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.
The truth is this war has been a failure of historic proportions. They don’t want Americans to know that. But we will never stop covering it honestly and with the critical lens that something this serious deserves.
Brendan Carr is threatening the media to cover the war the way the Trump regime wants. It’s one of the most anti-American messages ever posted by a government official.
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I cannot adequately explain how fucked up the World Cup situation is wihen the president of a host nation *threatens the safety* of one of the participants (Iran).
The USA should be removed as a host nation and if it's not, the games shoud be boycotted and ANYONE WITH A MORAL CENTER should see that.
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.
Yes. Great thread.
Here is how we got here: Bc our nation is drowning in lies that persuade voters to elect con artists. And we do almost nothing to change that.
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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 incredible how the Iran War, which principals are Israel, Iran and the US, has somehow morphed into being a colossally beneficial conflict ... to Russia.
I don't think there's anything in this world that I'd want to know more than precisely what Putin has on Trump.
We're not idiots. We're not overreacting. We're not partisan hacks for Democrats. Don't piss on our legs & tell us it's raining.
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 don’t think this shit will work but i never want to hear about free speech from any trumpers or anti anti trumpers ever again, fuck off forever bsky.app/profile/cram...
You don't get to paper over the fact that they are bigots. They knowingly wanted to strip minorities and women of any historical representation. They killed projects simply because they had ethnic identities and genders attached.
I don’t see a way out of this. Taking the Strait of Hormuz or seizing Kharg island will result in considerable loss of life. We can’t exactly apologize because we killed the Ayatollah. I doubt anyone besides Israel is gonna help us. This is a disaster.
now obviously "tracy's hall of fame" is copaganda but if you wanted to tailor an entry that would make me most sympathetic to the featured officer it would probably be "got shot at by a sovcit who was trying to teach his 3 year old how to drive"
Trump practically told our allies to f-off — that we didn’t need them, that the U.S. had already “won.”
Now he’s begging them for help.
Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.
also, this is not my lane, but i don't think you get to sign your tweets "semper fi" if your military service consisted of being a JAG in the air force
It wasn't a "Military Academy"—it was a reform school.
And that isn't an army uniform—it's a costume from a community theater production of "The Nutcracker."
I’m afraid that horse has sailed.
My assumption is that there are war plans for dealing with a closed Strait of Hormuz, but these guys in their infinite wisdom decided that would never happen and didn't bother looking at them. Hitler had these issues in Russia, too.
I’m low key astonished by the number of finance experts that didn’t anticipate problems with the Strait of Hormuz. Did they really trust Trump and Hegseth knew what they were doing? Did they take for granted all the usual experts that Trump fired? Didn’t most of us see this coming?
They’ve been admitting and exposing their little secret race science group chats for about a year now eventually we have to understand and act with that knowledge in mind.
People desperately want to believe these people are simply dull rather than actively and knowingly harmful.
Yeah this is why I wouldn’t be so quick to buy the idea they don’t read any books as it’s much more likely they understand the books they’re reading are supposed to secret and “gnostic” as recently described.
personally, i would not describe the fact that a quarter of the world's oil deposits are adjacent to a gulf that connects to the larger ocean through a narrow strait as an "artificial constraint." quite the opposite in fact
Any sensible person who paid even cursory attention to Donald Trump knew, even before "The Apprentice," that Donald Trump is a dishonest, stupid, unreliable man and only out for himself. If you are currently feeling "betrayed" by such a deeply flawed person, you are a gullible idiot.
"There is an active shooter at your child's school. Text your child and tell them that it's safe to walk in the halls right now, just as long as the shooter doesn't shoot."
“We have bombed the shit out of places and napalmed the jungles but the Viet Cong keep shooting at us from the bushes, we don’t get it, that’s not fair.”
You really can’t expect dod to worry about strategic issues when he’s busy making the military masculine again by demanding servicemembers have influencer abs and denigrating anyone in a non combat or civilian role www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
And before you fucking start “smart” does not mean “morally praiseworthy”
