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@thweatt_robert @BillKristol Hegseth has expressed contempt for ROE that got thousands of soldiers wounded or killed.

@Crash9510 @BillKristol I think every one in that kill chain for those two shipwrecked guys should be court-martialed, and Hegseth tried for murder. There are no end of competent lawyers who think the same. Hegseth has repeatedly expressed comtempt for the laws of war, which are also US law.

“On the other hand, perhaps the net effect of the Iran war will be to turn the senior leadership of the military against Trump and reduce his confidence that, in a constitutional crisis, he could call on them to help him domestically?” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark…

@thweatt_robert @BillKristol Saying something is a fact does not make it so. A president has vast military power to protect the homeland. Encouraging Democratic leaning soldiers to believe that every order might be illegal will break it faster

@Crash9510 @BillKristol We've seen clearly illegal orders given and obeyed. That's not a left opinion, it's fact. Intervening in electoral politics would go far beyond even that double tap in the Caribbean (which has not been repeated, note). If such orders were to be given, it could break the force.

@thweatt_robert @BillKristol Typically illegal orders are legal military actions leftists don’t like. The “don’t obey” videos made by politicians are more dangerous because they create doubt for young soldiers, sailors, and marines

@Crash9510 @BillKristol Not necessarily, could just be a mutiny, although refusal to obey illegal orders would not be that legally.

@DanielLDavis1 @Matt_Bracken48 Daniel we didn’t negotiate with NAZIs. Iranians who won’t negotiate have been killing Americans since 1979.

This is the most vile, wicked, and unAmerican behavior I've seen in my adult lifetime. This is a profound absence of morality, gross violation of any laws that have ever existed, and puts us on the same mental plane as some of the early followers of Adolf Hitler. You think that's an exaggeration? Even the vile Hitler didn't seek to kill negotiators of other countries. And if you think this kill-them-all mentality will be limited to Iranian negotiators, you are fooling yourself. Once a leader has so dehumanized his opponents that you can callously call for them to be murdered for the "crime" of not agreeing to your terms (i.e., not surrendering), there will be no lower inhibition to killing larger and larger numbers of people who don't submit. One might say this is the personal opinion of a Washington Post - and by the way, they share this shame for publishing such alarming garbage - but that it was *reposted* by the president, and when tagging the oped Thiessen published with this murderous idea, Trump posted "Very True!!!" - so he is fully on board with the mentality. Silence won't work anymore, folks. Just saying "well, that's Trump," won't cut it. It is time to stand up for whatever is left of our morality and categorically declare that this is beyond the pale and condemn both Thiessen and the president for sharing such reprehensible views. --and I will be watching very closely to see what the likes of those who claim to have made Jesus, the Prince of Peace, their Lord, have to say about this. If they *yet again* give him a moral pass for the indefensible, then they can no longer claim to be a Christian, as this violates every tenet in the Bible. We're not talking about two combatants fighting it out on a battlefield, this is about us declaring our desire to murder non-combatants who dare to refuse to obey our demands for unconditional surrender.

@allenanalysis Sounds like separation of powers.

Let me explain what just happened in Virginia. Yesterday, 2.5 million Virginians voted. They passed a redistricting amendment 50.7% to 49.3%. Today, one judge threw out every single vote. 🧵

@na_me_eso_atta Will a legislator who represents a gerrymandered district worry about the 200k people in his district who live 2hours away? Shouldn’t the rep focus on the majority who live in Fairfax ?

My neighbor doesn't get more votes because he has a bigger yard

@JoJoFromJerz National forests have millions of acres of land that needs to be logged to generate diversity of habitat. Many forests can’t support native wildlife and are prone to wildfires because the land hasn’t be managed.

I fucking hate him.

@royermattw Who is your president?

Shocking that’s these rockstars couldn’t get it done in Virginia. Consider my flabbers officially gasted.

@HelmerVA Also because it gives me inside lane to win a congressional seat

My wife and I voted YES - because Virginia’s future is on the line for our families and generations to come. This is about making sure Virginians choose who represents them, not the other way around. Let’s stop Trump in his tracks.

@ChrisMurphyCT Iran helps china. Iran helps Russia? Why are you happy about this.

awesome

@royermattw Just because republicans have a majority doesn’t mean a district or a state is gerrymandered.

The 2010 map Republicans want you to forget vs. the map that fights back against them. This is why Trump told you to vote No. Vote Yes, Virginia.

@caro1inegarcia Keep telling yourself that. The current district has a community with similar economic and geographic characteristics The new district boundaries are designed to overwhelm rural voters with democratic voters.

Mind you, the current VA-06 stretches from the Maryland border all the way down to Roanoke County. That’s over a 3-hour drive. Our current congressman barely visits. If redistricting passes, the new VA-06 stretches ~2 hours from Charlottesville to Radford. That seems more fair.

@OldManLefty1 Not what he said the progressive project rejects the values of the declaration and people who pursued the project committed evil acts.

Clarence Thomas saying that Progressives are evil, should have him recused from all cases before the court..

@TimothyDSnyder Wow. The problem with this is that the people who believe this are legion and none of the bad actors can admit that there was nothing there

Worth adding that Russia did as a matter of fact intervene for Trump in 2016 and that the evidence is widely known, abundant, and collected in various forms, including a Senate investigation, the Mueller report, multiple intelligence investigations, multiple reportorial investigations in the US and elsewhere, and multiple books. Leaving out that crucial fact allows the reader to miss the way this echoes prior authoritarian "investigate the investigator" moves as well as the fundamentally Orwellian character of this. nytimes.com/2026/04/18/us/…

@na_me_eso_atta Bring up Illinois or California or Maryland or that if gerrymandering were outlawed Republicans would have an advantage nationally.

"Ask a cancer patient to explain why they're dying WITHOUT bringing up cancer. They can't." See, I can say stupid things too

@JohnConnor_US @Handre Nice thanks Senator Connor. Good luck in your struggle against the machines

@JohnConnor_US @Handre Your good goals had terrible results. Is anything false about what was written? The vehicles destroyed had years of useful life and had value. What happened to poor people when vehicle prices went up? You fixed nothing

Cash for Clunkers destroyed 690,000 functional vehicles in 2009, creating an artificial scarcity that rippled through used car markets for over a decade. The Obama administration sold this $3 billion program as environmental salvation and economic stimulus, but any free market economist could predict the real outcome: massive wealth destruction disguised as progress. The program forced dealers to pour sodium silicate into engines, permanently destroying cars that poor families could have afforded. Politicians eliminated the bottom tier of the used car market overnight. Suddenly, a reliable $3,000 Honda Civic became a $7,000 Honda Civic (if you could find one). The supposed beneficiaries — working-class Americans who needed affordable transportation — got priced out entirely. Government intervention always creates unseen victims, and Cash for Clunkers delivered them by the millions. Single mothers, college students, and minimum-wage workers watched their mobility options vanish as used car prices soared 30% between 2009 and 2014. The environmental gains proved negligible too: most clunkers averaged 15-17 MPG while replacements hit 24-25 MPG. Destroying half a million cars to improve average fuel economy by 8 MPG represents the kind of central planning that would give Soviet bureaucrats a hard-on. The wealth destruction extended beyond sticker prices. Higher transportation costs forced people into longer payment terms, creating a debt cycle that persists today. Cash for Clunkers normalized 84-month auto loans, turning cars from depreciating assets into multi-year financial anchors. Bureaucrats congratulated themselves for moving inventory off dealer lots while condemning an entire generation to transportation poverty.

@FrankBraconi @JamesSurowiecki You think Biden should have pardon limits?

@JamesSurowiecki Amending the constitution is hard but not impossible. When they regain power, Democrats should push three that have overwhelming popular support: 1) Popular vote for President 2) Limitations on Presidents' pardon power 3) Term limits for SCOTUS judges

There's no good civic argument for the electoral college. It was arguably necessary to ensure the ratification of the Constitution, but it's an anti-democratic device that gives some American citizens far more voting power than others, based purely on where they live.

@JamesSurowiecki It makes it hard to debate when you claim there is no debate