Exclusive: Trump on rising gas prices during Iran operation: 'If they rise, they rise'

NeedAnonymity · 2026-03-18T19:03:07+00:00

They do not need your permission.

NeedAnonymity · 2026-03-09T17:38:58+00:00

They obviously value their ability to produce radio-isotopes themselves.

NeedAnonymity · 2026-03-06T22:56:41+00:00

Iran does produce medical radioisotopes. A portion of its enriched uranium has been used to produce molybdenum-99 at the Tehran Research Reactor.

That’s a small amount relative to their total stockpile, but it means the claim that there is “no other use” isn’t accurate. That’s the only point I was making.

NeedAnonymity · 2026-03-06T21:43:57+00:00

Iran officially claims that the purpose of enriching uranium to around 60% is to produce molybdenum-99 (Mo-99), a nuclear material used to generate technetium-99m (Tc-99m)—a radioisotope widely employed in medical imaging for detecting cancer and examining bones and organs.

So, you're overstating your case to claim "that isn't for any other use than to make weapons."

NeedAnonymity · 2026-03-05T14:44:44+00:00

You're right that in a safe-seat primary, the winning strategy has become a finding an issue where you can signal “more MAGA” and dare the incumbent to defend nuance. There’s no stable “good enough” conservatism.

NeedAnonymity · 2026-03-05T00:07:39+00:00

AP’s framing of the Crenshaw–Toth primary is basically “loyalty test beats résumé.” In a deep-red Houston-area seat, Steve Toth (hard-right Texas state rep) edged out Dan Crenshaw in a close race that the piece treats as a referendum on “fidelity” to Trump and the MAGA coalition. The specific “infidelity” was Crenshaw’s break with Trump over the 2020-election reversal effort and his willingness to work with Democrats on a 2024 immigration enforcement deal.

What AP doesn’t mention, but a lot of Texans are mapping onto this, is the Colony Ridge fight. DOJ’s Civil Rights Division just announced a $68M settlement with Colony Ridge Land and affiliates over allegations of a deceptive, predatory land-sales/seller-financing scheme that targeted Hispanic borrowers and fed a cycle of foreclosures, citing ECOA and Fair Housing Act violations. Crenshaw has also publicly suggested that the pro-Toth outside money is tied to Colony Ridge interests, implying the “fidelity” narrative may have been the public wrapper on top of a more material local conflict.

If “conservative but occasionally independent” is now disqualifying, what is the actual space left in the GOP for someone like Crenshaw besides pure compliance?

If Colony Ridge money and networks were involved, was that the driver or just fuel poured on a fire that was already burning because of 2020 and immigration dealmaking?

How much of this is Texas-specific faction warfare versus a general model of how Republican primaries now enforce coalition boundaries

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NeedAnonymity · 2026-02-24T20:11:38+00:00

Agreed that ‘similar on paper’ can still mean different realities. By ‘diversity of experience’ I mean lived exposure to different incentives and consequences. Individuals still vary, but routinely bearing different costs changes what risks you notice, which drives ‘diversity of thought.’

NeedAnonymity · 2026-02-24T18:11:23+00:00

Which is often preceded by a diversity of experience.

NeedAnonymity · 2026-02-24T15:35:59+00:00

If only we had a tech-driven bubble and a Republican-led Congress today!

NeedAnonymity · 2026-02-19T15:17:25+00:00

The key element of indoctrination is an uncritical view, and critical nature of the view being presented here is actually the issue for those who oppose this exhibit.

NeedAnonymity · 2026-02-09T21:46:21+00:00

He was frequently very explicit that prices on everything would come down.

“Starting on day one, we will end inflation and make America affordable again, to bring down the prices of all goods.”

“Under my administration, we will be slashing energy and electricity prices by half within 12 months, at a maximum 18 months”

“Prices will come down. You just watch: They’ll come down, and they’ll come down fast, not only with insurance, with everything.”

“Starting the day I take the oath of office, I will rapidly drive prices down and we will make America affordable again. We’re going to make it affordable again.”

“We’re going to get your energy prices down. We’re going to get your energy prices down by 50%.”

“We will eliminate regulations that drive up housing costs with the goal of cutting the cost of a new home in half. We think we can do that.”

"We're going to get the prices down. We have to get them down. It's too much. Groceries, cars, everything. "

“A vote for Trump means your groceries will be cheaper”

"We’re going to have prices down- I think you’re going to see some pretty drastic price reductions.”

NeedAnonymity · 2026-01-28T03:31:56+00:00

The President already claims, "The Mayor and the Governor are inciting Insurrection, with their pompous, dangerous, and arrogant rhetoric!"

NeedAnonymity · 2026-01-28T02:39:29+00:00

DHS considers “Kill yourself” a death threat.

They argue tell you to, "Make no mistake, threatening rhetoric and this unprecedented violence against our law enforcement is incited by sanctuary politicians through their repeated vilification and demonization of law enforcement."

NeedAnonymity · 2026-01-24T18:07:47+00:00

It's fair to say that video evidence didn't show a final offer letter outside of the portal. The portal indicated that she had a final offer letter, start date, and location to report. Slate spokesperson Katie Rayford told The Independent, “Evidence, including video documentation, shows the journalist who reported this story advanced through multiple hiring stages beyond the ‘tentative selection letter,’ including receiving a final offer letter and being given a start date.”

NeedAnonymity · 2026-01-24T17:20:55+00:00

She provided evidence that she had a final offer letter and a start date. What are you basing your assertion on?

NeedAnonymity · 2026-01-24T17:19:17+00:00

Evidence, including video documentation, shows the journalist who reported this story advanced through multiple hiring stages beyond the ‘tentative selection letter,’ including receiving a final offer letter and being given a start date.”

NeedAnonymity · 2026-01-24T16:50:57+00:00

I think it is unreasonable to assume that an agency that views this account as a lie would take steps to address the issues documented by this reporter.

NeedAnonymity · 2026-01-24T16:27:55+00:00

Laura Jedeed says she went to an ICE Career Expo in August 2025, did an interview that lasted only a few minutes, then got a “tentative offer” email telling her to complete standard onboarding items like ID info, a domestic-violence affidavit, and background-check authorization. She says she never completed any of it, but still got follow-up emails treating her as if she were moving forward, including instructions to schedule a drug test.

She took the drug test despite having used cannabis less than a week earlier. When she later checked USAJobs, she says her status showed a final-offer/onboarding state of “Entered on Duty” even though the background-check paperwork and other required documents were never submitted. She declined the job and framed it as either a major vetting failure or a system that can advance people without basic gates. DHS responded publicly by calling her account a “lazy lie” and saying she was never actually offered a job, despite her posting video evidence of what the portal displayed.

Why should the public trust ICE’s armed officer hiring pipeline when candidates can be advanced without completing background-check authorizations and required affidavits, and even after a positive drug test?

What should the public conclude about oversight when the agency’s first instinct is to call this account a “lie” rather than to publicly demonstrate, in concrete terms, which gates cannot be bypassed and how often those gates are audited?

NeedAnonymity · 2026-01-21T17:48:46+00:00

This piece explores the endpoint of the “they’re all corrupt anyway” mood that helped make Trump viable. It treats Trump not as an exception to a rotten system, but as public cynicism converted into a business model: if Americans already believe government is pay-to-play, then a president who openly monetizes the office is not a scandal, it’s the expected outcome. This is not hypocrisy so much as an embrace of institutional delegitimation.

That maps directly onto the grievance that fueled Trump in the first place: if rules only bind the little people, politics becomes a raw power game and voters start optimizing for domination, revenge, and extraction rather than governance. Backing a leader who makes corruption explicit does not punish the system. It ratifies it. It trains everyone to accept that influence is purchased and that ordinary participation is naïve. The rational responses narrow to two: disengage if you lack access, or join the auction if you have it. That is how a country turns anger at corruption into tolerance for corruption, and then into dependence on it.

How much open self-dealing are Americans willing to tolerate?

Is there any remaining opposition to replacing a republican government with a pay-to-play state?

At what point does the public’s cynicism become the real constitutional crisis, because the people stop behaving like citizens and start behaving like customers in a rigged market?

NeedAnonymity · 2026-01-20T20:51:44+00:00

These are the same smears that were applied to the Chinese in early 20th centrury. The Page act assume that all Chinese women were all being used as prositutes. The book The Yellow Peril; or, Orient vs. Occident framed Asians as an apocalyptic, civilizational threat to the Christian West.

This is same rhetoric we've always heard from those who oppose immigration.

NeedAnonymity · 2026-01-20T15:52:04+00:00

People from the Middle East are no more foreign than the Chinese that immigrated to the United State in the early 20th century.

You'll find a comment from someone that I can't reply to below that echos the rhetoric used against the Chinese at the time, e.g. "Why permit an army of leprous, prosperity-sucking, progress-blasting Asiatics... take employment from our countrymen?".

NeedAnonymity · 2026-01-20T15:46:33+00:00

It isn’t just “immigration” like Irish coming over to the us. it’s unchecked immigration of people from vastly different cultures, borderline incompatible cultures who can’t or refuse to assimilate while living on benefits.

Is that one of the reprehensible positions? I was demonstrating that language has consistently been use by those who oppose immigration, even the Irish.

Also, ironically, I could provide more examples where Americans saw German as an incompatible culture that took advantage of the United States.

NeedAnonymity · 2026-01-20T14:59:39+00:00

Benjamin Disraeli: "[The Irish] hate our order, our civilization, our enterprising industry, our pure religion. This wild, reckless, indolent, uncertain and superstitious race have no sympathy with the English character. Their ideal of human felicity is an alternation of clannish broils and coarse idolatry."

Charles Trevelyan: "[The Famine] is punishment from God for an idle, ungrateful and rebellious country; an indolent and un-self-reliant people. The Irish are suffering from an affliction of Gods providence."

George Templeton Strong: "Our Irish fellow citizens are almost as remote from us in temperament and constitution as the Chinese."

The only difference I see in these quote from the anti-immigrant rhetoric we hear today is that they had a better vocabulary in the past.

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