James B. Webb

Intellectual elitist, political junkie, Southern food addict

[PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes]

Hegseth was taking photos with his wife at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Veterans Day

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

wow -- CNN broadcast footage of an Arlington guard yelling at a group with Pete Hegseth to "MAINTAIN SILENCE ... PAY RESPECT!" after someone in his entourage started laughing at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

It’s a white supremacist militia at this point and needs to be torn down and abolished.

There is no ‘reforming’ this.

[Jeff Timmer @jefftimmer]

Franklin Graham is to Christianity what RFK Jr. is to medical science.

[John Harwood @JohnJHarwood]

why's Trump so blase about Nvidia CEO/Chinese-spy affair?
-He admires richer people, like Huang.
-He fears stronger people, like Xi.
-He thinks cheating on spouses, like he's done, is normal.
-He doesn't really care about national security - just himself.

https://t.co/gvKuGZHXb9

[🎙Independent Americans @indy_americans]

71% of Americans want Congress to end the Iran war. The House just blocked an impeachment vote against the guy running it. The Treasury secretary is hiding on a military base. Happy Veterans Day.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

This makes the investigations even more important.

What is the White House so afraid of?

[James B. Webb @BrainRage]

What? Democrats dropping the ball and fucking up right out of the gate? The hell you say!

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

ABSOLUTELY INSANE.

THE HOUSE DEMOCRATIC ****WHIP**** WAS THROWING THE FUNDRAISING BASH THAT KEPT DEMOCRATS FROM VOTING TO SEND THE HEGSETH IMPEACHMENT VOTE TO THE FLOOR.

[James B. Webb @BrainRage]

I'd add "embracing science as fact" to this list but one thing at a time.

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

I was asked on a podcast yesterday what the Republican Party should do to recover. Simple, I said. Be the party I wanted it to be when I was a Republican. A party that supports individual freedom, free markets, free trade, limited government, and robust/welcoming immigration.

But it won’t be that, I said. So it won’t recover.

[James B. Webb @BrainRage]

MAGA!

[Senator John Cornyn @JohnCornyn]

Tankers initially bound for U.S. change course after opposition to President Trump’s diesel deal with Russian leader Vladimir Putin makes buyers nervous https://t.co/hsaQZHdQur via @WSJ

[Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney]

This plays right into Dems’ hands. Threatening criminal process for oversight gives them ammo to go straight to subpoenas and tell a court ‘what’s the point of lengthy negotiations w a White House trying to criminalize congressional scrutiny?’

[James B. Webb @BrainRage]

Only took them a decade to realize the Democrat who became a Republican for convenience's sake never cared about the Republican party.

[Philip Klein @philipaklein]

Refusing to defend Trump’s indefensible BS is apparently allowed now.

[Michelle, Suburban Mom @Meidas_Michelle]

Wouldn’t it be nice if we had some sort of institution to keep track, monitor, treat and help prevent a spread?

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

Today, the 28th straight court ruled against your signature voting litigation. DOJ is 0-28. Elias Law Group is undefeated.

But yes, I am the loser.😂

[Josh Marshall @joshtpm]

Jim Jordan and The Ohio State Student Athlete Sex Abuse Cover Up https://t.co/dkepJ8yn56 via @TPM

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

Hegseth has killed at least 199 people on boats in the Caribbean and Pacific. Not one was charged, tried, or even named. After one strike, the military went back and killed the survivors.

Under your logic, anyone suspected of touching drugs can be executed without a trial. Your own mother would have qualified. https://t.co/eg9HbahY05

[James B. Webb @BrainRage]

@JimCoventryNFL @RotoWire Substation coming for Keenan's hammies.

[Ben Rhodes @brhodes]

The boat strikes aren't even war crimes they're just straight-up crimes because there's no authorization for the use of force - no war - in the Caribbean.

[James B. Webb @BrainRage]

The Trump administration hates the First Amendment.

[Tara Copp @TaraCopp]

A security agent for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth just warned the reporters here — for Hegseth’s first press conference in 6 months — that we will be physically removed from the briefing room if we are not professional and maintain decorum. We asked if that meant no shouted questions and got no clarity. It’s the first time any of us could ever remember being threatened like this. Shouted questions are normal. “This is crazy town” one journalist said, noting the White House has never threatened reporters like that. We’re in the room, back row:

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

Pete Hegseth hadn't addressed reporters at the Pentagon since May.

Not even when a Navy commander was killed in a helicopter crash in the Arabian Sea on July 1.

Or when three U.S. soldiers were killed in an Iranian missile attack on a base in Jordan on July 17.

He waited until he needed to defend himself.