Daniel Ruane ⚡

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

Here is what we know: U.S. taxpayer money, funneled through USAID and NIH, funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. That research likely caused the COVID pandemic that killed millions and cost trillions.

Dr. Fauci personally signed off on these experiments, then lied to Congress about it. Biden tried to protect him with a last-minute pardon. That’s the very definition of a cover-up.

[Royce Lopez @hippojuicefilm]

Well @RepThomasMassie went out fighting like G on his principles. Danny Bongos quit after 290 days of doing nothing but covering up for the Epstein Class.Oh and his numbers are crashing.

[Robert Barnes @barnes_law]

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." George Orwell, or the new "MAGA" folks these days.

[Scott Horton @scotthortonshow]

To be fair to the president though, he was lying.

[Owen Shroyer @OwenShroyer1776]

🔔COME GET YOUR FRESH SLOP

[Daniel Ruane ⚡ @DRuane88]

@AnfieldEdition @LewisSteele_ @AnfieldIndex Good I don't want to be like those other clubs

[Daniel Ruane ⚡ @DRuane88]

@DiligentDenizen @DanielLMcAdams 2020'd

[Sean Strickland @SStricklandMMA]

It has nothing to do with Thomas Massie losing, It has everything to do with a foreign government and it's supporters lobbying 30 million to protect its interest of a foreign government.

This isnt America first. Im more committed to never vote for an aipac candidate again.

[Mises Caucus @LPMisesCaucus]

@AFpost We need to abolish Social Security and Medicare. The forced wealth redistribution from working youth to predatory boomer must end.

[Liam McCollum @MLiamMcCollum]

There must be a cost. Everyone who supports Thomas Massie must either stay home in November or vote against the Republicans. And then we need a true America First candidate in 2028, not J.D. or Rubio.

[Liam McCollum @MLiamMcCollum]

This single photo of Ron Paul will ratio you… again

[Karl K. Wuckert @KarlWuckert]

A vote for Ed Gallrein is a vote for Jeffrey Epstein.

[Peter Schiff @PeterSchiff]

Yes, @RepThomasMassie voted with Democrats to oppose Trump's Iran war. But had Biden started the same war, Massie would've voted with Republicans to oppose it. The difference is Massie votes his conscience and honors his oath to support the Constitution. The rest are party hacks.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Massie: I’m walking to an airplane to rejoin the most expensive congressional race in U.S. history. It’s turned into a referendum on whether Israel gets to buy seats in Congress. And what they found out is that my seat is really expensive. By the time this is over, they will probably have spent $20 million and come up short.

I’ve never seen Great Britain, Australia, or even Germany play in our elections here in the United States. But Israel gets so much from the United States.

It’s a one-sided relationship. They get us to be their proxies in wars they want against their enemies. They get our military assistance. They get our technology. They get our bombs. They get our tax dollars.

And I think it’s a very one-sided relationship. At least with NATO, we pretend that they would come to our aid someday if we needed it—and even that’s a ruse.

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

One of my favorite Congressman Thomas Massie! #BigGovSucks

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today.

I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.

It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC.

May God bless America.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

We were told the program was “obliterated” in the summer. That’s what they told us. Direct quote. It cannot be the case that the program was both obliterated and also close to being “immune” to attack. That is a logical impossibility. A contradiction in terms. Like a square circle. It makes no sense.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

John, I know the neocon douchebags like yourself who’ve been wrong about everything forever have called for an Iran invasion. You’ve never met a military intervention you didn’t support. I fully acknowledge that. Your policy ideas have been a disaster for the country ever since you were shilling for the Iraq War. That’s well known. Thanks for reminding us. My point was that actual America First conservatives weren’t calling for it.

[Dave Smith @ComicDaveSmith]

Obviously my opinion has no relevance or impact on US policy. I don’t even live in Tel Aviv.

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

Twenty million barrels of oil passed through the Strait of Hormuz yesterday.

Today the number may be zero.

Not because Iran mined the water. Not because a tanker was hit. Because Lloyd’s of London picked up the phone.

War risk underwriters began canceling policies for strait transits hours after Operation Epic Fury launched. The Financial Times confirmed premiums surging 50 percent. Baseline war risk sits at 0.25 percent of hull value. For a hundred million dollar tanker that is 250,000 dollars per voyage. At peak escalation rates, one million per transit. Vessels linked to American or Israeli interests are becoming uninsurable entirely. No price. No policy. No passage.

The KHK Empress was loaded with Omani crude heading for Basra when it executed a U-turn mid-strait and redirected to India. The Eagle Veracruz halted at the western approach carrying two million barrels of Saudi crude bound for China. The Front Shanghai stopped off Sharjah with Iraqi crude destined for Rotterdam. Nippon Yusen ordered its entire fleet to avoid Hormuz. Greece told its merchant armada to reassess passage. Hapag-Lloyd suspended all transits.

None of them were fired upon. Every one of them got the same call.

More than fifty million years ago the Arabian plate collided with the Eurasian plate and compressed the Persian Gulf into a basin that drains through a single geological bottleneck twenty one miles wide. Twenty one percent of global petroleum. Twenty percent of all seaborne LNG. One fifth of industrial civilization’s energy supply forced through a tectonic accident narrower than the English Channel, bordered on one side by the country whose supreme leader was killed yesterday morning.

The USS Abraham Lincoln carries enough Tomahawks to sink every IRGC patrol boat in 48 hours. Operation Praying Mantis crippled Iran’s operational naval forces in eight hours in 1988. The Fifth Fleet has rehearsed this scenario for decades.

None of that matters. Aircraft carriers cannot force an underwriter to rewrite a policy. Tomahawks cannot lower a premium. The most powerful navy in human history cannot make a Lloyd’s syndicate decide that a VLCC transiting Iranian coastal waters represents an acceptable risk on a Saturday afternoon when missiles are landing in Dubai.

Goldman Sachs estimates Brent could peak at 110 dollars per barrel. JP Morgan projects 120 to 130. At those levels every airline bleeds cash. Every central bank watches three years of inflation fighting reignite overnight. Bypass pipelines from Saudi Arabia and the UAE handle roughly three million barrels. Hormuz handles twenty million. The math does not close.

Iran figured out something the Pentagon still has not.

You do not need to close a strait. You just need to make it uninsurable.

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