I was going to have a real high-level response to this, but you live in North Carolina. How are you gonna tell somebody that is from Georgia how Georgians are supposed to act? Lol like what?
That man was born in Atlanta, came up in Atlanta, left for college, then came back and got to work. How is he not Georgia, and what do you expect folks from Georgia to act like?
Political prognostication on Twitter is so freaking weird. It's almost as weird as sports Twitter, cause it's like, what do y'all be talking about?
161 years ago, Republican President Abraham Lincoln and a Republican Congress freed the slaves from the Democrat Party that fought tooth and nail to keep them in chains.
Democrats started the Civil War to preserve slavery. Democrats founded the KKK. Democrats passed Jim Crow laws. Democrats filibustered the Civil Rights Act.
Today if you are celebrating Juneteenth, don’t forget to thank Republicans!
@AnthonyGalli@atrupar No. It's clown Trump all day everyday forever. He talk so much shit and he can't back it up - so he's going to always be the butt of the joke.
Michelle Obama just delivered one of the best speeches I’ve ever heard. She upheld her husband’s legacy, defended the dignity of all people, appealed to our better angels, & reminded us of the America that we could be.
What a contrast to the depravity occupying the White House.
Obama: I am not immune to anger or doubt. But I do know this when we lose faith in each other, when we stop believing that voting matters… we open the door to the most ruthless or the most careless, or the most fearful among us who see some groups and some people as more equal than others and see government as nothing more than a way to divvy up the spoils and punish enemies, and keep those who are different in their place. I do not believe that is the story of America that prevails in the end.
Michelle Obama to Barack: "How absurd it is to even imagine that you might have buckled under the pressure even once. Lashed out in frustration. Lost your temper. How absurd it is to imagine that you might have done anything but make our family and this entire country proud."
I get why so many people are frustrated or skeptical about this Iran MOU. On paper, it looks like a massive compromise: $300 billion in unfrozen assets, a fixed schedule to lift sanctions, and immediate oil export waivers for Tehran. But what were we expecting when on one side, Trump is facing an apocalyptic regime that wants the world to burn and on the other, an American public that has no stomach for war? He played the cards that were actually on the table.
I’m sick and tired of the politicians and podcasters who bitch and complain no matter what Trump does. They scream that the war has to stop, but the second he stops it, they turn around and yell, "what kind of deal is this?!" If the goal is to actually end Iran’s regime, history shows there's only one model that works: total WWII-style defeat, occupation, and denazification. That requires American boots on the ground and an Iranian people ready to build a free country from the rubble. But NO ONE, myself included, wants boots on the ground.
Is this MOU what Trump wanted? I doubt it. But he did exactly what a leader of a Republic should do: he listened to the people and found a way to end this. A dictator would have kept on going. At the end of the day, a president can only go as far as the people will carry him. Right now, our appetite for war stops at the gas pump.
.@BarackObama shades Trump: The exhibits here focus on the shared values that make democracy possible. That no one is above the law. That our military owe allegiance to the people and the Constitution. A belief in the peaceful transfer of power after the people have spoken in fair and free elections. And a belief that honesty, integrity, kindness, and compassion matter
Michelle Obama: Not once did you melt from the heat. Not once did you let it harden you… the claims that a U.S. Senator and constitutional law expert wasn't qualified for the job. The lies about your birthright, your faith, your patriotism, the outrage when you stated the biological fact that if you'd had a son that he too would be black, yet you were unflappable at every turn, always focused.
To the remaining 3 or 4 Trump ultra loyalists who are trying to spin this deal as anything other than a disaster
How would you have reacted if Obama or Biden signed it?
Case closed
He renamed the Pentagon the Department of War. He renamed himself the Secretary of War. It was the sort of thing a man does when he has mistaken a title for an achievement, and it invited exactly the response it got. The internet (@CameronCorduroy ), which misses nothing, compressed his entire tenure into four lines and a thumbs-up:
renames it to the Department of War
names himself the Secretary of War
fights one war
loses
And he did lose. That is the part the tough-guy cosplay cannot paper over. The world tuned in for a demonstration of American power in Iran, with Pete Hegseth out front, flexing. What it got was one of the more embarrassing spectacles of the decade: a former superpower with no friends left, losing a war for precisely that reason, and losing it quickly. Running short of ammunition. A fleet parked far enough off the Iranian coast not to get hit. Allies who, when Washington came round begging for help, told it in so many words to get lost.
And this morning the same man gelled his hair, puffed out that pigeon chest, and stood on a podium in Brussels handing down tough words to thirty-one nations that left the chat with America long ago. They listened the way you listen to a loud man at a party you are already leaving.
Renames the building. Renames himself. Fights one war. Loses. There is no strength anywhere in that sequence. There is only the costume.👇
The guy who promised so much winning led America to its most humiliating defeat in two hundred and fifty years.
This is why you don’t elect stupid.
Ps: also try to avoid criminals, fraudsters, rapists and pedophiles.
KHANNA: The president has lost 72,000 manufacturing jobs under his watch, so I wish you were right, because his rhetoric was about rebuilding Ohio and Pennsylvania
BARTIROMO: That's not true
KHANNA: It's true he's lost 70,000 manufacturing jobs