"I sexually exploited a now-dead employee and also I've got God on speed-dial and he always does what I want" is quite the self-portrait. Of right-wing Christianity. And evangelical entitlement.
“People are loving what’s happening,” said the voices in Trump’s head.
Everyone else, not so much.
Chart showing the price of RBOB gasoline commodity price rising sharply to $2.64 since the beginning of Operation Epic Fury
Seems less than great, folks, if you care about the price of gas.
Fortunately for the administration, that's never been a factor in a US election except for every single one of them since the invention of the automobile.
TRUMP SAYS HE NEEDS TO BE PERSONALLY INVOLVED IN SELECTING IRAN'S NEXT LEADER -AXIOS
The kind of headline that used to be career or even administration ending.
For the last few days the President of the USA and the White House communications team have been active agents of Russian influence, spreading the Putin narrative and trying to undermine democracy.
If only there was some way the United States could have helped free up Ukrainian expertise.
Jeez, who to believe in this he said/she said.
Perhaps we disbelieve the pathological liar?
It feels like DoD is writing a Choose Your Own Adventure story on the Iran War. "Choose a Kurdish Invasion? Go to page 69."
Page 69: "The mission ends in failure and you have died."
!["Near the end of the negotiation the [department] offered to accept our current terms if we deleted a specific phrase about
'analysis of bulk acquired data' which was the single line in the contract that exactly matched this scenario we were most worried about. We found that very suspicious," wrote Amodei in a memo to staff on Friday, which was first reported by The Information on Wednesday and seen by the FT.
In the note, which is likely to complicate negotiations, Amodei wrote that much of the messaging from the Pentagon and OpenAI, which struck its own agreement with Hegseth on Friday, was "just straight up lies about these issues or tries to confuse them".
Amodei suggested Anthropic had been frozen out because "we haven't given dictator-style praise to Trump" in contrast to OpenAI chief Sam Altman.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pnx2fjuannbdpy3337ggthpp/bafkreieextbfadwrrfdtzjomr67gnfdyb2c5jlhaknt6uelbil2622ksma@jpeg)
"Near the end of the negotiation the [department] offered to accept our current terms if we deleted a specific phrase about 'analysis of bulk acquired data' which was the single line in the contract that exactly matched this scenario we were most worried about. We found that very suspicious," wrote Amodei in a memo to staff on Friday, which was first reported by The Information on Wednesday and seen by the FT. In the note, which is likely to complicate negotiations, Amodei wrote that much of the messaging from the Pentagon and OpenAI, which struck its own agreement with Hegseth on Friday, was "just straight up lies about these issues or tries to confuse them". Amodei suggested Anthropic had been frozen out because "we haven't given dictator-style praise to Trump" in contrast to OpenAI chief Sam Altman.
www.ft.com/content/97bd...
Trump never gives away anything for nothing.
Whoever he endorses is going to be his slave for life. They will do anything he tells them to do and will not even peep a word of protest no matter what he does.
That is what has many foreign ministers, defense officials and world leaders worried. A top Arab diplomat said this week that his government has no real insight into the administration’s planning for a transition of government in Iran — or even whether it wants to play a role, given Mr. Hegseth’s repeated statements that “nation building” was not on the Pentagon’s list of tasks. People familiar with Mr. Merz’s visit say he pressed on whether the president has thought ahead to how, and under what conditions, the action in Iran might end. In other administrations, these are the kinds of questions the National Security Council would be tasked to answer. It would also have been the N.S.C.’s role to make sure there was plenty of warning to U.S. citizens to leave the Middle East. Instead, that advice came from the government only after the fighting was well underway, leaving thousands of Americans stranded. David Rothkopf, the author of “Running the World: The Inside Story of the National Security Council and the Architects of American Power,” said he was struck by the absence of basic process. “Never has so much risk or such sweeping military action of so much consequence been undertaken with so little apparent planning or weighing of potential consequences, both intended and unintended,” he said.
Operation Shitshow (here’s to hoping it’s not, but this seems like a setup for disaster)
Talarico is running an anti-system campaign that could be very appealing to indies & Trump voters (who you need to win in a Trump +14 state). By highlighting positions that are not correlated with left-right ideology, he can attract right-leaning voters. Smart www.gelliottmorris.com/p/meet-ameri...
🔴 A Shahed drone costs roughly $30–50k
🔴 A Patriot interceptor costs $3.7–4M
russia has been launching hundreds of Shaheds at 🇺🇦 cities in a single night for 4 years now!
If the plan was to counter cheap mass drones with multi-million-dollar interceptors, is anyone surprised it is failing?
Because they think they are playing a video game. Morally, they see no difference.
About the best summary of the current situation I’ve seen:
Pete Hegseth is one Iran update away from showing up smeared in fake blood, war paint and holding up plastic skulls.
And the manufactured sharia law stuff and culture war stuff plays with the extreme base but everyone else’s patience here sure feels like it is wearing thin /end
The fact is a lot of the problems in TX that even R incumbents complain about are things they’ve had three decades to address and yet folks struggle with roads, water rural healthcare, and the grid. Underfunded public schools. And money in politics that feels a lot like bribes or pay to play 2/
I actually adore Tim and the Bulwark, but the X cess pool isn’t the best focus group of Texas general election voters.
My elderly super conservative, lifelong R has had enough of Trump & Paxton & Cornyn — the fact he can find a way to support Talarico makes me think this X analysis is a bit off. 1/
"All the MAGAs I follow are ___"
Ok, and that wouldn't matter if journalists stopped writing content on the site — and in doing so, exposing themselves to all the posts from the fringe right of U.S. politics that have been algorithmically tuned to pickle their brains. It's a giant red filter bubble
This — daily I tell someone that still sends me an X post or references stuff off that sludge site to leave it.
Whatever real and mostly imagined clout you have over there isn’t worth it.
Why are there guys wearing helmets? Should we be concerned?
Who got us into "a situation like this?"
They literally spent the past 4-plus years blasting Biden over the withdrawal from Afghanistan and how "rushed" it was.
Somehow unleashing the glorious lethality of the American warfighter in precise, unrelenting waves of death and destruction has not altered the fact that the Strait of Hormuz remains closed, you imbecilic plastic surgery freak
He says this on the day six american deaths were confirmed
Yep.
