We’ve reached the point where the damage Trump has done to the economy with his impulsive war will not correct by the time low information voters form their final judgements on the midterm election
McGowan: You're saying 46 Americans died, so we should attack this country. Here at home, 68,000 Americans die a year because they don't have health insurance. So, if we're going to spend billions of dollars on something…
Well done 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Wall art at Union Market in DC reads, “OPERATION EPSTEIN FURY.”
Look closer. Fallen soldiers’ names: Nicole Amor, Declan Coady, Noah Tietjens. Each marked, “DID NOT HAVE TO DIE.”
And at the bottom, the gut punch: “FIGHTING IRAN FOR THE EPSTEIN CLASS.”
Newsmax host calls out Hegseth for putting US pilots in danger with his unhinged rhetoric.
What he says…
Former Army JAG here. No quarter orders are a violation of the law of war and Geneva conventions.
This is the same order reportedly given during the Caribbean boat strikes. Secretary Hegseth is establishing a pattern of issuing illegal orders. (1/2)
I keep seeing people ask about the 25th Amendment.
Guys. His entire Cabinet is walking around in shoes that don’t fit because they’re scared to take them off.
The 25th is never happening.
i feel like if i was tasked with not starting a war and bringing back US manufacturing jobs, i could have done a better job than this
After reading the article, posts & quotes, I can conclude that the sports gambling, excessive mortgages, & trucks (with bigger payments than my house) add up to the same irresponsibility that led us to have a reality show host as a president: Low consequences & lots of enablers for bad decisions.
Unacceptable. My entire university could be funded for 10 years for what he has blown through in one week killing school girls and destroying our reputation in the world.
We will have won the Iran War when every Trump donor government contractor has finished their looting of America
Donald Trump calls Thomas Massie a traitor for supporting the release of the Epstein Files.
Journalists need to start asking Trump what he is trying to hide.
I suggest that Democrats bring up the many many times Republican members of congress and Trump voters have committed some form of vote fraud. They will have more than enough material to fill up a filibuster
![Not surprisingly, Morgenthau’s outrage over Vietnam led him to
raise tough questions about US democracy. The second or domestic
image of politics, as Waltz has called it, counted decisively for the
analysis of foreign policy. The crisis of American democracy enervated US foreign policy.
As Morgenthau commented in 1969:
[w]hen a government composed of intelligent and responsible men
embarks upon a course of action that is utterly at variance with what
the national interest requires and is bound to end in failure, it is
impossible to attribute such persistence in error to an accident of
personality and circumstance. Nor is it possible to make such an
attribution when the preponderance of public opinion – political,
expert, and lay – for years supports such a mistaken course of action.
When a nation allows itself to be misgoverned in such a fl agrant
fashion, there must be something essentially wrong in its intellectual,
moral, and political constitution. (NFP, 139–40)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreideyyk4cc4zinybymxtse67i52llypypwyqrxnpg5wp6w7tztnsca)
Not surprisingly, Morgenthau’s outrage over Vietnam led him to raise tough questions about US democracy. The second or domestic image of politics, as Waltz has called it, counted decisively for the analysis of foreign policy. The crisis of American democracy enervated US foreign policy. As Morgenthau commented in 1969: [w]hen a government composed of intelligent and responsible men embarks upon a course of action that is utterly at variance with what the national interest requires and is bound to end in failure, it is impossible to attribute such persistence in error to an accident of personality and circumstance. Nor is it possible to make such an attribution when the preponderance of public opinion – political, expert, and lay – for years supports such a mistaken course of action. When a nation allows itself to be misgoverned in such a fl agrant fashion, there must be something essentially wrong in its intellectual, moral, and political constitution. (NFP, 139–40)
Reading Morgenthau on Vietnam, and it's hard not to hear echos:
Wonder how the guy in Prospect Heights with the Joe Biden Owes Me Gas Money bumper stickers is doing
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
every R US Senator but Rand Paul owns this war, failed to uphold the Constitution and needs to get booted out.
Jeffries: "Article 1 of the Constitution provides Congress with the sole authority to declare war. Framers made that decision b/c they were concerned about kings plunging their people into unnecessary wars to pillage resources of others for the benefit of a tyrant and his family. Sound familiar?"
The glibness. The indifference. The carelessness. The utter lack of planning for a war against a country of 90M. The sickness of a man who acts on whim that will kill thousands not hundreds. The horror of a regime that enables this sickness. The broken body politic that votes in such malignancy.
#SendBarronToWar
‘It won’t be the billionaire kids of Donald Trump and his buddies that die,’ Sen. Chris Murphy said, as the military began reporting the first U.S. casualties in the growing Middl…
We’re like a day away before Republicans start claiming Biden started the Iran War
Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.
Civilizations throughout history have had to deal with the consequences of a ruler who is a malignant aging despot sliding into dementia. I guess now it’s our turn.
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Just going to put this here again, while we are illegally bombing a country because it is a Very Bad Authoritarian Regime.
One could, of course, also say the same thing about compliance with the JCPOA. We, not Iran, were the ones who unilaterally ended that agreement that was actually working.
Jasmine Crockett is standing on business and addressing the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran. She is willing to step away from her campaign in Texas to head back to D.C.
“I think speaker Johnson needs to call us in right now and we need to deal with this right now.”
These deaths—of Iran’s Supreme Leader, of schoolchildren, and of soldiers—and the deaths caused in retaliation, can only harden hearts and deepen this unwanted and unneeded conflict. Congress must assert its authority and keep this administration from endangering people here and around the world.
