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[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

The Republican Party quietly deleted their own ad attacking Ken Paxton's record on crime... because Paxton is now the Republican Party's nominee to represent Texas in the U.S. Senate.

Figured if the ad is important enough to delete, it's important enough to see...

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

That's so cruel. No one should repost this over 100 times.

[Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada]

OK forget about what I said yesterday - THIS is the absolute worst picture of Trump ever taken. So for fuck’s sake, out of basic human decency, do not retweet it and accidentally expose more people to it. Fuckface would be devastated.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Heather Cox Richardson is spot-fucking-on — and it was all preventable.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

This is BRILLIANT:

Watch this supercut of Republicans bitching about gas prices under Biden, lower than they are today, as they refuse to criticize MUCH higher prices under trump.

Hypocrites, all of them.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

The MAGA crowd in Washington has decided that since Europeans don’t sufficiently appreciate Trump, the American bases on the continent must go. This is the strategic reasoning of a man who burns down his own kitchen.

American bases in Europe were never a favour. They are the logistical spine of every war the United States fights east of Gibraltar. Ramstein moves the cargo, Aviano launches the jets, Rota services the ships. Without them the Pentagon does not project power into the Middle East. It projects PowerPoint.

The fantasy assumes the alternative is aircraft carriers gliding majestically into the Persian Gulf. That era is ending. A modern carrier is a thirteen-billion-dollar trophy that can be reduced to scrap by a couple of hundred cheap missiles fired from the Iranian coast. China noticed.

The other fantasy is that America simply fights from home. Picture the alternative: twenty thousand transatlantic sorties shuttling spare parts, munitions, fuel bladders, mechanics and replacement pilots from Norfolk and Dover to wherever the war happens to be. A C-17 burns through roughly 35,000 dollars of fuel every hour it flies, and the round trip from the American east coast to the Gulf is the better part of a day. Multiply that by every bolt, every missile, every spare engine. The war becomes a sustained airborne traffic jam with the bill arriving by the second.

So you need land, specifically land near the war. Modern combat aircraft are not Spitfires you fuel up and send off with a wave. An F-35 demands an entire Walmart of spare parts, a small city of technicians, climate-controlled hangars and a supply chain stretching halfway round the planet. Drones need operators, networks, satellites and a steady diet of components no carrier can store. Modern war arrives by container ship and lives in a warehouse.

Close the bases, and Washington loses the warehouses. Lose the warehouses, and the next confrontation with Iran is either fought by phone or fought from Kansas with a flight schedule that bankrupts the Treasury before the first missile lands.

MAGA thinks shutting Ramstein punishes Europe. It punishes America. Europe will be inconvenienced. America will be unarmed.

And so, after a thousand insults, a thousand sneers, a thousand late-night posts about freeloading allies, Europe is quietly drafting the politest letter in diplomatic history. It thanks America for its service. It wishes the troops a safe journey home. It suggests, with great warmth, that Washington might now turn its attention to its neighbours in Latin America, where a fading superpower can busy itself with whatever a fading superpower busies itself with.

Spain had its century. Britain had its empire. The Soviets had their parades. Each ended the same way: as a shadow of itself, with the historians left to argue, volume after volume, about precisely when the rot set in and why nobody noticed in time. America is welcome to join them on the shelf.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

RETWEET if you stand with Jimmy Kimmel against Donald Trump!

[JAHID @Its_jahid94]

This is the pic of Donald Trump on Epstein's plane with a child.

This is the pic the DOJ deleted yesterday.

Now they want to scrub this from the Interne

Share this everywhere.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

This one is so much more accurate than the original.

[Not Your Average Liberal @NotAvgLiberal]

This mother fucker was never shot.

He raped children,

His wife fucked Epstein,

He started a war to distract from the fact…

He’s all over the Epstein Files.

And he’s Guilty as Fuck.

Did I miss anything?

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

“Everyone treats him like he's three years old. He needs a lot of attention.
He needs immediate gratification.
He needs constant praise for nothing.
He takes nap time. They order him McDonald's. He gets ice cream after dinner every night. He loves to use a sharpie when he's not supposed to.
He wants to hear the same two songs over and over again. And he wears diapers. He's three years old!”

~ Jimmy Kimmel on the current president 😂

[REPUBLICANS AGAINST MAGA @michaelt5656]

The morning after.

[Uzi @UziCryptoo]

- DOGE was a flop
- No Tax on Tips/Overtime was pretty much a lie
- No $2000 Tariff Dividend Checks
- No US Epstein arrests
- Grocery Prices have not come down
- Obama has more deportations, with less drama
- Russia/Ukraine war not over
- Drill Baby Drill a flop as drilling is down
… What else am I missing ???

[Stephen King @StephenKing]

I predicted someone like Trump many years ago, in THE DEAD ZONE. So now I'm saying this--in the next 12-16 months, we're going to find out if the two machines for the removal of a man unable to fulfill his duties actually work. They are impeachment and the 25th amendment. He is deeply unwell .

[John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz]

The. Strait. Was. Already. Opened. When. He. Started. This. Shit. You. MAGA. Dummies.

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

Actual quotes from President Trump:

Trump’s “victory timeline” claims.

Mar 3: "We won the war."
Mar 7: "We defeated Iran."
Mar 9: "We must attack Iran."
Mar 9: "The war is ending almost completely, and very beautifully.
March 10: practically nothing left to target
Mar 11: “You never like to say too ⁠early you won. We won. In ​the first hour it was over.” Mar 12: "We did win, but we haven't won completely yet."
Mar 13: "We won the war."
Mar 14: "Please help us."
Mar 15: "If you don't help us, I will certainly remember it."
Mar 16: "Actually, we don't need any help at all."
Mar 16: "I was just testing to see who's listening to me."
Mar 16: "If NATO doesn't help, they will suffer something very bad."
Mar 17: "We neither need nor want NATO's help."
Mar 17: "I don't need Congressional approval to withdraw from NATO."
Mar 18: "Our allies must cooperate in reopening the Strait of Hormuz."
Mar 19: "US allies need to get a grip - step up and help open the Strait of Hormuz."
Mar 20: "NATO are cowards."
Mar 21: "The Strait of Hormuz must be protected by the countries that use it. We don't use it, we don't need to open it."
Mar 22: "This is the last time. I will give Iran 48 hours. Open the strait"
Mar 22: "Iran is Dead"

Mar 23: "We had very good and productive talks with Iran."
Mar 24: "We’re making progress."
Mar 25: “They gave us a present and the present arrived today. And it was a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money. I’m not going to tell you what that present is, but it was a very significant prize.” Mar 26: "Make a deal, or we’ll just keep blowing them away."
Mar 27: "We don’t have to be there for NATO."
Mar 28: No major quote
Mar 29: Claimed talks were progressing
Mar 30: "Open the Strait of Hormuz immediately, or face devastating consequences."
Mar 31: Claimed a deal was "very close" and that Iran would "do the right thing"
Apr 1: "We’ll see what happens very soon."
Apr 2: Repeated that a deal was likely, while warning of continued strikes if not
Apr 3: "Something big is going to happen."
Apr 4: Said Iran must comply "immediately" or face further consequences.

Apr 5: "Open the fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah."
April 6 :a whole civilization will die
April 7: total and complete victory
April8: objectives were met

A true disaster

[Ankit Mayank @mr_mayank]

🇮🇷 Iran to now earn $100 Billion a year from the Strait of Hormuz

🇷🇺 Russia earned additional $20 Billion from oil spikes since Iran war

🇺🇸 US lost minimum $200 Billion of American taxpayers’ money 😭

Iran & Russia right now 🔥 —

[crunchyrugger @crunchyrugger]

Trump: do as I say, or I will bomb you back to the stone ages

Iran: best I can do is this 10 point plan where you give us everything we want

Trump: deal!

FoxNews: Trump is a master negotiator