Underestimated‼️: Things may be going better than we know in the war with Iran.
📰Axios reports the U.S. has been secretly moving oil in and out of the Strait of Hormuz, writing:
“Under the operation, which has been underway for the last several weeks, 15–20 tankers have entered and exited the strait each night through a southern channel along the coast of Oman. About 10 million barrels of oil a day — roughly half the pre-war volume — are being transported out of the strait and injected into the global energy market….”
Reality: This is an embarrassment to Iran — and there’s not much they can do about it.
🚨Trump has shifted from military action to economic pressure on Iran — now threatening “economic warfare”
Trump: “No one has given the Islamic Republic of Iran a greater opportunity to make a Deal than me. TRAGICALLY, for them, they have failed to take it. Therefore, today, I am announcing the MOST CRUSHING ECONOMIC OPERATION EVER TAKEN AGAINST ANY COUNTRY! This will be Economic Warfare and Isolation on an unprecedented scale.”
Tonight📺: Vice Admiral Robert Harwood and former CIA official Philip Mudd on the James Bond-like operation to strangle Iran.
Getting Flocked📸: Every day, we learn more and more about how terrible Flock cameras are — and how the company continues to lie and spin things in ways that are telling.
Zoom out👀: Can we stop “1984”?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution headlines, “Flock camera resistance is just the beginning. Let’s avoid a ‘1984’ scenario.”
First principles: The declaration says the government derives its power from the consent of the governed — an increasing number of us are not consenting because of the broken trust.
Flipside 🔁: These cameras do help solve a lot of crimes
Today, the FBI used these types of surveillance cameras to catch a woman who allegedly was plotting an ISIS-inspired attack on the New York State Capitol.
This is now the battle we will be wrestling with as time goes on and as technology is only going to get better and more invasive
Look back🔙: America has held onto a deeply rooted distrust of government and its power for 250 years.
And nothing gives the government more power than surveillance cameras and AI
Tonight📺: Joe Lancaster, who reported on a woman who spent months in “legal hell after cops used Flock surveillance to identify the wrong car,” joins me.
Dueling Fights‼️
🎤In three weeks, President Trump must give the toughest speech of his life — at the Republican midterm convention.
Mission❗: He must convince the MAGA faithful that he is on the ballot while not turning off disaffected Republicans who want nothing to do with him
That’s hard for anyone — harder still for a president with a massive ego whose approval rating is 33%
High stakes‼️: In addition to Trump’s legacy, a Democratic House and Senate would consume the last two years of his administration with investigations, impeachments, subpoenas and zero confirmations of his appointees.
Choice👀: Trump and Republican candidates must decide the risk and reward of having Trump come stump for them —
Can Mike Collins win Georgia without Trump putting his arm around him and saying “send Collins to the Senate and protect me from impeachment”?
Can Mike Collins win Georgia with an attack ad showing Trump’s arm around him?
Watch tonight📺: Erick Erickson on Trump’s impossible mission.
“Questions Grow About Trump’s Closeness to Aide” 📺
🤦Nobody really cares what presidential-wannabe Jon Ossoff said or insinuated about Trump’s 35-year-old executive assistant, Natalie Harp, but the new obsession with her shows the complete hollowness of American politics.
❗The Right is outraged about it — spare me, Trump has said far worse about women.
❗But the Left is now obsessed with Natalie — especially the women of journalism.
“Questions grow about Trump’s closeness to aide,” read a banner on MS NOW – really, what questions other than the unveiled insinuation she is Trump’s mistress?
For days now, they have examined everything about the 35-year-old bone cancer survivor.
The insinuation, questions and raised eyebrows all show the same thing — complete contempt.
🤦The same people a few weeks ago had new questions about Trump’s health — does he wear a diaper, what are the bruises on his hands, why does he keep falling asleep?
Is he also sleeping with his 35-year-old assistant … which is it?
Journalists (like me) make lousy media critics, but now, the coverage of Trump is the story.
Watch tonight📺: Former Trump White House senior adviser May Mailman and former Democratic adviser Dan Turrentine.
Who is the cartoonist on your War Notes postings? He/she is VERY good:-)
Dueling Fights - Trump needs to remind and show ALL republicans what will happen if the socialists and communists get in charge. There are other presidents I've liked more, but the alternative to Trump shakes me to my core. I do not want another civil war in OUR country.
Getting Flocked - I still believe more good comes from cameras than worrying if you were caught picking your nose.
Oil - We are entering heating oil season. As it stands now, it will cost at least $4.50 a gallon to heat your home. Most of the oil pulled from our soil is being sold to other countries because the oil companies can charge and get paid, more. Now that, needs attention!