OldManRiver

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The flow of Mexicans should be outbound IAW deporting illegals.

Why then are bus loads of Mexicans coming here?

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There is this crazy possibility they are not illegals, and aren't staying in LA

Did you ask them where they were headed?

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Anna Paulina Luna says that this happened when POTUS and Director Ratcliffe were out of the country so it seems to be an internal coup within the CIA.

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Does that mean they cannot fix it when they get back? Like some rouge CIA agents were waiting until they flew out, then pulled a bunch of underhanded shite, and now Trump and Ratcliffe will just say "Damn, we weren't in DC when it went down, oh well nothing can be done now!"
There always seem to be an obstacle to the "big reveal" that with a little critical thinking isn't really an obstacle at all

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Trump will sign off on it like he accomplished something and people will cheer without realizing this is not going to slow investors down that much

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It doesn't matter if it actually accomplishes anything or not. It gives Eric Daugherty the ability to make a tweet with flashing red lights and all caps that "President Trump saved American homebuyers from the evil globalists!!"

And 3-400k people will see it and think "Yeah, Trump just told Blackrock to frick off!", not really understanding what actually happened.

But it got a great ratio on the Tweet, which is all that really matters

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Phil is so godam good with Down

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I remember getting the NOLA CD when it came out, not knowing anything about it other than it was Phil's side project

Getting to experience an album like that completely cold was a magical experience you don't get to do anymore.

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but added this is NOT a restarting of the war or end to the ceasefire

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They are twisting themselves into knots to make sure Epic Fury is "over" and that the ceasefire is still on

Makes me wonder if all the dismissive talk aside, the War Powers Act and 60 day clock is more of an impediment than they want to admit

Both my girls had them, and that was 18 and 15 years ago, I can only imagine how over the top they are now

Either your tweet embed is wrong, or the last season is really going off the rails

US Flagged ship apparently.

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Maersk has confirmed that one of the vessels involved in Monday’s U.S.-escorted transits of the Strait of Hormuz was its U.S.-flagged roll-on/roll-off ship Alliance Fairfax, marking one of the clearest tests so far of Washington’s effort to reopen the waterway.

The ship had been effectively stranded in the Gulf since the outbreak of conflict between the United States and Iran in late February, when shipping through the strait largely collapsed amid missile, drone, and mine threats.

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The ALLIANCE FAIRFAX was among five U.S.-flagged ships known to be in the Persian Gulf when the conflict began. All of the vessels are enrolled in either the U.S. Maritime Security Program (MSP) or the Tanker Security Program (TSP)–two critical U.S. government-backed initiatives designed to ensure a ready fleet of commercially operated vessels available for military logistics in times of crisis.

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He knows how they are...they will not give up.

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The Iranians or the oil wells?

It's been widely stated by DJT, Hegseth, Bessent and all of Twitter that Iran is out of holding space for their oil. And that once you "turn off" a mature well it typically damages the field and reduces the output you will eventually get from it if/when it's resumed. That's a long term issue and fallout Iran has to deal with

But the timeline for that keeps sliding. It's been "3 days from now" for a couple of weeks. And DJT is the only one I've seen talking about "explosions", although it could be somewhere else and it hasn't shown up here yet.

Until all of the ship owners/insurers/operators feel like they can freely transit the strait with the same relative level of safety they had prior to February 28, we are going to stay in this uncertain state

Yes, you could argue that Iran could have closed the straight anytime they wanted, and attacked ships at will. But obviously the shipping world at large was comfortable with the risk level. Otherwise 100+ ships a day wouldn't have gone through without incident.

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If Iran still has enough of these why aren’t they firing at our blockade?

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They aren't going to scratch the paint on warships with drones, and it would be violating the ceasefire in any case

But drones could frick up a pipeline in the middle of the UAE, Oman, etc.