Imagine if this Orbán-loyal figure were treated in Brussels the way EU officials have been treated in Orbán’s Hungary: constant attacks, crude rhetoric, and open hostility. Instead, colleagues assess his performance professionally and with restraint. That contrast says everything.
A three-minute display of absolute soullessness. She won't criticize even a blunt call for genocide, if it comes from the leader of her own party.
Maybe Kash thinks FBI stands for Federal Bureau of Intoxication
“They wanted to close up the strait again…as they've been doing for years,” Trump said Saturday. Of course Iran hasn't been closing the Strait of Hormuz "for years." Quite the contrary. The Strait is closed because of Trump's war. It's an indictment of his policy, and so he lies about the history.
Vietnam calling.
The Iranian team seeks to advance national interest, securing the regime and its geopolitical position.
The American team seeks headlines and photo-ops they can use as the basis for lies, at least until those lies become obviously untenable and they seek new ones.
The asymmetry gives Iran leverage
No coincidence that Kash goes on Fox to claim he’s about to make arrests of people who supposedly rigged the 2020 election right after a story breaks that he has a serious drinking problem. A pattern of things like this every time Kash gets in trouble for his audience of one.
Trump is very good at market manipulation but very bad at actual diplomacy or war fighting. He is also completely disconnected from reality, which should (and does) worry the entire world. None of the claims he made in Friday are true.
It’s been said it’s immoral to let a sucker keep his money.
I’m not a lawyer, and I’m exhausted, so I can’t say exactly which part of the constitution forbids it, but if the constitution does not forbid the president from suing the government in his personal capacity and then ordering the government to settle in his official one, it forbids nothing.
❗️WP: Putin feels cornered this spring.He may decide that his “window of opportunity” will soon close — before Europe is fully rearmed, Ukraine will receive new long-range weapons, and Trump will further weaken transatlantic unity.
Here's the article which includes the actual interview in question. Yes, he absolutely said this and yes, it's in context.
wordinblack.com/2025/02/rfk-...
🇮🇷🇺🇸🇮🇱 Western intelligence says Iran blunted the impact of US-Israeli strikes through pre-war planning, - Bloomberg
While it suffered heavy infrastructure damage and lost top leaders, it preserved key missile and drone capabilities and maintained command structures by quickly replacing officials.
When Bush didn’t know what a supermarket scanner was it was out of touch but not nasty or anything. This guy is just a perpetually resentful douche.
Tump calling someone a little tacky is like Aquaman calling someone a little damp
Stephanie Ruhle, Damian Paletta, Leigh Ann Caldwell, and Tom Nichols on MSNOW.
"The people around Donald Trump, particularly JD Vance, have no moral center, they have no core, they are hollow people. If picking a fight with the Pope is what you have to do to remind the boss that you're a 'loyal soldier'...it shows you how craven these people are." - @radiofreetom.bsky.social
OMGGG — Dr. Biden!!!
Via REUTERS:
“A Pakistani security source told Reuters: A deal between the US and Iran is close, with talks in their final phase. Backchannel diplomacy via Pakistan is ongoing, alongside direct contact between technical teams. He said that next round will be more of a deal signing ceremony.”
"Sweden Warns Russia Could Seize Baltic Island to Test NATO"
"War games have simulated possible Russian landings on strategically important islands such as Gotland in Sweden, Bornholm in Denmark, and Hiiumaa and Saaremaa in Estonia."
www.kyivpost.com/post/74068?u...
Pope Leo XIV:
“The President of the United States has said that I insult Jesus”...
“You want to know what truly insults Jesus? It is when we turn away from those who suffer, when we close our hearts to the poor, and when we choose power over compassion while others cry out for mercy.”
Fascinating paragraph from Scott Alexander, where he admits he’s the dog that caught the car
Like, for example, a Secretary of Defense citing a fake Bible verse from Pulp Fiction to promote wars of aggression.
Pete Hegseth quoted a fake Bible verse from the Tarantino movie Pulp Fiction yesterday during a Pentagon prayer service
🕯️Odesa has declared a day of mourning for those killed in the night shelling. 8 people died, 16 injured.
Kyiv. 58 people are already known to have been injured, 4 people were killed.
In Dnipro, 2 people killed and 30 injured, and another person died in Nikopol region.
Core to Trumpism is the belief that acting like a huge asshole is strength and gets you want you want, while not acting like an asshole is weakness and doesn't.
But what if that's not true?
What if credibility—acknowledging reality, honoring agreements, following through—actually does matter?
It’s been a dark week. Our president is mentally and morally deranged. But the truth is we put him there.
In this moment, Americans need to face hard truths. And that’s what Jimmy Carter tried to offer back in 1979. Maybe this time, we’ll listen. My latest:
www.liberalcurrents.com/after-a-dark...
Reporter: I just got off a call with Trump, who said he had no prior knowledge that Melania Trump would discuss Jeffrey Epstein in her remarks today. Before we hung up, Trump said that Melania didn't know Jeffrey Epstein.
