10/ All of this was totally foreseeable. Frankly, it’s why previous presidents weren’t so stupid to start a war like this.
Trump has lost control of the war. His best course now is to cut his losses and end it. That’s the only way to prevent an even bigger disaster.
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.
Breaking: the DOGE deposition videos have been taken off YouTube. On Friday the government asked a judge to intervene, said the videos could cause reputational damage, death threats. Judge agreed, ordered them removed: www.404media.co/doge-deposit...
I read the “Save America Act,” so you don’t have to. Most of the media apparently *hasn’t* read it because, if they had, they would be sounding the alarm about the provision in Point 1, below, which almost none of them have even mentioned. I hope this summary helps raise awareness. 1/
Her lack of self-awareness AND self-respect is truly off the charts.
1. Trump launches a war against Iran.
2. Putin helps Iran track down and kill American service members.
3. Trump rewards Putin by lifting sanctions on Russian oil.
If Donald Trump isn’t a Russian agent, he’s going out of his way to make people think he is.
this means it is not open for transit
Yes. This is transparently the plan. It is a destructive and unconstitutional plan. And it can be stopped. It can even be turned into an electoral issue that hurts Trump. But only if we face this now.
does appear to be the trajectory we’re on
This is how our government has been corrupted:
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics. It’s the root of all evil in Washington.
When Trump gets a question he doesn’t like or have an answer for that doesn’t make him look horrible:
“I don’t know about it.”
You can have the best armed forces in the history of the world, but if you are an incompetent criminal without a plan, you can still lose a war, and rather quickly.
“hostile” = fact-based
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:
Chalk that last part up to white (male American) privilege.
So when do we hold our criminal president accountable for breaking his oath of office?
Not just for pressing domestic ends, but to begin to rehabilitate our reputation and standing in the wider world?
Not trying to be deliberately obtuse…
Would his 1/6 pardons fall under that umbrella? Could someone sue to invalidate them? Who would have standing?
For my money, of all political pundits in primetime cable, no one exudes utter unrestrained contempt for Donald Trump more consistently than Lawrence O'Donnell. #lastword
Which is why I tune in🙏
Prior to tonight, never heard Rachel Maddow so directly & bluntly call Putin Donald Trump's "boss"👀
"Did Trump just call Putin from his flip phone?
Was it while he was playing golf?
Was it even in the White House calendar that today was the day Trump was supposed to check in with his boss?" #maddow
Shawn McCreesh of the NYT
Just gotta crack through and into Fox brain. Easier said than done.
It’s fine for Russia to use drones to freeze out your population — by the way, can you give us your drone defenses? This is the actual US position.
The lying is definitely pathological
the president has no idea what he has set in motion. none.
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
*behind bars
mr. “my heart goes out to you”😂🖕
A purpose of the war on Iran might well be to provoke a terrorist attack inside the United States. This would provide Donald Trump with a pretext to try to cancel or “federalize” the coming Congressional elections.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-desire...
Embarrassed for our collective national identity. This weirdo is our “leader”?
I can explain it right now tbh, they don't consider the rest of us human much less American. It's not national suicide, it is a family annihilation perpetuated by people who lied and grifted and stole they way into power and are using it to consolidate resources ahead of the climate catastrophe
White House: the witness’s allegations are “completely baseless” and “backed by zero credible evidence.”
Fact: FBI found her credible enough to interview repeatedly, and she received a financial settlement from the Epstein estate.
