There is an old Jewish tale told in the Talmud about a master who sent his servant to buy for him fish in the market.
The servant came back with a fish that was utterly rotten and smelled bad for his master.
His master gave the servant three options:
Eat the rotten fish, pay a fine, or be expelled from the city.
The servant chose the first and began eating the rotten fish.
Halfway through eating the rotten fish he just couldn't stomach it anymore so he asked to pay the fine.
After he paid half the fine he realized he cannot afford it anymore and was therefore expelled from the city, thereby taking on all three punishments.
That is what JD Vance did to himself by turning on Israel and his horrifying performance today in Switzerland.
Ossoff: We see a faithless president, self-dealing, while he depicts himself as Christ, while he depicts the Obamas as apes, while he plunges the nation recklessly into war, plunders our health care, and sends prices soaring.
And while the people pay more than ever for groceries and housing and health care, he builds a monument to himself.
While a cancer patient loses health coverage, he adorns his office in gold.
Voting rights laws are dismantled, prisons for immigrants are full of children, and all the while we see this wickedness advanced and defended by those who wrap themselves in the banner of righteous faith.
But we ask, where in Scripture are we commanded to deny care to the sick, to take from those with the least to give to those with the most, to violate the house of worship to hunt down the refuge
This is an utterly insane story: 25,000 documents reviewed by WaPo indicate that throughout Tulsi's career, her political moves were controlled by her guru, cult leader Chris Butler.
This woman was leading the world's largest intelligence apparatus.
https://t.co/6Enu7JgMgR
NEW: A baby duck has now died at the reflecting pool.
This image was shared with me in the past hour by someone who visited the reflecting pool. It is unclear what the cause of death is.
President Trump today appeared to violate Clause 1 of the memorandum of understanding he signed with Iran at Versailles last week, which commits both sides to “refrain from the threat or use of force against each other.”
In a Fox News interview, he threatened to “take over the rest of the country” of Iran, warned Iran it “won’t have a country” if it closes the Strait of Hormuz, and said Iranian officials “won’t even make it back to your effing country” if they closed the strait.
The Strait of Hormuz nevertheless remains closed for a second day.
JD Vance is a doormat.
If you're treated this way in the Middle East even once, you're done. Finished.
Pack your bags and leave because what comes next is a lot worse than humiliation.
US-Iran Peace Talks Fail.
The US delegation, led by JD Vance, entered the meeting arena first. This was strange, because the party that claims to be the upper hand typically arrives last.
Shortly after, the Iranian delegation arrived. They greeted the mediator, Pakistani PM Shehbaz Sharif, but informed him that they refused to negotiate due to recent threats issued by Trump. They didn't meet Vance and then abruptly left.
A panicked Sharif frantically requested his boss, "Field Marshal" Munir, to intervene, but Munir also appeared helpless. Watching from a distance, Vance approached and asked what had happened. A shaken Sharif and Munir apologetically explained the situation to him.
It looks like Trump threatening to invade Iran, seize the strait and steal their oil hours before negotiations began failed to produce the desired result.
I can’t think of someone who’s mastered the art of optics more than Prez Trump.
Yet this happened to us in Switzerland?
Who designed this meeting?
Who agreed to have the VP in the room?
Some heads must roll. This looks terribly bad for the U.S.