@TomCottonAR ...shortly after he was elected to the Senate. The nine-day trip, from August 10 to 18, 2013, cost approximately $36,000, making it one of the most expensive privately financed congressional trips in recent years at the time.
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A student of politics and markets.
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@TomCottonAR Oh look! Tom Cotton is trying to get another all expense paid trip to Israel courtesy of AIEF. The American Israel Education Foundation (AIEF) hosted a trip to Israel for then-Representative Tom Cotton in August 2013
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The New York Times will print any lie, no matter how preposterous, if it smears conservatives or Israel.
Yet the same paper holds a struggle session over the argument that rioting should be stopped.
If they’ll lie about something this absurd, they’ll lie about everything.
Mark R. Levin@marklevinshow
Another horrendous libel and smear of Israel by the poisonous NY Slimes and its disgusting columnist Kristof. Fueling more flames of Jew-hatred. thefp.com/p/nick-kristof…
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@Matt_Bracken48 But UAE SPECOPS is inside Iran, kicking ass and taking names! 🤣🤣🤣
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[If we could, we would have already. We can't.]
Absolute panic in Washington. US Senator Chris Murphy confirms the Pentagon has absolutely no military mechanism to reopen the Strait of Hormuz against Iranian naval forces.
Furkan Gözükara@FurkanGozukara
Absolute panic in Washington. US Senator Chris Murphy confirms the Pentagon has absolutely no military mechanism to reopen the Strait of Hormuz against Iranian naval forces. He exposes the Trump administration for relying on a delusional strategy that will bankrupt American farmers and families while Iran brilliantly withstands the economic pressure.
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@TFL1728 Lying Luongo says, "The Constitution has outlived its usefulness.". Did I get that right?
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@ImtiazMadmood @CNToWest Is he referring to the allies that his boss said we didn't need?
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Rubio just announced the complete withdrawal of U.S. troops from Europe.
Every year, 100,000 U.S. troops and $60 billion are spent defending Europe, yet zero aid on the Hormuz issue—it's time to bring our troops home.
NATO's dissolution is a done deal
- @CNToWest
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@EricBoehm87 Pssst...wanna buy a 🍅? I know a guy. He's got a lab. Don't tell no one....
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It is *so crazy* that we ended duty-free imports of tomatoes and then the price of tomatoes went through the roof!
It's almost like tariffs make things more expensive!
Tracy Alloway@tracyalloway
Tomatoes CPI +15.1% yoy Ground beef CPI up 14.5% yoy Chilli cookoffs are gonna be expensive this summer!
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@MrCigarTruth Sure. It's politics. It's dirty and rotten and we should be happy we have people finally willing to put aside Queensbury rules when the other side fights like lying demon scumbags. Massie deserves this.
it's called karma.
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You know, it just warms the cockles of my cold, dead heart to watch this pathetic scrub be sandpapered to death on his own petard.
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Cheating Husband in Congress, member of the week. Thomas Massie 60K payoff to a staffer for an NDA agreement. rejected
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@Matt_Bracken48 #3 I think requires the rollout of the Railroad Retirement Board SWAT Team. obviously.
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Problem Resolution Quiz
[A work in progress, feel free to make suggestions]
1. There is a report of a rattlesnake in the local kindergarten. You should:
A. Throw in a hand grenade to kill the snake
B. Something else
2. There is a tick on your child's head. You should:
A. Kill it with a sledge hammer
B. Something else
3. You suspect there is an intruder in your neighbor's house. You should:
A. Fire about 90 rifle rounds into their house to hopefully kill the suspected intruder
B. Something else
4. The nation that geographically controls 20% of the world's gas and oil and 30% of its fertilizer has always allowed shipping to freely pass the chokepoint that it physically dominates. But they may potentially develop a nuclear weapon (Like the USA, Israel, Russia, China, India, France, Britain, Pakistan and North Korea). You should:
A. During negotiations, start a sneak-attack war against them with assassination missile strikes of their leaders, including their top religious leader, and also kill 100s of civilians, including 168 grade-school kids. Do this even though you know they will close their choke point while the war is ongoing, and send the entire world into a global great depression and famine.
B. Something else.
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@joekent16jan19 And Trump's illogic denies the FACT that the US has screwed the Kurds over in Iraq and Syria. It's WE that owe THEM for promises made and not kept.
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President Trump is frustrated because the Israelis sold him the pipe dream that arming the Kurds & other Iranian dissidents would quickly topple the Iranian regime, leading to a quick victory. This failed to happen because it was a plan based on wishful thinking not the realities on the ground.
Instead of being mad at the Kurds, who are our critical counter terrorism partners, he should focus his ire on the Israeli government officials who lied to him to get us entrenched in this war and whoever in his inner circle that allowed the Israelis to manipulate U.S. policy to support Israel's primary goal.
Israel's primary goal was to get us into the war, not to make sure the pipe dream they were selling would actually work.
Israel has always understood that they can't topple the Iranian regime without us doing the majority of the fighting, they needed to get us into the war.
The Israelis kept their goal in mind when feeding us "intel" about Iran. Unfortunately, President Trump's inner circle failed to keep Israel's main goal in mind when receiving Israeli "intel" and providing context to the President.
Rapid Response 47@RapidResponse47
.@POTUS: The Iranian people "want to go out on the streets. They have no weapons. They have no guns. We thought the Kurds were going to give [them] weapons, but the Kurds disappointed us. The Kurds take, take, take... I’m very disappointed in the Kurds."
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@DavidVance It's the realistic mindset. The mindset that paid attention and learned from the outcome of Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria.
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@Matt_Bracken48 @DavidVance Draft an army, because if US loses this war, it will lose the global influence. This will impact US in ways people don’t understand, dollar, AI war, Economy, Tech, energy etc. Fight a proper war.
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@KaspaShaw77340 @Matt_Bracken48 @DavidVance The real problem is a fertility rate that is below 2.1 and not enough bodies to grow the economy to provide the social safety net that the federal government thought it was a good idea to provide.
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@Matt_Bracken48 @DavidVance Best advice I ever got was to “Stop living in fear of the past” just paying it forward. The real problem America has is immigration of the 3rd world into America to steal our basic resources. Happy Mother’s Day.
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@JamesDr97208637 @Matt_Bracken48 Can we assume you've never read the Constitution?
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@Matt_Bracken48 So can we assume that you voted democrat during the last election? Or did you take the passive-aggressive route and refuse to vote, thereby helping the democrat?
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It's pretty disgusting for President Bonespurs to pretend at this point he's a combat action war hero.
He used 4 college deferments and then a medical deferment to avoid going to Vietnam.
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@Matt_Bracken48 Couldn't agree more. He likes to cosplay being a decisive battlefield strategist, but he spent his first term negotiating with the Taliban for our withdrawal from A'stan.
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@PinotandPizza @MishGEA @adamtaggart Iran is looking for leverage in order to keep other nations from f*king with them. Having nuclear weapons provides that leverage. Restricting traffic in the strait of Hormuz does also. So now the world gets to choose.
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@MishGEA @adamtaggart Iran is demanding control over the Strait of Hormuz primarily to establish a "new order" that allows it to regulate traffic, collect tolls, and project power in response to Trump's war of choice. Its not about we didn't sign a treaty.
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I'm sure I'm going to regret wading back into the fray, but here goes...
I'm hearing a lot of people say, "The US attacked Iran unprovoked, so of course Iran has the right to seize the Strait of Hormuz. Iran is just defending itself."
First off, "the shipping lanes in the Strait of Hormuz...are governed by international maritime law and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)" britannica.com/question/Who-o…
Second and more important, since when has it ever been acceptable to attack or hold hostage neutral parties, in war or otherwise?
Spoiler alert: NEVER
Your enemies are fair game in war. But NOT neutral parties. Again, NEVER. If I'm wrong here, please some one show me historical precedent.
But Iran's attempted taking hostage of the Strait and the ships of neutral nations held captive there, threatening them with deadly violence should they attempt to transit, flies in the face of this.
Honest question: why do so many people see this as acceptable?
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@MishGEA @adamtaggart There is a real debate in Canada about entering trade negotiations with the U.S. Canada has no confidence Trump will honour any agreement he signs.
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@MishGEA @adamtaggart The United States is not a signatory to UNCLOS either.
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Iran never signed the treaty making those international waters. Does Trump abide by UN agreements? Even ones the US signed?
When Trump put 100% tariffs on China, China blocked rare earths to the world. Is this much different?
That is rationalization but here's the real answer: People are damn sick of Republicans and Democrats starting stupid wars.
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