If there’s one thing you can say about Donald Trump, he sure knows how to pick’em.

Donald Trump on Iran reportedly wanting to make a deal to end the war: “You’re being a little bit late. We want a fight now more than they do.” The majority of Americans do not want this war.

These guys basically now have to fix the Strait of Hormuz or they might as well toss in the towel and rebrand as the Whig Party. And no one has the foggiest f***ing clue how to fix the Strait of Hormuz.

My understanding is that if the Strait is not open in the next few weeks, we're to expect $100-110 oil which would put gas prices well over $4 per gallon. I struggle to communicate both how intractable that problem is and how deeply forked the GOP prob. is if gas is, like, $4.50 average in the USA.

It’s happening again

Golden and Cuellar are no surprise, Platner will be a Senate Golden with Nazi tits, so maybe people should look at Golden's voting record there and go 'is this *really* what we want'.

I mean technically, yeah, even if it would be *literal* Terra Nullius.

I mean, with what navy

Serial hoaxer defends fascism, news at 11.

what the actual fuck is wrong with you

Tim Miller and Jon Favreau will dismiss this as youthful indiscretion and say we need to do more to bring these conservative students into the Democratic party.

whether this idiot war is legal under US domestic law/Art I (and for that matter international law via the UN Charter) is a very different discussion than whether an act was a LOAC violation given a state of hostilities practically exists between the US and Iran

how the fuck are we doing "was the belgrano a war crime" discourse again but even stupider no subs do not and at least since Nuremberg definitively have not had an obligation to rescue individuals from a vessel they sunk; with modern fast attacks it is utterly unreasonable

Actually, what . . . You know who else was a big, goofy antiwar candidate progressives loved?

Susan Collins just gave Donald Trump the green light to take further unilateral military action that could push the United States into another endless war without oversight. She doesn't have the courage to stand up to the President, even when American lives are on the line.

This was posted 8 January 2025. ...SEE HOW MUCH WORSE THINGS CAN GET IN A YEAR?!?!?

they are starting at tet offensive unpopularity with only six known casualties.

for some context here, the number of americans who disapprove of this war is on par with the number of americans who thought the vietnam was a mistake *during the tet offensive*

He literally has 90% of his funding from a PAC run by a Trump megadonor. We all know that's gonna be rugpulled and what's his plan when that happens? Does he have one? Is he intelligent enough to realize Miriam Adelson isn't his friend?

"Economic populism" is having all of your funding from a Trump megadonor?

Sen. Murphy: They told us in there that this is an open-ended operation that hasn't even really started... they refuse to take off of the table the insertion of ground troops ... there is no question that this is war. #TrumpsWarOnOurEconomy

“We had no idea the drone we cloned because we thought it would be cheap and good and confounding for the enemy would also be cheap and confounding for us.” Even tho we have years of data from Ukraine that says just that.

Then what the fuck are you doing taking money from Trump megadonors, buddy?

Oh look it’s the Hindutva doing the DNC-fascism two-step.

I think this is significant. I've argued, from every rostrum I can find, that being pro-trans won't *hurt* a Dem. But there is now emerging evidence that being anti-trans *will*, good and recent evidence from the only poll that truly matters. Once again, it's an auspicious sign.

Rally what you can, buy a tiny bit of hope. 1$ buy's the tiny spark of hope. You'd be surprised how much better a person does when they see another name appear on these lists to help them.

That comes out to 50 more days of undeclared war

I truly do not understand what this guy has on the Pod Save guys. Is it just that they went in hard on him and feel like they’re too deep to back out? These arguments they’re making like “let’s not bicker and argue about which genocidal paraphernalia the guy got etched into his flesh” are silly.

*laughs in Ukrainian*

I'm not defending anything about this attacking Iran bullshit but that's not what those words mean at all.

*Deep sigh in submarine warfare history* Shooting a positively identified warship isn't "unrestricted submarine warfare." That's when your policy is to deliberately shoot *civilian* ships without warning.

Well, that's one way to get not-the-USA to break the nuclear taboo I've never imagined.

I think everyone earnestly pointing out the 1953 coup or some other starting point for our being in conflict with Iran is missing the actual vastly stupider reason they want to start the clock in ‘79: They get to say Iran has been an enemy 47 years and hey—Trump is the 47th president! 47!

NOEM: I would disagree with the judge CROCKETT: I'm sure you would, but can you tell me whether or not you have a law degree? NOEM: A what? CROCKETT: A law degree NOEM: No I do no- CROCKETT: Okay

"You could not live with your failure and where did that bring you? Back to me."

Having suffered the pain of a tooth infection I can unequivocally say that this man died in absolute agony. The type of nerve pain that will have you screaming and wondering quite rightly if you’ve gone insane This man was tortured through neglect, and everyone involved is an irredeemable monster

Yeah, this Facebook conversation *decidedly* reinforces my view that at least 60% of 'not my job to educate you' was therapy-speak Dunning-Krugerism.

You actually don’t have to trust the military and our generals lol

Limited operation but seeking to fundamentally alter Iran’s governing structure…curious!

Make Seljuks Great Again

Encountering a Crockett supporter on Facebook doing the 2010s "It's not my job to educate you" horseshit over the Crockett campaign hoovering up money while otherwise being non-existent outside the one website.

1) the Falklands were *deserted* when we took them. 2) the people of the FIs have been British for nearly two centuries now. 3) we were the ones who were attacked. How many times do we have to repeat this to get it through your thick skull?

That’s the Israel-in-Gaza move for when the pace of strikes leadership wants outstrips arsenals of precision guidance kits. US forces rarely used unguided gravity bombs in the GWOT, and when they did, it was against concentrations of regular troops on open battle fronts (OEF1, OIF1, Kobane).

"ACAB" except when it's a fascist junta.

that insurance plan idea isn't working @whitehouse-47.bsky.social

Oh totally. I remember this well, and remember being loudly outraged about it. It was blunter even than the stuff Trump had already been saying! But yeah, now this is just straightforwardly the position of the Vances and Millers of the world.

As the Vietnamese General said to the US General "that may be true, but it is also irrelevant."