John McKenzie

He’s angered by Massie’s uncompromising anti-pedophile position.

I obviously do not know what’s happening, but Iran is also heavily reliant on the strait, through which 90% of its oil exports pass and 70% of its non-oil trade. Will it choke off its own lifeline?

We got rid of outlawry in the Middle Ages, no?

Federal agencies have important jobs. Gutting them makes them less effective at those jobs. You cannot hemorrhage talent and still accomplish the same goals. Diplomacy, law enforcement, medical research, and other domains will take many years to recover, if ever.

My baseline assumption for the lawyers doing some of the more outrageous things on Trump’s behalf is that they see themselves as future influencers, not lawyers.

The “invisible hand “ of the market does not care about deposing the Iranian regime.

“My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Some times he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy, the sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical, summers in Rangoon ….”

The danger of military success is that it tends to lead to overreach.

Trump on COVID when it was first emerging:

“And again, when you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero—that's a pretty good job we've done”.

“It's going to disappear. One day — it's like a miracle — it will disappear.”

I am really revolted by this lie in particular.

There is no greater threat to the American way of life than values like those tweeted by Rep. Andy Ogles below.

It's not only un-American. It is gratuitously cruel. How would any one of us feel if an elected government official said everyone like us should be excluded from society?

Iran’s leadership has a very simple task: survive. If it survives, it will claim victory.

He spends a lot of time in California for a guy who claims to find its culture and laws so objectionable.

this picture is a good summary of how and why January 6th was, at a fundamental level, a successful insurrection.

Ukraine is a democracy and Cuba is not, but other than that distinction, how is a US invasion of Cuba any different than a Russian invasion of Ukraine?

The difference between the spike in global oil prices now versus 2022 is that this time the US president single-handedly caused it to happen overnight with a policy while accepting no responsibility, while the US president in 2022 was blamed for it even though he didn’t cause it.

We dropped 5 million tons of bombs on Vietnam. Not only did we fail to cause the North Vietnamese Communist government to collapse, that government ultimately conquered South Vietnam and made all of Vietnam Communist.

The haters are going to say you shouldn’t wear the ball cap merch you sell for $55.00 while saluting the casket of fallen US soldiers.

He sells the hat he’s wearing for $55.00 in his official store. He’s wearing his own merch to welcome this fallen soldier home.

Trump, in his white “USA” campaign ball cap 🧢, saluting the casket of an American killed by retaliatory Iranian strikes.

“When it comes to war, there’s always that. We’re gonna keep it to a minimum I think, George.”—Early draft of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. Eventually he workshopped it into “from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.”

Does the act of voting harm minors so we need age verification to prevent it?

Is beer buying a right subject to constitutional and statutory guarantees?

Is comparing beer buying to voting a piece of Dada performance art designed to drive people mad?

When you buy beer, does the beer store have a roll of approved beer buyers who have already registered for the privilege?

Do you have to submit some sort of documentation proving you are the person on the beer roll?

Do you have to sign the roll swearing you are on it under criminal penalty? 1/

It boggles my mind that I pay a significant portion of my income in taxes so that Pete Hegseth (formerly host of “Fox & Friends Weekend”) and Donald Trump (formerly of “The Apprentice” and “Home Alone 2”) can fund and command the most powerful military in the world!

“War-a-Lago”

By Barry Blitt @newyorker.com

At the risk of repeating myself, they don't actually care about Americans any more than Iranians, they don't think of us as people they have an obligation to. We're just chaff to be ground up as they scheme to get richer and seize power and kill their enemies. Like peasants to tsars.

New Iran War justification. Drink!