Dana Houle

That won’t keep oil cheap

It’s a good day to ask how safe America really is with Pete Hegseth, a dangerously unfit former TV host, running the Pentagon in the middle of a conflict with Iran.

The stakes are too high for incompetence, reckless judgment, or someone learning on the job while American lives are on the line.

You wouldn’t open the straights unless you had an internationally assured guarantee of no more assassination of regime leaders. It’s bad to negotiate a “deal” with countries that still reserve the right to assassinate you

Is this because they expect us to escalate, because they expect Iran to escalate, because they expect Israel to escalate, or for all three to escalate simultaneously?

Sure seems like they expect some kind of retaliation by Iran.

Senate Republicans splinter over SAVE America Act's path as Trump calls for more revisions Some insist on trying to use a "talking filibuster" to break Democrats' will to block the elections bill. Others say it's unlikely to work. And one senator is proposing a third option.

I don’t see Senate Rs succeeding with the SAVE Act.

It’s a logistical nightmare.

But that doesn’t mean we can’t do our part.

Have a GOP Senator?

Call them and tell them to kill this bill.

You might think it’s pointless, but Rs are VERY nervous these days.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Imagine the reaction in the US if ~175 schoolgirls had been killed by a targeted Iranian missile. (Or anyone's missile.)

This is an atrocity.

Yeah, there’s nothing Trump has done except I think the first round of tariffs where the US markets have imo responded rationally. Stock markets can’t rally down the price of oil, or get Israel or Iran to stop attacking. They’ll stop when they decide.

I would simply like the “it’s so hard and depressing to vote the obvious choice” vanity for likes schtick to die

Short, stupid wars: The obviously bullshit executive orders of 2026.

The angry senile king needs to be amused.

He’ll make it up to Marco by invading Cuba.

So:
Not regime change
Not denuclearization
Not protect Iranian protestors

Oh well. Too bad this isn't Israel's goal-set bc nothing stops unless they stop too.

If I understand correctly, the thing propping up the global economy is Wall Street’s collective belief that a man whose father, wife, and daughter we killed would not want to do anything that would impact our 401ks to us and will make a deal so Mr. Trump can have a good midterm.

oh just a thought if your plan for overthrowing the Iranian government depends on the Iranian public rising up, you likely shouldn't have defunded the American government run news agency that speaks in Farsi.

Kinsley Gaffe

Actually looking it up, it was EXACTLY 6 years ago today that the stock market hit multiple circuit breakers because it crashed so hard due to COVID.

I like that his example is the state with the smallest population, that also has the lowest population density after Alaska, where the state senate is 28R-2D, & the state house 54R-6D.

Representative!

Like a schnook

Guy who would rather his children be sexually abused than taught by Jesuits has bad ideas about society and foreign policy.

“Why would they publish this?” I ask, as I realize they inexplicably have one of their own editors, who is, I presume, an MBD friend and ally, also on the piece.

But Dougherty doesn’t mention Venezuela, or Canada, Alberta, Greenland, Cuba, Caribbean fishermen, Mexican cartels, Gaza resorts, his faux diplomatic organization grifts, etc.

His party—not “Congress,” not “Washington,” but Republicans—are supporting a madman w a military. /5

And while Dougherty makes the reasonable suggestion that Saudi Arabia may have played a part in this decision, he acknowledges but dances around the role of Israel. But far more important is what he doesn’t mention: Venezuela. Trump thinks he can just Venezuela (verb) around the globe /4

Reality is conservatives & Repubs push to engage in wars of choice, while liberals & Dems are less likely to push military action, esp regime change. Even at the low point for Dems/libs, the 2002 AUMF, the majority of Dems still voted against it.

Dougherty’s movement & party are the warmongers /3

In fact, last 3 Dem POTUS’s ended wars/military operations w large numbers of US troops on the ground begun under Repubs (Somalia, Iraq, & Afghanistan)

Some Dem presidents have used the military aggressively but since LBJ every Repub POTUS except Ford has been more bellicose than every Dem POTUS /2

Opinion | ‘It Should Not Be Seen as a Betrayal, but a Disappointment’

Michael Brendan Dougherty has always been dishonest. He criticizes the “foreign policy class” (2x) & “political class” & “foreign policy court” (3X), “Congress,” & “Washington.” He’s critical of Trump, but it’s dishonest to imply a Dem president would start this war/1 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/o...

Much of it takes place in Australia! Peter Carey co-wrote it.

Well done. @kagrox.bsky.social & I have been using that joke for over /0 years, & it never gets old.

It may be already, because of the destruction of USAID.

Say it with me now: Trump-flation.

I don’t assume either Iran or Israel would play along with that.