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It also seems like the goal is to cement a hard-left sweep in mid-terms.
Vance (who is no savior either) now looks like a failure due to inability to reach solution. Policy wonks will claim reasons why 'US holds the upper hand, etc' - but they ignore the bigger picture of high gas prices.
The 'blockade' itself, is going to be a disaster. Lets assume China strikes deal with Iran to let its ships pass, what is the US going to do? Sink Chinese ships??
Trump negotiated himself into a Lose-Lose situation.....The choice the Israel first team in Whitehouse has gotten themselves into is: High gas prices + demand inflation + higher interest rates + stock price collapse OR WW3
The public wants neither.
Yeah, the lack of concern for public opinion makes me wonder if they have something planned for the elections along the lines of restricting voting dramatically compared to the recent past.
I dont think they have any sort of plan. They are winging it day by day and always keep doubling down on whatever the dumbest solution is....
Hard to admit, but I had high hopes for Trump admin. The only solution I really see is for Trump to throw everyone under the bus and claim his advisors lied to him....then simply withdraw from the region and let Israel deal with consequences. I'd rate that outcome as pretty low though....
I guess I don't mean it's a coordinated plan, more that they are less concerned than you'd expect because they know there will be fewer eligible Democrat voters.
Restricting voting to actual citizens and ending the whole "mail in ballots" facade would be good in general, but I don't really think thats enough.
I think Trump voters are now split into 3 camps: (a) See this as a disaster, sizable portion will sit out election, (b) Will actively vote democrat, (c) MAGA truth social hardcores will still vote R, but numbers aren't enough.
The A and B camps have been exaggerated by doomers and the opposition since he came down the escalater. Literally every week for the past 10 years Trump has said or done something to annoy those people. And what happened when the anti-Trump crowd won out? Russia invaded Ukraine and we got 4 years of open borders, vaccine mandates, welfare fraud, and all the usual blue team shit. For nothing.
Political game theory predicts that the most extreme wing of the party accomplishes the most for the platform. That's just how the numbers play out. Democrats don't differentiate between C and moderates. They'd throw all of us in jail. So everyone has to line up with C for the time being or the country becomes California, a second Europe, a failed state.
I see it the same way
This isn’t random or “winging it.” The mechanism is explicit.
The SAVE Act shifts registration from eligibility → documentary proof at registration (no document — including mismatches like maiden names — → no processed registration)
Then the draft EO extends it using its own words:
“unusual and extraordinary threat”
→ trigger national emergency powers
“supersede any conflicting provisions of federal law”
→ shift control from statutes → executive assertion
Now layer the system:
Federal data (DHS/SSA) → DOJ enforcement → USPS ballot control
Full chain:
Eligibility → Documents → Registration constraint →
Federal data → Enforcement → Ballot pipeline control
You don’t need to “restrict voting” at the ballot box
if you control who exists in the system upstream.
Same mechanism already tested (Kansas blocked ~31k registrations before courts shut it down)
This isn’t turnout.
It’s control of inputs + asserted authority to override constraints.
Links (receipts):
https://stacker.news/items/1463160/r/Yermin
https://stacker.news/items/1459768/r/Yermin
https://stacker.news/items/1457923/r/Yermin
https://stacker.news/items/1454203/r/Yermin
https://stacker.news/items/1444926/r/Yermin
Removing mines, escorting ships while preventing smuggling by others, to ensure freedom of navigation, is the whole point of having a Navy.
Trump negotiated himself into a Lose-Lose situation
Yea, I'm sure you got all the top level classified intel, he should have called you first.
Panicans couldn't sound any dumber but keep trying...
to ensure freedom of navigation
I'm sure those ships being theatened with being indicted ferrying oil to Phillippines are feeling the freedom.
Nothing new, righteous or glamourous about protection rackets. Millenia old.
You mean ones that paid into enabling the coercion of others
righteous or glamourous
He wrote obtusely from the security of the citadel
Millenia old.
Some might call that "Lindy"
The petro dollar system based entirely on coercion.
Stunning observation, as if every other fiat isn't.
Nearly all other fiat currencies are issued by countries militarily and monetarily subservient to the USA.
USD petrodollar hegemony is global.
Most other fiats are subservient to it.
That is the difference you are obfuscating over.
The Fed Res is owned by Zionist Bankers.
USA is being exposed as the military proxy to Zionist Zealot Bankers that it has been since December 23, 1913.
I know the simple explanation is that the U.S. is a huge oil producer and will benefit from higher prices, but the U.S. consumer will deal with even more inflation, no?
Yes, higher prices but also gains from increased economic activity in our oil sector.
Other countries don't get that increased economic activity, so it's more likely that high oil prices will push them into recessions.
Totally plausible. I’m only commenting on the dynamic wrt oil.
China has already banned rare earths exports to any buyer even remotely related to US military.
Any exports currently are strictly vetted to ensure they do not have any military end use.
The ability of the US military to build new war materiel is already considerably constrained.
america has become oil and gas exporteur. So it makes sense.
The US fracking industry was nearly dead and now is exporting lng to europe. Imagine the friction in fracking, loading on special ships, shipping across the world, build a plant on both sides, one for liquefying gas, and on the other side, facilities for converting the liquefied gas back into gaseous form.
Meanwhile russian gas that was transportet by a pipeline with nearly no friction is burned in russia because it is a nearly worthless byproduct when you extraxt oil. And then they tell you that carbon emissions are bad and you have to pay tax.
It is only geo politics of petrodollar and zionism why US is attacking iran
I agree. Hobbling Middle East producers and Russian infrastructure, while confiscating Venezuela's supply, leaves the US as the main beneficiaries of high prices and the rest of the world more worse off than America.
Great way to boost Texas and nerf California, too
Good point. I'm not sure whether it's mostly better for purple areas, though.
It sure looks like high oil prices are the goal