The best case for the JCPOA is that Obama bet implementing the deal would moderate Iran. Otherwise by 2030 you'd have a Death to America regime flush with cash and weapons, and no limits on enrichment.
Critics said it wouldn't.
We know who was right. Biden ran the experiment.
The JCPOA required the U.S. to suspend sanctions on Iran's oil sales and nuclear program, and at the international level U.N. Security Council Resolution 2231 locked it in and terminated U.N. sanctions. Trump reversed those concessions and imposed maximum pressure. Biden reversed the Trump policy and re-implemented the deal: he allowed Iran to sell oil at above JCPOA levels, issued waivers suspending Congressional sanctions against Iran's nuclear work, and went to the U.N. to restart UNSCR 2231.
While Biden was implementing the deal, the Iranians provided Russia with the drones they used to stall the Ukrainian pushback in 2022, started the Oct. 7 war with Israel in 2023, and built their way to a nuclear arsenal. They did not moderate. They escalated.
Biden quite literally tested the best case for the JCPOA, and it just isn't true. It was also catastrophic on a global scale, but in addition to being catastrophic, the argument just isn't true.
I'm all for pointing out hypocrisy and politicians' changing positions but a word to the wise for my friends: just make sure you're not making or believing an argument that something is a good idea because Democrats have been in favor of it.
In the old GOP, you had to pivot from your toxic culture war positions to your popular economic positions.
In the new GOP, you have to pivot from your toxic economic positions to your popular culture war positions.
Holy crap.
Appears the left column isn’t tariff rates at all. It’s simply the trade deficit/imports. It has literally 0 to do with tariff rates of those countries.
So why are they listing it as “tariffs charged”????
Note that one of the major theories of why tariffs are good, actually is that it will help restore our competitiveness in strategically vital industries like semi-conductors ... which are exempt.
Let's make sure we crush the Democrats in these elections tomorrow. Please remind anyone you know in these districts to get out and vote or find your polling place at https://t.co/t8HTw35lTv
Take the long view on this. The list of legitimate and worthwhile government expenditures is short and working on cutting everything else is good and important but preventing blackmail of the government makes the list. If you can do it cheaper, great.
I don't feel sorry for Hunter and Ashley Biden any more than anybody else. But there actually is a reason that these figures get protection: if harm can come to a President's family, people will leverage Presidents or try to.
Taking away personal protection to own rivals, especially those who are at risk because of work they did in the 1st Trump admin may be a cheap laugh but isn't really funny and will cross into sad if/when someone gets hurt.
This is Susan Crawford’s @TerryMcAuliffe moment. Every conservative group in America should be running ads with this in it.
A guy raped a 5-year-old girl. He could’ve got 60 years in prison. Prosecutor asked for 10. Crawford gave the SOB 4. With time served, he’s already out.
Newsom has claimed for years that wildfires are caused by climate change alone. When we pointed to absurd environmental laws and forest management, he labeled us "climate deniers."
Now, he's admitting we were right all along. All it took was for one of our major cites to burn.