Anthony Doudt

Husband | Father | FAU Baseball Alumni/Donor | Midwesterner | Colts Fan

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

Remember when Mike Johnson refused to swear in newly elected Democrat, Adelita Grijalva for 50 days???

Lindsey Graham died Friday & his sister has already been sworn in.

This is just one example of what we're fighting for in the midterms - a return to democracy & fairness.

[Covie @covie_93]

They got rid of DEI to hire people based on merit then turn around and hired lindsey graham's sister for senator simply because she's lindsey graham's sister.

[Phillips P. OBrien @PhillipsPOBrien]

New @wapo story today, the Trump family has secured about $3.2 billion in Pentagon contracts for firms which they are involved in. This is the tip of the iceberg in the largest corruption saga in US history.

[Covie @covie_93]

The President of the United States paid $5.6 million to one of his rape victims today.

[Chris Mowrey @chrisdmowrey]

things are about to get very, very, very bad.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

A random fact: słavery was THAT bad that museums can't even share its darkesť parts.

[NBC News @NBCNews]

Investment accounts owned by President Trump engaged in more than 300 previously undisclosed stock purchases on April 8, 2025, one day before his surprise announcement that he would pause a number of his tariffs, his financial disclosure report says. https://t.co/WqQb7csmVS

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

JPM's Michael Cembalest:

In the ~160 years after the Civil War, US presidents fired 11 four- and five-star military officers.

In Trump's first 14 months, the White House has fired 9 of them.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

BREAKING: The U.S. government will now insure losses up to $40 billion for oil tankers transiting the Strait of Hormuz.

But they can’t insure you if you get cancer or have a heart attack.

Big oil is more important than your life in Trump’s America. Did you vote for that?

[Alon Mizrahi @alon_mizrahi]

Let's spend coffee time playing a little wargame in which the US decides to take on Iran and commit to a full war against it

Look at this map. Where could the US stage an invasion of Iran?

To Iran's east, you'll find Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Turkmenistan. A big triple no.
To Iran's south: the Persian Gulf which it completely dominates. No good.
To Iran's west: Iraq and Turkiye. The first a definite no, the second, a no so probable it must be considered a certain. Turkiye will not go to war with Iran for the US and Israel - a war not only sure to decimate it, but a war Turkich people will be fanatically against.
To Iran's north is the Caspian Sea. No use.

Azerbaijan and Armenia present an opening, but how will hundreds of thousands of NATO soldiers get there (let alone undetected)? If they go by sea, they will need to traverse the Mediterranean and the Black Sea and virtually physically go through Istanbul. Not only politically complicated, but a long long journey that gives Iran tons of time to prepare.

Remember the months and months the US took to amass forces for the Iraq invasion? It took 6 months or so - with no interruptions.

The problem is, with Iran, there's no way they're going to simply build up forces near the designated target's borders.

Iran has an arsenal of hundreds of thousands of guided and precise ballistic missiles, satellites in space and eyes almost everywhere. If a war is declared or started, every American asset within 0-3000 kilometers of Iran's borders will be bombarded so viciously no missile defense system will be able to stop it.

And all those dozens and dozens of American bases scattered throughout the vast area surrounding Iran? How will the US defend them under an attack on a scale of 1000 October 7th's combined?

Additionally, Iran has the most sophisticated anti-ship missiles in the world (Russia's Yakhont), of which it probably has thousands by now. This means no surface ship is going to be able to come close enough to Iran to make it an effective striking weapon (is this going to be the first time we get to see an aircraft carrier drowning? I believe potentially yes).

The US will have to rely on air superiority, but this is going to prove a very difficult, almost impossible task. US planes will have to fly a long way to get to Iran (and back), and it has invested massively in air defense systems, including some of the most sophisticated in Russia's arsenal. The US will lose many planes which will take years to replenish, and Iran will be able to target with ballistic missiles and drones all the bases from which they take off in Europe or the Middle East.

Another tool the US will use is cruise missiles fired from submarines: but this, too, does not win wars, and can be costly against a rival that prepared for this.

A full-scale invasion of Iran will require potentially millions of soldiers and will take years. The West is simply incapable of an effort of this kind: where will they find millions of young men willing to die at sea in order to occupy a country thousands of miles away? Today? Give me a break.

All this time the Iranians will be defending their home and their independence. The West will be trying to colonize and destroy them. They will have Gaza on their minds.
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I didn't mention Israel because it is virtually irrelevant in this war. Hizbullah alone is enough to paralyze it and keep its military busy for months.
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Bonus point: think about what happens to energy prices in an actual war with Iran. 500$ for an oil barrel? 1000$? 2000$? All is possible.

Guess what country will remain the biggest international producer and exporter of oil and gas, and rip all those extra many, many trillions. You guessed tight. Russia. If the Persian Gulf is up in flames, Russia will become a global economic superpower (at a time when the US is dwindled militarily and economically and cannot even fake a military threat against it).
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Another bonus point: you think Iran cannot, or will not attack on American soil? Think again. From cyber attacks to large-scale, professional, military-level sabotage and guerrilla warfare, in a war with Iran life in the US will definitely not be business as usual, and not only because inflation will be something 200%, and thousands of dead soldiers will return home in coffins every month for a long time.
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The US cannot win a war against Iran. And I believe all parties involved know it. The only thing that remains unknown is how insane and self-destructive the US has become under Netanyahu's and AIPAC's, how shall we call it, influence

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

TWO STATEMENTS BY TRUMP 7 MINUTES APART:

Trump at 9:00: "Regime change was not our goal. We don't want that"

Trump at 9:07: "Regime change is what we want. It is needed"

These statements were made 7 minutes apart in the same speech

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

The Army Chief of Staff, a combat veteran with tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, asked Pete Hegseth why he was blocking the promotions of two Black officers and two female officers who had earned them.

Hegseth refused to answer. Then he fired him.

Nine U.S. officials told NBC News that Hegseth has blocked or delayed promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military.

Hegseth has now fired or sidelined more than a dozen generals and admirals.

He is an out-of-control, unqualified former TV host and nobody in the Republican Party will say a word about it because they don’t want to make Trump angry.

https://t.co/WgdehtOAC3

[Sara McGee for Texas HD 132 @SaraForTexLege]

You know what’s crazy?

We have an entire branch of government that could stop this at any time.

I think that’s the hardest part for me. It’s not Trump. We all knew that guy is a whacko. It’s the complete abandonment of the checks and balances that really hits the hardest.

[susa @prinkasusa]

Over 400 women have been arrested since they overturned Roe v Wade... yet not a SINGLE man has been arrested for raping children with Epstein.

It’s never been about protecting children... wake up.

[Rushi @rushicrypto]

My brother’s son is in 9th grade learning about the Great Depression.
He showed me a paragraph from his textbook today… and for a second, I genuinely thought it was about today’s economy.
Strange how 100 years pass, yet some things barely change.

[Tuki @TukiFromKL]

🚨Do you understand the irony of what just happened..

the FBI spent two years investigating Hillary Clinton for using a personal email for government work.. it dominated every news cycle.. it decided an election.. "lock her up.."

the man they put in charge of the FBI.. just got his personal email hacked by Iran..

the DOJ confirmed it.. Iran-linked group "Handala" breached FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email and got his data..

think about the timing..

America has fired 850 Tomahawk missiles at Iran this month.. spent billions.. and Iran didn't fire back with a missile..

they walked through the front door of the FBI..

and here's what nobody wants to say out loud.. the FBI Director was using a personal email in the first place.. the same thing the FBI called a national security threat when Hillary did it..

the agency that decides what's a crime.. doesn't follow its own rules..

The rules only apply until you're the one making them.

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

6:49am: sudden spike in oil futures trading. no news. no announcement. nothing public.
7:05am: trump announces a pause on iran strikes. markets move.
someone knew. 16 minutes early. $580 million in contracts. the corruption is staggering.

[Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg]

NEW: For the first time, ProPublica has been able to quantify how many U.S. citizen children have been directly affected by Trump’s immigration crackdown: more than 11,000 kids had a parent detained — and that’s an undercount. 1/ 🧵
https://t.co/tE6pdG0h2l

[ceo of friendster @mollywidstrom]

welp there's my answer. no one is going to be investigating the insider trading.

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

ICE did this to 2 American’s just months ago.