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I’m paying close to $300 a tank to run my truck. And that’s not including gas for farm activity. I have a farm. I can’t haul any livestock ANYWHERE. Neither can my neighbors who have cattle. One of them sold all his cattle and he’s out of the business. I know many farmers who grow hay, wheat, pumpkin, corn, cattle and they’re going under. People do not understand how much trouble we are in as a country.

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🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 Iran's new 14-point proposal is on Trump's desk, and the structure changes everything... According to two sources briefed on the proposal, Iran submitted a 14-point framework Thursday with a specific sequencing strategy. Phase one: a one-month negotiation window to reach a deal that reopens Hormuz, ends the U.S. naval blockade, and permanently terminates the wars in Iran and Lebanon. Phase two: only after that deal is reached, another month of negotiations on the nuclear program. This is a smarter version of the proposal Trump rejected last week. The earlier offer asked Trump to lift the blockade and shelve nuclear talks indefinitely. The new offer builds in a hard deadline for nuclear negotiations to follow rather than disappear. Iran is trying to give Trump enough sequencing for him to claim a comprehensive resolution while still front-loading the immediate economic relief Tehran desperately needs. Trump's response is mixed. Yesterday he said he's "not satisfied." Earlier today before flying to Miami he said he'd review the proposal on the plane. Then on Truth Social he wrote he "can't imagine that it would be acceptable" and added that Iran "has not yet paid a big enough price for what they have done to Humanity, and the World, over the last 47 years." That's a reference to the Islamic Republic since 1979. Putting that language into the negotiating posture suggests Trump is positioning for a more punitive approach rather than a transactional resolution. Source: Axios

What an amazing clip. This is the essence of Tuckerism. NYT asks him why he called Trump the Antichrist. He says he never said it. NYT shows a clip. Tucker says he doesn’t know what the Antichrist is. Jesus Christ. What a snivelling coward.

KIRK: Lindsey Graham and the neocons’ push for regime change in Iran is “pathologically insane.” “Lindsey Graham is so consistently out of his mind it's hard to even comprehend...” “Iran is hugely diverse. It is a massive country. Do the people agitating for war even know that? Because [let's] be clear: regime change is war...” “You're talking about a country 2 1/2 times the size of Texas [that] has 90 million people and was an ancient and great power with well over a dozen ethnic groups...” “Who's gonna run the country, exactly, Lindsey Graham? This sounds like Hillary Rodham Clinton in Libya...” He went on to contrast the neocons with the “other extreme” represented by non-interventionists like Ron Paul, which he says he has “deep respect and reverence for.” “I LOVE Ron Paul. Ron Paul is awesome. I would have Ron Paul on my show regularly. He is a hero.... I actually agree with this other extreme A LOT...” “I honestly don't think the neoconservative extreme needs to be represented philosophically anymore. It's uninteresting to me. They've done a mess of Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, the entire Middle East, Ukraine...” “‘TAKE OUT THE AYATOLLAH!’ Resist that temptation. That's not prudence. That's not self-control... That's a zeal. And the very same zeal got us involved in a pile of GARBAGE in Iraq... A lot of people died, a lot of Americans died, unnecessarily...” These clips are from June 17, 2025, less than three months before he was assassinated.

Ron Paul would make a great next Chairman of the Federal Reserve. No other institution in American life has so eroded the purchasing power of working Americans as the Fed, and as a longtime critic and skeptic, Ron Paul would be a living and breathing forcing function to bring reform and accountability.