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[Fixed Income Guy (top 0.1% on bloomberg) @FICMBondTrader]

Every 6mo, this post circulates the time line. Lets add some more context:

-Her dad, Michael Wolfe (jewish) is loaded
-attending private school her whole life ($1mm+ in education)
-she used dad's money + connections to throw ideas at the wall since college. Everything from clothing to apps
-She ~links up~ with Sean Rad's (we know we why) Tinder
-She wasn't pulling her weight at tinder she got fired, so sued them for S.H.
-Launching a female-only app called Merci, failed big time (also with dads money)
-Hops from founder dude (Rad) to founder dude (Andrey Andreev) who created MagicLab, later renamed Bumble
-she wasn't the founder of Bumble (on technicality of rename), and wasn't majority owner at any point in time. Blackstone owns more than she does.

TLDR:
-"SELF MADE" wildly inaccurate when you are made on home plate, and hop on other dudes apps to claim as your own.

AND she married into oil tycoon family

[Donald J. Gorbachev @donaldgorbachev]

The off-ramp Iran just built for the Gulf states. Delivered publicly. On the record. By the president. The exit door the architecture couldn’t provide, provided by the adversary.
Kuwait: stop letting F-15Es fly from your bases and we stop hitting you. Qatar: you already declared force majeure and shut down, so this formalizes the ceasefire you already have. UAE: Fujairah stops burning if Al Dhafra stops launching. Saudi Arabia: close Prince Sultan and the Houthis become someone else’s problem. Jordan: the THAAD craters are already the answer.
The genius of it. Iran just separated the Gulf states from the war. Not by threatening them harder. By offering them the thing they want most — safety — in exchange for the thing that costs them the least — denying basing rights for a war they didn’t authorize and are publicly condemning. Al Habtoor already asked the question in Arabic: who gave you permission to turn our region into a battlefield. Iran just answered: we’ll stop hitting your region if you stop letting them use it as one.
Every Gulf state now has a choice. Continue hosting American operations and remain a target. Or deny basing rights and receive de facto immunity. The choice between the alliance that’s starving them and the adversary that’s offering them a way out. Kuwait already shot down three F-15Es. Qatar already declared force majeure. The answer is forming before the question finishes.
And the strategic effect on the American campaign. If the Gulf states take the deal — and the food clock and the water clock and the storage clock are all pushing them toward taking it — the basing architecture that’s already craters becomes basing architecture that’s formally denied. The air campaign loses not just the damaged bases but the permission to use them. The tankers can’t refuel from bases that won’t host them. The gravity bombs can’t launch from runways that are closed by policy not just by damage.
Iran just made the grand bargain’s collapse voluntary. The Gulf states were already being pushed out by the math — the storage filling, the food running out, the water at risk. Now Iran gives them the political cover to do what the math was already forcing. Not abandoning America. Choosing survival. The framing that lets a Gulf monarch say I didn’t betray the alliance, I protected my people.
The architecture that has no stop function just met the adversary that builds off-ramps for everyone except the people who need the war to continue. The theology can’t take this deal. The Gulf states can’t refuse it. And the gap between those two realities is where the grand bargain dies.

[CuiBono 💸 @khodaishere]

You're missing the fourth option. The one that's actually happening.
No retreat. No invasion. No nuke. Just keep going. Grind. Day 9, day 20, day 45. And that's the one Iran built its entire military doctrine around.

CSIS published the number: $891 million a day. Pentagon already wants $50 billion more. Congress just killed the War Powers Resolution so there's no brake pedal. Meanwhile Iran's burn rate is a fraction of that — $20K drones against million-dollar interceptors, dispersed production at 500m depth across dozens of sites, mobile launchers the US still can't find after eight days of full-spectrum surveillance.

The three options you listed assume America decides. That's the wrong framing. Iran already decided. Hormuz is closed. Maersk left. Oil at $91 and climbing. GCC can't export, can't import, storage filling up. India bleeding $15 billion for every $10 increase. Europe's gas comes from Qatar — Qatar that's under missile fire.

Iran doesn't need to win a single battle. It needs Tuesday to become Wednesday to become Thursday. Every sunrise costs Washington a billion dollars and buys Tehran another day of proving the same point: you can't regime-change a country from the sky. Nobody ever has. Not Germany. Not Japan. Not Vietnam. Not Afghanistan. Not Iraq.

Your three options are what America chooses. The fourth option is what America gets when Iran chooses for them.

[Lowkey @Lowkey0nline]

"Even the troll posts are paid..."

Musician Azelia Banks has publicly admitted getting paid for every single time she mentioned Israel on social media.

[Ben Wehrman @benwehrman]

This is not Israel...

It's Ukraine.

Almost like this was the plan the whole time? 🤔

[The Alt Hyp @thealthype]

"Epic Fury" - how do you even meme that?

"Epstein Fury" is a nice attempt. But I don't think you can top the reality of a 12 year old being asked what Trump should do.

"Shoot missiles at Iran! Blow everything up! Call it 'EPIC FURY'! Pew pew!".

"But Trump, 30% of the world's oil sails out of the strait of hormuz, and the gulf states prop up the US markets with the petro-dollar"

"EPIC FURY boom bwamp!"

This whole "operation" + dudebro hegseth with his safe-edgy lolbert/civnat branding (which gets called "nazi" by shitlibs lol) is just a living meme.

The Ayatollah doesn't flee, just tends to his garden, and gets blown up, while Netenyahu's in hiding. "Yeah, kill that towelhead - EPIC FURY!"

US carrier that's been deployed 8 months and their bathrooms don't work.

The whole thing is like a South Park bit on Donald Trump.

[gazasunbirds @gazasunbirds]

Do you remember the first time YOU watched Ratatouille? 🎬

Our mobile cinema is moving between camps to spread moments of joy. After crafting their popcorn cups, the kids enjoyed some salty popcorn and a childhood classic 🍿

[Lord Bebo @MyLordBebo]

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Iran fell for the same trick as Hezbollah’s Nasrallah.

1) The US made an offer that required the Iranian side to discuss details.

2) Iran held a meeting to discuss the offer and develop a negotiation strategy.

3) The US struck the meeting, killing many officials, including Khamenei.

—) Negotiations were used as a weapon to gather them all in one room while they felt safe.

It’s the 2nd or 3rd time this trick has worked.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

@DeptofWar OPERATION EPSTEIN FURY

[Dmitry Medvedev @MedvedevRussiaE]

The peacekeeper is at it again. The talks with Iran were just a cover. Everyone knew that. So who has more patience to wait for the enemy’s sorry end now? The US is just 249 years old. The Persian Empire was founded over 2500 years ago. Let’s see what happens in 100 years or so…

[Mike P @tombelaviv_]

Tracey has descended to Captive Dreidel tier Epstein aura posting.

[Ana Kasparian @AnaKasparian]

@SonnyUrsus @ChangingFlow @safi2bal Hey, bitch, the goyim are waking the fuck up. Deal with it.

[jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill]

Iran has said it. Including hours before Trump made this false claim at the State of the Union:

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

Israeli Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir personally handing out demolition and eviction orders to Palestinians.

"I don't care. Jews are above the law. You have 2 hours to leave."

Yet the EU supports this and in Ireland we're told "play football".

https://t.co/P2KsbDwuNF

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

They’ve deployed the ultimate weapon of mass distraction, but the Epstein files aren’t going away… even for aliens.

[Gabriel @GabeZZOZZ]

The look on their faces is priceless 🤣
https://t.co/E8nXYMdLxq