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This isn’t true. A small majority of the Iranian people want regime change. A small minority want the Shah in power.

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How do you know this?

DId AP do a poll?

He can’t appoint anyone. It has to be a special election or wait until November by Kentucky law.

Newsmax

One official told Newsmax the Boxer was in good shape when it deployed in March, and the Navy crew is doing all it can to keep its amphibious ship going while paying the price for years of reduced fleet inventory and availability.

The Boxer incident has not been previously reported, and it highlights how military leaders continue to face limited mission options for the Marine Corps' most sought-after rapid response units due to problems with amphibious ships.

Newsmax broke the news last month that a shortage of sea-ready amphibious ships likely will keep the Marine Corps from deploying another full-sized rapid response force aboard vessels for almost a year.

The development severely curtails the service's ability to respond to crises around the globe at a period that coincides with China's stated timeline for potential action against Taiwan.


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Long answer? Middlemen, bankers, lawyers and politicians

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Drug companies,

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The Kentucky Governor is a Democrat. If he passes he will appoint a Democrat as a replacement. Loose control of Senate

From publication Israel Hayom This is where we stand

I had to read the whole thing before it sank in.

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It's a long article but here is a few paragraphs:

The whole world was amazed at how Israel had persuaded you to join the war, given America's appeasing and problematic conduct for years toward the terrorist regime in Iran. That is why we swallowed our pride when you took all the credit for that war and minimized Israel's role. Well, he likes honor, we said. A small price for the strategic change we had created together.

Six months later, in direct continuation of that war, you met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and with security and intelligence teams from both sides, and you reached the clear and unequivocal conclusion: An even more intense war was needed to mortally harm the regime and remove the existential and daily threat to the Middle East, first and foremost Israel, to American interests and to universal values and morality. In one of the meetings, you, Mr. President, you, set the strategic supreme objective: the fall of the regime. You said the massacre the regime was carrying out against its citizens in those very days must not be repeated, that those brave citizens had not died in vain, and that there was only a maximalist solution to the Iranian problem.

Everyone who took part in the meeting knows that you were the one pushing for this with full force. Mossad Director David Barnea and the prime minister's military secretary, Roman Gofman, presented a practical plan for it, but their assessment was cautious and stated that such a move would take many long months and that patience would be required, as well as work with regional leaders. "Patience" is a key word. To your credit, when Israel haters in the American media and elements around you spread the claim that Netanyahu had dragged you into war and into the goal of toppling the regime, you dismissed it and emphasized that it had been entirely your decision. I hope you will not change that truth now too. The citizens of Iran believed you and waited for you. And indeed, on Feb. 28, together with Israel, you launched one of the most just wars in human history.

And the war worked excellently. You let us do the work against the leadership, thanks to our terrifyingly precise intelligence and the capabilities of the elite Israeli Air Force, while at the same time your excellent people, led by Secretary Pete Hegseth and Adm. Cooper, did an insane job of wearing down Iran's missile array.

The plan to weaken the regime on the way to toppling it, the one presented to you and approved by you, stipulated one intense military stage lasting two months, followed by tighter sanctions and an economic blockade. The blockade of Hormuz came a little late, not terrible, but it did its job effectively. You dealt with domestic criticism over the rise in oil prices with the correct and justified argument that we need to suffer a little now for a much better future.

Over the past two weeks, you received the intelligence reports and the new assessments on the regime's condition. You saw Iran's economy deteriorating toward disaster, but more importantly, you saw the pressure inside the regime, reflected in quarrels, arguments and threats, the beginning of disintegration. More and more reports from Western and Gulf intelligence organizations pointed in that direction. And then suddenly you made a U-turn that cannot be explained by any logical analysis.

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Then why is gasoline so high

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Because the refinery that makes your gas does not set the price of oil.

If you owned an oil well and the price the market would pay you went up would you say no. I want less because that guy in Tigerdroppings is crying like a little girl.

Fidelity told me an hour ago that the pricing will be done by 6-7 Eastern and if you had shown interest and requested shared you should get an email this evening by around 11pm Eastern. Maybe earlier.

You MUST confirm in the email your desire to purchase what is allocated to you in the email. You can purchase less than that amount but not more than the allocation.

Just go to Vegas. Or just buy the thing. Trying to tone the silver market is a crap shoot.

I read Li’s bio. Very impressive. Here’s hoping management maybe the spark needed. No pun intended :)

Here’s hoping management and the board allocate capital to execute his plans.