I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
This one is huge in history: Dardanelles Strait.
Here's a new video, "5 Essential Books on George Custer," for my YouTube channel.
60 Minutes. A stopwatch. “Is NBC hiring? Lesley Stahl investigates.”
The Onion’s print ads are the best thing in the newspaper.
“A growing body of evidence indicates that the strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school was carried out by the US.”
I’m very confident the US military already knows we did it. So when Trump blames Iran or when cabinet members say “we’re investigating,” they’re lying.
“Jeffrey Epstein ordered a 16-year-old girl to give him a massage while he was on the phone with Donald Trump - moments before sexually assaulting her, an FBI memo newly released by the Justice Department claims.”
Yet another document the DOJ tried to cover up.
So the case for Congress is, once we have gone to war, if they don’t like it, they can remove the money? Congress does not have a constitutional role in the declaration of war. Congress has a role in cutting off funds for wars, which it has threatened to do. And the president doesn’t have to get permission. But yes, you can debate, you can decide. That’s his choice in how he wants to do it. I mean, here I will quote the Constitution: “The Congress shall have power to declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water.”
This woman has a Ph.D., but she couldn't be asked to read the Constitution’s ~4,500 words.
Quote from Hamlet
I don't know, but I wonder if he appreciated it as a lawyer, who was also trying to enforce the law against traitors:
"In the corrupted currents of this world
Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice;
And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself
Buys out the law: but 'tis not so above..."
It's also obscene—even for him—that Trump said it "was done by Iran." When he said that, he surely knew we had done it. So, he's just brazenly lying to the American people about the killing of 175 people, most of them children.
Truly unbelievable stuff. Just up there shamelessly lying his ass off
Jeff Bezos’s Amazon: “We start with what the customer needs, and we work backward."
Bezos’s Washington Post: “Customers who want individualized coffees are giant losers who are destroying western civilization. Can’t they just drink normal coffee.”
How is this real? I assumed it must be a joke.
I just wanted to enjoy USA vs. Mexico baseball but John Smoltz is yammering on and on about how putting on the Team USA uniform is more or less like being a soldier & it makes this game bigger than sports. Since when did we begin turning every game featuring a Team USA into a mini Nuremberg rally?
Seems like a very important detail:
Iran’s new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei’s wife, Zahra Adel; his mother, Mansoureh Khojasteh Bagherzadeh, and a son were killed alongside his father in strikes by the US and Israel during the opening moments of the war.
It's also obscene—even for him—that Trump said it "was done by Iran." When he said that, he surely knew we had done it. So, he's just brazenly lying to the American people about the killing of 175 people, most of them children.
Imagine the reaction in the US if ~175 schoolgirls had been killed by a targeted Iranian missile. (Or anyone's missile.)
This is an atrocity.
BREAKING: Two more people have died in ICE detention, per required notification to Congress.
As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy
Every time I open a news app or site and this story isn’t being discussed or featured prominently I feel like I’m losing my mind. Do not look away.
We're in uncharted territory- if WTI crude holds these gains tomorrow- the current rise of 29.9% or $27.16/bbl would be its largest single day price jump- in both percent and amount- ever. Ever. EVER.
“A newly released video adds to the evidence that an American missile likely hit an Iranian elementary school where 175 people, many of them children, were reported killed.”
Trump lied about this yesterday.
The WSJ calls it “the most severe energy crisis since the 1970s.” ⛽️
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/world/middle...
It’s too easy to go to war
Ayatollah
Page One in Miami:
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Camp East Montana in TX
A detainee at Camp East Montana in TX: “At one point he said he overheard a security guard talking about bets made among the staff over which detainee would be next to die by suicide. The guard said he had paid $500 into a pool, with the total pot riding on the outcome.”
apnews.com/article/suic...
Want to know how broken our media is? We are in an illegal war, & reporters/anchors are getting on the phone with Trump daily & just…relaying his words to their viewers, like stenographers. No challenging questions or follow-ups, no discomforting of Trump.
Try independent media:
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Gas prices and the Iran War
This chart on the impact of the Iran War on gas prices should cause nightmares for the GOP.
This is not good.
It’s worth noting that there is very little reporting on post-strike conditions in Venezuela. Trump causes chaos and moves on. And so does the media.
