Zhi Zhu 🕸️
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Zhi Zhu 🕸️
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"Attendees at the 2026 Conservation Political Action Conference seem to be dazed and confused after a disastrously chaotic month for President Donald Trump. In the last 30 days, he has started a war in the Middle East, deployed federal agents to airports, and refused to end the partial government shutdown."
~ Marin Scotten
#Trump #CPAC #MAGA #impeachment #Iran #war #oil #gas #airports #ICE #AirTravel
/1
https://newrepublic.com/post/208293/cpac-attendees-confused-cheer-trump-impeachment
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
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"While speaking from the CPAC stage Friday in Grapevine, Texas, American Conservative Union chairman Matt Schlapp asked a question he apparently thought would hype up the crowd.
'How many of you would like to see impeachment hearings?'
The crowd erupted in cheers.
'No,' Schlapp responded, shaking his head. 'That was the wrong answer. Let me try it again.'"
#Trump #CPAC #MAGA #impeachment #Iran #war #oil #gas #airports #ICE #AirTravel
/2
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Zhi Zhu 🕸️
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"Our top journalists continue to fundamentally cover up Trump’s derangement and incoherence. The man is lying almost constantly, gaslighting at full throttle, but the news coverage sanewashes his nonsense with euphemisms like “freestyle diplomacy.”
They cover this war largely as a political story, with most of the news coming out of the (lying) White House.
In their brief moments of access, they ask lame questions that get useless answers."
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
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"Before Iran, there was Covid: Trump falls apart in a crisis. But journalists are still letting him write the headlines."
As Dan Froomkin says, this is exactly analogous to how the press behaved when Trump careened from lie to lie and bogus solution to bogus solution during the Covid crisis of his first term.
~ Dan Froomkin
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #media
/1
https://criticalread.substack.com/p/before-iran-there-was-covid-trump
1
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
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"Monday was a window into the world dictators want to see, with a public intimidated by armed men in airports and too demoralized to fight blatant corruption, amid a race to extract every last dime as America becomes just another failing Trump casino."
#Trump #LaGuardia #AirTravel #airports #ICE #ClimateChange #InsiderTrading #Iran #war #oil #gas #corruption #authoritarianism
/5
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
boosted
"If any one day could define the hazy transition from slow to rapid decay — 24 hours that truly defined the decline of the American empire from its pedestal as a global superpower — it would have to be March 23."
~ Will Bunch
#Trump #LaGuardia #AirTravel #airports #ICE #ClimateChange #InsiderTrading #Iran #war #oil #gas #corruption #authoritarianism
/1
4
"Before Iran, there was Covid: Trump falls apart in a crisis. But journalists are still letting him write the headlines."
As Dan Froomkin says, this is exactly analogous to how the press behaved when Trump careened from lie to lie and bogus solution to bogus solution during the Covid crisis of his first term.
~ Dan Froomkin
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #media
/1
https://criticalread.substack.com/p/before-iran-there-was-covid-trump
"Our top journalists continue to fundamentally cover up Trump’s derangement and incoherence. The man is lying almost constantly, gaslighting at full throttle, but the news coverage sanewashes his nonsense with euphemisms like “freestyle diplomacy.”
They cover this war largely as a political story, with most of the news coming out of the (lying) White House.
In their brief moments of access, they ask lame questions that get useless answers."
"Before Iran, there was Covid: Trump falls apart in a crisis. But journalists are still letting him write the headlines."
As Dan Froomkin says, this is exactly analogous to how the press behaved when Trump careened from lie to lie and bogus solution to bogus solution during the Covid crisis of his first term.
~ Dan Froomkin
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #media
/1
https://criticalread.substack.com/p/before-iran-there-was-covid-trump
1
"While speaking from the CPAC stage Friday in Grapevine, Texas, American Conservative Union chairman Matt Schlapp asked a question he apparently thought would hype up the crowd.
'How many of you would like to see impeachment hearings?'
The crowd erupted in cheers.
'No,' Schlapp responded, shaking his head. 'That was the wrong answer. Let me try it again.'"
#Trump #CPAC #MAGA #impeachment #Iran #war #oil #gas #airports #ICE #AirTravel
/2
"While speaking from the CPAC stage Friday in Grapevine, Texas, American Conservative Union chairman Matt Schlapp asked a question he apparently thought would hype up the crowd.
'How many of you would like to see impeachment hearings?'
The crowd erupted in cheers.
'No,' Schlapp responded, shaking his head. 'That was the wrong answer. Let me try it again.'"
#Trump #CPAC #MAGA #impeachment #Iran #war #oil #gas #airports #ICE #AirTravel
/2
1
"Attendees at the 2026 Conservation Political Action Conference seem to be dazed and confused after a disastrously chaotic month for President Donald Trump. In the last 30 days, he has started a war in the Middle East, deployed federal agents to airports, and refused to end the partial government shutdown."
~ Marin Scotten
#Trump #CPAC #MAGA #impeachment #Iran #war #oil #gas #airports #ICE #AirTravel
/1
https://newrepublic.com/post/208293/cpac-attendees-confused-cheer-trump-impeachment
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
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"On unregulated betting markets, people are setting themselves up to make millions if Trump re-escalates, wagering on the precise timing of a land-invasion of Iran."
~ Brian Beutler
#Trump #Iran #oil #gas #markets #StockMarket #InsiderTrading #Kalshi #Polymarket #corruption #profiteering
/15
https://www.offmessage.net/p/expose-all-of-trumps-war-profiteering
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Zhi Zhu 🕸️
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"There was no discernible reason for these sudden jumps occurring at 6:50 am, normally a fairly sleepy time for premarket trading. But when Trump’s 7:05 am announcement about all those productive conversations predictably drove oil prices down, and stocks rebounded, those 6:50 am traders made bank. In just a few moments, those anonymous and fortunate folks made roughly $580 million."
#Trump #Iran #oil #gas #markets #StockMarket #InsiderTrading #Kalshi #Polymarket #profiteering #morality
/19
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
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"U.S. and global markets fell sharply as optimism faded over a possible U.S.-Iran ceasefire, with the Nasdaq entering correction territory and major indexes posting significant losses. Oil prices surged—U.S. crude nearing $95 and Brent above $109—driving higher inflation expectations and raising concerns about long-term energy costs."
~ Aaron Parnas
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #markets #StockMarket #Nasdaq #bonds
/20
https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-trump-adds-signature-to-all
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
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"Yesterday I think the markets began to truly wake up to the disaster Trump has created in the Middle East. Today, Iran is in charge of the Strait of Hormuz, and is now, despite the war, the dominant power in the region. They are holding our economy and the global economy hostage."
~ Simon Rosenberg
#Trump #Iran #war #economy #StockMarket #markets #oil #gas #StraitofHormuz
/22
https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/copy-senate-rs-cave-no-kings-is-here
"Right-wing media figures accused President Donald Trump of manipulating the market after stocks surged following his March 23 social media post claiming that the war in Iran was winding down."
Reed McMaster offers a valuable list of MAGA commentators from Ben Shapiro and Nick Fuentes to Steve Bannon pressing this point.
#Trump #Iran #oil #gas #markets #StockMarket #InsiderTrading #profiteering #morality
/23
"Yesterday I think the markets began to truly wake up to the disaster Trump has created in the Middle East. Today, Iran is in charge of the Strait of Hormuz, and is now, despite the war, the dominant power in the region. They are holding our economy and the global economy hostage."
~ Simon Rosenberg
#Trump #Iran #war #economy #StockMarket #markets #oil #gas #StraitofHormuz
/22
https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/copy-senate-rs-cave-no-kings-is-here
"Bond yields climbed as investors sold off Treasurys, pushing borrowing costs higher, including mortgage rates rising above 6.5%. Analysts warn continued geopolitical risk and disrupted oil transport could keep prices elevated despite political downplaying of the situation."
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #markets #StockMarket #Nasdaq #bonds
/21
"U.S. and global markets fell sharply as optimism faded over a possible U.S.-Iran ceasefire, with the Nasdaq entering correction territory and major indexes posting significant losses. Oil prices surged—U.S. crude nearing $95 and Brent above $109—driving higher inflation expectations and raising concerns about long-term energy costs."
~ Aaron Parnas
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #markets #StockMarket #Nasdaq #bonds
/20
https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-trump-adds-signature-to-all