John Stallings

@policytensor Iran is about religion. A disgusting religion, Islam. They must be killed, individually, one and all. Do not compare them to NK. Category error.

Iran won’t end like North Korea. NK you can put in a box. Iran will control Hormuz and run the gulf. Get your heads out of your asses.

For 8 years after Charlottesville, hosts on CNN played video of Trump's comments from that day, cut the video right before Trump condemned white supremacy, and then told their audiences that Trump never condemned white supremacy. Lemon, Tapper, Cooper, Acosta, and many others. Liars who deserved to be shamed.

@rubiconjay @AlpacaAurelius @ken_tx4598 Damned good point.

@AlpacaAurelius @ken_tx4598

people assume that every time you eat steak you're killing a cow.... but even if you ate 1lb of steak every single day, you wouldn't even kill one whole cow... one cow produces over 500 lbs of meat...and it does this from GRASS which is inedible to humans... cows are basically divine machines that convert inedible food into steak, milk, leather and so much more. yet people continue to say "cow farts are destroying the planet" the cow is the most sustainable and vegan thing you can eat God bless the cow

@DeepDishEnjoyer Have lived in NoVa in 20 years, hated living there because of the traffic, but definitely miss eating at Moby Dick. Never again have I found good Persian food, not in California or even Texas.

okay this is still good but my moby dick (no put intended) for kebab chenjeh is circa 2004 Maryland restaurant "Moby Dick" (in Kentlands.) Even the chain that it is now is still good but back then it was S tier Persian food

@phl43 I just knew Philippe was a Cat Turd fan!

Everybody thinks Catturd is a retard, but what if he were secretly a restrainer, who is playing 4D chess by convincing Trump's fans to support a full and immediate withdrawal of the US from Europe, thereby destroying its ability to project power in the Middle East in one fell swoop and making it impossible for Americans to be drawn into stupid wars over there in the future?

@DavoustBaldPate @StealthQE4 @2ndSmartest Or Iraq. Or Afghanistan.

@StealthQE4 @2ndSmartest Oh wow. Wait until you find out what we did to Dresden. Or Tokyo. Or Hiroshima. Or Pyongyang.

Morally I have a severe problem with this. I don’t think we are the “good guys” anymore. We’ve gone full rogue. The events I’m watching are things that I never thought I’d see us ever do to anyone. It’s really disturbing

@StealthQE4 Did you sleep the past 50 years?

The "growth" was from foreigners being brought in, the money went to them. It's all a patronage scheme for anyone that isn't American.

@ericshayhoward @BrandonStraka Also no examples LOL, this guy is going to get ratioed. :) And Biden did respect checks and balances?

@BrandonStraka Regardless of his inability to articulate what he means, Trump has said things that suggest that he doesn’t respect the checks and balances built into the system. This is what they mean.

Lib: "Trump acts like a king ." Interviewer: "Name 1 thing that makes you think that he acts like a king." Lib: "There are a million of them." Interviewer: "Just name 1 or 2" Lib: "Uhh.. I can't think of none right now."

@DrJStrategy How do we protect billion dollar ships from $10,000 drones?

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.

Why are we in Germany to begin with? Historic reasons that are long gone. I have no ill will toward Germany in fact Germany was once a bastion of Western Civilization, not to mention bad ass (fought the entire globe twice) but they are no longer the problem of the US, they are destroying themselves.

AfD leader calls for ending US troops in Germany, and the party immediately jumps in the polls. A new poll today puts them in the lead

@LangmanVince They have a point about the dress code though. Whites and Asians don't exactly dress moderately, that's not a thing anymore.

The fatigue is real! That's why they didn't let you in!

@ScottLoBaido At least someone is having fun tonight. 🫡

Eh hem.

@RonResnick @Osint613 You are not a dumb guy. Surprising that you would ask this.

@Osint613 Did Jamie Dimon go to national security policy school over the weekend? Why in the world does anyone care about the personal, random opinions of a banker on matters of national security?

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon on the Iran conflict: "I would step back a little when you say it’s a war of choice. There was no imminent threat? They’ve been killing people around the world for 45-plus years. They funded Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, they have terrorist cells here. They were about to get ballistic missiles that can go almost 3,000 miles. They never gave up nuclear. I’m praying it ends well." - Axios

@signulll Wait, what? The media has been fake and disrespected since long before Bezos acquired the WaPo.

a huge risk factor for openai is that media acquisitions by tech peeps have an almost perfect track record of destroying the editorial credibility that made the outlet valuable in the first place. bezos/wapo is the canonical example, it's now widely perceived as captured regardless of actual editorial independence. openai buying tbpn likely immediately makes every piece of tbpn coverage read as propaganda to exactly the audience they need to persuade (policy elites, skeptics, etc). i wonder how they thought through this risk structure (the deliberations would've been fun). but ~$200m is peanuts to openai so prolly worth doing regardless.

I need you to get mad. What don’t you understand? The democrats gerrymandered our maps for decades, while Republicans sat back and watched — “Midwest nice” — “Utah nice.” The democrats took down our borders, cut down fences, and allowed millions of illegal aliens to invade us. Then, they used the illegal immigration invasion to overcrowd our schools, hospitals, and housing. Then, the democrats counted them — illegal aliens — in the Census for the specific purpose of diluting American votes — taking away House seats from legal Americans. With 500,000 homeless and 50,000 homeless veterans, democrats pushed Americans into the streets and welcomed their new voters into taxpayer-funded homes and hotels. Democrats watched as illegal aliens murdered our people; from rapes, to DUI, to death by opioids. They welcomed the Cartel and MS-13 to grow like a cancer within our country. We are nothing to the democrat party. Their own voters are nothing to them. Just pawns — just chess pieces in a game stacked against the American people. Then, they tried to bankrupt President Trump. Then, they stole an election from him. Then, they fried to remove him from the ballot. Then, they tried to imprison him. Then, they tried to kill him. Through immense peaceful blood, sweat, and tears, we gave President Trump the POPULAR vote in 2024. We won everything — except Senate seats down ballot because it was never in the plan to allow us a 60-seat threshold. Democrats may be a lot of things, but they know Republican Senators will always be weaker than they are. Now, with a Republican White House, House, and Senate, our weak Republican Senate is on the verge of giving democrats ultimate power. Even in control, Republican Senators are incapable of wield powering and delivering victories. With 84% of Americans in agreement for photo ID and proof of citizenship, spineless jellyfish would rather deliver decline than seize this great opportunity handed to them on a golden platter. Why aren’t you shouting to the rooftops? Why are you scrolling social media instead of writing letters? Why aren’t you planning a peaceful trip to DC to meet with your Members of Congress? Why are you not calling and texting everyone you know to empower them to take action? Courage is contagious. We, American people, will simple not tolerate inaction. We expect results. We demand results. We will not sit back and watch our Republican Senate hand victories to the democrats because they are too busy taking weeks off instead of daring to work on behalf of the American people. Get mad. Be peaceful, but — for the love of our nation — take peaceful, positive action.

@RnaudBertrand stand corrected. Trump's audience this time was the people of Iran and Europe. Stand up and take back your countries. Have agency. Thinking Trump is literally going to bomb them into the stone ages is low IQ. That message was to the mullahs and IGRC.

Now you are starting to make me understand the importance of this speech. To bring out evil anti-Americans, like you. Maybe. Trump is always playing 5 D chess. Wait for a couple of weeks before judging. Trump's audience is always the US, Europeans think he is talking to them but he is not.

Trump right now in his live address: "We're going to hit [Iran] extremely hard over the next 2 to 3 weeks, we're going to bring them back to the stone ages where they belong." Pure savagery. And textbook genocidal: saying the Iranian people "belong" in the stone ages means he's targeting them as a people, which is the definition of genocidal intent. That's where letting Gaza happen without consequences gets you... Also pretty ironical to call others primitive while sounding like a barbarian king on bath salts.

@phl43 Smart people are making coin. Leverage TDS. If you know you know.

They're calling it the most reassuring argument in history.

@marklevinshow What did he say though? I listened for a minute and got bored. I am a huge Trump fan, but do not enjoy his speechifying.

PERFECT SPEECH