R. K. Branch

@matthewstoller "We should just be friends with the 'Death to America' regime! I am very smart."

I don't understand why the U.S. strategy is organized around containing Iran. We should be friends instead of enemies. Israel is the main problem in the Middle East. Not a realistic view, I know, but it seems pretty obvious.

@Xxx2ohio @NeverDeleteX @thehill No definition of "garden" in the history of dictionaries has ever required that every single square inch of ground must be covered in grass.

@NeverDeleteX @thehill Do you understand what a garden is, you dumb twat. Look it up.

#BREAKING: Judge halts White House ballroom construction project thehill.com/regulation/cou…

@Phaed @bonchieredstate @neoavatara Yes "allowing", which is what allies do by default. And there is no "Hormuz demand". Just Trump correctly pointing out that if EU countries try to hinder US attempts to open the strait, then they can either do it themselves or live with the high oil prices.

@rokbranch @bonchieredstate @neoavatara Those words sure do some heavy lifting there. "Refraining from banning"... AKA *allowing*. Allowing offensive actions through their airspace. If someone did that against the US, you'd be more than eager to call it "jumping into war". And still nothing about Trump's Hormuz demand.

I refuse to believe you guys don't see the problem here. It's one thing for the Europeans not to provide direct support for the operation. It's another for France to deny the use of its airspace for cargo deliveries or for the UK to muddle over domestic base usage. There is no point in being in an alliance that can't provide such basic guarantees of cooperation.

@GrantrGregory @EveryoneKnws1 @thehill No trial lawyer can win against a leftist activist judge. It simply needs to be overturned on appeal, like so many other insane rulings by leftist activist judges with a god complex already have been.

@rokbranch @EveryoneKnws1 @thehill Oh man - why weren’t you the head counsel on this case?! You could’ve won with an argument like that! The judge in his opinion cited 3 specific laws that say these renovations are illegal. What contradictory legal statute do you have in your back pocket? Bring it forward!

@Xxx2ohio @NeverDeleteX @thehill The flower beds with the roses were not touched. The reception area *near* the flower beds, where people gather during events, is now (wheelchair and high heels friendly) patio rather than grass. So what? Imagine being this desperate for something to be outraged by.

@NeverDeleteX @thehill Actually shit for brains, the ground is still there, but he paved over it with an ugly terrace. So not really a rose garden anymore. Got it fuckface?

@GrantrGregory @EveryoneKnws1 @thehill No, it's the president's residence. And Congress only decides whether to provide taxpayer funding for renovations.

@EveryoneKnws1 @thehill Idc what you think it is. The law says that Congress makes these decisions. It’s not his house! It’s our house! I swear to god you people would support razing the whole building to put up gaudy high rise towers if Trump told you to.

@bttldog @bonchieredstate @neoavatara An Ayatollah's corpse disagrees.

@bonchieredstate @neoavatara The initiative gained us absolutely nothing.

@Phaed @bonchieredstate @neoavatara Refraining from banning US planes from their airspace is not "jumping into war".

@bonchieredstate @neoavatara If the US do not actually want a defensive agreement, but rather one where they have vassal states that just jump into war whenever they tell them to, they are free to do so. But in the end, that will not work that well for their global position.

@BahlestKimmie @bonchieredstate @Old_Stoolie @neoavatara "Every time a war was started in the middle east it was started by the United States." Way to demonstrate that you are utterly ignorant of the Middle East.

Only time in history article 5 was invoked to defend BATO was after 9-11. Every NATO country cane to our aid. Every time a war was started in the middle east it was started by the United States. Every time our allies helped us. Now Trump ridicules our allies every day. He says we don’t need Europe. He started this war on his own without even notice to the American citizens, let alone our allies. So yeah, not surprising Europe told him to go fuck himself.

@FrankMarco44337 @jonatanpallesen "busy looking for a job" Yeah man, this does not describe 99% of those on benefits.

@jonatanpallesen When you're on unemployment, you're busy looking for a job. The deadbeats are the 70+ old boomers on social security, get them out there with an orange vest and a pole with a pointy end.

People on unemployment benefits should be made to go around and pick up trash for some hours a week. There is a lot of trash lying around.

@Wh4th3fu @LegallyDashing @scotus_wire Laws *can* restrict doctors' professional speech if the law meets the "strict scrutiny" standard. A law which demands that on a hot-button metaphysical political issue like gender, all doctors must consent to the *leftist* viewpoint, is pure lunacy and does not pass scrutiny.

@LegallyDashing @scotus_wire The question was if talk therapy, as a medical treatment and professional service regulated by the state, constitutes "speech". Ruling that it does seems to conflict with past rulings that determined a state IS allowed to require or restrict doctor's speech

🚨 In an 8-1 vote, the Supreme Court holds that Colorado’s ban on “conversion therapy,” as applied to petitioner's talk therapy, violates the First Amendment because it constitutes viewpoint discrimination

@DurstofTimes @LegallyDashing @scotus_wire Telling a boy the truth that he is, in fact, a boy, is not "torture". The batshit insane Woke-extremist Colorado law demanded that all doctors *only* convey Woke viewpoints when talking to patients, and never express un-Woke opinions or facts on gender. Viewpoint discrimination.

@LegallyDashing @scotus_wire Torturing children is not protected by 1A

@sahouraxo Why should we care about the lives of Hezbollah terrorists just because they put on an $11 Temu "PRESS" vest?

Israel murdered every single person in this photo today in South Lebanon. Every. Single. One. 2 journalists 7 paramedics 1 Lebanese soldier They bombed the journalists’ vehicle — then bombed them again when paramedics rushed to help.

@BACormier1 @hightidelemon @John_Karalis Calm down, Mr. buzzword generator.

@hightidelemon @John_Karalis I'll help clarify for you dipshit: She champions and uplifts marginalized groups who have not enjoyed equal protection or access to opportunity for much of our country's existence. Make sense now?

I don't know what's more disgusting, the replies to this post, or that I'm not surprised by them. Some say heroes are people who save lives. By giving the most marginalized among us a safe space to be themselves, Amanda Shea is doing just that, and should be celebrated for it.

@John_Karalis How the heck is forcing f*ggotry worship into every unrelated context, "saving lives"?

@AndrewDFish @Aizenberg55 Stop simping for Islamic terrorists.

@Aizenberg55 Oh damn, I forgot that the US Government is the arbiter of truth! In that case, I guess killing journalists is actually a good thing. Thank you, propagandist for the Israel lobby, for reminding me!

What would the response look like if Iran intentionally bombed journalists from the FT, BBC, CNN, NYT, Reuters, etc. and the headlines were “Pro-US journalists killed,” “Pro-NATO journalists killed”, “Pro-Israel journalists killed”?

@DJBranham This level of gaslighting is off the charts.

I have legit to see a leftist use the phrase toxic masculinity. Was it said once by a vaguely liberal person in 2015 and then the right has used it nonstop since then?

@washingtonpost WaPo will uncritically roll with every propaganda picture published by the IRGC.

Images show what experts say are U.S. land mines dispersed across a residential area in southern Iran. Human rights groups have long called to ban land mines because of their propensity to harm or kill civilians, often years after conflicts have ended. wapo.st/41hPU2N

@kylecordes @samstein The main entrance is from inside the main White House building. The big staircase on the outside is for tourists to take group photos on.

Some of the stuff there is just whiny opinions. But it sure would be nice if the impressive front grand staircase actually led into the building. I know a lot of buildings have lost this over time, mostly due to ADA requirements.... But on a new design and build, it should be feasible?

The New York Times takes an architectural look at the coming White House ballroom and finds there is a lot of ornamental stairs to no where and faux windows with bathroom stalls behind them

@BobFlemming19 @samstein

@samstein Designed by a first year student Carefully you don’t fall off that stair eee..dge!😳 Or break your shins on the column bases😳 Or fall 12’ off the unprotected edge of the main dais 🤣 After you’re exhausted, up the illegally long stair - with a huge top step 🤣