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Brandon Tatum: "Hamas wanted to kill everybody in Israel. Benjamin Netanyahu should have gone harder, and he should have eliminated Hamas immediately.”

I am going to break it down real simple like for you why women generally make terrible leaders. Men want to solve problems. Women want to feel heard. It really is that simple.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⛽ U.S. gas prices are up nearly 50% since the Iran war began. - The average gallon of regular gas now costs $4.45, up $1.47 since February 28 - That's a 49.3% increase in roughly 2 months - Prices jumped 34 cents in the past week alone The war in the Gulf is now showing up at every gas station in America.

JetBlue just pulled the ultimate power move. Hours after Spirit Airlines went dark, JetBlue swooped into South Florida with a full-blown rescue mission—and they're not playing small. Here's the breakdown: $99 rescue fares for anyone holding a valid Spirit ticket. Same route, same dates, just call 1-800-JETBLUE. Flying Fort Lauderdale to San Juan? Blue Basic is capped at $299 through May 8. But that's just the warm-up. JetBlue is exploding at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International—adding 11 brand new cities, extra flights on existing routes, and pushing nearly 130 daily departures this summer. That's a 75%+ jump from last year and their biggest FLL operation EVER. CEO Joanna Geraghty put it plainly: "South Florida is a key market... we're stepping up, adding service, and keeping fares competitive." (Translation: we're taking over.) Fun fact? Fort Lauderdale was JetBlue's very first destination back in 2000. Now they're reclaiming it after Spirit held 27% of that market. Oh, and they're not leaving Spirit's crew behind either—jumpseat access for two weeks and job interviews for qualified staff. This is how you turn a market collapse into a masterclass. 👇

It would be wrong to see the JCPOA debate as merely an old feud. It's the closest thing we have to a test case for how to deal with Iran. The failure of the assumption that maximum pressure would lead to a "better deal" or regime collapse is highly relevant to your questions about what should come next. For example, should we now accept a ceasefire and degree of sanctions relief in exchange for a verifiable agreement to curb Iran's capacity to produce a bomb--for example with a suspension of enrichment for x number of years, prohibitions on HEU production, and limits on a LEU stockpile, even if it doesn't include everything we might want? Or should we expect that a continued blockade and renewed airstrikes will lead to a better deal, in which the regime agrees to end enrichment forever, give up its HEU, open the Strait without tolling, forego ballistic missile development and support for proxies, or possibly even collapse? Do we think Iran will respond to continued pressure by agreeing to all those demands, or is it more likely to counter-escalate, at extraordinary human and financial costs and in the absence of any nuclear constraints? These are hard questions but they should at least be informed by the lessons of recent experience rather than wishful thinking or ideology. That's why continued debate about the JCPOA remains essential. Critics argued for years that more pressure on Iran would produce a "better deal" and we wouldn't have to go to war to get it. So far they've been proven catastrophically wrong and we are now struggling at great cost to end Iran's stranglehold on the world economy--that it didn't have before--let alone get a comprehensive nuclear deal or change the regime. Continuing to act on their flawed assumptions would be to make policy based on hope rather than experience.

Tucker following Buckley here with Russiagate 2.0: the idea that our billionaire real estate magnate turned President is secretly under the thumb of a foreign nation. Honestly, Russiagate, the farce that it was, had more meat behind it than Tuck and Buck's theory. Democrats could at least point to things like Trump Jr. meeting at Trump tower with the crazy Magnitsky Act woman. Tucker's theory is just completely devoid of evidence: "Trump is doing things that don't make sense to me, despite me pleading with him, that means he must be acting under duress." It's a 19-year-old pothead's way of viewing the world. Tucker's view is because Trump doesn't treat Israel like a vassal state that he must be their vassal instead. The reality is just much more simple. We are partners. We are the senior partner, they are the junior partner, and for the most part we have the wheel. But it's 2026, not 1967, and our junior partner has a ton of independent military capability (the second most capable Air Force in the world!) and could, if it absolutely had to, go it alone. It doesn't want to, and the Israelis are very grateful for Trump's actions and the American alliance more generally, so they generally accede to Trump's requests, but they aren't a vassal either. It's not that Israel has anything on Trump. It's that Israel is actually a very powerful country in conventional terms, with a highly capable military and a powerhouse economy that is strategically super important to American interests. But Tucker apparently hasn't picked up a book about Israel in a few decades, is operating on 1980s' conventional wisdom about their capabilities, and thus is constantly surprised about Israeli and American decision making. And the only way he can make sense of it is an obviously retarded conspiracy theory that takes roughly thirty seconds to dismantle if you just ask a few decent questions (see my interrogation of Buckley earlier this week).

Spiking fuel prices from Trump’s war was the nail in the coffin for twice-bankrupted Spirit airline. FWIW, JetBlue merger failed because a judge, appointed by Ronald Reagan, said the deal was illegal. Republicans are desperate to shift blame from higher costs hitting families.