What the actual Fuck?

Pete Hegseth is not "a former member of the press at Fox," as MS NOW just said. Fox News is not journalism. It's anti-journalism. It makes people less informed than they were before. Hegseth is a former fascist propagandist who has moved on to become a war criminal.

Famous American war slogans: / “Remember the Maine!” / “The War to End All Wars” / “Loose Lips Sink Ships” / “Shock and Awe” / “Bibi Made Us Do It”

Now that Republicans have done Trump's bidding by blocking limits on his war powers, remember that in doing this, they are also relieving *themselves* of the obligation to vote on the enormously consequential decision of whether to go to war. Craven abdication. newrepublic.com/article/2072...

He lied about a pandemic that killed 1 million Americans. He won’t hesitate to keep lying about the Mideast war he started.

It’s looking increasingly likely that Kristi Noem and Lewandowski funneled almost 200 million in government money to a company that is run by her friend and that nobody can give an address for. Oh, and it was 8 days old when it was awarded the contract.

If you truly know Trump you wouldn’t be surprised that the first thing he did in Iran was kill a bunch of schoolgirls.

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POTUS is currently participating in ‘Executive Time’ as he does every morning. He lives upstairs but can’t make it to the Oval Office before noon. Fox News, Adderall, shellacking the dead ferret on his head ALL take precedent over the people’s biz. USA can’t afford this sh*t.

Interesting Letter to the Editor in today’s Chicago Tribune Make of It what you will.

Neil’s the real deal. Follow for a good read.

Arrest the goddamn president

He was talking about his ballroom drapes after they were killed.

“We could use their base if we want. We could just fly in and use it. Nobody's going to tell us not to use it." Replace Spain with sex-trafficked girls and you see why Trump is so eager to distance himself from the Epstein files and why he’s in them. He is a predator. Full stop.

Noem claims not to know "the details" of the shooting of Marimar Martinez in Chicago, a case of Border Patrol violence and dishonesty that was widely reported nationwide. Noem must be taking "I don't know about that" lessons from Mike Johnson.

Well, we did it because of the protesters Nukes I mean they’re building an ICBM We did it defensively because Iran was going to attack us I mean Israel was gonna do it anyway so we did it too They were gonna attack us because Israel was gonna attack them so we attacked them

Finally, the military has hard stop inventory requirements for true “break glass in case of emergency” situations. These are minimum stock levels that we won’t go below unless absolutely necessary, based on projected needs for a major war. I just hope the admin listens.

We’re already seeing mission creep. We went from ‘a week of strikes’ to ‘maybe 4-5 weeks’ in literally a day. I’m reminded of the conservative panic that Obama was using all our bombs on ISIS, and I hope someone is telling Trump that no, we can’t actually do this forever.

For our nation's survival, we must stop a president who thinks he has a license to kill. My free Stop the Presses newsletter.

Trump let Israel's Netanyahu, not the U.S. Congress, decide whether our country went to war.

The New Republic's Greg Sargent invited me on his podcast to discuss the Trump regime's reckless war of choice: "What we’re seeing is 11-year-olds with the most powerful military in the entire world, which is a pretty scary thing to see in action."

“Trump seems to be workshopping different objectives with reporters on the phone. Democrats don’t need a briefing to understand what’s going on.”

This. Is a bad sign.

DURBIN: How does taking dad from child dying of cancer qualify as a violent crime? NOEM: I don't know what you're speaking of D: Ruben Torres 2 weeks ago buried his daughter. When he was arrested at Home Depot, he said, 'Please. My daughter is dying.' They deported him. Was he a violent criminal?

Priorities

Mother Nature’s gonna be pissed.

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6 Americans are dead because Netanyahu ordered Trump to go to war. (NYT gift link)

Marco Rubio's claim that "we went proactively in a defensive way" reminds me of something Bush adviser Frances Townsend said in 2008. Rejecting the idea that the failure to capture Osama bin Laden was a "failure," she called it "a success that hasn't occurred yet."

Trump has assumed the power of a king – to decide whether people live or die, based on his personal preference. We see it in Iran, on the high seas, and in the streets of Minneapolis. We must take away Trump’s license to kill and re-impose the rule of law. My free Stop the Presses newsletter.

“The Lululemon Luftwaffe” is the best line I’ve read in a long time.

Hegseth treats sending troops into battle on behalf of an incompetent POTUS, with same hungover frat boy snark he possessed when ordering egg white omelettes from a Fox News PA sitting in makeup chair & scrolling IG for babes. There’s unserious men, then there’s this f’n clown.

Screw the rich..... 🤣

Most folks will probably focus on Hegseth’s ‘squirter’ comments but let’s take Laura Loomer out of the equation for a moment and focus on the way Pontifex Pete used ‘Radical Islamists’ to describe all of Iran while opening his remarks with not-so-subtle Christofacist overtones.

Trump really is a drug addict. I know MSM avoided topic of his personal habits for decades but you now have a Commander-in-Chief quite clearly under the influence and in over his head. More lives will be lost. ‘He doesn’t even drink’ was his own myth, and btw ‘dry goods’ count.

Not only *did* they start this war, they have no idea how to finish it.

Don’t expect to see much of Trump over the coming days, he is above all else, a coward. He’s in so far over his head now he will just hide-n-get-high. Looks for a lot of ‘Executive Time’ & planned little ceremonies w/no press questions. Call them on their BS.

Trump gets bored talking about starting a Mideast war and detours into an extended discussion of drapes and his ballroom. He's mentally unfit and must be stopped.

The key to getting mainstream media on board with an illegal war is making them feel like an important part of it.

Kid Rock, mostly