Matt Seyfang

There is no industry more vulnerable to geopolitical risk. Closures of airspace + oil prices put every major carrier at risk.

It was pure selfishness so they could self-righteously say they didn't vote for "genocide". That their carelessness would kill millions and harm tens of millions more didn't even enter the equation.

23? Try *4*. Four Republican Senators can shut most of this down tomorrow. That they won't is a damning indictment of the whole Republican Party and why it must be completely destroyed as a political force until it reforms itself and purges its authoritarian elements.

Career suicide? As an elected official, yes. But it's a lifelong career grifting off folks, crying that the primaries were rigged and threatening to or running every 4 years. She'll make millions writing books and doing public appearances. And the party will be saddled with this for decades...

I know of another guy who was known as an extraordinary political communicator. Made a big name for himself in Germany for a time...

There's a human cost to this that's being borne by our servicemembers and their families. Every one of those families deserves so much better than this administration. This is all so awful.

Which one? Gaza? Thousands. Trump/Musk? Millions. Tell me, why are Gaza lives worth so much more than the others? Trump and Musk will have a death toll twice than the OG genocide of the Holocaust. Does it not bother you that you had a hand in that?

Trump and Musk, by closing up USAID, will have killed 14 million according to some estimates. How do the lives of thousands stack up against millions? None of these calculi are morally clear cut, but the world is imperfect and it is right and just to attempt some weighing of relative equities/harm.

Iran's Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead, senior Israeli official tells Reuters.

I voted in part to prevent new genocides, like the one Musk created by closing USAID. By placing Gaza at the top of your priorities, to the exclusion of all others, you voted for harm, not just in America, but around the world. Own that. Be proud of it. Because you did that.

Donald Trump is dragging the United States into a war the American people do not want. Let me be clear: I am opposed to a regime-change war in Iran, and our troops are being put in harm’s way for the sake of Trump’s war of choice.

Read my full statement:

What they didn't tell us is that the socialism would be national socialism...

Jesus. This may be the stupidest thing I've read today, which is saying something. If killing terrorists were so effective, terrorism would have ended decades ago.

Oh, no. Saying this out loud jinxes it. You might as well pray for another blizzard...

PSA:

People bitching about war who didn't vote Harris/Walz

SHUT THE FUCK UP

They are why we are here. Just a complete inability to comprehend consequences and they're perfectly happy to poison the well for those trying to stop it...

There's so much of this stupidity today. If they had half the anger for Republicans that they do for Dems, we wouldn't be here in the first place.

If, at this moment, you are yelling at Democrats more than the Republicans responsible for this, you are part of the problem. He's the Minority Leader and next Speaker; this is a measured, appropriate response. You and I can (and should!) say things he can and should not.

Not a great time to be 10 minutes warplane/missile flying time away from Iran. It's 150 miles from Dubai to Bandar Abbas, Iran.

The only 2024 candidate who might have reined in Netanyahu was Harris. Yes, Palestinian lives matter, which was reason 6,853 why I voted for her. Enjoy Trump Gaza.

It's not really genocide unless it involves Palestine? That reason?

The count is already > 200,000 due to the closure of USAID.

The further good news on this is that there are really good candidates for Dems in all 3 of these districts, one of which is an open seat being vacated by 0% Black support John James, who is running for governor.

Not to worry. Two things will surely survive WW3: cockroaches and us lawyers...

Anyone with an IQ exceeding room temperature knows this is a very bad idea.

Follow the money on this one. Willing to bet there's a Trump insider/crony who will lease space to the USG at inflated rates. Everything with them is crooked/a grift/corrupt. Somebody stands to profit here with bonus points if the sale of the building/land also benefits someone in Trump's orbit.

Anti-Harris leftists really need to spend more time in introspection over the fact that Dick and Liz Cheney got it right in 2024 and they did not.

Greenwald, of course, is part of why we wound up here. You know who wasn't fooled by Trump's shameless fraudulence? Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton. They warned us about all of it.

Nothing matters to them except the worship of their feculent fuehrer.

Oh, they will be with us, alright. The Iranian revolution was 47 years ago and our problems in that part of the world go back much further than that.