For years, strategists have warned national leaders against the temptations of "victory disease," the belief that winning battles means they're winning the war. Leaders throughout history have made this mistake, and Trump seems to be making it now.
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Karoline Leavitt: It doesn't matter if Russia is helping Iran kill American troops.
What a breathtakingly twisted White House.
Russia and China are helping Iran carry out precise strikes on U.S. and Israeli air defense systems and radars. Without them, Iran - having no satellites of its own - would never have been able to conduct such accurate strikes.
Reverend Jesse Jackson called on each of us to be heralds of change, to be messengers of hope; to step forward and say “Send me” wherever we have a chance to make an impact.
How fortunate we were that Jesse Jackson answered that call. What a great debt we owe to him.
When you're a Republican President, and the Cato Institute is comparing you unfavorably with your Democratic predecessor, you've really done something wrong.
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The killing of Iranian children during an illegal war is an impeachable offense (not to mention a grave crime) and Congress should really act like it.
15 Republicans in the Senate could end this nightmare before it somehow gets even worse.
Every time he says something like this, the Secret Service quietly googles, “is dementia covered under executive privilege?”
Jesse Jackson never stopped fighting for America, in times of darkness he turned to hope and embodied the light.
"We are freeing Iran from religious fanatics".
A prayer for Trump in the White House.
Just announced: Iceland has urgently moved up its referendum to join the European Union - to 29 August.
A reminder: 🇮🇸 is in many ways already a non-voting 🇪🇺 member because of the EEA. This would give them voting power to shape the laws they have to follow.
What are the chances that the intelligence about the US military that Russia is providing to Iran was initially provided to Russia by its obedient lapdog, Donald J. Trump?
Former President Joe Biden takes a jab at Donald Trump at the memorial service for Rev. Jesse Jackson:
"These are bad times right now. We're in a tough spot, folks. We've got an administration that doesn't share any of the values that we have."
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Obama has the crowd at Jesse Jackson's eulogy hanging on his every word
Are we releasing these Epstein file interviews to distract from Iran or are we still using Iran to distract from the rest of the Epstein files? 🤔
Reuters photographer Kylie Cooper captures the day's photo
THEY FINALLY DID IT! Sheldon Whitehouse officially called out the connections between Trump, Epstein, and Russia on the Senate floor.
Kelly: "You could pick a random group of people off the street tonight here in DC and they could probably do a better job than our government is doing right now. They don't have a goal, there's no strategic plan. And what this is likely to lead to is, again, a long war with a lot of dead Americans."
Chris Murphy: "It's just so disgusting to listen to the president be waxing poetically about the drapes he's buying while there are six Americans who are dead. There are six families who are about to bury their children because of a war of choice that no one in this country wanted, an illegal war."
BLUMENTHAL: Wouldn't you agree no citizen working lawfully should be arrested?
NOEM: There are times when they may be arrested or detained until identity is confirmed
B: Would you agree citizens should not be arrested?
N: When there's probable cause ...
B: They said, 'Get him. He's Mexican'
Now U.S. has closed two embassies in Mideast & told Americans in 14 countries to leave. But most airspace is shut down, there are no flights. Reading about people from around the world stranded.
Why are they only now telling Americans to leave? No planning, they weren’t expecting it to spiral.
That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers.
Reminder that Congress has the power to stop this.
Both Saudi Arabia and the UAE lobbied Trump to strike Iran.
Both countries have major financial ties to Trump & his son-in-law Jared Kushner.
War gives dictators like Trump (and his family) more power and more wealth. Period.
https://popular.info/p/the-money-behind-the-new-iran-war
Europeans who fled to Dubai to avoid taxes, trashing Europe while praising Dubai, are now paying the price.
They are hiding in basements, begging Europe for help, alongside influencers posting UAE‑funded propaganda that claims everything is fine while they wait to be evacuated
IRAN: Retaliatory attacks including on US soil.
US: “NATOs assemble! Article 5!”
NATO COUNTRIES: “Nah, we’re good, bruh. Gotta continue with our Epstein probes.”
I prefer non-lethal distractions from the tRUMPSTEIN Files like renaming the Gulf of Mexico, making Canada the 51st state & buying Greenland. Sure it was hugely offensive to longtime friends & allies, but at least no one died.
Of course. No one wanted this war. They wanted food and health care and energy prices to go down. Now all those things will cost more.
It's a war of folly by a doddering old man who likes when things blow up and needs to distract us from the child sex ring he's connected to.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
