Faraz Qureshi

TIM DILLON on the Thomas Massie election: "I don't know how you run a country where people can just dump $32 million into a race" "What it's showing you is that if you spend enough money, you can just create any reality you want" "No one knows who the hell the other guy is" "This guy [Massie] who's like, 'Release the Epstein Files. Hold people accountable. Prosecute pedophiles. Get out of foreign wars,' that guy loses to a guy who's like, 'Let's cover up the Epstein Files, let's not prosecute pedophiles, let's go to war, with your kids'" "You would think just platform to platform that's a tough sell" "[Gallrein] was just handpicked. Came out of nowhere" "[He] was like, we gotta get kids back into the military. We gotta get them to Iran. Now. Now, you would think that's probably not a super popular idea—let's bring back the draft" "However, if you spend enough money in American politics, you can create any reality you want"

There is not a single mention of Gaza in the 192 page DNC autopsy report. As someone who campaigned in Michigan and Wisconsin, let me tell you- one of the main reasons we lost was our blank check to Israel while they committed a genocide. Our party must put human rights first.

This is why Israel's primary goal prior to the war was to get us onboard. They simply can't fight Iran w/out U.S. combat power. This is also why Israel will spend 100s of millions or more, buying influence in DC, it is a core pillar of their national defense. All of this is well known in DC but not discussed freely.

Thomas Massie on Israel: “They’ve drug us into wars. They’ve convinced us that Iran is just days away from a nuclear weapon, and they’re perpetually that way. This is not our war.”

President Trump is frustrated because the Israelis sold him the pipe dream that arming the Kurds & other Iranian dissidents would quickly topple the Iranian regime, leading to a quick victory. This failed to happen because it was a plan based on wishful thinking not the realities on the ground. Instead of being mad at the Kurds, who are our critical counter terrorism partners, he should focus his ire on the Israeli government officials who lied to him to get us entrenched in this war and whoever in his inner circle that allowed the Israelis to manipulate U.S. policy to support Israel's primary goal. Israel's primary goal was to get us into the war, not to make sure the pipe dream they were selling would actually work. Israel has always understood that they can't topple the Iranian regime without us doing the majority of the fighting, they needed to get us into the war. The Israelis kept their goal in mind when feeding us "intel" about Iran. Unfortunately, President Trump's inner circle failed to keep Israel's main goal in mind when receiving Israeli "intel" and providing context to the President.

Continuing the blockade puts far more pressure on us than on Iran. Iran has proven it can endure economic pain—it has been doing so since 1979. The blockade will not force Iran to abandon uranium enrichment, ballistic missiles, or its proxy networks. Instead, the blockade is hurting the American people and creating serious domestic pressure on POTUS: Gas prices will continue to rise as we head into the midterms, harming the working class voters who overwhelmingly backed Trump and Republicans—putting GOP majorities in serious jeopardy. Staging three carrier battle groups plus a massive build up of airpower in CENTCOM to enforce the blockade is unsustainable—it hands an emboldened IRGC ample opportunities to strike U.S. forces and drag America back into war on Iran’s terms. The global fallout only increases the pressure on us, not Iran: Beyond the oil and gas crisis, the blockade is now triggering a global fertilizer shortage that will cause major food security crises and potential famines in vulnerable regions. The smarter path is clear: withdraw, declare victory, and use sanctions relief as our negotiating leverage with Iran. This resets the talks on our terms, avoids war, and prevents further escalation of the energy crisis at home and abroad.

The Warfare State & Welfare State Will No Longer Be Able To Coexist One will have to go. Get rid of the Empire. Close all the foreign bases. Bring all the troops home. The duty of the American military is to defend America.

Trump promised to be the peace candidate. He gave us an Iran war, w/ Americans crushed on gas, food, & housing. He promised to expose a corrupt elite. But he covered up the Epstein files. I want a new home for Team America. Anti-war, anti-Epstein class, pro working class.

Israel killed every single person in this photo in Lebanon. Every. Single. One. All journalists. Targeted and assassinated intentionally. For reporting the truth from the frontlines.

POTUS is laying out two courses of action—a negotiated settlement, or a major escalation. There is a third option, and he should take it: recognize there is no way to force a positive outcome and simply leave. The region is not ours to fix. President Reagan chose this path in Lebanon in ‘84, withdrawing U.S. forces after the Beirut barracks bombing once it became clear the mission’s stabilization goals could not be met, effectively ending direct American military involvement and avoiding a deeper quagmire and long-term entrenchment in the region. A negotiated settlement is unlikely to work or be taken seriously by the Iranians unless we make concessions on the enrichment issue. As we saw yesterday in the SOH, the IRGC is empowered to act without the consent of the civilian leadership, so it’s likely they won’t honor any deal reached. A major escalation will lead to a very destructive outcome for Iran, the region, and eventually the U.S. If POTUS chooses brute force and targets civilian infrastructure, we will create another generation of radicalized Iranians who will rally around the regime and escalate the war by any means possible. If POTUS opts to strike the civilian infrastructure, declare victory, and then leave, we will only further erode our standing in the world, the petrodollar, and eventually our status as the world’s reserve currency holder. We need to get out now. Don’t double down on failure. Avoid the sunken cost trap, leave now, and put America’s interests first.

A big difference between Lebanon and Gaza: international journalists are allowed to report from Lebanon. It is unconscionable that they are still not allowed in Gaza. No excuse for this. Let them in.

We are spending at least $500 million a day to bomb Iran. Imagine how many teachers we could hire, how many public housing units we could build, how many bridges and roads we could fix, if we spent that kind of money on improving life for working people?

Update: America has now spent over $51 Billion dollars on Israel's war with Iran since February 28th. These are conservative numbers. Remember that when you send in your taxes tomorrow on Tax Day.

The world watched as Israel razed Gaza to the ground. Now, the world is watching as Israel razes Lebanon to the ground. War crimes beget war crimes — and the failure to bring Israel to justice for genocide has emboldened it to destroy human life with total impunity.

Tim Dillon: “Israel is just blowing up apartment complexes in Lebanon.” “Massacring women and children.” “The blowback that Israel will get from this—and the US will get for funding it—will be insane.” “You are creating terrorists all over the world.” “It’s going to radicalize them.” “Israel bombing Beirut 100 times in … 10 minutes.” “In a densely populated urban area.” “I’m starting to get this nagging feeling that Israel doesn’t really want this ceasefire.” “Israel claims in all of these buildings, there are terrorists doing terrorist things.” “Their argument is like, if we kill everyone, inevitably some of the people will be terrorists.” “I’ve never seen the brutality of this type of warfare.” “You can’t just indiscriminately kill civilians and not expect that people are going to be radicalized.” @TimJDillon

Liars. They were civilians, children, old women, young women, people attending a funeral, people having lunch. It was a killing rampage by bloodthirsty lunatics. Liars.

End all foreign aid

Let's start with this pledge. The next Democratic President will never have the Israeli PM in the Situation Room. Trump having Netanyahu there before launching an immoral and illegal war is a betrayal of the American people.

The UK Foreign Secretary says she is “deeply troubled" by Israel's latest massacre in Lebanon. So “troubled” that the government still supplies Israel with weapons and intelligence. Israel is committing war crimes in Lebanon - and this government is shamefully complicit.

Like all of our previous interventions in the Middle East, we are worse off after the war (not that this is over) than we were before. Wars in the Middle East are a series of lose-lose scenarios for us, the sooner we learn that, the better off we’ll be.