The way Hormuz opens up is through actual negotiations, rather than the Trump admin demand for total capitulation. The problem is Trump has no capacity to think beyond the current day's news, he equates the economy with the stock market, and he believes increased oil and gas exports are a good thing

Schumer needs to go.

Trump sees the stock market at all time highs, and sees the tankers lining up to collect US oil and gas, and thinks the blockade is a good thing. The man lives in the infinite present

Punching left from hospice is the Democrat brand

He not only thinks we’re immune to the energy shock, he thinks we will benefit from it. The market is at all-time highs. In his mind the supply shortage is a good thing because it creates greater demand for US oil & gas. He’s intentionally steering the ship into the iceberg

This does not seem like a conflict that is rapidly heading toward a diplomatic resolution

“Hi I’m Natalie Portman” “I am called, how you say, Tanguy Destable” “That name is normal to me. I would like to have your baby.”

lol now Iran is doing insider trading

I am deeply concerned about the fact that Iran is really good at propaganda, they’re antisemitic as fuck, and they’re aiming they’re incredibly good antisemitic propaganda at us at the exact time the American populace is most primed to receive antisemitic messages.

Our President wrote a signed note to a notorious pedophile where he talked about a secret they shared, framing the note within a crude drawing of a naked adolescent. Later the pedophile died under suspicious circumstances while in federal custody. The President's party supports him unquestioningly

Hear hear. Also: - the theory of change is wrong (students could protest campus investments in Israel, no campus has leverage over the Trump admin); – and the context is missing (the last wave of students to protest U.S.-backed violence in the Middle East got demonized, brutalized & even expelled).

We didn't deserve this day.

It’s been an unacceptably long time since I mentioned this so fuck this bigoted old shitbird and fuck all you shitbirds out there who support him.

The difference between W. Bush and Trump, that while Bush was merely deeply evil, Trump is a strong candidate for being the Antichrist

The NYT’s reflexive dumping on the protestors is also just bad business. You probably won’t find a higher concentration of former, current, or potential NYT subscribers than at one of these protests

It really needs to be emphasized that there is a direct line between all of their anti-woke and anti-DEI bullshit and one of the worst military and foreign policy disasters in our history

They are flailing. The military solution to Hormuz is a large-scale ground invasion, which is politically untenable. The diplomatic solution is accepting a solid dose of humiliation, which, to them, is personally untenable. So instead we get indefinite bombings as the economy nosedives.

EVIL

Whatever you think of him, you have to respect that Robert E. Lee was a slave-owning rapist piece of shit who got a lot of people killed for what might be the single worst reason imaginable and also he lost.

Our opposition party has refused to unreservedly condemn this war, giving room for assholes like this to claim the anti-war mantle

CATO: “.. After more than two weeks of consistent bombing, new US intelligence suggests Iran’s regime is now consolidating power, unlikely to collapse, and led by a cadre more extreme than before.” @cato.org @scottlincicome.bsky.social www.cato.org/blog/strateg...

it’s amazing to see the solipsism of americans on display in regards to iran. people just cannot even conceive of the idea that iran has its own strategic goals and and agency, and might keep the strait closed regardless of what trump does.

if youre worried about the potential for this war to spiral into a quagmire with no real offramp or way to de-escalate, take some comfort in the fact that the president's idiot son-in-law is working the diplomatic channels part time on a volunteer basis with neither any authority nor experience

Existence of Mamdani in the media criticism discourse is so useful because it demonstrates what the media could be doing to Trump if they ACTUALLY thought that he was an aberrant threat to our Republic. Not that you need to do this for Trump but: You can just write negative stories based on nothing!

Andor is such a great show. They could have just had the Ghormans speak French (after all everyone else speaks English). But no they just made up a language www.esquire.com/entertainmen...

Again, leaders of other countries don’t talk this way. The glee with which our current leaders talk about killing people is not normal, and nor is their lack of concern for who exactly we’re killing. American bombs incinerated 100 kids in Minab. Were those the “right people”?

This is correct, imo. A Democratic administration successfully broke students' will to protest. They won nothing and faced massive consequences. NO ONE stood up for their free speech rights among mainstream pundits. Now they're to blame for the Biden administration's success at repressing them? No.

The US needs to realize that Iran may have an objective in this war other than just stopping the bombing. They know they can’t beat us militarily, but they could crash our economy

Seems to me the administration’s strategy of lying to the public to mitigate the war’s impact on the market will only lead to a much larger market shock once the truth is undeniable

IF ALL YOU DO IS SAY WE DID NOTHING WRONG AND PEOPLE SHOULD HAVE VOTED DIFFERENTLY YOU WILL CONTINUE TO DO THE SAME THING AND CONTINUE TO LOSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Iran and the US/Israel are fighting different wars. US/Israel are attacking the Iranian government, military, and people. Iran is attacking the world economy and, by extension, US economic hegemony. An invasion, leading to an inevitable quagmire, would only make the economic attack more profound

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One of the only public figures (Ilhan another) speaking with moral clarity about this

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

I will never accept that US foreign policy requires killing children

scrawny 18-year-old about to fall out of an army helicopter over tehran: this is so epic. this is totally sigma, right babe? AI e-girl operated by a balding intelligence officer in virginia: that's right baby, Iran is totally cringe

alright well we can rule out the gold medal olympic hockey locker room in the nancy guthrie search

There is, quite simply, no legal authority for what Trump’s talking about here whatsoever. What he’s considering is a wholly illegal, unconstitutional act of war.

The entire discourse around all of this at the time was crazy making. It was exactly this straightforward.

I’m so tired of this miserable ignorant racist. The first cowboys were Hispanic/indigenous. Rock and roll, jazz, blues, hip hop, all from black culture. The movie industry was built by Jewish people. The origins of the hamburger are vague, but Hamburg ain’t in England.

Blankie Noem

Well well well if it isn’t the blowjob brothers

As the parent to an 18 month old this rips my guts out. This inhumanity is a moral stain on all Americans. The people directly responsible for this—those who made the policy, those who are enforcing it, those who are building the camps—must be held accountable.

That was a real wedding during Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show. His reps confirmed the happy couple are irl in love. And yet, conservatives still said the show was an affront to American values.

HFS

Eventually the grift will end. This guy destroyed his personal brand and will not have another successful consumer product. The next democratic President can and should destroy both of his major companies by cancelling his rocket contracts and lifting the tariffs on Chinese EVs.