“It’s the beginning of building a new country,” he says with his next breath.
Weren’t we done with nation building?
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“It’s the beginning of building a new country,” he says with his next breath.
Weren’t we done with nation building?
Nearly every time someone says, "X is the only minority group that has to deal with...", they are about to say something that some other minority group has had to deal with in recent memory.
I really think "Platner's team declined an opportunity to speak to Maine Jews and reassure them" deserves to be a larger part of the story of his campaign than it has been thus far.
I guess this is better (if you set aside that her reputation and career should have been destroyed forever after her role in the Bush years). bsky.app/profile/adam...
Oh come ON
If you truly believed Graham Platner is not antisemitic at all, you would be sending him to synagogues in Maine to speak to Jews and reassure them of that. That is what Mamdani did during the NYC mayoral election. The fact they are not doing that is... telling.
Well, okay, this makes up for it a little. bsky.app/profile/juli...
Exactly. He would have at least said something about her weird plastic face. We’ve been robbed.
Trump’s social media firing in his second term is just so weak and low energy compared to the first. Trump 1.0 would have dragged the bejesus out of Noem. Such a disappointment.
In 1980, NBC interviewed a young Trump about the ongoing Iran hostage crisis. He did not hold back. “That this country sits back and allows a country such as Iran to hold our hostages, to my way of thinking, is a horror, and I don’t think they’d do it with other countries,” he said. When the interviewer asked if that meant “you’re advocating that we should have gone in there with troops,” Trump replied, “I absolutely feel that, yes,” adding that had America done so, “I think right now we’d be an oil-rich nation.” (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently said that he had dreamed of being able to “smite the terror regime” in Iran for 40 years; it turns out Trump had him beat.) In 1987, the Times reported that Trump declared in a New Hampshire speech that “the United States should attack Iran and seize some of its oil fields in retaliation for what he called Iran’s bullying of America.” In 1988, Trump told The Guardian that “I’d be harsh on Iran. They’ve been beating us psychologically, making us look a bunch of fools.”
I don't think many people realize that Trump has been talking about Iran like this since 1980: www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
How are they gonna win a war when they can't even run a website?
Wait, I thought accidental Nazi guy was supposed to be the progressive candidate? slate.com/news-and-pol...
Fun to have all our Iraq PTSD triggered like this.
I keep thinking about his "weapons of mass destruction-related program activities." A true classic.
He reads his top secret mission to save Texas with his bionic eye!
After his loss last night, mission accomplished?
Today's a great day to remember Dan Crenshaw's super weird action film ad from 2020. www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/...
Talking about troops who die in a war zone is only something that should happen if a Democrat is president, see? Especially if it's used to make the Democratic president look bad. www.politico.com/live-updates...
"Like Iraq but even more" is not the selling point they think it is.
Of course Hegseth is the idiot who said shock and awe. Of course.
Like I said bsky.app/profile/kail...
We're, like, a day away from one of these idiots saying Shock 'n' Awe.
Now watch this drive
Lotta Nazi shit happening on the site that ISN'T the Nazi bar.
The year is 2026, and the Epstein files contain allegations that the current president raped children, but for the NYT, here's what matters. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...
The New York Times just can't help itself.
Here’s the actually important thing happening tonight.
Democrats want to give you back your money Trump illegally took with his tariffs. Trump wants to keep it to build himself a ballroom.
Since Trump's return, here are the total # of legislative seats each party has flipped:
Democrats: 26
Republicans: zero docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
This is the way.
"The initiative will send observers, who will wear purple safety vests, to areas of reported immigration enforcement activity to collect information 'that may inform future legal action,' according to Attorney General Letitia James." apnews.com/article/ice-...
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