Man, I gotta say, as an american. I love how trump illegally taxed us and now the biggest corporations in the country get a free check.
Awesome stuff from the don't tread on me, taxation is theft crowd. Appreciate it. You guys are killing it.
Also cool that Trump tried to ruin an Olympian's life because his buddy he gave a no bid contract too fucked up a pool.
Again, incredible stuff from the small, limited government, 2A bro gonna take on a tyrannical government, freedom loving, constitutional #1776 patriots.
You guys are on a roll. Really bringing back the patriotism and love of country. I can feel the red, white and blue flowing through my veins.
Watching a country we are at war with hack our water systems and then watch the president blame americans for it. Just a real chefs kiss. Makes me want to listen to the national anthem over and over.
BREAKING: Iranian state media, via Reuters, says the draft memorandum with Washington commits the United States to lifting sanctions and withdrawing its forces from the vicinity of Iran. The White House calls it a fabrication, then confirms most of the substance itself.
Stay with me here, because the sequence of events deserves to be written down slowly.
In 2018, Donald Trump tore up the Iran nuclear deal. The worst deal ever made, he said. Obama had shipped Iran's enriched uranium out of the country and put inspectors inside its facilities, and this, apparently, was weakness.
In February 2026, Trump went further. The opening strike was pure Caracas swagger, a decapitation operation that actually killed Iran's supreme leader on day one. Regime change, he and Netanyahu announced, urging Iranians into the streets. The regime did not change. It promoted the dead man's son and kept shooting.
Here is the detail historians will struggle with: according to Oman's foreign minister, who was mediating, Iran had already agreed to demands on dismantling its nuclear program before the bombs fell. There was a deal on the table. They bombed it.
Then came three months in which the most expensive military on earth could neither win nor leave. Trump has declared peace at hand so many times the announcements have lost exchange value. A deal largely negotiated. A breakthrough within hours. Strikes described, in his own words, as a little friendly nudge.
Meanwhile Kuwait accidentally shot down three American F-15s, an American missile destroyed a girls' school and killed at least 168 people, mostly children, which the president first blamed on Iran until the Pentagon's own investigation pointed home. Thirteen American soldiers came back in coffins.
And while Washington flailed, your life got more expensive. The Hormuz closure is the largest supply disruption in the history of the oil market. Inflation is climbing on every continent, rate cuts are dead, and the IMF is gaming out a global recession. The entire planet is paying interest on one man's temper.
Now the ending. The deal taking shape gives Iran sanctions relief, frozen billions and an American withdrawal from the neighborhood, while the uranium stays in Iran, under a mountain, fate to be discussed later. Which means the United States fought a fifteen-week war, at biblical expense, to arrive at a worse version of the agreement its own president destroyed for being too weak.
He did not lose to Iran. He lost to himself, eight years ago, and it took two thousand dead people to deliver the message.
Keep an eye on the signing.
One idea I really enjoy is that Democrats have an unbeatable vote rigging operation, but instead of just using it all the time, they sadistically employ it only after briefly giving Republicans hope
Oh my GOD this is great A GAP INTEGRITY here
Head on a swivel
Eyes on your target
Same foot, same shoulder
Send them to the gulag
TEACH TAPE!!! https://t.co/09XGrmxaqn
The most predictable script in American politics:
Trump does something breathtakingly idiotic.
The entire world warns it’ll backfire.
It backfires.
Trump blames everyone else and folds.
MAGA hails him as genius.
Every. Single. Time.
Another politician giving us problems with zero solution. Great bit for political points, what are you actually going to do to help?
@CoryBooker - you're 100% correct that the costs of youth sports are out of control. Here are 3 things those in government can do to actually put your money where your mouth is.
1. Stop subsidizing private equity companies from coming into communities and taking over physical infrastructure (rinks, fields, etc...). They are coming into towns and taking tax payer money to build and operate facilities - they are billion dollar businesses let them foot the bill.
2. Stop allowing equipment companies to create monopolies. In hockey alone, prices of equipment have gone up 45% since COVID because of private equity mergers and a few big companies having a vast majority of the market share.
3. Invest in staff and directors for youth sports in communities. Many times these positions are held by volunteers who cannot put in the time and effort to run programs efficiently. So private entities come in to operate clubs, raising prices on everyone. Not to say some of these private entities don't do a good job, but on a macro level it raises costs on everyone.
This is not just a cost issue. It's a mental and physical health issue.
Our kids have never been more obese and physically unhealthy. The exorbitant costs price people out of sports sending kids to screens. Lack of sports in our communities decreases a sense of togetherness, teamwork, and belonging that are so important for our kids' life skills development.
I'm so tired of politicians talking like this only to do absolutely nothing. You talk a great game, put your money and capital where your mouth is and actually do something to affect some positive change.
Everything is perfectly clear. Iran could not be allowed to get a nuclear weapon, which they have been months away from developing for well over a decade.
Also, Trump is the only president who could have kept us out of war with Iran, as he himself repeatedly told us. So we destroyed their nuclear capabilities, which Tulsi said they didn't have, in 2025. Then we attacked them last month because Israel was going to attack them because they were months away from developing a nuclear weapon since we destroyed their nuclear capabilities, and that would lead Iran to attack American bases.
Iran has never posed a threat to the United States, but we had to attack them first, not because of Israel, but because they posed an imminent threat to the United States.
Fortunately, we have won the war, which was not a war but a special operation, in Iran now several times in the last two weeks. It is basically over but might not be over for some time because we already won. We also don't need anyone to help open the Strait of Hormuz, which we knew they would close, which is why we didn't prepare, and we now need allies to help open.
What are you guys not understanding?
Timeline:
2014: Trump says Obama will invade Iran because he's not a good enough negotiator to get a deal with them
2015: Obama, with the backing of the EU, China, Russia and others, gets a deal with them
2018: Trump cancels deal bc it was Obama's and says he can negotiate a better one.
2018-2020: Trump can't negotiate one. Arms control experts and Trump officials start to grumble that scrapping Obama's deal was probably a bad idea.
2025: Trump still can't negotiate a new deal
2025: Israel launches an attack on Iran. Drags Trump in. Trump claims Iran's nuclear capacity was wiped out
2025-2026: Trump still can't negotiate a deal
2026: Trump launches a regime change war on Iran, at Israel's goading
MAGA CLIFF NOTES
Chapter 1:
If something goes wrong - Blame Democrats
Chapter 2:
If the economy is good - Credit Trump
Chapter 3:
If the economy is bad - Blame Biden
Chapter 4:
If facts contradict the narrative - Call it fake news
Chapter 5:
If Trump says it - Repeat it
Chapter 6:
If evidence appears - Ignore it
Chapter 7:
If questioned - Attack the messenger
Chapter 8:
If policies hurt people - Call it patriotism
Chapter 9:
If it creates fear - Share it faster
Chapter 10:
Loyalty over truth.
Always.
If you understand this, you understand the entire movement.
No policy.
No accountability.
Just outrage. Repeat. Loyalty.
Let me know if I should add a chapter.
I’m not sure there’s ever been a president more distant from the ideals of the Founders of the United States and the Framers of the Constitution—and more detached from the core American culture of liberty, individualism, and self-determination—than President Trump.
@mattfrantti@SeanPBali@MHSAA I agree with that, either regions are geographical or they’re not. There are numerous examples even this year of nonsensical groupings. We have the ability to seed a tournament, and at a minimum can separate the top 8 teams per division in different regions and play that out.