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Graham Platner on Iran: “This is a war that has been started because Donald Trump is in the Epstein Files and he doesn’t want us reading them. This war has been started because Benjamin Netanyahu has been begging for it for 30 years and finally found a president who is stupid enough to do it”

You know, one of the places that teaches about Midway as a turning point in the war is the naval war college, which Hegseth did not attend. We snuck it in among all the other woke stuff

@elonmusk Elon, why is this troubling? Evolution rules, and your views are incorrect.

Troubling

Took a video of this cool shell formation on my beach walk. If all of you repost it as many times as you can maybe some journalists will see it and do something about it

@sarobertsonca Chantel, I like you, but you don't seem to understand what it means to win.

Chantal Hébert on Liberals moving to go in camera in four committees: "Of all of the things you can think that were smart to do this week, getting a majority and using it to do this is probably one of the dumbest moves that one has seen in a long long time."

Opinion: Donald Trump is not an aberration. He is America /via @globeandmail theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

That Sam Alito would write a disingenuous, intellectually, dishonest, and ahistorical racist decision is not a surprise. Nor that John Roberts would assign it to Alito and embrace it. Particularly unsettling is that the other four Republicans would join. 1

Sen. Kelly: "Mr. Secretary, this war is stuck. The Strait of Hormuz is closed. The Iranian regime is in place. The nuclear material, still in their hands. Americans are being crushed by higher costs, and it's not clear to them, at all, what the goal of this war is."

@luna_am96 @Tablesalt13 The key to refining aluminum is cheap and plentiful electricity idiots.

@Tablesalt13 Trudeau still seething on American TV while Canada’s #1 customer the US can just buy bauxite direct and skip the middleman.Not your aluminum anymore.Geography and math say otherwise.

‼️NEW: Trudeau goes on American TV and says that Canadian aluminum WON'T be available "when the US finally wakes up" ..... "its not your aluminum anymore" and that Trump drove Canada to China.

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Ossoff: How much do you guys know about Jared Kushner, Ivanka's husband? He's on the Saudi payroll for $2 billion dollars. Did you know that? And now he's leading American diplomacy in the Middle East, apparently while at the very same time asking princes and sheikhs across the Arab world to give him billions more. If you're watching this online, don't take my word for it. Look it up for yourself. Can you imagine, like a normal sitting U.S. ambassador just hitting up Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for billions of dollars? But he's a Trump, a royal, a princeling. The rules are for us, not for them.

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So after all this: - The Iranian regime remains in place - The enriched uranium remains in place - Iran remains in control of the Strait of Hormuz, though it agrees to let ships through, for now - The US agrees to talks based on Iran’s terms, including an end to all sanctions and Iran gets to charge $2 million a ship for passage through the Strait, in perpetuity. - Meanwhile NATO is in ruins, the US and Israel are at odds, the Gulf States know they cannot depend on the US to protect them, etc etc etc “Another such victory and we are undone!”

NASA is the best of America, what America used to be: professional, science-based, dedicated to excellence, idealistic, and dazzlingly ambitious. May America one day recover its NASA soul.

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Right then. Let me explain something very slowly, because it appears some basic logic has gone missing somewhere over the Atlantic. No serious nation in the history of warfare has spent fourteen months insulting its allies, threatening to annex their territory, siding with their common enemy, and then knocked on their door expecting them to come running to rescue a catastrophe of its own making. That is not how alliances work. That is not how anything works. You abused the UK. You threatened Canada. You tried to grab Greenland. You called the EU an adversary. You praised Putin, the one man every serious NATO ally has spent decades preparing to fight. You hosted Kremlin officials in the Capitol. You undermined European elections. You abandoned Ukraine. You imposed tariffs on your closest partners. You did all of this loudly, proudly, and on camera. And now you are surprised that nobody is returning your calls. Here is a question worth sitting with. Why do you think that is? Is it possible, just possible, that when you treat your allies like enemies for over a year while cuddling up to their actual enemy, those allies might update their opinion of you? Is that concept too complicated? Does that require more working memory than is currently available? You did not plan this war with your allies. You did not consult them. You did not build a coalition. You started a conflict, watched it go sideways, and then got on your knees asking for help from people you spent fourteen months calling weak, corrupt and irrelevant. NATO is not what it was. Not because Europe changed. Because Washington made crystal clear which side it is on. And it is not ours. You want European boots on the ground? Start by explaining why America is more aligned with Moscow than with Brussels. Take your time. We will wait. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

With your track record any half aware human being would have changed their name in embarrassment. You just keep going.

This site’s awash with idiots who cheerled the Iraq war, didn’t learn a thing from that fiasco, and are now squaring their idiocy by doing the same with Trump and Iran. Thought about expressing this more politely but there’s no point in euphemism. America is deservedly alone.

Opinion: The U.S. will emerge from the war with Iran as a lesser power /via @globeandmail theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

I wonder what all those British Columbians worrying about First Nations’ claim to private title think about the outright theft of so much land from Indigenous reserves in the 19th century? Not much respect for land rights then….#bcpoli