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Trump Warns Iran To Accept His Ultimatum Or Face Wrath Of Next Ultimatum https://theonion.com/trump-warns-iran-to-accept-his-ultimatum-or-face-wrath-of-next-ultimatum/

And it begins...

This isn't just about Canada. It's a warning shot to every trading partner: even if you have a deal, retaliation may bring tariffs anyway. That makes deals less credible.⁣ ⁣ https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/why-trumps-new-tariff-is-bigger-than

Married women, please read.

A group of right-wing accounts is urging Trump to nuke Pickaxe Mountain in Iran. Literally the dumbest people on the planet.

This is going to be a big deal, but easy to get the wrong end of the stick on it. So I think it's worth breaking down what actually happened, why, and what it actually means, based on the public information reported here, because it's a bit complicated for folks who don't follow this stuff closely 🧵

countdown to a saudi nuke www.wsj.com/world/middle...

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Canada, do you know what would send a message to Donald Trump? Dump the $436 billion in US Treasury securities you hold. tradingeconomics.com/united-state...

🚨 ICE just published their recent numbers and it's worse than we thought. JUNE: ICE and CBP took 43,138 people. That works out to 1,474 of our neighbors every single day. JULY: 65,765 people are now inside US concentration camps.

Add Russia, China, and North Korea.

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He doesn't care.

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Pete Hegseth continues to hide behind the bravery and sacrifice of our troops to deflect from his own incompetence & lack of leadership. Rather than do his job he’s fighting woke, making workout videos, and releasing statements from his hair and makeup studio while blaming Biden.

The reason Tillis was run out of the senate by Trump is because he talked a lot of shit, not because he actually did anything to tangibly oppose Trump. Trump just got tired of him chirping. Now with his vote on Blanche we will see if the pattern holds true - big talk, no action.

His father-in-law (and the grandfather of the white appearing baby he’s holding) is Dinesh D’Souza, who was born in India and first set foot in the US at the age of 17.

Meidas to Ossoff: Were you satisfied with Hegseth’s responses? Ossoff: No. I thought he was evasive and stonewalling, and anyone who reviews the tape will see that.

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A predictable, and by now tedious, tactic of incompetent military leaders is to attempt to spin criticism of their catastrophic misjudgements as an attack on the troops they have flung into the meatgrinder.

this is why we can safely laugh off this line of attack. mark warner is about as "generic moderate democrat" as you can get. if you're saying he's a red, then the word has zero meaning (like when they said same about obama, biden, both clintons, kerry, etc)

Earlier today, Sen. Eric Schmitt called centrist Dem. Sen. Mark Warner a commie and now he agrees with Benny Johnson's bonkers claim that the left is preparing "a mass slaughter event." (Remember, Johnson was one of the MAGA influencers who were paid millions in secret funds from Russia.)

A strategy of escalation will not work with Iran. It will just waste more money, get more Americans killed, and further unravel the Middle East.

This administration keeps trying to play in our face. Let’s not get it twisted: Indigenous people were here first. They need to stop demonizing people of color to push their racist agenda.

Wow. These billboards are up on bridges and buildings in Tehran. 📸 Majid Asgaripour/WANA

Donald Trump just imposed a 50% tariff to increase YOUR COSTS because he felt that Canada didn't do enough to rake their forests. How many tantrums from this failed president do Americans have to suffer through?

OSSOFF: On day 9, you assured us of Iranian surrender. Does that remain your prediction? HEGSETH: Iran will never have a nuclear weapon O: So to review, you will not answer whether your statement that Iran's military was 'destroyed' was truthful as you sit here and ask for tens of billions more?

the real discrimination is doing anything to fight discrimination, you see apnews.com/article/eeoc...

There is a US Level 4: Do Not Travel Advisory for Lebanon. You go first Mr. President -

OSSOFF: You stated on the 14th day of this conflict that Iran's military was 'destroyed.' Was that an accurate statement -- yes or no? HEGSETH: Iran's ability to challenge the US-- OSSOFF: That's not what I asked. Yes or no? HEGSETH: What the milit--- OSSOFF: Will you answer the question?

Nothing says 'golden age' like gas over $4, endless foreign wars, skyrocketing costs, election denialism, and withholding millions of pages of the Epstein files.

Sen. Reed: "You were completely aware that the Strait of Hormuz could be closed?" Hegseth: "We had U.S. boats that surrendered to Iranian ships under the Biden administration." Sen. Reed: "Your fallback to the Biden administration is a very obvious excuse for what I think is...gross negligence."

Good.

Isn't Israel bombing Lebanon?

Financial disclosures show that Susan Collins was taking checks from some of the men named in Epstein Files.

They are lying and trying to start a civil war.

Wow. (She's still a pos)

Reminder: Hegseth was pushed out of TWO veterans nonprofits amid financial mismanagement allegations, running groups into debt, overspending on parties/events, and treating funds like personal accounts. Now, he's bankrupted the Pentagon despite a record budget and is demanding another $1.5 trillion

The defense budget was $841 billion in 2024.

It's disgusting. He's disgusting.

A sitting FBI Director. Hosted by Russia's spy service. Agenda: blank. Timing: weeks before the midterms. I did the deep dive. It's worse than the headline. www.jackhopkinsnow.com

HEGSETH: President Trump deserves the kind of praise he should get for undertaking this effort REED: Excuse me. So he should be praised for starting a war without authority and creating a situation in which the world economy is suffering tremendously?

You might get sick of hearing this but if he keeps doing it I'm gonna keep saying it: this is an unconstitutional impoundment, violating both Congress' Article I spending authority and the 1974 Impoundment Control act, and immediately impeachable.

Wow -- Ken Paxton and his team abruptly shut down a news conference and bail after journalists try to ask him about his various scandals

He has no soul, just an empty carcass. This is not a video game. One soldier lost is one too many.

JUST IN: Roger Rogoff, who was appointed interim US attorney by judges in Washington state and immediately fired by President Trump, is suing to block his removal. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

If you read this post as contending that the only people *deserving* of being called "people" are the rich (coded as white) and corporations, you're reading the post correctly and correctly understanding the worldview of the goblin who currently leads the United States of America