All these years in the U.S. Senate waiting to be Majority Leader and now serving as one for nearly two years, and @LeaderJohnThune finally finds himself slightly above worthless admitting his own Republican Senators are two-faced, corrupt pieces of shit.
High bar he sets, folks.
Polymarket odds give Netanyahu a 64% chance to leave office by end of the year, with Trump saying he’s open to supporting other candidates.
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JD Vance just gave the clearest breakdown of the Trump vs. Obama Iran deal distinction I've heard.
Here it is — the Gulf State test:
The Gulf Coast Coalition loves this deal.
They hated the Obama deal.
Why?
They thought Obama made Iran stronger.
They think Trump makes Iran weaker.
Vance: "They know more about this, and they have more to lose than anybody, including the USA. So I trust their judgment."
The negotiating position:
Obama in 2015: Iran has a sophisticated nuclear program. Let's bribe them with American money to stop it.
Trump in 2026: We already destroyed your nuclear program. Promise not to rebuild it, and you get some sanctions relief.
One is negotiating from fear.
The other is negotiating from rubble.
The substance:
"The Obama nuclear deal allowed enrichment, ours will not."
"The Obama deal allowed the accumulation of stockpiled weapons-grade material, ours is actually leading to the destruction of that stockpile of enriched material."
"The Obama deal gave them over a billion dollars of American money. This deal gives them $0 of American money."
Bottom line from @JDVance:
"We're coming at it from a position of strength, and the fact that our gulf coast partners love this deal."
My dad on Mt. Kennedy. The Canadian government named the highest unclimbed peak in North America after my uncle following his assassination. My father became part of the first team to summit the 13,944-foot mountain in March 1965. #GetOutside#LiveRealLife
Really impressed by the clips of JD Vance from this week. Incredibly talented and a very gifted communicator. And he’s actually a conservative. More than can be said (on all of the above points) about most Republicans.
I just made this my ring-tone.
It could all lead to nothing, or worse (a joint US/Israel resumption of the war). But there hasn't been a week where American leaders have spoken so sternly, clearly, truthfully and decisively about Israel since . . . well, perhaps ever.
They actually do think that they can kill their way out of every national security problem that they have and the sentiment is not limited to scapegoat figures like Ben Gvir and Smotrich.
WATCH: JD Vance blasts Ben-Gvir and Smotrich:
You’ve seen people in their system, Ben-Gvir and Smotrich, who’ve attacked the deal.
And I guess my response to them would be: What is your exact proposal?
You’re a country of 9 million people. You can’t just kill your way out of solving every single national security problem that you have.
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The thing about Trump is that when he is recklessly doing what you want it can be very satisfying and there is a strong temptation to create complex intellectual rationalizations for his action and even attribute him some kind of primal genius. The second he flips and starts recklessly doing the opposite the frustration is equally potent.
She joined her friends on the lake to see the northern lights. An illegal alien, released by Chicago Democrats, not once, but twice, shot her in the back.
She bled to death on the concrete.
Democrats are a cancer.