Reminder that analysts thought there was a deal to be struck with North Korea in 2017-2018, not to denuclearize (they won't), but to count/verify nukes, stabilize situation. Trump didn't order any diplomatic work for that and instead did a photo op with Kim.
His diplomacy and his deals are fake.
OK, I'll bite. What is a chore coat?
The MAGA e-girl industry has been easy money for years for real women, it's now a career path for men as well.
No wonder far right men are always asking "what is a woman?" It's something they're constantly grappling with.
The thing about a new new deal is that it puts more responsibility on voters. It says we, the Democrats, promise to do this for you and we will follow through without fail. In return, you, the voter, will support us and you will not fail either.
That's what Booker was implying.
There is a third school of thought: do nothing but pray for the best.
Caine also cautioned that the war might radically deplete stocks of missile interceptors, and that is exactly what’s happened. THAAD interceptors – the acronym stands for Terminal High Altitude Area Defense – cost $13 million apiece, and 150 of them had already been used in last year’s 12-day war. Patriot missiles, which account for most of the 2,400 interceptors fired so far, cost $4 million each, and the US produces just 650 of them a year. Sometimes it takes more than one interceptor to shoot down a drone, and one of Iran’s Shahed 136 drones costs about $35,000. Like the war in Vietnam, Iran is a textbook illustration of how high tech versus low tech warfare works, and the dilemma will grow worse if hostilities resume.
This is not getting enough attention. Trump is depleting America's armaments in a war he can't win.
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I see gestures right now. I want to see promises.
I see two schools of thought among Dems.
1. We need a new deal. Make things fair. Everyone prospers.
2. Put them motherfuckers against the wall.
I think they are compatible.
America needs a new deal.
Carlson played the long game. Built trust from Trumpers, but always knew Trump was a time bomb of failure & eventually his voters would become disillusioned & look for someone else. He's validating them: I'm one of you; & giving an alternative: I've seen the light and can lead you out. Like MTG.
Well said.
Yeah, there's no hope for them.
"If Trump loses the House ... he will be not only a lame duck but a toxic one. ... Not even loyalists will stay loyal. They will insist they haven’t changed. They will insist it’s the president who has changed. He was sane in the beginning, but not now."
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Please do not be tempted to give any benefit of the doubt to Tucker Fishstick. He and other maga media heads are paving the way for ousting Trump after the midterms if needed.
Welcome to the Chinese Century.
Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA): “Never before have we seen so little effort to hide so much corruption.”
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"It took eight years ... to extricate the United States from the quagmire of Vietnam. The architects of that war came to be known as 'the Best and the Brightest.' Sadly, that is not a phrase that immediately springs to mind in describing the planners of [Trump's] 'little journey' into Iran."
"Russia .... has so far been the main beneficiary of Operation Epic Fury. The main losers, meanwhile, have been the Gulf petrostates, since Iranian attacks on their oil and gas installations and other infrastructure, which will take months if not yrs to repair, are another consequence of this war."
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23. If Donald Trump loses the House, not to mention the Senate, he will be not only a lame duck but a toxic one. Few will have much use for him. Not even loyalists will stay loyal. They will insist that they haven’t changed. They will insist that it’s the president who has changed.
22. They will increasingly compare him to the conventional wisdom about Biden. Baker’s piece foreshadows the discourse we could see after the midterms.
21. I think we are seeing the beginning of a trend. The more the Iran war drags on, and the more pain that Americans feel as a consequence of it, the more openly people are going to doubt Trump’s mental fitness.
20. Voters can’t push him out, though, only his party. Enten isn’t alone in saying the question isn’t whether Republican control of the Congress is doomed. It’s by how much.
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19. In Enten’s view, Biden was deemed too old to handle inflation. Americans pushed him out. Now, however, we are seeing conditions emerging in which the same thing can be said of Donald Trump.
18. Enten: “Trump was more trusted than Kamala Harris on inflation by seven points. Look at his net approval right now. You average all those polls on the right side of your screen, 42 points underwater. That is a nearly 50-point shift away from the president of the United States."
17. “Remember, Trump got re-elected to a second term and Joe Biden got pushed to the curb in large part because Americans felt he couldn't handle inflation,” Enten said.
16. NBC News found that 67 percent disapprove of the war, with 54 percent who “strongly disapprove.” On inflation, Harry Enten said, “Trump is in his worst position ever on the issue that the American people say over and over and over again is their key number one."
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