Rebecca 🏳️‍🌈 💙

hey, my tweet made it onto Fox News!

Himes on the difference between Trump's boat strikes and Obama's drone strikes: "The most important distinction is that Congress authorized the war on terror ... the original sin of this whole thing is that there is no congressional authorization."

BRENNAN: Do you have confidence in Admiral Bradley?

HIMES: What it raises is what happens when an apparently good man like Admiral Bradley is placed in a context where he knows that if he countermands an order he's uncomfortable with it's very likely he'll be fired

Himes: "As many times as Tom Cotton may say it doesn't matter what they were doing, it matters essentially what they were doing ... these guys were barely alive much less engaging in hostilities"

Himes: "I think it's really important this video by made public ... it's important people see what it looks like when the full force of the US military is turned on two guys who are clinging to a piece of wood and about to go under just so they have a visceral feel for what it is we're doing"

BARTIROMO: Have you considered switching parties?

CUELLAR: Look, I'm a Democrat

BARTIROMO: Okay, but Trump is out with a new Truth Social saying saying, "next time, no more Mr Nice Guy"

CUELLAR: I was at church this morning praying for the president

BARTIROMO: What are you expecting the president's economic message to be?

SEN. McCORMICK: I think the message is that we inherited a trainwreck from the Biden administration and we made a lot of progress

Rep. Ilhan Omar: "When I think about Stephen Miller and his white supremacist rhetoric, it reminds me of the way the Nazis described Jewish people in Germany."

Ilhan Omar: "It's completely disgusting. These are Americans that he is calling garbage ... it's also really important for us to remember that this kind of hateful rhetoric and this level of dehumanizing can lead to dangerous actions by people who listen to the president."

BESSENT: When you come to this country, you gotta learn which side to drive on, you've gotta learn to stop at stop signs, and you gotta learn not to defraud the American people

BRENNAN: Well, there is plenty of criminal behavior from communities well beyond the immigrant community

BRENNAN: If everything is fine, then why do farmers need a bridge payment from the Agriculture Department?

BESSENT: Sorry?

BRENNAN: Why do they need a bridge payment?

BESSENT: You've gotta start financing for planning next year, when things will be very good

BESSENT: I run a soybean farm

BRENNAN: You don't own one. You invest in it

BESSENT: People in my family go out and work on it

Bessent on grocery prices being up: "Beef is one component. Thanksgiving turkey was down 16%"


(Note the shit-eating grin on Bessent's face as he says this)

BRENNAN: When Trump says "affordability is a con job," his approval on the economy is down to 36%. Don't you need to show you feel the pain?

BESSENT: HE's frustrated by the media coverage

BRENNAN: The polling is of average Americans

BESSENT: Average Americans hear a lot of it from media coverage

BRENNAN: Prices in the toy space are accelerating, and people are feeling that

BRENNAN: Inflation is a composite number and it's roughly the same year over over

BRENNAN: The president was wrong in April when he predicted lower numbers of purchases and higher prices?

BESSENT: The economy has been better than we thought

Schiff: "I think that all of these strikes are unlawful. They are a form of extrajudicial killing. These boats are not invading the US in an armed assault ... the fact the administration may put a group of organizations on a list doesn't confer on a president the ability to kill them at sea."

Freudian slip from Tom Cotton: "I think President Bush has every power under the Constitution to strike boats in international waters"

WELKER: You're talking about Trump protecting Arkansas from drugs, yet he pardoned the former president of Honduras who trafficked more than 500 tons of cocaine into the US. How does that make us safer?

COTTON: I haven't spoken to POTUS about that pardon. I have to know more about the circumstances

WELKER: The US doesn't shoot people at the border who are bringing drugs in. Why should it be different at sea? Are you saying we should start shooting people at the border?

COTTON: No I'm not, Kristen

WELKER: Is there any hard evidence showing this particular boat was headed to the US?

TOM COTTON: That didn't come up in my briefing

WELKER: Are you comfortable having the US target a boat that you're not sure is heading to the US?

COTTON: I'm not just comfortable with it -- I want to continue it

WELKER: Isn't it possible that even the act of taking off a t shirt could've been part of an attempt to get attention for help?

TOM COTTON: Or it could've been an attempt to signal to another cartel boat to come pick them up and pick up the cargo

WELKER: Lawmakers say the 2 men appeared to raise their arms potentially to surrender. Why did Admiral Bradley interpret these actions as anything other than them trying to survive?

TOM COTTON: They were sitting or standing on top of a capsized boat. They weren't floating helplessly in the water

STEPHANOPOULOS: Do you support the pardon of the former Honduran president?

SCHMITT: I'm not familiar w/ the facts or circumstances

S: What do you mean you're not familiar? It's been front page news

SCHMITT: You spew Democrat talking points every single week, which is why your ratings are so bad

Duckworth: "It is a war crime. It's illegal. No matter how you put it, it's all illegal. I've been shot down behind enemy lines. Under the laws of war, you are supposed to help render aid to that individual ... you're not allowed to go back in and kill them."

Mark Kelly on Hegseth: "He doesn't look out for anybody. When you see what happened with this boat strike, it's not leadership to throw your people under the bus. He turned away and ran from this as fast as he could."

Mark Kelly: "They are not silencing me. I'm still speaking out. I still am going to do my job every single day regardless of whether this president wants to kill me, hang me, execute me, or shut me up. I'm not gonna shut up."

Newsmax chyron: ILHAM OMAR PLAYS THE RACE CARD

TRUMP: *calls Somalis "garbage"*

OMAR: The president is a bigot

NEWSMAX:

BASH: If you were to take the confirmation vote again, would you vote to make Hegseth defense sec?

CURTIS: That's a Q I can't answer without as much thoughtful research as I did the first time

B: Now you have evidence

C: But if you by what's in the paper it's impossible to know what's going on

CURTIS: All of us need to wake up every morning & say, 'what am I doing to make immigrants feel welcome' regardless of an individual says

BASH: But he's not just an individual. He's the president calling an entire community garbage

C: We knew very well what we were electing. We wanted a disrupter