Jake Sparks

When Americans were asked to temporarily sacrifice going to their barbers so we could keep the morgues from overflowing, people with guns stormed the Michigan capitol.

what if there were reasons besides “beta cuck woke libtard” that previous presidents didnt try to deter irans nuclear program through brute force and military action?

The sole reason why Trump declared victory after his previous 12-day Iran bombing campaign was that he claimed Iran’s nuke program was “completely obliterated” and unable to recover for many years. But his justification for the war now is that his previous bombings were a failure.

It's looking increasingly like these guys thought that if they could wreak more death and destruction than the other side then they would be respected as strong powerful men and they would "win" and that would make them big important heroes. Very possibly they had no rationale deeper than that.

The problem with this “sacrifice for our freedom” language is that the Trump administration cannot articulate a single half-plausible reason it did this, didn’t bother to explain to the public it was starting a war in the first place, and has changed its explanation for why three times in a week.

It's maddening because his fundamental stupidity is obvious in quite literally every public statement he makes. He doesn't understand half the words he reads off teleprompters, evinces no familiarity with very basic concepts, and regularly asserts completely inane nonsense.

One of the things that really trips a lot of analysts, including ones with real skin in the game, is that they refuse - absolutely refuse - to accept how stupid Trump very obviously is. He has no knowledge of anything, is incapable of learning, and only remembers the last thing to happen to him.

The core revelation here is that Trump has lost the public *on the mass deportations themselves* and not just on ICE's brutal tactics. We have been arguing this for months but media has simply refused to acknowledge it. Now so obvious that it can't be avoided

i sort of think part of the problem here is that accurately portraying american sentiment about this war would shred a lot of other assumptions about the second trump admin that much of the political press have been running with since the start

i am far less interested in why trump voters like rogan feel betrayed and far more interested in why they believed trump in the first place, given his previous presidency

Your regular reminder that normal, mainstream, pro-democracy political parties do not make restricting suffrage the central pillar of their policy platform

you have to listen to everything he says but also ignore everything he says which is very difficult

Perhaps the real feeling is that nothing feels very grounded. Everything feels like it can be manipulated/uprooted. That there are very few consequences and whatever happens, no matter how bad, it will be buried in an avalanche of the next thing that is happening. Too much, too fast and no rules

Asking Trump to extricate us from this war is not unlike asking a poodle to change a flat tire. Hopefully someone will come along and change it for us but it won't come from any affirmative act he takes, because he doesn't know what's happening.

Trump is INCAPABLE of articulating a coherent policy on the war because he does not understand it in the barest terms, does not have any war aims, and doesn't care what happens. It is difficult for him to "chicken out" because that would require him to form an idea and pursue a course of action.

YES. In the same sentence he said the war was complete, he proposed a policy that would vastly enlarge the war! Media reported the first half, and then later reported a different part to make it seem like a change! But it was incoherent, nonsensical slop all along.

This, too, is sanewashing!

Trump did not announce a U.S. policy then walk it back. That is not what happened, and media presenting it that way does a disservice.

Trump said words he thought might appeal to his audience in the moment, with no connection to actual policy, then did that again with a different question/asker.

“Markets rejoice as man who always says what everyone wants to hear tells them what they want to hear”

An hour apart. Perhaps we should stop treating the mindless weathervane spinning in the breeze as if it has a clear strategic direction we can ascertain.

They spent your tax money on killing children. I think it's worth us spending our tax money prosecuting and punishing them all. No one will argue against it. It is a popular stance. Don't be a pussy. Stand up for those girls who were killed in our name.

Run on prosecuting war criminals and show ads with the missile hitting the school and show photos of the girls when they were alive. Make it a point to arrest and prosecute Hegseth and go from there. Trump won't protect him. He'll either be dead by then or cashed out.

If the Dems who win in the 2026 midterms get squeamish about prosecuting this administration, we'll need to elect a bunch of new people running on Nuremberg shit for 2028. This isn't a joke. It's the law. It's justice. Biden let Trump back in the WH and this happened because Joe didn't do his job

Oh my god no! The Iranians were developing Trump's healthcare plan.

the best analysis money can buy and they’re all getting circles run around them by “orange man bad”

in a healthy society with corporate boards tasked with managing long term success, every ceo that chose to publicly support republicans with company money would be fired on the spot for the willful destruction of the company theyre supposed to be protecting

Even among his haters there’s a kind of mythology around Trump that unfortunately still makes him seem more impressive than he actually is. I think it’s understandably hard to grasp just how stupid this is

I don’t think Trump and his people are capable of engineering “distractions,” I think the mind-numbing chaos we see every day is straightforwardly the result of giving the dumbest, cruelest, most corrupt, most selfish people of a generation near-unmitigated power

I’m sure Trump anticipated all of this happening and has a great plan.

we've had eleven years of this bullshit. there is simply no excuse for any Democrat to express any approval of anything Trump does, ever. It's like trying to find ways to agree with Hitler. just don't.

This is not complicated. Just oppose everything he does. You will never regret it, because he is an evil incompetent man and everything he does is evil, incompetent, or (most often) both.