Jared Hardesty

Point/Counterpoint This War Will Shut Off 20% of the Global Petroleum Supply for A Month and Send the Economy into a Stagflationary Tailspin vs. No It Won’t Published: March 26, 2003

“.. Asked whether Americans should be worried about retaliatory attacks at home, Trump acknowledges the possibility. ‘I guess,’ he says. .. ‘Like I said, some people will die. When you go to war, some people will die.”

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Cant get over how insane this answer is. News media would absolutely have destroyed a Dem president who responded flippantly to the idea of civilian casualities in the US bc of a war like Trump does here.

That law was repealed in 2022

“.. I don't ‌have any concern about it," he said, when asked about the higher prices at the pump. "They'll drop very rapidly when this is over, and if they rise, they rise, but this is far ​more important than having gasoline price go up a little bit."

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as a pragmatic revolutionary defeatist: this fucking rules, lmfao

Lindsey Halligan Is Under Investigation by the Florida Bar

BREAKING NYT:

Lindsey Halligan, the ex-U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia who brought criminal cases against Trump's enemies over the objections of career prosecutors, is under investigation by Florida's bar association, according to a letter the organization sent last month.

You see why they were freaking out about state bar jurisdiction.

Kristi Noem's "Open to Work" LinkedIn Profile

Markwayne is actually a noble title, and is the Oklahoma equivalent to "Marquis," and may be passed on at the same time your father gives you his car dealership

[Exit Murderer.]

This is amazing; am watching on C-SPAN3. If she had a staff member who liked her, that person would've walked up to her 15 minutes ago to whisper in her ear to get out of there.

But no one is protecting her. Any one of these attendees can break the news to her on live tv.

NOEM TAKING QUESTIONS - DOES NOT APPEAR TO KNOW SHE WAS FIRED

Turns out lawlessness is not a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0

Disgraced Kristi Noem will go down in history as a bigoted cabinet member who oversaw the killing of Americans and the terrorizing of our communities.

do i think a democrat could win a surprise senate election in oklahoma? probably not. but do i welcome the NRSC having to commit more money and energy to a race that would have been a cakewalk? yes.

Took her to the gravel pit

DHS keeps the fuck plane. Lewandowski stays on it and he has to fuck. Markwayne's problem now.

There's a rational temptation in these moments to ask if what follows will be worse, and to let concern temper happiness.

My two cents and experience from Trump's first term is it's important and good to celebrate victories when you get them. Kristi Noem is truly awful, we should be glad she's out

I feel the same way about this that I do when the New York Jets hire a new coach. It’s just going to be terrible and sometimes Aaron Rodgers will be there.

If I get one more email about Claude or whomever the fuck.

1. I wanna read my own shit.

2. I wanna write my own shit.

3. I wanna pay an editor to talk me through my own shit.

4. I don’t want that AI bullshit. If you don’t use it, you lose it. And I want to hold my brain as long as possible.

I do think that quote plus “People are loving what’s happening" is evidence that they are completely cut off from the feedback mechanism of public opinion. And the thing about feedback mechanisms is they don't just disappear if you ignore them.

Trump unleashed: President bullish on Iran, eyeing regime change in Cuba and impatient with Ukraine The president told POLITICO that “Cuba’s going to fall,” revealed his growing frustration with Ukraine and the uncertain search for a new leader of Iran.

Add Cuba to the pile of Iran and Venezuela.

“People are loving what’s happening,” Trump insisted. He predicted that Iran’s government would not be the last to buckle in a Trump-initiated confrontation: “Cuba’s going to fall, too.”

That essentially describes his "The Dawn of Everything." In the aggregate, it seems like a solid thesis, but if you know anything about the details, he gets them very wrong

"Only Mr. Trump, perhaps, could have harnessed the country’s exhaustion with war and wound up trying make regime change great again."

Who ended the Afghanistan War again?This is a fantasy version of Trump that pretends there wasn't a first term and that he would ever act with restraint,on anything.

Opinion | Of Course Trump Bombed Iran

Sorry Steve Wertheim, but this is bullshit:

"Yet for all its Trumpian characteristics, this war is the logical conclusion of how the United States has long dealt with Iran."

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I’m trying to imagine what would happen if a Democratic senator literally broke a military veteran’s forearm, which appears to be what happens here.

Remember when Sen. Sheehy accidentally shot himself in a national park and pretended he got the wound in a firefight in Afghanistan?

Ha, I was in Cuba in 2006 and only had CNN as a news source while there. Horrible to learn that Wolf Blitzer was the best you were going to get