Chris Hart

[Chris Hart @ckhart20]

@GavinNewsom You’re a fool

[Milton Friedman Quotes @MiltonFriedmanW]

Elon Musk: “Generally, whatever Milton Friedman said, people should do that thing.”

[Chris Hart @ckhart20]

@MiltonFriedmanW Exactly

[Chris Hart @ckhart20]

@RaoulGMI Agreed

[Chris Hart @ckhart20]

@GavinNewsom You have zero clue what is going on. Please…just like at basketball at TL…”shhhh. Quiet little man”

[Chris Hart @ckhart20]

@RaoulGMI So much has been right…got this marked and continuing to allocate capital. DFTU

[Chris Hart @ckhart20]

@AndreasSteno I’m so close to dropping my subscription with you. Seriously

[Chris Hart @ckhart20]

@RichardGrenell Well said!!

[Chris Hart @ckhart20]

@GavinNewsom Pre-school is not free. The fee is passed on to developers, who then pass on to renters and buyers. So…how exactly is it free. Stop spending money

[James E. Thorne @DrJStrategy]

For the record.

Iran’s Historic Mistake

Carl von Clausewitz wrote that war is “the continuation of politics by other means.” President Trump grasped this from the start: Operation Epic Fury exists to stop Iran’s nuclear march and restore deterrence, not to pursue the familiar neocon fantasy of occupation and nation-building. Epic Fury is peace through strength in action: credible force applied decisively when adversaries mistake restraint for weakness.

By weaponizing the Strait of Hormuz, Iran committed a strategic blunder of historic proportions.
Tehran meant to punish America. Instead, it exposed every power built on imported energy, vulnerable sea lanes, and the delusion that globalization repealed geography. China is exposed. Europe is exposed. Britain is exposed. Iran has created a world where hard resource power decides outcomes.

Start with China. Beijing’s industrial machine depends on imported oil and gas moving through vulnerable maritime chokepoints, the old Malacca dilemma in modern form. A great power reliant on long, exposed sea lines cannot be secure, regardless of economic scale. The Hormuz shock forced China to scramble for alternatives, proving that size is not resilience.

Europe and Britain face the same problem. After escaping Russian dependency, they traded one vulnerability for another, leaning on imported LNG and maritime flows exposed to coercion. When chokepoints tighten, they absorb shocks rather than project strength. European criticism says less about American failure than about discomfort with a world where hard power still matters.

Iran’s mistake is that once Hormuz becomes structurally unreliable, the world builds around it. That means bypass corridors, revived pipeline politics, and urgent planning for routes linking Aqaba to Mediterranean outlets near Gaza and the long-stalled Basra-to-Aqaba pipeline. The old energy order is cracking. The UAE’s OPEC exit signals cartel discipline giving way to national advantage under pressure.

Trump deserves credit, not European scolding. Operation Epic Fury struck thousands of targets, degraded Iran’s offensive capabilities, and shattered assumptions that the West would absorb escalation without response. The administration acted while others lectured. It restored deterrence in the only language Tehran understands.

The larger lesson matters more. Secure natural-resource hard power is what the Western Hemisphere possesses in abundance. The United States, Canada, and the Americas command hydrocarbons, LNG, farmland, freshwater, critical minerals, and strategic depth on a scale import-dependent Europe and Asia cannot match. This crisis clarified, not weakened, the Americas structural position.

The financial dimension reinforces the point. Demand for Federal Reserve swap lines during crisis proves King Dollar remains supreme. When stress hits, governments run toward dollar liquidity, not away from it. Hard resource power and monetary power reinforce one another, and the United States sits at the center of both.

That is Epic Fury’s real significance. Clausewitz wrote that “the political view is the object, war is the means.” Trump understood that. Iran tried to weaponize geography, Trump turned the confrontation into a demonstration of who is exposed and who is not.

The Trump administration deserves far more praise than it has received, and history will likely judge that Iran’s greatest miscalculation was not merely closing Hormuz, but revealing which powers still command the real sources of strength.

[Chris Hart @ckhart20]

@GavinNewsom For a twerp of a man, you shouldn’t talk such a big game (or have people do it for you) Since Louisiana has to redraw, doesn’t that mean that EVERY single map that was drawn around “race” now needs to be redrawn? Sure seems like the Democrat race baiting 60yr old maps are in play

[Chris Hart @ckhart20]

@GavinNewsom No…we actually like everyone and want every legal vote

[Chris Hart @ckhart20]

@KeithOlbermann Shhhhh
Nobody cares

[Chris Hart @ckhart20]

@RepJeffries You should check yourself, with your rhetoric, Mr Jeffries. You’re a part of the problem.

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

On page twenty-six of “The Billionaire Tax” proposal in California, it explains how the state legislature can convert from a Billionaire Tax to an Everyone Tax without voter approval.

They can also adjust the tax to be a yearly tax, not just one time…again, without your approval.

Intelligence test for you: if this was meant to just target Billionaires, why did they write this in?

[Chris Hart @ckhart20]

@CAgovernor That’s a complete lie

[Chris Hart @ckhart20]

@IranArmyMedia Hahahahaha. You’re funny.
Or stupid

[Chris Hart @ckhart20]

@SenWarren This idea makes me it want to work anymore. Total disincentive to put effort forward

[Chris Hart @ckhart20]

@GavinNewsom So wrong. And so dumb of you

[Chris Hart @ckhart20]

@AdameMedia That’s a really dumb statement