NEW: "By now, we have every reason to believe [Vance will] do whatever he needs to do to accrue power, and that Thiel will be there to fund it."
Joe Rogan: "It doesn't make much sense to me, but neither does this idea that you're gonna take over a country's oil supply…You look at this aggression by the U.S. government…and then this war with Iran gets really ugly. That's how you start World War III."
Joe Rogan on Trump: "He's 80. He doesn't have much to lose. That's the scary thing about old leaders. Death is imminent — it's within a decade, if you're lucky. That's spooky. You're making decisions for…the future of the world and you've only got maybe 10 years left on earth."
Joe Rogan: "It's terrifying and it's exactly the opposite of what we were told leading into this administration that it's gonna be America First and no more unnecessary wars."
Joe Rogan: "It genuinely feels like there's a real possibility that we might be entering World War III."
Joe Rogan on Epstein: "Names were redacted that are powerful people, not victims…What about where Epstein says 'I like the torture video.' Why would you redact the name of a person that sent you a torture video?…That's evidence that you're trying to protect powerful people."
Joe Rogan: "It just seems so insane based on what he ran on. I mean, this is why a lot of people feel betrayed. He ran on no more wars and these stupid, senseless wars. And then we have one that we can't even really clearly define why we did it."
JD Vance (2024): " All of the really terrible world conflicts, they almost always come from incompetent leadership...You can't just think about the immediate consequence. You've gotta ask yourself, 'what is the second order and the third order consequence?'"
Vance: "When people like Kamala Harris send our sons and daughters, our young people, to fight in stupid wars, it is the young generation that carries the burden of that. We're gonna stop sending our young people to far away lands. We are not the policemen of the world."
Vance: " Donald Trump is the candidate of peace through strength, defending America, protecting the people who serve, and preventing these crazy wars."
Vance: "When people like Kamala Harris send our sons and daughters, our young people, to fight in stupid wars, it is the young generation that carries the burden of that. We're gonna stop sending our young people to far away lands. We are not the policemen of the world."
Vance: " If you're worried about the world spinning out of control, if you're worried about a military draft, if you're worried about, God forbid, a world war, the best way to prevent it is to vote for Donald Trump."
Trump: "I'm not going to start a war, I'm going to stop wars…Under Trump we will have no more wars, no more disruptions, and we will have prosperity and peace for all…I am the candidate of peace, I am peace."
Vance: " If you're worried about the world spinning out of control, if you're worried about a military draft, if you're worried about, God forbid, a world war, the best way to prevent it is to vote for Donald Trump."
Trump: "Kamala would get us into World War III…All of your sons and daughters will end up getting a draft notice, a thing called the draft. 'Dad, what's this?' 'Oh, congratulations, you've been drafted into the military. You're going to fight a war.'"
Trump: "We will bring the price of gasoline down…We're going to get your gas prices down…You're going to spend a lot less money for your gasoline."
NEW: "Donald Trump’s occupation of Minneapolis threatened the lives and livelihoods of everyone in our community."
Trump: "We will bring the price of gasoline down…We're going to get your gas prices down…You're going to spend a lot less money for your gasoline."
Meet the new Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin:
Andrew Schulz: "Americans are furious about it because how the fuck does this benefit me? I can't afford to pay for college. I can't buy a home. I can't pay for health insurance and we're gonna spend billions of dollars on a war in a country I can't even point out on a map?"
Andrew Schulz on war in Iran: "Trump tweeted 'We have unlimited missiles.' Trump only tweets shit like that when shit ain't going well. Like when the economy sucks he's like 'It's the greatest economy that's ever happened in history.'"
"Donald Trump wants housing prices to GO UP!"
Home of the Brave is running this ad for three weeks targeting renters in nine areas that have seen extreme increases for home prices: Detroit, Tampa, Dallas, Phoenix, Columbus, Charlotte, Milwaukee, Cleveland, and Nashville.
Q: "Is there a rationale that they could offer that would convince you that it's worth sacrificing American blood and treasure?"
Rep. Moulton: "Certainly not without a plan…It's very clear that they have no plan. And the parallels here with Iraq are devastating."
Rep. Moulton on Iran: "You've got to tell us why. You owe that to Congress, to the American people, and most of all, to the troops about to lose their lives."
Q: "Donald Trump has talked about 'boots on the ground.' Marco Rubio has talked about how the bombing campaign against Iran will escalate in the coming days. Are both those things on the table?"
Sen. Gallego: "Certainly. What I've been told is that they're not off the table."
Sen. Ruben Gallego on Iran briefing: "I still don't know what the endgame is. There still is no clear indication. What is success? What is victory?…I think the American public has been very clear that we don't want another forever war."
Trump: "We have a virtually unlimited supply of weapons. Wars can be fought 'forever,' and very successfully, using just these supplies."
NEW: "In 2017, during the first year of Trump 1.0, the Washington Post adopted a new slogan: 'Democracy Dies in Darkness.' Oh, how times have changed."
Trump on Iran — in his own words.
Rumsfeld: "I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today would last five days or five weeks or five months, but it certainly isn't gonna last any longer than that."
Hegseth: " It may or may not take four weeks, two weeks, six weeks. It could move up, it could move back."
