Yebisu Fisherman

Its really striking how much of our politics is driven by people who claim not to be Republicans but whose sole consistent principle is that every single problem in society is Democrats’/liberals’ fault

Trump to the UK, 6 March: "We don't need them any longer... We don't need people to join wars after we've already won!"

Trump six days later: Publicly begs for the UK to send warships.

JET CREW KILLED, MORE MARINES DEPLOY abc #WORLDNEWSTONIGHT

NBC BREAKING #NEWS 6 U.S. CREW MEMBERS KILLED

CBS NEWS WAR WITH IRAN

How the broadcast nets covered the news of 6 more U.S. troops killed:

ABC: One minute at the top of main reported package on war

NBC: 25 seconds at top of main reported package on war

CBS: 7-second Dokoupil-read mention in intro to main reported package on war…that didn’t cover the deaths

If Joe Biden's son-in-law was flying around the Middle East as an unofficial Secretary of State while also working on business deals for his company with the same people he was meeting with on behalf of the US government, I'm pretty sure it would be a bigger story 🤔

I read an article by a retired US senior advisor this morning, he said “we’ve wargamed war with Iran for over 40 years, every single time we did it they shut the straight of Hormuz and there was nothing we could do to stop them”

This is a result of Trump surrounding himself with sycophants.

Wow suddenly allies are important again

"I ASSUMED the US Military had an active plan to open the Strait." How can people who are paid to understand geopolitics be so bafflingly naive?

A vigorous discussion followed, including many questions directed at Bezos. He confidently answered more during the lunch, of pecan-encrusted halibut, sliced steak medium-rare, patatas bravas and sautéed vegetables served on china emblazoned with the newspaper’s “WP” logo.

Would be good to know about the substance of Bezos’ answers to questions about his destruction of the WAPO newsroom, rather than the supposed “confidence” he may have conveyed. This piece offers far more detailed information about the lunch menu than what the “vigorous discussion” entailed.

one more note here: we are currently running absolutely astronomical deficits at the federal level, and nobody cares because a Republican is president

but the second a Dem gets back in the Very Serious Debt People will be back in force demanding safety net cuts

not a lot of room for tax cuts there

Tyler Austin Harper has once again decided that the real villain in all of this is ̶h̶̶̶i̶̶̶s̶̶̶ ̶̶̶m̶̶̶o̶̶̶m̶̶̶ Democrats and liberals

Here is what happened. I am sure several focus groups and consultants told Dem leaders "You have to give people something positive to vote for. You can't just run against Republicans!"

And that is patently untrue. You can just say "This this and this is a mess and I'll do it better."

Even the GOP is saying “the media is sanewashing us. We meant the terrible thing”

In Bernie's defense, his endorsements are based purely on whether the person/sponsor has said nice things about him in the past... exactly like Trump.

When challenged by the President of the United States in the White House in front of the national media on the worst polling aspect of trans rights and arguably the lowest point for trans rights Janet Mills stood and said "See you in court"

Graham Platner says that was a waste of breath.

The list of co sponsors is a list of Dems we don’t need to take seriously going forward. True non ball knowers. RIP CVH majority leader.

This tax cut thing gives me flashbacks to 2018 when every future 2020 Dem candidate who was also in the Senate made a big deal out of signing on to that M4A proposal and then the guy who was neither in the Senate for that nor signed on won.

how many times did Biden get “now you don’t have to like him, but his success is our success and you have to respect the office”? Zero, right

He doesn’t care about the audience. Well except for the audience of one.

It's only 8:30 am and we already have today's Quiet Part Outloud winner

Hottest annual core PCE inflation since March 2025

I think I’ll “irrepressibly” take a pass

Vance Distances Himself from, Undermines President

The fish stinks from the head.

There must be years, decades of plans for what to do if Iran closes the Strait. But they didn't use them, didn't include them. J5 kept their mouths shut and took their steer from the political operatives.

In a sufficiently rotten system, expertise is useless.

The horseshoe meets

Chris Hayes agreeing with Ryan Lizza in March 2016 that Trump is going to be to the left of Hilary by the general election

From today's NY Times, Ross Douthat's column, headline: "The Democrats Could Still Mess This Up" Subhead: "MS NOW anchor Chris Hayes says the party still can’t articulate its vision."

How it started / How it's going

SHE'S NOT GONNA TAX PEOPLE MAKING LESS THAN $50 MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR?

$50 MILLION?

$50 MILLION?!??!?!?!??!

Attacking Israeli soldiers would be "blowback". Trying to murder random Jews in Michigan is not "blowback"

They should probe media organizations that turned into propaganda outlets for Trump as well.

Who did this

Trump administration underestimated Iran war’s impact on Strait of Hormuz | CNN Politics The Pentagon and National Security Council significantly underestimated Iran’s willingness to close the Strait of Hormuz in response to US military strikes while planning the ongoing operation, accord...

"Top Trump officials acknowledged to lawmakers during recent classified briefings that they did not plan for the possibility of Iran closing the strait in response to strikes."

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