Barry
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@overton_news Having a communist in your government doesn’t mean you’re a communist too ya dunce
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Bill Maher just dragged leftist actor David Cross out of his bubble and forced him to confront the truth about Zohran Mamdani.
Maher proved how Mamdani is a straight-up communist, while Cross tried to play dumb.
Maher didn’t let him.
CROSS: “Well, I said Democratic Socialist.”
MAHER: “I know what Democratic Socialist is, that’s Mamdani.”
CROSS: “Yeah.”
MAHER: “Who’s a straight up communist.”
CROSS: “No he’s not! No he’s not! Bill!”
MAHER: “He is, first of all.”
“He has someone working for him named Cea Weaver.”
“Have you read about her?”
CROSS: “I have not.”
MAHER: “See, that means you’re in a bubble.”
CROSS: “Okay...”
MAHER: “Because you should have. Okay, let me tell you who she is.”
“She’s like one of his top lieutenants.”
“His big issue was the rent’s too high...she’s the head of like, we’re going to fix housing.”
“This is like what got him elected.”
“He has not disavowed her and I can show you all her Tweets that she’s put out over the last few years and quotes.”
“And one of them is; ‘Elect more communists.’”
“I don’t think you have to read between the lines, if somebody he stands with and by is saying that.”
“And also her other quotes are like; ‘All homeownership is racist.’”
CROSS: “Well, that’s ridiculous.”
MAHER: “Exactly!”
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@overton_news Maher is so politically dumb he canot make the distinction between Communism and Socialism That is a characteristiche shared with the MAGA lot. Maher out to grow up, travel and read.
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@diceytroop @willchamberlain Nah.
The violence may not be specifically stated, but words like “productive action” and “someone has to do it” and “revolution” are clear encouragement for the people crazy enough to carry “death to tyrants” placards in the street outside where the president is located.

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@willchamberlain This clip shows the opposite of what you claim. Hasan mentions another panelist's reference to the meme of "someone has to do it" as evidence that people are ready to take productive action -- not by "doing it" but by advancing radical ("revolutionary") social change.
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@CalltoActivism Avoiding socialism seems to be exceedingly helpful.
The pope gonna help
with that?
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@PramilaJayapal Unbelievable.
If you can afford the hassle and travel to Cuba, you can find an American doctor.
People vote for her?
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Cuba has a healthcare system so advanced that American patients have traveled there to access treatments they couldn't get or afford at home.
Our government's illegal embargo blocks that access.
So Americans keep paying more, getting less, and going bankrupt while Washington makes sure they can't look elsewhere.
End the embargo. Pass Medicare for All.
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@shanaka86 Another delusional epistle!
Do you not think for once that a country with the level of preparedness so far as shown in missiles attacks and precision, rebuilding of roads and rail tracts in less than a week, would also prepare for its oil?! 🤠
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JUST IN: Iran just pulled a thirty-year-old empty supertanker out of retirement and began towing it toward Kharg Island. She is moving so slowly that a voyage that should take a day and a half is taking four days.
Her name is NASHA. IMO 9079107. Built 1996. A two-million-barrel very large crude carrier that has been anchored empty off Kharg for years. TankerTrackers confirmed her reactivation yesterday. Gulf News, Iran International, and Fox News all picked it up within hours.
The reason she is moving at all is that Iran is running out of places to put the oil.
Kharg Island handles roughly ninety percent of Iran’s crude exports. Its onshore tanks had about thirteen million barrels of spare capacity when the US blockade began on April 13. Net inflow since has been running at one million to one point one million barrels per day because exports have collapsed to single digits of vessels while upstream production continues. The math is mechanical. Roughly twelve days of spare capacity. The calendar says that window closes this week.
NASHA is not a strategy. NASHA is what you do when you have run out of strategy.
A two-million-barrel floating storage vessel buys Iran approximately forty-eight hours of continued upstream production. After that, either the wells get shut in or the crude goes somewhere else. The parallel options being pursued, ship-to-ship transfers in the Riau Archipelago, AIS-dark transits, sanctioned VLCCs returning home through the blockade line, are not enough. Lloyd’s List Intelligence has tracked roughly twenty-six Iran-linked vessels evading since April 13. That cannot absorb a million barrels a day.
The wells will shut in. The question is which wells, for how long, and whether they come back.
The Asmari and Bangestan carbonate formations that sit under most of Iran’s giant southern fields are high-permeability, strong-water-drive systems. The Society of Petroleum Engineers literature on this specific reservoir class is unambiguous. Remove continuous pressure support for a prolonged shut-in and four damage mechanisms activate simultaneously: water coning upward through the fracture network, fines migration into pore throats, formation compaction under increased effective stress, and clay swelling under altered salinity and pH. The damage is not theoretical. It is documented. And it is measured in months to years of recoverable production capacity, not days.
Maleki and Gordon estimate three hundred to five hundred thousand barrels per day of permanent capacity loss if the current shut-in trajectory completes. That is a directional estimate, not a lab measurement, but the direction is not in dispute.
NASHA is the archaeological signature of the clock.
When a country with the world’s third-largest oil reserves reactivates a thirty-year-old retired tanker to float on top of its main export terminal and buy forty-eight hours of time, the institutional systems designed to absorb shocks have already failed. The insurance market, the shadow fleet, the diplomatic channels, and the reservoir physics are all converging on the same conclusion at different speeds, and NASHA is the one that shows up on satellite.
The market is pricing a ceasefire.
The Pentagon is pricing six months of mine clearance.
Iran just pulled a corpse out of the Persian Gulf and asked it to buy two days.
That is not how a reversible crisis looks. That is how a regime tells you, operationally, that it has run out of options between the blockade and the shut-in. The reservoir does not negotiate.
open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

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@shanaka86 question is... will we sink 2m barrels of oil?
I'm sure those neighboring nations have the ability to clean up spills, its not just whatever private company sells the service, right?
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@Concertaftamine @shanaka86 Trump did win the war.
Just now waiting for the rubble to
quit bouncing.
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@shanaka86 Thanks for the information. These are facts—but facts don’t win wars; strategy does. If facts alone decided outcomes, Trump would have won the war 50 days ago.
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@PithyCricket @shanaka86 Are you advocating giving in to bad behavior?
Because that’s how you get more bad behavior.
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@shanaka86 So. What would America do, if Iran simply started pumping the excess oil into the ocean.
Just dump it into the water, tell all the nations that it will continue until ships are supplied and America lifts their stupid little block and we can get normal fuel prices.
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@shanaka86 Here we go again. More CIA slop?
Don’t you get tired of writing fiction?
Have you cracked open a book lately?
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@FyneMarket @shanaka86 Read it again.
The wells plug themselves with contaminants if not released.
Long-term damage.
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Even if the situation is tight, the conclusion feels overstated. Oil systems are built with contingencies,floating storage, throttling production, and rerouting exports are all standard tools. The idea that one reactivated tanker means Iran has “run out of strategy” ignores how often energy markets adapt under pressure. Until there’s clear evidence of large-scale shut-ins and lasting reservoir damage, this looks more like stress management than collapse.
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@Polit1cswithM @shanaka86 An accusation of missed points.
Unfortunately, your post added nothing of evidence to the contrary.
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@shanaka86 you missed a lot of points but it's OK.
Iran doesn't need to confirm your analysis. The less you know about Iran's strategy, the more effective Iran is in its war of attrition strategy.
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@boomersdid911 @RapidResponse47 @POTUS @ElizLanders Which Supreme Court Justice cannot define a woman?
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@RapidResponse47 @POTUS @ElizLanders “Jim Acosta’s girlfriend” I forgot the current regime doesn’t recognize women as people so they avoid names
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.@POTUS to Jim Acosta's girlfriend (@ElizLanders) when she asks one of the dumbest questions ever — if he'd use a nuclear weapon on Iran:
"Why would a stupid question like that be asked?... No, I wouldn't use it. A nuclear weapon should never be allowed to be used by anybody."
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@Br00klands @RapidResponse47 @POTUS @ElizLanders Wiping out the civilization obviously means wiping out the Islamic terrorist regime.
Please post AFTER knowing what you’re talking about.
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@RapidResponse47 @POTUS @ElizLanders So how do you intend to wipe out a whole civilisation in one night you absolute fucking freak? Cut out their health service?
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@thisis_SM @pc11295560 @JasonJournoDC “should have continued”
Those claims vaporized when Obama made sure there was no money remaining to settle the claims.
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💥NEW: Maria Bartiromo: "10 presidents before President Trump all said the same thing: 'Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.'"
Ro Khanna: "And one president delivered! And that was Barack Obama!"
Maria Bartiromo: "No, that's not true ... Congressman, you're talking fantasy! Obama did NOTHING about it! ... other than send money to the Iranians!"
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@BarackObama @ObamaFoundation What’s the carbon footprint to travel to Antarctica?
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The young people in our @ObamaFoundation Leaders program give me hope. One of those leaders, Luisa Neubauer, is working to fight climate change and recently traveled to Antarctica.
This Earth Day, I hope you'll check out her incredible story.
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Truth: I wish #JoeBiden had not stepped down after a bad debate. As it is, he's still on Earth & blessed by
the love, support & gratitude of all those around him.
DX@DX_Alphafg
Biden: “I don’t walk as easy as I used to. I don’t speak as smoothly as I used to. I don’t debate as well as I used to. But I know what I do know: I know how to tell the truth." Do you agree with him?
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