Aaron Rupar

If you’re not angry enough about Trump running the economy like one of his businesses, actually watch this video

No-one actually expects gas prices to rapidly return to normal.

Rep. Mark Alford on spiking gas prices: "I think we all know that when you have a kinetic conflict like this -- whether you want to call it a war or not -- it is going to take a little bit of sacrifice on the part of Americans"

Rep. Pat Harrigan: "Cuba is now coming to President Trump and saying, 'We need to make a deal.' This is a great development for the interests of the US. Clearly Cuba is right in our wheelhouse, in our hemisphere. This is what we are earning. This is the peace we are actually earning."

Rep. Pat Harrigan: "Look, America is overall a very very good nation, and there are evil nations around the world that have been working averse to our interests"

i feel like north korea looks at these guys and tells them theyre laying it on a bit thick

Burgum: "With the Venezuela partnership we have an opportunity to move the geopolitical center from the Middle East to the Western Hemisphere. Without President Trump's bold, courageous, decisive leadership, we wouldn't even be talking about these incredible strategic alternatives."

BLITZER: Trump has said there was an 'imminent threat' from Iran. What's your understanding of that?

STUTZMAN: The imminent threat is they were going to continue to build - rebuild - their nuclear program

WOLF: But Trump said the nuclear facilities were 'obliterated.' So why the need to attack?

Zinke: "You can't say we're not at war internally. We know there are sleeper cells."

Me, dumb and politically correct: Firing on unarmed ships or double-tap military strikes on schools are bad things.

Rep. Nancy Mace says she wants to investigate Kristi Noem for wasting taxpayer dollars and supports subpoenaing her

Rep. Nancy Mace: "I believe Pam Bondi has been less than truthful with the American people and Congress on the Epstein files. I want to know where the files are that were on her desk, because they're not in the hands of Congress ... I want to know why this is continuing to be covered up."

Rep. Rich McCormick: "If you look at how people are calling President Trump and saying, 'Hey, we're cool, right?' Whether it be Kim Jong Un, Putin's starting to come to the table now. This is going to transform the way we do world negotiations."

What bothers me most is how eagerly they adopt these plays-with-blocks talking points because it's only a matter of time before you're out in public, some idiot starts parroting it, and I feel rage at that person's stupidity.

Rep. Joe Wilson: "What President Trump has done is truly -- it's been compared to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now, President Trump is creating in the Middle East liberation for a number of countries, all the countries"

Noem's bungling proves too much even for Trump Accountability is still possible.

Embarrassing attention to Noem's ostentatious venality, not her sadistic treatment of immigrants, is what finally led Trump to fire her
That's a hint of how politically vulnerable Trump is to a congressional airing of his profiteering in office. Another reason for Trump to fear a fair Nov election

Massie on Newsmax: "We're not getting the answers we need from Pam Bondi. I just spent 3 hours at the DOJ this week looking at the unredacted files. And I'm finding evidence of files they haven't released yet." (Note that the Newsmax anchor agrees with him!)

Intelligence Chair Rick Crawford: "These are the same people that were forcing everybody to wear a mask not long ago, but now they're trying to de-mask ICE agents"

Energy Secretary Chris Wright: "The politics of the climate cult was, 'We can't have any more hydrocarbons! 'We can't have any more hydrocarbons!' They stand in the way of stuff and just make it more expensive. It's really crazy."

FOX & FRIENDS: When will there be some relief for folks at the pump?

CHRIS WRIGHT: Weeks, not months

VARNEY: The midterms are months away. How soon can we expect the jobs picture to pick up sharply with more jobs coming into the economy?

LORI CHAVEZ DeREMER: I think we have seen that tick up a little bit. Overall, we're still better that what we inherited from the Biden administration

VARNEY: If you add it all up, it doesn't look good for the Trump economy

LABOR SECRETARY LORI CHAVEZ-DeREMER: I couldn't agree with you. Overall, we've gained 60,000 new jobs over the last two months

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correction to this post 👆 -- covid vaccines were in fact available in late 2021. we were in the delta wave, which sucked, but vaccines were broadly available in spring '21

oh yes you're right, I will correct

Hassett: "At the White House, we've got our eyes on the prize and we believe we're gonna have a world with a much more stable Venezuela, a much more stable Iran that is a very reliable and safe supplier of energy, which will reduce risk premiums around the world and be cause for celebration."

Kevin Hassett is just trying to gaslight his way through it: "With 4 percent growth this year, which is about what I expect we're gonna see, then there will be so much activity that everybody is gonna be able to find a job that wants one."

Hassett downplays a terrible February jobs report: "It's about what we expect to be seeing because immigration has gone down by so much that the breakeven employment is probably in the 30,000 or 40,000 jobs a month range. The economy is really strong."