JB

High caliber idiot. Relentlessly on brand. Go Tigers.

[JB @acomasco]

“Facts are stubborn things and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”

[U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. @SenBillCassidy]

Reagan is rolling over in his grave. Iran’s nuclear ambitions were not curbed, and they have learned that threatening the Strait of Hormuz works and will undoubtedly leverage it in the future. Now, Iran gets to build brand-new infrastructure under this deal.

Before the war, the strait was open, Iran was being crushed by sanctions, and 13 service members were still alive. Now, 13 Americans are dead, families have paid billions at the pump, sanctions will be lifted, and the bombing has stopped. This is the worst foreign policy blunder in decades.

[JB @acomasco]

One of the last things MTG did before abandoning her seat in Congress was force House Republican leadership to bring up a bill that would jail doctors for 10 years for providing medically necessary care to trans youth. What the actual fuck are we doing here, man?

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

AOC is right that there are important differences between her and @mtgreenee:

1) AOC emphatically condemns policies only when Trump and the GOP do them, gets muted and deferential when Dems do. By contrast, MTG criticizes policies with equal fervor regardless of which party does them.

2) MTG condemns GOP leaders when they betray their purported values, even risking her political career to do so. By contrast, AOC lies to protect Dems who betray their supposed values (Kamala "is working tirelessly for a ceasefire" in Gaza!), and has supreme devotion to partisan advancement and self-interest above all.

3) MTG introduced a bill to cut all US financing of Israel's military. AOC voted NO, arguing Americans should pay for Israel's "defensive weapons." Big substantive difference.

4) MTG scorns the AIPAC/ADL tactic of accusing Israel critics of being racist and "anti-Semitic." AOC embraces and fortifies that accusatory smear campaign to justify why only liberal critics like her are compassionate and legitimate and everyone else is just racist.

5) MTG only cares about results and outcomes, and will thus work with anyone (left or right) to stop a policy she considers evil and wrong. AOC only cares about posturing and her political branding -- not outcomes -- and will thus reject the opportunity to form majorities to stop stop some policy evil if it means admitting that not only Dems have good ideas and can be good people.

AOC is the embodiment of privilege: having no real urgency about stopping things that don't personally affect her (like Israeli wars and US financing of them). That's why she has harsher words for GOP critics of Israel than she does for Dem supporters of Israel.

This, and more, is why MTG was pushed out of her own party, while AOC has fully morphed into Nancy Pelosi Jr. and is one of the Democratic Party's most valuable partisan tools, and why she's beloved by Dems as such.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

No vote in Tennessee (+1 GOP)
No vote in Florida (+4 GOP)
No vote in Missouri (+1 GOP)
No vote in North Carolina (+2 GOP)
No vote in Texas (+5 GOP)

Virginia’s voter-approved maps thrown out.

MAGA has rigged the system.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Hey guys. I was gerrymandered. Twice. It was done when all states redistrict. I don’t like it.

But when Trump started pushing states to do it mid cycle because he’s afraid he will lose, the only way to fight back is to make it backfire. Then maybe we can fix the system.

[JB @acomasco]

The video is somehow worse than the caption

[Clay Fuller @Clay4MainStreet]

Just stayed at a hotel in Maryland for work.

Turns out their AC units shut off while you sleep as part of some new woke Green New Deal nonsense.

It's a terrible policy that's making their state like Europe.

Just one more example of why they've never won an SEC Championship.

[Cuckturd @CattardSlim]

Staff: Tell them the Jesus picture was doctored.

Trump: I'm a Doctor!

Staff: Tell them it's a small military incursion.

Trump: It's a great military excursion!

Staff: Tell them they're coming seeking asylum.

Trump: They're coming from Insane Asylums!

[JB @acomasco]

“Thinking about the bad shit I do makes me sad. Solution? Just don’t do it.”

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Reinforcing negative neural pathways via therapy or introspection is a recipe for misery. Don’t cut a rut in the road.

[JB @acomasco]

This is fucking nuts hahahaha

[Speaker Mike Johnson @SpeakerJohnson]

The Democrats just decided to officially become the party of PUNCHING PUPPIES.

190 Democrats just voted to give illegal immigrants the RIGHT TO PHYSICALLY ABUSE American service dogs — serving with law enforcement protecting American citizens.

The level Democrats will go to protect illegal aliens instead of Americans is disturbing, disgusting, and dangerous.

[JB @acomasco]

If I was building some of the most morally bankrupt institutions of our time I, too, would spend as little time on introspection as possible.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Billionaire Marc Andreessen says he has "zero" introspection, and that the idea itself is a modern invention.

[JB @acomasco]

I just… man. These fucking idiots.

[Isi Breen @isaiah_bb]

“Do you regret taking money from programs that may have led to people dying?”

“No. It was more important to reduce the deficit from $2 trillion to almost nothing.”

“And did you reduce the deficit at all?”

“No.”

[𝐆𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐝𝐮𝐬 @ImperiumFirst]

> Renames DoD to Department of War

> Actually goes to war but says it’s not a war

> Starts calling it the Department of Defense again

[Julia Ioffe @juliaioffe]

Still trying to imagine what would happen if a President Biden—or a President Harris—started a war with Iran with no clear objective or timeline, said American troops were going to die because hey, that's war! and that they didn't rule out putting American boots on the ground...

[JB @acomasco]

Does this mf do anything but work out with troops and say shit to make Colin Jost look good on SNL??

[DOW Rapid Response @DOWResponse]

.@SECWAR joined his old platoon—the Rakkasans—for morning PT.

[James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki]

I honestly don't understand how anyone can watch and listen to Alysa Liu and still pretend that non-white immigrants/children of immigrants can't be truly American. She is a quintessential American girl, right down to her hair toss when she finished her routine, and it's awesome.

[JB @acomasco]

Can’t believe he did this even though Jake Paul said he hates America omg!!!!

[Ari Meirov @MySportsUpdate]

Bad Bunny held up a football at the end of his Super Bowl halftime show:

“Together, We Are America.”

[Hutch @hutchinson]

Obama DOJ responded to Ferguson by investigating the Ferguson Police Department and forcing systemic, court enforced department reforms.

The Trump administration responded to the two MN ICE killings by calling the victims terrorists and telling ICE they all had immunity.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Cynics and defeatists share the same story as authoritarians do: that nothing is worth trying, the conclusion is foregone, hope is naïve, and attempts to resist are too small or futile.

Don’t listen to them. Do not give up. Try. A better world is possible. We will win. We must.

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

Even if you take the conservative defense of each ICE killing, you’re left with “We haphazardly scaled up a poorly trained police force to storm into neighborhoods that voted against the president, where we antagonize the local population until someone resists arrest, and then we kill them,” which is morally horrendous on top of being an absurd way to do immigration policy.

[Chase Passive Income @chasedownleads]

@Kalshi Now it will cost 10% more to buy Greenland since it’s a product of Denmark

Not a great move

[David Shor @davidshor]

We recently tested ~ a dozen public statements from a diverse set of Democratic elected officials on the murder of Renee Good and this was the top testing one