Abraham Lincoln got shot in the head and still managed to keep the country together. Franklin Roosevelt ran the entire Second World War from a wheelchair. Eisenhower defeated Hitler and then, just to stay busy, built 48,000 miles of motorway. Kennedy looked at the moon, said “we’ll have that,” and inside a decade they did. Reagan stared down the Soviet Union until it simply gave up and went home.
Two hundred and fifty years. Forty-six men. Men who stormed beaches, split atoms, faced down nuclear annihilation over breakfast and then filed sensible paperwork about it afterward.
And then, after all of that, the entire accumulated weight of American history, the most consequential democratic experiment the world has ever seen, produced this.
A television review.
No Mars landing. No cure for cancer. No Soviet empire dissolved before lunch. Just a man in the White House, in the year 2026, informing the internet that a CBS chat show host had no talent.
That is what 250 years of American greatness built. America should be deeply, permanently ashamed of itself.
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To understand how wrong & corrupt this is, imagine President Obama picked his personal lawyer to be Attorney General. And then imagine Obama & his AG set up a $1.8 billion taxpayer-funded slush fund to reward his political friends & go after his political enemies. And imagine Obama set it up with no outside accountability or oversight, but instead his AG appointed 5 “friends of Obama” to oversee the fund. If Obama had done that, it would be unprecedented, corrupt, & wrong, correct? And Hannity & the rest of Fox News would be screaming, correct?
Trump spent years in a jealous rage, relentlessly slamming Barack Obama for unfreezing $1.7 billion of Iran's own money to Iran, calling it pathetic ransom money and proof of a disastrous, weak-kneed surrender. Driven by petty obsession, Trump spitefully ripped up the Iran nuclear deal in 2018, shredding every restraint on Tehran, and smugly promised the world a "better deal."
Instead, his childish vendetta supercharged Iran's nuclear program, pushing it dangerously close to the bomb. Now, in a breathtaking display of hypocrisy and failure, Trump is negotiating to hand Iran access to $20 billion in frozen funds — more than ten times what he once condemned — in exchange for the regime surrendering its near-weapons-grade uranium stockpile.
This is Trump at his most embarrassingly stupid: destroying a deal that had capped Iran's enrichment and kept it under watch, only to crawl back offering vastly more cash after his own incompetence made the threat far worse.
The man who mocked Obama for "giving" Iran money is now dangling a fortune in frozen assets while pretending it's a brilliant victory. It's not leadership — it's ego-driven incompetence and rank hypocrisy, a petty grudge that backfired spectacularly and left America facing a more expensive, more dangerous mess. Trump's jealous tantrum didn't make America safer; it just made the cleanup bill ten times bigger.
@adamsteen So I believe Jesus would welcome them in. You remember him, right? You like to use his name an awful lot when it serves your purpose, but refuse to actually live by his teachings. Hypocrisy on full display.
Fact checking fraud claims: Heritage Foundation documented 1,620 cases of voter fraud from 1982-2025, including 100 cases of noncitizens voting. That's about 0.000008% of more than 1.3 billion votes cast in presidential elections in that time. @YLindaQiu https://t.co/c07MmyhyZm
@tihoma Rick Barnes had a good defensive game plan. Milan had six points. That’s essentially shutting him down. Without J Jeff we had no inside presence to take that pressure off. The final four will be Arizona, Duke, Michigan, and likely Illinois. All tall and long.
@StephCopley Free throws were going to be our undoing eventually. Missed Jefferson in the middle and Rick Barnes had a good defensive game plan. Proud of our team and their accomplishments.