Thomas_Capone

Time to read them again.....

nydla.org/podcasts-elie-… time to revisit these three books.

Congressman Gomez just put Tulsi Gabbard in a corner she couldn’t escape. The exchange: “Last year you testified Iran was not building a nuclear weapon. Do you stand by that?” Gabbard dodged. Gomez reclaimed his time. “Trump said you were wrong. Were you lying or not?” “I stand by the intelligence community’s complete assessment.” “Were they weeks away from a nuclear weapon — yes or no?” Gabbard dodged again. Gomez: “Why do you even have a job? Why do you even advise them?” Then the kill shot: “You’re saying the President can declare any country an imminent threat — China tomorrow if he wants — and act regardless of what the intelligence says?” Ratcliffe: “The president is commander in chief.” Gomez: “So what’s the point of intelligence?” 18 agencies confirmed Iran had no nuclear capacity. Israel said ten bombs in two weeks. Trump chose Israel. Gabbard couldn’t say Iran was weeks away. Ratcliffe confirmed the president can ignore intelligence entirely. Joe Kent resigned over it. They just said the quiet part out loud under oath. The president can start any war he wants. Intelligence is optional. Never stop connecting the dots.

Here’s the question nobody in Washington is asking about the Diego Garcia strike: how did Iran know exactly where to aim? They don’t have satellite coverage of the Indian Ocean. Someone gave them the targeting data. Who? And what does that make this war?

Dana Bash says President Trump celebrating Robert Mueller’s death “should be shocking for anyone to say, let alone a president. But it’s not… Trump's refusal to show any grace to perceived foes, even after death, is a feature, not a bug. Not a surprise. But that doesn't make it okay.”

Markets are useful for the same reason polls are useful: not because they’re flawless, but because they aggregate lots of views. The difference is investors back their opinions with cash. Stocks aren’t GDP, but they do reveal what people expect from here.

WELKER: Would the administration ever raise taxes in order to fund this war? BESSENT: Again, Kristen, terrible framing WELKER: It's a simple question BESSENT: It's a ridiculous question WELKER: Can you answer it? BESSENT: Why would we do that? We have plenty. We have a trillion dollars.

WELKER: Do you think it's appropriate for the president to celebrate the death of a Bronze Star, Purple Heart recipient who served in Vietnam? BESSENT: Neither one of us can understand what has been done to the president and his family WELKER: But is it appropriate for the president to celebrate the death of any American citizen? BESSENT: Give what has been done to President Trump and his family, it is impossible for either of us to understand what he's been through WELKER: So you don't think there's anything wrong with a post saying, 'Good. Robert Mueller's dead'? BESSENT: We should have empathy for what's been done to the president and his family

Republicans say one of these individuals is the "most divisive president in history"

Operation Rolling Thunder. From 1965 to 1968, the United States conducted a sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam. The goal was to break the will of the North Vietnamese government and people. To make the cost of continuing the war too high to bear. They dropped 864,000 tons of bombs. The will was not broken. So they escalated. Operation Linebacker. Operation Linebacker II, the Christmas Bombings of 1972: twelve days of around-the-clock bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong, described by some U.S. generals as trying to "bomb them back to the Stone Age." Hospitals were hit. Residential areas were hit. Bạch Mai Hospital, the largest hospital in North Vietnam, was hit repeatedly. After the Christmas Bombings, the North Vietnamese negotiating position at the Paris Peace talks did not weaken. It strengthened. They bombed us into refusing to surrender. Every bomb that fell on a hospital, every family killed in their home, every village erased from the map created ten more people who would die before they accepted foreign domination. This is what American strategists, with all their degrees and all their think tanks and all their war games, failed to understand about the people they were trying to break. You cannot bomb dignity out of people who have decided they would rather die than give it up.

Bags of shredded documents Broken cameras Missing security footage Edited security footage Destroyed hard drives Sleeping guards Falsified guard records Autopsy disputes Crime scene not preserved Epstein’s death happened under a Trump administration. The coverup isn’t new.

The President of the United States learned that Robert Mueller had died. And he picked up his phone and typed: “Good. I’m glad he’s dead.” I need you to stop. Put down whatever you’re doing and feel the full weight of those words. Good. I’m glad he’s dead. Said by the man who holds the most powerful office in the history of human civilization. The office of Washington. Of Lincoln. Of Roosevelt standing in the rubble of Pearl Harbor promising a nation trembling in the dark that we would rise. That office. Those words. Now let me tell you who Robert Mueller was. He did not have to go to Vietnam. He had every reason not to. A Princeton degree. A blown-out knee. A future waiting for him in the comfort of civilian life. He waited a full year for that knee to heal, just so he could serve. Let that sink in. He walked into hell when other men were running from it. He came home with a Bronze Star for heroism and a Purple Heart soaked in the blood of his sacrifice. He spent the next four decades standing in the breach, as a prosecutor, as FBI Director, as the man who held this nation together in the smoldering ash of September 12th, 2001, when we were all afraid and we needed someone steady, someone serious, someone who loved this country more than he loved himself. He was all of those things. He was a Republican. He was, by every honest measure, an American hero. And the President danced on his grave.

When politicians quote war costs, they're usually giving you the Pentagon's grocery bill, not the real economic damage.⁣ ⁣ Oil shocks, lost jobs, delayed investment - the true cost isn't billions, it's hundreds of billions.⁣ ⁣ Always ask: what are they not counting?

Bob Mueller was one of the finest directors in the history of the FBI, transforming the bureau after 9/11 and saving countless lives. But it was his relentless commitment to the rule of law and his unwavering belief in our bedrock values that made him one of the most respected public servants of our time. Michelle and I send our condolences to Bob’s family, and everyone who knew and admired him.

Simmons: The president hasn't done anything to ask of his friends to put in the pot. They're only asking the American people to pay more at the gas station. Lyman: He’s giving up his salary Mockler: Trump doesn't take his salary, but he's made $4 billion on cryptocurrency. He's taken an economy that was steady handed when Joe Biden— Lyman: Steady handed!? Mockler: What was the inflation rate when Joe Biden left? 2.9%. We now have predictions it will go up to 5%

Mockler: The contradictions here are endless. So in one breath, this is a 47 year war. And in the next breath, there was an imminent threat coming from Iran and then the next breath, oh, we were just trying to defang their nuclear capabilities. And then one person will say, oh, we did defang the Iranian regime.

When Obama sent Iran $400m + $1.3bn in interest in 2016 Trump called it "insane" and he and others spent a decade mocking the idea of "pallets of cash" even though it was Iran's own money, American prisoners were released, courts were likely to require the U.S. payment, and Iran had just agreed to significant and verified reductions and restrictions on its nuclear program for 15+ years. Now Trump is giving Iran up to ten times that amount of revenue--one of the most significant measures of sanctions relief provided to the Islamic Republic since its founding--in exchange for marginal and temporary relief from the big increase in oil prices his actions have caused, without any concessions from Tehran, and even as Iran continues to target the United States, its allies, and world oil supplies. No way to read as anything other than desperate recognition of the situation Trump's own actions have created and the lack of available alternatives for dealing with it.

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Maldonado: Yes, we are safer today than we were prior to this regime being gone. Phillip: The regime is not gone.