Mark Nicholson

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Holy shit, this sick old man can't even keep himself upright, seated in the Oval Office.

He's practically sideways. How TF is this not a bigger story?

[Claude Taylor @TrueFactsStated]

This photo/screenshot will live in infamy.

[Marlene Robertson🇨🇦 @marlene4719]

Comparing a pool that is horizontal to skyscrapers that are vertical is peak insanity.

Why are Republicans allowing this demented clown to embarrass your country like this?

[Carolina Hurricanes @Canes]

The most special booth cam yet ❤️

[Boston Smalls @smalls2672]

This needs to be played everywhere 24/7

[Meacham @MeachamDr]

It’s like a meth family moved in….

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

He’s right. The Republican Party isn’t a party of ideas. Or policy. It doesn’t stand for anything. It’s just a bunch of people being blindly loyal to corrupt madman who controls the primary voting base, but is unpopular with the rest of the country.

[Mark Nicholson @mickmarkn]

@RyanFlanagan24 College Park game had best attendance because Navy fans traveled making this truly a neutral site. Campuses are less than 25 miles apart.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

The goal of the game UNO is to have no cards you fucking idiot.

[Mark Slapinski @mark_slapinski]

Trump is an embarrassment to the United States

Look at this DISRESPECTUL behaviour

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Michael Clarke on Iran: The US achieved everything it wanted militarily. It was militarily flawless and politically clueless.

Washington hit all the targets it wanted, but got almost nothing politically that it did not already have at the start. 1/

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

This is the BEST, most hilarious breakdown I have seen of the absurd rationales I have heard trying to justify trump's idiotic war.

BRILLIANT! 👏👏👏

[Azi™️ @Azi]

Why should audiences not read the president’s message verbatim?

[Danny Payne @DannyPayneNavy]

Annapolis, MD📍

Not an April Fools tweet, our home really does look like this!

#GoNavy
#Annapolis

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

Sure, you got a war with Iran, high gas prices, tariffs, rampant corruption, an incompetent, lickspittle cabinet, a useless congress, pardons for Jan 6 insurrectionists who are all committing new, horrific crimes, inflation, no job creation…BUT, BUT, BUT…there’s a ballroom.

[Jake Tapper 🦅 @jaketapper]

secretary @PeteHegseth - would you make the same decision had these pilots done the same thing to celebrate @springsteen? Or is this contingent upon folks sharing your political views?

[Mark Nicholson @mickmarkn]

This is a 2nd order consequence of this fiasco. China and Russia have surely taken notice and have gained invaluable intelligence of our vulnerabilities.

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

JUST IN: The United States has fired 2,400 Patriot interceptors in 31 days. It manufactures 650 per year. Replenishment at current production takes three and a half years. It has consumed 40 percent of its global THAAD inventory. It produces fewer than 100 THAAD interceptors annually. Full replenishment takes four to five years. Each interceptor contains neodymium and samarium-cobalt magnets sourced from Chinese-controlled supply chains. The US defence rare earth stockpile has approximately two months remaining.

Read those numbers again. The US military has consumed more precision weapons in one month than it can manufacture in three years, using materials it can only source from the country it may need to fight next.

Every Patriot fired at an Iranian Fattah-2 over Riyadh is a Patriot that does not exist for a Chinese DF-21 over the Taiwan Strait. Every rare earth magnet consumed in Gulf interceptors is a magnet that cannot be installed in a replacement built for the Pacific. The Iran war is not just depleting American arsenals. It is depleting American deterrence against China. And the country counting the interceptors from both sides of the table, as supplier and as future adversary, is the same country hosting peace talks in Beijing right now.

China controls 90 percent of rare earth refining. China produces 90 percent of the world’s high-performance magnets. China buys 80 to 91 percent of Iran’s oil exports. China provides BeiDou navigation and ammonium perchlorate propellant to the Iranian missiles that are forcing the US to burn through its interceptor stockpile. China is simultaneously the supplier of the weapons America is using, the supplier of the weapons Iran is using, the primary customer of the oil the war is disrupting, and the only country with the leverage to end the disruption.

The arithmetic of the grand bargain is not complicated. The US needs Chinese rare earths to rebuild its interceptor inventory. China needs Hormuz open to receive Iranian oil. The US needs the war to end before its stockpiles hit zero. China needs tariff relief, semiconductor export control rollbacks, and Taiwan arms-sale restraint. Both sides need something only the other can provide. The question is not whether a deal happens. The question is how much of America’s strategic position in the Pacific gets traded for the minerals needed to survive the Gulf.

RAND estimated that 78 percent of US defence contractors would face production shutdowns within 90 days of a Chinese rare earth cutoff. The 2027 deadline to ban Chinese-sourced magnets from Pentagon procurement is nine months away with no domestic alternative at scale. MP Materials operates the only US rare earth mine and ships its concentrate to China for processing. The mine-to-magnet supply chain that the Pentagon needs to survive a Taiwan contingency runs through the country the Taiwan contingency is designed to deter.

This is not a supply chain problem. This is a civilisational dependency. The United States built the most advanced military in human history on materials processed by its principal strategic competitor. It is now fighting a war that burns through those materials at a rate that makes replenishment impossible without the competitor’s cooperation. And the competitor is sitting in a conference room in Beijing today, across the table from Pakistan’s foreign minister, calculating exactly how much of America’s future it can extract in exchange for the minerals America needs to have a future at all.

The deal of the century is not a choice. It is arithmetic. And the arithmetic leads to Beijing.

https://t.co/dAOBBMrIOk

[Mark Nicholson @mickmarkn]

To all my relatives and colleagues who this applies to, no judgement and am glad you have had enough of this destructive clown…

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

We are going to see an accelerating tide of these admissions and conversions as the coming weeks and months pass. And the job of those of us who have opposed Trump for years is to resist saying "I told you so," or "you knew better," or "who needs you," but rather to say "thank you for seeing the light," and to ask people who previously supported Trump to help us stand up now for the impeachment and removal of that terrible man so that we rid ourselves of him sooner, rather than later. The survival of our nation as a constitutional republic depends in no small part on such grace.

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

We are going to see an accelerating tide of these admissions and conversions as the coming weeks and months pass. And the job of those of us who have opposed Trump for years is to resist saying "I told you so," or "you knew better," or "who needs you," but rather to say "thank you for seeing the light," and to ask people who previously supported Trump to help us stand up now for the impeachment and removal of that terrible man so that we rid ourselves of him sooner, rather than later. The survival of our nation as a constitutional republic depends in no small part on such grace.

[Terry Moran 🇺🇸 @TerryMoran]

Trump at war:

1. Start war. Do not tell allies.

2. Blow stuff up.

3. Demand regime change.

4. Blow up more stuff.

5. Demand unconditional surrender.

6. Get angry when enemy fights back.

7. Make threats.

8. Back down. Repeat.

9. Demand allies finish war.

10. Walk away.