Kamala Harris: "I predicted a lot about what's happening right now. I'm not here to say 'I told you so,' but we did see it coming."

Uh…WTF? Why does Bessent know operational details?

And why is he saying this to Kudlow? Isn’t standard protocol to send it via Signal to Jeffrey Goldberg?

Yeah, this is more or less what I've been saying (although in much more simplistic terms). He wants to feel strong. He's losing the deportation war. He's losing the tariff war. He's losing the war to prosecute his rivals.

So now he's starting *actual* wars to compensate.

Nintendo also probably has better health care policy; Dr Mario believes in germ theory

We badly need to revive the War Declaration clause.

You bastards, all your haranguing actually got him to read Bombing to Win and this is where that gets us

BREAKING via NBC News

Trump has privately shown serious interest in U.S. ground troops in Iran.

Full Story: nbcnews.to/4rW7N2w

the thing about foreign policy is that the vast majority of normies don't give a shit, but when you break things, they break hard. and these are the fucking people who were in charge of making it under Bush/Trump/Obama/Biden

I believe it was @golikehellmachine.com who first observed here that if he ever had his shirt off in front of a tattooist while getting his other work done, they would have noticed his Nazi tattoo & engaged him forcefully on the question of why he had it, & whether he wanted to be rid of it

reminds one a little of the lead face paint members of the french court used to wear

I dont' think she was ever particularly attractive but the plastic surgery with the Trump admin women is sure something huh

this is a particular personality type that every single person has encountered and every single person viscerally loathes

She sells it in the bitchiest, most smug and superior tone possible, which I'm sure is purposeful and what the boss likes but its incredibly off putting

like, you don't necessarily need to be likable or relatable in this job, but you can't just ooze contempt for everyone and everything at all times

it goes underdiscussed that leavitt is genuinely a terrible spokesperson; her whole, entire job is to sell the president's message to the public and she is comically awful at it. i'll give her that the president's message is usually incoherent and insane, but, still

But there's a huge difference between the notional military capacity of the United States 'when roused,' as it were and the military capacity available to the President in a discretionary fashion (illegally) as here.

The latter is insufficient to hold down Iran unless you get *really* lucky.

every issue poll is just trump’s approval rating now

You know who is noticeably absent right now? Vance.

Get this admin to? Hell no. Convince Dems to make it a much higher priority next time they have power? Yes.

And we might be about to have a Dem controlled Congress and some kind of caretaker national unity President, if Dems win the elections decisively and Trump self-destructs w/ an autogolpe.

... jesus christ we live in such an age of miracles

There Is No War In Iran It's not a regime-change war unless it comes from the Regimé region of France

The United States is at war with Iran. Maybe. Who knows?

new from me: open.substack.com/pub/cameronc...

I believe this means Doc Rivers has joined more public statements calling for the defense of higher education against the Trump Administration than has the President of the University of Chicago.

My entire lifetime has been a republican fuckin up and a dem to come clean up the mess over and over and over.

Hungary seizes millions of euros in cash and gold from Ukrainian convoy Seven Ukrainians arrested and money-laundering investigation launched in latest spat between Kyiv and Budapest An increasingly acrimonious spat between Hungary and Ukraine has escalated further, as Budapest impounded two Ukrainian armoured bank vehicles carrying millions of euros of hard cash as well as bars of gold. Seven Ukrainian citizens accompanying the convoy were also arrested. Continue reading...

Hungary seizes millions of euros in cash and gold from Ukrainian convoy

the agreement as long as I’ve been alive has been “the kooky rich oil guys will pay for the Dorky Papists to do our deregulatory work in the courts, because all the Oral Roberts and Baylor people are kinda embarrassing”

This is gonna be my last post on this guy, it’s just not worth it, and I’m sorry to be so old and remember things but I don’t see anyone mentioning that the GOP tried to nominate a born-again type to the Supreme Court, and her name was Harriet Miers, and even Republicans told GWB “yeah, lol, no”

otoh this is basically Trump issuing a new EV subsidy the hard way

HEY MAINE PRIMARY VOTERS:

If you don't like Mills but also don't want to vote for the guy who claims he didn't recognize a Nazi SS insignia on his own chest for 18 years even though he also claims to be a WWII military history buff, you might consider this woman.

like, I'm sorry, but if the question is, "do we bundle big for Texas *or" for an open seat in Montana & for Ossoff in Georgia?" the answer is CLEARLY not Texas.

The insane jingoism of Iraq and the GWOT was driven by genuine popular pressure and widespread support, now we've decided to let a senile gangster redraw the world map and most of us neither know nor care what we're doing or why.