@BretDevereaux Would they have contested beach landings back then
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The Good Doctor Reverend Al
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There is something very funny about the sudden effort by the chuds to recast Troy (2004) - a film which lost out at the box office to Ben Stiller vehicle, Meet the Fockers (2004) - as a cinematic masterpiece the likes of which Christopher Nolan could never match.
rain's man@tushartweets38
Not even in ten lifetimes could Nolan direct a battle scene this epic.
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Not read about the Russian army in WW1 for a while I'm do so
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@MichaelJoh41157 Welp just wait 36hrs and you’ll get even more! 🤣
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I’m not convinced Ds get a genuine blowout (they’ll win obvi), but this feels very diff vs ‘18
‘18 felt like a national…urgency…to affirmatively show that Trump/MAGA was an aberration, to be rejected for eternity
That zeitgeist feels ancient now. Ppl don’t like Trump but…
Jesse🔸⏹️@PoliticalKiwi
Crazy poll result. If Trump's presidency does end up as a political disaster, we'll probably look back at this poll as one of the early pieces of data that confirmed it. Democrats are +10 in the generic ballot (rounded) among RV, +14 among those likely/v certain to vote in Nov
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@gorilla_rape It’s a battle of attrition now. After 5 weeks they apparently haven’t budged off their maximalist demands.
Will they fold before trump bows to the political pressure:
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@gbrew24 @IgnatiusPost One mystery to me is why did Iran decide to bring their whole technical team to the negotiations when, according to what the US has released as its red lines, we were never even close to any agreement.
Unless privately the US and Iran were actually closer than what we know?
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Per @IgnatiusPost, Trump's team is done with war.
The new play: apply massive economy pressure via a blockade while simultaneously offering a "Tiffany deal" of full sanctions relief and other inducements to see if Qalibaf (or someone else) can be tempted to give up. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/…
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@CTIronman @petespiliakos U don’t think the month long build up in the region may have ruined the element of surprise?
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@petespiliakos Flipside: the sales effect eliminates any element of surprise you still have at the inception of hostilities
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This is exactly right and it's crazy. Iran is a much bigger country than Iraq. Did Dubya undersell the downside risks of the Iraq War? Definitely. But he made the case and got popular and congressional support for the operation and Trump didn't.
CTIronman@CTIronman
They gambled on a quick success that didn’t require a sales pitch
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The really funny thing about this post is him saying "walls are closing in," which is the exact meme phrase used to make fun of this kind of talk
Ryan Grim@ryangrim
Walls seem to be closing in on Trump in a real way. Feels like an unusually precarious and dangerous moment.
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Trump can literally do whatever he wants I don’t care he earned it and no amount of piss pants whining from the right is going to change my mind.
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@blockedfreq @NilesGApol What do you think went wrong?
Was it just trump winning Pennsylvania pulled McCormick over the finish line?
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@NilesGApol Nobody is more devastated by his loss more than he is, I assure you.
One of very few senators who went above and beyond as a public servant and trusted that his years of bringing home the bacon + personal relationships w/ PA folks would save him… realized too late otherwise.
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Ngl must be tough being Bob Casey these days. Went all for Fetterman when everyone else quite literally left him for dead and if he (and Brown) had won in ‘24 the Senate would not be such a heavy lift for Dems heading into the midterms
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@PosterTubs If you didn’t expect this reaction from trump of all people then you are actually retarded.
Probably more retarded than trump
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@interstatejuche Let it go bro
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Andrew Desiderio@AndrewDesiderio
NEWS: A frustrated Thune finally quashed the “talking filibuster” because 4+ Senate R’s won’t vote to kill Dem amendments, guaranteeing the SAVE Act has no path Newsy bits: — TILLIS tells me he’ll oppose the motion to proceed (even tho he’s a co-sponsor of the SAVE Act). Means Vance needs to be on-hand constantly — Thune has privately griped that Speaker Johnson isn’t doing enough to tamp down House GOP prodding — Some Senate R’s thought Thune let the “talking filibuster” talk linger too long, but Thune leaned on the strategy that won him the leadership race: Wait for a consensus to emerge before making a decision. — That consensus: At least 4 R’s aren’t willing to help move the process along: Tillis, Curtis, McConnell, Murkowski punchbowl.news/article/senate…
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@TheGoodDoctorAl They're actively garnering support for a talking filibuster, dummy
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WE'RE AT 50 VOTES FOR THE SAVE ACT WE'RE GOING TO HIT THE DNC EXTINCTION BUTTON AHHHHH
Mike Lee@BasedMikeLee
🚨 I’m thrilled to receive the news that Senator Susan Collins has announced her support for the SAVE America Act!🚨 This is huge!
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@captive_dreamer @FmrRepMTG So does "Having a good relationship with my father" but I guess you wouldnt know
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@FmrRepMTG "Former Congresswoman" has a nice ring to it.
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All of you MAGA influencers and the rest mocking the seriousness of women who were trafficked and raped as teenagers and young women look like cult fools.
Good luck trying to get women to vote for Republicans in the midterms you insensitive clowns.
The Republican Party already has a woman voting problem.
Keep mocking those of us who take rape and pedophilia seriously and demand accountability for corruption.
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QME
@mattyglesias @daveweigel His unqualified support of Israel and video of him literally signing a bomb will disqualify him. This is the equivalent of voting for the Iraq war. Sorry but you seem completely out of touch on this issue just like Hillary supporters when Obama beat her.
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Shapiro electoral rep maybe suffers from him getting to beat a tomato can in 2022.
His AG races (in presidential years) were more impressive; ran ahead of ticket, had more appeal in red counties than Clinton or Biden.
Sean T at RCP@SeanTrende
Newsom, Harris, Shapiro, Pritzker, Booker? All variants on the same problem. Way too tilted toward managerial class appeal. Beshear and MAYBE Ocasio-Cortez can break out of that. Fetterman would win 350 Electoral Votes, but zero chance of winning the nom.
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@ChazNuttycombe Should we believe Rasmussen even when it’s results like this
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@souljagoyteller Why is the daily mail reporter going so hard on him.
I thought they liked trump
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How can any Jew defend this man and look at themselves in the mirror afterward
Daily Mail@DailyMail
JD Vance's VERY telling response as he's grilled on Nick Fuentes' legion of Groypers.
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@AnalyticaCamil1 @grok whats the name of the song in this clip?
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In honor of the White House discovering Werner Herzog in the dumbest way imaginable (do they know Herzog would probably recommend that Americans gove them the Mussolini treatment? — probably not tbh, they’re not very bright), here’s a clip from Werner’s best work.
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@QuantusInsights Actually seems like it’s pretty bad
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Justin Wolfers@JustinWolfers
Private-sector hiring remains weak and may have stalled totally. Since April, these numbers suggest monthly private sector job growth has averaged +45k per month. But the Fed reckons job growth is overstated by at least this month. = Private-sector hiring over recent months is roughly zero or negative.
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The “weak jobs” narrative doesn’t hold up when you look at the whole. From Sept–Nov, payrolls fell 41K, but private-sector jobs rose +121K while government employment dropped –162K. Since April, private employment is up +333K, native-born employment +998K (Household Survey), and the native-born E/P ratio has edged higher. Add Atlanta Fed GDPNow at +3.5% Q3 growth and this looks like normalization after public-sector excess, not economic collapse or even a recession.
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@RussInSoCal Just super funny given your pinned tweet.
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It doesn’t matter if you share nothing in common with Rob Reiner politically, this is a genuinely horrific tragedy and anyone celebrating it on our side I can go fuck themselves.
Pray for the Reiner family.
Robby Starbuck@robbystarbuck
TMZ reports Rob Reiner and his wife Michele have died. They reportedly have wounds that are consistent with being stabbed by a knife. A truly horrific way to die. Condolences to their loved ones and their friends. Just terrible.
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