Trump took us to war in Iran without public support, without Congress, without a clear mission, and without a viable plan. He doesn’t know how to exit, so every week he just resorts to bluster and hopes it works out.
😡 TRUMP LOYALIST: “Jewish Americans have a vested interest in Israel!”
GLENN: “Why? Why do they have that?”
TRUMP LOYALIST: “Well, a lot of them—some don’t. Like, you, right? You’re Jewish?”
GLENN: “Yeah, I don’t [have a vested interest].”
Pretty much all of the prominent voices who supported the Iran War assured us it would be over by now. None of them will admit they were wrong. Even less will they admit that their initial assurances were based on nothing but their own wishcasting. This whole shitshow has been an enormous waste of time and resources and our country has not benefited from it at all. Its advocates have moved the goal posts repeatedly and have even to this day refused to clearly articulate what constitutes a victory and how we’ll know that it’s been achieved.
@teameffujoe Massie actually understands economics and follows the constitution. That's rare in congress. He was fighting for liberty. That benefits the people in his district, but also the nation. The rest of the Republicans are spending the nation into financial and economic ruin.
@willchamberlain MAGA is far too fiscally liberal, too comfortable with big government, and not nearly pro 2A enough for me.
I'm looking for actual constitutional conservatives 🇺🇸
I'll never get over how the primary grievance of the American Right for the last decade at least was that liberals go around screaming RACIST and BIGOT at everyone who disagrees with them or even makes a joke: all to shut down debate, get people fired, destroy their reputation, etc.
Now that the pro-Israel faction of the Right is in power, that's transformed from their primary grievance to their primary tactic. They spend all day screaming RACIST and BIGOT at anyone who disagrees with US financing of Israel and Middle East wars or the excessive influence of Israel loyalists in US politics.
Screaming ANTI-SEMITE, trying to get people fired, branding them as bigots for a joke (se the meltdown over Massie's "Tel Aviv" line) dominates their discourse. Just all day long, every day: accusing everyone of being a bigot. Just bizarre.
The rule is: Jewish/Israeli groups may openly cheer and boast that their money defeated a congressman, but YOU may not joke about it, because then you are an anti-Semite
Get used to the rules, because there are going to be lots more of them
I can't think of a more glaring and revealing political irony than a politician who called his ideology "America First" proudly *boasting* that he's far more popular in Israel than in his own country: in fact, so popular there that he could be elected Prime Minister of Israel.
Massie’s loss is yet another example of why it’s well past time to stop waiting for politicians to save you, reject the system and its authority altogether, and create your own non-political solutions. The house always wins—unless you stop playing their game.
@MysteryGrove big spending Republicans are just a different flavor of socialists like the Democrats. UniParty Simps celebrating Massie losing were never for a limited government.
**More.**
Federal outlays reached $7.01 trillion in FY2025 (mostly under Biden) and FY2026 year-to-date spending is running higher than the prior year’s equivalent period ($4.27T vs $4.16T through April). Mandatory programs (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid) and net interest on the debt continue driving increases regardless of administration. Some quarters under the current Trump term have shown slower growth or minor declines in year-over-year outlays per Treasury data, but overall spending levels remain elevated above Biden-era totals when comparing comparable periods.