Lara

If Iran does anything that stops the flow of Oil within the Strait of Hormuz, they will be hit by the United States of America TWENTY TIMES HARDER than they have been hit thus far. Additionally, we will take out easily destroyable targets that will make it virtually impossible for Iran to ever be built back, as a Nation, again — Death, Fire, and Fury will reign upon them — But I hope, and pray, that it does not happen! This is a gift from the United States of America to China, and all of those Nations that heavily use the Hormuz Strait. Hopefully, it is a gesture that will be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP

Trump is completely flailing. He didn't anticipate the economic blowback and now he's trying to undo the past 10 days and contain the damage.

the obvious one is that wealthy people have outsize influence on centrist pundits and they lean right (especially on issue like taxing wealthy people.)

'Ridiculous': Kristi Noem's 28-year-old aide wasted millions on unusable ICE vehicles A former deputy to outgoing Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem saddled the department with millions of dollars in wasted funding for vehicles that cannot be used.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcem...

A Noem aide spent $3 million on pickup trucks emblazoned with the ICE name & logo, which ICE agents -- notoriously averse to advertising their presence -- will not drive, so they're just sitting in a lot, useless. The contract went to a Trump donor who owns a regional Chevy dealership.

Jeffries Slammed After He Declines to Rule Out Backing Additional Iran War Funds The Trump administration is reportedly preparing to request an additional $50 billion in funding for the war.

“We’ll cross that bridge when we get to it,” said House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries in a comment that he is now facing criticism for after refusing to rule out supporting a potential request from Trump for tens of billions of dollars in additional military funding for the war on Iran.

I can't compete with this.

Schrödinger's War

Aggressive outreach means they know where demand is - so the 1000+ new seats can be in the right places. Huge. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...

oh man this press conference is going great I take it

We are a secular democracy. If you don't like the freedom of religion, you are welcome to move somewhere else.

In America, you can be Christian, Muslim, Jewish, or anything else. It's written into our Constitution. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Get lost with this garbage.

In an ideal world, the guy who controls the nukes and the village idiot would be two separate people.

As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy

LolNothingMatters

just keep doing the war and say something like "oh no not like that" at 4:15pm every weekday to keep the market humming; should buy you a week or two

Eyebrowmaxxing

Perfect. It is such a danger in politics to give too much power to special “groups” who don’t truly represent - or even listen to - the very people they claim to be representing. smdh.

Guess What Moderate Democratic Voters Aren’t Anymore? Moderate. Two new polls suggest that moderate Democrats, too, want higher taxes on the rich and some measure of economic populism. Moderate isn’t what it was in 1992.

Moderate Democrats with columns in newspapers are constantly saying the Democratic Party is way too liberal on "social" issues. Moderate Democratic voters in real life do not feel this way. With some polling data from @gelliottmorris.com and @dataforprogress.org. newrepublic.com/article/2074...

well aware of how little people want to be told to drive less, and i love it for this administration

Happy 250th birthday to Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations!

Some thoughts from me (more later).

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/o...

The DOJ released evidence, which the FBI deemed credible, that the President of the United States sexually and physically assaulted a 13 year old girl AND she was afraid to talk about it because Trump would kill her—and it’s somehow not the biggest scandal in American history?

boy in retrospect, really shouldn’t have elected the worst person in the entire country president. that, it appears, was less than wise

someone at the pentagon frantically typing “Claude, open the strait of Hormuz for me, quickest possible strategy, make no mistakes.”

A handful of Republicans in Congress & Supreme Court can end this nightmare any time they choose, and history will remember them as saviors of the republic, no matter what terrible things they did to US in last 10 years: insane we cannot find a few volunteers for this plum deal!

Is anyone else experiencing debilitating amounts of dread?

The Discourse has become sort of numb to the fact that the richest guy on earth and owner of a major social media platform just routinely spits out the kind of nakedly white supremacist shit that until a decade ago you rarely saw outside of places like Stormfront.

It was tragic that they blew themselves up, but less so than the success of their plans would have been.

So: no, Weather was not a bunch of principled radicals, completely unlike the movie version. They were far, far more stupid. And no self-respecting radical should idealize them.

$1B per day that could
be invested in housing and schools and innovation and healthcare and this is where we are at

Historian, 3062 AD: contrary to popular belief, Donald Trump’s massive curtailing of global petrocarbon consumption was *not* linked to the climate crisis of the 21st century.

the president has no idea what he has set in motion. none.

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