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Ever since the start of the Iran war, the Democrats and their media allies have been rooting against America and President Trump. This was particularly true regarding the Strait of Hormuz, a major global economic shipping channel through which much of the world's oil (and other commerce) flows. Late last month, Secretary of State Marco Rubio laid out what the Strait, and its control, means for not just the United States, but the world, saying that allowing Iran — especially a nuclear Iran — to control the Strait would allow the Islamic nation to control energy for countless nations.

But because the media can never give President Trump credit for or support on any issue, they've spent months attacking the war. Let's take a look at some of the reporting from earlier this year to see exactly what was being said. On June 28, the Wall Street Journal ran an op-ed titled "Iran is Winning the Battle of Hormuz"; on June 3, CNN published "'Their new nuclear option': Why Iran's influence over the Strait of Hormuz is here to stay"; on June 30, The Washington Post published "Iran's leverage over Strait of Hormuz snarls Trump's push for a deal"; on May 19 the Associated Press ran a story titled "Trump's tough-talk foreign policy is hitting a wall with Iran as it grips Strait of Hormuz"; on March 18, Bloomberg published "Iran Moves Its Own Oil Through Hormuz as It Chokes Other Traffic"; Reuters published “As Trump claims victory, Iran emerges bruised but powerful with leverage over Hormuz” on April 8; and on April 6, The New York Times published a piece called "The War Is Turning Iran Into a Major World Power."

On September 28, however, it became clear that oil exports from the Persian Gulf had returned to near pre-war levels while Iranian exports have, quite literally, hit zero.
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Goldman Sachs Research released a paper on September 29 that reported Persian Gulf exports returned to 2025 levels, and that crude exports accounted for nearly 90 percent of the September recovery.

Meanwhile, Iran's economy — thanks to Operation Economic Outcast — is on the brink of collapse. The same day we learned about the resurgence of oil exports from the Persian Gulf, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Iran's economy had about two weeks left before it completely imploded.

The news is so devastating for Iran and so good for President Trump and the United States that the media are doing a quiet about-face on the issue, grudgingly admitting that President Trump was right and Iran is losing this war. Bloomberg reported on the surge in oil exports through the Strait, and on September 28, The Wall Street Journal also reported on the rebound in Middle East oil exports and that Iran's chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz had broken down. Two weeks ago, an op-ed in The Washington Post admitted Iran's leverage in the Strait of Hormuz was "dwindling." On September 29, The Washington Post admitted that Iran's currency hit a new record low "as war erodes [the] country's economic stability."

What the so-called "Cornell 7" case needed was a serious investigator who would carefully sort through the conflicting claims, including claims made by the alleged victim which seem to contradict some of her own statements. What it got instead was Gov. Kathy Hochul and DA Letitia James, both of whom have clearly already made up their minds about the case.

Gov. Hochul, in appointing James to investigate, made it clear that no investigation was really necessary because she already knows what happened.

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The Cornell rape accuser was "failed" by people obligated to protect her, including police and the prosecutor, New York Governor Kathy Hochul said at a news conference on Friday.

A visibly outraged Hochul blasted Cornell University Police, the Tompkins County District Attorney and the state's rape laws before introducing Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor in the controversial case

James told a packed news conference at the governors office that this is now "an active criminal investigation." She pledged a full and fair investigation...

"I am deeply disturbed by Cornell University's police and how they handled this," Hochul said. She said sending a "partial record" to the district attorney was a failure...

"In what world would the police learn from the victim that she had been literally been gang raped" and that she believed "100%" she had been raped and not elevate those allegations, Hochul said.

edhopper (37,867 posts)

Stagflation is here

No jobs, no wage increases, inflation. Is the Media afraid of the word?

bucolic_frolic (57,149 posts)
1. Unpatriotic to use the word stagflation. It's how the US Treasury plans to pay off federal debt.
You don't have a job, your money is worth less, debt is cheaper and cheaper each month.

Johonny (27,480 posts)
3. It appears the FED will be powerless to change
The trajectory. Certainly Trump is clueless to the causes and solutions. I assume it will continue to get worse...

https://democraticunderground.com/100221539091

Then came the sales pitch.

"On January 7th of this year, Renee and Becca had just dropped off their child at school, and they were happy," family attorney Antonio Romanucci said at a press conference. "They were extremely happy. They were bundled up for a Minneapolis winter, and they were driving their Honda Pilot just like ordinary people. They were returning home when their drive was interrupted by armed, masked federal agents who had invaded their city of Minneapolis by the thousands."

This is not what happened.

We've seen multiple videos of the incident many times from different angles, and there's no doubt she attempted to run the agent over with her car. Romanucci is asking the country to forget footage it has already watched.

Start with his claim that the two women were driving home together. Renee Good stopped her car sideways with the deliberate intent of obstructing ICE. Her partner Becca got out of the vehicle to film the ICE operation. This was all by design. When an agent ordered Renee out, yelling, "Get out of the f*****g car," and tried to open the door, Becca tried to get back in on the passenger side but couldn’t open the door. So she shouted, over and over, "Drive, baby, drive!" Renee then backed the Honda Pilot up, turned the wheels, pointed the SUV at the agent, and hit the gas. The tires spun on the ice for a moment, and then the vehicle rammed into him.

Becca knows this better than anyone, because she said so herself. A later video shows her acknowledging her role in the tragedy. "I made her come down here; it's my fault," she said.

So Becca admitted they were there on purpose, not just part of their usual drive home. ... The Goods were there to obstruct and antagonize. Becca taunted agents, then told Renee to drive, and Renee did, with an agent in her path, forcing him to defend himself after she struck him.
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... After Trump won the 2024 election, she and Becca left the country entirely and spent several months in Canada. When they came back, they picked Minneapolis, a self-declared sanctuary city that limits local cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.

That wasn't an accident.

Multiple local sources said Good linked up with the anti-ICE activists through her six-year-old son's woke charter school, which boasts that it puts "social justice first" and prioritizes "involving kids in political and social activism." One mother at the school said Good "was trained against these ICE agents — what to do, what not to do; it's a very thorough training… To listen to commands, to know your rights, to whistle when you see an ICE agent."