Let’s see: They still have their enriched. The IRGC is still in control. They have taken control of the Strait. Yes, the President of the United States just showed them his whole ass and surrendered.

In hindsight, Trump allowing a foreign adversary to wet its beak as part of a protection racket seems fairly predictable.

think virtue is a thing cultivated on multiple levels and the complete abdication of virtue by a segment of the elite, along with their reshaping political institutions around this fact, has produced a feedback loop.

We're currently somewhere between "good" and "extraordinary" night for Dems in Georgia, and we should know for certain which it is in the next hour.

The median wine mom voter wants hangings when this ends, just sharing what I hear in the sports stands from the parents

A comment designed to make Hegseth soil himself with rage.

Brought to you by the same dudes that did a bank run on their own bank after a founder group chat

Mead was my favorite IR scholar as an undergrad, and someone I deeply respected in my early 20s. Like other self-described "Realists," he ended up twisting himself in knots trying to remain edgy & relevant. In his case, he increasingly embraced the Post-Liberal mantra and became a Trump sanewasher.

Two weeks is when the rest of the Marines arrive.

yeah don’t dig too deep into why they want him removed, I assure you that you will not like the answer

"people are just continuing to go about their lives" yeah man, I have a three-year-old. Cancel him if you must but he doesn't care about any of this and I don't get to opt out of being a parent for the day.

Its insane that they're friends who talk man the left is fucked

we are ten fucking years into this shit and the only political theory that has ever mattered that entire time is "orange man bad"

I swear to God if I, a Jew, have to die in the Vatican Foreign Legion I’m going to be very nonplussed about it.

It's like the BlueSky stupid asshole brigade is out en force.

replies have people doing emotional support leftism about how Harris would have been made to do this by Israel

When your response to "Donald Trump is threatening nuclear war" is to blame Democrats or pretend Democrats would do the same, you are telling me that you think Donald Trump is awesome. I don't fucking care what you claim to the contrary.

The both sides shit is always bad and always obnoxious and always super fucking irritating. It's goddamned infuriating today.

Why, no, I don't believe JD Vance's telling of the tale

“Yes, of course, you’re right, legally I am free. But in my mind, oh, in my mind, I am a slave.”

I really can't deal with this stuff anymore. You vote for them because voting for them will MAKE IT SO THAT THEY CAN DO THINGS as opposed to right now, when NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE VOTED FOR THEM so they CANNOT do things. For fuck's sake.

The US cannot destroy all the power and water supply of Iran in one night. But Iran can destroy all the power and water supply of Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and UAE in one night.

The entire tenor and tone of the “MAGA revolt against the Iran War” is: “Don’t get me wrong - I hate Muslims as much as anybody. But I hate Jews more, and I have decided to blame them for this.”

Fortunately for JD Vance, his magnetic charm will allow him to play both sides of the Iran crisis seamlessly.

Only Israeli politicians have agency. Poor dear trusting Donald Trump, how badly they have treated him.

“the peace talks situation has developed not necessarily to Pakistan’s advantage”

Trump Revives An Old Tactic for a New Strategy

Party At Ground Zero • Fishbone

* U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL FAILS TO APPROVE BAHRAINI RESOLUTION ON PROTECTING SHIPPING IN STRAIT OF HORMUZ * CHINA VETOES BAHRAINI U.N. RESOLUTION ON ENCOURAGING PROTECTION OF SHIPPING IN STRAIT OF HORMUZ @reuters.com

People talking up Nuremberg as though it was some incredible moment of consequences for the Nazi Party, but when all was said and done, fewer than a thousand Nazis were put to death, and the governments of both Germanies were filled with them, especially in the west. Hardly a grand victory.

I think we don’t really comprehend the debt we owe the Korean people tbh. If their brainrotted aspiring despot succeeded in his plan to kick off a major war in East Asia, it would make the Iran War look like the Charlie Brown Christmas special. There will be generations because they stopped him.

Nuremberg was an important symbol of German nationhood so I say with 100% sincerity that this is a job for Philadelphia

To spell this out further: the issue here is that, when he backs down, it’s often because popular opinion is loud and angry enough. In other words, people who say “you fool, you thought he would do it” are getting cause and effect backwards.

Love to wear an off the rack 1990s suit with my top hat.

Its already cost them so, so much but they are deeply attached to being unethical

Anyway Jeff Zucker, head of CNN, sat on the Apprentice tapes because he didn't want to sabotage Trump. The Media and the Press have a lot to answer for institutionally and the more they act like the critiques are purely bad faith the more the torrent of degrading trust will drag them down

Yep. Normalizing the insanity piece by piece. And the "stop freaking out" people are the useful idiots in this scenario. He needs them to make the slow creep look less ominous. We are already accepting all kinds of horrible shit in this country right now that I never thought was possible!

BERMAN: Do you think Congress should have a vote if the United States is going to make a whole civilization die? MIKE LAWLER: John, you are parsing here BERMAN: I was quoting

In Korea, when the president declared martial law after midnight and erected barricades in Seoul, congressional reps from all parties ran into the streets, yanked ak47s from the army at the barricades, broke down the locked door to Congress, repealed the martial law order, and arrested the president

Whatever Trump orders, though, I'm sure that The Troops (tm) will do as they're told. Expecting the US military to refuse orders, even illegal and immoral ones, is a fool's game.

Are we all created equal, endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights; or not?

i've thinking about this for several days straight

Vance said he wants to help Orban “as much as I can” ahead of Hungary’s parliamentary elections on Sunday. The irony klaxon exploded when he then accused Brussels of trying to interfere in the vote, describing it as “one of the worst examples of foreign election interference.”

The media told us, based on the amount of coverage they devoted to it, that the number one military-related issue of the 2024 campaign was whether Tim Walz retiring from the National Guard after 21 years was too soon or not.

I think something that has become quite urgent is a reinvigoration of free speech law that aims to establish the ability to regulate outright falsehoods while protecting *political* speech. I think this is in keeping with the purpose and history of the first amendment but not its modern practice.

Coward after coward asked “what’s the harm in humoring him?” and now here we are

These guys are all paid by the Russians, we have proof they're all paid by the Russians, but pointing out the malign influence Russia has been exerting on American politics gets you called a hysterical Russophobe

russiagate is a theory like gravity

on top of all the national stuff going on I've been doing some work in high-poverty local schools and you just come home and want to cry. these children, they need so much more than we've been able to give them. the ICE surge crushed our schools and it's going to ruin so many kids' chances

It is possible that the Strait of Hormuz will be irrelevant in about 48 hours, because all the energy export infrastructure in the Gulf may be destroyed by then.