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LOTUS. League Of The UnverifiedS.

@pmarca A proud polluter of the planet.

If, when you say regulation, you mean the dead and clammy hand of the commissar—the gentleman who has never in his life built a single thing, drafting rules to govern a thing he cannot define, to be enforced by men who cannot read them; if you mean the form in triplicate, the impact assessment upon the impact assessment, the compliance officer who breeds, in the warm dark of the org chart, further compliance officers unto the third and fourth generation; if you mean the moat—the deep cold moat that the giant digs around his own castle and christens, with a perfectly straight face, public safety—the drawbridge he hauls up behind himself the very instant he is across, lest any hungrier and hungrier man should follow; if you mean the precautionary principle, which, had it governed our grandfathers, would have banned the wheel pending further study of the hill, and left us yet shivering and raw in the mouth of the cave, blessing its excellent ventilation; if you mean the European disease—that magnificent open-air museum of a continent, which produces in our time precisely two things in great abundance, and they are regulation, and the eloquent and well-footnoted regret of cultivated men explaining at length why they have produced nothing else; if you mean the license required to think, the permission slip for honest arithmetic, the king’s wax stamp pressed upon the forehead of every new idea before it may draw its first breath; if you mean the agency dispatched, with trumpets, to slay a single dragon, which arrives at the cave, surveys the accommodations, and moves in—and spends the ensuing century laying eggs and devouring the very villagers it was sworn to defend; if you mean the startup that perishes not of the market’s honest verdict but of the filing fee, the genius decamping by the next tide to a freer and warmer shore; if you mean the law that arrives, faithful as the swallows, exactly one whole epoch too late—helmeted, plumed, and magnificently armed—to regulate the stagecoach—then certainly, my friends, I am against it. But—but, my friends—if, when you say regulation, you mean instead the humble steel guardrail upon the mountain road at midnight, the very thing you curse on the easy days and bless on your knees the one night the fog comes down; if you mean the brakes—for it is the brakes, and not the engine alone, that permit a sane man to drive fast and yet arrive alive—and the buttress, without which no cathedral was ever flung so high, but only in spite of which, but because of which; if you mean the meat inspector, who is the single homely reason a man may eat a sausage in this republic without first composing his last will and testament; if you mean the firebreak cut clean through the forest before the dry season of the burning, the smallpox cordon, the buoy that marks the channel, the rule of the road that lets ten thousand strangers hurtle past one another in the dark at fearful speed and arrive, by its quiet grace, every one of them home; if you mean the honest scale and the true weight, the reason a pound is a pound and a dollar a dollar from Natchez to Nome; if you mean the firm and decent wall between the counterfeit voice and the widow’s bank account, between the deepfaked candidate and the ballot box on the eve of the vote, between the loosed and loveless machine and the schoolyard it neither knows nor pities; if you mean the simple plank of law that says the strong shall not, in the gray dawn, feed the weak quietly into the furnace and sell the rising smoke as progress; if you mean, in the end, the one slender thread of trust without which no citizen will ever dare to use the marvelous thing at all—for where there is no rule there is no trust, and where there is no trust there is no commerce, and a miracle that no man dares to touch is no miracle, but only a handsome and expensive ghost—then certainly I am for it. This is my stand. I will not retreat from it. I will not compromise one inch of it.

@JasonJournoDC @DavidSacks But there is no evidence and you know it. This is just an obvious ploy by the oligarch class to undermine our democracy because people are seriously talking about a wealth tax.

💥NEW: @DavidSacks: “Do not deny the evidence of your eyes and ears — even if they call you an election denier. I personally don’t care. I deny it.” “Spencer Pratt should be in the runoff. I deny that Raman won legitimately.”

@raysfrom98 @ConstitustionX Obama’s agreement included “forced compliance.” Trump’s deal is total capitulation, apparently with no compliance at all.

It's not about promises, it's about enforcement, or forced compliance. As long as the islamist are in place, the USA will have to keep them in check. No one ever expects them to keep their word. So all of you, stop playing stupid. This is a forever problem until the Iranian people change their government.

🚨 MIND-BLOWING HYPOCRISY JUST EXPOSED. Trump is out here popping champagne over a brand new Iran “deal”… …centered on Iran’s sacred promise that they will NEVER obtain a nuclear weapon. Sound familiar? Because ABC’s Jonathan Karl just dropped the bomb: That exact same promise was in the very first paragraph of Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal. Let that sink in. Obama makes the deal → Trump rips it up, slaps on “maximum pressure,” starts a war, costs lives and billions… …only to crawl back and celebrate the exact same core commitment like it’s some historic genius move. Same promise. Different body count. History is laughing. The cycle is complete. What a time to be alive. 🔥 Quote. Repost. Ratio.

@x396ato44 @ConstitustionX You are pathetically misinformed.

@ConstitustionX History is laughing and what a shit deal Obama signed up for. Thank you Trump for doing the hard work to make America and the world a safer place.

@ConstitustionX @Bennytillerman This agreement won’t be as good as Obama’s.

@Info1234564 @EsotericCD @NRO Don’t blame this on the American people. They didn’t want this war. If they are culpable, it’s for putting Trump back in office after witnessing his disastrous first term.

@EsotericCD @NRO Once the Mullahs were not overthrown after the Ayatollah was killed, and the IRGC decided to hold the world's oil hostage by closing the strait and firing missiles at everyone nearby, the economic costs of victory became something the American people would not bear So we lose

Some sunny weekend reading from the slough of despair, at @NRO: Who does Donald Trump think he's fooling anymore on Iran? This is a clownshow and a geopolitical disgrace. It's time to tell some home truths about the mess we're in.

@EsotericCD I despise Trump but take no joy in watching him squirm. This is bad for America and the world.

LINK: nationalreview.com/2026/06/who-do… This one will no doubt be a big hit.

@PhillipsPOBrien @Lynn_Henning Much worse. He ripped up Obama’s agreement and replaced it with nothing, after losing a very expensive war of choice that embarrassed and weakened America.

The money is going to Iran not from the USA anyway, but from third parties (which he avoids discussing). And, creme de la creme--Trump confirms the legitimacy of the Iranian Republican Guard regime and looks forward to working with it. This war has made things worse.

Prepare yourself for US humiliation. Iran, btw, has never claimed it wanted a nuclear weapon, so if they say they do not in the agreement--that is nothing. The Strait of Hormuz was open on Feb 27, and note that Trump says nothing about Iran giving up the right to charge tolls.

@EastEndJoe @FieldDiamond No surprises here. The victor dictates the terms. That’s what Iran is doing here. Trump started a war of choice, bungled it badly and now just wants out. He has significantly embarrassed and weakened America.

Who’s the quiet piggy now?

@Yooper_IA Rocky Bridges

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@MaskedDefender @jonathanchait @carney Almost the only refugees currently being admitted into the US are white South Africans.

@KeithELaughlin @jonathanchait @carney Is that what happened 2025-2026? No black or Latinos people have legally immigrated? No. Bwaahaaaaaa.

Liberals are worried that Musk might use his “extreme concentration of wealth” to do what exactly? Explore space? Electrify automobile transportation? Advance free speech on digital platforms? What’s the threat here?

@BarakRavid Are you Trump’s press agent?

Trump on Truth Social: Barack Hussein Obama’s Deal with Iran, the JCPOA, was an easy, beautiful, smooth road to a Nuclear Weapon, which Iran would have had six years ago, and would have used long before now. My Agreement with Iran is the exact opposite, A WALL TO NO NUCLEAR WEAPON! In fact, they no longer want a Nuclear Weapon, nor will they have one, either through purchase, development, or any other form of procurement. The Deal is scheduled to get signed tomorrow, and immediately after it is signed, the Hormuz Strait is OPEN TO ALL. Our relationship with Iran is a much different and better one than previous Administrations have had. Unlike Obama’s Hundreds of Billions of Dollars in payments to them, including 1.7 Billion Dollars in green, cold cash, no money will exchange hands. At the appropriate time, when all is calm, we will go in and get the Nuclear Dust, buried deep under the powerful sunken granite mountains, thanks to our beautiful B-2 Bombers and their brilliant pilots, and downblend and destroy it, whether in Iran, or the United States. We look forward to working with Iran, and the entire Middle East, long into the future. Hopefully, this process will all work out quickly, easily, and smoothly. If it doesn’t, we have the ultimate alternative, hopefully never to be used again! Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!

@MaskedDefender @jonathanchait @carney It is if you close off immigration to everyone but White South Africans.

@jonathanchait @carney Do you mean immigration limits? That isn't white nationalism.

@carney He’ll continue to buy elections.

@McCormickProf McConnell already engaged in court-packing to secure the current 6-3 radical right majority. The manner in which he accomplished that nefarious task violated all traditional norms and give Democrats permission to respond in kind. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.

Court-packing by either party would unleash a dynamic that would destroy the independence of the judiciary. Its advocacy by a politician should be treated by sane and reasonable people of both major parties as disqualifying that person for office. It is worse than a crank idea.

@atrupar @LarrySabato This guy appears to be a barely modern version of the Ku Klux Klan.

REP. BRANDON GILL: This is a much more effeminate version of Beto O'Rourke ... this is somebody who is really obsessed with children ... I think of James Talarico as a barely straight version of Pete Buttigieg KAYLEIGH McENANY: We know Talarico has a longtime girlfriend and she's very beautiful

@justinamash @CharisHamilton8 Time will tell if Trump gets a deal even as good as Obama’s.

This is like how Trump called NAFTA “the worst Trade Deal ever made,” rebranded it as USMCA, and then called it “the best and most important trade deal ever made.”

@atrupar Fundamental Truth: If you win a war you dictate the terms of peace. You don’t enter into long negotiations with the vanquished. Trump started this war of choice but couldn’t win it. He has embarrassed and weakened America.

Burgum: "President Trump won the war militarily. Then he won the war economically ... diplomatically, militarily, economically -- three ways to win a war. Trump won all three of them."

@yogeshtwet You only negotiate the ends of wars you cannot win. When you started those wars without provocation, you are in a very weak negotiating position while you have strengthened the position of your adversary. That’s why Trump is screwed. He started something he couldn’t finish.

JD Vance: If you go back to WW2 or every major conflict in human history, they all ended with some kind of negotiation.

@kevinnbass This is one of the stupidest things I have ever read.

The well-curated appearance of "intellectual" is not the same as being one. Obama never said anything you wouldn't hear in countless generic university classrooms. Not once a single thought-provoking word. That screams "politician". Not "intellectual". Contrast that with Trump. Boorish. Not steeped in academia. Says crazy things. But often ahead of the curve and always challenging, often successfully and correctly, the world's thinking. Cut through the Obama Signaling Machine. Then ask: which one of these is closer to what we would call "intellectual"? Obama was the opposite of intellectual. Trump is quintessentially one. But accepting that requires that one reject the conflation between "well-educated" and "intellectual". And rejecting that conflation means rejecting the lie on which Obama's entire career -- and many of his supporters -- is based. Ritualistically uttering all the right Magical University Incantations does not a thoughtful person make. The exact opposite is true. That's Obama.