I'm a lot more concerned about terror attacks in the US than I was a week ago.

John Cornyn is a standard-issue trump-kissing republican. As ideologically pure as it gets. Ken Paxton is the same, with a big extra helping of additional criminality and corruption (personal and political). So, naturally, evangelicals, in all their moral righteousness, flock to Paxton.

It's been a couple months now. Has Andrew Cuomo delivered on his promise to move to Florida?

I'm not often optimistic, but I think that if Crockett campaigns for Talarico, Texas has a real shot of flipping. Talarico persuading voters in the middle AND Crockett maximizing base turnout would be a formidable attack. If they can pull that off, it would be historic.

Boots on the ground? ICE has boots. Send them to Iran. Win-win.

I thought this one was pretty inspired.

Please stick around, Jasmine. We need you. More than ever.

How the Democrats handle and challenge Ken Paxton's blatant election interference will be a strong indicator of how serious they are about winning in November.

Viva España.

James Talarico is a practicing Christian who walks the walk. Ken Paxton is an absolute sewer of a man, at every level. Evangelicals will overwhelmingly support Paxton. Evangelicalism is not a religion. It is a disease.

The way Barbara's voice wraps itself around that organ is the stuff of transcendence.

Regarding Texas…. I just hope, as I hope in every primary, that the people voted for who they wanted to be senator, not who they thought would be the best candidate to win the general election

Talarico's first order of business is to mend fences with African American voters. If they don't turn out in November, he loses. I assume he wants to win, though with dems that's never a certainty.

If you didn’t need Congress to start the war, then you shouldn’t come to them for the money.

And thirty days from now, the excuse will be "We're in too deep to cut the funding."

If Talarico wins, the same actors who dumped out all the racist bullshit about Crockett (which is what all the "electability" crap is about) will be lamenting the "disappointing" black turnout in November.

There's a notable figure in literature who was also obsessed with windmills. And also batshit crazy.

The rapture is an evangelical creation. It's not a part of catholic (or mainstream Protestant) doctrine. If the Vatican would make a statement among those lines, it would be really, really helpful towards smothering this war.

When you replace seasoned professionals with toadies, this is what you get.

Nations under attack close their airports. That's never happened before.

In the UK, frustrated Labour voters have somewhere else to go if their party starts sucking up to the right. We don't (really) have that luxury in the US. I wonder if the Greens' emergence is why Starmer isn't sweetly caressing trump the way Blair did to Bush.

Starmer should fire back with "I ain't no Tony Blair either."

It's amazing how effective and principled our lawmakers can be when they dont take any AIPAC money. (Van Hollen doesn't. )

Attaching yourself like a parasite into US foreign (and domestic) policy has a way of creating a backlash.

Usually when people know they're near death, they try to make amends with those they've wronged and get things right while they can. Trump is special.

Exactly 💯

for the youths who werent around for the iraq installment - dont believe anything the govt says about progress - no the democrats dont have to say getting rid of the baddie was good and therefore they have to support the war - the war needs to be ended - the media is not your ally and they love war

To those who feel "betrayed" by trump's no-new-wars promise: why did you believe him?

Those who were ridiculed and dismissed for pointing out that the US attacked Iran under Israel's orders are due apologies. Not that they'll get them.

There's this catholic legend about saints' bodies not decomposing after they die. So I guess that makes RFK the opposite of a saint.

If you see Minnesota as a woman fighting back against an abusive husband, you can see Iran as the school the abusive husband shot up instead.

Slacker attitude personified.

The country-club Republicans were happy to have the votes and support of the evangelical nutbags, because they thought they could control them. Even though Goldwater warned them. Now Americans are going to die to satisfy these fundie fantasies. We had the Establishment Clause for a reason.

You usually make your case for war BEFORE you start the war. But the adolescents that run our government know they're special. So very special.

The glibness. The indifference. The carelessness. The utter lack of planning for a war against a country of 90M. The sickness of a man who acts on whim that will kill thousands not hundreds. The horror of a regime that enables this sickness. The broken body politic that votes in such malignancy.

Messaging was supposed to be the GOP's strong suit, but the way they've bollixed up their causus belli narratives shouldn't give anyone much confidence about the rest of the operation. Iraq was the tragedy. Iran is the farce.

Our country is being guided by evangelical mythology.

Iran has sealed off Hormuz. A competent administration would have planned for that consequence. We'll see how the adolescent hubris of this regime deals with it. Fill up your tanks.

If he's sundowning, it's time to bring on the night.

If Trump is so intent on destroying Iran, he should go be its president for a month. They'll never know what hit them.

Very frustrating that far-right Republicans are offering clearer, more cogent statements on the war than the likes of Chuck Schumer.

If your home had rotting pipes, peeling paint, and cracks on the wall, and someone from across town came over and burned it to the ground and told you it was your job to rebuild it, would you thank that guy?

The Venezuela operation was meant to stabilize oil supplies in anticipation of the Iran attacks.

The Venezuela operation didn't rescue trump's sagging poll numbers. It's doubtful the Iran attack will. And that pretty much blows their wad.

Whatever one thinks of the Bushes' Iraq operations, they spent some time making a case for each intervention before acting upon it. Trump just plunged in without any attempt to manufacture consent. So there is no public-opinion "buffer" to withstand the Kuwait debacle today.

Hey dems, here's one issue where doing the right thing squares with the polling, so no excuses, ok?

This is the correct framing. Not "It's great that we took out the ayatollah but the war is a bad idea." That's weak-ass GOP framing and guaranteed to not work. But "Obama had a deal with Iran and Trump torpedoed it so he could start a war" is accurate and effective.

"No war authorization until we get competent leadership in the military" seems like a stance the dems can take if they're so, so worried about the beltway punditry alleging that they don't "support the troops".

The one hope for the survival of American civilization is that this administration's incompetence overwhelms its evil intents. Which is what ultimately brings down dictatorships.

I don't think Russia is "weak" as much as they're in on it. They were going to throw Iran under the bus as soon as convenient.