Trump announces that the soaring cost of filling up your gas tank is a "small price to pay" for his glorious Iran war. www.cnbc.com/2026/03/08/c...
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Trump announces that the soaring cost of filling up your gas tank is a "small price to pay" for his glorious Iran war. www.cnbc.com/2026/03/08/c...
Some version of this is absolutely happening in the WH tonight.
A good example of why we need answers about strategy: We're destroying refineries and oil production. If the goal is to immiserate the Iranians and cut off their income, fine. (Not great thinking, but understandable.) But if it's regime change...uh, they're gonna need that rebuilt. So why do that?
Who will be the first to say we’ve been at war with Iran since Thermopylae?
More like daylight wanking time
Ah yes, the senator who challenged a witness to a fistfight during a hearing will definitely bring a steadier hand.
Much as the senator who keeps confusing Iran and Iraq and apologized because he "was mispoke" there will surely help restore public confidence.
The meme with a guy and two girls. The guy is labeled 1:59 AM. His girlfriend islabeled 2 AM. The cute girl coming the other way is labeled 3AM.
The US and Canada go to Daylight Savings Time tomorrow morning.
this made me cackle all the way through
Trump saluting a flag-draped casket carried by soldiers, wearing his standard ill fitting suit and a white baseball hat that says USA in gold letters visible from space
I think it's great that the president put on his most solemnly branded baseball cap to receive the returning coffins of soldiers killed in the unnecessary war he launched to distract from his failing presidency and pedophilia scandal.
Look at that gold-like letting. Classy as shit.
I believe this is called an intelligence operation. In this case, using a senator as an asset.
If I said "the Imperial Japanese military operated with a high degree of operational excellence," someone here would say "I can't believe how much you love the Japanese empire and I'm shocked that you supported the attack on Pearl Harbor."
Because social media.
Had to doublecheck the date on this
New: Democrats asked a federal court to block Trump's 250-ft arch.
Under law, Congress must approve certain monuments in DC.
“This is a straightforward issue of who’s in charge,” @SenAngusKing said.
They also mocked the "vanity" project.
“This is not Pyongyang,” @RepHuffman told me.
Headline and subhed of Washington Post op-ed arguing that there should be more representation of evangelical Christians on the Supreme Court and other government institutions.
I’m currently writing a book about what’s really wrong with #SCOTUS and how to fix it.
Suffice it to say, this ain’t it:
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.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
I continue to be gobsmacked at 1) how common this formulation is 2) how antisemitic and generally bigoted it is 3) and how for all the talk of anti-semitism this is never cited as an example even though it’s quite literally the original incarnation.
Trump: This has been a debacle at DHS and it’s killing my approval rating and presidency. I need to bring in a superstar. I need the most qualified, talented and outstanding person in America to get this turned around. Get Markwayne on the phone.
Noem got fired like a dog... just not like a dog she fired.
As I've been saying for days: this feud with Hegseth -- in which Anthropic looks principled, and Claude looks so valuable that the Pentagon can't live without it -- has been terrific marketing for Anthropic www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
You cannot talk like this about any other minority in America.
And if it was any other president’s adviser who said something like this about any other minority, it’d be the instant end of their presidency.
AYMAN: Can you tell me where Iran killed thousands of Americans in America?
ANNA PAULINA LUNA: I said they are responsible for thousands of Americans being killed
AYMAN: Where?
LUNA: Are you serious right now?
AYMAN: It seems like you don't want to have a good faith conversation
I’m not mad at Democrats; many have responded relatively appropriately and vigorously. I am mad, specifically, at Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries
wife chasing me around the kitchen table with a rolling pin because she found me in the epstein files being a Mossad Operative
This is some next-level swiftboating
you mean vance?
I've seen enough to conclude the reports are true. Ayatollah Khomeini is dead.
Two photos. The first shows Catturd tweeting: Name one US inspired regime change that hasn't ended in absolute disaster The next tweet shows him posting an AI illustration of Khamenei turned into a pile of dust. It says "I'm eliminated."
Two tweets. The first shows Laura Loomer promoting her show, where she says "A message has been sent that we are not interested in going back to the way politics were prior to Donald Trump, prior to 2016. We don't want warhawks. We don't want any more Neocons. We want American First. Period. End of discussion." The next tweet says: Today is a great day. Our military is amazing. @PeteHegseth is an absolute killer. Now you see why the Deep State worked so hard against him. It’s great having a Sec War who has Infidel literally tattooed on his body. He actually gets it. God bless him.
Two tweets. The first shows Will Chamberlain tweeting: The Republican Party is no longer the party of regime change and endless wars. If you want to be its standard-bearer that is a non-negotiable position. The next tweet shows him posting "Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead." The tweet has a USA flag attached.
Two tweets. The first shows Gunther Eagleman tweeting: "Warmonger Lindsey Graham just rushed to Fox to advocate for U.S. involvement as soon as he could. He is also pushing for a US-backed regime change in Iran. I would like to renominate Graham to get a one-way ticket to the frontlines of every war he wants America involved in." There's an attached video of Graham speaking. The next shows Eagleman tweeting: UST IN! President Trump is HARD AT WORK all weekend after the massive strikes on Iran! He’s already on the phone with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte! Trump is a machine!" There's an attached video of a news segment about the war in Iran.
manufacturing consent through lowly paid influencers
First impression: This is regime change, lots of ways for it to go wrong, a few it could go right, but at huge risk:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Just this week:
- Administration is caught hiding evidence Trump sexually assaulted a 13 year old
- Pentagon demands AI companies allow it to use AI for mass surveillance and killer robots
- Trump launches unconstitutional war against Iran
- Pro-Trump oligarch buys CNN
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Rep. Patronis claims Trump's strikes on Iran are part of "an effort of global peace taking place under his leadership"
