John J. Vecchione

Ding Dong Chevron's dead...The wicked Chevron's dead.

@Gormogons Congress was not absent in the 70's. Far from it.

CZ Congress has been absent since the late 1960s. Sorry to break it to you.

Let’s start with the objective problems in Iran. First, I have told you guys we were arming the Iranian people. I heard this from very high-level Israeli and American officials. Yesterday, the President announced the arms never made it to the Iranians because the Kurds kept them. He did not name the Kurds. But he meant the Kurds. And he is promising hell on the Kurds if they do not keep their end of the deal. Second, while the Strait of Hormuz is more open than press reports claim, based on an on-the-ground observational report of traffic from oil industry executives, oil markets tend to trade on public data, not private data. Publicly, the Strait is barely functional. Third, Iran still has its uranium, some centrifuges, and a lot of missiles and rockets, and the regime is still in place, though badly fractured. Fourth, the President continues to play the naive fool with the Russians, who continue to supply Iran with targeting information against the United States and Israel and weapons systems. Where do you think Iran got the radar and missiles to down an F-15 after a week of B-52 bombers controlling the airspace of Iran unobstructed? Russian is helping Iran target Americans and Israelis, and the President both continues to shut out the Ukrainians who want to help and continues to make overtures to Putin. Donald Trump being Vladimir Putin’s patsy is actually the most remarkable thing about his second term in office. And some of his staff just keep the Russian ties coming. Those are the bad things, and they are objectively bad, but fixable. Instead of focusing on those things, the American press corps and Democrats — only four Democrats in the Senate, out of 47, could even bother praising the heroic rescue of the downed F-15 crew — have fixated on a bunch of dumb talking points. ewerickson.substack.com/p/3f21dac2-d51…

@tonywendice1954 That's unfair. They never blow up in public and I can't think of one crazy thing the brothers ever said. And she and her mother had incredible "emotional regulation."

Maria Shriver -- a member of the Kennedy family -- talking about someone having "emotional regulation" and "acting like a grown-up" has to be the best "self-own" of the day.

@RandyEBarnett Yep.

Now that Georgetown is out of the top 14, it’s definitely time to retire the term.

@RedWavePress What is he doing about redistricting.

Former Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R): “I have more to give. I just do… Every morning I woke up literally bounding out of bed, ready to roll. And that was the most purposeful I’ve ever felt in my whole life — ever felt in my whole life. I’ve been out of office for six weeks. I took Suzanne on vacation, which she so deserved—she’s been amazing, and she’s one of the best first ladies in America. But six weeks has felt like six years. I mean — I’m just champing at the bit.” Sean Hannity: “But you have a good relationship with Trump? Have you talked about maybe going in?” Glenn Youngkin: “We do. I do — I do. So, what he and I talked about before I was done was me finishing. And I always deeply respected him because he believed that when I told him I needed to finish, that I was committed to it, and he was going to let me do it. And so that was one of those moments where he reminds us that he hears you and he respects what you’re saying, and I always appreciated that.”

@mazemoore I don't know, some of 'em probably shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.

Gavin Newsom's wife recalls telling prisoners at San Quentin about running over and killing her sister with a golf cart. She said that she wasn't punished because it was an accident but that the prisoners are doing life even though theirs was "probably an accident too."

I am in full agreement with Professor Adler. I do think if Congress passed a law against the children of tourists it might hold up under Congress's power to naturalize, and enforce the 14th Amendment. But you can't reverse American law and history with an EO.

@StevenJDuffield The spirit of the Volk makes both houses act as one.

Ackshually ... impeachment happens in the *House*....

@stoolpresidente Correlation is not Causation.

14 Rings since I started Barstool….

@TraceTheLaw Went a long way for that one Trace.

I don’t think my therapist understands me. No matter how many times I try to explain to her that I’m a libertarian, she keeps insisting I need to learn how to regulate.

@nickgillespie @GeorgeWill And mentioning NCLA!

Must-read by @GeorgeWill, who nails the problem w blaming social media for our woes, citing Fredric Wertham along the way. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/…

@herandrews I thought you joined the French Foreign Legion to forget. How do you write a memoir afterward?

This book by a man who left Princeton to join the French Foreign Legion is blurbed by Luttwak, Neil Howe, and the author of “War Comes to Long An.” Happy pub day to its author: amazon.com/Monastery-Damn…

@zdch @PaulaChertok @CathyYoung63 @Kasparov63 1. He would not approve removing Syrians pro-Russian dictator; 2.He would not eliminate Iran as a Russia/China proxy in the middle east 3. He would not remove a Russian proxy in Venezuela 4. He would not ramp up American petro-energy power.

@PaulaChertok @CathyYoung63 The perennial @Kasparov63 “I’m not saying he’s a Russian asset; I’m just saying he behaves exactly like a Russian asset, and if he weren’t a Russian asset, what would he do differently?” continues to prove omniexplanatory.

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. Trump admits his warped view of NATO comes from Putin's repeated "explanations." He's admitting that a hostile enemy state has successfully pumped the US president full of anti-US lies & disinformation. Are we even able to recognize a traitor??

@HistoryBoomer I believe Barney Fife's response is pertinent here:

Getting nicely ratioed. Still not afraid of Sharia Law in America.

@GroverNorquist Almost poetic Grover!

The collapse of California and New York.... It is not just those who flee high tax states. it is the next generation that does not move to high tax states. if you thought you  had a "billion dollar" high tech idea 20 years ago...you moved to San Francisco to build your empire. Is that the decision a young man or woman in Ohio with an innovative idea and a dream would make today? People do not move into high crime or high tax areas.  They leave.  But the fatal decline is guaranteed by those who do NOT move in. That is the silent population shift. the dog that didn't bark in the night.

@ASFleischman President Trump posts like a middle east potentate. Same vast threats. Surprised he did not say "The Mother of All Battles."

There was a time when American presidents said mostly pretty reasonable things in public and I'm ready to RETVRN

@philipaklein Thank you.

Periodic reminder that Joe Biden is too old to be a Boomer.

@Oceanbreeze473 There was a follow on course with Marshal, Will and Holly.

Everything I know about fighting lizard men I owe to William Shatner.

@BRyvkin Haven't those people suffered enough?

LOL

@Acyn Biden is silent generation. He's that old.

Christie: Baby boomers—the most selfish generation in American history, the most self-centered generation, the least sacrificing generation American history. You look at Biden and Trump in particular, and they personify that