Hunter Biden is once again reinventing himself with the help of an ever-enabling media and the Democratic establishment. The media is full of reports that people are rediscovering Hunter and finding him strikingly honest and refreshing. In his pitch, he assures viewers that now “it’s just me” and not some team of advisers. The problem is that, for some of us who have been critics of the Bidens for decades, there is nothing new about the new Hunter other than a podcast audience.
For the record, I have been a critic of the Biden family for decades as one of the most corrupt political families in U.S. history. Joe Biden and his family have been influence peddlers and self-dealers since his time in the Senate — enriching themselves with positions and shady dealings.
Hunter Biden was the ultimate personification of that corruption — both financial and moral. He spent his life attacking those who tried to investigate his dealings, including filing ruinous lawsuits against individuals who would not yield.
At the same time, he spent lavishly with money that he acquired by leveraging the access and influence of his father. Some of this conduct continued during periods of sobriety as well as addiction. That includes his disgraceful record with regard to his daughter Navy Joan, whom he fought not to recognize or support.
Hunter has repeatedly sought to reinvent himself with the help of an army of advisers. His current pitch is that everything that he did for literally decades was because he was an addict and that he is now proud and unafraid.
The problem is that the facts do not fit the pitch. Hunter was cashing in on the family business from the moment that he emerged from law school. He was entitled and eager to use his father to enrich himself.
For a party that often seems on a recurring loop of mantras condemning white privilege and entitlements, Hunter Biden would seem the last person that the left would embrace. However, the use of his identity as a recovering addict is drawing crowds and accolades. He presents himself as a virtual sage as a result of the struggle.
I have previously expressed sympathy for Hunter’s recovery and credited him for writing about it. However, his honesty about addiction is notably missing in his account of his influence peddling and corruption. He prefers to focus on how he spent the money and not how he got it.
We’re missing accounts of his strong-arming of foreign figures, such as BHR Partners CEO Jonathan Li. In the summer of 2019, Li wired $250,000 to Hunter Biden from Beijing, with Joe Biden’s Delaware home listed as the beneficiary address.
There were diamonds as gifts, lavish expense accounts, and a sports car, in addition to massive payments that Hunter claimed were “loans.” There are messages like the one to a Chinese businessman , openly threatening Joe Biden’s displeasure if money is not sent to them immediately. In the WhatsApp message, Hunter stated:
“I am sitting here with my father, and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight. And, Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang, or the Chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction. I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.”
Hunter puts all of these dealings and his attacks on critics into a deep memory hole while thrilling liberal audiences as the liberated voice of reason.
Hunter continues to twist history to fit his needs. In an interview with Gov. Gavin Newsom, Biden explained how his infamous pardon was simply proof of “how much you know my dad loves me.” He said that his father “chose me over his legacy.”
That last point may be the only unassailable point from his interviews. However, Hunter notably stuck to the same carefully crafted narrative put out by his family in interviews on the pardon — insisting that it was made necessary by Trump’s election to protect him from retaliation.
Hunter told Newsom:
“My dad said that he wouldn’t give me a pardon and he was absolutely 100% genuine about it…he said it at a moment in time where he thought that he was going to be the next president of the United States and there would be a Justice Department that would treat me fairly…It would have been like having a gun to my family’s head for the next four years at least, so that’s why he pardoned me. It’s a really incredibly rational decision and a really difficult decision.”
It is the same spin given by Jill Biden in her book and clearly was crafted by the family. She insisted (like Hunter) that Joe meant it when he repeatedly insisted that he would not pardon his son under any circumstances. He ran for reelection on the promise. “Then the Justice Department changed. And I think that the process was not fair to Hunter. When Trump was elected, we knew that he would target Hunter.”
Just one problem: It was her husband’s Justice Department, and two different panels of jurors, who convicted Hunter. Indeed, even juries in the Bidens’ home state of Delaware and the heavily Democratic state of California declared him guilty.
The only pending matter was his sentencing before the same judges that President Biden assured us would be allowed to resolve the cases. Indeed, even after those convictions, the Biden administration declared that the president would not break his promise and pardon his son.
What’s particularly galling is that Hunter Biden was allowed to escape charges for other federal crimes, including his alleged influence peddling that produced millions from foreign interests.
President Biden notably pardoned his son for any crimes that he may have committed from “Jan. 1, 2014, to Dec. 1, 2024.”
If the family was so afraid of retaliation by Trump, why didn’t Joe Biden pardon his son for all crimes except those for which he was convicted during his administration?
That would still have been an abuse of power, but it would at least have maintained the president’s promise to allow the prior cases to proceed without interference.
Yet, Hunter picked up the spin where Jill left off: “If it was in a Mitt Romney administration, if it was in a John McCain administration, if it was in anybody that was an actual Republican and not a tyrant or a fascist, my dad would not have pardoned me.”
Once again, all that was pending from the very same judges was the sentencing for his convictions. Hunter was already protected from even more serious charges over his being an alleged unregistered foreign agent.
With history rewritten, Hunter proceeded to hold forth on his view of American politics, assuring the public that they could support Graham Platner. Speaking with authority, Hunter declared that “I have not heard anything in any way that would say to me that he is an abusive, misogynistic, anti-Semitic, or racist person.” He declared, “I’m 99.9% certain Graham Platner is no Nazi.”
So apparently the matter is settled by the new sage of the left.
Count me out on the Hunter Biden love fest tour. Some of us have followed too many of the prior incarnations of Hunter Biden to think that this latest variation is anything more than the latest creation of the Biden image lab.
His new videos are polished and poignant as he proclaims, “it’s just me.” But that is precisely the problem.
All that remains hidden in the Biden saga is the big guy’s financial records. Joe and Jill seemed to do quite well living on the compensation for his lifelong career in Congress and at the end as VP and President. Trump’s tax returns were illegally released and yet nothing corrupt was ever gleaned from them.
The corruption is identified when comparing the tax returns with his unreleased personal financial records. Were he to sue anyone for defamation, his personal financial records could be subject to scrutiny, which is why he settles.
The government can demand those records and he can’t settle anything, just like you, if you had a job. And no. You are not legal counsel to anybody. Your lack of a clue proves your lack of employment and failure in educational pursuits. But, hey. You know better. Don, settle! This idiot knows the Law.
Prof. Turley, why do you devote a column to Hunter Biden? Why does he deserve your attention? In a mentally-healthy national conversation, he deserves to be ignored.
Clinging too tightly to past grievances?
It sounds like you are
Right. let’s do all the columns that YOU want to do.
I am glad that Prof. Turley is focusing on America’s corrupt political families. Can we expect an article about the Trump family?
The Trump family is orders of magnitude more noble, erudite, and genteel than any previous American luminaries and dignitaries.
All those previous ones who accepted election results?
Certainly, like JFK, who had his daddy pay the mob to fix 1960; and Lincoln, who sent Major General Robert C. Schenck to fix the political trajectory of Maryland to ensure it stayed in Abraham Lincoln’s column for the 1864 presidential election, etc.
I asked Gemini what “noble, erudite and genteel” mean. Their answer: “These three words all describe high status, intelligence, or refinement, but they each have a distinct flavor. Think of them as different traits of a classic, old-school aristocrat” – the Trump’s are classic, old-school aristocrats? I have the opposite impression. My impression is that classic, old-school aristocrats wouldn’t want to touch the Trump’s with a ten-foot pole.
The Bidens. America’s Finest.
Turley Writes:
“Hunter Biden would seem the last person that the left would embrace.”
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Yes, Professor, ‘Hunter Biden IS the last person the left will ever embrace’. So it’s not clear why you’re even implying that. One doubts if the Bernie Bros could even spot Hunter Biden in a group photo.
This episode reads like a dime store murder mystery. A dumb, needy chick (DNC) hooks up with the most exciting guy she can get, despite his being a thief and a liar. He fails her miserably, steals from her friends and family, and leaves for parts unknown, figuring he can come back once the heat dies down. Meanwhile, the DNC, despite delusions of having learned something, remains just as dumb, but even more needy given the dearth of exciting prospects. When the bum returns the DNC cautiously entertains him, leaving her friends and family aghast. Her desperation leads her to throw caution to the wind. She welcomes him back into her life, thus sealing her own, tragic fate.
Keep the Kleenex tissues at hand.
Dumb Needy Chicks – Women’s Suffrage – Perfect! – Perfectly Ridiculous!
Men Persist – Women Make The Men Who Persist, Or Not!
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
– John Adams, Letter to the Massachusetts Militia, Oct. 11, 1798
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“To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical [fantastical] idea.”
– James Madison, Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 20, 1788
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“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.”
– Benjamin Franklin, Speech at the Constitutional Convention, 1787
The vote has been restricted to people of this ilk since the inception of democracy in ancient Greece around 508 B.C.
In early America, the electorate generally consisted of patriotic citizens who were considered to possess wisdom, property, and the maturity associated with attaining 21 years of age.
Quite a few of the patriotic were slave holders looking to ensure they could continue to have slaves on their forced labor camps. Others didn’t like that the British government had eliminated the tax on tea, ruining the black market business model.
To gain the perspective of the context:
AI Overview
Slavery was entirely legal in the British colonies for centuries. It was deeply embedded in the economies of colonies in the Caribbean and North America until the British Parliament officially abolished the practice in 1833, freeing roughly 800,000 enslaved people.
Slavery was widely accepted and legally protected across the British colonies for over two centuries. It served as a foundational pillar of the imperial economy, driving massive profits from lucrative crops like sugar in the Caribbean and tobacco and rice in North America.
The process of abolition in America actually began at the state level years before 1789. However, in 1789, the First Federal Congress convened, triggering the first formal, nationwide debates on whether the new federal government had the power to end the institution of slavery.
George Washington first attempted to begin the physical process of freeing his family’s slaves in 1794.While he did not legally execute emancipation until his 1799 will, he spent the mid-1790s trying to orchestrate an ambitious, multi-step plan to free both his slaves and those owned by his wife’s family.
In 1787, many Founders recognized that slave labor contradicted the nation’s core liberty ideals but perceived its continuation as a necessary compromise to secure economic survival and intersectional political unity. They chose to preserve the institution to prevent Southern states from seceding, prioritizing the immediate preservation of the Union.
Reprehensible slavery was “withering on the vine” but patriots to America and its Constitution held to democratic rule and its legislation by duly-elected officials, unlike the psychotic dictator “Crazy Abe” Lincoln. All Lincoln ever had to do was pass a bill making slavery illegal, but he chose to kill 1 million Americans and destroy the country instead.
I don’t think Congress had the power in 1860 to outlaw slavery in the US through a simple law (an amendment was needed).
Not for the existing states, but the territories….. That depends on whether you agree or disagree with Dred Scott.
So you concede there was a viable legislative process that required a majority vote, as has been the case with democracy since inception.
Thank you very much.
“Crazy Abe” said, “Secession is not prohibited; therefore, secession is prohibited,” and “—- that —-, I’ll do what I want as a stinking —-ing dictator,” and proceeded to wantonly kill 1 million Americans (i.e. after all was said and done) and destroy the country.
Again, thank you very much.
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The truth of the communists (liberals, progressives, socialists, democrats, RINOs, AINOs);
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“If the socialists had their way, Elon would have had his paypal profits taken and redistributed for the greater good.”
“The world would never have seen Tesla, nor SpaceX.
“And the world wouldn’t know it, because they were uncreated, and thus unseen.
“Imagine the companies that don’t exist, because Washington destroyed them before they were born.”
– ErikVoorhees
Daddy Joe thought the gun purchase crimes that his baby boy committed were so heinous, that he signed a bill hiking up the penalties by 50%.
But then, when Baby Boy Biden committed them, they were no big deal.
BS
Nobody cares about Hunter Biden except Jonathan (some of us) Turley because it’s a surprisingly weak distraction for MAGA nuts and groupies.
Trump is wrecking the economy and he’s already depleting the SPR, and our most sophisticated weapons without achieving the ‘goals’ he claimed he wanted. Already American bases in the Middle East have been destroyed, the navy has been kept out of the Persian gulf. Has not stopped Iran from closing the strait. And has not been able to reopen it. Trump is looking weaker every time he lies about the “negotiations”. It’s guaranteed he does not even know the names of the Iranian negotiators.
Our moron in chief is undermining everything he tries to do just by opening his mouth. And it’s costing billions and losing military aircraft, 42 so far. It’s embarrassing.
“Nobody cares about Hunter Biden except Jonathan (some of us) Turley “
I care. Hunter should be in jail, as should his father, Joe Biden, along with his administration. We still have some of those crooks in the bureaucracy, and they should be rooted out and jailed. You love despicable people; one can only ask why.
You hate America and Western civilization. That is why you would permit Iran to have nuclear weapons while they state their desire to destroy America. Trump is solving that problem, and you hate him for doing so. Trump is also ending Iran’s terrorism, which extends to the Western Hemisphere. You must hate women and gays because in Iran women have few rights and will be killed if they act like women. Gays? You say throw them off the roof to kill them.
The economy was wrecked by Biden, but you don’t notice. You think you are the greatest economist of all time, though you have never shown a bit of intellect.
A. Meyer, as usual you’re an idiot. Iran never had the capability to make nuclear weapons. They had the ability to enrich uranium and that’s allowed under the non- proliferation treaty. N. Korea has made threats to the U.S. numerous times and the HAVE nuclear weapons.
Biden’s economy? Isn’t Trump supppsed do “fix” it? He’s making it worse. It’s been over a year and Trump can’t bring prices down. Inflation is getting higher. He’s draining the SPR at a record rate. Food prices are getting higher. He failed to achieve anything in Iran other than bomb sites and still not stop Iran from hitting U.S. bases in the region. The moron can’t even negotiate.
You’re hilarious S. Meyer. Yoh have no idea what is going n around you and Trump lying to your face must be like taking in much needed sunshine. LOL!!
“A. Meyer, as usual, you’re an idiot. Iran never had the capability to make nuclear weapons. “
Since you think you’re so smart, what were the Iranians missing?
Start with that question, and we will work our way to the others.
Missing? We had a deal that was working under Obama. Trump tore up that deal and made things worse. Now he’s trying the save face by getting close to what Obama had.
The Iranians didn’t enrich their uranium to 60% until AFTER Trump tore up the deal.
They chose NOT to enrich it beyond that. They were missing the incentive to build one. Before Trump they had no reason to. Now they do thanks to Trump.
The sunset provision gave them the ability to have had a nuclear weapon with missiles aimed at the US in 2025. It never allowed anyone to validate their claims in a secure fashion.
They stated their incentive to do damage from day one when they took hostages, and since that time, created a network of proxies that today have used missiles to kill innocent civilians, along with Americans and American ships.
I bet if you were alive in the 1930s, you would have proudly studied German and a way to exterminate people you didn’t like.
S. Meyer. The JCPOA did not grant Iran permission to build a nuclear weapon in 2025 or any other year. Under the deal, and as a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), Iran is permanently banned from ever developing or acquiring nuclear weapon.
Certain restrictions on the enrichment level and volume of uranium were set to ease after 10 to 15 years (starting from 2015), Iran was still bound by strict caps and monitoring. It could not have legally or practically deployed US-targeted nuclear missiles by 2025 under the agreement’s framework.
Your claim that the deal “never allowed anyone to validate their claims” is false. The JCPOA established the most intrusive international inspection regime ever negotiated.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was granted continuous, 24/7 monitoring of Iran’s declared nuclear sites, uranium mines, and centrifuge production facilities. Before the United States withdrew from the deal in 2018, the IAEA repeatedly verified that Iran was fully complying with all restrictions.
The JCPOA was not an act of appeasement; it required Iran to dismantle over 13,000 centrifuges, pour concrete into the core of its Arak heavy-water reactor, and ship 98% of its enriched uranium stockpile out of the country. It used rigorous verification rather than blind trust.
Iran’s threats have only been just that. Threats. Besides, threats from the 1960’s and 70’s were issued AFTER we meddled in their internal affairs. We are responsible for creating the Iran we see today.
Obviously, X, Obama gave Iran a green light to nuke Israel and possibly the US.
Nope. Not even close.
I understand that you don’t know it, and Obama didn’t want to know it or care, but intelligent people recognize that Iran is the leading supporter of state terrorism. The only reason they couldn’t get the bomb earlier was Israel’s ability to do so many times without soldiers on the ground.
The Muslim Brothahood!
You have a lot of questions that have been answered many times. Here is an AI response to you. It is detailed, so you can refute it or any part of it. The summary is that the JCPOA was deeply flawed and would lead to catastrophe and nuclear blackmail, if not nuclear war.
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1. The 2025 Capability Loophole
The assertion that the JCPOA explicitly prohibited a weapon in 2025 is an infantile, legalistic facade that willfully ignores engineering reality. Even under total, hypothetical compliance, the deal’s own sunset clauses were an institutionalized countdown to nuclear threshold status. By explicitly greenlighting Advanced Centrifuge Research and Development, the framework legally sanctioned Iran to operationalize IR-6 and IR-8 centrifuges. Because these advanced arrays enrich uranium at an exponentially accelerated velocity compared to legacy models, the physical breakout time—the window to amass enough weapons-grade highly enriched uranium (>90%
235
U) for a warhead—was intentionally engineered to collapse to mere weeks. The agreement didn’t need to explicitly grant “permission” for a bomb; it legally sanitized and incubated the exact industrial infrastructure required to guarantee an unstoppable, covert sprint to a nuclear device.
2. The Verification Mirage
Championing the JCPOA’s “intrusive inspections” is a catastrophic analytical failure that conflates theatrical monitoring with absolute verification. The regime’s inspectors were entirely restricted to declared civilian sites, leaving an abyssal blind spot over Iran’s clandestine military installations. The enforcement mechanism for suspicious locations was a bureaucratic farce that structurally guaranteed Iran a 24-day grace period before permitting access. In the realm of nuclear weaponization, 24 days is an eternity. While fissile material leaves radiometric signatures, the true bottleneck of a nuclear program—dual-use weaponization engineering, hydrodynamic testing, and explosive detonator development—leaves no such permanent footprint. It can be meticulously scrubbed, dismantled, and vanished within 72 hours. Furthermore, Iran unilaterally eviscerated Section T (the ban on weaponization R&D) by cordoning off its military bases entirely, ensuring the most lethal phase of bomb-making remained absolutely impenetrable to international scrutiny.
3. The Deception of Historical Compliance
Parroting pre-2018 IAEA compliance reports is an exercise in indefensible gullibility, mistaking superficial cosmetic cooperation for systemic transparency. The 2018 exfiltration of Iran’s clandestine nuclear archive—exposing tens of thousands of pages of weaponization schematics, metallurgical test results, and core designs from Project Amad—irrefutably proved the regime engaged in systemic, state-sponsored perjury regarding the scope of its military program. By meticulously archiving rather than annihilating these assets, Iran preserved an active, turnkey intellectual repository to resurrect a weaponization program instantaneously. The IAEA was verifying a mirage, inspecting only what the regime curated for them, while Tehran covertly safeguarded the indispensable engineering architecture required to assemble a functional warhead.
4. The Delivery Architecture Omission
Arguing the deal neutralized the nuclear threat by exclusively measuring the capacity to strike the United States is a geographically myopic strawman that completely abandons regional and European security. The JCPOA egregiously insulated Iran’s ballistic missile program from any binding constraints. United Nations Security Council Resolution 2231 offered nothing but feckless, non-binding platitudes, politely “calling upon” Iran to halt development rather than mandating it. This inexcusable capitulation allowed Tehran to relentlessly iterate, flight-test, and mass-produce nuclear-capable intermediate-range ballistic missiles without violating a single syllable of the agreement. A nuclear warhead is a useless paperweight without a delivery vehicle; by severing the missile architecture from the treaty, the deal gifted Iran diplomatic immunity to perfect its kinetic strike capabilities in broad daylight.
5. Ideological Determinism vs. Reactive Grievance
Regurgitating the mid-century 1953 coup to rationalize contemporary Iranian bellicosity is historical revisionism that strips the Islamic Republic of its own stated, venomous agency. It reduces a hyper-aggressive, theocratic juggernaut to a perpetual, passive victim. This narrative completely ignores the bedrock of the 1979 revolution: Velayat-e Faqih (Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist). This uncompromising ideological constitution mandates the violent, asymmetric export of the Islamic revolution and structurally embeds anti-Westernism and anti-Zionism not as negotiable geopolitical grievances, but as the indispensable, existential pillars of the regime’s survival. Ascribing exclusive blame to Western foreign policy willfully ignores half a century of proactive, state-sponsored terrorism and regional proxy warfare executed not in retaliation to past slights, but as the absolute fulfillment of a domestic theological imperative.
Wow, S. Meyer embracing AI. There’s hope for you yet.
But….not quite.
Your comment using AI research claims that advanced centrifuges (IR-6/IR-8) would collapse the breakout time to “mere weeks” while legally protected. However, the JCPOA explicitly capped Iran’s total enriched uranium stockpile at 300 kilograms of only 3.67% purity for 15 years (until 2030). Advanced centrifuges cannot build a bomb in “weeks” if you are legally forbidden from holding the raw material to feed them.
Under the JCPOA, Iran’s breakout time was successfully extended from just a few weeks (pre-2015) to over one year. It was only after the U.S. withdrew in 2018 and Iran stopped complying that Iran’s breakout time actually collapsed to days or weeks. The deal prevented the exact scenario the comment attributes to it.
The claim that nuclear weaponization work can be “meticulously scrubbed, dismantled, and vanished within 72 hours” completely contradicts nuclear science. Environmental sampling used by the IAEA can detect microscopic, single-atom radioactive isotopes and chemical residues decades after they are used. You cannot scrub away a nuclear signature with bleach.
Also, The comment claims Iran completely blocked Section T (weaponization bans). In reality, the IAEA had access to Iran’s supply chain, uranium mines, and centrifuge factories for 20 to 25 years. Intelligence agencies universally agreed that any “covert sprint” in an undeclared location would have been detected almost immediately due to the intense monitoring of the raw uranium supply.
The 2018 seizure of Iran’s historical nuclear archive by Israeli intelligence did not prove Iran was violating the JCPOA. Instead, it documented Project Amad, Iran’s past nuclear weapons program which was halted in 2003.
Western intelligence agencies and the IAEA already knew Iran had pursued a bomb before 2003; that past deception was the exact reason the JCPOA was negotiated. The archive proved Iran kept its old blueprints, but it did not show any active, ongoing weaponization work violating the 2015 accord.
“Wow, S. Meyer embracing AI. There’s hope for you yet.”
Of course, I deal with AI, but I don’t copy it as you have and use it to respond. You don’t even know what your AI response means. I demonstrated that when you didn’t recognize that your AI response disagreed with what you previously said.
You are copying out-of-context AI words so you can get it to agree with your.
“In reality, the IAEA had access to Iran’s supply chain, uranium mines, and centrifuge factories for 20 to 25 years”
I don’t know what the IAEA knew, but the Israeli’s knew when they used all sorts of means to slow Iran down. The US was probably involved in some of those activities.
You did nothing to show the comment my AI was wrong. All you did was rearrange words, change context, and then quote out of context AI snippets.
Let’s take one idea at a time that you object to in my unredacted AI-produced answer provided. According to you, the Titanic was in no danger, and like the words you use, all they did to prevent death was rearrange the chairs.
I use AI for research and don’t use it to write a reply. That is why this AI response comes after mine. AI conveniently created separate sections so you can respond section by section. I read my AI responses; you don’t. You don’t have the brain power.
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1. The Asynchronous Sunset Trap: Weaponizing the Framework
The desperate pivot to the stockpile caps is a disingenuous chimera that willfully ignores the asynchronous, fatal architecture of the JCPOA’s sunset clauses. The agreement did not permanently eradicate restrictions; it merely staggered them to engineer an inexorable glide path to threshold status. By legally permitting the untethered installation and calibration of advanced IR-6 and IR-8 cascades before the stockpile limitations completely dissolved, the deal allowed the regime to perfect a hyper-efficient industrial enrichment apparatus. The agreement did not prevent a zero-warning nuclear sprint; it meticulously scheduled it, guaranteeing that the moment constraints inevitably expired, the physical breakout time would unequivocally collapse.
2. The Isotopic Fallacy: Conflating Fissile Material with Weaponization
The assertion that weaponization research cannot be scrubbed because environmental sampling detects single-atom isotopes betrays a catastrophic ignorance of explosive physics. This argument relies on flagrant obfuscation, conflating fissile material processing (which leaves radioactive signatures) with weaponization engineering (which does not). The mandated grace periods for site inspections were never about hiding enriched uranium; they provided a vital sanctuary to conceal the mechanical development of the warhead. Hydrodynamic testing, multipoint explosive lenses, and surrogate metallurgical casting utilize conventional high explosives and heavy metals—leaving absolutely zero permanent radiological footprint. These materials can be unequivocally dismantled, bleached, and vanquished from a clandestine bunker long before international inspectors ever breach the perimeter.
3. The Supply Chain Decoy: Misrepresenting Section T
Attempting to salvage the abysmal failure of Section T by boasting about the monitoring of raw uranium is an exercise in brazen diplomatic legerdemain. Tracking raw ore is profoundly irrelevant to Section T, which strictly governed the covert design and development of a nuclear explosive device. The IAEA repeatedly conceded they lacked the jurisdictional authority to enforce this mandate because the regime unilaterally declared its military bastions sacrosanct. Cataloging the precise inventory of a uranium mine is an utterly specious defense when inspectors are legally barred from the subterranean military facilities where regime engineers actively model explosive detonation physics.
4. The Archive of Intent: The Anatomy of a Turnkey Program
Dismissing the discovery of the clandestine nuclear archive as mere “old blueprints” is the most perfidious apologist rhetoric of all. A state that genuinely forsakes its nuclear weapons ambitions incinerates its schematics. By meticulously curating and concealing tens of thousands of pages of warhead blueprints, metallurgical casting data, and explosive diagnostics, the regime maintained a structured, turnkey weaponization repository. Retaining this operational intelligence was not a passive act of nostalgia; it was a flagrant repudiation of the fundamental transparency required for genuine non-proliferation. By hoarding the foundational architecture required to instantaneously resurrect a nuclear strike capability, the regime proved its compliance was nothing more than a theatrical veneer obscuring a systemic, structural lie.
ALL of that is made up by you. All of it dopey
S. Meyer, “ I understand that you don’t know it, and Obama didn’t want to know it or care, but intelligent people recognize that Iran is the leading supporter of state terrorism. The only reason they couldn’t get the bomb earlier was Israel’s ability to do so many times without soldiers on the ground.”.
This makes zero sense.
“This makes zero sense.”
Of course. One needs an IQ above moron for it to make sense. It is either that or you ran out of answers and are trying to cloud the issue. Either answer is possible, and a number of people on the blog agree with the former.
S. Meyer, it’s obvious you have no idea what AI says about the issue. You have zero ability to recognize context in these AI responses you want to use. I don’t have to rearrange anything to show why you’re not paying attention or understanding of what you’re posting. You’re using AI like it’s still a simple google search. It’s an easy tell.
You have no idea what you’re posting or understanding what it’s presenting you. When you get to the point where you just don’t understand you revert to insults. It’s pretty sad.
Tell me what my AI posting said that was out of context. In the past, I showed you how you posted AI as backup for your own statements, but didn’t realize AI disagreed with you. You’re a pinhead and have no idea what you post.
Most on the blog just look at you, and in their minds they say the same thing: “Idiot.”
Ha… the perennial nazi under the bed scare. Iran can’t even begin to target Gibraltar, much less the USA.
X/George: I do not know why you keep substituting your own creative musings for facts of record. According to Politifact, Trump was critical of the Obama plan because, among other things, international weapons inspectors were not allowed much access to Iranian military sites and Obama’s plan did not cover Iran’s missile program. Pretty important stuff, n’est ce pas? Your selective Google and AI sources might have left that out?
Moreover, the key restrictions in Obama plan would have started expiring in 2025. “If no changes were made to the deal, Iran was going to be in a position to do all of the things that would bring it right up to the threshold of getting a nuclear weapon, and to do so legally.” Green said.
I would prefer even a left-of-center biased source like Politifact (where there is some liability exposure for falsehoods) than your retaliatory freelance creations. If you think I am making this up, let me know and I will send you the Politifact source.
Perhaps you should read more into the claims by politifact.
You used a quote from nuclear strategy expert Brendan Green (“Iran was going to be in a position… to bring it right up to the threshold… and to do so legally”) to argue that the deal was a failure. However, you omit the crucial paragraph immediately preceding it in that very same PolitiFact report.
Green explicitly stated that Trump’s withdrawal “expanded Iranian enrichment activities, bringing it closer to the capability to produce a bomb” while simultaneously rendering their actions harder to monitor.
You ignore that PolitiFact’s analysis concludes that the U.S. withdrawal accelerated the exact nuclear threshold scenario you are complaining about.
Under the JCPOA, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was granted continuous, 24/7 monitoring of all declared nuclear infrastructure.For undeclared or military sites, the deal did not provide instantaneous access, but it did establish a strict 24-day resolution mechanism.
Experts and intelligence agencies noted that it is physically impossible to cover up radioactive isotopes and enrichment signatures within 24 days. The IAEA repeatedly certified that Iran was in full compliance during the deal’s operation.
Clown-that additional information does not void what was originally quoted. Besides, now I know for sure that you are a dumb AI clown that chooses sources to make your point
Nope. It changes the context of what you tried to say. FYI. I used your source.
That is an opinion made without knowing what the Iranians were doing before Trump. We know, and that is why Israel dealt with some scientists and their computer systems.
You don’t know how to frame an argument.
A. Meyer,
“ That is an opinion made without knowing what the Iranians were doing before Trump. We know, and that is why Israel dealt with some scientists and their computer systems.
You don’t know how to frame an argument.”
You don’t know how to talk. Everyone knew what the Iranians were doing. Because they were being monitored. The Israelis have been claiming (lying) for years about Iran being close to making a nuclear weapon. Israel doesn’t want Iran to have nuclear weapons because that’s the only way Iran can deter Israel from attacking it. Israel has nuclear weapons. Why do THEY need them? If they just left other Arab nations alone and allow the Palestinians their sovereignty. They wouldn’t need to be so paranoid. It’s their religious extremists that are causing all these problems and we are enabling them. It’s as simple as that.
“they were being monitored.”
Do your psyche-tech orderlies know what you are doing?
“Israel doesn’t want Iran to have nuclear weapons because that’s the only way Iran can deter Israel from attacking it. Israel has nuclear weapons.”
Dumb as a load of bricks. In 47 years, despite Iran surrounding Israel with proxies firing missiles at its civilian population, has Israel ever used their nuclear weapon?
“If they just left other Arab nations alone and allow the Palestinians their sovereignty. “
Take out a map and look at the dot on the coast. Then look at the mass of Arab nations that surround them. The Palestinians are predominantly Jordanian. Look at how big Jordan is. Many are Egyptian. Do you know how big Egypt is? Another group comes from North Africa. Do I have to ask you how big North Africa is? Do I need to include tiny Lebanon, where a predominantly Christian nation has become a Muslim nation due to hostilities? Do I have to also talk about Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and the Gulf states? Are you that stupid?
When is israel going to permit inspections? Whenever it wants to , of course
Even you just admitted that “For undeclared or military sites, the deal did not provide instantaneous access, but it did establish a strict 24-day resolution mechanism.” SO what is your point, X? That alone would be a valid reason to aim for a better deal instead of playing whack-a-mole.
The point is the IAEA had full authority to investigate those sites. Iran was complying with the agreement fully. Until idiot Trump wanted to “upstage” Obama because he couldn’t handle the idea of being bested by Obama.
The JCPOA was working. Trump, too stupid to understand. Just wanted to get rid of it just because Obama negotiated it. Trump wanted the glory and credit.
haha X back to the basement with you! TDS really got you today calling people idiot. go away angry dope.
I am still waiting for the answer to the question below. You can’t respond because Iran was an existential atomic threat to the US.
“Since you think you’re so smart, what were the Iranians missing?”
How many gays have you thrown off the roof today?
S. Meyer, I answered your question. Knowing how stupid you are I doubt you can figure it out.
So I’ll answer it again in the language you understand.
They were missing the highly enriched uranium they needed. A 94% grade. They never had that because they were adhering to the JCPOA. They were complying. It was not until Trump the idiot, tore it up and betrayed the Iranians trust that WE were honoring the deal that they chose to go beyond the deal’s limits. Trump got rid of the limits and the monitoring.
Now any deal will actually be worse than the JCPOA.
Enriching uranium is not hard, and as explained in my AI post can happen over a period of weeks. Now, tell me what Iran was missing. They had everything needed, except a short span of time to impose their culture of death.
S. Meyer,
Enriching uranium is not simple. It requires thousands of highly complex, perfectly balanced centrifuges spinning at supersonic speeds (over 1,000 rotations per second) inside highly specialized industrial facilities.
A country cannot weaponize uranium in “weeks” without a massive stockpile of low-enriched uranium to feed into those centrifuges. Under the JCPOA, Iran’s stockpile was strictly capped at 300 kilograms of 3.67% enriched uranium—far below the mass and purity required to quickly spin up a bomb.
Iran did not have “everything needed.” A nuclear capability requires three distinct, highly difficult components, and Iran lacked two of them:
Iran had the know-how to enrich uranium, but the deal stripped away 98% of their stockpile and deactivated two-thirds of their centrifuges, removing their physical capacity to produce the material.
Iran had the know-how to enrich uranium, but the deal stripped away 98% of their stockpile and deactivated two-thirds of their centrifuges, removing their physical capacity to produce the material.
A nuclear core must be structurally “miniaturized” to withstand the extreme heat, vibration, and atmospheric pressure of being launched on a ballistic missile. Iran had never successfully engineered or tested a miniaturized warhead.
They never had any capability of building one within weeks. Never.
S. Meyer: I am reading your exchanges. Please read what I just sent to X. I am not offended if I got something wrong and you correct me.
But I gotta get going here, so I am signing off. You made some good points tonight. Have a nice evening!
Lin, all X does above is make unfounded statements that add up to zero. Thank you for your excellent input. Enjoy your night out.
S. Meyer, unfounded statements? You have not shown at all they are unfounded.
Your statements are unfounded. I don’t have to prove them since they are already evidence. I responded to an Estovir comment, and it included the MB Memorandum that says this about their plans for the West: “…The process of settlement is a ‘Civilization-Jihadist Process’ with all the word means. The Ikwan [Muslim Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.”
Take a look at the Christian nation of Lebanon, no longer Christian; the Coptics of Egypt, dwindling; and the Nigerian killings of Christians. You need to close your mouth and use your eyes and ears.
Oooh TDS flare up! Don’t you just hate that man? He burns you up! AND here you are so MUCH smarter than everyone especially HIM! How can this be? do you wake up in a cold sweat? Have a sour feeling in the pit of your stomach? Rent free X, rent free. You are still in one of the stages of grief all democrats are stuck in. You lost! Let’s hear your primal screech.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA !!!!!
Nothing like a good laugh to start the weekend.
Who is this guy S.Meyer? Is he a standup comic? If not he should seriously consider taking up that line of work. He is a natural. He would make a fortune. I bet even Kimmel and Fallon would have him on as a guest. He is absolutely hilarious with his wonderful satirical commentary. An absolute master of absurd satire.
Meyer, if you’re concerned about Iran, Trump is worst wartime leader this country could ever have. No one can believe anything Trump says regarding this war.
Trump keeps negotiating with imaginary Iranians to arrange truces that fall apart in a matter of hours. It’s become such a predictable pattern that there’s no point in reading any updates on Iran.
You are exactly right.
Trump keeps claiming that the war is over and won, and that the Iranian military is completely destroyed. But then he keeps whining that the Iranians won’t “negotiate” to end the war.
If the war is won, and the Iranian military obliterated, what exactly is there to negotiate about. The war is supposedly won. There should be no need for “negotiations”.
Germany and Japan were decisively defeated in WWII. There was no negotiation to end the war. The war was won and both countries were destroyed. The Allies simply accepted their surrender. They were defeated and there was absolutely nothing to negotiate. That is what happens when a country is utterly defeated. If a country is completely defeated, then they have no leverage to negotiate anything.
The fact that Trump keeps complaining that the Iranians will not negotiate is in fact an explicit admission that they are NOT defeated and have plenty of room to negotiate.
The issue isn’t Donald Trump; it’s the messaging from the left and the Democratic Party. They provide a way out for the Iranian terrorists by saying Trump can’t or shouldn’t win. The Democrats and the left employ political and legal strategies that enforce that conclusion and demonstrate a lack of American resolve.
Iran depends on American division and therefore plays a waiting game, hoping that a fractured American resolve will lead to an American loss of interest, just as it has in the past.
That is what happened in Vietnam, a war I opposed from the beginning. America achieved its ground objectives. Despite that, the war was lost in the press and in Congress. That fact was later admitted by North Vietnamese leaders.
That same mistake is being repeated by Democrats and the press. This is not a local proxy war, but a war that can be catastrophic if our objectives are not realized. The regime we are fighting in Iran is a culture of martyrdom (death) that has spent 47 years threatening us with destruction. They have killed many Americans and American troops, held others as hostages, and presently have the knowledge to create a bomb and deliver it to our shores. The only things that havestopped them from having that ability were the many setbacks that kept slowing them down. Iran is an existential threat if left with a strong offensive military.
S. Meyer, it has everything to do with Trump. Trump screwed up so badly that he gave the Iranians plenty of opportunity to show the world what a moron he is.
He can’t negotiate. He can’t open the strait. He can’t stop oil prices from rising and he definitely can’t change the regime in Iran. He has no leverege. None.
This has absolutely nothing to do with democrats. Trump is in charge. Republicans are charge and they are enabling an idiot. Our president.
The war would have ended if Iran believed the US would follow through, or do you deny that? What about the Vietnam War that I was against? Look at the memoirs of General Gyap (Spelling) and other generals. Vietnam knew they couldn’t prevail so they counted on the media and fools like you.
I decided to look it up. The name is Giap, not Gyap. Quoting him, “”We were not strong enough to drive out a half-million American troops, but that wasn’t our aim. Our intention was to break the will of the American government to continue the war.”
Appparently Trump is harder to break. The Democrats roll over real easy.
Harder to break? S. Meyer, the Iranians have been out negotiating trump every step of the way. Because they know what an idiot he is. Trump has no leverage and no brains.
I see you are no longer dealing with facts and want to cover yourself with sh!tty opinion.
We didn’t plan for anything. Trump, the idiot thought once a few bombs and decapitating their leadership would force them to capitulate quickly. He miscalculated badly. Now he’s stuck with this problem he created. Trump is such a bad liar and negotiator that the Iranians KNOW his claims are BS. They know he has zero leverage. That’s why Trump is desperate for a deal. Because he wants to save face from his idiotic decision.
X- I’m stepping in here after reading the exchange between you and S. Meyer.
I’m not sure what you are all knotted up and lashing out over.
Yes, Trump cut out in 2018.
BUT THE OTHER PARTIES (the E3) TO THE JPOA CONTINUED WITH THE AGREEMENT for several years. Get it?
Then, as Iran continued to cheat, the remaining parties responded. See the attached. Here is their joint statement:
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/e3-joint-statement-on-iran-initiation-of-the-snapback-process
“Following the United States’ withdrawal from the JCPoA on 8th May 2018, and in spite of Iran ceasing the implementation of its commitments under the JCPoA beginning in May 2019, France, Germany and the United Kingdom (the “E3”) remained committed participants to the deal.
“Since 2019, Iran has exceeded JCPoA limits on enriched uranium, heavy water, and centrifuges, restricted the IAEA’s ability to conduct JCPoA verification and monitoring activities, and has abandoned the implementation and the ratification process of the Additional Protocol to its Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement. These actions contravene Iran’s commitments set out in the JCPoA and have serious implications on the capacity of Iran to progress toward developing a nuclear weapon.”
So, perhaps you are doing less AI and reading more Rag magazine reading (The Guardian? The Daily Beast?)
for your information? Perhaps a little more reading comprehension and context?
Spread your wings, George, and widen your horizons!
Have a nice nite//
“Yes, Trump cut out in 2018.
BUT THE OTHER PARTIES (the E3) TO THE JPOA CONTINUED WITH THE AGREEMENT for several years. Get it?”
That is a great point, Lin. Thank you for adding it. Svelaz will ignore it like he ignores all the other deals broken by Iran.
Lin, before you start to accuse me of lacking reading comprehension perhaps you should read more thoroughly. AI does a good job of putting things in context.
Lin, the very statement you linked proves you have completely reversed cause and effect.Here is why your argument is factually incorrect and out of context:
Your link states that Iran only began reducing its commitments in May 2019—exactly one full year after the U.S. unilaterally withdrew and reimposed crushing economic sanctions in May 2018. For that entire year, the IAEA repeatedly certified that Iran was in 100% compliance. Iran did not randomly “cheat”; they retaliated after the U.S. broke the treaty.
While the E3 remained rhetorically committed, they could not actually keep the agreement alive. Because of U.S. secondary sanctions, European banks and companies completely fled Iran. A deal is a two-way street; Iran was denied the economic relief it was legally promised, meaning the agreement had already been functionally broken by the West.
You point to the E3 triggering the snapback process as a sign of the deal’s failure. In reality, the snapback was a built-in mechanism designed by the Obama administration specifically to penalize Iran if it stopped complying. The irony is that the only reason Iran expanded its enrichment to these dangerous levels is because the 2018 U.S. withdrawal dismantled the strict caps that had successfully kept them in check.
Thanks.
Svelaz, you must have a Joan of Arc complex and want to burn yourself into ashes. That will mix well with the garbage coming from your mouth; good fertilizer.
What would you have him do re Iran? Just curious.
Easy. Leave them alone.
ANON=MORON
So, you support their terrorist proxies. That is an answer.
You support terrorism and instability while waiting for them to employ the threat of nuclear armageddon to get what they want. Have you already bought a prayer rug?
No, if you leave then alone it creates stability. Israel doesn’t want that because they alone can’t ‘cave’ Iran into a subservient position. Iran can exert influence and Israel doesn’t want that. It’s Israel that presents an instability in the region. Not Iran.
It’s clear you have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about.
How does it create stability? Did you forget the hostages, the Americans killed, the ships shot at, the proxies, and the terrorists? Do you realize how ignorant you sound?
It creates stability when they have no reason to blame us for anything. If we leave them alone their citizens will end up focusing on their own government’s flawed policies and religious extremists. But when WE interfere and attack them without provocation WE give their citizens a reason to back their bad government.
Dwelling in the past like you are is useless. Focusing on making it harder for them to blame us for things is more productive than attacking them.
X is a shift worker who tries to fool us with AI. We can tell it is him/it because of his approach when confronted. His replies get uglier and more stupid as he digs himself in deeper. When called out, he disappears and comes back as “anonymous.” He is mostly not even familiar with the subject at hand until he digs into AI. what a joke. Go away aNd suck your thumb, X.
Start with the hostages. Then look at how Carter handled the problem. Hostages remained in Iran. Then Reagan and hostages released. There are great similarities between Reagan and Trump.
Nobody cares about X except x (none of us) because he or she or it is a surprisingly weak distraction from any comment of merit. The more that X gets criticized for the nonsense, the more X comes back all hot and bothered and more critical and sour. We can see right through it.
You’re just jealous you’re not as smart as x.
By posting as ‘X’, he betrays his envy of Elon Musk, who has a well known affinity/obsession with the letter X dating to at least 1999 when Musk founded X.com
“. . . the navy has been kept out of the Persian gulf.”
Except for the dozens of tankers, held hostage by Iran, that over the last few weeks have been escorted out of the *Persian Gulf* by the *U.S. Navy*.
Yet again you’re operating on the liar’s premise that your wishes create reality.
Being “escorted” is not a thing. Very few ships have passed the strait by hugging the Omani coast. It’s shallower and only one ship at a time can travel through that channel. The navy wouldn’t risk their ships being so close to the Iranian field of fire. Especially when they can be overwhelmed by cheap drones and expending dwindling expensive missiles.
The U.S. has no control over the strait.
Trump and Hegseth have been lying nonstop to you. It has nothing to do with wishes. It’s reality.
X, DJT made sure Iran footed the bill. He confiscated enough oil to fill our coffers. Hahahaaa
Confiscated?! LOL!!! We are selling oil out of our own SPR you moron. WE are exporting OUR oil in order to keep prices low. We cannot sustain this as long as the strait is closed. WE will pay more when we end up refilling the SPR when oil prices are sky high.
The majority of that oil is gong to Asia and India. Not us. We are at full blown refining capacity right now. If one, just one refinery goes down we will have no capacity to fill in the gap. None. That means more expensive gas.
You must be talking about Biden. Trump wanted the SPR refilled, but Democrats stopped it. Trump didn’t sell oil from the SPR; he lent it and earned a profit. Biden tried to close oil production; Trump opened it.
You are as ignorant as they come.
He is giving away oil to U.S. companies who will profit off of it while WE taxpayers will be stuck paying more to refill it.
You’re a moron. Biden didn’t stop production. He opened the SPR to lower prices once. Trump is draining it at are record pace for a war HE started.
WE are exporting OUR oil to keep prices from increasing because of trump’s stupidity. YOU and I will be paying a LOT more under Trump.
I will let AI tear you apart point by point. I asked AI how to characterize you best, and it said, “imbecile.”
1. The Mathematical Delusion of the “Single” SPR Drawdown
To claim the Biden administration opened the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) “once” is a mendacious fabrication that defies empirical arithmetic. It was not a singular, prudent intervention; the administration orchestrated the single largest, most calamitous liquidation of emergency oil reserves in American history. By hemorrhaging an unprecedented 180 million barrels in 2022 alone, they cannibalized America’s emergency stockpile to artificially suppress pre-election gas prices, driving the SPR to its most abysmal, depleted level in forty years. Accusing anyone else of draining the reserve at a “record pace” is a staggering, verifiable inversion of reality.
2. The 2020 Sabotage of the Taxpayer Refill
The sudden, feigned outrage over taxpayers paying to refill the reserve demonstrates a profound historical amnesia. In 2020, when global crude prices cratered to historic, rock-bottom lows, the Trump administration aggressively moved to fill the SPR to its absolute brim. This fiscally prescient masterstroke would have secured America’s energy reserves for pennies on the dollar. It was explicitly blocked by congressional Democrats, who myopically torpedoed the funding by labeling it a “bailout for Big Oil.” The American taxpayer is exposed to extortionate refill costs today precisely because that brilliant financial maneuver was sabotaged by partisan obstructionism.
3. The Economic Illiteracy of “Giving Away” Oil
The assertion that oil is being “given away” to U.S. companies reveals a spectacular illiteracy regarding macroeconomic realities and federal law. The government does not “gift” SPR crude; it is legally bound to sell it through ruthless, competitive market auctions. Furthermore, transitioning the United States into a net total energy exporter—a monumental geopolitical triumph achieved under the Trump administration for the first time since 1952—is exactly what prevents domestic price implosions. Flooding the global market with American crude dilutes the monopolistic pricing power of hostile foreign cartels like OPEC, structurally insulating the U.S. consumer from international supply shocks.
4. The Hallucinatory Fabrication of the “Started War”
The accusation that Trump is draining the SPR for a “war he started” is a hallucinatory projection utterly divorced from the geopolitical record. The catastrophic destabilization of global energy markets—catalyzed by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and cascading infernos in the Middle East—erupted entirely on the subsequent administration’s watch. To retroactively superimpose the geopolitical failures of the 2020s onto an administration that presided over historic peace agreements and initiated absolutely zero new foreign wars is not an argument. It is a brazen, desperate falsehood masquerading as political discourse.
S. Meyer, this is how I know you’re an idiot. You don’t double check the results or confirm the claims through more queries (questions).
Letting AI throw insults doesn’t hide the fact that its response relies on manipulated math, historical amnesia, and a total misunderstanding of global energy markets. That’s why you double check. Which you clearly didn’t do.
Your AI response calls the 2022 release a “calamitous liquidation.” In reality, using the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to counter a massive global supply shock—specifically caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine—is exactly why the reserve was created in the 1970s. Furthermore, the Department of Energy didn’t just drain it; they bought back oil at lower prices, netting billions of dollars in profit for American taxpayers. Remember, Biden didn’t start the Ukraine war. Russia did. Trump started the Iran war.
Your AI claims Trump tried to fill the SPR to its “absolute brim” in 2020 but was blocked by Democrats. This is mathematically impossible. In March 2020, the SPR already held about 635 million barrels. With a maximum physical capacity of roughly 714 million, there was only room for 79 million barrels—hardly enough to absorb a major domestic surplus. Congress blocked the funding because Trump openly intended to use the SPR as a price-support bailout for struggling domestic oil companies, which violates the reserve’s legal mandate.
Your AI praises the U.S. becoming a net energy exporter but ignores basic economics. Oil is a globally traded commodity. American oil companies routinely export U.S. crude to the highest international bidder rather than keeping it at home to lower domestic prices. Because of this globalized market, American consumers remain fully exposed to international supply shocks and OPEC manipulation, regardless of how much domestic oil is pumped.
It’s so obvious that you don’t know how to use AI.
S. Meyer: I believe you are correct. It was my understanding that Trump made a strategic “loan” to 30+ countries in return for getting more back than he gave. X’s AI picks up the same information that you and I have, only X’s AI tends to selectively source its input–as has been pointed out by many AI critics.
I am surprised at George’s?X’s comment, “WE will pay more when we end up refilling the SPR when oil prices are sky high.”
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/us-lends-oil-companies-45-2-mln-barrels-from-reserve-first-batch-of-iran-war/articleshow/129711661.cms
Lin, you and S. Meyer are fundamentally misunderstanding the modern context of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) by confusing the 2022 emergency release with the current 2026 wartime lending program.
Your argument is flawed and misinterprets the very article you linked:1. You Are Comparing Two Entirely Different SPR PoliciesThe comment about paying more to “refill the SPR when oil prices are sky high” refers to the 2022 release, where oil was drained to fight inflation and must eventually be bought back off the open market with taxpayer funds. Conversely, the 2026 article you linked describes a temporary loan/swap mechanism specifically designed to stabilize the 2026 energy crisis caused by the war on Iran.
The U.S. Didn’t Lend Oil to “30+ Countries”Your source explicitly states that the U.S. lent 45.2 million barrels of crude oil directly to private oil companies (such as BP, Marathon, and Shell Trading), not to foreign nations. The “32 countries” mentioned are the members of the International Energy Agency (IEA) who collectively agreed to release their own domestic reserves parallel to the U.S. action.
A Swap Premium Does Not Disprove Market RiskWhile your article notes that the 2026 loan requires companies to return the oil with an 18% to 22% premium (adding 10 million barrels back to the SPR at no cost to the taxpayer), this only protects the reserve for this specific 2026 transaction. It does not change the broader macroeconomic reality that when the government has to completely refill permanently depleted baseline reserves on the open market during global supply shocks, the public takes on massive financial exposure. Thanks.
How did we know that X/georgie had a restless night, pipes in first thing this morning to get himself out of the corner. But he again is wrong wrong wrong. Meyer and LIn were right. But of course, X knows more than everybody else. He tries to win by adding arguments and out of context tidbits that have nothing to do with anything (NO ONE is “confusing the 2022 emergency release with the current 2026 wartime lending program.” Only clown georgie mixes the two up. Give it up, po’ boy, you are digging in deeper in that thick black muck. And what’s with the new addition of “Thanks” at the end. Directly picked up from your teacher on this blog?
Here is the document from APRIL 2026:
“U.S. Offers Strategic Oil Loans Amid Global Tensions”
“According to a document on the Energy Department’s website, proposals for exchanging oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve can be submitted until 11 a.m. Central Time on April 13. The initiative is part of a multinational agreement among 32 countries within the International Energy Agency to release 400 million barrels of reserve oil to address supply issues driven by the conflict.
Under this plan, oil loans from the SPR mandate companies to return the borrowed quantity with additional barrels as a premium. This system, according to the Department of Energy, aims to stabilize markets at no extra cost to American taxpayers. The U.S. targets lending 172 million barrels from the SPR through 2027 as part of the broader IEA accord.
https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/headlines/3868639-us-offers-strategic-oil-loans-amid-global-tensions
X says, ““WE will pay more when we end up refilling the SPR when oil prices are sky high.”
Really, X? Where did you get that? Please provide your source.
When all else fails, where AI can’t provide you with a quick answer, you use conflation, confusion, and complete intellectual dishonesty. You are an ignorant troll by any sense of the word. This is not accidental, but in your mendacity, you admitted my words were correct, and yours were lies. You don’t even know what you copied. I will use three of your arguments.
1) You said: “The comment about paying more to ‘refill the SPR when oil prices are sky high’ refers to the 2022 release, where oil was drained to fight inflation and must eventually be bought back off the open market with taxpayer funds.”
Thank you, Xlax, George Svelaz X, for acknowledging I was right and you were wrong. You stated that I am correct and the 2022 release under Biden drained the tank, leaving taxpayers with a massive bill. You proved yourself wrong again!
“Your source explicitly states that the U.S. lent 45.2 million barrels of crude oil directly to private oil companies… not to foreign nations. The “32 countries” mentioned are the members of the International Energy Agency (IEA)…”
You are a thief and an intellectually dishonest one; you stole this directly from my last reply. You started this argument saying that the US was “exporting our oil” to foreign countries. Caught and embarrassed, you flipped the story and used my facts to prove yourself a liar. Essentially copying my answer means you are a loser.
“While your article notes that the 2026 loan requires companies to return the oil with an 18% to 22% premium… it does not change the broader macroeconomic reality that when the government has to completely refill permanently depleted baseline reserves… the public takes on massive financial exposure.”
Again, your AI admits to me as correct and you wrong, with an additional admission that Biden drained the oil reserve in 2022. The 2026 plan under Trump fixes the Biden stupidity by getting all the oil back plus a 22% profit. Stop blaming the present administration for the damage caused by Biden.
Xlax doesn’t understand that his AI proved him wrong again.
So true.
Trump must impose a cease and desist order on Iran, concluding with “under pain of utter annihilation.”
“Nobody cares about Hunter Biden . . .”
Let’s see if that’s true:
He was just interviewed for 95 minutes by Gavin Newsom. He’s on a social media blitz (garnering *millions* of views). He’s on a well-documented “reinvention tour” that’s being reported by media around the world.
So, no. I guess your claim is not true.
Everyone. Nobody. X, you use those terms a lot! Speak for yourself because Nobody agrees with you and Everyone know you are here to spoil the party we’re having with all the winning.
I came here for columns just like this very one and to troll you losers and here you are trying to ruin it like the usual lefty sourpuss.
Here is a suggestion for Hunter, how about providing a reasonably complete account of your foreign business dealing and advice or information either you received from or gave to your father or US government officials. On Hunter’s publicity tour, it would be good for the various hosts to pull this out of Hunter. That would definitely show us a new Hunter.
Why? It’s irrelevant. Nothing he did was illegal. Trumps kids do it all the time.
What have they done all the time? please list
No they don’t. They run a legitimate company with many properties all around the world. Their father was first a successful businessman and entrepreneur. What is the legacy of Biden?
Turleys obsession with Hunter Biden is creepy.
Very creepy indeed!
But Turley, or at least his handlers at Fox and NY Post, know that any mention of Hunter here is a surefire way to stoke the rage of the MAGA morons.
Turley is a master at stoking the very same rage that he so vehemently and hypocritically and disingenuously condemns here on a regular basis, and in his ridiculous books.
“If it was in a Mitt Romney administration, if it was in a John McCain administration, if it was in anybody that was an actual Republican and not a tyrant or a fascist, my dad would not have pardoned me.” Wait, you mean the same Mitt Romney that Hunter’s father said wanted to put black people “back in chains”? That Mitt Romney? HA! I patiently await 2028 when we are told that JD Vance or Marco Rubio are the REAL threats to “our democracy” and why can’t they be normal like Donald Trump….
So true. EVERY Republican is apparently a racist and fascist, yet, they cannot point to one action that supports that accusation. In the meantime, Democrats are up to their usual behavior since the early 1800s, slavery, corrupt elections, indentured servitude, etc.
If Romney and McCain are “actual Republicans”, I am the most recent manifestation of an Istari wizard named Galdalf…
Didn’t Joe Biden lie and say he wouldn’t pardon Hunter? Whataboutdat?
Regardless of what a POS one may think of Hunter and the Biden family, EVERY SINGLE taxpayer should be looking at his get out of jail free card for failure to pay the millions in taxes on his questionable income.
LOL pay your fair share my ass!
Would you apply that same standard to Trump?
The taxes he owed were paid.
Hunter’s taxes were paid by his “sugar brother,” a family friend from Hollywood.
So why did he need complete immunity from IRA audits?
Yeah Hunter needs to return that 747 to Qatar immediately! And quit wasting taxpayer money refurbishing it.
Sorry. but the 747-8 belongs to the US taxpayers.
Then you would object to it being given to Trump after his term ends!
Whatabout….hunter being a deadbeat dad too? gonna whatabout that too?
Is there a reason he can’t pay taxes like the rest of us non-elites? whatabout that?
whatabout your TDS? whatabout that?
Don’t forget Dr. Jill and Joe being deadbeat grandparents to Navy. She’ll probably turn out to be the most normal Biden, however, being raised away from their toxic family where not one seems to be healthy or moral.
Honey, the Qatari AF1 is only 13 years old, while the current pair are almost three times as old, delivered to GHW Bush.
There is no cognizable delevery date for the AF1 replacements, ordered during the first Trump term.
Meanwhile, Boeing discontinued 747 manufacture.
Retrofitting the Qatari plane is a prudent plan B.
A better option would be not to use a 747. They are outdated.
Is Hunter Biden really that relevant..??
This column seems to have a, “What about Hillary?” feel to it.
Like, “Let’s haul out someone MAGA types really hate and drag them over the coals again just to fill up column space.”
Like, “Never mind that Trump expects to pay no taxes the rest of his life, because of a secret deal he made with his former lawyer who now heads the DOJ, it’s Hunter Biden who’s really bad.”
Hunter is elbowing his way back into the public’s consciousness.
He wants to be a senator. Follow in pop’s footprints.
Running for president, or any higher office, has turned into a huge grift. These folks pull millions out, fly private, make contacts and end up richer for their efforts. Why else would guys like Swalwell and Bill DiBlasio run?
No lies detected here.
Hunter is like a fun house mirror. He reflects reality in a distorted, exaggerated, or warped way.
PS: Just wanted to share: https://torrancestephensphd.substack.com/p/why-people-think-the-black-community
It is on the Rick Chow verdict