Cats > dogs

This anti-war TikTok posted on the official page of the Democratic Party has two million views so far:

Ben Rhodes @brhodes In the best case scenario, Trump struck a deal to reopen a Strait that was open before the pointless war he started, with the IRGC demonstrating its control over the Strait and potentially extracting fees plus sanctions relief. Thousands of innocents - including hundreds of children - dead in Lebanon and Iran for no reason. U.S. troops killed and wounded. U.S. embassies and bases in the Middle East badly damaged. U.S. standing in the world obliterated. U.S. munitions badly depleted. Hundreds of billions spent. Prices up everywhere. More global economic fallout to come. Putin strengthened and enriched. Just a catastrophic situation even in the best of circumstances. A profoundly shameful episode in American history no matter what happens next.

Former Obama natsec advisor @rhodesben.bsky.social sums up the situation well:

Don't taco Tuesday this shit. Millions of people spent the day wondering if they would get vaporized, and no one in our government stood up to him. Nothing cutesy about it.

Trump doesn't care about committing war crimes for the same reason he doesn't care about committing crimes generally. He believes no one will try to hold him accountable. I'm sorry, but the America that elected him probably won't care about war crimes any more than it cared about democracy.

Does he realize what his job is?

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To say the very least.
Ps asking Ukraine for military help is the cherry on this cake.

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The Confluence I’ve been right so long, I’ve been done wrong.

"Folks like to say that no one believed my warnings. I wish that were the case. The hard truth is officials believed them and let the worst happen anyway."
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They have one of the clubbiest, cushiest jobs in the country. And they are so lazy. I just don’t see them able to, wanting to or deigning to work that hard.
Especially considering what’s their average age?

Better late than never. As usual.
Self-protective caution and intellectualized compassion are this guy’s superpowers.

Roughly 2 USAIDs

My utility bills are stepping into the chat. And groceries, too. Sorry they are still insanely priced.
Gas. Gas is the only thing I see that has not gone up.

Dem leadership sure doesn’t keep her up at night.

I detest her. But don’t mimic the misogynist in chief by calling her or any woman a piggy. No man may ever call any woman, no matter how detestable she is, a piggy.

All of the media toooooo

Her zero-energy-for the demented-in-chief vibe…🔥🔥

Her vibe… 🔥🔥

Love over hate. That’s what he said.

Data? What’s that? I’ve got my anecdotes, thank you very much.

Is anyone else mad at the fact that they have to pay federal taxes for bullshit they don't want? Like new ballrooms, the Gestapo, child torture, and human trafficking.

I wanna pay for education, social services, UBI, and universal health care! I'm so gotdamn mad right now, I need to lie down.

Building a debt saddled military dictatorship while their fascist scapegoating also simultaneously ends the economic benefits from immigration.

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Ossoff: We were told that MAGA was for working-class Americans. But this is a government of, by, and for the ultra-rich. It’s the wealthiest Cabinet ever. This is the Epstein class. They are the elites they pretend to hate.

THE EPSTEIN CLASS

An agency that declares it is above the law is not a law enforcement agency. It can’t stand on the law it violates everyday to command citizens to not impede them.

Yeah, a civil offense, like jaywalking. NOT A CRIMINAL OFFNSE.
The ruse is that they told the American public they were going after criminals. But then realized there aren’t enough of those to fill the private for profit new detention centers so then they made everyone in the system a “criminal”.

Please. That faith has been used for every horrible crime against humanity humanity since its inception. Nothing new here.

AOC on ICE: It’s our task to figure out how to claw back what has essentially supercharged this agency into becoming a relentless domestic paramilitary that is also a blank check to Palantir to create facial-recognition scans on U.S. citizens.