David Noelck

Architect, retired, grandpa, Packer fan, socially liberal, economically conservative with liberal leanings toward fair taxes, equality and equal opportunity.

[ThePatrioticBlonde™🇺🇸 @ImBreckWorsham]

Reading what a traitor I am in my comments.

So, JUST TO BE FAIR..... let me get this straight.....

We taxpayers just blew $75 billion to attack Iran, UNPROVOKED, then dropped another $300 billion to REBUILD it, even though it didn't NEED rebuilding before we ATTACKED it, (unprovoked) all so we could "reopen" a Strait of Hormuz that was already OPEN before we ATTACKED Iran (unprovoked), wind up with $4 gas for NO REASON and I'M the bitch for pointing it OUT?

That's fair.

Sounds legit. 👌

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

BREAKING: JD Vance just accidentally confirmed the DIRTY SECRET about Trump's Iran deal.

JD Vance went on CBS News and tried to spin Donald Trump's Iran deal. Instead, he CONFIRMED exactly how badly Trump got fleeced.

CBS correspondent Ed O'Keefe asked Vance point-blank whether Iran would have access to a $300 BILLION reconstruction fund. Vance's answer? Essentially yes — "funded by the Gulf Coast coalition so long as they honor their end of the obligation."

So let's do the math that the Trump administration desperately doesn't want you to do. Let's compare Trump's Iran deal to the one Republicans spent a DECADE calling the worst deal in American history — Barack Obama's.

OBAMA'S IRAN DEAL:
• $1.7 billion in unfrozen Iranian assets
• In exchange for a 98% reduction in Iran's uranium stockpile
• And strict limits capping enrichment at 3.7%

TRUMP'S IRAN DEAL:
• $24 BILLION in unfrozen assets and cash
• A $300 BILLION reconstruction fund
• Lifted sanctions
• In exchange for an "opened Strait" under Iran and Oman's control

Read those numbers again. Trump is handing Iran roughly FOURTEEN TIMES the unfrozen cash Obama did — plus a $300 billion reconstruction windfall — after starting a war that nobody wanted, spiking gas prices, and killing the existing ceasefire because he found negotiations "boring." AND the deal just kicks what happens with Iran's uranium stockpile to future negotiations!

Republicans screamed for YEARS that Obama "gave Iran billions" and "appeased the mullahs." They called his deal treasonous. They tore it up. And now their guy is giving Iran an order of magnitude MORE money for a far weaker arrangement.

But here's the part Vance accidentally revealed. He warned that Iranian hardliners would "over-emphasize the benefits that Iran gets while under-emphasizing all the things they have to concede."

That's PROJECTION. Because it's the TRUMP administration that's been over-emphasizing the "wins" while burying the $24 billion, the $300 billion fund, the lifted sanctions, and the fact that the strategic Strait would fall under Iranian and Omani control. Vance is accusing Iran of doing EXACTLY what his own administration is doing — hiding the real terms of the deal from the public.

The man who promised to be tougher than Obama on Iran just handed Tehran the biggest payday in its history — after dragging America into a war first.

$1.7 billion versus $324 billion. That's the difference between Obama's "terrible" deal and Trump's "great" one.

Someone should mention that.

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[David Noelck @DNoelck]

Do Republicans really believe this shit? It's at best another 60 day cease fire and an outline for negotiations. Trump got nothing we didn't have before he started the war. But Iran could get 300 billion. Oh, and Biden sabatoged the reflecting pool. Give me a break

[Secretary Kennedy @SecKennedy]

Congratulations, @POTUS!

President Trump achieved what the experts said was impossible. Through strength, resolve, and decisive leadership, he secured another historic victory for peace, stability, and American leadership on the world stage.

When others doubted, President Trump delivered.

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

Adam Kinzinger is 💯 correct! Trump started this war which cost taxpayers $1-2 billion per day. The U.S. got nothing out of this deal other than escalating prices, making Iran stronger & now charging a maintenance fee for ships. The Strait of Hormuz was already open. 😡

[David Noelck @DNoelck]

@ChuckGrassley Chuck, You forgot the most important thing! Billionares get no tax cut because they pay little or no tax at all already.

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

One document is all it took to put uranium drills on the Continental Divide Trail.

Not a vote. Not a public hearing. Not an environmental review. One filing.

Because under a law signed by Ulysses S. Grant in 1872 — written to strip-mine the West during the Gold Rush — any company can stake a claim on federal public land, and the burden falls on the government to prove harm. The company just shows up.

Gamma Resources Ltd. showed up in February. Out of Vancouver.

$29 million in debt.

Zero revenue from operations.

Their own auditors have flagged them as a "going concern" — which in financial terms means: we're not sure this company will survive.

They've changed their name twice in just over a year.

And now they have a legal pathway to drill 12 uranium boreholes — up to 500 feet deep — into New Mexico’s Carson National Forest. Directly on the Continental Divide Trail.

In the Chama Basin — the headwaters of the Rio Grande’s largest New Mexico tributary, a watershed that supplies drinking water to over half of New Mexico’s population. More than one million people.

Twenty-three tribes and pueblos. Acequia farmers who have drawn clean water from this basin for over 400 years. Families on shallow wells with no alternative water source.

They've already identified nearly 3 million pounds of "yellowcake" uranium in the ground. They want to start mining by April 2027. They put it in writing, in their own investor pitch: New Mexico’s land is “low-hanging fruit”.

This isn't a loophole. This is the door that was never closed.

The General Mining Act of 1872 still governs hardrock mineral rights — including uranium — on 350 million acres of American public land.

Under it, foreign companies can freely prospect on land held in trust for every American, extract minerals worth billions, pay zero royalties to the government, and aren't even required to disclose how much they take or what it's worth.

It has never been fundamentally reformed. Not once in 154 years.

The 1872 Mining Act itself requires no reclamation bond. Zero.

No legal requirement to guarantee cleanup. No financial assurance that the land will ever be restored. Nothing.

The current administration's "Energy Dominance" orders made it worse — declaring uranium a national priority and signaling to the industry that federal land was open for business. Gamma Resources did the math and liked what they saw.

New Mexico's entire congressional delegation has demanded a full environmental review and is drafting legislation to withdraw the Chama watershed from all mineral development.

The Continental Divide Trail Coalition has raised the alarm. The Forest Service still hasn't decided if this even requires a full review.

A 154-year-old law. A foreign company with no revenue. A watershed tended for centuries by people who were here long before any of this was possible.

How is a law written for the
Gold Rush
in 1872 —

still deciding the fate of our
Public Lands
in 2026?

#DemsUnited

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

.@JamesTalarico: There's been a lot of talk in this race about what it means to be a real man.

Recently on the campaign trail I told the story of my adoptive dad, Mark Talarico. Every Saturday morning, he would mow our lawn, and then without anyone asking him to, he would go next door and mow our neighbor's lawn because she was a widow. My dad never talked about it — he just did it, because that's what a man does.

A man takes responsibility, upholds his commitments to his family and his neighbors, and does what's right, even when no one is watching.

Here's what real men don't do. They don't lie and cheat their way through life, sell their soul to the highest bidder, or steal from other people in order to enrich themselves. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

I welcome this debate about what it means to be a man, and I don't think Ken Paxton or Ted Cruz are in a position to tell anybody what a real man is.

[Andrew—#IAmTheResistance @AmoneyResists]

New DNC video just dropped.

“Trump in his own words.”

And it’s devastating.

[David Noelck @DNoelck]

@RoseanneChecol1 @TomTiffanyWI @GovEvers The way I see it, if you served in Viet Nam or Afghanistan, came home, developed PTSD and committed suicide, you are a casualty of that war. The way I see it, this is the same. Their pardons are undeserved and they are still criminal in my mind.

[John Collins @Logically_JC]

This one hits hard.

[David Noelck @DNoelck]

@we_energies Once again 3 minutes of rain. NO POWER You @we_energies have to change your motto. Barely affordable and not dependable but it is efficient as long as its not raining. Last time it took 52 hours to get power back. Hope you can do better this time.

[Sheree’ Woke AF @ShereeWokeAF]

💯

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Whatever you do, don’t save this picture and reply to all of Trump/White House/ Foxnews/ MAGAs tweets with this picture . Please. Trump wants it to go away:

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

On this 82nd anniversary of D-Day, remember: The way we wonder why Germans didn’t stop Hitler is exactly how the rest of the world views Americans and Trump today.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Partick's parents failed him. Hunter Biden's didn't.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

@kyledcheney Choosing the hypothetical destruction of the Statue of Liberty is a little too on the nose for this fucking White House.

[David Noelck @DNoelck]

It's the new math

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨WHERE IS THE MEDIA??

Trump just said the number 25,000 is bigger than a MILLION. The decline of his brain is now catastrophic.

“Where Martin Luther King made his great speech…he had a million people and I had 25,000 people. I had more people.” Wow.

[ZZ Santa Chevy Cruze™️ #SmokeFleet🟦 @Danphillipsresi]

Is it any wonder that CBS sucks so bad now?

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

In 2016, candidate Donald Trump promised to eliminate the national debt within eight years. It stood at roughly $20 trillion when he took office in January 2017.

Now, it has crossed $39 trillion.

The debt has roughly doubled, and the pace is accelerating: the most recent trillion dollars was added in less than five months.

To be clear, this debt wasn’t created by one party alone. It reflects years of decisions by both parties to spend more than we collect in revenue.

But one fact is difficult to escape: in 2017, Republicans enacted trillions of dollars in tax cuts without paying for them. Independent budget analysts projected the law would increase deficits by trillions of dollars, and subsequent analyses found that it did. Many supporters argued that economic growth would offset much of the lost revenue.

It didn’t.

And instead of changing course, Republicans doubled down with the One Big Ugly Bill, which those same analysts project will add trillions more to the deficit over the next decade.

Today the national debt exceeds $39 trillion. Interest costs are approaching $1 trillion annually and are projected to become one of the largest items in the federal budget. That means more taxpayer dollars going to interest payments and fewer available for priorities like veterans’ care, Social Security, Medicare, infrastructure, and national security.

Math doesn’t care whether you’re a Democrat or a Republican.

If Washington keeps borrowing faster than the economy grows, interest costs will consume an ever-larger share of the federal budget, and the room to make different choices will keep shrinking.

I’ll keep fighting for a budget that pays its bills, protects what families depend on, and leaves the next generation with more opportunity, not more debt.
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