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Someone clearly never has left the continental U.S., or, like the character Homer Wells in "The Cider House Rules" never seen the ocean, or any body of water larger than a quarter mile across. Such a tiny plunger.

Not chicagoans - those are *suburbanites* who go into the city to vomit on the trains & pass out in the flowerboxes. Chicagoans stay home to sort their socks to avoid the suburban drunks

First we build a giant wall around the Strait. Then we declare it a lawless zone. Then we send the President in. And then? Well then my plan all comes together...

Instead of fighting over a 21-mile-wide bottleneck forever we cut a new channel through friendly territory A dozen thermonuclear detonations and you’ve got a waterway wider than the Panama Canal deeper than the Suez, and safe from Iranian attacks. What's that you say? Someone actually suggested this

Use the warfighters and the army corps of engineers to dig a canal through Iran to the Caspian Sea. Then the oil can go directly to Russia and my friend Vlad will help me get a third term!

Buy tons of Louis Vuitton 👜s because dolphins are basic bitches, fill them with oil & make a Netflix doc for Cannes. Send the 🐬 on a press tour to Spain, pickpockets will steal the 👜s hide eurodisney passes in the purses. Snag them back at Its a Small World, and jetpack the 🛢️ to Fiji. it’s Econ101

Have the tankers travel in closely packed convoys. If one tanker blows up, the force of the resulting explosion will propel the rest over the strait and into the freedom of the open oil market

The strategic weapons experts think the USA just has enough warheads just to Gingrich a bypass canal, but a few side effects…. bsky.app/profile/andr...

Andrew Facini@andrewfacini.com

Anyway let's do some math just for heys You're looking to cut ~38,600 lateral meters A 300-kt surface (W87) burst produces a crater something like 125 m wide x 60 m deep If Suez is the model, the depth is adequate but you'd need it to be more like 300 m wide, so... you'd need 3 abreast.

Stand on one side with a ball in my hand and say “hey man, think fast” before tossing it across to the people on the other side, then holding up my hands to signal that they should toss it back to me. Because nothing gets the straights to open up like a fun, informal game of catch.