we committed unequivocal war crimes which will likely have a body count in future at Trump’s behest *last week Wednesday*

this is just an expression of the conservative belief that it was outrageous for barack obama to try to win an election

I’m not a fan of theocratic governments of any type, and the government of Iran has a clear record of horrific human rights abuses. However, the image of the Iranian state portrayed through the propaganda of US media as being wildly irrational and barbaric doesn’t hold up to unfiltered scrutiny.

I’d go much further, the deal on the table on the eve of the war was far far more favorable than the MOU.

Pregnant mothers often wrote goodbye letters to their families in case they died in childbirth.

“Think of how dumb the median voter is and then realize than the non-voter is even dumber than that”

I can't even make a joke here bc this is just objectively funnier than anything I could say

A surrender treaty at Versailles, you say?

>renames it to the Department of War >names himself the Secretary of War >fights one war >loses

Perhaps it's bad to run a superpower with zero process and a grand total of like 50 people addicted to Grok

"The Islamic Republic of Iran reiterates that it will never produce nuclear weapons." It is not a concession from Iran. This has always been their claim. It literally says "reiterate"!

Folks, we're recognizing an Iranian sphere of influence, withdrawing forces, and paying indemnities, in exchange for merely the same statement from Iran that they have always made about nuclear weapons.

I still don't have a good idea what it means to say, "the traffic of ships shall be proportional to the pre-war volume of traffic on the part of the Islamic Republic of Iran." That isn't English.

its weird the way the media is obviously too scared to be “wrong” about a “deal” actually happening that they refuse to show even basic skepticism despite this being the 41st time this has happened in the last 4 months

yeah my takeaway is that i'm sort of convinced they *will* try some sort of Yoon moment after the midterms, but it will end up being more cringe than Yoon's attempt these are not exactly bright guys

Vance is probably 1.) the smartest person in this administration, and 2.) the best evidence of total epistemic collapse. He is increasingly trying to create sophisticated rationalizations for the craziest set of beliefs imaginable. Trump, for all his other many faults, is somehow more grounded.

I have had so many push notifications about this damn fight. The media slobbering all over themselves in an attempt to make this a big Trump comeback or whatever is embarrassing. Trump believes every single one of them are traitors who should be hung! It's like have some self respect!

i can tell you right now if the parties were reversed, republicans would be using the word “surrender” instead of “deal”

They warned me that if I voted for Kamala Harris we’d get a new deal with the Iranian regime worse than the JCPOA. I voted for Kamala, and they were right.

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IMO, hosting this MMA event at the WH is part of a larger project to rebrand the GOP as a populist party, shedding the Alex P Keaton stereotype it once carried. And in doing so, make them seem like the right party for working class people, even as they cut taxes for the rich & slash social services

Last time the Knicks won the championship, this guy and his buddy Enkidu were trying to demonstrate the power of friendship...

going to laugh forever about the Knicks only losing the Trump Game immaculate scriptwriting, no notes

To be very precise, on top of being a useless conman, he is one of the biggest mass-murders in history, a genocideer on par with any of history's other monsters.

actually beyond parody

And a disaster for democracy.

As far as I’m concerned there has been a grand total of zero new information with regard to RFK Jr. We knew exactly who he was when he entered power. It was a choice to ignore that, and harmed untold scores of people. Possibly generationally. The AMA made the wrong choice.

I do not think that people should be on a website owned by this man

hey its actually a gigantic problem that 1 of the 2 major political parties in this country are consistently claiming any election they dont win has been “stolen” or “rigged”

Striking graphic in this latest Reuters piece, which finds that while President Trump and his family have profited by at least $2.3 billion since he retook the presidency, their more than a million investors have suffered $2.3 billion in net losses. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Screwworms eradicated in the US in 1966. Measles eradicated in the US in 2000. Both are back because of this science denying administration.

The struggle is real

Musk functionally ran the US government for 6 months last year and managed to: increase spending, slash services, kill 100,000s, and help nurture both Ebola & Screwworms. Yet somehow no one mentions this when they talk about the company he is going to take public this week.

If it happened today the Super Metroid "Samus is a girl" reveal would have literal Congressmen rageposting

Genuinely: I strongly suspect that the remaining correspondents are staying because if they don't, a bunch of normal people they have worked with for decades and care a lot about personally will all lose their jobs.

“D-Day was just one long psyop to stop the commies”

That’s right

Here's your reminder of what that moment was:

literally all we needed to do to ensure the happy path to fully-automated luxury space communism was Let Hunter Cook with the WH press corps in 2021

There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

There's a certain kind of teen girl, usually dismissed as "insolent," who knows from jump that the way her world is treating her is more the world's problem than hers. I'll always appreciate Marjane Satrapi for giving that girl a strong voice. www.lemonde.fr/en/obituarie...

LMAOOOOOOOOOO

oh my sweet mother of g-d

the death of 60 minutes and the rest of the VRA on the same night really brings home how the current conservative project is to kill the progress and ideals of the mid century

racist maps are ok now because racism doesnt exist anymore

my 2028 candidate is whoever promises to take the construction equipment that lay waste to the east wing of the white house and drive it directly to the supreme court of the united states

“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

I’m not saying all of it, but I think like 80 percent of what Trump does now boils down to: 1.) How can I avoid death? 2.) If I do die, how can I have my name on as many things as possible?