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Well, one wouldn’t want to rush in all pell mell being decisive right from the start. That would require knowing what one was trying to accomplish.
ShipwreckUS Central Command (CENTCOM) has prepared a large-scale operation in the form of a decisive two-week bombing campaign should Trump choose escalation to break the deadlock in the Middle East, two sources confirmed.-NYP
He is an absolute idiot. I use that as a term of analysis, not judgment. If a label is accurate, it’s not my fault if it’s widely recognized as negative. And he makes sense to far too many people. “They talk for seven hours, they should solve it in five minutes…” Barnum was right.
Aaron RuparQ: Who from the administration is talking to Iran? TRUMP: Steve, Jared, JD is involved, Marco Q: They say talks aren't happening TRUMP: All they do is make me angry
After so many events that should have been breaking points (starting w/ “Grab ‘em by the…”), Phang’s case feels like it may have teeth. Still a matter of the inertia of the legal system vs. the momentum of fascist takeover, which we saw w/ his 2d suspect election to office, but: fingers x’d.
MeidasTouch🚨 BREAKING: Trump’s DOJ has officially handed over UNREDACTED Epstein-related records directly to federal Judge Emmet Sullivan for private review following a court order in MeidasTouch host Katie Phang’s lawsuit.
So when THESE guys say it, apparently it resonates differently than when I say it and I’m called alarmist. :)
Indie Aut. Stuart Miller (ASM) 📖✍️🤓 Writing book #3Posted 1 day ago by @nowthisimpact.bsky.social "nowthisimpact: “When you’re at a Trump rally, you’re like, ‘Oh, I can definitely see how H*tler happened.’”" IG acct: nowthisimpact NowThis Impact
This reference is a bit obscure, but — he probably shouldn’t go skiing…
Brown Eyed SusanMitch is recovering nicely, as you can see.
Words matter. There is nothing “mere” about semantics. They are concentration camps.
Guardian US"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."
This seems worse than the time we had a Base newspaper on Okinawa go to print with a placeholder byline of “Cpl. [Smith’s] Bitch” on one of the stories. www.reuters.com/world/africa...
US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conferenceA U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screen...www.reuters.comHe is a collision of the Peter Principle and Dunning-Kruger taken to their logical extremes coupled with the unfortunate fact that Barnum was right.
Ron FilipkowskiThe only thing worse than having one of the biggest morons on the planet running your country is having one that thinks he’s actually smarter than everyone else.