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From Michael Liss. I write for @3QD. This month, FDR's battle with Hoover, and his first, extraordinary Fireside Chat, which turned around a bank run.
Instead of fighting over a 21-mile-wide bottleneck forever, we cut a new channel through friendly territory. A dozen thermonuclear detonations and you’ve got a waterway wider than the Panama Canal, deeper than the Suez, and safe from Iranian attacks. chinatalk.media/p/its-time
A Kuwaiti analyst openly criticized Gulf policy toward Washington after the latest strikes, saying the region paid billions for influence and received nothing in return. He pointed directly to Jared Kushner, noting that Gulf money flowed heavily into his orbit, yet the same states that financed those channels still ended up facing strikes and pressure. His conclusion was appeasing Zionist interests and trying to buy leverage in Washington has produced humiliation, not protection. Gulf governments, he argued, must rethink the entire strategy of trying to influence the United States through money while being expected to serve Israel’s regional agenda.
Tucker just translated the Aramaic phrase “Abra kedabra” into English and is now trying to convince the American people that his inside man isn’t a Middle Eastern cab driver telling him Jews are jinn.
Daines's campaign has just released a statement confirming his decision not to seek another term, and endorsing Kurt Alme to succeed him: #MTNews #MTPol #MTSen
New: Trump on his latest thinking on the run off—says Cornyn and Paxton did not run “good enough” campaigns.
