Rodney Lake

Senior Business Analyst - Data, Analytics and Business Intelligence, Datacom

[Rodney Lake @Kiwi_Rod]

@aniobrien Also:
"For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad... ...if you do wrong, be afraid, for he (the ruler) does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer." Romans 13:3-4

[Rodney Lake @Kiwi_Rod]

@aniobrien You are absolutely correct Ani! This is a very biblical principle:

"Be subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme, or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good." 1 Peter 2:13-14

[LHGrey™️ @Grey_0G]

They should be fucking horrified.

Scott Bessent isn’t some polished Treasury suit mouthing platitudes...he is the apex predator of financial warfare, the same cold-eyed tactician who, in 1992, co-engineered Black Wednesday and shorted the British pound into oblivion, pocketing over a billion while forcing the UK to its knees and out of the ERM.

That wasn’t luck.

That was Sun Tzu with a Bloomberg terminal:

identify the enemy’s rigid commitment to an overvalued peg, concentrate asymmetric force on its weakest flank, and strike with clinical precision until the entire structure collapses under the weight of its own arrogance.

Now translate that same lethal intellect to the Red Sea and Iran.

Naval escorts aren’t “protection”...they are forward-deployed strangulation, turning the Houthis’ drone-and-missile circus into a shooting gallery where every failed attack bleeds their Iranian patrons of credibility and treasure.

Layer on Treasury-led sanctions that surgically sever Tehran’s oil revenue arteries...precision strikes on SWIFT access, secondary sanctions that terrify third-party buyers, and asset freezes that turn petrodollars into frozen ghosts...and you have hybrid warfare executed at the highest level.

Clausewitz would recognize it instantly:

war as the continuation of politics by other means, only this time the “other means” are carrier strike groups and balance-sheet dominance.

The mullahs are already fracturing.

They’ve built their entire regime narrative on the myth of invincible resistance and inevitable Western decline.

Bessent’s arrival rips that delusion apart.

Every tanker that sails safely under American escort is a public castration of their proxy power.

Every barrel of unsold crude is a dagger in the heart of their patronage networks.

Fear isn’t abstract here...it’s the slow, creeping realization that the man now running U.S. economic statecraft has spent decades perfecting the art of making stronger adversaries fold without firing a shot.

He doesn’t bluff.

He calculates, then executes.

And right now the calculation is simple:

choke the revenue, expose the proxies, and watch the regime’s internal cohesion rot from the inside out.

So yes...let the Iranian high command, the Houthi fanatics, and every useful idiot still simping for “resistance” feel the ice in their veins.

Scott Bessent is in the building.

The savage who broke the Bank of England is now breaking empires on purpose.

They should be terrified.

They will be.

🗡️💀💲🗡️

[Turning Point New Zealand @turningpoint_nz]

BREAKING NEWS!

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

It's very important to understand that above all else, Marxism is a scam. This includes Woke Marxism. A lot of Woke or Woke-sympathetic people today do not realize that Marxism is a deliberate scam that uses the apparent plight of the less fortunate to gain power for itself. 🧵

[Left Foot Media @WatchLFM]

THE NZ MEDIA:
‘How dare you accuse us of being compromised Labour shills due to the fact we entered into advantageous financial arrangements with the previous Labour government!!!”

ALSO THE NZ MEDIA:
‘Here’s our 100th story today informing you of how much of a dysfunctional laughing stock this new National, Act, NZ First coalition government is, and how their rolling back of the previous Labour government policies will destroy NZ and lead us back into the dark ages’

#NZpolitics #nzpol

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Watch Starship’s second integrated flight test → https://t.co/bJFjLCiTbK https://t.co/cahoRQ72lm

[Rodney Lake @Kiwi_Rod]

@2ETEKA @bobmccoskrienz @SeanPlunket @bespin3r @RCR_NZ @kaiviti_cam @ResistanceKiwi @SpeakUp4WomenNZ That was so disappointing to watch. Came across as a dismissive arrogant prick. Sad.

[Rodney Lake @Kiwi_Rod]

@PatriotNz2022 @EerjkMcRaeOF That interview was terrible. Came across as a dismissive arrogant prick. Was very disappointed.

[Rodney Lake @Kiwi_Rod]

This is really on point... 😕

[Christopher Rufo @christopherrufo]

American culture has been sent adrift. In a new short film, I show how a strange new pattern of psychopathologies has deranged our institutions and plunged our public life into hysteria, narcissism, and moral theatrics—all in the name of "care."

Welcome to the Cluster B Society:

[Christopher Rufo @christopherrufo]

American culture has been sent adrift. In a new short film, I show how a strange new pattern of psychopathologies has deranged our institutions and plunged our public life into hysteria, narcissism, and moral theatrics—all in the name of "care."

Welcome to the Cluster B Society:

[Rodney Lake @Kiwi_Rod]

A garden of #starship rockets at the #starbase Rocket Garden #spacex

[Rodney Lake @Kiwi_Rod]

Beautiful #starship Ship 20 in the rocket garden at #starbase

[Rodney Lake @Kiwi_Rod]

The @thejackbeyer waiting 7 hours for his booster 9 pad lift yesterday. He has the patience of a saint - all in service of the SpaceX community #starbase #starship @NASASpaceflight

[Rodney Lake @Kiwi_Rod]

Booster 9 and Ship 25 getting closer to stacking at the launch site #starship #starbase @NASASpaceflight

[Rodney Lake @Kiwi_Rod]

@jessica_kirsh Awesome! See you down there soon!

[Rodney Lake @Kiwi_Rod]

@jessica_kirsh @SpaceX Hey Jessica! 2 kiwis all the way from New Zealand just arrived at Starbase tonight. Will be around tomorrow also totally geeking out at this incredible place! Will keep our eyes out for you and say hi if we see you! 😎

[Rodney Lake @Kiwi_Rod]

@SparkNZ Yeah Na... Taking my business elsewhere...

[Rodney Lake @Kiwi_Rod]

Haven't laughed so hard in forever 😂😂😂

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@ElonMuskAOC Same