NEW @thenation.com: The tools of the War on Terror must be destroyed before Trump uses them to finish building his world order, at home and abroad. What we did at home yesterday is what we do in Iran today is what we will do at home tomorrow. The way we break the cycle is straightforward: abolition.
You leftists are obsessed with Israel. THIS is your biggest issue. More than income inequality, abolishing ICE, defunding the police, Medicare for All, student debt cancellation, and every other systemic injustice in the world. You care most about a conflict 6,000 miles away. ASchitts Creek GIF WE GET IT ALT 175 •
David Shor @davidshor X.com I am Israeli. 6:16 PM • 3/6/26 • 1.9K Views
Lmao
This is an actual Pentagon press release. “An Army believed to be casualty…the believed to be death”
That’s just the domestic producers. Let alone the oil they control elsewhere. Remember everyone saying “well at the cost of oil, no one wants to deal with that gross sour sulfury Venezuelan oil” well guess what they listened to you!!
we quite literally cannot run a society like this. we need to agree on certain things. constraints on violence, some measure of process that is due, some substrate of rules that even -- especially -- "bad guys" are at least facially entitled to. strip even the lip service to this away, whats left
You become a lawyer. Commit to the process. Then see the process made into a mockery by thugs, morons, and robber barons. And then what have you got? The whole idea of the social contract is it behooves everyone to avoid the alternative. When does one breach force total repudiation?
Even in just a realpolitik foreign policy sense, if you're a non-nuclear state and anywhere in the ballpark of getting a weapons program going, you'd be fucking crazy not to do it. And our leaders are just letting that happen!
tired: losing the war in Iran
wired: losing the argument at this year's family Thanksgiving
Brown people being murdered overseas doesn't affect them in any way they understand, but being owned online is the worst thing that could happen to them, especially if it's by some blue-haired barista.
crazy you have to understand this government through that lens. a shocking amount of people voted for him in order to win online arguments. they fall in behind any braindead shit he does to win online arguments. however many thousands of iranian dead dont matter. but the menchies? those matter a lot
trump is taking political hits on iran is because he is now undermining his supporters' ability to win online arguments. you can just own them ruthlessly on the iran thing now for being dumdums. and this they cannot bear. they can tolerate any amount of murder and mayhem, but not being owned online
Stoic Kristi Noem Bears Firing With Stiff Upper Lip, Chin, Cheeks, Forehead
Stoic Kristi Noem Bears Firing With Stiff Upper Lip, Chin, Cheeks, Forehead
Graph showing crude oil prices over the last month, hovering around 60 dollars a barrel for a while and surging to over 90 in the last week
Another masterstroke, sir
As someone who routinely mocks permabullish clickbait oil forecasts, I want to be exceptionally clear:
Crude WILL go to $200/bbl, en route higher, unless traffic through the Strait resumes.
Not clickbait, but rather brutal physics and necessary economic incentives.
The Brent oil price is about to hit $90 per barrel and this is why: on any normal day, there's 60 oil tankers going in and out of the Straits of Hormuz. That number is zero at the moment and will be really hard to get back up. This is a massive shock...
robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/oil-tanker...
everything sucks but at least we’re a day closer to when it happens
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kristi noem lost her job and got sued by nintendo in the same week. rough
maduro, he was a bad guy. the iranian regime? bad guys. what can you do. the president should attack them. they do not have any sovereignty trump is required to respect. he can do whatever he wants for any reason he wants
just speaking as an american, someone who invested some large portion of their life in american institutions such as law and courts and whatever:
its weird that there arent any overarching principles? like, even if there was a country run by vampires, we can't just attack them on whim? nope. nada
Some Dems are just gross racists, but you can also see a commonality in what Dems tend to give up on: wars against Muslims, immigration, police, queer rights, all things that are low-saliency for the average voter and would require them to do actual political education. These motherfuckers are LAZY.
Why Rep. Greg Landsman thought talking on the phone with Isaac Chotiner was a good idea still baffles me.
I would've immediately resigned from Congress and retreated into the abandoned Cincinnati Subway, never to be seen again
![Yeah. And let me also be clear. I’ve never trusted Trump on this, or on the economy, or on keeping us safe in general.
You are trusting him on this, though, right?
No.
You aren’t?
I’m trusting the military and our generals. I’m trusting what I understand to be the operation and the people leading it—that is, the generals and our military and our allies.
You’re trusting the people leading the operation who don’t include the President?
Well, I don’t trust that guy. Yeah.
He’s the Commander-in-Chief, right?
Sure. Yeah. But I can’t [trust him]. And he’s proven that over the past couple of days, being all over the place, unlike everybody else involved in this.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mencpxk4spd3xn3qotwkyyqf/bafkreif7wqajcoomfrnxnrq5v34e3nv7uvactnos3dagbu6fnq4jizmjoe@jpeg)
Yeah. And let me also be clear. I’ve never trusted Trump on this, or on the economy, or on keeping us safe in general. You are trusting him on this, though, right? No. You aren’t? I’m trusting the military and our generals. I’m trusting what I understand to be the operation and the people leading it—that is, the generals and our military and our allies. You’re trusting the people leading the operation who don’t include the President? Well, I don’t trust that guy. Yeah. He’s the Commander-in-Chief, right? Sure. Yeah. But I can’t [trust him]. And he’s proven that over the past couple of days, being all over the place, unlike everybody else involved in this.
Lol
![Isaac Chotiner: What should or should not prevent a U.S. President from deciding that he or she can wage military action or bomb another country if he or she wants to? What should be the constraints? It doesn’t seem like Trump has laid out a clear reasoning for why he’s doing this.
Rep. Greg Landsman: I think the Administration has. I think Marco Rubio did lay out a clear reason for doing this now, why it was important, and why it will be limited. Again, Trump is not a disciplined person, and so his communication has been all over the place, and that is, in and of itself, bad.
Rubio also said on Monday, “There absolutely was an imminent threat, and the imminent threat was that we knew that if Iran was attacked and we believed they would be attacked [by Israel], that they would immediately come after us, and we were not going to sit there and absorb a blow before we responded.” What did you make of that statement?
I was really disappointed that he tried to lay the blame on somebody else.
Especially because Rubio is not the erratic one. That’s Trump.
Exactly. I was disappointed in that, but especially when he clearly set out to make one argument during that whole press conference, which was this is a focussed operation on the missiles and the missile launchers and the nukes and the ships.
Not the nukes. They don’t have nukes.
Sorry, you’re right. The facilities, the nuclear facilities. And he was locked in on that, and I think that is the argument. I think that is the operation. That has to be what they continue to focus on. That he would veer from that was disappointing, and I suspect he was disappointed.
That’s definitely telling us that he’s thinking about these things.
Yeah. Look, it’s obviously multiple countries and not just Israel. This is becoming a much bigger moment. Despite real tragedies here, which are awful—and there’s nothing to say other than it’s terrible—may this all be for something very powerful and good and transformative, which is the end…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mencpxk4spd3xn3qotwkyyqf/bafkreiha6sprq6zz3ao5pmed2gyboiat4qerrctlo6b5xx2xksqde2lkkq@jpeg)
Isaac Chotiner: What should or should not prevent a U.S. President from deciding that he or she can wage military action or bomb another country if he or she wants to? What should be the constraints? It doesn’t seem like Trump has laid out a clear reasoning for why he’s doing this. Rep. Greg Landsman: I think the Administration has. I think Marco Rubio did lay out a clear reason for doing this now, why it was important, and why it will be limited. Again, Trump is not a disciplined person, and so his communication has been all over the place, and that is, in and of itself, bad. Rubio also said on Monday, “There absolutely was an imminent threat, and the imminent threat was that we knew that if Iran was attacked and we believed they would be attacked [by Israel], that they would immediately come after us, and we were not going to sit there and absorb a blow before we responded.” What did you make of that statement? I was really disappointed that he tried to lay the blame on somebody else. Especially because Rubio is not the erratic one. That’s Trump. Exactly. I was disappointed in that, but especially when he clearly set out to make one argument during that whole press conference, which was this is a focussed operation on the missiles and the missile launchers and the nukes and the ships. Not the nukes. They don’t have nukes. Sorry, you’re right. The facilities, the nuclear facilities. And he was locked in on that, and I think that is the argument. I think that is the operation. That has to be what they continue to focus on. That he would veer from that was disappointing, and I suspect he was disappointed. That’s definitely telling us that he’s thinking about these things. Yeah. Look, it’s obviously multiple countries and not just Israel. This is becoming a much bigger moment. Despite real tragedies here, which are awful—and there’s nothing to say other than it’s terrible—may this all be for something very powerful and good and transformative, which is the end…
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american century of humiliation incoming
It's honestly shocking, if not really surprising anymore, how disconnected these weirdos are from basic understanding of how things work.
Our leaders approve a one trillion dollar military budget every year regardless of who is in power. I suppose that money has to be spent. "We are in it," is a pretty good way of articulating that, even if it's a REALLY fucked up thing to say. We are truly a spiritually deceased nation.
Always just enough democrats to crush anything thats good. Its a scam folks.
Andrew Tate has been detained by Saudi Arabia.
So that’s nice!
