David Schmidt
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David Schmidt
@drpepperdavid
Husband, father, grandfather and physician. Anti-MAGA, anti-progressive independent. Reagan conservative.


President Donald J. Trump has posted to his Truth Social platform warning that if Iran fails to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours, the US will begin targeting Iranian power plants. The message was posted at 7:44pm EST.




When Charlie Kirk was murdered, those of us on the conservative side rightly chastised those of our political adversaries who cheered and celebrated his death. We accused them--again rightly--of shameful callousness and of polluting public discourse and coarsening social life. What President Trump does here merits the same chastisement, for the same reasons.

“I hate my opponent. And I don’t want the best for them,” Trump said last year at Charlie Kirk’s funeral That said, here’s his statement on the death of the Russiagate special counsel

John Fetterman's had a 108 pt drop in his net approval with PA Dems since 2023. His net rating is -40 pt net approval with them. His net popularity with his own party is worse than all senators who lost a primary this century. There's no historical analog to his unpopularity.







Smith, on Warsofsky's message to him: "Just as it comes to the end of the season, just make sure I'm competing...there's a lot of points on the line here...Just gotta be better." Warsofsky to Smith: "Just go play. He’s overthinking at times & he's hit a little speed bump in developing...Is it going to happen overnight? No, but we continue to work on it & get better at it...When you’re maybe not chipping in as much offensively, how else can you impact the game?" I'll post full quotes later, but I think this is fairly representative of the conversation between them











