Michael

27y/o. This is my personal twitter and only serves to represent my views as an individual, not the beliefs of any organization.

[Michael @MichaelHoley19]

Ppl go absolutely idiotic talking about the "petro dollar"

[Stern Drew @SternDrewCrypto]

🚨 The Moment Trump Leaves the Iran War, the Petrodollar Dies Forever

Professor Jiang explains how the US economy is a giant Ponzi scheme dependent on Gulf nations investing in American tech. If Iran forces the Gulf to abandon the petrodollar for food security, the US economy will face total collapse and revolution in the streets.

Jeff Currie, former Goldman Sachs head of commodities and lifelong insider of the dollar system, just laid out the one line America cannot cross. Handing control of the Strait of Hormuz to Iran is not a tactical retreat. It is the formal end of the United States as global hegemon and the death of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency.

JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon said that Iran had its “throat on the Strait of Hormuz” for 45+ years and told the Trump administration to “finish this thing and finish it right.”

Bank of America reports that U.S. now only has 43-day emergency buffer of crude oil left in 45-year low.

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

We blew all our air defense in a stupid war that we lost. Meanwhile Ukraine is fighting its ass off and now empty.

History will be harsh to this administration.

Send the remaining Patriots to Ukraine now and ramp up production.

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

We're spending $1 billion a day on a war with Iran that's left 18 Americans dead, hundreds wounded, and may end with Iran raking in $52 million per day in Hormuz tolls

MAGA!

[Cameron 🇺🇸 🗽🦅 @CameronCorduroy]

leftist SHOCKED after liberal Democrats set aside political squabbles to defeat Republicans in a major election

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

Almost all their ballistic missiles fired only to lose the war.

If the USA can’t impeach the whole administration over this Iran shambles, what’s the point of impeachment?

US soldiers dead, ammunition stocks empty, American deterrence destroyed, allies alienated… for what?

[The Hormuz Report @HormuzReport]

BREAKING: A senior Iranian official has confirmed that Iran will impose transit fees of 5% to 7% of cargo value on ships using the Strait of Hormuz—worth roughly $100 billion annually at pre-war traffic levels—with Chinese vessels exempt under the drafted deal, according to Reuters.

At 7%, the toll would generate approximately $385 million per day. For a single VLCC carrying 2 million barrels of crude, the fee would be roughly $11 million. With almost no cost of collection, about 97% would be pure profit.

The scale is staggering. The Strait would become about as profitable as Alphabet ($132B in 2025), Nvidia ($120B FY2026), Apple and Microsoft (both just crossed $100B), and Saudi Aramco ($105B). It would represent 15–20 times the Suez Canal's all-time peak revenue.

For Iran, this would exceed a third of the country's GDP—without pumping a barrel.

[WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 @WarMonitor3]

North Korea has deployed a whole missile unit to the Vorenzh Region of Russia in order to launch missiles into Ukraine everyday 90 personnel and 120 ballistic missiles have been deployed along with six launchers.

North Korea is essentially at war with Ukraine...

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

Complete capitulation

[I Smoked Lindsey Graham @BlackKnight10k]

This dumb shit is how we got Trump twice

[Scott Morefield @SKMorefield]

The Iran war isn't just the biggest misstep of Trump's presidency so far, it's one of the greatest strategic blunders in modern American history. The worst part is there is no making things better, only worse, and the longer we keep at it the worse it's going to get. There is no chance for 'victory' here, at all. There never was. Best case would be to stop cold turkey, cut our losses, and get the best deal we can to keep the Strait open, but it would take a lot of courage and pragmatism on the part of our leadership to do so. Is it in them? Who knows! Or I guess we could just keep banging our heads against the wall and run out of the rest of the missiles and bombs we've spent trillions on over the decades. What an absolute disaster.

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

Hard to know if the Iran war's been a success.

On the one hand, we've failed to achieve our main objectives, driven up the price of various commodities, and shown Iran that they can squeeze the Strait of Hormuz.

On the other hand, all it took was the virtual exhaustion of our entire long-range precision missile supplies.

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

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING

[Jessica Tarlov @JessicaTarlov]

Seems very bad...

[Opie 🚂 @showmeopie]

This shit is insufferable imo. Dude was secretary of transportation and you’re asking him to stop doing the pro consumer work he was doing because Israel. Fuck off.

[InteractivePolls @IAPolls2022]

TEXAS POLL - Senate (crosstabs)

🟦 James Talarico: 47%
🟥 Ken Paxton: 45%
🟨 Ted Brown: 2%

May Poll: Tied 45-45
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Net Favs
Talarico: -1
Paxton: -18
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🔵 Dem: Talarico +96
🔴 GOP: Paxton +80
🔵 Indie: Talarico +40
🔴 White: Paxton +14
🔵 Latino: Talarico +19
🔵 Black: Talarico +67
🔴 Men: Paxton +14
🔵 Women: Talarico +17
🔵 Age 18-34: Talarico +30
🔵 Age 35-54: Talarico +16
🔴 Age 55+: Paxton +18
🔵 4 year degree: Talarico +3
🔵 No 4 year degree: Talarico +2

• Texas Southern University | 7/27-30
• R50-D41 | 1,200 LV

[Alex Hirsch @_AlexHirsch]

@sama What if you just talked to your children

[Zara Quinn @_Zaraquin]

If you can’t impeach a President for laundering money, War crimes, corruption, Market Manipulations, illegal Wars nowadays, what can you impeach them for?

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

What a nightmare. By implementing the tariffs illegally, and now having to unwind them, the Trump administration created over $100 billion of profit for corporations selling foreign products, at the expense of American consumers.

Your refund: $0.00
Apple’s profit: $2.2 billion

[The Hormuz Report @HormuzReport]

BREAKING: A source close to Iranian officials says Tehran has documented a pattern of oil market manipulation tied to Axios reports and Trump administration insiders, including evidence of a $9 billion insider trading operation linked to Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff.

Some of the documented timeline from the $9 billion insider profit:

Between April and May 2026, a series of suspiciously timed trades in oil futures markets preceded major Iran war announcements—each tied to reporting by Axios.

On March 23, approximately $500–580 million in shorts were placed 15 minutes before Trump announced he was postponing strikes on Iran. Oil dropped.

On April 7, roughly $950–960 million in shorts were placed hours before Trump announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran. Oil fell around 15 percent.

On April 17, around $760 million in shorts were placed 20 minutes before Iran's foreign minister announced the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. Oil dropped.

On April 21, approximately $430 million in shorts were placed 15 minutes before Trump extended the ceasefire. Oil dropped again.

On May 6, nearly $920 million to $1.7 billion in crude oil shorts were placed approximately 70 minutes before an Axios scoop claimed the U.S. and Iran were near a "14-point agreement." Oil dropped 12 percent. Traders made an estimated $125 million. Iran called the report "the Americans' wish list."

Previously, a senior Iranian official told investigative outlet Drop Site News that Tehran privately warned JD Vance during Switzerland talks that Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff were "abusing" negotiations—"more interested in exploiting insider knowledge to profit in financial markets than reaching a deal."