Alicia St Rose
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Alicia St Rose
@IntrepidRealist
I'm web designer, artist, speaker, songwriter. I have tendency to think I can do anything. I live part time in Black Rock City, NV. My life is never dull.
Santa Barbara, CA Sumali Nisan 2010
592 Sinusundan538 Mga Tagasunod

@CNviolations I’d probably be the first one standing up and laughing to say hey everybody this is it. It’s all over now but it’s all about to begin. Don’t worry. See you on the other side.
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@Rightanglenews Not all Lebanese are Muslim. There’s a huge Christian population in Lebanon.
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I honestly think he might feel a little liberated, giving the news this way. And I think he’s actually impressed. Most of our lifetime we’ve seen these people suffer under tyrants. And they gave everything they had and were slaughtered in the streets, crying out for help. Trump promised help and he delivered.
This is the single most important act Trump has ever done.
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@JakeCan72 Makes you want to pat him on the back and say "now, was that so hard?"
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@JakeCan72 @jaketapper this means so much! At a time when we need straight unbiased news you deliver! Thank you!
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@_Papa_Joe_ @shanaka86 The sad part: the OP called this an “election”. 🤔
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So I understand correctly, the Iranian people claim they're not Muslim, do not want to be ruled by mullahs under Islam, and that is the baseline basis for this conflict.
The leaders that are left in Iran, all Muslim, are deciding, in a building, who will rule Iran under a continuation of the laws under the Mullahs and Ayatollah. So they all get together to vote, not letting the citizens of Iran decide their future, and the building was bombed?
Well...
GIF
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BREAKING: Israel just struck the Assembly of Experts building in Qom.
This is not a military target. This is the 88-member clerical body constitutionally responsible for selecting Iran’s next Supreme Leader. Reports indicate the building was hit while members were casting ballots to choose Khamenei’s successor.
Read that again. They bombed the election.
Not the military. Not the nuclear programme. Not the IRGC command structure. The constitutional process for selecting the one person who could theoretically unify the regime, negotiate on its behalf, and sign a ceasefire.
Three days ago I wrote that the market’s four-week timeline depends on a negotiated ending. A negotiated ending requires a counterparty. A counterparty requires a legitimate leader. A legitimate leader requires a selection process. That selection process was happening inside the building that just got hit with heavy-tonnage bombs.
Follow the chain.
The Supreme Leader is dead. His replacement Defense Minister is dead. The acting replacement is reportedly dead. The only mediator in the region, Oman, is being bombed by the regime it was trying to help. The IRGC has fragmented into indiscriminate retaliation. And now the 88 clerics tasked with reconstituting legitimate authority have had their building destroyed mid-vote.
Every link in the chain that leads from “war” to “ceasefire” to “de-escalation” to “insurance reinstatement” has been severed. Not by accident. By design. The US-Israeli targeting doctrine is not just degrading Iran’s military capability. It is systematically destroying the institutional architecture required for the war to end through negotiation.
Reinsurers do not reinstate coverage into a regime that cannot reconstitute its own leadership. The actuarial blockade timeline just extended again.
There is no one to negotiate with. And now there is no process to produce one.
open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
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@_Papa_Joe_ @shanaka86 Only about 30% of Iranians are Muslim. Arabs aren’t Muslim by default.
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@ThomasSowell Posting this under a fake Thomas Sowell account is sacrilegious.
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@USMCLiberal @JohnFetterman He didn’t change. You all got deranged. I left this party last Summer. Ya’ll are going to lose @JohnFetterman, too. He’s literally the only Dem I trust, especially, after that pitiful display during the SOTU.
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I don’t know why you’ve completely changed, @JohnFetterman.
But whether or not the stoke altered your personality, or if you were always MAGA pretending to be liberal—either way, you need to go.
You are no longer fit to represent the interests of the people who got you elected.
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I helped organized a fundraiser for you, @JohnFetterman—and I know scores of people that helped get you elected.
We all have one question:
HAVE YOU LOST YOUR GODDAMN MIND???
We’ve had enough of your bullshit pandering to Trump and the MAGA cult.
You WILL be a one-term senator
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@bannerite Where are you getting chips?! I get a large bag at the gas station for $2.99 and they are notoriously more expensive than grocery stores.
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Chips are pushing $10 a bag and families are supposed to “just deal with it” while billionaires get tax cuts and Trump’s chaos keeps driving prices up.
This is the cost of his instability, and we’re all paying for it. #TrumpAffordabilityDisaster
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He doesn’t look as deranged as the old guys and gals protesting FREELY against a king that doesn’t exist.
Lady, quite a few of us got curious enough to investigate. Where did that Pennsylvania blue vote surge come from? Where did it go in 2024? Prior to 2020 it didn’t exist, either. Suspicious AF.
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@SuzetteCumberl1 @PattyMurray I’m with you! So many fishy things! I’m an Independent, now , after 40 year as a Dem.
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He is not rewriting history, sweetie. I am a lifelong Democrat and I have serious questions about the integrity of that particular election. Saw too many questionable things that went on. I am not deranged and much younger than you. Trump has the right to look at whatever he wants. It won’t change what happened, but at least he will know.
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@PattyMurray It’s not just Trump. I’m even convinced now.
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@Stevezi5169 @bannerite Even in California gas prices have been hovering around $4. The prices were as high as $7 when Biden was in office. Eggs are reasonably priceD, too.
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@bannerite If you live in New York, California, Illinois or any seriously Blue State. I'm sure your prices are out of control. I don't doubt it where I live. Things have been improving steadily weekly daily. It's pretty awesome but my friends in blue States have been suffering
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Families are getting crushed by exploding fuel costs, labor shortages, Trump’s tariffs, and weather-driven crop losses. Milk, eggs, bread, produce — everything’s up. The result? Skipped meals, smaller carts, and budgets stretched to the breaking point. #TrumpAffordabilityDisaster
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@SenatorSlotkin Yep. She’s right about the barometer. The Left was definitely heading in that direction when in power. Now, it’s been callibrated.
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You’re not gay. You’re totally into women and men who feel more comfortable presenting as a woman. You are attracted to the woman aspect, not men. Maybe you need a new label? But, your girlfriend is not a woman. She has a prostate and a gynecologist would have a difficult time with an exam. There’s also that tricky part about chromosomes.
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This is a special kind of stupid. The ID was needed upstream to actually get on voter registry. Then produced at election time to confirm.
A petitioner should feel secure knowing they are checking VALID info.
But, honestly, these petitions are probably stuffed with invalid signatures because the petitioner gets paid per signature.
How are folks missing the VALIDATION part of this whole thing?
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@ThomasSowell Hmm… I’ll have Thousand Island with this word salad.
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@RepTeresaLF The email memo that circulated amongst the Dems must have read:
“We’re cooked. All hands of deck. Here are several video scripts to coose from.“
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@GayleFischer @LeadingReport I’m not claiming to be an expert on U.S. politics just sharing my perspective based on what I read and follow.
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@RepSusieLee How do they find this many ignorant women? Seriously? Or is it deliberate dishonesty?
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