Jesse Watters thought he had Abdul El-Sayed on a question about taxing the wealthiest Americans. Do America need a billionaire to make another billion or do we need better infrastructure and schools. Nearly every wealthy country has a progressive tax system.
@smerconish@JamesCarville@CNN@cnni You always have been able to rationalize Trump's behavior, but now with the management change coming at CNN you are going all in, Turning off now and forever in the future.
BREAKING: A reporter just asked Mike Johnson for the first time at a press conference, “Why should we even ask you any questions today when you never read or hear about anything anyway?”
I know Scott Jennings tantrum got all the attention yesterday, but I want to talk a little bit about what I said that got him so mad.
The bottom line is: Trump’s war with Iran has failed. This has made it mentally strenuous for MAGA operators to defend it on TV.
For 8 weeks now, Scott has pointed to the U.S. destroying the 50 year old Navy and Air Force of Iran to try and prove we have won. This is dishonest for many reasons.
The point of war is not to kill your enemies and blow up their navy. That’s an infantile view of war that MAGA is pushing to trick Americans.
The point of war is to use force to extract political concessions from your enemy that benefit you on the world stage.
Trump has been unable to translate his military success into a SINGLE political concession from Iran. Not one. This is a failed war.
The Strait is closed. Iran won’t even negotiate. The enriched uranium is still in Iran with their blueprints stored in the Cloud.
So enter Scott Jennings. He has claimed weekly that victory is right around the corner with this war… but we have blown past the 4-6 week deadline set by this administration and have failed to get a single concession.
So I asked the simple question: “Can you name a single political concession we have gotten from Iran?”
He couldn’t answer. Never forget the weakness he showed when he had no answer for Trump’s mistakes.
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>Roam the steppes of Anatolia in vast herds
>Humans approach. Nervous.
>They don't kill you. They bring you grass.
>Something strange begins.
>Be domesticated cattle, 8,000 BC
>Humans shelter you from wolves
>You provide milk for their children
>Partnership forms. Mutual. Ancient.
>Your kind spreads across every continent with theirs.
>Be cattle, 3,000 BC
>Pull the plough that breaks the first agricultural soil
>Humans couldn't have done it without you
>Mesopotamia feeds thousands because of your shoulders
>Civilisation, technically, runs on ox power
>Be cattle, Roman Empire
>Armies march on leather boots you provided
>Shields made from your hide
>Legions fed on your meat
>Rome, technically, runs on you
>Be cattle, Medieval Britain
>The peasant's only source of winter protein
>Your tallow lights the candles they read by
>Your manure feeds the fields that feed everyone
>The feudal economy runs on you
>Be cattle, 1800s
>Power the industrial revolution's early leather belts and drive shafts
>Provide the tallow that lubricates every machine
>Your bones make the fertiliser that feeds the growing cities
>The industrial world, technically, still runs on you
>Be cattle, 1950s
>Scientists discover your organs saved millions during wartime
>Insulin extracted from your pancreas keeps diabetics alive
>Gelatin from your bones holds medicines together
>Modern healthcare, technically, runs on you too
>Be cattle, 2026
>The world decides your breath is a global threat
>The "solution" is a lab-grown burger in a plastic box
>The plastic is made from the oil that replaced your tallow
>The soil turns to dust because your hooves don't stir it
>The humans forget who pulled them out of the mud
>You aren't the engine of progress anymore; you're the exhaust.
>Be confused.