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Question for those who think Trump will TACO on Iran: what exactly does that look like? Declare victory and pull out? Then what?
Iran walks away with de facto control over the Strait of Hormuz — the world’s most important energy chokepoint. That is not peace. That is Tehran holding a veto over the global economy.
They would have the power to disrupt flows, keep oil prices elevated, punish the West, and extract concessions. And once you TACO under those conditions, the risk of a wider regional war probably goes up, not down, because Iran’s neighbors will not accept that new reality.
If you want markets to recover and crude to settle down, the answer is not a face-saving exit. It is taking away Iran’s ability to coerce traffic through Hormuz. Until that changes, the risk premium stays.
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In case you have not been keeping score the last 36 hours ...
Javier Blas@JavierBlas
From almost done, followed by close to winding down -- to a 48-hours ultimatum to Iran to re-open the Strait of Hormuz that the US doesn't use, and in any case, it would be very easy to re-open even by the NATO European cowards...
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@DemosKratosCA Culture. Its why western countries are nice. Thats why they want to move here.
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Legit question: Why do so many newcomers act like public spaces are their personal living room: loud phone calls, spitting, littering, and then get shocked when locals push back?
Awareness issue or entitlement?
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Frankly, it can be soul-crushing to see the daily stuff that is levied at me. I persevere but at times I wonder if it is best that I head off to some remote island on a beach with my Belgian shepherds. I feel that I've done my part.
Honeybcarnegie@honeybcarnegie
@GadSaad I appreciate that you’re trying to save the west
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@JoeCarlasare @ConsumingCrypto Good to hear! Ill mortgage the house and buy ibit calls on Monday.
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Bitcoin is going to ATHs in 2026 while the majority of the market is positioned bearish.
Beautiful. 🔥
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ray c retweetledi
This is a show vote because you guys can’t get your shit together. You guys are the ones holding up all funding and won’t act on voter ID and you think your messaging Bill works?
Senator John Cornyn@JohnCornyn
Just passed the Senate unanimously, now on to the House!
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ray c retweetledi
Let’s make sure @SenateGOP hears us loud and clear.
Pass the SAVE America Act as is.
We will accept nothing less.
REPOST to let @LeaderJohnThune know!
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@AnnCoulter Honest question: why do you think this is happening? And who is behind it?
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American democracy is the kind of system where you can vote and vote and vote, but no matter how many times you vote for less war and less immigration, the government is going to give you more war and more immigration. It’s always World War II, we’re always fighting Hitler, and we always have no choice because we’ve got to stop [Fill In Targeted Country Here] from acquiring nuclear weapons. Even if we’ve just totally obliterated their nuclear program.
Also, we’re never getting a wall. Coincidentally, the price tag for a mere two weeks of the Iran war is about what it would cost to build an impermeable, 2,000-mile wall across our entire southern border.
I give up. I’m out of options, but the least I can do is help Trump during his last few years in office. (His last year in office, if the midterms turn out the way they’re looking right now.)
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@LawrenceLepard @GenXGeriDad Which "allies" would you trust not to leak the date of the attack?
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ray c retweetledi
🚨 PROOF that @SenSchumer is a traitor - here's the 30 year old video he wishes would disappear!
He's opposing voter ID right now, but in 1996 he called photo ID “COMMON SENSE” and ANTI-FRAUD.
Wonder what changed? Perhaps it's who is using it to vote for him?
REPOST this EVERYWHERE!
#thinblueline #lawenforcement
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ray c retweetledi
OUST her from office! Senator @lisamurkowski (R-AK) was the ONLY "NAY" vote from the Republican Party on the SAVE America Act Test Vote.
If you want her to to be primaried... feel free to call her office and let them know: (202)-224-6665
REPOST this EVERYWHERE!
#thinblueline #lawenforcement
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ray c retweetledi
After last nights and the constant doxxing attempts and threats from people who want to attack me largely due to politicians and leftist hate filled rhetoric as I expose billion dollar fraud schemes stealing from taxpayers
I’ve decided it’s time to raise money for security cost once again unfortunately
You can donate here: blacklineguardianfund.com
If you cannot donate no pressure whatsoever, please like and share this so it can get in the eyes of those that can.
God bless,
Nick
Nick shirley@nickshirleyy
@bourne_beth2345 @ucdavis People trying to dox me in real time Expose fraud and have you life threatened 24/7 “Run him out of town” for what? Exposing fraud? This is what happens when leftist paint you as a villain for doing something good for the country. Fraudsters always complain the loudest.
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ray c retweetledi
After 75 days, the Senate will finally debate on the SAVE America Act tomorrow.
Senate offices open @ 8 a.m. & we need phones ringing off the hook.
We also need everyone to make individual posts about the SAVE America Act to get it trending.
Prepare yourselves.
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I have spotted a new potential fractal...
Part of being a trader is the ability to adapt to different market conditions. As you all know, I am still short because the primary objective has not changed, we will eventually sweep $60K (I am confident in this).
The difference now lies in the positioning of the cycle and current price action. With that said, I believe there is a good chance we may also be following a additional pattern which was printed 2022. This would mean that $BTC could theoretically deviate above the range highs before ultimately trending lower.
No, this does not mean we are going to the moon. It would simply be a swing failure pattern (SFP), followed by a few days of ranging before pushing lower. That is why I have adjusted my stop loss on the short to a 1W close above $80K.
I initially shared another fractal from 2022, but the market is starting to display characteristics of a different schematic.
Because of that, this is something I am paying attention to before continuation lower.
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When the person you supported does a bunch of things that you didn't expect and that horrify you, 1) you should have regrets! 2) it should make you wonder if you also erred in your assessment of the alternatives.
Bret Weinstein@BretWeinstein
I’m distressed. But the other party, MY PARTY, ran a middle finger to the Constitution. I’d cast the same vote. And while we’re at it, I supported Kennedy, and would gladly have supported Gabbard, but the Democrats drove them out. I don’t like where we are, but have no regrets.
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@jbulltard1 @geopolitics_e 99% of his teachers in elementary and high school are far left. Children get brainwashed.
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@geopolitics_e these are idiots, literally useless humans, they're not crazy bc of how much studying they've done.
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why is it always the rich kids who are the socialists and other crazies? As someone who went to private schools his whole life i have my theories but curious to hear more
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New York Post@nypost
Parents of alleged ISIS-loving NYC bomb thrower own $2.5M Pennsylvania home, are naturalized citizens from Afghanistan trib.al/JNhNNhn
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@jlippincott_ The goal was self preservation - world leaders didn't want to be assassinated so they made up this rule and a rationale for it only midwits believe
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Under the old law of war that existed prior to WWII, outright assassination of a foreign head of state was condemned by all civilized powers.
The goal was to limit violence by "bracketing" off the government and people as lawful targets. Militaries fight militaries. Governments are off limits. There was a hard headed reason for this.
Keeping the opposing government in place made wars less brutal and existential by preserving the continuity and stability of power that made effective peace treaties possible.
But now that every enemy of the United States is a "terrorist" there is no ground for negotiation or lasting peace.
None of this has anything to do with whether the Ayatollah was a "good" man. Those judgments, between sovereign powers, mean nothing. Everyone thinks he is good and his enemies bad.
In light of this reality, the goal should be to limit the destructive effects of those moral claims by removing them as a subject of warfare.
By assassinating the Ayatollah, the United States has set a precedent for future wars that threatens to make those conflicts even more radical and violent than they should be.
That move was a mistake and we should say as much.
Thomas Fazi@battleforeurope
Very powerful and sobering piece by Fyodor Lukyanov, editor-in-chief of the magazine Russia in Global Politics, on how we have entered the most dangerous age in human history: “The Iranian head of state was not only liquidated by a precision strike — this act was also hailed as a triumphant achievement and a blessing for future conflict resolution. Ali Khamenei was, according to his country’s laws, the legitimate supreme authority of a UN member state that is internationally recognised almost universally and participates as a full-fledged actor in world affairs — including political negotiations with the very states that brought about his death. The fact that one state deliberately assassinates the head of another state and does so according to the same scheme used to eliminate leaders of terrorist cells or drug cartels gives world politics a completely new, dangerous dimension. This is true even in comparison to previous regime changes and their violent endpoints, such as the lynching of Muammar Gaddafi in Libya or the execution of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. Although both events resulted from external military interventions, Gaddafi died at the hands of Libyan adversaries amid internal unrest. Saddam Hussein, on the other hand, came to an end through a ruling by an Iraqi court — despite legitimate doubts about the objectivity of this procedure. The case of Iran marks the transition to a method that Israel has so far practiced primarily against the leadership of Hezbollah and Hamas. The United States now fully supports this approach. This process dismantles the last stabilising elements that had survived from previous eras of international relations. The actors now make the recognition of state legitimacy dependent on current political circumstances or personal inclinations and dislikes. This transforms world politics into a form of ‘Russian roulette’ and deprives it of its fundamental set of rules. It is not the case that in the past all actors always acted according to law and morality — especially since the latter is interpreted differently depending on the culture anyway. But framework conditions did exist. These are now being torn down. As this process progressed consistently and almost fluidly, many political elites do not seem to have yet grasped the seriousness of the situation in all its drama. In these circles, the events are considered merely drastic but explainable excesses of current contradictions. But not everyone shares this view. The conclusions that the US opponents now inevitably draw are obvious: - Diplomacy as a dead end: negotiations with the Americans seem almost pointless. The end result always demands surrender or exposes itself as a diplomatic simulation that merely prepares the violent solution. - Last resort: in a situation without a way of retreat and without the prospect of preserving what already exists, any remaining argument — i.e., any available form of the ‘red button’ — becomes legitimate, whether literally or figuratively. These findings will stand, regardless of what happens in Iran. Even if a form of ‘social engineering’ based on the Venezuelan model were to succeed there — for example through a backroom agreement on a transfer of power acceptable to all sides (which currently seems unlikely) — this would not reassure other US-critical states. The mechanism of violent submission is now established. This is a much tougher option than even the ‘color revolutions’ of the 2000s. Resistance to this will be more determined and desperate in the future — with consequences that, in the worst case, will develop a fatal dynamic of their own. [...] The general conclusion is as sobering as it is unoriginal: world politics is increasingly relying on naked violence and forced submission. Everything else descends into a trivial matter. Even hypocritical moral or ideological pretexts are rarely used anymore. The evaluation of this development is the responsibility of the individual. But ignorance of these facts is no longer possible”. Full article in Russian: rg.ru/2026/03/01/vyh…
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@scientificecon Has Iran violated the Geneva Convention recently? If yes did you post about it?
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Are we surprised that the US Navy violated the Geneva convention?
Attacking a country and bombing its civilians no doubt violates quite a few conventions.
Mr Sharma@sharma_views
🚨 BRAHMA CHELLANEY: Under the Geneva Conventions, attackers must search for survivors when a warship is sinking. A US Navy submarine torpedoed Iranian warship IRIS Dena near Sri Lanka and left. Sri Lankan Navy rescued 32 sailors. U.S. VIOLATED THE GENEVA CONVENTION. 😡
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Futures traders:
This is a classic textbook William O'Neil set up. I have seen this maybe a few hundred of these over the years $DAX
Frankly, this is a hard one NOT to make money on
Although half of my job description as Founder/CIO of Factor Research deals with losing money
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