Jeremy Jacobson
101 posts
Jeremy Jacobson
@jthemoderate
Calling it like I see it: straight down the middle. Facts guiding feelings - IMHO…
Katılım Ağustos 2025
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NEW -- Trump followed Orban's autocrat playbook closely since returning to office last year, from attacking the judiciary and universities and the news media to the corruption and the Christian nationalism.
Will he learn something from Orban's drubbing?
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@KurtSchlichter @JTLonsdale I thought POTUS said the US doesn’t need anyone’s help. No? Seems to me he got himself jammed up - and by extension the country which he regards as an extension of his ego, and he’s looking for those he’s alienated to clean up his mess. Why should they?
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The Europeans are not dealing with “a man.” They are dealing with the United States of America.
The United States needed the most innocuous kind of cooperation from them. They denied the United States that cooperation.
The implied argument is that their obligations within our alliance depend on whether they like the guy we chose as our president. “Sure, we’re allies…if we approve of who you elected.”
Nope.
We are not going to forget, and we’re not going to forgive. I’m indifferent to their excuses or their rationalizations. The United States of America needed their help and not very much help. They turned us down. That changes everything. And they aren’t going to like how it changes everything.
Gerard Baker@gerardtbaker
The casuistry here is remarkable. This is the simple reality: Like most Americans, most Europeans think this war is a bad idea.Their governments are being asked to take a huge risk by a man who has proved unreliable, volatile and intemperate over and over. Who would do that?
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@IAmPoliticsGirl says what common sense demands, and what people everywhere ought to repeat. It starts with ‘NO’.
Well said, Ms McGowan.
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@IAmPoliticsGirl says what common sense demands, and what people everywhere ought to repeat. It starts with ‘NO’.
Well said, Ms McGowan.
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@bungarsargon You are describing a strategy which the man has shown himself uninterested. A rationalization to align oneself with the notion that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. IMO Trump’s motives are more political and therefore cynical in nature. Result okay, means not so good.
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That’s what Trump knows when he’s out there taking on the global liberal elite: He’s created a new anti-terror coalition in the Middle East based not on the myth of exporting democracy but on the reality of shared interests.
Batya Ungar-Sargon@bungarsargon
While Europe and the Democrats moan and groan about how terrible it is that we’re striking Iran, the Israelis, the Saudis, the UAE, even the Qataris, have joined hands—with each other and the U.S.—to rid the world of the threat posed by the largest state sponsor of terror. Forget Europe: These are our real allies now—countries invested in fighting state-sponsored terror, not excusing it or rhapsodizing about how the Islamic Regime is winning against the Evil Trump. batyaus.substack.com/p/forget-europ…
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@HillelNeuer @MarkJCarney Unfortunately Canada lacks the political will do address the presence of terrorists in our midst determined to do harm.
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.@MarkJCarney Please do same for the 700 IRGC agents in 🇨🇦
Brett McGurk@brett_mcgurk
Lebanon declares Iran’s ambassador persona non grata and orders his departure within days—extraordinary break in a relationship long shaped by Iran’s influence inside Lebanon.
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@SenatorSlotkin No one will be seeing the environmental problem. Everyone will be seeing the diplomacy problem. The lack of shame is astonishing, and because of this the problem you describe here will unlikely be solved in the way in which Lake Michigan needs.
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President Trump is right on this -- the Asian Carp *is* a rather violent and destructive fish. We need to complete the Brandon Road project and protect Michigan's Great Lakes.
Jennifer Jacobs@JenniferJJacobs
Trump on Asian carp:
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@MayorOliviaChow , None of you seem to understand that the words you speak are meaningless as your policy positions and actions enable this racist violence. Your words will only have meaning when you act. Your actions will tell voters how seriously you regard racism in Toronto
Mayor Olivia Chow 🇨🇦@MayorOliviaChow
Once again, a synagogue in our city has been targeted. Shot at in the middle of the night. This is a violent act of intimidation — and part of a pattern of emboldened antisemitism that has no place in Toronto. It must be stopped. Today, @TPSMyronDemkiw and I met to discuss the ongoing work to keep the Jewish community safe in our city.
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@IAmPoliticsGirl, for someone who makes such excellent points consistently (even in this link), how can you lack such self-awareness of what you currently enable with some of your rhetoric?
Supporters like me need you to be better than that, Ms McGowan!
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@RoKhanna your condemnation of antisemitism will continue to ring hollow until you do something about the nature of the racism in the party you help to lead. Instead your members enable this racism.
GOP no better, but here we address what you wrote.
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When one defines themselves not in terms if what they’re against, the result is contractions in terms of what one is actually for.
Here’s a sign…
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@NYCMayor
Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war. Americans do not want this. They do not want another war in pursuit of regime change. They want relief from the affordability crisis. They want peace. I am focused on making sure that every New Yorker is safe. I have been in contact with our Police Commissioner and emergency management officials. We are taking proactive steps, including increasing coordination across agencies and enhancing patrols of sensitive locations out of an abundance of caution. Additionally, I want to speak directly to Iranian New Yorkers: you are part of the fabric of this city — you are our neighbors, small business owners, students, artists, workers, and community leaders. You will be safe here.
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@HuffPost
The certainty with which Ryan Grenoble (with editorial support) writes the last sentence of this post is what is astonishing.
The war in Gaza has been tragic and devastating. Rayn’s description supports and enables jew-hatred and violence.
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@stuarth2or correct on strategy and assessment of Canada. However - squabble in US between center and left? Hardly. The left spooked the center in an election won in the margins. And this is the result. And everyone loses. Figure it out!
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@IAmPoliticsGirl sharing the sentiment in this reel. I remember things same way.
I fear that your yearning for equality does not include all minorities. Ideologues on the left have problems in this regard.
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@MeghanMcCain Your criticism of policy here is diminished when you speak of them in such fatalistic terms.
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Abigail Spanberger is dragging the commonwealth of Virginia to hell.
She and democrats will bleed the middle and working class dry with the most extreme socialist tax policies in America and good people will suffer immensely.
Abigail Spanberger is a radical communist psychopath FRUAD cosplaying as a moderate.
Nick Minock@NickMinock
Virginia Democratic lawmakers proposed taxing your Uber and Lyft rides along with fantasy sports contests. Some of the other taxes Virginia Democratic lawmakers have proposed despite running on affordability: • Additional local sales tax in all Virginia counties and cities • New personal property tax on electric leaf blowers and electric landscaping equipment • Large employer tax • Gun and ammunition tax • New income tax brackets • Delivery tax, which would hit Amazon, Uber Eats, FedEx, and UPS orders in Northern Virginia • Investment income tax • Event tax • Storage facility tax • Gym membership tax • Dog walking tax • Dog grooming tax • Counseling tax • Digital personal property tax • New car taxes and highway use fees • Increase in the hotel tax in Arlington • Statewide speed cameras (not a tax, but more fines for drivers) • Vehicle repair tax • Home repair tax • Dry cleaning tax
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@AaronParnas an outrage to be sure. And between the separatists and the American troublemakers, neither side understands the impossibility of this effort. It only exposes their corruption more, and illustrates Carney’s point further.
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At minimum, Americans watching what is unfolding in #Minneapolis, as well as those on the ground there, are not saying ‘this is not who we are.’
As Childish Gambino sang, “This is America.”
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@IAmPoliticsGirl why fighting each other? How about start with the ignorant antisemitism, double standards in approach to policy, and support for radical religious oppression.
Moderates on the left aren’t along for that ride. Start there.
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@DavidAFrench The most salient point at the end. Earned e.g.: misuse of the word ‘enclave.’ Manufactured e.g.: ‘fake news.’ Both destroy professional reputations, & leave peeps less informed. MSM needs to be clean on this. Unfortunately, while I do agree wth this, the distrust is earned.
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There is such a thing as earned distrust, and - sadly - we can earn mistrust through mistakes or even corruption. But there is also manufactured distrust, where you ruin a person or institution's reputation through exaggeration and falsehood. And that happens all the time. /end
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One thing to remember as we go through the one millionth right-wing cycle of "Why hasn't the mainstream media covered" the thing that it has repeatedly covered ...
The vast majority of the MAGA doesn't read the MSM, but they eagerly consume attacks on the MSM. /1
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