Mark, it’s almost noon and you haven’t called for any military invasions yet today. Are you feeling alright? Have you told your primary care physician about your symptoms? I’m concerned.
If this is true why is a random comedian getting briefings that justify the Iran War that can't be supplied to the American people?
Was it classified? If so why is he getting it? If not, why not deliver it to the American people to sell the war?
If I see one more person praising Trump’s “courage” for bombing Iran, I’m gonna lose my mind.
He was “courageous” with OUR country. He’s gonna retire in two years and my children will live in blue Texas.
You don’t get bravery points for gambling with someone else’s money.
If I stop at the casino tonight and gamble away $100, my wife won’t say a word cause the bills are paid.
If we’re broke, bankrupt, and on the verge of being homeless and I stop at that same casino to gamble $100, she’s going to divorce me.
We couldn’t afford to raise prices.
Trump 2.0 talks down to his voters. I’m guessing this comes from the arrogance that seeps in after too many years in charge.
Trump 1.0 did not do this. “Shut up. Don’t talk about this. We’re watching you.”
Trump 2.0 does this a lot. Worked out well for them on Tuesday.
Every GOP strategist, consultant, and candidate should be forced to participate in a role-playing exercise this morning.
Your name is Bob. You’re a 49-year-old blue-collar worker in Ohio. You’ve always struggled to make ends meet. The good jobs were all shipped to China and the few remaining pay a pittance wage, undercut by endless illegal labor.
You’re a 3x Trump voter because you believed he would finally make America great again.
You put your son through Ohio State. He graduated cum laude in computer science. You couldn’t have been prouder. After months searching, he landed an entry-level job at Microsoft. Beneath his qualifications, but a good start for a smart kid.
Then he got laid off. That same month, Microsoft applied for 150,000 more H-1B visas because it can’t find qualified Americans.
Your son has spent six months back in his childhood bedroom, sending hundreds of applications without landing an interview.
On TV, Trump boasts about the greatest economy in history and how many women and minorities are finding jobs.
You decide a father-son steak night might cheer him up.
Gas is $4.50 a gallon. Filling your truck costs over $100. At Kroger, ribeyes are $30/lb. You settle for hamburger, even though 70/30 ground beef still costs $10+.
At checkout, a fat black woman is screaming at the cashier because her EBT will only cover most of the filet mignon and lobster in her cart.
You think to yourself how the Iran war has made everything expensive, but at least we’re stopping their nuclear bomb. You weren’t even sure where Iran was before you googled it after we first bombed them in March.
After dinner, you take your son to the county fair. Half the people aren’t speaking English. Virtually none of the crowd looks like you. You’re forced to leave early after a “teen takeover” turns violent. A foreign born judge pledges none of them will go to jail.
Back home, you turn on the TV. Vivek Ramaswamy is lecturing the crowd about American mediocrity and why Ohio needs more foreign talent.
Your son grows upset. You change the channel.
Now a Republican surrogate, the daughter of a governor or wife of an elderly billionaire, explains that young White men are the REAL welfare queens. They’d rather play videogames in their parents’ basements than work.
Your son says nothing. He just goes back to his childhood bedroom. You turn off the TV.
Then your neighbor starts blasting reggaeton and cracking open Modelos. He brought his cousin’s family from Mexico to help with all the minority-business contracts his construction firm keeps winning. Tonight they’re celebrating his nephew’s birth, the family’s first birthright American citizen.
You sit alone in your living room.
You worked hard, paid taxes, obeyed the law, and raised your son to do everything right. You voted Republican again and again because you believed somebody in Washington would finally fight for you.
Instead, your wages are stagnant. Groceries are unaffordable. Your community is unrecognizable. Your country is fighting another foreign war.
And upstairs, the son you sacrificed everything for is lying awake in the bedroom he slept in at twelve, wondering what the heck he’s even supposed to do with his life now.
Every time you turn on the TV, the Republicans you elected are either congratulating themselves or explaining why you and your son are the problem.
For ten years, they told you America’s future depended on your vote. Now you aren’t even sure America has a future worth defending.
The Republican Party needs to answer one simple question this morning:
You’ve spent a decade demanding Bob’s loyalty. You’ve given him stagnant wages, unaffordable groceries, another foreign war, and a son who did everything right but can’t find work.
And when they complain, you call them lazy, entitled, and racist.
What possible reason have you given Bob and his son to vote Republican? Do you honestly think you deserve their vote?
Montana's governor is hard at work bringing mass migration into the state. Utah and Idaho, too. Texas went blue. I can't do anything. It's up to the grass roots in the mountain states to get involved and be ready for 2028.
Writing this in my personal capacity, but I have been flying these types of aircraft for more than 20 years, with over 8,000 hours, and have reasonable familiarity with how the charter world operates. I feel compelled to post after seeing commentary about the Lear 60 crash, from missile strikes to DEI to critiquing this poor woman’s final radio calls.
That last part is what I find most troubling. She was the second-in-command (SIC), and while she was empowered to point out mistakes as part of good crew resource management, she was doing her job, communicating with ATC right to the end in a terrifying situation. She likely knew before many of those calls that she was going to die. I have heard final calls from friends, from military pilots with thousands of hours in fighter aircraft, and they are just as heartbreaking because they know the end is approaching.
I understand the public interest given the footage and audio. But you do not know the aircraft’s maintenance history, whether there was a structural failure, if any failure was induced by turbulence, overspeed, or overcontrol, or everything happening in that cockpit. I am sure weather will be part of the investigation, but beyond that, it is speculation. The charter industry routinely hires commercial pilots very early in their careers to gain experience alongside an ATP-qualified captain before they move up to the airlines. She would still have the appropriate training, qualifications, and checkouts by an FAA examiner or designee.
Let people investigate, learn, and share the facts. Be respectful to those who perished and the families who carry their memories. God bless them and their loved ones.
Billionaires who have increased their wealth in the last year by billions simply can’t relate to average people who are losing money from his actions as President.
Terrible campaign strategy. But he can’t help it.
Kids were advised to go to trade school, but those jobs were saturated with Mexicans.
Kids were told to go into STEM, but those jobs were saturated with Indians.
At no point have politicians ever thought about our own children. Not once & this is nothing new. It’s been going on for decades.
We need hard core Nationalist leaders if we are ever gonna right this ship.
This is the best thing that is happening right now. Hey guys, blacks do in fact hate white people. WAY more than the average white hates blacks. Supported by literally every study done and every single story you've read over the past 20 years.
$6 a gallon diesel should be the top priority of every single politician in D.C..
Americans are not a side issue to be dealt with after we’ve slayed all the monsters abroad.
Americans should be everything to American politicians.
We must get prices down.
Maybe something got lost in translation. The words you were looking for were, “Thank you, American. Without your money and support, we would have been steamrolled years ago.”
Is that what you meant? And have you considered this endless lack of gratitude is hurting your cause?
Do all of these people screaming about Starlink and Ukraine understand what $6 a gallon diesel means for AMERICANS?
I hate to distract with those pesky needs of AMERICANS, but it’s a major deal for this country.
And Trump has to (and should) prioritize AMERICANS.
The ATF’s new guidance says they are no longer enforcing restrictions on SBRs, SBSs, and suppressors.
But Montana law still restricts them.
We will support legislation to reverse that in the upcoming session.
Remember - it's critically important that we don't let Iran get a nuke. We have to spend whatever it takes. Endure whatever suffering we have to.
But also, it's not so important that it can't wait until after the midterms.