Dwight McCabe

Republicans Wage War As Politics ...and politics as war.

Via @brianbeutler.bsky.social, Dems should politicize the hell out of Trump's Iran bombing:

"It would be a mistake to treat this as an above-board idea over which people of good faith can disagree. There is no merit here, and there was no imminent threat."

www.offmessage.net/p/republican...

Israel simply does not have the power to force the US government to do something it does not want to do. What Rubio is doing here, by claiming Israel forced the US hand, is making Israel the scapegoat for a US policy he knows is unpopular. This framing is going to be so bad for Diaspora Jews.

NOTE
1 Pregnant because raped in custody
2 Moved to TX because the regime has anticipated a need to circumvent state laws regarding abortion, medical rights
3 the infants in question will likely be trafficked into evangelical adoption networks or be subject the consequences of a lack of medical care

The NYTimes has caved to the tyrant.

The lying. The deflection. The arrogance. The shifting rationale in support of an illegal war. The refusal to consult Congress. The fact that he casually discusses draperies while American soldiers are dying. The cowardice of a political party that won’t take action to stop his rampant lawlessness

Note for partners/spouses - if your loved one dies, do not cancel their cell phone to cut costs. If you do, you won't be able to log into their important accounts like paying bills, the bank, their email.
First, you'll need the passcode for their phone...

Seems bad

This is great. Can you do a version with each cell sized to the expected final vote count?

I still can’t believe we have a Fox News host running our military.

Brandon Straka: I’m at the Pentagon this morning for a briefing with @SecWar @PeteHegseth on the Iran strikes. Session starts in 10 minutes.

Here's a Jan. 6 rioter posing with a press pass before Pete Hegseth's press conference, just to give you a sense of the type of "journalists" who were in the Pentagon briefing room this morning.

Remember what I said about how, when Trump is flailing, they start inserting a fake, fictional Trump into their stories, who is acting rationally and sanely?

🛳️ At least five vessels have been struck in retaliation for U.S./Israeli strikes on Iran, - @detresfa.bsky.social

Black-and-white portrait of a girl with a smiling face, looking over her shoulder.

2 March 1925 | A Polish Jewish girl, Jeannette Woda, was born in Siedlce. She lived in Paris.

On 13 July 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.
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▶ Video about the history of Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/Fxnl5HTygrs

Crow: "Friday night, Trump filmed this tough video where he talked about the cost of war & how hard it's gonna be & how we're gonna lose troops, then he literally went behind the curtain & hosted a million dollar a plate dinner & dance party at Mar-a-Lago. That tells you everything you need to know"

At least George W. Bush had the integrity to fabricate fake intelligence.

Republicans Wage War As Politics ...and politics as war.

A useful way to understand what’s happening in America and the world is to remember that Trump views war abroad as a tool of domestic politics, and domestic politics as civil war by other means. www.offmessage.net/p/republican...

Nobel Peace Prize, my ass

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

Check out this recent @nature.com paper reporting a field experiment on X. It shows X's algorithm boosts conservative content and downranks traditional media—shifting users’ views on key issues. Switching to chronological doesn’t reverse the effect. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Europe Is America’s Secret Weapon. And We’re Giving It Up. The principal agreement of the Munich Security Conference is that a key American relationship is severely damaged.

Casually tearing down a thing you don't understand, with no consideration that you might be missing something, is the antithesis of any kind of conservatism, of course.

I try and not feel rage toward young and/or low info voters who bought the line that Tump was the candidate against forever wars but people like Glen—who supported the invasion of Iraq btw—have no excuse. They helped land us here.

We’ve all seen the consistent polls of how low approval is for Democrats even though trump is a disaster. This kind of weak statement is exactly why.

Platner is at best inadequate but more likely a rightwing plant. Vote @janetmillsforme.bsky.social for Senate in Maine.

@charlesgaba.com

It's beyond ironic that Platner was promoted as a 'regular guy' and a rugged individualist. People got fooled by plaid shirts and a beard. He's a child of wealth and comfort who cosplayed as a working man for years without learning the lessons of a working man: that reality can bite. 3/

You don't change a regime by removing a few leaders and leaving the power system in place. And you don't destroy and replace the existing system from the air.

Near the end of their hour-long conversation, Platner, a fellow military veteran, called himself “a longtime fan” of Cornacchia’s YouTube channel, “Valhalla VFT,” and said it was “an absolute pleasure being” on the show

Yes and the way you win is not talking about "progressive solutions" but by creating powerful emotional stories about the candidate's values.

Btw, Trump is having a serious Norma Desmond episode, frantically retweeting tweets from all of his flunkeys which praise his SOTU address with hysterical overstatement. Pages and pages of this.

How soon before you are done and we can lay you off?