MAGAs: “this is how you know Trump is innocent”
Everyone else: “this is how you know Trump is guilty”

We are now 10–12 days in, & his little “excursion” to deflect from Epstein files is now an $11B tab & counting. So, as blowback mounts, Trump is pointing the finger at his own team for "imminent attack" intel that supposedly drove the call. He ignored U.S. intel for bogus spoon-fed Israeli intel.

I think Trump knows exactly what he's doing with the shoes, it's another humiliation thing.

If it wasn't, they'd just rebuy the exact same Florsheim shoe in the right size and wear that. But they know he'd notice those aren't the clown shoes he gave them, so they can't do it.

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He consults with Putin but not Congress.

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.

I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.

1/ Here's what I can share:

Bier: "Over the last 30 years, we looked at all the government budgets -- federal, state, and local combined. Immigrants reduce deficits by $14.5 trillion."

I have long believed the incoming Bush administration ignored warnings about Al Qaida because they wanted a pretext for war, to flex our might in the post-Soviet world. Got more than they bargained for. And proved the limits of our military, while China was rising.

Coons: "Right now, the clearest winner from this war in Iran is Russia. It's stunning that President Trump is on the phone with Vladimir Putin and spending more time consulting with him than he is with Congress and the American people."

Comparison of blue v. Red

They scream about Socialism while their roads, hospitals, and schools are basically on a Federal IV drip.

50 super tankers? Or, is he the guy that adds an extra zero to any figure he quotes?

Screenshot of an X post by Really American claiming Republican Congressman Mark Alford said Americans must “sacrifice” by accepting higher gas prices to support Trump’s war with Iran. Below is a split-screen TV news segment with a female anchor on the left, a male reporter in the middle, and Congressman Alford on the right. A banner reads “BREAKING NEWS: CRUDE OIL PRICES HIT NEW HIGHS AMID WAR.”

The American people have sacrificed enough. Stop the war. Tax the billionaires.

This was the only way to make the numbers work on the Venezuelan oil.

Well, this aged exactly how I was afraid it would

BlackRock fund limits withdrawals as redemptions rattle private credit Retail investors are increasingly asking for their money back as sentiment sours on private credit.

I think it will depend on what kind of shenanigans have been going on in the shadow banking world. This is not encouraging www.reuters.com/business/bla...

We’re not there yet, but if prices keep rising, markets crash, and we take more losses in this war, his support could collapse. That could drive Trump to more insane actions and R’s will start thinking about their political and biological survival.

When is the last time we came out ahead by starting a war? Spanish-American War? Invasion of Panama, maybe?

“The reason why fools and knaves thrive better in the world than wiser and honester men is because they are nearer to the general temper of mankind, which is nothing but a mixture of cheat and folly.” -Samuel Butler

Who on the cabinet would be most likely to join with Vance in removing Trump if he grows too dangerous for impeachment proceedings?

A Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procol Harum ("The Big Chill", 1983) YouTube video by Genio Music TV

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Rbw...

I’m just curious if any of the disgusting juvenile delinquents making the ridiculous war glorification videos for the White House ever served in combat. Or even served in the military at all.

Chief Trump cheerleader Lindsey Graham may even get the boot.

Same picture.

Winning hearts and minds.

Graham is up for re-election in November. Pray our nation regains its sanity by then.

Which wars have been successful for the country that started them? I cannot think of any in the last 150 years. Perhaps the invasion of Panama.

Which cabinet members would be most likely to join with Vance on a 25th Amendment removal?

And the United States will have wasted power and prestige that we can ill afford in a world where China is rising.

usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”