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Michael Samuels

@indspeaker

Independent! Hard working sane American. International law and politics, baseball, military history, life lessons, and laughter.

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Michael Samuels
Michael Samuels@indspeaker·
I was one of the first Americans to cross into East Berlin after Checkpoint Charlie was dismantled in 1990. For me, this was the epitome of the USA’s perseverance and victory in the Cold War. 30 years later, it feels like Trump has handed our winning effort back to Putin.
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Brian Stelter
Brian Stelter@brianstelter·
Trump very easily could have blamed the media last night, but instead, he basically said "we're all in this together."
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Michael Samuels
Michael Samuels@indspeaker·
@WalshFreedom The maximum capacity of the monstrous WH ballroom is 1000. The Hilton ballroom holds over 4000. A President does not get to dictate monuments to himself.
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Joe Walsh
Joe Walsh@WalshFreedom·
He had no authority to tear down the East Wing, he has no authority to build a ballroom, the White House belongs to the American people, not him, he’s trying to build a palace, we don’t do fucking palaces in America. What I said months ago still stands - the 2028 Democratic nominee had better pledge to tear that fucking ballroom down. And then do it immediately after being sworn in.
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Michael Samuels
Michael Samuels@indspeaker·
@stevebyrnelive You have no first amendment right against a business or employer. Apples and bowling balls.
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Steve Byrne
Steve Byrne@stevebyrnelive·
Private Business vs Govt=Disney, Charlie Kirk Suspension. THUS, my point.
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Michael Samuels
Michael Samuels@indspeaker·
@hissgoescobra You are conflating a horrible right wing government with the whole country of Israel. I am sure there are people saying the US is betraying them due to our horrendous government.
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John Jackson
John Jackson@hissgoescobra·
The sense of betrayal that many Americans are feeling right now against Israel is off the charts. Personally, I’m livid. 30 shipments. I always supported Israel growing up. This. The West Bank settlers. The Christ statue. The solar panels. The racist death penalty. It’s nonstop.
Olga Lautman 🇺🇸🇺🇦@OlgaNYC1211

Ukraine privately warned Israeli officials in March about another Russian shadow vessel carrying stolen Ukrainian grain. Despite the warning, Israel allowed the vessel to dock and unload mid April. Now here we are again Good this is happening publicly

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Ari Fleischer
Ari Fleischer@AriFleischer·
This is another example showing how Barack Obama is one of the most divisive figures in American politics today. So many of our divisions were caused by the smug, demeaning and narrow-minded way he treats his opponents. Here, he pretends to not know the truth about the would-be assassin, although the facts of his left wing views were public hours before Obama’s tweet. It’s classic Obama - pretend to be conciliatory while he is the one who creates the divide. You would hope that Obama would condemn the left after the left tries to kill a President. But that’s too much to ask. Once again, Obama proves himself to be a classless divider of our country.
Barack Obama@BarackObama

Although we don’t yet have the details about the motives behind last night's shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner, it’s incumbent upon all us to reject the idea that violence has any place in our democracy. It’s also a sobering reminder of the courage and sacrifice that U.S. Secret Service Agents show every day. I’m grateful to them – and thankful that the agent who was shot is going to be okay.

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Michael Samuels
Michael Samuels@indspeaker·
@WalshFreedom Piker enjoys his rights to say ridiculous nonsense, but if he was confronted by the authoritarians and terrorists he supports, his silence would be deafening.
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Michael Samuels
Michael Samuels@indspeaker·
@EWErickson More likely after they get crushed in the midterms. They have not grown a spine as of yet, but will pretend that they had one all along when they re-enter the private sector.
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Erick Erickson
Erick Erickson@EWErickson·
At some point, probably now sooner rather than later, congressional Republicans will start blaming the President for their performance. His social media antics continue to drive down his own base's enthusiasm.
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Michael Samuels
Michael Samuels@indspeaker·
@robbystarbuck @Kooo670002 Trump deleted the post after public pressure. When did he acknowledge it was a "mistake" or offer any contrition for the "mistake"?
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Robby Starbuck
Robby Starbuck@robbystarbuck·
I appreciate President Trump deleting this. This was not appropriate at all. I know that I’d call out a Democrat if they posted anything depicting themselves like this, and I have to be consistent. It’s just not acceptable. I’ll always put my faith first above anything else. I’m glad he’s realized that it was an error to post this and I appreciate him rectifying it.
Remarks@remarks

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 President Trump posts image portraying himself as Jesus Christ.

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Michael Samuels
Michael Samuels@indspeaker·
@WalshFreedom Anyone who believes Trump's nonsense is either also suffering from dementia, or is the most gullible mark in history.
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Michael Samuels
Michael Samuels@indspeaker·
@MichaelSteele TDS - Trump Derangement Syndrome was never real until now. It means the lunatics who continue to support the deranged psycho in the WH.
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Michael Steele
Michael Steele@MichaelSteele·
“Enough of the idolatry of self and money! Enough of flaunting power! Enough of war! True strength is revealed in the service of life.” Pope Leo XIV earlier today. When the words of a pope perfectly reflect the idolatry of a president. Trump posted this moments ago.
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Marc Zell - מארק צל
Marc Zell - מארק צל@GOPIsrael·
Brilliant analysis of Trump’s latest move on the Hormuz situation. Checkmate in 4D geopolitical chess. 😀
Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡@shanaka86

BREAKING: Trump just invited China to send warships to protect the waterway China is using to replace the dollar. Read his Truth Social post carefully. It is the most strategically loaded sentence of the war. “Hopefully China, France, Japan, South Korea, the UK, and others, that are affected by this artificial constraint, will send Ships to the area so that the Hormuz Strait will no longer be a threat by a Nation that has been totally decapitated.” The invitation is a trap. Every possible Chinese response damages China. If Beijing sends warships, it legitimises an American-led coalition, subordinates Chinese naval power to US command architecture, and abandons its diplomatic neutrality with Iran, the country currently offering China yuan-only passage through the Strait that everyone else is locked out of. China loses its shadow fleet advantage, its discounted Iranian crude, and its CIPS leverage in a single deployment. If Beijing refuses, it confirms what Washington wants the world to see: that China is willing to let the global economy burn rather than contribute to the security of the waterway that carries 45% of its own crude imports. Every nation paying $96 a barrel while China pays less through yuan-settled shadow fleet deliveries will note who showed up and who did not. The free-rider narrative writes itself, and America writes the next chapter of dollar dominance with it. Trump named six countries. Five are allies or partners: Japan is signing Golden Dome in five days, France operates from Djibouti, the UK from Bahrain, South Korea has direct Hormuz energy exposure. Their participation is expected. China’s participation is the question, and the question is the weapon. While 16 million barrels of Iranian crude have transited to China since 28 February through shadow tankers settling in yuan, while CIPS processed $24.5 trillion in 2025 at 43% growth, while Iran offered to reopen the Strait exclusively for yuan cargo, Trump posted a sentence that forces China to choose between its shadow economy and its public legitimacy. The post also contains an admission that no briefing has delivered. “We have already destroyed 100% of Iran’s Military capability, but it’s easy for them to send a drone or two, drop a mine, or deliver a close range missile somewhere along, or in, this Waterway, no matter how badly defeated they are.” The President of the United States just acknowledged that total military victory does not equal total waterway security. Iran’s military is destroyed. The coastline is not. A defeated nation with a 33-kilometre shoreline, $500 mines, and $20,000 drones can deny passage through the world’s most important chokepoint indefinitely because the weapons of denial are cheaper than the weapons of dominance. “In the meantime, the United States will be bombing the hell out of the shoreline.” Bomb the coast. Shoot the boats. And hope that six nations send warships to escort tankers that have no insurance, no P&I coverage, and no private-sector willingness to transit a waterway the President himself admits a defeated nation can still threaten. The coalition call is not about Iran. Iran’s military is destroyed. The coalition call is about the world that emerges after Iran. If America escorts the tankers alone, the Strait reopens under American control and dollar pricing survives. If a coalition escorts them, the Strait reopens under international consensus and the yuan-for-Hormuz proposal dies. If nobody escorts them, the Strait stays closed and China’s shadow fleet is the only commerce moving through it. Trump is not asking for help. He is asking every nation to declare which monetary system they want the Strait to operate under when the war ends. The warships are the ballot. The Strait is the polling station. And the currency is the vote. Full analysis in the link! open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

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Erick Erickson
Erick Erickson@EWErickson·
So…uhhh…that video got posted twice? By “some staffer”? In the early hours of the morning? And the press secretary defended it before it got deleted as an oopsie?
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Michael Samuels
Michael Samuels@indspeaker·
@NiohBerg Trump has no master plan. Hope the Iranian protesters can find their own way to victory.
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𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎
The fact that we're once again talking about Khamenei's nuclear program is proof in itself that the bombings in June were a massive failure. That or the US is stalling for time for whatever reason.
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Victoria Derbyshire
Victoria Derbyshire@vicderbyshire·
The man ICE officers shot and killed in Minneapolis is 37 yr old Alex Pretti Mr Pretti is a US citizen and worked as a nurse
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Michael Samuels
Michael Samuels@indspeaker·
@Scaramucci What about invoking the Insurrection Act and sending troops into Minnesota?
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Anthony Scaramucci
Anthony Scaramucci@Scaramucci·
Trump is being told by GOP senators invade Greenland, you will be impeached and removed from office. Encouraging.
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𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎
I'm seeing a lot of people say Trump is planning a much larger attack to end the regime, and is buying time to get all the pieces into place. Do you think this is what he's doing? Or do you think he's backed out?
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Michael Samuels
Michael Samuels@indspeaker·
@BillKristol This is brown-shirt thuggery with the pretext of law enforcement. I do not believe that all ICE are like this, but unless they step up to protest what is going on they are complicit.
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Bill Kristol
Bill Kristol@BillKristol·
"ICE agents operate masked, heavily militarized, and without any visible identification...In democratic societies, the use of lawful force depends on legitimacy. Legitimacy depends on accountability. And accountability begins with identification." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark…
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Bill Kristol
Bill Kristol@BillKristol·
Take a look at this video. And tell me that ICE as it now exists and operates is consistent with living in a free country.
Jesus Freakin Congress@TheJFreakinC

🚨 BREAKING: ICE/Border Patrol agents once again threaten to illegally arrest a U.S. citizen… for standing on a public sidewalk and filming them. Yes. Really. In the video, in Beaverton, Oregon, multiple agents swarm a man who is doing nothing more than observing and recording from a public sidewalk, something that is 100% legal and protected by the First Amendment. An agent claims they “know who he is” and accuses him of driving erratically and being “a danger to the public.” Which is rich, coming from an agency with a long history of hitting people with vehicles, assaulting women and children, and “accidentally” firing or dropping loaded firearms. But, even so, they are not police and cannot arrest someone for a traffic violation. Then the threats start. “You are interfering with our operations.” “You could be arrested.” “We will arrest you.” Again, the man is standing on a sidewalk. Not blocking anyone. Not touching anyone. Not saying anything beyond asserting his rights. Another agent jumps in with, “You were following us yesterday.” Cool story. Still not illegal. They repeatedly claim he has “interfered with operations,” yet, the only behavior they can actually point to is… observing them. Existing near them. Filming them. When the man calmly says, “I’m not interfering,” the response is: “If you continue, you will be in handcuffs.” Let’s be crystal clear about what that means: ICE agents are threatening to arrest a U.S. citizen for continuing to legally observe and film them in his own neighborhood. When the man states the obvious, “I’m not breaking the law and you know it,” the agent completely loses it. He steps inches from the man’s face, points at him, shoves into his shoulder or chest, and screams, “One more time and I will put you in handcuffs.” This isn’t law enforcement. This is intimidation. The man tells him to get off him. The agent responds, “No, I’ll stand right here, pal. Right here all day,” while continuing to press into him. The citizen points out the setup perfectly: “If I touch you, you’re going to arrest me, right?” Exactly. That’s the game. That’s when the agent snaps completely, screaming that the man is “worthless” and has “no honor.” Which… feels like projection. This video shows exactly what ICE and Border Patrol are doing across the country: They are trying to scare people into not filming. They are trying to bully citizens out of exercising their rights. And when intimidation doesn’t work, they escalate. Because they know that cameras expose them. So here’s the takeaway: Always film. State your rights calmly. Keep your hands visible and on your phone. Narrate everything that’s happening. They want silence. They want fear. They want no witnesses. Don’t give it to them.

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Michael Samuels
Michael Samuels@indspeaker·
@BillKristol As the one filming is not using actual force or a credible threat of force in this video these agents may not even be qualified as mall cops.
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