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Christian. Conservative. Golfer. Engineer. Open to debate.

[DT @DanielTak]

@bethanyjbabcock I was there during the flood in 1998. Remember driving north on 281 through Olmos Park and being in awe of the water elevation being just below the highway.

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

Welp, I think we're done here.

Trump himself is now saying he buckled under the pressure of Hormuz.

It's as bad as it could possibly be. He's saying aloud that Iran can have anything it wants because America can't afford the staring contest.

If this is his own explanation in his own words, then the fact that the sanctions relief is front-loaded...suddenly becomes important. The fact that the inspections regime that will verify compliance will be negotiated by an American side that has already admitted defeat, that needs this more than the opponent needs it...is now significant. And the fact that the proxy system is now recognized as legitimate by the United States -- is suddenly exactly the disaster you feared it might be.

And the fact that America has declared aloud that it's not actually capable of imposing its will even in the world's most vital energy chokepoints, causing its allies in the Gulf to already begin to seek a new accommodation with Iran -- makes all of this worse than Obama and worse than the JCPOA.

Remember: the great unfixable flaw of the JCPOA that none of its boosters ever had a good answer for was that it merely kicked the can down the road. It solved nothing.

Trump's deal, as of this moment, is not even close to accomplishing so much.

"Iran never won a war and never lost a negotiation," Trump famously said of Obama's deal (as a reporter reminded him at today's press conference). Ironic that the Iranians would win a negotiation most spectacularly against a man who styles himself the greatest negotiator to ever grace the White House.

So what does it all mean?

It means that in the coming years, nuclear programs will sprout like mushrooms after the rain throughout the Middle East. It means that many nations will now build out new and larger ballistic missile arsenals.

It means that the state system will give way before the march of the region's transnational ideological axes. Minorities will again be trampled, new wars will be fought by stronger states to dominate the power vacuums within weaker ones.

You're thinking of Israel in Lebanon -- but that's just a specific campaign against a specific enemy. Think Turkey, which right now occupies a region of Syria vastly larger than Israel's presence in Lebanon. Think heightened Iranian support for the Houthis in Yemen and a new influx of money and guns to the different sides in Libya.

It means, in other words, that we will have a few more wars to fight, a few more technologies to invent to deal with this new age of cheap missiles and drones -- and also of supersonic Chinese missiles bearing nuclear warheads that Iran will eventually, inevitably, be capable of deploying against us.

And it didn't have to be this bad. (And maybe, when he's heard all the criticism, it won't be.) He could have left something, anything, to concede later. He could have kept the Iranians a little bit in the dark, just a smidgen, as to just how defeated America feels.

Israel's position in all this is simple, and more or less unchanged from last week. America gave us more than we had a right to ask for. But we may be going it alone from here out.

Dust off the nukes. Maybe test one somewhere far away from anywhere. Quadruple the interceptor production lines, double the size of the Mossad and the Air Force. And no, don't let Hezbollah breathe, not for a second.

It's the 1960s again. And Israel will have to defeat a couple more enemies before it can once again eke out a few decades of peace.

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@willcain Mitch is not him. Unfortunately, he'll be kept around because the team carries him.

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@StealthQE4 2.5 years away. If the war ends by end of summer, he'll have 2 years to campaign (eternity with the way news cycles today).

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@FOX4 Article written at 7am Friday morning, when forecast had already drastically changed… if we even got a 1/10” in Plano, I’d be surprised.
But then, article pushed to social media at midnight Saturday morning… Do better fox 4!

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@elonmusk CyberSUV please! I see decent amount of people asking for a larger family hauler (me included!)

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@JakeCan72 @FlickyMcDicky TCU, SMU, Baylor. All the same. Maybe even more dangerous, as many would falsely assume these are not as secular as other universities.

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@CalebJHull Contrary opinion. They know very well who their audience is. They know most NFL fans only care about the game and will just ignore the woke ads/halftime. It's the millions of other people that watch the Super Bowl just for the ads/halftime that they are appealing with this.

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@elonmusk Dreaming of an SUV on the cybertruck platform...

[Theo Von @TheoVon]

What are we paying taxes for?

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@JulieChangRE Been watching prices in DFW for months now. Some properties have sat for 6+ months with no cut. Would rather they just delist.

[DT @DanielTak]

@EstesPga 1. Try to implement slew of dumb policies, only getting a few passed.
2. Fails miserably
3. Scapegoats lack of full control/success (on Trump) for failure
4. Yell/Complain really loud so msm agrees and parrots

[Daniel Keene @Djkeene1]

Since I’m no longer a member of the church and my now former elders have made public comments on the issue I’d like to thank @sgpestritto for accurately covering this issue.
https://t.co/hnusOR2BzV

[DT @DanielTak]

@Mike_kim714 gahhhh, was rooting for you and Rickie to both get in and now looks like neither of you... UGH

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@crumbl 🥳

[Josh Wolfe @wolfejosh]

Qatar played him perfectly
-We will get you the American hostage
-We will get you a new shiny plane, the best plane, bigger than other president plane, not just AF1 Air Force 1 Supreme Mega and then you retire it to your library. No president will ever afford such a beautiful huge plane.
-We will help you bring peace to the mideast and you will win a Nobel peace prize.
-of course you know for peace we need you to have Witkoff will say Israel is now the one that is not cooperating. We need them to stop their war
-We have so many many more good things we will buy, many more funds to be LPs maybe the biggest LPs
-there is a huge trade deal and we are prepared to own er invest so many institutions in America…

(especially ahead of POTUS Saudi visit). 200k people. Really really f'in shrewd. Insidiously shrewd. But global influence from Al jazeera to real estate to mosques preaching Muslim brotherhood to sports teams to massive university and NGO funding and programming to US funds galore....too weak to be felt, until too strong to be broken.

Growing to be as or more dangerous than a nuclear Iran mostly because most don't see it coming

[DT @DanielTak]

@BillAckman This one's a joke, though wouldn't be crazy if it were real!
Check the bottom of the image***

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@neoavatara https://t.co/NZ8Xb6W24l

[Joshua Haymes @haymes_joshua]

The Bible teaches Calvinism.

It is glorious.

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@JulieChangRE Was always told JD Power was bought and/or biased... Their rankings always include questions... Buick over Toyota? Yah ok...