By the time Trump is done, America’s only allies will be the dictatorships who sign up for the Board of Peace.
07.03.2026 21:43
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By the time Trump is done, America’s only allies will be the dictatorships who sign up for the Board of Peace.
He just had to wear his hat
Reminds me of what Trump said in 2017 when asked about whether Putin was a “killer”.
Trump responded: "There are a lot of killers. We've got a lot of killers. What do you think? Our country's so innocent?"
He was making excuses for Putin then. He’s making excuses for Putin now.
Knew this was coming, eventually.
Visitors to the Capitol in Washington now have a visible reminder of the siege there on Jan. 6, 2021, and the officers who fought and were injured that day. n.pr/40PPmk6
Pete Hegseth's murderous buffoonery, coming amid a lifetime in which he's betrayed everyone close to him and failed up from one disaster to the next, is a perfect example of how the appeal of Trumpism is that it creates a permission structure for people to openly be their worst selves
To clarify this: the context is college sports. Trump is saying that Russia helping Iran target Americans in a war is less important than the pay structure for athletes.
Peter Doocy asked Trump about whether the Russians are helping Iran. (A legit, real question.)
Trump: What a stupid question that is to be asking at this time.
Men such as Eisenhower and Marshall weren’t excited about killing people. They weren’t giddy. They thought it was their grim duty, and they went about their business with full recognition of its awfulness, whatever the necessity of it. That’s how leaders ought to be, I think.
Bessent says the Trump admin may now lift sanctions on even more Russian oil to try and reduce oil prices during Trump’s war. This would provide a massive injection of cash to fund Putin’s war machine.
I will miss Kristi Noem's inimitable constitutional insights, as when, asked by Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H. at a Senate hearing to define "habeas corpus," she replied, "Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country."
"The United States joined Russia, China, and Niger on Thursday in opposing a resolution adopted by the U.N. nuclear watchdog's board denouncing attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure ..." Our country, America, is disgraced. Repeatedly. www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Correction. Orwell never said this. He did however, warn that: "political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” (That's Politics and the English Language, one of my favorite essays)
Markwayne Mullin has spent the last several days making a complete fool of himself on TV, so of course he was Trump's choice.
New in PN: Vance's "war on fraud" is a fraud
"It's bad enough that the campaign against MN is driven by gutter racism. Just as shocking is that this president, who spent a lifetime running scams & swindles, says with a straight face that he wants to fight fraud. And that Vance is the man to do it."
Trump is taking credit on Truth Social for the primary “wins” by 17 of his endorsed candidates yesterday who ran unopposed. meidasnews.com/news/trump-t...
I will also note that 3 of his endorsed candidates lost yesterday.
With Trump randomly tossing out different and competing war aims; Rubio saying Israel caused the attack; Hegseth insisting we're totally achieving our clear goals--but we need more forces and metrics are shifting; and Vance heading for the tall grass...very bad to have these guys in charge of a war!
Hegseth today: We don't actually have any clear purpose or guideposts or objectives in mind, the metrics are shifting...but "we are just getting started."
Yikes.
The American people can’t get any real answers at Pentagon press briefings during a war because Hegseth is afraid to call on real reporters for questions. He can only handle softballs from right-wing lackeys.
“In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not to the executive...[T]he trust and the temptation would be too great for any one man."
-- James Madison
www.theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-una...
"Those cowardly Canadians, don't they know they belong to us? Those dastardly Danes, denying us Greenland! Those terrible Taiwanese, stealing our chip industry! Those nasty Norwegians, refusing to give him the Nobel Peace Prize!"
The world is filled with enemies of our Dear Leader.
I'm not saying Iran doesn't present any kind of a threat. But not an imminent one that had to be immediately preempted, leaving no time to even consult Congress.
Over the past decade, I've trained myself to tread carefully when speaking about Trump around people whose poltiics I don't know - just avoid the topic. More and more, I find those people volunteering their disdain for him, not always for clearly articulated reasons, just vibes.
Just days before the United States launched a major military operation in Iran, FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen agents and staff members from a counterintelligence unit tasked with monitoring threats from Iran, according to two sources familiar with the matter. https://cnn.it/3OKIl1o
Trump argues for forever wars
Trump is now defending “forever” wars.
The linchpin of his populist-style critique of the foreign policy establishment was that it got us into “forever” wars.
Trump isn’t just defending his war with Iran. Now he is claiming that he can wage “forever” wars “very successfully.”
The American people deserved to get a clear explanation of why servicemembers lives are at risk and why their gas prices are about to skyrocket. Instead, they got this.
Trump is pursuing war in Iran without congressional approval, with little appetite among his base for another regime-change operation in the Middle East, and with allies in the region having discouraged it, @nancyayoussef.bsky.social and @jonlemire.bsky.social report:
