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@michaeljknowles This is absolutely how Israel should be responding, especially in light of @sanchezcastejon has been instigating against Israel since 10/7. I'm actually happy to see this.

A statement perfectly opposed to winning friends and influencing people

@ConceptualJames Cerno will always find a good Haaretz or [name any leftwing rag paper] article to make his point. He has zero conservative credentials.

They're not anti-war, guys. They're anti-Israel and anti-US.

@MattRJBrodsky Worst than Dan Quayle even.

Vance was the worst choice in VP a Republican ever made.

@michelletandler Con is in their name.

I keep my one bedroom New York City apartment at 75 degrees. How is this a normal bill..? How do New Yorkers keep an entire house cool..?

The intimidation here is the whole point.

@DefiyantlyFree They can't prosecute JD Vance for leaking, so this will go on and on and on.

I want to know who is constantly leaking about President Trump’s foreign policy to the leftist press. I’m sorry I do not believe that these are specific leaks that were done by the administration themselves. I think they’re hostile leaks that have been going on for the past year ever since the first initiative in Iran because you have a bunch of isolationist at war within the administration even though nobody cares what they want because President Trump is in charge. Why have there been absolutely zero prosecutions of the leakers of sensitive national security information?

They are not sanctioning Israel due to moral reasons. They are afraid of Israel eclipsing them as a world power and this is their only tool to fight back. Won't work out for them.

@ConceptualJames 100% this is the best explanation yet.

That is, I'm explicitly saying that these people didn't "go crazy" or "suddenly turn." They turned a long time ago and deliberately ran a con to build trust that they would deliberately manipulate when the time came, and that time would be Trump's last term (or, the present administration if he had lost, but differently). That is, I am explicitly saying they have been planning and executing a long game against American conservatives for at least the better part of a decade. That is, they used us, purposefully, knowingly, and over a long period of time, and they did so by slowly earning our trust that they fully intended to betray all along. It started with a long run of trust building with how they ran their shows and podcasts, and that sucked in HUGE audiences they helped each other build to huge numbers and influence. My belief is that this network built it self for this "sudden" turn fully consciously and aware of this plan to try to destroy the MAGA movement in its most fragile moment. I don't know the ultimate motivation or set of motivations for why they would do this, but I have a lot of guesses that aren't stupid or insane. Obviously, just being traitors, either literally by working with hostile foreign powers or politically by working with the Democrats, is on the table and is, in fact, likely part of the story in one or both ways. Also on the table is the thing they're all saying over and over, that entities like Rockbridge came into existence to facilitate: to fundamentally transform the Republican Party (for whatever set of reasons) into a post-liberal right-wing party instead of its previous "neocon" iteration or its current Americanist MAGA iteration, both of which they fundamentally loathe and always have loathed. For whatever reasons, the goal has been to shatter the Republican Party at the worst possible moment to reorganize it around a much more radical, unAmerican center of mass that is led by them. The old party leaders are sidelined or destroyed, and rather than being replaced by legitimate successors with an evolving ideological stance (Burkean conservatism), they are replaced through political (color) revolution by right-wing radicals and revolutionaries with a profoundly different philosophy. And, again, they USED and BETRAYED us, knowingly, playing a long game, deliberately, with lots of money behind it, to do it. So, in short, you might hate these people, but you don't hate them nearly enough.

My theory on Tucker Carlson and co. is that for a long time now, at least since before 2020 but perhaps even further back, they have been running a long con on conservative Americans to win their trust so they could do what they're doing now to break and mislead, and it worked.

@MeghanMcCain We don’t like what we are seeing from Vance. Should we just play along nicely since you tell us we have to? Is that how the game is played?

With absolute respect to everyone - there’s next to no chance Rubio ends up running for president and I need you guys to start living in our actual political reality.

@Natsecjeff He needs to be permanently placed in the doghouse. You never know who he might leak to in any case so this much safer and he doesn’t bring any fresh ideas to the table in any case.

Good.

@MaxAbrahms Vance will be an even bigger flop than Jeb!

I’m American in Boston. Don’t fall for the op. I know loads of Americans living in America who enthusiastically voted for Trump but are Never Vance. The Groyper movement can’t win you’ll see.

@wajacobson Also note the fact that Vance has zero credibility with the evangelical community and with his antics and affiliations especially as well. His wife’s religious background won’t help either. That’s why Tucker has been trying to destabilize them since the beginning.

The tone, and even some of the people involved, in the current effort to brand criticism of Vance as a “coordinated op” is very reminiscent of the aggressiveness for Trump in 2016 and 2024. The big difference is that Vance is not Trump. He didn’t build a personal following and loyalty among people who are not ordinarily involved in politics the way Trump did, through business and media. There is no organic Vance base, so tearing everybody else down, instead of trying to build support, is going to be less successful.

Ding ding ding we have a winner.

@MOSSADil This is the only way to negotiate with the Iranians.

CENTCOM confirms renewed U.S. strikes against Iran that began at 4:00 pm ET.

If Israel was in charge the war would have been long over with a clear victory.

It will become clear very soon where people on all sides of the isle stand. Groypers, politicians, VCs.

@evikokalari @realDonaldTrump @grok is this even possible within the confines of the law?

Same talking points as Alex Bru(i)sewitz... What are the odds of @realDonaldTrump replacing JD Vance at the midterm RNC convention? Honestly, if anyone can pull off something this unorthodox, it's definetely Donald J. Trump. Should he do it?

@jpodhoretz This is a guy who spends his entire life following conspiracy theories.

May you grow like an onion with your head in the ground.

Boom! Wise words @emilykschrader

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