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@factpostnews Famous last words.

Stephen Miller on Iran: "The United States has the capacity to continue this indefinitely"

@DeItaone What did Ukraine do to Russians Navy, without their own? Dumb ass MAGA.

HEGSETH: IRAN LIKES TO SAY IT CONTROLS STRAIT OF HORMUZ BUT IT HAS NO NAVY

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🚨 REAL-TIME ENERGY TAKEOVER, BABY! 🔥🛢️ This ain’t the Straits of Hormuz… THIS IS THE GULF OF AMERICA 🌊🇺🇸 Hundreds of supertankers from EVERY corner of the planet are racing to Texas & Louisiana to fill up on the sweetest, cheapest, most American oil on Earth! While the world panics over Hormuz, President Trump just made the USA the #1 energy superpower again! Record exports. Record tankers. Record WINNING. The globalists’ chokehold is BROKEN. America is the new gas station for the planet! 💪 God bless TRUMP. God bless our oil patch. God bless the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!

@PamelaHensley22 Brent just spiked to $104 on the open. Well done, idiots.

The Gulf of America is currently packed with supertankers racing to load up on US oil. Our economy is going to boom. I have to wonder, was this President Trump's plan all along?

@aniell1259 @Knesix @SunTzusWar You love someone who lies to you. It's easy to research how the global economy works, instead of jumping on here and acting ignorant.

@Knesix @SunTzusWar I love President Trump and all that he is doing for our country and the world, however can someone please explain to me then, why our gas prices in the USA are still rising instead of going down? >$4 a gallon is killing my budget.

I honestly thought this map was made up Hundreds of supertankers, the kind that carry two million barrels each, are currently racing toward the US Gulf Coast from every direction. Atlantic, Indian Ocean, around Africa, the scenic route, the "we were heading to Saudi Arabia but NVM" route. Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz and everyone panicked. Oil hit $126 a barrel. Gas hit $4 a gallon. Cable news did the thing where they put a red banner on screen and say "CRISIS" in a font that suggests you should be hoarding toilet paper. And then something happened that nobody in media seems interested in reporting, for obvious reasons. The world just... switched suppliers? Like changing your internet provider except the internet provider is the entire effing global energy economy. American oil exports are approaching record levels. Gulf Coast refineries are running at 95% capacity. Supertankers that were mid-ocean on their way to the Persian Gulf literally turned around and headed to Texas. That's not a metaphor. Ship tracking data shows them doing U-turns in the Indian Ocean. Meanwhile China, which was getting 45% of its oil imports through Hormuz and paying basement prices for sanctioned Iranian crude, is now competing with Japan and Europe for the same expensive American barrels. Chinese manufacturers are already raising prices 20% on goods headed to the US. So to summarize: Iran played its biggest card and the main result is that the United States became the world's emergency gas station and China's cheap energy subsidy evaporated. This is either the most elaborate coincidence in the history of geopolitics... or someone planned the sequence Venezuela -> Iran -> profits! I'll let you figure out which one

@AndreasSteno Who depends more on a "just-in-time" economy? Which will punish it's politicians first?

Trump just flipped the Strait narrative from open it to block it, turning it into an Iran versus the rest of world pressure test while oil flows still hold around 80% of normal. But the real constraint is structural: Iran cannot push Hormuz too far without hitting China’s red lines, since Beijing is the dominant buyer and can either enforce discipline or accelerate bypass routes like pipelines and overland corridors. That creates leverage, but it is asymmetric. If Iran overuses it, it loses it. Clever move by Trump, in my opinion!

@SteveJense61567 @NickKristof Fuck you and your bullshit framing. Trump got conned by Bibi. Now he's stuck trying to pull a win. Classic Trump biz, fuck shit up and try to save face.

@NickKristof I missed the memo. Is Trump running for office again? Do you actually think he cares about politics at this point? I guess you’d rather see Iran with a nuclear weapon?

The Trump administration seems to have miscalculated in Islamabad, assuming that Iran was weakened and ready to cave, when in fact it feels it has the upper hand. It's difficult to reach an agreement when both sides feel they have the advantage and are prone to overreach. And now Trump seems inclined to miscalculate again, assuming that blockading the Strait will force Iran to capitulate. That seems very unlikely. It's true that a blockade will put economic pressure on Tehran and on China, which in turn can put pressure on Iran. But with zero oil passing through the Strait, rising oil prices are likely to put even more pressure on Trump. Iran, as a dictatorship, simply has more strategic patience, and in addition there are many in Tehran who believe that Iran has to do more to reestablish deterrence and make the US pay a price. If the US blocks Iranian oil exports, expect Iran in turn to keep striking Fujairah, to keep the UAE from by passing the Strait by pipeline, and also to target Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline carrying oil to the Red Sea. And the Houthis are likely to counter-escalate by blocking oil exports through the Bab al-Mandab Strait as well. And that's not even counting possible strikes on oil refineries in the region. In short, I think Trump's escalation plans are once again characterized by magical thinking, false assumptions of Iranian weakness and a failure to think ahead about how Iran may respond to his moves. For Trump to escalate at this point will be a sign not of strength but of desperation, and counter to American and world interests.

@Acyn Bullshit! Where the fuck does this dude go. All my family in the Midwest have HAD IT with Trump. Everything costs more and now war. Is he seriously trying to weirdo-gaslight us?

Shapiro: People need to touch grass. Go talk to the people that you go to church with, and what you'll find the out is most of those people agree with the president

@RapidResponse47 @POTUS Lets punch ourselves in the face again? Do you dummies understand a "just-in-time" economy? Because if you don't learn quick, we are all going to feel it. Clock is ticking, are May isn't looking good.

.@POTUS: "It’s called all in, and all out... We think that numerous countries are going to be helping us with this also, but we’re putting on a complete blockade. We’re not going to let Iran make money on selling oil to people that they like, and not people that they don’t like or whatever it is. It’s going to be all or none."

@Acyn That's right, eat yourselves alive with your purity tests.

Heinrich: The president posted, “I know why Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, and Candace Owens have been fighting me for years. They have one thing in common: low IQs.” Those people, though, do have considerable social followings. How big of an issue do you take it for the Republican base? Shapiro: I don’t think it’s a major issue for the Republican base. I think the president is exactly right to call this out for what it is, which is people who have fringe audiences—large numbers, but fringe audiences in terms of the broader overall Republican audience. Multiple polls have shown the president has 80–90% support inside the Republican Party for his actions in Iran. There was a poll showing support for people like Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly versus the president is 6%.

@DeItaone Signalling fortifying position.

IRAN'S PRESIDENT IN CALL WITH RUSSIAN COUNTERPART: IRAN IS READY FOR A 'BALANCED AND FAIR' AGREEMENT THAT ENSURES STABLE PEACE AND SECURITY - IRANIAN STATE MEDIA

@atrupar Fuck ALL you idiots who voted for this asshat. You fuckers wasted 10 years of our lives and our country on bullshit. You deserve all the shit headed your way.

TRUMP: Look, the election was rigged. You know that, I know that, everybody knows that now. BARTIROMO: Yup TRUMP: And it's all come out. And it's coming out.

@Acyn This idiot is burning himself down.

Trump: When you look at CNN, "The New York Times," ABC fake news, NBC fake news, they report things that they know are false. It's almost treasonous. The NYT’s circulation is way down. I’m proud to report that.

@BullTheoryio congress.gov/crs-product/LS…

Every uncertain headline right now is hitting global markets at the same time. Trump says any country supplying military equipment to Iran will face 50% tariffs on all exports to the US. The warning is not limited to one country. It directly targets major players like China and others suspected of supporting Iran. At the same time, Trump signaled that even suspected transfers like anti aircraft or shoulder missiles could trigger these tariffs. This is not just geopolitics anymore. It is turning into a trade escalation layered on top of a war. Markets are now dealing with three things at once: war risk, oil volatility, and a potential trade war.

@JasonMBrodsky @POTUS How fucking stupid do you have to be... If your enemy is saying they want to completely destroy you, why would you do anything but burn them down along with you. He's an cosplaying idiot.

.@POTUS on #Iran's regime: "They haven't left the bargaining table. I predict they come back, and they give us everything we want—and I told my people, I want everything. I don't want 90%, I don't want 95%. I told them, I want everything. They have no cards."

@FaytuksNetwork He sounds like a teenager trying to brag to his friends about how he didn't just lose a fight, he could have won at any moment, but chose not to.

Donald Trump says the U.S. could “take out” Iran in one day.

@atrupar These pricks love their little round-about games of avoiding ANY responsibilities and still get paychecks. Kick these assholes out of Congress.

WELKER: You're a member of the Oversight Committee, which was scheduled to hear from former AG Pam Bondi this Tuesday about her handling of the Epstein files. Do you think Bondi should testify this week? BYRON DONALDS: Look, actually at this point I don't really think so, now that she's the former AG

@atrupar Fucking coward.

WELKER: Would you support military action in Cuba if that were the way to lead to regime change? BYRON DONALDS: I'm not going to step in front of the president and any decisions he or Secretary Rubio are going to make on this front

@factpostnews I'll bet this fucker has the same bullshit lines for biz partnerships he totally messed up. It's like his own blanky.

Trump acknowledges he knew costs would increase because of the Iran war: "We had the greatest economy ever, everything's going along. And I tell my economic advisors, I'm sorry, fellas. We're in great shape. We have to go and take a little journey down to Iran."

@Acyn All Trumps should be run out of the country. Fuck those scammers.

Bartiromo: Do you believe the price of oil and gas will be lower before the midterm elections? Trump: I hope so. I mean, I think so, it could be. It could be the same or maybe a little bit higher.