@rirokpik Do you have any idea how ignorant you sound?
My ancestors never owned slaves, black or otherwise. They came to this country with nothing and were poor for two generations. I’m middle class and my son is the first in my family not to live in low income housing.
GFY.
An oldie but a goodie. In 1968 a bunch of entitled hippy bastards sent a letter detailing their specious demands to the Warden and Fellows of Wadham College, Oxford. This was their letter of reply, which speaks to how far the academy has since fallen.
So just to understand this right - @kwelkernbc asked more questions about Abdul El-Sayed's Muslim Brotherhood connections to Mike Rogers than she actually did to Abdul El-Sayed.
If anyone believes this nonsense, here are the facts he is counting on you not knowing.
The deal did not end Iran's nuclear program. It rented a pause. Iran kept its centrifuges, kept Fordow buried in a mountain, kept enriching to 3.67%, and the key restrictions came with expiration dates. The sunset clauses began lifting in 2025. Obama's own answer at the time was that breakout time "would have shrunk almost down to zero" as the deal expired. His deal scheduled the problem for his successors.
The regime lied its way into the deal. The JCPOA was premised on Iran coming clean about past weapons work. In 2018 Israel pulled Iran's own nuclear archive out of a Tehran warehouse: tens of thousands of documents on the Amad Project, a crash program to build nuclear weapons, preserved and hidden while Iran certified it had no such program. The IAEA later found uranium traces at undeclared sites Iran never explained.
The deal paid for terror. Sanctions relief unfroze roughly $100 billion and the US delivered $1.7 billion in cash. That money flowed to the IRGC, Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis. Diplomacy with a regime at war with you is financing, not peace.
And the result? By 2025 Iran was enriching to 60%, a short technical step from weapons grade, with enough material for multiple bombs and the IAEA declaring it in violation of its obligations. That is what required military force this year. Iran marched to the threshold under the deal's cover and after it.
"I didn't have to fire a missile" is true. He handed the regime money, legitimacy, and a timetable, and left the missiles to be fired a decade later by someone else. Appeasing a dictatorship doesn't buy peace. It buys the dictatorship time.
Flashback to when Obama went on Letterman a week after the Benghazi attack to lie to the American people.
Obama blamed the Benghazi attack on a video even though he had known for days that the video had nothing to do with the attack. It was terrorism.
The election was coming up and Obama wanted to make sure the Benghazi didn't hurt him, so he went on Letterman and lied.
Obama lying on TV before an election. Some things never change.
@RLangford18@greggnunziata NY is going to be represented by several DSA members whose platform is to abolish the executive, judiciary, and senate.
Packing SCOTUS, getting rid of the electoral college, and granting statehood to DC and PR are moderate democrat positions ffs.
Imagine explaining to your grandchildren in the Wasteland Federation, formerly the United States, that at the height of our prosperity and power, we looked at Somalia and Gaza and thought, “Congress could use some of that.”
James Talarico is a radical extremist.
I crunched the numbers on his voting record.
I show it.
Whenever there was a disagreement between Republicans and Democrats in the Texas House during Talarico's time as a Texas Representative from 2019 to 2025, Talarico sided with Democrats 96.8% of the time.
He sided with Republicans less often than 194 of 210 House members.
Only 15 of 82 Democrats were more extreme.
This puts his voting record in the top 7% most extreme left-wing among Texas House Representatives.
In 2026, being an extreme Democrat is really cuckoo.
For comparison, in 2021, the unhinged Jasmine Crockett was in the Texas House with Talarico.
During that year, Crockett voted with Republicans 2.34% of the time. Talarico voted with them 2.38% of the time.
Talarico's numbers were virtually the same as Jasmine Crockett's.
Talarico has claimed that "God is non-binary" and that his goal is to "dismantle" "capitalism, white supremacy, and climate change".
Now we can say with confidence that his voting record tells the same story as his words did -- until he recently suddenly changed his tune.
Talarico's "views" started miraculously "changing" in the past few months.
They became, as he says, "moderate", when he started campaigning against Ken Paxton for the U.S. Senate seat.
What a coincidence.
Talarico is lying.
Talarico is a loony hiding his real views.
He knows that voters would never elect him if he told them truth.
So he doesn't.