Mike Rogers

@JebraFaushay This is April fools but I bet sine exec s'newhere is going to "hmmmm..."

Critics and fans have suggested Elliot Page as James Bond, as the franchise looks to develop and possibly include LGBTQ+ actors in the role. What a fantastic idea!

@madcap412 @nypost Like socialism, the shame the (male) fan marketing just hasn't been tried right yet. This time it will help the movie do a billion,

@nypost ah yes We have seen the incredible results of this marketing strategy

‘Supergirl’ star Milly Alcock braces for backlash — as women face scrutiny for ‘simply existing’ in franchises trib.al/ttRcANd

@nypost Fucking drama queen. You are a celebrity. ALL celebrities have to deal with noise from assholes. It's not because you're a woman.

@edels0n You actually think he's going to do a draft. Get the fuck out of here.

My condolences to every 18-25 year old able-bodied American man

@thedaywar90 He (or his puppet masters) came that close to wrecking the country and who knows, maybe we can't fix what they wrecked. But we're sure as hell trying. I'm telling you that delusional idiots like you aren't making it easier.

Biden didn’t destroy the Rose Garden. He rebuilt the economy, created over 15 million jobs, cut the deficit, lowered insulin costs, and passed historic climate & infrastructure bills. His conscience is clear and so is his record. Do you agree with me? Yes Or No

@mjarbo @chrizmillr Commentators like CD exist because of miserable, smug jackasses like you pointing, smearing and Donald Sutherland screeching at ANYONE who doesn't bow to your Neanderthal, exclusionary, ideological gatekeeping. Get bent. I will be thinking of you when I see this a third time.

Sorry @philiplord and @chrizmillr I cannot, in good conscious, support #projecthailmary after Andy Weir went on a stream with noted chud Critical Drinker. For years this man has tried to destroy everything that you guys stand for, and to give him a pass like that is a bridge too far.

@_10delta_ TLBIDR "Too long, but I did read" very interesting assessment. I hope it leads to a more dominant US.

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.

@ShannonJesso @fandompulse I went to conventions and remember conversations. I was able to pickup on the "zeitgeist". Fans were hopeful but also skeptical and the first season was shaky. A writer's strike allowed a lot of feedback between first and second seasons and you could tell they were listening.

@mego73 @fandompulse So was I, but I was a kid back then and didn't know anything about the negativity toward the show. I was just excited we were getting more Star Trek.

William Shatner spreads the debunked claim that Star Trek: The Next Generation was hated by fans when it came out: "And when the Next Gen came out; there was tons of hate because it “wasn’t Star Trek” and the cast probably was in fear from the fans. Again when the series with Bakula came out, it too was panned by the fans because it “wasn’t Star Trek.” Star Trek is different for everyone" This originated with a Weekly World News article making fun of die-hard Star Trek fans, but gets repeated by the studios often. Do you agree with him?

@ShannonJesso @fandompulse As someone who was there, these was a small faction of people that would not accept any new show. Others were wary but hopeful. TNG listened and corrected instead of lashing out and smearing critics. Now, the creators are too smug and haughty to take and utilize fan feedback.

@fandompulse Are you sure it's Debunked?

@fandompulse Shatner is half way correct. The difference between then and now is TNG etc was working to win those fans over and course corrected until they pretty much did. Modern ST doesn't and just berates and smears fans as ists and phobes instead.

@childejc @AppyOrtho @WilliamShatner @grok And that non kiss backup take was ruined by William Shatner on purpose (he crossed his eyes in a way that would only be apparent when seen inn dailies)... or at least that is what Nichelle Nichols said.

@AppyOrtho @WilliamShatner @grok, when kirk kissed uhuru in star trek, was broadcast of that episode blocked by any tv stations?

During the first airing of my Star Trek series where a kiss was objectionable; many southern stations pulled the episode & condemned the show. Using today’s vernacular it would absolutely be called“woke DEI crap”because it went against “norms” of society for its time. Not a lot seems to have changed.🤷🏼😑

@Uchemontanatv @WilliamShatner Cigar smoking is done differently than cigarette, where you inhale a lot more.

@WilliamShatner At 95, you could still come down with lung cancer, TB or COPD Be careful what you put out there especially when you’re don living your life The young ones are watching

At 95, I'm still smokin'! 😝 I’ve learned two things: Never waste a good cigar. Never trust anyone who says you should ‘act your age.’ 😉👍🏻

@WilliamShatner Happy birthday, Mr. Shatner!

@TrumpsHurricane Resign.

Emotional Mayor of NYC Zorhan Mamdani said he has been getting hateful messages for being a Muslim What’s your response to him ??

@Tim_Walz You can't be trusted with it.

The White House is cutting off $250 million for Minnesotans health care.

@fandompulse I'm ambivalent, especially after the trailer.

James Gunn Supergirl is releasing in 99 days. Are you planning on seeing it?

@russelstinks @reiamimami Yeah, but this movie was not the reminder of that, that night.

@reiamimami It's at times like this that we realize that winning an Oscar doesn't mean anything...

Suck it

@ihyeonjin23312 @reiamimami This was someone diminishing the movie and the win that she responded to. That deserves some clap back.

@reiamimami Please be humble. People don't like you; they love the Huntrix animated character.

@cyberblaqk @reiamimami Say what?

@reiamimami You and that movie still irrelevant

@reiamimami I would have really loved it if you said Caw-Caw...