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@MattWalshBlog It’s true. Even for you.

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@RepThomasMassie You can’t legislate away Constitutional authority granted to the CIC. No matter how bad you want that power, it’s not yours. That’s even if some presidents allowed you to think it’s yours.

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[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

No American casualties in the Iranian retaliation.

With the exception of Dave Smith’s credibility as a geopolitical talking head

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@SeanCasten You’re right. All presidents do.

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@RepThomasMassie Bc he didn’t have to.

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This.

[Michael Malice @michaelmalice]

There's more screaming on twitter about Iran being bombed than there is in Iran

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@hodgetwins Celebrating? Meh. I think only a fool would celebrate it.

Agree with it? Of those, the one thing we have in common is that we are not akin to the European peace jockeys of the 1930s.

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@POTUS, any POTUS, does not need Congressional authority to take military action.

Spouting that he does is waving a banner announcing you are intellectually, historically, politically, and Constututionally clueless to the point of absurdity.

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@JoJoFromJerz Wait till you find out I just bought a new rifle WITHOUT HOA approval.

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

If you are truly afraid of what Iran might do now — spoiler they can’t and won’t do anything — but if you are truly afraid, why weren’t you terrified of them getting nuclear weapons? Your logic doesn’t even add up.

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@RepThomasMassie Read harder.

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[Eric Weinstein @ericweinstein]

What is one supposed to say? I’m confused.

This is clearly insane, unless it is genius brinksmanship in the service of negotiation.

Seems insane so far. But then again I’m not pretending to be a master negotiator.

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Remember what I said about the uncertainty around this presidency before inauguration:

Positive Mean
High Variance
*NEGATIVE* skew
High Kurtosis

This was entirely foreseeable. He told you what he was going to do. And he generally does what he says. He thinks he found a genius move again like a queen sacrifice.

The Whitehouse is courting disaster in the third moment of this uncertain situation as per the skewness above. And it will do so repeatedly as a tool to get others, who are more risk averse, to capitulate. This isn’t a bug. It’s a style that I personally don’t love on a fragile planet. You usually go to movies to watch such climactic scenes.

Some of Trump’s business moves fail. Some succeed. Think of earth now as a Trump Business.

I don’t know if this is like some of Trump’s NY real estate deals or The Apprentice which worked out for him…or Trump University, Steaks and Airlines which were not successful. This looks more like the latter.

I’m not privy to the strategy and nothing like this presidency has ever existed. For a reason. But to a high stakes negotiator, everything looks like a deal.

I’m very concerned. Wish us luck. Given the negative skewness, I’m definitely rooting for a win that I so far see as unlikely. But it’s not impossible.

Bon chance.

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Running a test…

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