@pldevries2 @EnergzdEconomy Wrong. Check out the Cuban Missile Crisis or is that ancient history to scholars?
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@EnergzdEconomy No, it doesn't make sense. If you blockade the Strait of Hormuz, you will blow up the global economy and expand the conflict. As many scholars of IR and War had pointed out escalation is almost never a solution. Please do some homework.
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It actually makes perfect sense. What makes no sense is why the US allowed Iran to continue to sell oil in contravention of sanctions throughout this war. This embargo/blockade should have been in place as soon as Iran fired on the first non-Iranian ship that attempted to cross
*Walter Bloomberg@DeItaone
SPAIN REJECTS HORMUZ BLOCKADE THREAT Margarita Robles said a proposed Strait of Hormuz blockade “makes no sense,” criticizing escalating tensions in the Iran conflict. She called the war “senseless” and warned it is pulling the world into a broader crisis. Spain has been among Europe’s strongest critics of the U.S.–Israeli campaign and has previously restricted military cooperation with the U.S. amid the conflict.
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@jimiuorio @DemzDeliver Hey Jim didn't you know the community colleges include Free Love too? OH, the good old days.
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🚨 HUGE: Janet Mills just signed a law making community college permanently free in Maine.
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@homeroboscan @2000STOCKMASTER The problem is, Iran can strike that pipe.
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ULTIMA HORA
Emiratos Arabes Unidos ya no necesita el estrecho de Ormuz. Comenzó a sacar millón y medio de barriles de petróleo diarios a través del oleoducto Abu Dabhi-Fujairah, de 380 Km. de longitud, construído con apoyo de China al costo de 4.200 millones de dólares. Buena parte de ese petróleo va a China y la India que se desligan de Irán. Con este oleoducto, Teherán se queda sin la presión que ejercía controlando el paso del petróleo árabe por el estrecho de Ormuz.
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@DavidM_Friedman 100% right. Trump has guts. No U.S. President since Harry Truman has been this supportive of Israel.
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Driving to my plane last night my heart swelled with pride seeing the tens of US Air Force refueling planes parked at Ben Gurion airport. The US does not have a base at Ben Gurion. But when it needs assistance in maintaining and fueling its aircraft, Israel, as America’s best friend, is always willing to help. Israel will always be there for America and its citizens and no amount of Jew-hatred from the far right or far left will change that!
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A perfect distillation of TDS.
Brent Baker 🇺🇲🇺🇦 🇮🇱@BrentHBaker
Don’t want Iran to lose if it means Trump wins. @TomFriedman of @NYTimes really wants “to see Iran defeated militarily because this regime is a terrible regime for its people and the region,” but on CNN’s @Smerconish he fretted “the problem is I really don’t want to see Bibi Netanyahu or Donald Trump politically strengthened by this war because they are too awful human beings. They are both engaged in anti-democratic projects in their own countries. They’re both alleged crooks. They are terrible, terrible people doing terrible things to America’s standing in the world and Israel’s standing in the world.”
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday threatened military action against the Jewish state over what he screibed as "barabric" action in Palestine and Lebanon, drawing a harsh response from Israeli decision-makers.
✍️ @SiegalTobias
jpost.com/middle-east/ar…
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@Anders0nMiller @ZeeContrarian1 That is what I do, so I'm also curious about your answer Z?
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@ZeeContrarian1 Interesting. But why don’t you just sell one put? You can receive more money from the premium than the ratio spread strategy.
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If you want to buy a stock and know exactly where you’d buy more (say 5–10% lower), but won’t touch it at current prices, consider a put ratio spread.
Example: buy 1 put above your level, sell 2 puts at your level.
If it drops but doesn’t reach your price → you make money.
If it drops to your price → you get assigned and buy it where you wanted.
If it goes up → you weren’t buying anyway.
This isn’t about adding leverage. It’s a way to reduce risk and use options as a mechanism to either get paid to wait or buy the stock at your price-nothing more.
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Iran has emerged from five weeks of punishing U.S. and Israeli bombing with most of the tools it needs to make a nuclear bomb intact on.wsj.com/3Q1eti0
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@PrenBradford @Jerusalem_Post @SiegalTobias Trump has the balls. That is what counts. He has bombed Iran more than I thought he would. Finally, after 47 yrs a President with guts.
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@AmitSegal Time to finish off Iran. No sense negotiating with terrorists.
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Trump: The Iranians haven’t left the negotiations; I predict they’ll come back and give us everything we want.
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This could be the most productive Sunday of your life.
The NASDAQ has been up seven days in a row, it will open deep in the red on Monday. Make a list of the stocks that have risen the most. Pick the top 10 and make that your buy list.
The next time the market is down, you buy exactly those stocks. You don’t improvise. You don’t come up with new names or new ideas.
These are the only stocks you buy.
To crowdsource this take, comment below with your favorite stock and how much it’s up over the last 7 days-ideally include a chart. If it’s not up at least 10%, don’t waste our time.
I’ll go first: $AMZN
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@biancoresearch Iran is finished as a threat to the world. Of course, no lefty will thank Trump. For 47 years, every President has let them kill Americans etc.
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A couple of bold tankers making a run for it betting Iran will not attempt to stop them in the middle of the talks? Or, is the Strait finally opening up.
Unless this talks produce a deal in the next 24 to 48 hours, I’ll go with the former.
Bloomberg@business
Three supertankers appear to move through the Strait of Hormuz, in what may be the biggest day of oil transits since the start of the Iran war. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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@AriFleischer @nytimes Of course, Mamdani is a scam. But if the election were held today, he would still win. It will take a good 4 yrs for the downside of his terrible policies to come out. At this time, he might even be reelected.
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Mamdani, like all socialists, has been mugged by reality.
He was never going to be able to deliver on his promises because they were fantasies to begin with.
Life isn’t free and Mamdani is just now realizing it.
nytimes.com/2026/04/10/nyr… via @NYTimes
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@Amiran_Zizovi Yoni would not have allowed Oct 7 to happen. Bless his soul.
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In their deaths, they commanded us our freedom. 🇮🇱
Watching this rare footage of Yoni Netanyahu after the Yom Kippur War reminds us of the caliber of leaders who built this nation. While many claim credit for the miracle at Entebbe, the truth is clear: Yoni was the driving force. He pushed for the impossible when the establishment hesitated, proving that Jewish audacity knows no bounds.
His brother, Benjamin Netanyahu, continues to guard that spiritual legacy and the survival of our people. If you want to understand the heart of a warrior, I highly recommend "Yoni's Last Battle" by Iddo Netanyahu.
A lion of Zion, forever in our hearts. 🇮🇱✡️
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@rich_goldberg He is slick like Hitler was. Unfortunately, 40% of the Jews who voted in the election. Voted for this clown.
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Mamdani worldview shared by too many: Killing Jews is liberation. Killing terrorists is dehumanization.
See the case study in Michigan where a Hezbollah attack on Jewish children had to be balanced against Hezbollah’s victimization.
Open Source Intel@Osint613
Zohran Mamdani on Iran War: At the heart of any war is dehumanization. And dehumanization never stays confined to the war. When you normalize killing abroad, you normalize cruelty at home. This is the dehumanization we are allowing to spread in our country. A young Muslim woman was attacked on a subway platform. Her attacker said, ‘I wonder how many Iranians we killed today.’
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Jamaal Bowman: "The reason why heart disease and cancer and obesity and diabetes are bigger in the black community is because of the stress we carry from having to deal with being called the N-word directly or indirectly every day."
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Shapiro is doing what many Democratic presidential aspirants believe they must do -- bend the knee to the progressive identitarians convinced that Israel is the cause to end all causes.
Presumably, he's more sensitive to this, because he's Jewish, and he believes (correctly) that so-called progressives don't trust him because every Jew is a Zionist or a latent or potential Zionist, no matter how loudly they decry the "Zionist entity."
What he fails to grasp is that his very carefully calibrated balancing act -- announcing his Jewish identity while betraying the Jewish state -- simply reveals an underlying hollowness, a broken soul, and no one, irrespective of their feelings about Israel, wants a broken soul in the White House. (This is, I suspect, J.D. Vance's No. 1 problem.) We know that our politicians are flawed, that they lie and flatter and cheat, but we also expect them to have a core -- or, at least, we want to believe that, beneath all the layers of mendacity, there is a set of values, something immovable.
No doubt, many of our presidents and other electeds have failed on this count. But that doesn't change voters' expectations.
The All-In Podcast@theallinpod
PA Governor Josh Shapiro: America should never allow itself to be bullied by Israel @GovernorShapiro: “America should never be led around by any other nation. It should always be about America's interests, our national security interests. We should never, ever be bullied, as maybe President Trump was, by any other world leader.” @Jason: “Why did he do it?” Gov. Shapiro: “First, Rubio went out and said he did it because if we didn't move then, Netanyahu was going to move and it was going to force our hand. Then they walked it back. He said seven or eight months ago that they destroyed their nuclear capabilities, and then came back seven or eight months later and said we had to go in because we had to destroy their nuclear capabilities. Then they said it was about regime change. Well, great. I mean, we went from an 80-something-year-old Ayatollah to a 60-something-year-old Ayatollah, who by all accounts, seems to be far more hardline. I'd hardly call that successful regime change. I don't know how you answer that question because the president never answered that question. He never sat in the Oval Office and looked the American people in the eye and said, ‘This is why we're going in.’ And you know what? This isn't semantics. This isn't politics. If you don't know why you're going in, you don't know how the hell to get out.”
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@Viceroy_12 Wrong. The crazy fanatic/terrorists have been there for 47 yrs because no one stopped their terrorism. They will crumble under some more either internal or external pressure. No rebuilding this time.
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@sliman12 No shit they are weaker at least military. But Iran isn't some backwater country. Iran and its people have been there for over 2,600 years.
In 5 years, they'll rebuild and restock what was destroyed and depleted. They still have their oil and the Strait. They'll earn more money
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Thank you for reminding me what a calamitous secretary of state you were
Acyn@Acyn
Kerry: I was part of the any number of conversations with Netanyahu. Psaki: Pitching the US strike Iran? Kerry: Yes, he wanted us to strike. He came to president Obama. He made a presentation to ask to strike. President Obama refused. President Biden refused. President Bush refused. The only president who has agreed to this, obviously, is President Trump
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