Kentucky’s Andy Beshear takes aim at Vance as new rivalry intensifies
thehill.com/homenews/campa…
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@rachaelmbade Childish response that demonstrates they are out of touch with Americans.
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NEW: If TRUMP thought dispatching ICE agents to airports would force Dems to blink in the never-ending DHS shutdown standoff, he’s in for a rude awakening ...
I checked in with a bunch of Democratic lawmakers and top staffers yesterday. Their response wasn’t just unfazed; at times, it was downright giddy.
The way they see it, Trump’s move screams desperation and that the White House fears getting blamed.
Their thinking: If the White House is this rattled, Dems can squeeze even harder. Some are even betting Republicans will cave as soon as this week.
Read & Subscribe: rachaelbade.substack.com/p/scoop-dems-d…
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Scott Bessent suggests Trump may 'escalate to de-escalate' Iran war - as he says '50 days' of higher prices will be worth it trib.al/Ykao3zx
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@explorer_czw @aksladastra @WSJ Its a pejorative term russians use against Ukrainians. As if russians could possibly look down on another country.
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Ukraine has notched its biggest domestic territorial gains in more than two years after Russia lost the use of Elon Musk’s Starlink on.wsj.com/4uJg2AY
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@RepMaxMiller Trumps AG appointed Meuller to the investigation. Not dems. Jackass.
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It’s an absolute shame that the Democratic Party tarnished a good man by making his last case the Russia Hoax.
What we knew now is what we knew then.
RIP
Semper fidelis
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@shanaka86 Lmao. There. Is. No. Plan.
No foresight, no logic or reason. Just pulling bullshit from the ether. You make much of whatever addled texting trump does. It is immediately disregarded by a foe with an intentionally disbursed c+c.
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The President of the United States issued four contradictory statements about the Iran war in 36 hours.
Friday, 3:40 PM ET: “I don’t want to do a ceasefire with Iran.”
Friday, 5:15 PM ET: The US is “considering winding down” military operations.
Saturday, 2:00 PM ET: Axios reports the administration is laying groundwork for peace talks through envoys Witkoff and Kushner.
Saturday, now: “If Iran doesn’t FULLY OPEN, WITHOUT THREAT, the Strait of Hormuz, within 48 HOURS from this exact point in time, the United States of America will hit and obliterate their various POWER PLANTS, STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST!”
No ceasefire. Then winding down. Then peace talks. Then obliterate. In that order. In 36 hours. From the same person.
This is not confusion. This is the strategy.
Tehran is running a war with a supreme leader unseen for 13 days, an IRGC command structure operating without verified civilian authority, and a military that has lost its intelligence minister, its Revolutionary Guard spokesman, and its Expediency Council head in the past week. The decision-making apparatus that needs to interpret these signals is fragmented, decapitated, and under nationwide bombardment. Now add four contradictory directives from the adversary in 36 hours and calculate which one is real.
They cannot. That is the point.
The signals are not mixed by accident. They are mixed by design. “Winding down” tells the domestic audience the war has an exit. “No ceasefire” tells the hawks the President is not going soft. “Peace talks” tells the back channels there is a diplomatic lane. “Obliterate power plants” tells Iran the diplomatic lane has a 48-hour fuse attached. Each statement serves a different audience. No two audiences hear the same message. The net effect is that everyone believes the President agrees with them and nobody knows what he will actually do.
Behind the signals, the operational reality has not changed. CENTCOM cleared coastal missile sites and destroyed 16 mine-laying vessels. Two amphibious ready groups with 5,000 Marines are en route. Natanz was bombed for the fifth time. Dezful’s ammunition depot detonated in secondary explosions visible from residential streets. Israel’s defense minister announced strikes will increase significantly. Greece fired a Patriot over Saudi Arabia. The military campaign continued through every rhetorical reversal without interruption. The words changed. The bombs did not.
The missed signal is the one nobody reported. “Winding down” was not a retreat. It was cover. While Trump said winding down, Bessent lifted sanctions on 140 million barrels of Iranian oil to calm markets. While Trump said winding down, the Boxer departed San Diego on an accelerated timeline. While Trump said winding down, CENTCOM released video of 5,000-pound bunker-busters cratering hardened coastal sites. The de-escalation language provided political cover for the next phase of military escalation. The words bought time for the ships.
Now the 48-hour clock is running. March 23 is the deadline. Iran must fully reopen Hormuz or lose its power grid. The Houthis have said Kharg seizure triggers Bab el-Mandeb closure. Iran has vowed unprecedented retaliation if critical infrastructure is hit. The back channels are probing through Oman and Qatar. And the President who said four different things in 36 hours now has a single public commitment with a timestamp attached to it.
The question is not which signal was real. They were all real. The question is which one Tehran believes. And that is a question no intelligence agency on Earth can answer, because the man who issued the signals does not telegraph which one he means until the deadline arrives.
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Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡@shanaka86
BREAKING: Turn on the audio when watching this video clip! A residential street in Dezful, western Iran. A mushroom cloud rising over the 4th Tactical Fighter Base. Secondary explosions detonating stored ordnance in a chain reaction that produces fireballs visible from kilometres away. People celebrating. You can also hear birds chirping. A shockwave rumble that rolls through the neighbourhood like distant thunder that does not stop. This is what “strikes will increase significantly” looks like from the pavement of a city in Iran’s oil heartland, filmed on a phone by someone who lives close enough to hear the ammunition cooking off. The base is called Vahdati. It sits on the Dez River near the Iraqi border in Khuzestan, the province that contains the majority of Iran’s oil reserves. It has been home to Iran’s F-5 Tiger II fighter squadrons since the 1980s: the 41st, 42nd, and 43rd Tactical Fighter Squadrons flying airframes designed in the 1960s. The ammunition depot attached to the base stored the conventional ordnance those jets carry. When precision munitions hit the storage bunkers this morning, the ordnance inside completed the destruction. The initial strike was American and Israeli. The secondary explosions were Iranian. The bombs they had stockpiled for their own war became the weapon that destroyed their own depot. This base has been bombed before. In 1980, Iraqi MiG-21s and MiG-23s struck Vahdati in the opening days of the Iran-Iraq War. Iran used the base to provide air support for ground forces defending the Khuzestan oil fields from Saddam Hussein’s invasion. The base survived eight years of that war. It survived sanctions that prevented replacement of its aircraft. It survived four decades of isolation that turned its F-5 fleet into museum pieces still flying combat missions. It did not survive the morning of March 21 2026. The footage is authentic. Multiple independently filmed videos from different angles across Dezful show the same expanding plume at the same time. OSINT analysts have geolocated the smoke column to the base coordinates. Iran International and Aviation Diary confirmed the target. Reports indicate several F-5 airframes were burning on the tarmac. The jets are 1960s-era. Their loss is symbolic. The ammunition they carried is not. Every round that detonated in the secondary chain reaction is a round that will not be loaded onto the next sortie. The sustainment capacity of the base collapsed in the same explosion that destroyed the ordnance. Dezful sits in Khuzestan. Khuzestan is Iran’s oil province. Kharg Island, which loads 90 percent of Iranian oil exports, is downstream. The proximity is the strategic significance. An ammunition depot exploding 200 kilometres from the terminals that generate Iran’s war revenue is not collateral. It is cartography. The strikes are moving closer to the oil. The oil terminals remain untouched. The ammunition that was supposed to defend them does not. This is Day 22. The 48-hour ultimatum is running. Natanz was bombed for the fifth time this morning. The defense minister of Israel said increase significantly from an underground bunker while a cluster munition hit a daycare above him. And in Dezful, on a residential street in Iran’s oil heartland, someone held up a phone and filmed what a 48-hour countdown looks like before the clock hits zero. Turn on the audio. This is what the war sounds like in Iran whilst the birds are chirping. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
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@KobeissiLetter Trump is negotiating from a position of strength and Iran knows it. The frozen money line alone tells you who is setting the terms here.
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BREAKING: More details emerge on a potential peace deal between the US and Iran, per Axios.
Details include:
1. US officials say there could be "room to negotiate" over returning frozen assets to Iran
2. "They call it reparations. Maybe we call it return of frozen money," the official said
3. US says any deal to end the war would need to include the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, address Iran's stockpile of highly enriched uranium, and also establish a long-term agreement on Iran's nuclear program, ballistic missiles and support for proxies in the region
4. Iranian demands include a ceasefire, guarantees that the war will not resume in the future, and compensation
We expect an eventful week ahead.
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@MAHA_Action @TheAKGuy Support for the shaved ape kennedy? Automatic disqualification.
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"I will be an outspoken voice for medical freedom.”
Texas Congressional Candidate Brandon Herrera says he looks forward to being a major
advocate for MAHA and medical freedom in Congress.
“I was very excited to see Secretary Kennedy be chosen for the slot.”
“I think he represents a great voice in a lot of things that are bipartisan… getting the poison out of our foods, getting American children active again, getting American adults active again.”
“These are things that I think should be bipartisan. Everybody should be involved in.”
“I’m appreciative to everything that the MAHA movement’s done so far. But we do have a lot of work left to do.”
“I will be an outspoken voice for getting poison out of our children’s food and getting Americans healthy again.”
“If we really want to worry about the cost of health care, the number one way to do it is to have healthier Americans.”
@theakguy
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@PeteHegseth No plan. No understanding. No ideas. Just bullshit amd gaslighting. Your "leaders" everyone!
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A war to weaken Iran ends up with the US having to dilute sanctions on Iran. A mark of how blundering this whole endeavour has been.
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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The US is providing a 30-day sanctions waiver for Iranian oil on the water loaded before 20 March.
While the US is trying to bomb Iran into submission, it is permitting nations to buy Iranian oil for the first time since 2019.
Amazing
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