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@crumcanyondeb1 @Angry_Staffer Was that a serious question at the talks? Did we have any senior folks who spoke Farsi?

@Angry_Staffer Probably wasn’t a good idea to question if the Iranian diplomat spoke English. They just can’t help being insulting.

JD Vance: we have not reached an agreement

@Angry_Staffer Seems like a short stint at the table. Hope they have some experienced policy and negotiation folks to bring in in D.C. to help plan out some actual strategery for a 2nd round. Or is it back to bluster and pretend?

Vance is headed back to the US with no agreement.

@KhalidAlNumi Shares of the magnificent 7.

They give you $2 million. You got 20 minutes to spend it or it's gone. Can't buy cars, planes, yachts, or houses. No gold or diamonds either. What you buying?

I think he's done, regardless. The only path to get a deal involves repatriating $6-7 billion in Iranian assets currently in Qatar. It looks like Trump was willing to let them go, but balked when Iran publicized the deal. They'll probably take a page from Trump's negotiations for his Apprentice show. He demanded a million $$/episode, and NBC coutered with $80k, final offer. DJT immediately accepted, as long as he could tell everyone he *got* a million $$/episode. Fo Iran will allow Trump to lie that he didn't let Qatar send the billions, as long as they actually ot the money. You can't stop Trump from lying anyway.

Observation: This is JD Vance’s moment. Get a comprehensive deal done and he’s a major player in the 2028 presidential race. Fail and he becomes irrelevant.

@mariana057 These thighs are tasty!

What’s something you can say during sex, but also at a family dinner?

@lanechanged I *knew* it! Very scary, and scary smart.

This is who runs this account.

@proto_bit @wolfmiloember @VeryBrexitProbs If we escort ships through the Strait, we'll lose ships and naval personnel. Iran has let some Asian and Euro ships through; they have control. DJT has asked others now, because he's discovering it's a tougher problem that he thought. He should have made a coalition 1st.

The only opening and closing of the straight is terrorists threatening to attack civilian ships and laying mines, it doesn't affect the US other than lowering global oil supplies, and could be forced open if we were to escort ships through it, which is pretty much what the don was asking Europe to do because some of them actually buy oil from that area, and asia to do because they buy most of their oil from that area.

MAGA thinks Europe can't defend itself without America. Here's what they don't know. 1. France and Britain have 515 nuclear warheads and 8 nuclear missile submarines. 2. European defence spending hit €481 billion this year. That's more than Russia and China spend combined. The EU's ReArm Europe plan is mobilising another €800 billion. 3. European countries have over 1.7 million active troops. Russia has 1.3 million. 4. EU and UK air forces fly over 1,400 combat aircraft. Their navies have five aircraft carriers, over 60 submarines, more than 120 frigates and destroyers. 5. Europe has over 6,000 artillery pieces and that's before the biggest rearmament wave since the Cold War. Poland alone is adding 212 new howitzers. 6. The British SAS invented modern special forces. The US copied them to build Delta Force. From France's Foreign Legion to Poland's GROM, Europe's elite units are among the deadliest on earth. 7. Europe already has joint military commands ready to fight. The UK leads a 10-nation rapid reaction force across Northern Europe and the Arctic. Finland alone can mobilise 900,000 trained reservists all prepared to fight in arctic conditions. 8. Europe has its own satellite navigation (Galileo), its own defence programme (75 active projects) and is building its own rapid deployment force. The "helpless Europe" story was never about defence. It was about keeping Europe dependent and buying American weapons, relying on American intelligence, following American foreign policy. Thanks to Trump, that now ends.

@proto_bit @wolfmiloember @VeryBrexitProbs The Strait of Hormuz was open. We attacked them in a sneak attack, and they closed the Strait. Now we cannot get it open unless the Iranian Guard allows it. For a fighting force defeated a couple dozen times per Trump, seems they're doing okay.

@bigpiclongterm @wolfmiloember @VeryBrexitProbs Just because we haven't found every guy with a manpads, rpg, or ak doesn't mean that they are doing well

@Angry_Staffer At some point--which we are approaching rapidly--there is no sanewashing possible. The closer you are to Trump when that point is breached, the more sh*t will be indelibly attached to your character and reputation.

Watching the last handful of MAGA grifters try to sanewash this administration and hold the money train together is really something. Everyone else realizes the ship is sinking.

@tenn_buckeye @JBellSATX @Scaramucci Thing is, I've followed politics my whole life. Been directly involved at a number of levels. Respected most players at some level, because they respected the system, i.e., the US Constitution. Trump is the exception, as are most of his Cabinet appointments.

@bigpiclongterm @JBellSATX @Scaramucci You all whine and complain about absolutely everything. No one is surprised or cares that you don't like a Cabinet member. Thats very easy predict.

Will Hegseth make the weekend? Both Rubio and Vance want him gone.

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@StephenKing They aren't wrong.

Someone on threads yesterday said that Stephen Miller is what happens when you bury a dildo in the Pet Sematary.

@LisaLeveler @Cthulhu4Prez Thanks. Been in this fight my whole life, almost. Including getting thrown in prison once for a week for peacefully protesting. I thought we were making progress, especially when Obama was elected. Trump proved me wrong. So we fight on for what's right.

@bigpiclongterm @Cthulhu4Prez We are rooting for you. The US wanted to lead the world and now you are leading the world into suffering. Hope you get your house in order.

Imagine that Orban announces victory on Sunday (irrelevant of the actual result) and Trump and Putin back his claim immediately. What do we do ?

@VinnysCorner1 Thurman Munson. Great catcher. Tragic death.

Age yourself by naming an MLB Catcher you grew up watching….. I’ll start: Gary Carter

@TrueFactsStated I imagine Melania's sweating bullets. I don't care, do you?

She sounds pissed…

@LisaLeveler @Cthulhu4Prez We've been taking to the streets, we need to do more. Elections this fall will be a critical. We need more folks engaged now, as war and Trump's idiocy help more folks see sanity. It's embarrassing he got elected once. Humiliating it happened again. GOP complicity makes it worse.

@bigpiclongterm @Cthulhu4Prez And when are you planning to take the streets in US? Or are you happy becoming the enemy of the world?

@JBellSATX @Scaramucci Barack Obama, along with 80 million Americans who voted D.Along with the Americans who boycotted the vote, Canadians, the entirety of the EU excepting Orban & Fico, all of Latin American, Australia, most of Asia and Africa. So, yeah, hard to predict.

@Scaramucci Who could have imagined a drunk Fox host wasn’t a good choice

@Scaramucci Best chance to get out of this mess. Topping incompetence with Christian Nationalism makes ending the war impossible as long as Pete's still there.

@Photomusicrock Absolutely.

Should Artists bring politics into their Art?

@WajahatAli Amanda needs to stay away from windows.!

Follow this thread. Most likely, and of course, all speculation right now, this is why Melania did her 6 min statement today. Amanda Ungaro was brought here as a 17-year-old model. She flew to NYC on Epstein's private plane. Paolo Zampolli, the modeling agent who allegedly introduced Melania to Trump in 1998, fathered Ungaro's child. They were engaged in an ugly custody battle. Zampolli leaned on ICE and his Trump connections to DEPORT Ungaro. Zampolli also allegedly represented Melania when she was a model...