Nothing to see here. Just GOP Senator and arch-hawk Lindsey Graham treating, and speaking to, Donald Trump like a six-year-old child to manipulate him into a war of aggression against Iran that Netanyahu and Graham have long wanted. Beyond parody:
Trump's phrase will be, "When you're a star, they let you do it."
Genuinely, what made Lindsey Graham so remarkably horny to kill people in foreign lands
He's the kid that wants to be part of some group so badly that he'll tolerate nearly any degree of abuse from them, just so he can stay adjacent.
He's a useful idiot for bigger useful idiots
NEWS — Trump coercing staff to wear the same black pair of shoes that he wears.
“Everybody’s afraid not to wear them,” a staffer said, as some reportedly ditch their own footwear to comply with Trump’s wishes.
We’re officially in the dumbest timeline.
This is such a classic dictator trope — forcing subordinates to copy your style — that I thought it couldn’t possibly be real. Think Mao Zedong and the “Mao Suit,” or Saddam Hussein and “The Mustache", or Joseph Stalin and the “Generalissimo” outfit.
But apparently… it is real. Donald Trump reportedly has a footwear fetish. He’s testing the loyalty of his lieutenants by whether they’ll lace up in the same black shoes he wears. And yes, it’s creepy.
www.defiance.news/p/the-dictat...
A picture of Marco Rubio shoes that are too large for him
I’m a grown man who works for the president of the United States who is afraid to not wear the shoes he bought me that do not fit
Rand Paul: "As far as reasons for the war, there have been many different ones floated, but none have been very convincing... we were told their nuclear weapons were obliterated, and now we're told their nuclear weapons are just moments away from being a bomb. I don't think the arguments are valid."
Investigators are trying to learn more about two Pennsylvania men accused of bringing homemade bombs to a protest outside the home of New York City's mayor.
Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei
• More hardline than father
• He’s the IRGC candidate
• Relatively young: 56
• Avoids public
• Trusted by father, clerics
• Was in military during Iraq-Iran war
• His wife, Zahra, killed in Israeli airstrike w his father
If US and Israel launched war in hopes of Iran producing a Delcy Rodriguez, they re getting instead a Hugo Chavez: more militant, more radical considering it’s Iran.
Buckle up
NEW: Israel has concluded in #Iran war
• Regime change not an option
• Protests didn’t mobilize
• Kurdish option is no more
Result: Escalation of strikes as Trump looks for “elegant exit” and wait for next round www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...
Miscalculation on several fronts:
- Response inside Iran
- IRGC crossing red lines, hitting all GCC
- Gulf not joining
- Economic toll heavy
Doesn’t mean regime is not weakened but expectations of this war have diminished from Graham’s “Make Iran Great Again” to how do we end it
Elegant exit? There is no such thing as an elegant exit from a war of choice that you started and for which you cannot explain.
Leaders of both parties should be calling for Witkoff's immediate resignation after these remarks. He is a Russian patsy, a traitor, and this has just gone for too long. It is has to end.
Trump: "We're also waiving certain oil-related sanctions to reduce prices. So we have sanctions on some countries, we're gonna take those sanctions off until this straightens out. Who knows -- maybe we won't have to put them on, there will be so much peace."
RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA!
I’m sure there’s a more fulsome analysis somewhere, but in exchange for us attacking Iran, Russia receives: easing of sanctions on its energy sector, skyrocketing oil prices to fund its war, and Ukraine has to worry about shrinking supply of western armaments.
The PM did not specify Trump in his remarks.
Not the first time this account has reported inaccuracies. I’ve unfollowed because I can no longer trust their reporting.
This is what happens when one of the stupidest people in history is in charge of your government.
It’s coming on Iran.
why, you could even say the mission was accomplished
New acronym seen this morning: STAR. Some Things Aren’t Reversible. Trump could pull back, but will Iran, Israel, Azerbaijan, Saudi Arabia, UAE?
Was just talking to my friends about this earlier today. Let's say Trump gets bored with all of this, which I'm sure he will. There's no walking this back. No genie back in the bottle. It will take decades to undo what they did in a week.
Wait. The SPR is at 60 percent, even though you were planning a war against Iran for weeks, and oil was relatively cheap during that time?
Look, it’s not like they forgot about filling the SPR and then launched a war of choice next to a major shipping lane for oil.
Or, I guess, that is mostly what happened
Oh yeah, this is the other thing, Biden used the SPR - correctly - to smooth out the Ukraine invasion price action and try to break the Saudis (which he largely succeeded at). We had begun refilling this thing with oil at 60, but Trump’s team are idiots, and forgot about it - half full
A growing number of European leaders have traveled to China in 2026, signaling a renewed push for pragmatic cooperation amid global economic uncertainty that is reshaping foreign policy priorities. Following the recent visit of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz to China, CGTN
