Alan Haffa

I teach #LogicalFallacies

[Alan Haffa @HaffaAlan]

@MontereyHerald reporting on @CityofMonterey recently approved #CampaignFinance ordinance, limiting donations to $500.

#Monterey
#MoveToAmend
#citizenship

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[Alan Haffa @HaffaAlan]

This is how you set the foundation for a Tyranny. If these judges cannot make a simple statement about long established constitutional principles, they are not fit to be judges.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

JUST IN: A Trump judicial nominee was asked point blank: is Trump eligible to run for a third term?

Their answer: “I would have to review the actual wording…”

Sen. Chris Coons then asked every nominee in the room to confirm the Constitution bars a third term.

Silence.

Every single one of them refused to say it.

Trump is appointing judges who won’t affirm the 22nd Amendment to his face.

Never stop connecting the dots.

[Alan Haffa @HaffaAlan]

When did the Republican party forget their commitment to Market competition and capitalism? Why do they want to pick winners and losers in the private marketplace? Why should the government be bailing out failed companies?

[Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent @SecScottBessent]

Had Spirit Airlines been allowed to merge with Jet Blue, it would have given them much more resiliency.

Thanks to @SenWarren, @PeteButtigieg, and all of their friends in the Biden Administration who backed their enthusiastic opposition to the Spirit-Jet Blue merger, dozens of regional airports will now lose service and thousands of jobs will now be lost.

[Alan Haffa @HaffaAlan]

@DavisBB21 Come to Wisconsin and build your legend at home! Great system for scoring wings, great coaching, team-mates who will pass and set you up, great fan base that will travel to support you, and a long history of success.

[Alan Haffa @HaffaAlan]

@ronrule You are projecting. I am "left" and I am proud of my son who is a plumber journeyman and my Dad who was a machinist. I don't see the "left" disparaging blue collar jobs. What is your evidence that they do?

[Alan Haffa @HaffaAlan]

@4thOfJuly365 First, these are all made up numbers and hypotheticals. But how about this hypothetical: how much is his nest egg worth after the Stock Market crash of 1927 or 2007?

Social Security provides guaranteed security for Seniors who can no longer make money and need security.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Just wanted to remind folks, especially the GOP and the FDD, that Barack Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal didn’t give Iran control of the Strait of Hormuz or allow it to keep 60% enriched uranium. It sent $1.7 billion to Iran versus the tens of billions Iran will now make from tolls. 🤷🏽‍♂️

[Alan Haffa @HaffaAlan]

@WhiteHouse Please impeach him or 25th him. He is not mentally stable.

[Howard Aulsbrook @HowardAulsbrook]

@RodDMartin The reason there is no ceasefire is that Israel stated it would not include Lebanon, and that was 100% part of the deal.

[Alan Haffa @HaffaAlan]

@RodDMartin There WAS a cease fire. But America's so-called ally, Israel, decided they don't need to abide by it. They bombed civilians in a major city in Lebanon. Israel has forcibly removed millions of Lebanese from the South and occupied their land. This is the real cause of the war.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

A few weeks ago I had a conversation with an American who genuinely believed Europe and Canada would help the United States in its war with Iran. I asked him why he thought that, given that Trump had spent months threatening to annex Canada and seize Greenland. He went quiet. Then he said he had never heard of any of that.

Not that he disagreed. Not that he thought it was exaggerated. He had simply never encountered the information. It had never arrived.

This is worth pausing on. Because in every other functioning democracy on earth, that information would have been impossible to avoid. Not because Europeans are smarter or more curious. But because of how news works outside the United States. The BBC and The Daily Telegraph hate each other. Le Monde and Le Figaro disagree on everything. Aftenposten and Dagbladet have been arguing since before most of their readers were born. But they all cover the same events. A threat to annex Canada is not a left-wing story or a right-wing story. It is a story. It runs everywhere. You hear it on the radio driving to work. You see it on the newsstand. Your colleague mentions it at lunch. Facts are not a channel you choose. They are the weather. You step outside and they hit you.

The only media ecosystems on earth that work differently are not political opposites of each other. They are North Korea and Russia. Not because the content resembles MAGA content. But because the architecture is the same. In all three cases, outside information does not get filtered or reinterpreted. It gets blocked at the door. A completely parallel reality is built inside, maintained by repetition, and sealed from correction.

This is why the rest of the world does not just disagree with MAGA voters on foreign policy. It finds them genuinely disorienting to talk to. Not offensive. Disorienting. Like speaking to someone who is absolutely certain the building has two floors when you are standing on the third.

Which brings us to today’s masterclass. And this screenshot says everything.

A Trump supporter posted: “Absolute masterclass by Trump. He got the Strait open without any help from Europe and without any boots on the ground.”

That post was written on the same day a refinery on Lavan Island burned for hours after the ceasefire was announced. On the same day Iran’s own official statement read “this does not signify the termination of the war.” On the same day Iran kept its toll system, its uranium program, its protocol over the strait, and walked away with sanctions relief and reconstruction aid.

The post is not stupid. It is not written by a bad person. It is written by someone who received a completely different set of facts than the rest of the world did. And from inside that information environment, with only that data, the conclusion is perfectly logical.

That is what makes it so unsettling. It is not ignorance. It is a sealed universe, doing exactly what sealed universes do.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: Iran is now demanding fees for ships passing the Strait of Hormuz. They want it paid in cryptocurrency.

In other words, Trump blew up Iran, had 11 US military bases attacked, over a dozen military killed, hundreds wounded, had a more extreme leader take reign and spent $44 billion all so that Iran could start charging us money to ship our oil.

He then tries to sell it as a victory. What a joke.

[Alan Haffa @HaffaAlan]

@IKE_Badgers OPs point is that there are wealthy alumni from UW who could support our NIL, but obviously are not.

What is MAC doing to persuade these people to become major donors?

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

If Trump wanted NATO to go to war with him in Iran, maybe he shouldn't have threatened to invade and annex one ally, joked about making another 51st state, or irrationally slapped tariffs on them. He also should have asked for NATO's support before launching his war, not after.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Absolute humiliation for Pete Hegseth. CNN reveals the Secretary of Defense is polling at a staggering negative 30 points. He is vastly more unpopular than any war secretary in modern history. The public utterly despises his disastrous warmongering.

[Alan Haffa @HaffaAlan]

@alex_house @stelzner_n1150 They are waiting and most of the people who had positive positions sold off already so nothing to gain by selling now.

[Alan Haffa @HaffaAlan]

@stelzner_n1150 I hope you are right but I am not convinced; he appears very stupid and stubborn.

[Alan Haffa @HaffaAlan]

@ChristinaPushaw Or, how about this?

They live the lifestyle they want with the person they love, and they let other people live the lifestyle they want and live with and love the person they want?

Why do "conservatives" want to force their lifestyle and values on others?

[Alan Haffa @HaffaAlan]

@DrDiGiorgio You start by requiring Med Schools to increase the number of med school admissions so there isn't an artificial under supply of the necessary workers.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Over the first 4 years, the Big Beautiful Bill adds nearly $2 trillion to our deficit, beyond the deficit that would have been caused by Biden level spending. That’s right, Republicans have increased spending, and I’m taking all kinds of heat for calling them out on the betrayal.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

The White House wonders why Europe won’t rally behind America in Iran. Maybe start by asking why your Vice President is flying to Budapest to have a warm chat with Viktor Orban, the man running a Russian influence operation from inside NATO’s borders.

While Europe has been bleeding money and weapons to stop Russian aggression, Hungary has been blocking NATO decisions, sheltering Russian intelligence, and doing Moscow’s diplomatic dirty work at every turn. Orban isn’t America’s friend. He’s Putin’s man in Brussels.

And JD Vance calls him a “good friend.”
Europe is supposed to line up behind a war that had no plan for day two, no strategy for the Strait of Hormuz, and no consultation with allies beyond Israel. A war that has already sent oil past $100 a barrel and left one of America’s most powerful warships reportedly retreating toward the Indian Ocean.

You don’t get to lecture Europe about loyalty while embracing the man working to destroy the alliance from within, and then demand backup for a war you started without asking anyone.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1