John Synder

@esaagar In other news, Breaking Points shills out fear mongering takes for clicks, just so they can scream TACO when their personal opinion reporting is wrong. Come back tomorrow where Krystal lets Saagar talk about drugs

TACO Tuesday it is* *pending Iranian approval

I want to apologize for not responding to any of the 22 thousand comments my last post inspired. I’ve been filming all week and just noticed my observations about Jimmy Kimmel and a former plumber named Markwayne Mullin have gone viral. I've also noticed that many of the comments are from people who genuinely seem to believe that Jimmy wasn’t belittling plumbers at all, but was instead, simply trying to point out that Mullin is not qualified to lead the DHS. Here's a small smattering... Roger Bicknell... Mikey stop. Kimmel wasn't making fun of plumbers he was making fun of Mullin. Rebecca Piatt Gonzalez... Dearest Mike, it's not anything to do with his being a plumber. It's him NOT being skilled in Homeland Security. Patrick Wise... Being a plumber qualifies you to be a plumber. Period. The issue Jimmy and the rest of us at the adult table recognize is that jobs require certain training and experience and being a plumber does not qualify you to be Sec of DHS. Had Roger, Rebecca, Patrick and all the others who rushed to Jimmy’s Kimmel’s defense actually read what I had written, they would see that I did not suggest - even remotely - that a plumber was inherently qualified to hold a cabinet position. What I said was that being a plumber should not disqualify a person from holding such a position. Big difference. Doctors, lawyers, veterinarians, fireman, and university professors are no more or less qualified to run the DHS than plumbers, electricians, or carpenters – but should they all be dismissed as “unqualified” simply because they made a living in some other vocation? As I wrote in my original post, credentials and diplomas are great ways to bolster a person’s credibility, especially if we’re talking about mastering a specific skill. I think we can all agree that plumbers, accountants, mechanics, and surgeons should all have to prove themselves competent before hanging out a shingle. But what do their credentials and diplomas have to do with their actual competency? Are we not already surrounded by a legion of perfectly qualified experts who don't know what the hell they're doing? Moreover, what do credentials and experience have to do with wisdom, honesty, common sense, integrity, courage, the ability to lead, or any other virtue we’d like to have in our elected officials? There are plenty of legitimate reasons to question Mullin’s suitability for this role. But there’s no legitimate reason to disqualify him simply because he used to be a plumber. Just as there was no legitimate reason to dismiss AOC because she used to tend bar. As for the joke itself, here’s an honest question. If Senator Mullin was a retired doctor instead of a retired plumber, do you believe he would have would made the same joke? Roger, Rebecca, Patrick...be honest. Do you really think Jimmy would have said to his audience, "So, now we have a DOCTOR in charge of protecting us from terrorism? Hey – it worked for Dr. Suess – maybe it’ll work for Markwayne!" Personally, I don't. Not in a million years. Why? Because no one would have found it funny, that’s why. Even though doctors are no more “qualified” to protect us from terrorists than plumbers are, Jimmy knows that doctors are widely respected in society, and that plumbers are not. He knows that medical degrees and doctorates are aspirational credentials, whereas plumbing certificates are not. The entire premise of his joke was based on a personal bias that he knew his audience shared – a bias that presupposes plumbers are uneducated, one-dimensional workers who never made it to college, and are therefore "unqualified" to do anything but plumb. Jimmy is entitled to his opinion, along with anyone else who believes that Mullin is unqualified to lead the DHS. The Constitution, however, says otherwise, and so does the Senate. Likewise, reasonable people can disagree as to what is funny and what isn’t. Frankly, I couldn’t care less. What I do care about, is the extraordinary shortage of plumbers and electricians our country is facing, and the longstanding stigmas and stereotypes that continue to discourage people from considering a lucrative career in the skilled trades. Jimmy’s joke – and his audience’s reaction to it – is proof positive that those stigmas and stereotypes are alive and well. PS. We have a lot of money set aside to help train the next generation of plumbers. Apply for a scholarship at mikeroweworks.org Who knows? Could be the first step on your road to President..

@esaagar If Iran produced weed, Saagar would be very welcoming to this military operation. Blunts for Saagar

Professor Robert Pape: "Iran is emerging as a new global center of power...this will end up being worse than Vietnam"

@krystalball Keep up the infighting & splitting your base. That worked out well for you guys in 2024. 2028 is about to be the same. Dems in the 2028 run will piss off some form of the so called “base” & then people will either not show up, or vote third party. Trump bad wont work.

Correct. And the current astroturfed Hasan freakout is precisely because Dem elites know that they can no longer control the base.

@esaagar No Saagar, we continue to laugh at you for thinking you and your sources know more than the Military and it’s contractors. You should really make your way to Redstone and see for yourself but I don’t think you have the clearance to make it through the gates, lol

The Trump admin has just vaporized 1/4 of the entire Tomahawk stockpile for the Iran war which will quite literally take years even with accelerated production just to replace what was already a short supply Beijing continues to laugh hysterically

@ComicDaveSmith @orenbarsky @GadSaad @joerogan Hilarious that in the first 5 minutes of the podcast, you got caught in a lie and was proven wrong and then mid way through, it happened again when you attempted to smear Tulsi.

@orenbarsky @GadSaad @joerogan Wow, what a high IQ reply.

Dear @ComicDaveSmith, I'll engage with you here because you were apparently very upset on your most recent appearance on @joerogan's podcast. I don't engage with your positions because in a world of fixed resources, one does not have the time to engage with everyone in possession of an opinion. You've managed to catapult yourself onto the conversation; more power to you. Quantum physicists should not bother with my opinion on the topic since I readily admit that I'm hardly an expert in that field; I dare venture that my knowledge of quantum physics (very little) is orders of magnitude higher than your "knowledge" of Israel and the Middle East. I have epistemological humility; you possess none. Cheers.

@ryangrim Guys…let’s have a vote that we know won’t ever pass but we need to know who is on our side so we can spend the next few months dragging those against us, through the mud and call it journalism.

Another House Foreign Affairs Committee member calling for a vote on War Powers

@ryangrim You only want a vote to show who’s not on your side cause you know it holds no water in going anywhere. The infighting between Dems won’t win you presidential elections but please keep it up.

Democratic leadership running out of excuses not to force this war vote now

@Timcast @ryangrim @krystalball LOL

Its gunna be Buttigieg

@Timcast Keep saying this. The infighting between Dems is comical. They will never be able to agree on someone who meets their standards. All those candidates have a downside in one or more voting groups.

@ryangrim You only want a vote to show who’s not on your side cause you know it holds no water in going anywhere. The infighting between Dems won’t win you presidential elections but please keep it up.

@RyanGirdusky @esaagar Now show how much infighting the Dems have on their end. 2028 is about to be comical cause they will not be able to agree on anyone. Newsoms lost people already; Harris doesn’t have the support; Shapiro is too cozy with Israel. Anyone who attempts to be a centrists loses the base

You’ve heard that about 90% of MAGA Republicans support the Iran War, but polling MAGA Republicans is a bad way of seeing how Trump’s voters feel. If you examine his 2024 voters and the white working-class there’s growing uncertainty From me: natpop.substack.com/p/maga-republi…

@krystalball Coming from the woman who is not once, but twice divorced and had then married a frosted tipped, midlife crisis is comical. THIS TIME my marriage will work

More “escalate to deescalate” nonsense. I’m sure THIS TIME it will work

@krystalball The infighting that’s about to occur in the Democrat base for 2028 is about to be hilarious. Oh you are Jewish, not going to happen; You haven’t said enough about the Jews..you’re out. Oh you are a white male…can’t support that. Black female..terrible track record. Lol

Trump casually admitting he's knowingly violating the Constitution.

@esaagar LOL how far Saagar has fallen. BP has openly criticized the Pentagon not passing an audit in years but then turns around and throws a Pentagon budget request as if that proves his “theory”

Great question: Pentagon itemized budget requests are public via Congress. Anyone can read them comptroller.war.gov/Portals/45/Doc…

@krystalball @krystalball I think Joey Diaz would like to have a word with you about Cuba and what his family went through. Your TDS is showing in this one cause why all of a sudden you care about Cuba?

Hasan derangement syndrome is out of control. Thankful that he and others made the choice to go to Cuba in an attempt to shine a light on the monstrous crimes our government is committing in our names. People who are more concerned about his shirt or his hotel than the innocents we are murdering w our cruel blockade have completely lost their moral compass.

@esaagar @esaagar keeps losing any credibility he had. He’ll wonder why when the next presidential election rolls around, why no one is taking him or Krystal seriously. Got about a year before using Trump as a crutch for views, goes away

Trump comparing the Iran war to Pearl Harbor is even crazier when you consider that his theory was that Iran would rise up and rebel against the regime What happened to the deeply divided US society dead set against war after the surprise attack? Rally around the flag...

@krystalball @krystalball is the type to believe an addict is going to get clean solely based on their word. “I am going to stop” said the addict while they call their dealer. Same thing can be applied here. Iran - we won’t make a nuke.. Proceeds to enrich to a point of weapon grade level.

What a lying sack of shit. The first Trump admin ripped up a nuclear deal that was working. The Iranians had offered extraordinary concessions in the latest round of negotiations before we used the ruse of diplomacy to attack their country and murder their leader. And btw that leader was the guy who had issued a religious decree AGAINST nuclear weapons. The truth is Iran is FAR MORE likely to pursue nukes now because of the actions of Trump, Hegseth and this entire band of war criminals.

@krystalball Krystal is still doing a lot of reporting on topics she has no idea about when she assured her listeners that the polls were accurate in 2024 and Kamala was going to win.

Iran still doing a lot for a military I was assured was already decimated!

@krystalball @krystalball who you rooting for in 2028? Can’t imagine you’d vote for Newsom and to think Harris going for “third time is the charm” doesn’t seem too likely. Dems don’t seem to agree much on who they will choose. All options have spilts in the base.

“Gas prices are high because of what’s happening in the Middle East” as if it’s an act of God and not an illegal offensive war that your regime chose to start with no end in sight.