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@AN1Guitarman @Wade__Appleby @JerryDunleavy What left wing values does Musk support?

That may have been true five years ago, it’s not true anymore lol I know plenty of people who are still registered Democrats who voted for Trump What you don’t realize is how ridiculously far left the Democratic Party got and how absolutely insane it still is, now there is far more diversity in the people who vote right. They didn’t change their opinions, the left got so insane they could not even stand to vote for the left anymore. So let’s not oversimplify things to an absolute fairytale.

Trump’s “victory timeline” claims. Mar 3: "We won the war." Mar 7: "We defeated Iran." Mar 9: "We must attack Iran." Mar 9: "The war is ending almost completely, and very beautifully." Mar 11: “You never like to say too ⁠early you won. We won. In ​the first hour it was over.” Mar 12: "We did win, but we haven't won completely yet." Mar 13: "We won the war." Mar 14: "Please help us." Mar 15: "If you don't help us, I will certainly remember it." Mar 16: "Actually, we don't need any help at all." Mar 16: "I was just testing to see who's listening to me." Mar 16: "If NATO doesn't help, they will suffer something very bad." Mar 17: "We neither need nor want NATO's help." Mar 17: "I don't need Congressional approval to withdraw from NATO." Mar 18: "Our allies must cooperate in reopening the Strait of Hormuz." Mar 19: "US allies need to get a grip - step up and help open the Strait of Hormuz." Mar 20: "NATO are cowards." Mar 21: "The Strait of Hormuz must be protected by the countries that use it. We don't use it, we don't need to open it." Mar 22: "This is the last time. I will give Iran 48 hours. Open the strait" Mar 22: "Iran is Dead" Mar 23: "We had very good and productive talks with Iran." Mar 24: "We’re making progress." Mar 25: “They gave us a present and the present arrived today. And it was a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money. I’m not going to tell you what that present is, but it was a very significant prize.” Mar 26: "Make a deal, or we’ll just keep blowing them away." Mar 27: "We don’t have to be there for NATO." Mar 28: No major quote Mar 29: Claimed talks were progressing Mar 30: "Open the Strait of Hormuz immediately, or face devastating consequences." Mar 31: Claimed a deal was "very close" and that Iran would "do the right thing" Apr 1: "We’ll see what happens very soon." Apr 2: Repeated that a deal was likely, while warning of continued strikes if not Apr 3: "Something big is going to happen." Apr 4: Said Iran must comply "immediately" or face further consequences. Apr 5: "Open the fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah." 😂

@AN1Guitarman @Wade__Appleby @JerryDunleavy If one supports MAGA, then one is right wing. Let’s not overthink it.

True, after being completely alienated from the left that he supported for decades beforehand. But if Nate Silver is going to pretend to be an analyst, that is a wildly oversimplified way to measure such a thing. He’s already disavowed the data himself though because other people have found even more egregious problems lol

Jackson Hinkle is a self-described Marxist-Leninist and is a founder of the American Communist Party. Labeling him as right wing is insane.

This underscores the central dilemma in trying to get Iran to a deal: "Iranian officials made clear to the mediators they don't want to be caught in a Gaza or Lebanon situation where there is a ceasefire on paper, but the US and Israel can attack again whenever they want to." For now, Iran believes its control of Hormuz is the thing that will prevent such an outcome: that the ability to cause chaos in the global economy will serve as a deterrent in the future. Plus it wants to use the strait as a revenue stream. Yet for America (and Gulf states) there is no acceptable deal in which Iran retains such control. So for the American negotiators, Hormuz looks like a point of leverage that Iran should trade for security and economic benefits; for the Iranians, Hormuz itself is a security and economic benefit. axios.com/2026/04/06/ira…

@AN1Guitarman @Wade__Appleby @JerryDunleavy He voted for Trump, supports Trump, and ran DOGE with Trump. Seems right wing as things are currently affiliated.

@Wade__Appleby @JerryDunleavy lol no I just held onto my common sense for more than a decade. Just because you’re a radical leftist doesn’t make him right wing, he’s just right of you lol

@cturnbull1968 They would probably be fine with a ceasefire with everything locked in the way it is now. They control the Strait.

The Iranians have said that Trump is “negotiating with himself.”

@DoucheFinder_ @RpsAgainstTrump lol. The deadline was Monday.

@RpsAgainstTrump This is a true leader who does what he says he will.

We’re living in the dumbest timeline

Weird how Iran and the US are always close to reaching a deal every weekend just before the stock market opens.

Part of what makes Trump’s reluctance to aid Ukraine so maddening is that “resist conquest by a neighboring country” is a classic achievable goal. Ukrainians need a lot of help because Russia is much bigger, but it’s totally doable.

A consistent theme of the last 25 years is that the American military is tactically brilliant, which repeatedly leads politicians to come up with ambitious strategic goals for the use of military force that can’t really be achieved.

Our political culture and national leadership are now so degraded by MAGA that a US president has no problem dropping f-bombs in public communications, threatening war crimes, and mocking the second-biggest religion in the world. (And, yes, destroying any of the power plants in Tehran would clearly meet the definition of a war crime.)

@GhiselinCheryl @JonahDispatch It’s real.

@JonahDispatch That’s a real post? Hmmm. Does not look real.

In lieu of an Easter message, I guess.

@neoavatara @KurtSchlichter Anyone rational would take that trade.

@KurtSchlichter I mean...90% of Americans happily will take that trade.

Yes

@rr1955 @glcarlstrom It’s literally his quote.

Wrong, I remember repeated claims 4+ weeks. “Early Statements • He told outlets like the Daily Mail and The New York Times that the operation was planned to last four to five weeks, while noting the US had the capability to go “far longer” if needed. • Trump and his administration described the US as being “ahead of schedule” in the early weeks, even as the conflict extended beyond the initial projection. “

Keep seeing tweets like "hopefully Trump uses the rescue of the downed airmen as an off-ramp to end the war" and I am amazed at how many people on this website seem to have been born yesterday

@rr1955 @glcarlstrom Give me a break. According to him, he thought it would last three days only. ynetnews.com/article/rj4xwe…

Right, he says plans and timeline in plane English, but with TDS, they don’t believe him. They claim no plans or timeline, I wasn’t born yesterday, why I know Trump will end it with a bang and get out in short order. If you don’t know that you were born yesterday and have zero business sense.

@danielbarkeley @ModeledBehavior You are moving the goalposts. The original post was accurate.

@ModeledBehavior Is the Chrysler brand's decline worse than Pontiac, Saturn, Oldsmobile, Eagle, or Mercury? Those brands have significantly less than 120k in annual unit sales (none), and yet their parent companies are doing just fine. The focus one historic brand is not sensible.

Chrysler makes 13 models of vehicles across 3 brands and sold 1.2 million vehicles last year. But by all means, keep spouting those auto industry hot takes. You're doing great, champ.

@neoavatara @AGHamilton29 Seems high probability that she is anti Iran regime. Lots of daughters reject the politics of their parents.

@AGHamilton29 YUP. I keep saying that this is really the biggest immigration question confronting us.

This is absolutely be the question people should be asking. It’s crazy. We have zero real standards and vetting. This isn’t some estranged daughter who escaped from Iran. The result is so to undermine the otherwise valid arguments for the benefits of legal immigration.

@DIREWOLF817 @Nwotnot @ShaykhSulaiman @TheProleStar It doesn’t matter if everyone he ever talked to is dead. The regime is still in place.

@FlattsBridge @Nwotnot @ShaykhSulaiman @TheProleStar Yeah that one is dead too they are just not admitting it and because he likely died in Russia it will be a long time before it leaks out.

TWO STATEMENTS BY TRUMP 7 MINUTES APART: Trump at 9:00: "Regime change was not our goal. We don't want that" Trump at 9:07: "Regime change is what we want. It is needed" These statements were made 7 minutes apart in the same speech

And on Monday morning, an hour before the markets open, Trump will announce that Iran has agreed to a deal. Later in the day, Iran will say they have no idea what he is talking about and they will launch more missiles.

@ianbremmer Also, taking the island oil terminal is not the same as taking the oil. The oil comes from other places.

“taking the oil” is a coherent response. but it’s unacceptable as justification for war—this is not a war goal americans would support.

if the united states has 1) already destroyed iran’s military capabilities 2) has the ability to hit iran at any point if they try to gain access to their enriched uranium and 3) isn’t interested in (or has already achieved) regime change all of which president trump has said repeatedly what is the point of continuing the war? how can it be justified to the american people, never mind the rest of the world?