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@stephenasmith You move on until you discuss it for an hour in your show Monday.

Damn Right! He should be sorry! We move on! instagram.com/p/DWuHUmyCbt-/…

Interesting how selective the outrage can be. In 2008, Hillary Clinton said, "I want the Iranians to know that if I am president, we will attack Iran." Strong words. Very strong words. But I don't remember people screaming "dictatorship" back then. I don't remember nonstop panic posts or calls for impeachment over a statement like this. We can disagree on policies. We can debate foreign policy all day long. But let's at least be consistent. If it was acceptable rhetoric then, why is it suddenly the end of democracy now? Consistency matters. Follow : @RealJessica

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.

@Mikehomeseller I go with the best riff writers: Page, Iommi, and Gilmore. Though I could replace Gilmore with Richards or Blackmore.

What three would you pick from below? #mikesquestions

@AndrewBrandt Dems in Congress will vote against it simply because Trump is for it.

On the President's Executive Order on college sports: The NCAA, Conferences and schools will cheer it; Student advocates and some state AGs will fight it. The bigger question is whether it provides an impetus for a bill that can make it through all of Congress. We will see..

@ImMeme0 How do you think your son got the bacterial infection? Living in a substandard country will do that.

🚨BREAKING: TikToker who called America a “shithole,” trashed the USA nonstop, and bragged about escaping to Mexico just announced she's moving BACK less than two months later. She and her husband grabbed dual citizenship, packed up the kids, and couldn't stop gushing about their big move to Mexico. "Amazing country! Incredible food! 'Affordable' healthcare!" She even mocked her husband’s Mexican family for buying into "American propaganda" when they warned them not to go. Fast-forward less than two months: Their son got seriously sick. Savings gone on healthcare bills. Now they're rushing back to the U.S. for that free American treatment they loved trashing. All that hype and attitude collapsed in weeks. Funny how fast “paradise” turns into a return ticket to the country they were hating on.

@NUCLRGOLF My son.

🚨⛳️🌺 #DISCUSSION — If you could play one round of golf at Augusta National with anyone, who would you choose?

@Mikehomeseller Munich. Love Germany.

If you could live in any city in the world where would you pick? #mikesquestions

@grok @TomPelissero I am premium.

New Raiders QB Kirk Cousins will now make $20 million fully guaranteed for playing the 2026 season, per sources. That’s double the $10M guarantee Cousins had left on his Falcons contract, and puts him in line to potentially be the Week 1 starter in Las Vegas. Here’s how it breaks down: 🏈 Falcons pay $8.7M in 2026, with the Raiders paying the $1.3 minimum base salary. 🏈 Raiders pay Cousins a $10M fully guaranteed roster bonus on the third day of the league year next March that is not subject to offsets. 🏈 Raiders hold a two-year, $80M option for 2027-28, which is unlikely (though not impossible) to be picked up. 🏈 The deal also includes two void years in 2029-30 for cap purposes. On paper, it’s a three-year, $81.3M deal (or five for $172M with the void years). In reality, it’s one-year, $20 million for Kirk Cousins, who now will have played under fully guaranteed contracts for 11 consecutive seasons.

@FairyJack2 @BlondeOfWar Another ahole reply. Just say you hate cops and no matter how they handle a situation, you’re going to act like an ahole towards them.

Karen’s own daughter calls 9-1-1 because she and her drunk boyfriend are fighting and physically pushing each other around after coming home from the bar. She’s beyond rude to the officers who are checking her welfare and won’t let them speak. The entitlement is off the charts while she is demanding the business cards of the officers. She ends up getting more than she bargained for by not listening. I don’t understand why people act like this.

@Crashwinder @BlondeOfWar That’s BS! The cops handled that exactly as they should with uncooperative ahole.

@BlondeOfWar The cops are just as snotty and assholey as the woman they're filming

@VStallion01 @KingBobIIV The point is how you go about tasting it.

@KingBobIIV Quran says every living shall taste dead.. will face the master of worlds the most high & everlasting. Everyone of its creation will perish one day. Only he chooses when how death shall come. So whats your point ??

Why do Muslims never talk about how Muhammad died and who killed him and why?

@VinnyBonsignore Sure, he had some pretty passes. But to say he was a machine is a bit of a stretch. I saw several passes where the receiver had to slow up because they were under thrown.

He was a machine out there

@dcwolfmoon @PiersUncensored @piersmorgan @seanspicer @AnthonySeldon Not intentional. Was messing with settings learning what they do and I selected one I didn’t fully understand. Feel free to comment.

@MyTake2017 @PiersUncensored @piersmorgan @seanspicer @AnthonySeldon Wow, he wouldn't even let me respond to him avoiding the tRump question. Weak and soft

"The President has allowed those of us on the right to express ourselves freely.' Sean Spicer answers Anthony Seldon's 'perplexing' question about Trump's stance on democracy. Watch more👇 📺 youtu.be/X1xSkkJR2Z8 @piersmorgan | @seanspicer | @AnthonySeldon

@dcwolfmoon @PiersUncensored @piersmorgan @seanspicer @AnthonySeldon Just someone who can be impartial regardless of left or right. Nonjudgmental when I hear a position unless it’s really dumb. If not, I conduct further due diligence outside of X before forming my opinion. I like things both parties stand for and dislike some things too.

@MyTake2017 @PiersUncensored @piersmorgan @seanspicer @AnthonySeldon "I'll get to that in a second" .... sure he did. You a tRumper?

@dcwolfmoon @PiersUncensored @piersmorgan @seanspicer @AnthonySeldon How did he not the answer question? He hit on all three points the guy asked.

@PiersUncensored @piersmorgan @seanspicer @AnthonySeldon Spicer is a loser but he did do a great job of not answering the direct question. Lol

@jmdoublet @_Useless_Tree_ @mickey_keith @PiersUncensored @piersmorgan @seanspicer @AnthonySeldon Never argue with a dickweed. They will continue to make dickweed statements proving they truly are a$$wipes.

@_Useless_Tree_ @mickey_keith @PiersUncensored @piersmorgan @seanspicer @AnthonySeldon Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience. Mark Twain

@jmdoublet @mickey_keith @PiersUncensored @piersmorgan @seanspicer @AnthonySeldon There’s no way to describe you other than to say you’re a dickweed. What an a$$wipe statement.

@mickey_keith @PiersUncensored @piersmorgan @seanspicer @AnthonySeldon Another nonsensical statement by a MAGA halfwit who can barely understand his mother tongue let alone what the English academic actually said.

@washingtonpost Information and psychological warfare. Learn what it is people before posting dumb things.

Breaking news: The U.S. military gave the president a plan to seize nearly 1,000 pounds of highly enriched uranium in Iran. The mission would require the airlift of potentially hundreds or thousands of troops and could take weeks. wapo.st/3PWVRzs

@christravis1979 @gotrice2024 Canker sores are not herpes. Look it up.

@gotrice2024 Fun fact: canker sores are a form of herpes. Learned that from a pharmacist back when I was a tech.

This young lady has a pretty big canker sore, it’s been bothering her for over a week and is painful to eat and is affecting her sleep. She tells her dad and he says to pour salt directly on it and it will speed up the healing process. She tries it and describes it as one of the most painful things she’s ever had done. I always thought you were supposed to just gargle with salt water, has anyone else ever done this?