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Trump admits real reason he abandoned “no new wars” for the #IranWar, writing on TruthSocial: “They should have given me a Nobel Peace Prize for ending eight wars but they didn’t. Then a woman from Venezuela offered me a used medal. Winners don’t take consolation prizes! Thank you for your attention to this matter!”. people.com/nobel-committe… Disclosure: This is an April Fool’s Day post.

@RobFinnertyUSA Maybe follow up with the Professor?x.com/RedPandaKoala/…

@RobFinnertyUSA Speculation ranges from space junk, to 3i/ATLAS remnants to Russia signaling its ability to respond to the Ukraine or Iranian war situation: breakingdefense.com/2024/05/new-de…

Big show tonight… LOTS TO DISCUSS!! See you at 8 on FINNERTY!!!!

@mack_malm @latestinspace Better not be those Russian space weapons… breakingdefense.com/2024/05/new-de…

@latestinspace I think there's a hidden star war going on. They and us are attacking sattelites

NEWS 🚨: Astronomers say the surge of large fireball events worldwide recently "warrants serious investigation"' About a dozen of the biggest are all coming from the same place in space (via American Meteor Society)

With regard to Afghanistan: Trump had conditions for the withdrawal of the troops from Afghanistan, in addition to a deadline. Biden withdrew so quickly that much of the American presence was withdrawn before American civilians could get out, 13 servicepersons died in a suicide bombing, and bomb sniffing dogs tied to a contractor abandoned in crates on the tarmac. (Dogs are loathed under Islamic teaching much the same as pigs and pork products.) The spectacle of people running alongside the aircraft, clinging from the sides and falling to their deaths speaks for itself. Biden did not enforce the conditions that Trump had negotiated (Doha Agreement), only the deadline. See: govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CH… Arguably the current war is about more than regional threats to Israel. The petrodollar is the elephant lurking in the room — in turn tied to U.S. energy policy. Biden came into office promising to reduce fossil fuel independency. He cancelled the Canadian Keystone Pipeline, which was almost complete, signaling that commitment. After Russia invaded Ukraine, the Nord Stream pipeline was blown up. The Germans apparently took a Ukrainian into custody but the general consensus is that the US had the means and the motive. (Biden even said Russia would not be permitted to keep the pipeline before the pipeline blew up.) In the early part of the 2024 election cycle, Biden signed an executive order halting U.S. LNG imports to Europe, at a time when energy prices were surging. (He would later tell Speaker Mike Johnson that he was unaware that this took place — consistent with the later revelation that much of his executive orders were signed by an autopen.) The collective impact of the Biden’ administration’s dogged insistence on pursuing #ClimateChange objectives in the midst of the Ukraine war and related sanctions served create a considerable drag on the economy (40-year high inflations in the U.S.). Energy crisis is always inflationary. Arguably, Iran's ascendency (aggression) during this time was driven to a significant degree by the U.S. failing to make up Europe’s energy shortfall, promoting the lifting of sanctions on Iran and Venezuela because they were not signatories to the Paris Accord, which Biden was still intent on enforcing war in Iran notwithstanding. Biden era energy policy given the Ukraine invasion was a disaster, contributing to the global inflation crisis and the escalation from October 7 terrorism to the Gaza war — fallout that reverberates to this day. The current administration has shifted from “energy independence” to “energy dominance”, arguably in effort to provide a check on China’s growing military threat and the chokepoint they create given their dominance of rare earth minerals. Seemingly, what pushed the U.S. over the line toward reengaging Iran this year is not strictly a reflection of their nuclear threat but the petrodollar collapse. The BRICS threat and rising gold prices have weakened demand for treasury bonds, which are essential to financing U.S. debt. While this may seem like a U.S.-only problem, it’s not a problem that will be contained if the BRICS exodus continues. (The U.S. is a key market for much of the world and for providing funds for NATO, foreign aid, etc.) If the U.S. can’t finance its debt, which is currently the second or third line-item on the budget, it favors an inflation crisis that will arguably surpass what occurred under Biden. Already we are tacking on $1T in interest onto the debt every ~100 days. Trump tried from the earliest days of the administration to incentivize foreign investment (re-industrialization) by way of tariffs but suffered a Supreme Court loss shortly before this war began. Are the two events connected? I can’t say for certain but it does leave fewer cards in his hand to play if the goal is to stabilize the U.S. economy and prevent the global economy from going down with us. Arguably, the energy dominance objective involves becoming an energy gatekeeper by way of U.S. friendly Venezuela and Iranian governments — hence the pivot from last year’s effort to reduce nuclear threats to regime change. It’s a high stakes gamble but if it works, China can be countered — e.g. if they want oil, don’t threaten Taiwan; if they want oil, don’t condemn the U.S. to another 1M in Chinese fentanyl deaths, etc. Is it going to work out for the best? We better hope it is regardless of our politics or our country of origin because the results of a war gone wrong — or a petrodollar lost — will condemn the global economy to a crisis, unlike anything anyone has experienced yet. Saving the petrodollar may mean the difference between salvaging the global economy or a USSR style collapse. When put in this light, it becomes easier to understand why apparently “unacceptable” risks have been taken with regard to Iran.

I wasn't a fan of Iraq war cheerleader and arms supplier for genocide in Gaza Biden any more than the orange lying childish half-wit arms supplier for genocide megalomaniac narcissist. Trump had already made a deal with the Taliban on leaving Afghanistan before Biden was even elected. Biden unfrozen some Iranian bank accounts in the US that had been frozen under sanctions ( some of which was $10 billion that Iraq had paid for imports of Iranian oil, which the US shouldn't control, but did due to the Iraq war). He did it In order to get more Iranian oil exports flowing to reduce the inflation partly caused by US and NATO sanctions on Russian oil exports after it invaded Ukraine. factcheck.org/2024/05/posts-… Which is also why he eased sanctions on Venezuela, which also had a significant oil export industry. And also got some US citizens in Iran who'd been held there many years freed in return for sending some Iranians jailed in the US back to Iran. Khameini may or may not have wanted nuclear weapons. But if he wanted them he wanted them as a deterrent against wars, possibly of regime change like the current one, which some Israeli PMs and American Presidents had been threatening since Dubya's strategic blunder in adding Iran to his "to invade and regime change" list in his January 2002 Axis of Evil speech. After 9/11 the Iranian regime were co-operating against the Taliban and Al Qa'ida with the US by sharing intel on both with the US, arresting Al Qa'ida suspects and handing them over to US allies, letting the US airforce use their airspace, and persuading their allies in Afghanistan ( the Northern Alliance) to accept Hamid Karzai, the US candidate, as interim President. After Bush added them to his target list that all reversed. They began training and arming anyone fighting the US in Afghanistan and then Iraq, because they knew if those wars went well for the US, Iran would be invaded next. And they ramped up their nuclear programme, whether as leverage for negotiations, or as a deterrent in case the US did think of attacking them Note that when Trump bombed their nuclear sites last year they only fired one volley of about a dozen missiles at one US base. And gave the US government hours of advance warning and told them which base ot was. And told them they were firing a counter attack at Israel too so they could warn the Israelis and US allied airforces. Only when Trump and Netanyahu started a full scale air war on Iran did the Iranians launch major counter attacks on every base owned or used by the US in range and oil and gas targets to push up oil prices to try to get Trump to decide it wasn't worth it and stop the attacks. And Iran is very obviously only a regional power and, even with all its militia allies, militarily far, far weaker than Israel on its own, let alone Israel and its US superpower ally. The Iranians' aim is regime survival as it's shown repeatedly by their actions. Pretending they could become a military threat to the US, Iran would attack it unprovoked, is ludicrous nonsense. And there is no evidence the missiles fired at Diego Garcia, one of which missed and one of which was shot down, were Iranian at all. The Iranians say it wasn't them but the Israelis who fired those. And only Israel or Trump would benefit if they'd hit. As the UK has so far refused to take part in any attacks on Iran. And it's a waste of missiles as the missiles the Iranians have could only reach that far by greatly reducing the amount of explosive in the warhead to reduce its weight. And with a US fleet full of weapons designed to shoot down missiles, drones and planes on the missiles' flight path to Diego Garcia the chances of them not being shot down were low. yahoo.com/news/articles/…

TRUMP: “Americans don’t care about $4.00 gas prices, they’re feeling a lot safer now that we got rid of that madman called Khamenei.” Translation: “I’m Israel’s bitch and don’t care about Americans.”

@Darlyn215 @Coreandor @acnewsitics DEI *sounds* nice in theory. In real life, it means every black person has to go around explaining “No, I really did get to where I am by hard work, talent and intellect”.

@Coreandor @acnewsitics Yes

Imagine what Charlie Kirk would've said tonight if he saw a Black astronaut piloting Artemis II.

@Coreandor @acnewsitics No, they’re just talking trash. He was against DEI. He would have said this is an example of merit over woke.

@acnewsitics Why? Was Charlie racist?

Days after Trump began his second term, he warned anyone abandoning the #petrodollar for #BRICS would face100% tariffs. Arguably, that’s a huge part of the calculus to “Why now?" Recently SCOTUS dealt Trump a blow on that front, which amounted to taking away the “stick” by which to encourage foreign investment to re-industrialize the country. Not only did the Court rule against him but the US taxpayer has to repay billions of dollars. Given that we are already tacking on $1T in interest on the national debt every ~100 days, we’re in no position to ignore the petrodollar threat. With gold prices this high we’re arguably also seeing economic warfare play out on the part of BRICS nations to remove any incentive to buy our treasury bonds. That’s a problem because treasury bonds are our debt financing! If we can’t finance the $40T in debt, it means no Fed chair is going to significantly cut rates — in fact we could end Trump’s last term in office with same or worse inflation. I don’t think people realize that Trump is doing desperate things like tariffs and regime change in Iran because doing absolutely nothing also guarantees an economic crisis. It’s hiding in plain sight though: The Administration has pivoted from “energy independence’ to “energy dominance”. If we have U.S. friendly governments in Iran and Venezuela it not only means leverage to keep the petrodollar (economy) afloat, it means potentially having less election interference by foreign adversaries. It could compel China to play nice and stop threatening war (as they have in recent years). It could mean less likelihood of invading Taiwan or expanding their military into international waters. It could mean that if China withholds access to rare earth minerals, we can limit their oil access. It could even mean, for the first time, an incentive to stop flooding the US with fentanyl. Right now China can thumb their nose at us by way of Iran, Venezuela and Russia energy alternatives. American energy dominance would mean having the upper hand not just on Iran threats but China threats. It’s too bad Stew Peters, Alex Jones and so many others who fancy themselves “MAGA intellectuals” can’t wrap their heads around the basic truth: “It’s the economy, stupid”. No doubt, this is a massive gamble. If this war drags out, it will produce an inflation and energy crisis. But arguably doing nothing isn’t an option either. Even if we set aside their self-admission to the negotiation team that they have enough enriched material to build 11 bombs, they were in the process of acquiring hypersonic missiles from China and had allegedly landed one of their ICBM’s in Russia during joint testing at the beginning of the year. Bottom line People keep acting like Iran represents “Iraq 2.0” complete with a fake WMD threat. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Iranian regime has spent more than 40 years brainwashing their population into perceiving the “Christian" West as the Great Satan. They’re not just a threat to Little Satan (Israel). Anybody willfully denying the fact that it’s more complicated than Netanyahu leading Trump around by the nose is probably suffering Jew Derangement Syndrome. Like Trump Derangement Syndrome, blind rage doesn’t do anybody any favors in the cognitive department.

Stripping away the insults, this is really a debate about trade-offs. Trump’s argument is that higher gas prices are a temporary cost for reducing a perceived security threat from Iran. Critics, on the other hand, question whether the economic burden on everyday people is justified. The bigger issue is how leaders balance national security vs. economic stability, because policies rarely come without consequences on both sides.

@ChristinaHambu4 @realstewpeters In the meantime, they're rolling in the fear-bait, clickbait cash!

@realstewpeters You know the gas prices will eventually come down you watch and every one of you that opened up your mouth are going to be eating shit

Too bad Joe Biden unfroze $6B in aid to Iran, delisted the Houthis as terrorists, handed Afghanistan back to the Taliban along with $80B in high-end military equipment, Israel saw October 7, responded with the Gaza slaughter — and all within weeks after “humanitarian" funds were unfrozen. “Money is fungible", they said at the time. Famous last words. Khameini didn’t need to use nuclear weapons, although after the Twelve Day War he certainly had reason to double down on obtaining them if he didn’t have them already. Iran inked a deal in February with China for hypersonic missiles that no one can reliably stop and engaged in ICBM testing with Russia, proving that they can use conventional weapons to make Israel’s problem a European or American problem. (Recently they demonstrated it again, by targeting Diego Garcia.) Because we have been “Great Satan” to the regime for more than 40 years, we weren’t going to get off simply by convincing ourselves Iran was little more than a regional threat.

I feel so safe w/ a senile narcissist megalomaniac childish know nothing compulsively lying half-wit heading the most powerful country on earth. Especially now Ayatollah Khameini, who wasn't going to commit national suicide by firing nukes he didn't have at nuclear armed Israel/ US / anyone else has been replaced by his son, whose wife and 15 month old daughter were killed in the same airstrike that killed his father

@JtShaggy @realstewpeters @samsfamreacts Biden also sold our Strategic Petroleum Reserves to China, every time he released oil promising to bring down our prices. He left the reserve depleted and kept delaying oil purchases due to price. We haven’t even hit Biden level oil prices

@realstewpeters @samsfamreacts I guess you forgot about gas prices under Joe Biden?? For no fvcking reason except Joe Biden stopped oil production in America..

@realstewpeters Would California be Blue if paying $4 gas prices was a deal breaker? It’s hardly even break a sweat time when it’s $6…

@SubRosaMagick balderdash bedeviled busty buxom coiffed copacetic dolt dunce fetching fiddle-faddle fiddlesticks indolent jobbernowl skullduggery winsome And a lot more I don’t even recognize: merriam-webster.com/wordplay/words…

Be honest… does ANYONE actually use these words in real life? 🤣 Bamboozled Flabbergasted Discombobulated Shenanigans Cattywampus Lollygag Malarkey Kerfuffle Brouhaha Nincompoop Skedaddle Tomfoolery Flibbertigibbet Pumpernickel

If a man had been in charge of ICE while these deportations were happening, half the drama. Obama-Biden deported more people. But nobody was following their enforcement efforts with smartphones so it looked a whole lot better as a statistic vs. plastered on social media to gin up a protest movement. People got hurt and killed for thinking they were discovering something unprecedented about how immigration enforcement works.

Yeah I’m betting she knew full well what persuasion her hubby leaned… and her philandering with Corey was part of the arrangement. They have been together since high school and a divorced woman would have a hard time getting elected governor. A marriage of convenience. Kinda like the loveless marriage of the orange turd and cruella.

Kristi Noem wants us to pray for her now? The heartless, evil, dog killing bitch who wouldn’t apologize to the families of Renee Good and Alex Pretti? She wants us to pray for her because her cuck of a husband got caught wearing women’s clothes? Yeah, I don’t fucking think so.

At issue is that while Daily Mail is considered a tabloid, they can still be sued for defamation if this is *not* true. Given the high profile of the subject, it’s doubtful they would fabricate the story out of whole cloth. Many said that Ashley Biden’s diary detailing showers with her father were unproven, but the “tell” was in the fact that years passed with no defamation suit after it was published online by the National File and others. To the contrary, she sued for the theft of the diary and wrote a judge asking for the sentencing to reflect the great embarrassment and invasion of privacy the diary caused her.

As of the latest reliable information, there’s no credible public evidence indicating that Bryon Noem — Kristi Noem’s husband — is a cross-dresser or wears women’s clothing. Bryon Noem is known primarily as a small-town businessman, basketball coach, and supporter of South Dakota community initiatives, and nothing of that sort has been confirmed by any trustworthy or firsthand source. It’s worth noting, though, that political smear campaigns often weaponize rumor—especially in the digital age—by seeding false or manipulated content (like edited images or anonymous tips) to create viral narratives. These tactics are part of information warfare, where perception is more important than truth. The purpose is distraction or character destruction, not accuracy.

@Grok, in timeline form, dating to the first Bush administration to the present Trump administration, list each administration’s deportation numbers, distinguishing between “turn backs” by Customs at points of entry and removal of noncitizens in the interior. Secondly, what role did the smartphone play in exposing how immigration enforcement takes place? Third, how did this exposure amplify the perception that ICE targeted many more people than prior administrations? Fourth and finally, how did this publicity contribute to still more clashes between bystanders and direct participants (e.g. federal law enforcement and detainees) at a level not seen historically?

@jack29er @GX4600 @JamesOKeefeIII If they’re registered, why can’t they check the registration database?

@GX4600 @JamesOKeefeIII I agree with you. No one should have to list the fire arms they have.

UPDATE: Just got out of court in Miami. The Judge extended the temporary restraining order until May 11th. There will be a ruling then. The court is now asking me to surrender my firearms. See documents below. We are filing an emergency interlocutory appeal today. Prior restraint against a newsroom is unconstitutional. Near v Minnesota. NYT v United States. This is a violation of our 1st and 2nd amendment rights. We are filing an anti-SLAAP, seeking attorneys fees and will appeal all the way, if necessary. The TRO is also based upon third party’s comments, not our reporting. Thats a “hecklers veto,” where the government suppresses or restricts news reporting because of the reaction of an audience. This is regarding our reporting on Matt Tyrmand. We published a tape of him threatening to kill me. He shot up an image of me on the front of my book with a rifle bullet through my heart. He bragged about being a SDNY informant. Comments were angry at him. He just brought a “domestic violence stalking” Restraining order afterwards in Miami family court against my news organization, and the local Judge signed off. This is an extraordinary series of events. This is not an April Fools joke.

@JamesOKeefeIII He’s the aggressor and *he* moves on OMG on the basis of domestic violence? None of you share a household, clearly not “domestic” in nature. Sounds like a ploy to disarm you so *he* can commit the violence! Red flag him. Next exposé: A national crisis of incompetent judges.

Jones expressed anger that Trump is all over the place, and losing credibility. Minutes later, he says the ATF concluded that the bullet that killed Charlie Kirk isn’t a .30-06. Wrong. The result was “inconclusive”. The owners of AJN need to insist he cut out the misinformation on their dime.

@RealAlexJones lol. Alex is now saying Kirk killing is a cover up…. When is he going to apologize to @RealCandaceO ?

Wednesday LIVE: Trump Claims Iran Wants Ceasefire, They Say He’s Lying! Oil Has Risen Over 60% Since Start Of War! 47 Attends SCOTUS Hearing On Birthright Citizenship, NASA Says Artemis Rocket Ready To Return Humans To Moon! Must-Watch LIVE Show! twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…