KeltyTX

Author and Host of "The More Perfect Union Podcast", a lighthearted politics & entertainment podcast

[KeltyTX @MPUpodcast]

@RepJoeMorelle One possible Trump election scheme: have R election officials secretly code mail ballot envelopes by party registration, then have USPS hold back on delivering D ballots until after election day.

[KeltyTX @MPUpodcast]

Gov. Andy Beshear should simply travel to the hospital, identify himself, and say, “I'd like to speak to the senior Senator from my state. Please let him know I'm here.” Then see what happens.

[KeltyTX @MPUpodcast]

Bingo! Hunter made less than two million dollars doing actual work. The Trump minions pocket hundreds of millions gaming (scamming) the system.

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

To understand R’s narrative capabilities versus D’s narrative capabilities, look no further than R’s ability to make Hunter Biden into a full blown “Biden crime family” scandal vs D’s inability to focus relentlessly on Trump & Co’s mind-bending corruption. Everyone should post their favorite insane Trump grift to celebrate the 4th.

[KeltyTX @MPUpodcast]

Astounding. Corruption in plain sight.

[Blue Georgia @BlueGeorgia]

Trump: Every time my kids invest in a stock, anything they do, they have inside information.

(This is a wild thing to admit)

[KeltyTX @MPUpodcast]

That's probably an article of impeachment right there.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Let me tell you what just got reported, because you will not believe it until you see it laid out.

The Trump administration cut a billion-dollar tungsten deal with Kazakhstan. Tungsten is the metal we need for missile warheads, fighter jets, and computer chips. Trump himself got on the phone to close it. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick worked it from the inside, sending letters, leaning on the Kazakh president, lining up as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing.

Within weeks of those negotiations, investors tied to a firm partly owned by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump took a 20% stake in an entity connected to the very same Kazakhstan project their father was negotiating. Around that same time, Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm run by Lutnick’s own sons, raised $210 million for a partner in the deal and pocketed the fees.

The fathers set the policy. The sons cashed in.

Six days after the Trump sons and their partners moved their money, Lutnick signed the final deal.

The reporting found one or both families have financial ties to at least 14 companies working with the government on critical mining deals.

The total federal funding flowing toward those companies tops $8.9 billion.

This is your tax money.

It is supposed to secure our supply chains and protect our troops, not pad the portfolios of the President’s children and the Commerce Secretary’s children.

This is the most corrupt administration in American history. It is not close.

We must keep digging, and keep asking the questions they do not want asked. Republicans in Congress are unwilling to lift a finger. Mike Johnson is running a protection racket.

Either we will end the corruption, or the corruption will be the end of us.

https://t.co/yFOl7zvOhC

[KeltyTX @MPUpodcast]

If someone was willing to storm the U.S. Capitol, assault police officers, threaten Congressmen and Senators, and even hang Mike Pence just so Trump could serve a second term, what do you think they'd be willing to do to potentially qualify for a Five Million $ government payout?

[KeltyTX @MPUpodcast]

@FranWalsh73 But, if you spread out the lifetime gifts to children in a lower tax bracket, the tax hit won't be as great.

[KeltyTX @MPUpodcast]

Here's another dark possibility. Netanyahu can't be happy with this ten-point deal. So, what if he continues to lob a few missiles into Iran to goad them into responding with missiles of their own and thereby force Trump's hand?

[KeltyTX @MPUpodcast]

Other possibility is he unilaterally announced a cease fire hoping Iran will honor it and allow ships through the Strait of Hormuz. If not, he blames them for breaking a cease fire they never agreed to and starts bombing anyway, but with his typical denials of responsibility.

[KeltyTX @MPUpodcast]

There is an outside possibility that #Trump's two-week cease-fire announcement is just a ruse to get Iranian citizens to abandon their human circles around their bridges and power plants so that he can move forward with the bombing campaign without killing civilians. #IranWar‌

[KeltyTX @MPUpodcast]

There is an outside possibility that #Trump's two-week cease-fire announcement is just a ruse to get Iranian citizens to abandon their human circles around their bridges and power plants so that he can move forward with the bombing campaign without killing civilians. #IranWar‌

[Dr. Vin Gupta @VinGuptaMD]

Erratic.
Can’t finish sentences.
Often confused.
Illogical train of thought.
Word finding difficulties.

Developing and worsening gradually over time.

The President is exhibiting all the signs of dementia.

[Mary L Trump @MaryLTrump]

It's not that Donald sent this as awful as it is; it's that nobody felt they could stop him or, worse, nobody thought they should.

[KeltyTX @MPUpodcast]

Truth!

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

BREAKING: The U.S. government will now insure losses up to $40 billion for oil tankers transiting the Strait of Hormuz.

But they can’t insure you if you get cancer or have a heart attack.

Big oil is more important than your life in Trump’s America. Did you vote for that?

[Mark Bland @markbland]

Senator Blumenthol of the gang of a 8 shortly after his debriefing on the Iran war.

If this is his assessment, then we are out of control. The reins need to be taken away from Donald Trump.

[KeltyTX @MPUpodcast]

People keep talking about the possibility of US boots on the ground in Iran. Gang, they ARE there. I guarantee you we have special forces and CIA teams running covert op missions right now. Not tens of thousands. But certainly a few dozen are already there. With more to come.

[Brad @BraddrofliT]

MAGAs are the most programmable people in America.

A month ago Iran never crossed their minds. Today they’re military strategists.

Four years ago they didn’t know what a trans person was. Now they’re obsessed with bathrooms.

Yesterday it was Bud Light.
Before that migrant caravans.
Before that drag queens.

Same outrage machine. New villain every week.

[Malcolm Nance @MalcolmNance]

Look folks, reality can sometimes be hard to accept.

We all want freedom for Iran. The regime was a horrible, nasty pack of religious zealots for whom terrorism & murder was always the first option. Their revolution started by killing 400 people in a theater with arson & chained exit doors. They sent thousand of kids to their deaths with toy keys around their necks promising entry to heaven if they just walk in to Iraqi minefields.

I’ve tracked IRGC terrorism across Iraq, Lebanon, Syria & Yemen and even fought them in the PG, They almost killed me in 1988. The Islamic regime needed/still needs to be destroyed … that said:

People are getting upset with why I assess this war will likely fail to topple the regime.

Because it is a fantasy based in Trump’s head using lethal tools we prepared for 47 years for the right moment. That moment likely has passed.

Trump has no idea what he’s doing. Because he has contempt for the people who know what they’re doing & the history of what came before him.

If Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires then Iran is the funeral home of empires. It dresses you up and lays you into the coffin neatly. Then closes the lid.

Trump cannot understand why Iran hasn’t surrendered … “Lookit all them bombs,” he shouts “They should all love Trump!”

That’s it. That’s the Iran-War strategy. He does not care about the people of Iran. It a score settling grudge match egged on by Netanyahu’s 40 years of promises that war will change the regime if we just drop enough bombs & assassinate its leaders.

So If you want to live in a fantasy world where we are suddenly being greeted as liberators by the 93 million Iranians … feel free.

You are now set up for earth shattering disappointment.

You have to account for the fact that Trump could have attacked in support of the protesters in January. He didn’t & he let them be killed. He was completely indifferent. The 30k dead were a one-day talking point.

Right now, none of these attacks will liberate Iran without a populist uprising or invading ground forces. Worse case is a sectarian Civil war. If that happens the only outcome is that it will kill a lot of people, splinter the country & take down the global economy. Trump will sleep soundly & demand he be made Ayatollah.

This is literally his mental illness masked as foreign policy

This war may give some Iranians hope but it’s a false one. Gird for a horrible chain of dramatic events but rest assured Trump doesn’t care about the people of Iran.

He only want its oil. He said so.

I’m sorry folks, but my job is to deliver reality based assessments, not promise you sunshine in a swirling hurricane of flying bullets, bombs, excrement & razor wire.

That is all.

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

“Our government is treating the suffering of the Iranian people as a backdrop for our own entertainment …. But, in the end, we lose our humanity when we are thrilled by the destructive power of our military. …. The longer we remain blind to the terrible consequences of war, the more we are risking the most precious gift God gave us: our humanity.

“I know that the American people are better than this.”