Roy McKenzie

Building — SaaS for policy compliance & e-signatures. Laravel & AI dev. Missoula, MT. 🇺🇸

[James E. Thorne @DrJStrategy]

Hormuz Miscalculation

Sec Bessent gets it.

Iran has mistaken a tactical threat for a durable advantage. By repeatedly signaling its willingness to disrupt the Strait of Hormuz, Tehran hasn’t strengthened its hand, it has accelerated the market’s exit.
Capital does not tolerate chokepoints; it routes around them.

Saudi Arabia is expanding its East-West pipeline. The UAE has already built out Fujairah as a bypass. Iraq is revisiting overland export corridors. Every marginal dollar now flows toward redundancy, not reliance. What was once a geopolitical lever is being engineered into irrelevance. Bessent gets it: markets don’t absorb coercion, they arbitrage it away
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Energy markets are not static, and they are not sentimental. The shale revolution already diluted OPEC’s grip. LNG has globalized gas. Now infrastructure is doing the same to maritime risk. Once these pipelines are built, they don’t get unbuilt. Volume shifts become permanent. Pricing power follows.

Tehran’s miscalculation is classic: overplay a scarce asset, and the world invests to make it abundant. The more Iran rattles Hormuz, the faster it erodes the very leverage it seeks to exploit.

In the end, this is not deterrence. Its substitution and substitution, once funded, is irreversible. Iran is underwriting its own marginalization.

The US is the big winner. China the big loser.

Welcome to the new great game.

[Roy McKenzie @RoyMcKenzie]

Too many conservatives want to try and flip leftists. The newly converted especially. The new converts are anomalies and it wasn’t reasoned debate that flipped them it was being relentlessly rat fucked by leftists that pushed them away. Rhetoric is not going to change a leftists mind. Never has.

[Roy McKenzie @RoyMcKenzie]

@DrunkRepub MAKE 👏 STUDENT 👏 LOANS 👏 RISKY 👏 AGAIN

[Ray🫧 @ravikiran_dev7]

Sam Altman reacts to ChatGPT gaslighting

[Roy McKenzie @RoyMcKenzie]

@dhh I think you're onto something with AI agents tweaking an OS so effortlessly for the user. Config file skills are good, but this goes deeper than UI configuration into morphing the UI. Very cool. Bright future for Omarchy!

[Roy McKenzie @RoyMcKenzie]

@BlakeKresses @JohnDoyle

[Blake Kresses @BlakeKresses]

John Doyle reacts to so-called "BASED authoritarian right-wingers" pissing their pants over Flock cameras.

@JohnDoyle

[Roy McKenzie @RoyMcKenzie]

@FartsDawg @chimkinpls @DOJRR47 Reminds me of Candace Owens (who is constantly getting sued for defamatory statements) saying she welcomes discovery and then in court filings she begs the judge to drop the case. So much for discovery!

[Roy McKenzie @RoyMcKenzie]

@paleochristcon God bless you, Andrew. I will be praying for you.

[Andrew Wilson @paleochristcon]

Topic: Is there better evidence against Tyler Robinson for the murder of Charlie Kirk than any alternative theory presented by Candace Owens"

Sound good?

[Mostly Peaceful Memes @MostlyPeaceful]

X is demonetizing third world slop posters and you’re black pilling?

[5 Solas @5Solas]

They're all true AND God crushed His Son. Isaiah 53:10

[Roy McKenzie @RoyMcKenzie]

@escapefrommelos Nice. Too many stupid people are getting paid.

[Roy McKenzie @RoyMcKenzie]

@sbilstein @tibor_tee Looking forward to it!

[Roy McKenzie @RoyMcKenzie]

@kent4jmj @Cotton_MT Agree with you on that

[Josh Howerton @howertonjosh]

CS Lewis on why “dumb blue collar people” usually do not fall for the same terrible ideas that the “educated elite class” so often does:

“Why, you fool, it’s the educated readers who can be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who believes the papers? He takes it for granted that they’re all propaganda and skips the leading articles. He buys his paper for the football results and the little paragraphs about girls falling out of windows and corpses found in Mayfair flats. He is our problem: we have to recondition him. But the educated public, the people who read the highbrow weeklies, don’t need reconditioning. They’re all right already. They’ll believe anything.”

– CS Lewis, That Hideous Strength

… Or Romans 1: “Claiming to be wise, they became fools.”

[Roy McKenzie @RoyMcKenzie]

@ImperiumFirst 👑

[Andrew Wilson @paleochristcon]

My counter back.

500k is fine I will crowd fund it. A million actually so I get 500k as well.

Travel there is fine on Neutral ground cant be her studio thats a ridiculous ask.

I suggest Michael Knowles moderate. We probably both trust him if not I am open to somebody else

Debate has to be 3 and a half hours with hour long cross examinations. She can go first and examine any views of mine on the kirk assasination as long as I also get and hour for cross exam.

I understand she is pregnant so if she needs a break after an hour and half to walk around thats fine. For 500k 3 and half hours is plenty reasonable.

Lastly the only stipulation I cant agree to is the "TPUSA has to claim Andrew" thing. That is just requesting we both lie. I don't work for TPUSA and never have. I did one contract work. I represent myself. This would be like me asking her to claim she is representing Tyler Robinson...she is representing herself.

This all seems reasonable and if @RealCandaceO agrees I will get to work setting it up.

Lastly im obviously not going to be smoking indoors.

Deal?

[Roy McKenzie @RoyMcKenzie]

Early Christian communities identified inspired writings through criteria like apostolic authorship, alignment with established teachings, and consistent liturgical use across regions, with texts circulating as Scripture decades before formal lists emerged.

As far as later affirmation by councils, the 27 book New Testament canon was affirmed in late 4th century councils such as Hippo (393 AD) and Carthage (397 AD) within the broader early church tradition, building on prior regional recognitions rather than a single deciding body.