His whole life, Trump has always had someone else around to bail him out of the messes he creates: his father, Allen Weisselberg, the "adults in the room" in his first term. Now all those protectors are gone and he is openly begging for someone to save him from his own folly.
I don't think this will work. The voters have determined your service literally does not count if you are a Democrat. Kerry getting three purple hearts and Walz retiring after 24 years were seen as proof of cowardice compared to ANG cowboy and cadet bone spurs.
Watching these guys learn basic geopolitics in real time is incredible. Ah so that's why you need allies. I see
It’s crystal clear now that Trump has lost control of this war. He badly misjudged Iran’s ability to retaliate. The region is on fire.
1/ I’m going to explain to you in this🧵what I’ve learned - in part from closed door briefings - about the four biggest current crises.
Again, 2 wildly different standards applied to the 2 parties & the 2 presidents, on every issue, including the political roles of their children.
If you want us all to stop complaining about media coverage all the time, you need to stop circling the wagons & fix this.
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I find asshole works just fine
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Text from image: Being a sane American right now: it's like the United States is riding in the back-seat of a car and Dad is driving drunk. Mom is the Republican party, riding in the passenger seat: she knows Dad is completely sloshed but she goes along with it because she's afraid of getting beaten up again if she says anything. Some of your brothers and sisters are excited because they like carnival rides and think speed and chaos is entertaining. But you feel slightly insane because you're the only one in the car who understands the danger everyone is in and no one seems capable of stopping the maniac at the wheel.
This... EXACTLY.
But in Argentina in the 1970s, the military dictatorship offered another option: a parallel unit that needed staffing, valued loyalty over competence, and offered career-pressured officers a second chance. The dirty work of state terror — kidnapping, torture, disappearing people — was psychologically repugnant enough that high-performing officers with smooth career trajectories had every reason to avoid it. But for the men at the bottom of the cohort, it was a ladder. A ladder that paid off in terms of higher positions at the end of the career, more salary, and better pensions. The worse an officer’s academic record, the more likely he was to join the secret police. Once inside, the worst performers were assigned to the most brutal departments, where the work was most repugnant and the career reward for doing it most valuable.
Who is willing to to the dirty of an authoritarian regime? A study of the Argentinian secret police found that those who joined "were not the most extreme officers in Argentina’s army. They were the most stuck." Mediocre men whose careers had stalled out.
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Because parents who vaccinate their kids love their children more and actually give a shit about the people around them.
Workers! You see how mortally terrified are our ministers at the working people acquiring knowledge!
Israel has wanted to invade Iran for 40 years.
They were just waiting for a US president dumb enough to help them.
Thanks, I like a solid tool watch like this when hanging out around the house and working outside. I don’t worry about banging into something that might damage it. Submarine steel case, 100m water resistance, super legible dial and hands, antimagnetic. It checks all my boxes.
Inside the Department of War are two wolves:
"We've shut down the Colleges of War because book learnings are woke, gay, and irrelevant to war fighting."
"How come no one told us the Strait is important, there are different kinds of Kurds, Iran is big, and air power historically doesn't win wars?"
Where my balanced budget peeps at?
They always get awfully quiet when it's a Republican president running up the debt.
America wouldn’t be in the shape it is in if Trump had been put in prison the first time he raped a woman or a child. But sure, tell me how great America is for women and children. Go ahead.
Cadet Bonespurs was old enough to enlist when the US sent ground troops into Vietnam, 61 years ago this week. #SSDD #FDT
NEW: They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth.
Two Florida women had to attend virtual court hearings while in labor to argue for their right to choose their own medical care.
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Instead of blowing up things in Iran, the federal government could have spent $11 billion in a week paying the entire household incomes for everyone in these counties. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
While U.S. troops are in the Middle East, Trump’s on the golf course hanging out with friends he knows through Jeffrey Epstein.
The U.S. is trapped in a war of choice that Trump started. And what’s Trump focused on?
“The White House said that Trump was personally driving the project in an effort to provide ‘the best experience possible’ for White House guests.”
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Pluto - Naoki Urasawa
Picture of a Damasko DK30 on a NATO strap
My everyday hanging out at home watch…..
Search-and-rescue crews were “flying blind” trying to rescue survivors from deadly tornadoes that hit the Midwest last week.
Why? Because Kristi Noem hadn't approved FEMA’s $200,000 contract with a tornado-tracking tool.
But she had time to spend $220 million on anti-immigrant ads. Priorities.
Susan Collins voted against stopping Trump’s illegal war — and now he continues to put troops into harm’s way.
At least 13 American servicemembers have now paid the ultimate sacrifice. Congress needs to hold the administration accountable, not allow another forever war.
Instead of going to war with Iran, we could cover health care for millions of Americans.
And still have $20 billion left over.
New reports CONFIRM the US was responsible for killing an entire girls' school in Iran.
But that didn't stop Trump’s biggest donor & co-founder of ChatGPT, signing a deal giving AI to the US military for mass surveillance + killing.
Be a shame if everyone found out and deleted their account x
Immediately disqualifying for the job for which he has been nominated. The 4th Amendment specifies it’s “the right of the people,” not of citizens.
We cannot allow someone who doesn’t understand the 4th Amendment to be the head of DHS.
Q: “When will this war end?”
TRUMP: “When I feel it in my bone spurs.”
