Richard M. Nixon

You never let them smell fear. In doing so it helps not to be afraid.

Compare this to Richard Nixon, the most awkward person who ever lived, who nevertheless, properly prepared, could shake hands with people who wanted to kill him & often come out ahead

I don’t rule anything out.

This Sheehy business ...

I know for a fact it is being discussed.

That is, Rubio, if he had talent or intelligence, might find some room to maneuver - he's always been a neoconservative at heart. Of course that's a moot point. Vance is screwed left, right, and sideways. You don't get to come up as the second coming of Bob Taft and sink ships in the Indian Ocean.

There was talk here that Crockett played that card because it was a sure thing to win. I said it was a thing to turn her base out. Those things are related, but different.

It was a ship. Nevertheless.

They sank a submar... what? The Indian Ocean? What?

Talking like that gets people killed.

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We have not commented on that briefing because I considered it self-evident, but since we've been asked: Democrats don't leak like that unless the room is on fire.

Yes.

I am surprised at Talarico. He ran a good campaign, but it was a general election campaign. If he won a primary like this, the other side has something to sweat about.

Rubio has fewer allies than Vance, and Vance has none.

The mood at the Pentagon is not good.

I have no plans to die.

Khamenei was dying of prostate cancer.

They did this to fuck us.

We are back.

Are we ... we're bac -- we're on the air. Are we on the air?

What?

Many of you miss our column. It will return for the election. It will not focus on Trump personally, because it can’t. It’s like analying ferrets. We have never pretended there is a method to what he does. The whole point of the thing was to tell the truth and write what you couldn’t find elsewhere.

They are still writing thousands of words about him being a serious man who prostitutes himself and so forth, when for damn near fifteen years I’ve shown you left, right, and sideways he’s a clown without an original thought in his head.

The Iran war is 60% unpopular with the dust still in the air. Unless Tehran turns into Alexandria, Virginia by '28, Vance and Rubio - together or separately - will need to run fast and far from it. But they won't be able to.

Hegseth has an American flag pocket square. Of course there are far more clear and present dangers, but it was once understood that respect for the flag meant not turning it into articles of clothing.

He does. He doesn’t control money in the country.

@ronziegler.bsky.social What?

Phil Leotardo

Within Iran Pahlavi is at best a symbol, and not a major one. He doesn’t have people or money. There is some desire to install him as a transitional figure, but none to go backward.