Jeff Otstot

Always steering right

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@RonDeSantis Wes Parker

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@ForgiatoBlow47 None

[John Rich🇺🇸 @johnrich]

This ain’t going away.

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@ForgiatoBlow47 Yes

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@shipwreckedcrew I read all of you…. Never watched a Candice pod🤗

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@ForgiatoBlow47 Hello, is there anybody out there? just nod if you can here me, is there anybody there?

[Michael Knowles @michaeljknowles]

Simply masterful.

[M-Dub 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲 @WIclassic]

If you're from Wisconsin and not a leftist nutjob, its an auto-follow back. We've gotta get Tom Tiffany in and the state GOP is clearly not up to the task.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

You need to understand the Democrat mind.

They don't care if the Southern Poverty Law Center committed wire fraud.

They don't care if the SPLC made false official statements to the federal government.

They don't care if the SPLC engaged in conspiracy to commit money laundering.

They don't care because to them, the ends always justifies the means.

Rank-and-file Democrats see the SPLC as being virtuous, so therefore they don't care about the crimes.

The Democrat leadership sees the SPLC as one of the very most effective tools they have to achieve and maintain power, and since power is all they care about, they don't care about the crimes.

[James E. Thorne @DrJStrategy]

Food for thought.

Iran Is Not Winning. It Is Unraveling.

The prevailing narrative on Iran has it almost perfectly reversed. We are told that Tehran is winning a war of wills in the Gulf and that Donald Trump is gambling recklessly with the world’s most sensitive chokepoint. In reality, Iran is not consolidating strength; it is managing decline. And Trump’s play on the Strait of Hormuz has quietly forced energy markets to reprice security—tilting the balance decisively toward the Americas, and away from Europe, Asia and China.
The Islamic Republic no longer resembles a confident revolutionary project.

With the old clerical core leadership shattered, power has splintered between a camp that recognises a deal with the outside world as the only path to survival and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a class of military dictators with guns, patronage networks and a rational fear that any genuine settlement will ultimately throw them overboard. This is not a unified strategy at work; it’s infighting, paranoia, a fragmented system in late-stage decay, crumbling under pressure.

Into this fragmentation, the White House has introduced a form of calibrated coercion too often caricatured as impulsive.

Around the Strait of Hormuz, Washington has threatened disruption without fully triggering it, forcing shipowners, insurers and policymakers to absorb a hard truth: dependence on vulnerable, seaborne Middle Eastern barrels is not a passing inconvenience but a structural risk. Iran can harass tankers and jolt day-to-day sentiment; it cannot rebuild a broken economy on sporadic shocks to global shipping. And the world must deal with the end of Pax Americana!

The underlying playbook is anything but novel. Sun Tzu’s insistence that “all warfare is based on deception”, Machiavelli’s counsel that a ruler must manipulate appearances and exploit factionalism, and Alfred Thayer Mahan’s argument that sea power and control of chokepoints shape the fate of nations are not museum pieces. They are, in this case, the operating code. Trump’s opaque signalling, deliberate use of disinformation and visible but limited naval posture in and around Hormuz amount to a modern, Mahanian use of sea power as economic statecraft.

Energy markets are already adjusting. Tankers are head to the Gulf of America. In a world where a single strait can a risk to economies is Europe and Asia, without ever being fully closed, assets tied to secure basins and diversified export routes deserve a premium.

The Americas sit in an enviable position: vast, politically stable hydrocarbon resources, multiple pipelines and ports, and no dependence on a distant maritime chokepoint controlled by adversaries. By contrast, Europe, much of Asia and China find themselves downstream of vulnerabilities they do not control and regimes they cannot stabilise, exposed to shipping routes that can be threatened faster than alternative supply can be mobilised.

All of this plays out against a domestic backdrop in Iran that looks less like revolutionary vigour and more like fear. A state that cannot safely keep its internet on, that must rely on public brutality to deter dissent, is not projecting confidence. It is signalling weakness, to its own citizens as much as to its rivals.

Winston Churchill once remarked that “in war, resolution; in defeat, defiance; in victory, magnanimity; in peace, goodwill.” Iran’s leadership offers only defiance, without realistic prospects of victory or peace.

The uncomfortable conclusion for those still insisting that Tehran is “winning” is that what they are observing is not the rise of a regional hegemon, but the protracted, strategically exploited unwinding of a brittle regime at the centre of an overexposed energy system.

[Jeff Otstot @JeffOtstot]

@ForgiatoBlow47 God is King

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@ForgiatoBlow47 Yeah… right…🤣😂🤣

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@ForgiatoBlow47 YES! Absolutely

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@ForgiatoBlow47 Human rights, YES…. American citizen rights, NO… probably been said millions of time.

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

Is there anything that can be done to help this veteran? Not technically in @SecWar’s radius but maybe calls can be made?

[Christian Ruf @pinpulleddrmf]

Veteran buried his eldest and it’s not looking good for his two others.

Posting for any connections, help that can be made while they fight for time.

[Jeff Otstot @JeffOtstot]

@michaeljknowles @MZHemingway My bro has been doing tie dye hand made for a while, small papa home grown thing. These are the best quality tie dye you will find. Conservative hippie trying to make a living in the hills of Wyoming 🤗 https://t.co/rRfJys7D1F

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@michaeljknowles @MZHemingway I can tell you where to get awesome tyedie . https://t.co/rRfJys7D1F. 🤗

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@ok6ixx @MargoinWNC Other side of coin…. I walked into urgent care for what I thought was cracked rib, receptionist showed an open time slot with a P.A., walked right in bypassing urgent care🤗🤗🤗

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@MZHemingway Replying with link since people are asking. https://t.co/rRfJys7D1F

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@MZHemingway My brother makes these. Hand tied