Recovering Curmudgion

Ladies and gentlemen, meet the scum of the Earth, @sanchezcastejon Never forget the communist state of Spain, which executed a rape victim and allowed those who gang-raped her to roam free. You’ll always be remembered as the face of a socialist regime who willingly murdered a vulnerable and violated girl who had lost all hope, instead of giving Noelia justice. You granted freedom, housing and benefits to mentally ill immigrant rapists, murderers and people who despise Spanish society, and this was the end result. Your government allows this atrocity while you yourself are busy defending “Palestine” and wagging your finger at Trump for intervening on behalf of the Iranian people. Everything about you is EVIL.

MARCO RUBIO: "We in America have no interest in being polite & orderly caretakers of the West's managed decline."

>American airman asleep on a train in France while on vacation with his childhood friends >Wakes up to the sound of screaming and breaking glass >Sees a terrorist step into the aisle carrying an AK-47 and 300 rounds of ammo >Doesn't look for an exit, doesn't hesitate >Sprints 30 feet down the aisle straight at the barrel of the gun, completely unarmed >The terrorist pulls the trigger; the rifle miraculously jams >Tackles him, gets slashed in the neck and hand with a box cutter, almost losing his thumb >Ignores the bleeding, chokes the attacker unconscious with his bare hands >Credits God for the jammed rifle and his survival >Saves everyone on board Patriot airman Spencer Stone is a hero.

Donald J. Trump Truth Social Post 06:59 AM EST 03.26.26

@Manhattva That's because there will be no need. 🤣

This is my favorite post of the week.

@Manhattva It's easy to be organized when enough dark money is flowing.

The Left in Utah is so much more powerful and more well organized than the regular people here, than the normie will ever understand. If the average person doesn’t wake up soon, then Utah is over. Huge black pill.

This is a travesty.

Nick Shirley is a nightmare not only for corrupt government bureaucrats, but to Antimos. Luke Nichols is also a nightmare to Antimos. The antimos keep reminding people that they’re “Mormon” (the horror 😱) who are not Christian, but honest people see them as an entirely honorable, God-fearing Christians, and very good men worthy of emmulation. Way to live the gospel out loud, fellas!

Nick Shirley is the kind of young man we need more of. He’s Tough He’s Relentless He confronts respectfully He’s Fearless He’s Brave He Loves America He’s a Man of faith He’s Humble yet driven. We need to continue to encourage & support young brave men like him.

Utah's next Governor opposes the SAVE America Act. This is a crisis in Utah, and all red states. They will all be California within 5 years unless YOU - yes all of you who are obsessed with blue states - get involved and remove the rot.

🚨 BREAKING: Sen. Mike Lee is being praised nationwide for staying on the Senate floor until almost 11PM AT NIGHT to fight hard for the SAVE America Act I mean WHAT ELSE can you ask for in a senator?! 🇺🇸 "I just finished a very lengthy speech on the Senate floor, I was going for about two hours, refuting over and over again the same arguments that the Democrats keep raising in response to the Save America Act." "They're not getting more creative, nor are they getting more persuasive. The arguments they're raising are stale, they are distortions of what the bill actually says, distortions of the status quo of the law and of the Constitution." "They're wrong, we're right. We keep this up, we will win. Stay with me. Baby steps to save America." Thank you @BasedMikeLee!

@jkdavis89 Bad example. Muslims are the worst persecutors in history. Don’t let the fox into the hen house.

@ChristLifeInc1 @jkdavis89 What Bible verse says He doesn't?

ONCE AGAIN My BIBLE QUOTES vs your OPINIONS YOU ARE THE BIBLICALLY ILLITERATE CULT MEMBER. So far, no mormon has ever answered this question... YOU WON'T EITHER! What Bible verse says God has a wife or wives?

Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are radical defenders of religious freedom. Having first hand experience of having our rights trampled by those who claim we are a "demonic cult" we know how important it is to defend the religious rights of all good people. "If it has been demonstrated that I have been willing to die for a "Mormon," I am bold to declare before Heaven that I am just as ready to die in defending the rights of a Presbyterian, a Baptist, or a good man of any denomination; for the same principle which would trample upon the rights of the Latter-day Saints would trample upon the rights of the Roman Catholics, or of any other denomination who may be unpopular and too weak to defend themselves. It is a love of liberty which inspires my soul — civil and religious liberty to the whole of the human race." —Joseph Smith, 1843

The green transition runs on sulfuric acid. Sulfuric acid is made from sulfur. Sulfur is a byproduct of refining the oil that the green transition was designed to replace. And 45 percent of the world’s seaborne sulfur trade just got trapped behind the same chokepoint that trapped the oil. This is the circle nobody drew. Copper for electric vehicle wiring is extracted by leaching ore with sulfuric acid. Nickel for battery cathodes is processed in high-pressure acid leach plants that consume sulfur shipped from Gulf refineries. Cobalt and lithium follow the same chemistry. Twenty percent of global copper production, 30 percent of nickel, and 50 percent of uranium depend on sulfuric acid derived from sulfur that comes overwhelmingly from fossil fuel processing in the Middle East. The war did not just trap the fuel. It trapped the chemical that mines the metals that were supposed to end the need for the fuel. The snake is eating its own tail. At Hormuz. Sulfur prices have surged 165 percent year on year to over $650 per ton, up 25 percent since the war began. Indonesia’s nickel HPAL plants, which supply the cathode material for the batteries in your phone and your Tesla, import 75 percent of their sulfur from the Middle East. They hold one to two months of inventory. The clock started on February 28. It is now Day 27. The DRC copperbelt imports approximately 2 million tons of sulfur per year for oxide leaching. Fifty to 60 percent of its copper output is acid-dependent. Sulfuric acid was already up 500 percent in the 2.5 years before the war began, driven by smelter closures and decarbonisation reducing byproduct supply. The war added a chokepoint to a market that was already in structural deficit. Now layer the diesel crisis on top. Blue Cap Mining in Western Australia stood down 120 of 180 workers on March 17 because it could not secure 15,000 litres of diesel per day. Australia’s mining industry burns 10 billion litres annually. Diesel prices are up 40 percent. Over 500 stations have run dry. And modern haul trucks will not operate without AdBlue, a urea-based exhaust fluid Australia imports 69 to 95 percent from the Middle East. No diesel to move the ore. No AdBlue to run the trucks. The ASX Materials Index is down 20 percent. Bear market. The market sees an energy crisis. It is wrong. This is a chemistry crisis. The molecules that extract copper from rock are refined from oil that flows through Hormuz. The fluid that allows trucks to meet emissions standards is made from urea synthesised from gas processed at Ras Laffan. The helium cooling the chips controlling the electric trucks replacing diesel trucks is a byproduct of LNG from the same facility the war shut down. Every substitution loops back to the same chokepoint. Diesel powers the truck. Sulfuric acid leaches the copper. AdBlue cleans the exhaust. Helium cools the chip. Urea feeds the soil. LNG powers the grid. Every molecule either transits Hormuz, is refined from something that transits Hormuz, or is a byproduct of processing something that transits Hormuz. The strait is not an oil chokepoint. It is a chemistry chokepoint. The entire periodic table of industrial civilisation is queued behind it. The Filipino nurse walks to work. The GPU ships late. The Western Australian miner flies home. The Indonesian nickel plant counts inventory. The Congolese copper pad waits for acid. The Iowa corn field waits for nitrogen. And the electric vehicle that was supposed to make all of this irrelevant waits for a battery made from metals extracted by chemicals derived from the fuel it was designed to replace, through a strait it was supposed to make unnecessary. The molecules do not care about your energy transition. The molecules transit Hormuz. Or they do not move at all. Full analysis: open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

The man who controls the only navy that can reopen the Strait of Hormuz just told the allies whose economies are collapsing because it is closed that he needs nothing from them. And to never forget it. At 6:16 AM on March 26, President Trump posted on Truth Social: “NATO NATIONS HAVE DONE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO HELP WITH THE LUNATIC NATION, NOW MILITARILY DECIMATED, OF IRAN. THE U.S.A. NEEDS NOTHING FROM NATO, BUT ‘NEVER FORGET’ THIS VERY IMPORTANT POINT IN TIME!” Parse this sentence the way a bond trader parses a Fed statement. Three messages are encoded in one post. The first is declarative: Iran is “militarily decimated.” The second is transactional: NATO provided “absolutely nothing.” The third is a threat dressed as a memory: “never forget.” Those two words are the invoice. They are not nostalgia. They are a receivable. And the man issuing the receivable commands the Fifth Fleet, the carrier strike groups, and the only minesweeping capacity that could clear Hormuz of the IRGC’s naval mines within the next 90 days. Europe cannot clear the strait. Germany said “this is not our war.” France said it would participate only after fighting ends. The UK has no plans. Trump called the refusal “a very foolish mistake” and “a one way street.” Nine days later he posted “NEVER FORGET.” The escalation is linguistic but the leverage is physical. Europe imports 90 percent of its refined diesel. Over 500 Australian stations have run dry. Diesel is above two euros per litre across the continent. The molecules Europe needs to keep its industry running transit the strait Europe refused to help reopen. The contradiction is the strategy. Trump simultaneously claims the US “needs nothing from NATO” and signals resentment that NATO provided nothing. A nation that needs nothing does not demand remembrance. The “never forget” tells allies this refusal will be priced into every future negotiation: spending targets, trade terms, security guarantees. The 2 percent GDP guideline he pushed to 4 percent in 2018 and 5 percent in 2025 will carry a war surcharge. The surcharge is the diesel Europe did not help secure, the helium Qatar did not deliver, the sulfuric acid that did not reach the copper mines, and the toll booth Iran is legislating into permanent law while NATO debates mandates. The word “decimated” does work the briefings cannot. Iran has lost 90 percent of its launchers, 140 ships, 9,000 targets. And Hormuz is still closed. The toll booth collects in yuan. The IRGC commander who built the corridor is dead and the corridor still operates. “Militarily decimated” is accurate in the domain of physics. It is meaningless in the domain of chokepoints. The decimation did not reopen the strait. It did not stop cluster bomblets falling on Kfar Qasim. It did not prevent Iran from drafting toll legislation on an international waterway. Trump is claiming a military victory that has not produced a strategic outcome. This is the sentence the market has not priced: the war can destroy Iran’s military and still not reopen Hormuz. The 9,000 targets and the $200 billion bought kinetic supremacy. They did not buy passage. And the allies who were asked to help buy passage refused. Now they will pay for the refusal in diesel prices, industrial shutdowns, and future security concessions that Trump will extract one by one, invoice by invoice, summit by summit, for as long as he holds office. “Never forget” is not rhetoric. It is a ledger entry. And the currency is not dollars. The currency is leverage. Over allies who need a strait they refused to fight for, controlled by an enemy they refused to confront, reopened by a navy they refused to support. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

Spain may be lost.

El Salvador's Nayib Bukele LASHES OUT against human rights organisations over the Noelia case and labels them as "law firms for criminals". He says these orgs "literally prefer to let the victims be killed rather than protect them", while they fall over themselves to defend foreign rapists instead. Save Noeila and bring her justice.

Israel Derangement Syndrome is the new parachute pants. You will look back on your IDS with sad regret.

@EricLDaugh This guy is working as hard against President Trump and the American people as crying Chucky. The Republicans should remove him immediately.