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@SenSchumer Shut up! Either support America or get out of the way you pansy

Update on Trump’s Operation Epic Fail: Strait of Hormuz: complete chaos Iranian regime: still standing Gas prices: Highest in years Iran's nuclear ambitions: exactly the same America's international credibility: worse We must end this war immediately before Donald Trump makes things even worse.

@SenAdamSchiff Schiff is getting very scared. The walls are closing in. Your day is coming where you get perp walked. I will toast that day!

Step one in creating a culture of corruption and lawlessness? Promise impunity.

@sanchezcastejon What a moron. China will envelope Spain and destroy your economy.

Hoy, con el presidente Xi Jinping he constatado que el vínculo entre España y China sale reforzado tras este viaje oficial. En un mundo cada vez más incierto, España apuesta por una relación UE-China basada en la confianza, el diálogo y la estabilidad. Debemos seguir avanzando hacia un orden multipolar construido desde el respeto y el pragmatismo.

@SenWarren How much is your net worth Warren? How much was it prior to Congress? “Let ye that is free from sin, cast the first stone’ Stop Patronizing us Senator.

I sounded the alarm about Donald Trump’s sons backing drone company, Powerus. Now, Powerus wants to sell drones to countries under attack by Iran. Are Trump’s sons cashing in on the war their father started? Americans deserve answers.

@Tazerface16 What Gulf is being blockaded? Mindless idiot

Here's the deal. Unless you served in the United States Navy at a fairly high level, you wouldn't know that Trump's naval blockade is complete bullshit. But it is. Complete bullshit. There is no US Navy blockade of the Gulf. They're completely ignoring us.

@ggreenwald Go spend some time in one of Israel’s neighbors Greenwald. Go spend some time in Iran, Syria, Lebanon or even Jordan or Egypt for that matter. You may find your viewpoints change after being threatened of being thrown from a buildings roof.

Wherever Israel goes, young children are slaughtered and massacred like this, because -- and it's so vital to understand this about Israel -- that state does not assign value to the human life of anyone outside of the dominant, supreme ethno-religious group that rules it.

@RepRaskin How much money has Soros paid to your campaign coffers Raskin? You wanna talk about influences that want to undermine America? Let’s start with who’s funding your petty protests, your lawfair against Republicans and your corruption of welfare across all 50 states

Stephen Miller exists now to turn America into a fascist Gangster State that uses the federal government as a weapon of control and violence against the people. But the people, from Maryland to Minnesota to Miller’s California, are rising up, like the people of Hungary, against all the corruption. Authoritarians are sinking all over the world.

@ChrisVanHollen @TheDemocrats 🫤 meh

Trump's illegal war has killed 13 U.S. service members, thousands of civilians, & is costing us $2 billion per day. The American people are against this war, and we need to keep holding every senator accountable to end it. That's why today I introduced a War Powers Resolution.

@PeterSchiff We are not preventing China from purchasing oil, we are preventing Iran from selling it. Big distinction that you should consider before posting.

Trump using the U.S. Navy to blockade the Strait of Hormuz could easily be considered an act of war by other nations impacted by the action. What right does the U.S. have to use military force to prevent China from buying oil? However, China’s right to retaliate would seem clear.

@FmrRepMTG Epstein, Epstein, Epstein. No different than Russia, Russia, Russia. And now here MTG who is paid by Soros,Soros,Soros. Fraud!

Eric Swalwell(D) and Tony Gonzales(R) both announce their resignations today from Congress. Both Congressmen were linked to Jeffrey Epstein type sexual issues. I resigned from Congress because I fought President Trump to release the Epstein files and he called me a traitor and threatened to destroy me. And to this day, no one in the Epstein files has been prosecuted. And Congress is still a cesspool.

@KEVINMAGA2024 This is false. No reactor on earth require 90% enrichment. It’s 60%. Anything above would cause catastrophic degradation to the core.

What they’re not telling you is that in the 1970s, America sold Iran a nuclear reactor that requires 90% enriched uranium to operate. Until the 1990s, no one said a word about it, and the mullah regime was enriching uranium up to 90% without any issue. Now, all of a sudden, we demand zero enrichment. Well, make up your mind, guys. If other countries in the region are allowed to enrich uranium under full supervision by Atomic Energy Agency professionals, then what’s good for the goose is good for the gander.

@HealthRanger Somebody doesn’t understand the difference between refined oil for gas and crude, which is what is shipped. Thanks for the pointless post.

Yes, it's fake news about a new wave of "empty tankers" headed to the USA because of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Typical White House propaganda. Empty tankers are always empty on one leg -- that's just how shipping works. Oil tankers travel loaded in one direction and empty ("in ballast") in the other. There is nothing unusual about empty tankers appearing on a map at any given moment. Seeing "empty" tankers on an AIS map is normal — it means nothing without knowing their actual destinations. The tonne-mile problem: The US Gulf is ~9,000–10,000 nautical miles from Asia — roughly 50–60% farther than the Persian Gulf. Asian countries (China, Japan, South Korea) consume the vast majority of Persian Gulf oil. Rerouting to the US would be enormously expensive in tonne-miles, freight costs, and time. It's not something a refinery would choose lightly. More than 400 oil-laden tankers and dozens of LNG/LPG carriers remain anchored outside the Persian Gulf, awaiting signals for passage, meaning ships were stuck trying to get out of the Gulf, not racing to fill up in America. The US itself is a net oil exporter. Even if demand for US crude increased due to the Hormuz closure, the first new American oil refinery in nearly fifty years is under development in Brownsville, Texas, and won't be operational for years -- meaning infrastructure bottlenecks limit how quickly the US could actually scale up to replace Persian Gulf supply. The "121 tankers" story comes from counting empty (ballast) tankers on a shipping map near the US -- something that happens every single day regardless of what's happening in the Persian Gulf. The people promoting this as some sort of Trump "victory" are truly retarded.

@ivan_8848 Bla! It’s all about China. It’s about cutting off Chinese influence outside of APaC.

🚨'US has become the pirate of the world' — Jiang Xueqin 🚨The US intentionally sabotages global energy markets to force Europe and Asia to buy American oil, desperately trying to save the petrodollar. 🚨"America used to be the policeman of the world. Now it's become the pirate. In the short term, the strategy works. In the long term, the world will unify against this piracy."

@smurfypappa An interesting viewpoint and has some truth to it.What you’re missing is that China actually wants to be a military super power.What they’ve realized over the course of the last 6 months is that they cannot compete militarily with the US. They are having to rethink the strategy

Ben bir şey fark ettim. Çin'in müttefiklerine bakın. Rusya yaptırım altında. Ukrayna ile savaş halinde. İran bombalanıyor. Lideri öldürüldü. Hürmüz krizi devam ediyor. Venezuela'da Maduro yakalandı. Petrolü ABD kontrolüne geçti. Kuşak Yol Projesi İran üzerinden geçiyordu. O hat şu an bombalanıyor. Çin'in enerji kaynaklarının %20'si İran ve Venezuela'dan geliyordu. İkisi de devre dışı. Çin'in BRICS ortakları baskı altında. Çin'in ticaret yolları kesiliyor. Çin'in enerji hatları kesiliyor. Çin'in müttefikleri teker teker zayıflıyor. Ama Çin'e doğrudan dokunulmadı. Savaş yok. Bomba yok. Sadece tarife. Bu tablo size bir şey hatırlatıyor mu? Anlatıyorum. 1941. İkinci Dünya Savaşı'nın hemen öncesi. Japonya yükseliyordu. Asya'da güçleniyordu. ABD için tehdit oluşturuyordu. ABD ne yaptı? Japonya'ya doğrudan saldırmadı. Önce müttefiklerini ve kaynaklarını kesti. Temmuz 1941'de ABD Japonya'ya petrol ihracatını yasakladı. Japonya petrolünün %80'inden fazlasını ABD'den alıyordu. Bir gecede ana enerji kaynağı kesildi. Aynı anda İngiltere ve Hollanda da Japonya'ya petrol satışını durdurdu. ABD'nin baskısıyla. Japonya'nın Güneydoğu Asya'daki ticaret yollarına baskı uygulandı. Japonya'nın müttefikleri izole edildi. Sonuç: Japonya'nın ordusunda 12 aylık, donanmasında 18 aylık yakıt kaldı. Japonya iki seçenekle karşı karşıya kaldı. Ya geri çekil, tüm işgal ettiğin topraklardan çık, ABD'nin şartlarını kabul et. Ya da savaş. Japonya savaşı seçti. Pearl Harbor'a saldırdı. Aralık 1941. Ama dikkat edin. ABD Japonya'ya ilk bombayı atmadı. Önce enerji hattını kesti. Müttefiklerini baskı altına aldı. Ticaret yollarını kapattı. Japonya'yı köşeye sıkıştırdı. Japonya köşeye sıkışınca savaş kaçınılmaz oldu. Şimdi bugüne bakın. Çin'in enerji hatlarına ne oluyor? Venezuela hattı kesildi. Maduro yakalandı. Günde 800 bin varil petrol Çin'e gidiyordu. O hat kapandı. İran hattı kesildi. Savaş başladı. Günde 1.5 milyon varil Çin'e gidiyordu. Hürmüz krizi devam ediyor. Rusya hattı baskı altında. Yaptırımlar sıkılaştırılıyor. Çin tükettiği petrolün %73'ünü ithal ediyor. Kendi üretimi yetmiyor. Dünyanın en büyük motoru enerji ithal etmek zorunda. O enerjinin geldiği hatlar teker teker kesiliyor. Çin'in ticaret yollarına ne oluyor? Kuşak Yol Projesi'nin Ortadoğu ayağı İran üzerinden geçiyordu. Pekin'den Avrupa'ya uzanan kara ticaret ağının kritik bağlantı noktası İran'dı. O bağlantı noktası şu an savaş bölgesi. Demiryolları, boru hatları, liman bağlantıları. Hepsi risk altında. Çin'in müttefiklerine ne oluyor? Rusya Ukrayna'da savaşıyor. Kaynakları eriyor. Batı yaptırımları devam ediyor. İran bombalanıyor. Altyapısı zarar görüyor. Ekonomisi baskı altında. Venezuela ABD kontrolünde. Maduro tutuklu. Petrol artık ABD'nin. Pakistan arabulucu rolünde ama hareket alanı sınırlı. Kuzey Kore izole. Çin'in yakın müttefiklerinin tamamı aynı anda baskı altında. Ama Çin'e dokunulmadı. Doğrudan savaş yok. Bomba yok. İşgal yok. Sadece %145 tarife. Şöyle düşünün. Bir ağacı kesmek istiyorsunuz. Ama ağaç çok büyük. Doğrudan kesemezsiniz. Ne yaparsınız? Önce dallarını budarsınız. Köklerine su gitmesin diye etrafını kazarsınız. Güneş almasın diye çevresini kapatırsınız. Ağaç hala ayakta durur. Ama her gün biraz daha zayıflar. Dallar: Müttefikler. Rusya, İran, Venezuela. Teker teker budanıyor. Kökler: Enerji hatları. Venezuela, İran, Hürmüz. Teker teker kesiliyor. Güneş: Ticaret yolları. Kuşak Yol, Hürmüz geçişi. Teker teker kapatılıyor. Ağaç hala ayakta. Çin hala dünyanın ikinci büyük ekonomisi. Hala üretim devi. Hala güçlü. Ama dalları budanıyor. Kökleri kuruyor. Etrafı kapatılıyor. 1941'de ABD Japonya'ya aynı şeyi yaptı. Önce petrolü kesti. Sonra müttefiklerini baskıladı. Sonra ticaret yollarını kapattı. Japonya köşeye sıkışınca saldırdı. Pearl Harbor. Çin köşeye sıkışırsa ne yapar? Japonya gibi saldırır mı? Yoksa sabreder mi? Çin'in Japonya'dan bir farkı var. Çin tarihten ders çıkarıyor. Japonya 1941'de sabırsızdı. Saldırdı. Kaybetti. Çin 2026'da sabırlı. Savaşmıyor. İnşa ediyor. Yuan'ı yayıyor. Altın biriktiriyor. Hürmüz'de yuan ile ticaret yapıyor. Afrika'da altyapı kuruyor. mBridge ile dolar alternatifi oluşturuyor. ABD dalları budarken Çin yeni kökler salıyor. Soru şu: ABD dalları Çin'in yeni kök salma hızından daha hızlı budayabilir mi? Eğer evet: Çin zayıflar. ABD hegemonyası devam eder. Eğer hayır: Çin dayanır. ABD yorulur. Ve güç dengesi değişir. 1941'de Japonya 18 aylık yakıtı vardı. Sabredemedi. 2026'da Çin'in ne kadar sabrı var? Bu sorunun cevabı önümüzdeki dönemi belirleyecek.

@Rep_Stansbury @Rep_Stansbury is working hard to rank up there with AOC, Hirona, Goldman and Watters as the stupidest member of Congress. Congrats Rep, your hard work is paying off.

As someone who worked in the Executive Office of the President for a number of years—let me assure you, there are no DoorDash deliveries to the West Wing.

@Rep_Stansbury If the President asks for a door dash to be delivered to the West wing…guess what nimrod…a door dash gets delivered to the west wing. Duh

@shanaka86 The blockade doesn’t start until 10:00am EST today dumbass.

JUST IN: She turned around. Then she came back. At 10:00 a.m. Eastern on April 13, CENTCOM’s blockade of Iranian ports went live. Within twenty minutes, the Rich Starry, a laden oil and chemical tanker heading through the Strait of Hormuz, executed a U-turn confirmed by MarineTraffic AIS. The blockade had its first deterrence success. The ship that flinched became the headline. Then she recalculated. And she came back through. Her AIS is live right now. I am looking at it. RICH STARRY. Oil/Chemical Tanker. Malawi flag. Departed Sharjah Anchorage, UAE, at 10:10 UTC+4 on April 13. Destination field reads four words that every CENTCOM watch officer, every shipping analyst, and every intelligence service on earth can see in the clear: CHINA OWNER&CREW. Speed 14.8 knots. Course 201 degrees. Draught 11.3 meters, laden. Underway using engine. Position: Gulf of Oman, south of Bandar-e Jask, past the strait, past the blockade, heading for China. Estimated arrival May 13. This vessel is OFAC-sanctioned. Designated in 2023 as Full Star for transporting Iranian petroleum. Re-designated February 25, 2026 under the shadow-fleet package. Linked to Shanghai Xuanrun. Flying a Malawi flag of convenience. And she just transited the Strait of Hormuz under live American naval enforcement while broadcasting her Chinese ownership on an open channel. The blockade did not stop her. And the reason exposes the precise architecture of what this enforcement can and cannot reach. CENTCOM’s scope states the blockade targets vessels entering or exiting Iranian ports. It “will not impede freedom of navigation for vessels transiting to and from non-Iranian ports.” The Rich Starry departed Sharjah, UAE. Under the published rules, her transit was technically exempt. She sailed through the gap between what the President said and what the military published. The IRGC toll system does not care about CENTCOM’s scoping. The five-tier vetting applies to vessels transiting the strait regardless of origin. The $1 per barrel quote is issued. The Bitcoin or yuan clears in seconds. The VHF passcode is transmitted. Whether the Rich Starry paid cannot be confirmed on-chain for this specific vessel. But the toll infrastructure was active, the escort system was operational, and the vessel that passed through it is now heading to China at near-maximum speed with her ownership declared to the entire maritime world. The blockade is working on the compliant fleet. Traffic has dropped to 7 to 11 vessels per day from a pre-crisis norm of 140. That is a 93 percent reduction. Ships with insurance, flag-state registration, and Western port access are turning around. The deterrence is real. But the shadow fleet does not carry insurance, does not need Western port access, does not recognize flag-state accountability. It is already sanctioned, already uninsured, already outside the system the blockade enforces. For these vessels the marginal cost of defiance is zero because every penalty has already been applied. The Rich Starry flinched on the first attempt. She recalculated on the second. And she told the world exactly who sent her by writing it in her AIS destination field for every tracker on earth to read. CHINA OWNER&CREW. Not hidden. Not encrypted. Not denied. Declared. The blockade sorted the strait. The compliant ships are heading to American ports. The shadow fleet is heading to Chinese ports. And the IRGC is collecting tolls from both directions while the 7 percent that defies the blockade carries the 80 percent of Iranian oil that funds the regime. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

@DanielLDavis1 When a class of people are labeled as Terrorists, then there is legal authority to kill. You should know better as a combat Vet

This is just adding to the future trial of senior American officials. There is no law in America, no constitutional authorization, and no international law that allows countries to execute people in boats because they are *alleged* to be running drugs. Transiting drugs is definitely against international law and American law, and there are rules and requirements and methods on the books that allows us to justly go after them. Executing people alleged to be running drugs without any due diligence or proof, is not on the option list. It is deeply distressing that the America I used to know, the one that was governed by the rule of law, now at the government level so brazenly violates laws and morality, because it truly is proud of being in the “law of the jungle,“ and considers ourselves as the lion of that jungle, above rules and regulations. But as I often say, those who cheer this on, need to be very careful about what they do. Today, the target of extrajudicial punishment is somebody you may not know and do not like. But tomorrow, you may be of the wrong category, or on the wrong side of someone’s preference in Washington DC, and you or one of your family members may suddenly find yourselves in the crosshairs. And there will be no one to come to your aid then.

@abdulslam2017 Congratulations! You get an A for the day. Finally someone who understands Trumps ability to win. Although Mr Saleh misses the broader and bigger point. Trump has pulverized China and the Global strategy without a single shot fired. That’s power through strength.

🚨 From "Regime Change" Illusions to "Naval Piracy": How Trump Betrays Gulf Wisdom! 🇺🇸🏴‍☠️ ​Anyone who understands Trump’s mindset knows he is a man of "deals and investments," even with war cards, and even at the expense of his so-called allies. ​After failing to drag the Gulf, Turkey, and Pakistan into a regional war, and facing a firm rejection from NATO and Europe, Trump staged a fake "two-week ceasefire" to appear as a man of peace. In reality, he was preparing for a "war-language investment." His delegation fled negotiations under the pretext of "Iranian stubbornness" to launch his true scheme. ​Now, he initiates a naval operation in Hormuz, claiming to stop Iranian "tolls." The cold truth: he is strangling the Gulf’s lifeline—causing tens of billions in daily losses—to force the world to buy "looted Venezuelan oil" rebranded as American. ​Trump ignores threats to regional energy hubs because high prices serve his "stolen inventory." Don't be fooled by media plays about U.S. domestic gas prices; behind the scenes, this is pure Trumpist Piracy—choking global veins to sell his looted goods at the highest price! ⚠️⚓

@MarcoFoster_ @ananavarro Ana Navarro is mentally ill

Ana Navarro on Trump: “His disapproval ratings are at 61%. Gas price in New York at $6. The stock market in complete chaos. His wife showing up for a random statement on Jeffrey Epstein. His European bestie Viktor Orban he lost in a landslide. The Iran peace talks fell apart. While all of that was happening, he was in Miami watching a UFC fight”