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@Seth_3773 None… ball was dead immediately when it landed in foul territory off the bat before the awesome diving stop by the bat boy.

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@AmericanAir And….? While I guess Im glad I could be helpful, my goal wasn’t simply to help AA with its quality control issues.

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Just a quick shout out to @AmericanAir for providing another piss-poor travel experience. Our original Business Class flight from Philly through O’Hare to Cedar Rapids was delayed due to “maintenance.” Rebooked, was also again delayed due to “maintenance”. We found out while on our way to PHL. The AA ticketing agent, who clearly hates her job and AA customers, was a “B” and had no interest in helping. No apology. No recognition of the inconvenience..Nothing but attitude. When I commented on the fact that it was odd that TWO planes were delayed due to “maintenance,” her response was “Yeah, happens all the time... and you might have a third.” Son’s graduation from University of Iowa is tomorrow and we are hosting 20 for dinner tonight. We were panicked, but what a breath of fresh air it was when we stopped at the @united ticket counter. The staff were happy, friendly, and very helpful in getting us to ORD. The $500 Uber ride to Iowa City is a bummer, but at least we will make it in time to host. Its only money, I guess. Btw, when we mentioned the two delayed flights to the United Agents, their response was, “Let me guess, @AmericanAir?” Well done AA, seems your reputation is well known. Keep up the excellent work.

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@AmericanAir Here you go. EVNNRJ. Not much more to share. I think you have a good feel for our experience, frustration and our added expense.

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@SenSchumer The flip-flop, hypocrisy King is the poster child for Congressional Term Limits. 🤦

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@realnysafetyguy @ChrisMurphyCT I think we need give @SecScottBessent at least a little credit for that “financial genius”😉.

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@smokingdonkey @SueWilliam6597 @ChrisMurphyCT Unfortunate, but apparently so. 🤷

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Thanks for the reply, Sue, but let's stay on topic. My post was specifically about the economics and tactical design of a narrow, 30-day Treasury waiver on pre-loaded Iranian (and Russian) oil cargoes, aimed at crashing prices after Iran's own Strait blockade attempt spiked them, delivering lower gas and inflation relief to American families right now.

You responded with a list of unrelated grievances: COVID ventilators, newborn health issues, service member deaths in the current conflict, a Venezuela oil story from years ago that doesn't match the mechanics here, and Iran's 30-year-old rhetoric about closing the Strait (which everyone knew, and which is precisely why Treasury is now using those very barrels against Tehran to blunt the pain).

None of that engages with the actual policy I described: time-limited, targeted at stranded tankers, structured to minimize regime net gain while flooding supply to protect U.S. consumers and deny Iran the economic warfare win it sought. The oil-price drop in the hours after announcement isn't spin; it's market data.

If you want to debate the waiver's merits on its own terms, whether it truly stabilizes markets without meaningfully enriching adversaries, whether "maximum pressure forever" is more effective even when it means $5+ gas at home during active conflict, I'm happy to go there point by point.

But pivoting to a laundry list of past Trump criticisms doesn't refute (or even address) the energy statecraft realism at issue here. It just changes the subject.

If you're actually concerned about adversaries getting funded, the pragmatic question remains: do you prefer Americans absorbing the full inflation hit from Iran's price spike gambit, or do you prefer a tactical counter move that uses their own oil against them while we maintain pressure elsewhere? Pick a lane on this specific decision.

Respectfully, try engaging the argument rather than the man. That's how we get somewhere useful. 🇺🇸

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@mkatju Correct sir… Iran should not have kicked the Israeli “hornets nest” on Oct 7th..

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@georgegalloway Yes…from the brutal regime that has terrorized it’s people and held them hostage for 47 years.

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@acnewsitics As usual, wrong again.

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@Rep_Stansbury But sadly, he’s correct.

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Schumer out here losing his mind over a 30-day waiver on some old Iranian oil that's literally already sitting on ships, like it's the end of the world. '$14 billion windfall' lol come on man, that's the Axios spin, it's stranded barrels Trump is basically using to screw over Iran's pricing power and bring gas prices down for Americans while we're in the middle of cleaning up their terrorist mess.

But let's talk real quick about what Chuck and the Dems have actually cheered on or straight-up enabled over the years:

- They screamed the Iran deal was garbage in 2015... then cried nonstop when Trump killed the same garbage deal they hated. Pick a lane dude.

- Obama/Biden literally handed Iran 150 billion+ in sanctions relief + straight-up cash shipments that armed the Houthis, Hezbollah, and every proxy killing our guys. But THIS limited move to flood the market with existing oil? Suddenly that's treason?

- Your boy Biden let Iran enrich uranium to basically nuke levels and funded attacks on U.S. bases through their little friends, crickets from you guys.

- You fought Trump's max-pressure sanctions every step, the ones that actually had the mullahs hurting and begging.

- Meanwhile Dems push open borders (cartels + who knows what slipping in), defund police chaos, kill U.S. drilling so we're begging OPEC again, weak Russia policy even as Putin buddies up to Iran... but Trump's the reckless one?

The guy starts (or finishes) the job on Iran because weak Dem foreign policy let them get this crazy bold, then uses THEIR OWN DAMN OIL to crash prices and help families at the pump instead of letting China hoard it cheap. And you're calling HIM dumb?

Nah Chucky, the only thing dumb here is watching you lecture on strength and security after 30+ years of your party coddling or straight-up funding the people trying to kill us. Sit this one out.

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@SenBlumenthal Sit tight, Dick… let’s check back in on your prediction mid next week. I’m guessing you’ll be proven wrong, like always.

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@RepDonBeyer Don, I know you can read. Please do it and ponder a while before posting such nonsense and drivel.

I honestly dont understand how we end up with such lazy, inept and clueless representation in Washington.

Virginia, do better please.!!

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@Its_ereko @ciclones13 Of course they do…and the cartels.

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@MarioNawfal Mario, you do realized that the majority of the people of Iran, as well as the Iranians around the globe, are ecstatic about this, dont you?

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@GavinNewsom My lord… You are such an insufferable tool.

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Come on Michael. Your CFA designation says that you’re smarter than this post…its premise collapses immediately. A 330k federal workforce reduction would be the largest in modern history and would be obvious in data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, which it isn’t. It also assumes a fixed 1.5–2× government employment multiplier that economists have never found evidence for. If multiplying government payroll created growth, every country would simply hire more bureaucrats.