Dustin Mock

@LilahGenX @factpostnews Well, when the cost of living rapidly outpaces income growth, it becomes more and more difficult to achieve that on a single income.

@factpostnews Oh ffs. How about mum stays home to raise her kids before turning them over to fckn strangers to raise and influence them.

JD Vance on child care: "One of the ways that you might be able to relieve a little bit of pressure on people who are paying so much for daycare is make it so that, you know, maybe grandma and grandpa wants to help out a little bit more."

@Squeezemusette @hillbilly_828 @factpostnews Good for you. Doesn't mean your peers are doing the same thing.

@hillbilly_828 @factpostnews I’m a boomer. I moved halfway across the country to be closer to my son and his family. You’re full of shit.

@ExigentCritic @dumbestic @DrJStrategy You know this stuff isn't up to the minute accurate, right? Go look at the gas pump right now...

@DustinMock8 @dumbestic @DrJStrategy ... You do know these things are recorded, right? Like... you can just... look them up? gasbuddy.com/charts

Food for thought. Trump, Hormuz and the End of the Free Ride For half a century, Western strategists have known that the Strait of Hormuz is the acute point where energy, sea power and political will intersect. That knowledge is not in dispute. What is new in this war with Iran is that the United States, under Donald Trump, has chosen not to rush to “solve” the problem. In Hegelian terms, he is refusing an easy synthesis in order to force the underlying contradiction to the surface. The old thesis was simple: the US guarantees open sea lanes in the Gulf, and everyone else structures their economies and politics around that free insurance. Europe and the UK embraced ambitious green policies, ran down hard‑power capabilities and lectured Washington on multilateral virtue, secure in the assumption that American carriers would always appear off Hormuz. The political class behaved as if the American security guarantee were a law of nature, not a contingent choice. Their conduct today is closer to Chamberlain than Churchill: temporising, issuing statements, hoping the storm will pass without a fundamental reordering of their responsibilities. Trump’s antithesis is to withhold the automatic guarantee at the moment of maximum stress. Militarily, the US can break Iran’s residual ability to contest the Strait; that is not the binding constraint. The point is to delay that act. By allowing a closure or semi‑closure to bite, Trump ensures that the immediate pain is concentrated in exactly the jurisdictions that have most conspicuously free‑ridden on US power: the EU and the UK. Their industries, consumers and energy‑transition assumptions are exposed. In that context, his reported blunt message to European and British leaders, you need the oil out of the Strait more than we do; why don’t you go and take it? Is not a throwaway line. It is the verbalisation of the antithesis. It openly reverses the traditional presumption that America will carry the burden while its allies emote from the sidelines. In this dialectic, the prize is not simply the reopening of a chokepoint. The prize is a reordered system in which the United States effectively arbitrages and controls the global flow of oil. A world in which US‑aligned production in the Americas plus a discretionary capability to secure,or not secure, Hormuz places Washington at the centre of the hydrocarbon chessboard. For that strategic end, a rapid restoration of the old status quo would be counterproductive. A quick, surgical “fix” of Hormuz would short‑circuit the dialectic. If Trump rapidly crushed Iran’s remaining coastal capabilities, swept the mines and escorted tankers back through the Strait, Europe and the UK would heave a sigh of relief and return to business as usual: underfunded militaries, maximalist green posturing and performative disdain for US power, all underwritten by that same power. The contradiction between their dependence and their posture would remain latent. By declining to supply the synthesis on demand, and by explicitly telling London and Brussels to “go and take it” themselves, Trump forces a reckoning. European and British leaders must confront the fact that their energy systems, their industrial bases and their geopolitical sermons all rest on an American hard‑power foundation they neither finance nor politically respect. The longer the contradiction is allowed to unfold, the stronger the eventual synthesis can be: a new order in which access to secure flows, Hormuz, Venezuela and beyond, is explicitly conditional on real contributions, not assumed as a right. In that sense, the delay in “taking” the Strait, and the challenge issued to US allies to do it themselves, is not indecision. It is the negative moment Hegel insisted was necessary for history to move. Only by withholding the old guarantee, and by saying so out loud to those who depended on it, can Trump hope to end the free ride.

@Y0K0S0N @ExigentCritic @dumbestic @DrJStrategy It's over $4 here in Dallas right now. Your google search is dated.

@DustinMock8 @ExigentCritic @dumbestic @DrJStrategy Reminder liberals dont know things.

@arnimh @SumErgoMonstro @DrJStrategy Iron dome isn't very effective against Sahad drones. Sure they can get 80% of them, but 20% hit ratio is more than enough to make Tanker ships not wanna take that risk.

@SumErgoMonstro @DrJStrategy But the batteries that defend in iron dome like fashion can be permanently mounted on the canal

@arnimh @SumErgoMonstro @DrJStrategy You mean like in Israel where they are getting blasted on the regular by Iranian missiles?

@SumErgoMonstro @DrJStrategy But a defensive battery could be mounted on the stationary canal like what they do in Israel and some of the other Middle Eastern countries. The reason ships are vulnerable is because they’re always moving.

@ExigentCritic @dumbestic @DrJStrategy No, no it isn't. Gas is as high or higher than it was under Biden right now.

@dumbestic @DrJStrategy The price in the states is literally lower than it was under Biden. It's a global commodity so global supply/demand always has an impact, but we're largely shielded from the worst of it.

@dumbestic @DrJStrategy Oil is a global market. If oil companies can make 120 per barrel selling it to China, but nobody in the U.S. will pay over $100, that oil will be sold to China.

@DrJStrategy Can someone please explain to me like I'm 5... If the US's oil doesn't come from the Strait, why is it's closure causing our gas prices to rise? I get that it's much worse in the EU, but why is it affecting our prices at all?

@nicole_lazarou @mhdksafa Have they done anything about the war crimes committed anywhere, including those by Israel over the last 50 years?

@mhdksafa Why did the UN “peacekeepers” from UNIFIL sit there every day for 20 years, and watch Hezbollah in breach of UNSCR 1701? Why did they grift money from taxpayers to,sit and not do their job for 2 decades?

This is a picture taken by a UN peacekeeper at their base in Lebanon, showing IDF soldiers raising an israeli flag, the day after they killed three UN peacekeepers and wounded others Israel cannot continue to be treated as a full member of the UN. This’s what the UN Charter says

@bulkeley_john @BRICSinfo Well, good luck if that's the goal. Iran has 100 million people, been prepping for 30+ years for this, well funded due to all the oil money, and 4x the area of Iraq that can be wildly difficult to traverse. There is a reason no president has tried it yet.

The only "off ramp" that exists is by totally destroying all of Iran's offensive capabilities, both in terms of the nuclear and ballistic missile threats. Once that has been achieved (and we're getting close to that), then we can just leave since Iran is not a threat anymore. As for the Strait of Hormuz, it's time for the Europeans and the Gulf Arab states to actually do something and open it, assuming Iran still tries to close it after we leave.

JUST IN: 🇮🇷🇺🇸 Former Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi seriously wounded following strikes on his home. He was overseeing potential negotiations meeting with US Vice President JD Vance through Pakistan.

@bulkeley_john @BRICSinfo At this point I am under the impression that it's the U.S. who wants an off ramp, but Iran ain't having it.

If this is true and is confirmed, it probably shows that the US isn’t expecting much from negotiations and that the US and Israel will continue bombing until they think all objectives have been achieved. The next two weeks are going to be pretty bad for Iran and the IRGC knows it.

@mtracey Jeffrey Dahmer ate Pizza too, that means he couldn't possibly eat people, right?

What is your basis for assuming that these emailed references to foodstuffs are "code words" for anything? That's your theory, apparently, so you're the one who needs to substantiate it. Question for you: have you seen the receipts for actual pizza orders in the Epstein Files?

@DrMetaMojo @ComicDaveSmith @GadSaad Your mistake is thinking we want countries to thrive and grow exponentially. We actively destabilize the global south at every turn and have done so for a long time so we can continue to exploit them

You truly need to comprehend the immense power of what I just said! It’s far more effective and crucial for us that other countries trade in dollars than that they lack energy! Starving them of energy is utterly foolish and not an intelligent strategy. We want everyone to have enough energy to enhance their development, thrive, and progress; because that, in turn, will make us grow exponentially! Clearly, as an empire, we possess the military presence and power to enforce and safeguard this feature of our currency, and we are doing exactly that!!!

This is an outrage. Prof. Dr. Wikipedia Dave has spent nearly 25 minutes scrolling through TikTok videos to inform his well-reasoned position on Iran. He will "crush you," "cook you," "own you"! You are too cowardly to debate him. He will "destroy you"!

@rantastic4629 @CCConservative @freejewess @DailyMail You mean war pigs who want to attack their country, not conservatives. Socially, conservatives are closer to the Ayatollah than liberals

@CCConservative @freejewess @DailyMail Iran doesn't like the US and especially conservatives There's a lot of ppl who could've wanted him killed

Bullet used to kill Charlie Kirk did NOT match rifle allegedly used by suspect Tyler Robinson, new court filing claims trib.al/sWEJfeN

@DrMetaMojo @ComicDaveSmith @GadSaad Right, but without energy, a country will collapse in short order, and I believe Cuba was simply a demonstration of this. With that kind of control you can make a whole lot more than just oil be purchased only with USD.

You must comprehend why the trade cannot occur without dollars; that is the crucial key to everything! If you need to use dollars to buy oil, you’re indirectly buying or financing our economy. That’s where the issue truly began. China attempted to use yuan to acquire oil, which was the worst thing they could have done!

@DrMetaMojo @ComicDaveSmith @GadSaad Yes and no, the dollar itself can easily be replaced by a different currency and it wouldn't matter if the U.S. has the reigns on the oil production. Trade in Yuan or Euro if you want, it's still gonna be U.S. controlled at the end of the day.

@DustinMock8 @ComicDaveSmith @GadSaad So you are exactly claiming that what I pointed out is correct

@Allthethings197 @pelositracker So he made lots of deals that netted him max profit? Given that, why would he not take a deal that nets him 1 million dollars exactly?

@DustinMock8 @pelositracker Real estate, Einstein. He's a business man not a career politician like your multi-millionaire cult leaders. 😎

This is tough to defend Joseph Schwartz was convicted of a $39M healthcare fraud and sentenced to 36-months in prison His nursing home empire collapsed and he didn't pay over 15,000 employees After serving 3 months in prison, Schwartz was pardon by President Trump and his obligation to pay $5 million in restitution to the government was erased It's reported that Schwartz paid $1M to lobby the White House to influence their decision

@DrMetaMojo @ComicDaveSmith @GadSaad Sure I can do that. If you control the flow of energy (oil) globally, which the U.S. does with the exceptions of Russia and Iran, enforcing the dollar is dummy easy.

@ComicDaveSmith @GadSaad Can you explain why you believe that safeguarding the dollar’s role in the global stage isn’t America’s most crucial interest and worth fighting for?

@Allthethings197 @pelositracker And how exactly do you think he became a multi billionaire?

@pelositracker Trump is a multi billionaire. 1 million is nothing. Where's the rest of the story.

@mtracey Historically they have been. Why is this strange?

Lol