Ellen Weinstein

Chums! Baby Dog here. I’m SHOCKED! Ron and I were having a great game of #StairWars but then he CHEATED! He used the Secret Underneath Space! That’s not in the Rules! I need a Referee! Is there a Ref out there that can help me please?

HUNT: Tucker Carlson said the attack on Iran is 'disgusting and evil.' Why is he wrong?


MARKWAYNE MULLIN: I don't know Tucker Carlson. He doesn't speak for me or the Republican Party or the president

HUNT: But is he wrong?

MULLIN: Absolutely. I disagree with a lot that Tucker Carlson says

MARKWAYNE MULLIN: After 9/11 we said, 'Never again'

HUNT: But is this not this a war of choice and didn't the president run on not starting a war with Iran?

MULLIN: This isn't a war

H: Hegseth said today it's a war!

M: The Ayatollah declared war on us. We are not at war with the Iranian people.

Markwayne Mullin was shook by the end of this CNN interview with Kasie Hunt. He's increasingly serving as a Trump spokesperson on TV and it's not going well.

Is this SNL??? WTF?

Why are they putting someone with an intelligence hovering below golden retriever on TV?

Tom Cotton isn't available? I'd think he'd be drooling at the chance to defend his dream war.

Kudlow's line is that Trump "ended a war" by starting a war

War is peace, said Big Brother (and Larry Kudlow).

Tuberville on 6 US troops being killed: "The Democrats up here, they could care less. They've been pushing buttons and running these wars like Vietnam and uhhhhh, in my lifetime. And of course all the Gulf wars. But we didn't try to win those wars."

Tuberville on a mass shooting in Texas in March 2026: "Opening up this war in Iran is really gonna open up more serious thoughts of possibly having things happen like happened in Austin the other night. It's coming because Joe Biden and the Democrats let these people across the border."

TAPPER: US troops have died. You really don't think there's any role for Congress other than being informed?

REP. GIMENEZ: Not right now

"You can assume, because it's common sense" -- Mike Johnson claims Trump's war on Iran is actually defensive because if Israel attacked Iran, Iran was going to retaliate against the US

Q: Is there any point you think Congress will need to give congressional authorization?

MIKE JOHNSON: My understanding of the law is that the president is acting well within his authority. It's not a declaration of war. It's not required because it's defensive in design.

RAJU: Congress has the authority to declare war. Shouldn't it have authorized this war?

MIKE JOHNSON: In my view, uh, right now our military and the commander in chief is presiding over the completion of an operation that was limited in scope

Warner: "There was no imminent threat to the United States by the Iranians. There was a threat to Israel. If we equate a threat to Israel as the equivalent of an imminent threat to the US, then we are in uncharted territory."

Warner: "When the president says to the Iranian people, 'Rise up. This is your chance to take your country back,' what happens if 100,000 Iranian citizens go onto the streets of Tehran and the IRGC forces, which are brutal, murder 20,000? Does the US have an obligation there?"

The things you say when you have absolutely no foreign policy experience and simply carry water for your boss every chance you get.

you'd think that marco could have practiced his doublespeak a bit more before this embarassing effort

So is this what they're really going to settle on?

LOL this line. American troops were doing joint operations with Iranian-backed forces not that long ago.

Words like “war” having commonly-understood definitions are no obstacle for the lying Republican Party.

The stuff of tinpot dictators.

Trump: "The Radical Left Democrats, a Party that has completely lost its way, are complaining bitterly about the very necessary and important attack, by the United States and Israel, on Iran. What most people understand is that they are only complaining BECAUSE I DID IT and, if I didn’t do it, they would be screaming — Why didn’t 'TRUMP' attack Iran, he should do it, IMMEDIATELY? There’s nothing surprising about this! It’s the same people that the other night at The State of the Union Address wouldn’t stand for ANYBODY, including a mother who lost her beautiful daughter to an illegal alien, a Great and Brave Helicopter Pilot, who got the Congressional Medal of Honor, or a 100-year-old Veteran Warrior whose Bravery is Legend! The fact is, whatever I do, they will be on the opposite side. These people are SICK, CRAZY, and DEMENTED, but America, despite them all, is now BIGGER, BETTER, AND STRONGER THAN EVER BEFORE. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! President DONALD J. TRUMP"

Trump: "The Radical Left Democrats, a Party that has completely lost its way, are complaining bitterly about the very necessary and important attack, by the US & Israel, on Iran. What most people understand is that they are only complaining B/C I DID IT &, if I didn’t do it, they would be screaming"

Having not even bothered to try to sell this war in advance they are now cooking up the most laughable ex post justifications imaginable.

Marco Rubio: "We went proactively in a defensive way"

Orwell at his very best could never come up with some of this. Proactively in a defensive way is basically a line from a coen bros film.

The irrational strongman we’ve been warned about is here His name is Donald J. Trump.

"We have at last found a global villain who matches the bugbear — an ill-informed violent despot who seems to enjoy carnage for its own sake, & who has the power & will to project terror & violence anywhere on earth for any reason or none.

That global villain is, of course, President Donald Trump."

Tuberville: "47 years we fought against Iran"

The US embassy in Saudi Arabia is currently on fire. Somebody kick Hegseth off his barstool. Somebody else just kick Rubio. Fuck these guys. Seriously. Fuck these guys

BREAKING NEWS: Senile Satan will give a complete assessment of the White House drapes tonight at 9PM Eastern.