This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 318. Everything you need to know about what happened this weekend in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
01.03.2026 22:09 β π 421 π 104 π¬ 28 π 12This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 318. Everything you need to know about what happened this weekend in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
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My post-SOTU analysis:
youtu.be/zZnyH1lEb7g?...
The Cancer At America's Heart:
Why The DOJ's Leaders Must Spend The Rest of Their Lives In Jail
www.againstallenemies.net/p/the-cancer...
Operation Epstein Fury:
New War. No Plan.
www.againstallenemies.net/p/operation-...
This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Wonβt
I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.
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But there is a price to be paid.
Heβs already been replaced. A US-Israel inspired revolution is not likely to start. Innocent people are dying in the backlash. The Iranian people have already started paying. When it's done, will it be worth it? I hope so ... bc we are going to find out.
OK, Kameini is dead. Great! Across my entire career, his hands were elbow deep in blood by organizing terrorist groups, execution squads. He kidnapped & executed numerous Americans, held dozens of hostages, ordered suicide bombings, skyjackings and attacks on shipping.
Its good that he is dead
FLASH: Americans HAVE BEEN KILLED & injured in Trump's War with Iran but as he said dismissively, "That often happens in war."
01.03.2026 15:06 β π 161 π 76 π¬ 21 π 10There's much to say about what's going on, but what strikes me the most is just how embarrassing he is. The guy who launched an illegal attack that will lead to war and the likely destabilization of much of the Middle East for no real reason is posting like a middle schooler struggling with English.
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WELKER: Is the United States at war with Iran?
LINDSEY GRAHAM: I think the Ayatollah would say yeah
Lindsey Graham: "'America first' is to kill people who wish us ill with a record of trying to destroy us and the region"
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WELKER: Does Congress now need to vote to approve this war with Iran?
LINDSEY GRAHAM: No
WELKER: If there is a war powers vote, will you be a yes?
SEN. MARK KELLY: Well, I'm gonna have to take a close look at it. I want to hear from the White House what their strategy is going forward. I would say at this point it's rather unlikely that I would be.
Khanna: "Trump said the Iraq War was a disaster. He said Libya was a disaster. He ran bc a big part of the MAGA base did not want another war in the Middle East. They rejected Lindsey Graham, & yet here we have Lindsey Graham being the face of Republican foreign policy. I believe this is a betrayal"
01.03.2026 15:50 β π 2475 π 610 π¬ 82 π 21Khanna: "Clinton has set a precedent, a new Clinton rule. That means Trump should do the same -- answer questions -- and Howard Lutnick should do the same. I'm working with a Republican to subpoena Lutnick next week ... someone made allegations against Trump that she was sexually abused as a minor"
01.03.2026 15:55 β π 2544 π 655 π¬ 49 π 21Chris Murphy: "We're gonna have Americans dying, and the end result is going to be hard line leadership continues in Iran and we don't get rid of their nuclear program. That's a moral and strategic disaster for the country."
01.03.2026 16:02 β π 2812 π 698 π¬ 101 π 28Chris Murphy: "It won't be the billionaire children of Donald Trump and his buddies that die. It's going to be the children of middle class and poor families all across this country that are gonna die for a war of choice, a war of vanity, an illegal war."
01.03.2026 16:04 β π 4730 π 1538 π¬ 198 π 95Chris Murphy: "We need to stand up for the American citizens that ICE is murdering, the kids they're terrorizing. They should stop this illegal war and they should stop ICE from terrorizing our communities. We should demand they do both things."
01.03.2026 16:07 β π 6170 π 1736 π¬ 164 π 92Rep. Mike Turner: "They had continued their intention to pursue nuclear enrichment. Their intention had not been abolished. They remained a threat."
01.03.2026 16:12 β π 504 π 84 π¬ 322 π 103Ted Cruz: "I have no indication they were anywhere close to getting nuclear weapons"
01.03.2026 16:24 β π 5925 π 1612 π¬ 440 π 163Seems like the emerging policy is: you people out there are responsible for setting up your own governments, but if the US doesnβt like who ends up in charge weβll just assassinate or kidnap them and then the ball is back in your court.
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The fact that a question like this even has to be asked is itself remarkable:
The White House has communicated so little about the offensive in Iran β its rationale, its goals, its scope, etc. β that thereβs ambiguity about whether the United States is currently at war.
This is just completely incoherent. Heβs throwing around words like βintentionβ and βimminentβ to pretend like thereβs a justification for all of this.
01.03.2026 18:07 β π 674 π 103 π¬ 45 π 2Pro tip for those following the news. @atrupar.com goes to a concert or sporting event = some serious shit is about to go down. @atrupar.com travels out of state = war declared.
01.03.2026 18:55 β π 757 π 59 π¬ 23 π 4Lady Gagaβs father endorses Donald Trump in 2024 race, talks migrant crisis: βHeβs a patriotβ: https://nypost.com/2024/09/19/us-news/lady-gagas-father-joe-germanotta-endorses-trump-in-2024-race/
the president is posting articles from two years ago
01.03.2026 19:19 β π 2054 π 427 π¬ 272 π 89We're now living in a retirement community dictatorship. Trump's making war from his Florida vacation home absent compliance with the Constitution or an effort explain his war of choice to the American people. Trump may pay a huge political price for such an illegal, and casual, use of our military.
01.03.2026 17:30 β π 1154 π 240 π¬ 36 π 9John Roberts has created βimmunityβ as this thing that can be tossed around. If Iranian soldiers are defending themselves they commit no crime. If they have committed war crimes, Americans canβt βimmunizeβ them.
01.03.2026 19:25 β π 999 π 274 π¬ 48 π 9I'm confused -- traditionally it's the villain who issues videotaped monologues from the bunker, right?
01.03.2026 21:41 β π 750 π 94 π¬ 47 π 7I have never seen a politician more directly copy this speech in my life
01.03.2026 22:13 β π 3180 π 858 π¬ 14 π 11this is fucking shocking, and while i know politics journalists think it's clichΓ© to point this out, a democratic president would be impeached for delivering this speech in this way, and rightly so.
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