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Lionel Hutz: “THE PEACE PRESIDENT? NO,NEW WARS!”

Brilliant planning and flawless execution are the hallmarks of the Trump regime.

Just as an aside, it's funny how after Venezuela everyone (me included!) was like, "Oh, so he thinks that he has some special claim over leadership in the western hemisphere."

Yeah, no. It's not that, is it?

So if they fire Kristi Noem does that mean Cory Lewandowski has to give back his badge and gun?

Also if it’s ddr5 an extra 6gb costs a kidney so

Except Minneapolis?

Thanks, but I really don't want to think about Donald Trump's cervix right now.

Preventative wars are illegal.

This was one of the striking things, to me at least, in “Rise And Kill First.”

Leadership assassinations don’t hurt the cause of diplomacy merely because they harden hearts (though they do), but because they substantially weaken command and control.

You need intact leadership to make deals!

Some people made a lot of money on suspiciously timed bets about bombing Iran. Every time there’s a major event, it seems like some people head to Polymarket to make a quick buck at just the right time. It happened with the Super Bowl, with Nicolás Maduro, and now with Iran. In ...

Contrary to many, I believe prediction markets should allow insider trading.

I do not, however, believe government employees should be allowed to use top secret information to make millions on prediction markets. That seems bad!

An important lesson is that you’re safer *without* US bases.

In the short run this might push regional allies closer to the US, but in the long run? Seems like it makes the US out as an unreliable guarantor of stability, obviously.

Sorta seems like he is, though!

(In the short term, anyway.)

Rick Scott, the Republican senator from Florida, thanked Trump for his "strong leadership", adding: 66 "Operation Epic Fury is peace through strength on full display, and a reminder to our friends and our enemies: The US will ALWAYS put AMERICA FIRST. We will always stand with our friend, Israel, and we will NEVER allow Tran to have a nuclear weapon."

“Peace through strength” does not strike me as an apt descriptor for what we are seeing.

What seems missing from any of the news on Iran is a plan for a ground invasion.

So the Trump people believe they can enact regime change entirely with an air war?

This is going to be an early challenge for the Board of Peace to deal with.

It seems that Trump’s takeaway from decades of disastrous American wars of aggression is that they just weren’t aggressive enough.

Anthropic gets booted from the Pentagon for not wanting to power mass surveillance or autonomous weapons, then OpenAI gets a Pentagon contract that bans mass surveillance and autonomous weapons. Someone is obviously leaving something significant out.

The Trump family’s media group is weighing plans to spin off the Truth Social social media platform that is extensively used by Donald Trump, as it seeks to reposition itself as a major player in nuclear energy.

This is a real news story in the year of our lord 2026.

Honestly sounds like AI-washing to me.

Whatever else, you gotta really hand it to David Ellison for building a multibillion-dollar entertainment behemoth entirely on his own.

Yes, he’s really an impressive, entirely self-made man. Kudos to him.

I think if you called it a "Trump Nuclear Deal" you'd get a ton of support from certain corners.

Conversely, if you called it, I dunno, an "Obama nuclear deal", it'd probably be pretty controversial.

Wait, so we've entered the "government security forces raiding universities" phase of authoritarian backsliding?

There's something darkly comedic about how much these nincompoops talk about saving western civilization while they destroy centuries-old academic institutions.

"Just the tip, excellency."

I found the crisis of masculinity afflicting America!

A lot of honoring service members tonight, not much seeking congressional authority for sending more into harm’s way

I could be wrong--they elected this fucker twice--but I do not think the American people are as stupid as Donald Trump thinks they are.

That thing Graham Platner (like him or not) said--that this is the laziest case to justify a bad war--really stuck in my head.

Compared to the Bush efforts before Iraq II, these guys aren't even trying.

Can't tell if it's stupidity or a higher theory that the President owes us no explanation.

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Amazing how a year ago, headline writers were telling us that Trump had created a permanent shift in American political alignment and popular culture.