Yes, winter is coming. Annoyingly, my local drugstore was playing Christmas music yesterday. Christmas on November 6th. Of course,they called it "Holiday music". Our next holiday hit...
BTW, Chris Christie is thinking about running in 2028. Why this is national news, I'm not sure. Maybe it got misplaced and was supposed to be in the Yahoo's comedy section.
Yes, winter is coming. And I see the orks are already assembling. I see that among other things, they're threatening Musk, the most beneficial human being on Earth.
My suggestion for Musk is to program all his Optimus robots, Teslas, and rockets so their ultimate AI command is to protect him and to wage war against any persons, "parties", or states that threaten to harm him. The very first demo should be very persuasive. Even more than the Roadster one.
Is it possible? Has he done that already? Well, do ya feel lucky, punk? Do ya?
BTW, Chris Christie is thinking about running in 2028. Why this is national news, I'm not sure. Maybe it got misplaced and was supposed to be in the Yahoo's comedy section.
They are trying to pretend Trump lost and voters want the old Republican party back.
They are trying very hard.
But Trump knows what the voters in the country want. That is why Miller is CoS.
It was the old Neocon GoPe that really got wiped out.
Trump assembled a coalition that could have dominated politics for decades, then flushed it down the toilet. Democrats will no doubt overreach because they think that people voted for them, which is simply not true. And nobody who participated in this electoral insurrection, if you want to call it that, wants the old Republican Party back. Democrats and old-line Republicans are what got them Trump.
imTay: "Trump assembled a coalition that could have dominated politics for decades, then flushed it down the toilet. Democrats will no doubt overreach because they think that people voted for them, which is simply not true."
Gotta give you credit for wisdom. Morning Schmoe also likes to recite his litany of how many Admins and parties thought they had it locked in for good, only to overreach and lose it all in 2 or 4 years: 1976, 1988, 1992, 1994, 2000, etc, etc. Interestingly, I did not hear Schmoe say this on Wednesday morning's show. But give him a few months and the chance to go off (or on) his meds again. CC, JSM
Trump had a golden opportunity to be the coalition-builder of the century: protect Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid while cementing a working-class coalition. Instead, he chose self-enrichment.
Republicans are finally finding their spine. I expect more courage from GOP presidential hopefuls than from Republicans currently serving in Congress, but Trump’s spell has been broken.
The more interesting question is what Marco Rubio does next. Unlike Vance, he has a path to leave the administration and distance himself from Trump. The sooner he takes it, the better positioned he’ll be.
The Republican infighting—and Trump’s reaction to it—should be something to behold. Order plenty of popcorn.
Of course what I fully expect to happen is that Democrats will use their almost unbridled power to change the voting rules so that they can't lose their place at the trough again, and continue to screw the same voters Trump once spoke for.
“Democrats will no doubt overreach because they think that people voted for them, which is simply not true.”
Democrats may overreach because we are human, but most Democrats fully realize this midterm was far less about the Dem Party than it was a repudiation of Trump and Trumpism. Dems want to keep the millions of voters we gained and with that Dems should/will proceed with caution.
btw - The Jews in the US are mostly secular democrats. Very few actual Jewish people vote for Republicans. Nothing new. But hey - we gotta blame do jooos.
Do you remember how MAGA "tim in vermont" was? It's funny that you keep dragging back that name, are you just trying to rub it in my face how much I once supported Trump?
And I voted for the Democrats this cycle full well knowing that that is what they plan, but as far as Trump's second term goes, I said to myself "if this is 'winning,' I am tired of it." Republicans can't be trusted with power.
One of the little side benefits of primary coverage is that one ends up hearing about places all over the country, including how they pronounce place names with the same spelling but different pronunciations. I'm a bit of a nerd regarding my interest in such things.
This morning, I've looking up different pronunciation of "Lafayette." Fascinating, to me. My own bias is the way in which "Lafayette" is pronounced in Indiana, my birth native state. (My mom's hometown was not far away, and over the generations there certainly have been plenty of relatives living in Lafayette and West Lafayette.) But it's not the same everywhere.
Anyone else have odd little things, unrelated to politics, that they notice when national elections (midterm and presidential) come around?
“Democrats will no doubt overreach because they think that people voted for them, which is simply not true.”
Democrats may overreach because we are human, but most Democrats fully realize this midterm was far less about the Dem Party than it was a repudiation of Trump and Trumpism. Dems want to keep the millions of voters we gained and with that Dems should/will proceed with caution.
LOL! Democrat voters laugh and cackle at the thought of digging up Charlie Kirk and shooting him again.
You are murderous vile pieces of shit. It is fun to watch you pretend to be a decent person in a place like this when we all know that with other democrats you are talking about killing us and throwing us in jail.
No - I'm not rubbing that in your face. Tim In Vermont. I'm probably less MAGA than you. I voted for Trump, but I too have my issues with the guy. You are allowed to be disgruntled. But you are a one issue guy. Israel. We heard you the first time. & you will more than likely watch our nation decline into Blue State Hell, along with the rest of us, - while you remain a single issue guy. Israel.
Like Achilles said, I don't blame Israel for doing what they are doing in their own country, it's just not our obligation to support it or to fight their wars.
We have spent $8 trillion in the "War on terror" since 2001, when we had bin Laden at Tora Bora, and a pause was ordered in the bombing, long enough for him to escape to the Khyber Pass. We probably did this because if we had killed him, the reasons for all of the wars that followed would have evaporated.
Yeah, a foreign government that spends billions on our elections and seems to control both parties. Name a more important issue. Like I just said, we have spent 8 trillion dollars in wars on their behalf in the last 25 years.
Democrat boomers have embraced their young people and invited them in.
Now it is time for Republican boomers to do the same. Republican boomers have a vision of how the world should be and that means young people get fucked.
Don't be surprised when young people don't want to support your bullshit.
Protect the other voices on the right. Hasan Piker is out on every platform motivating people to vote for Democrats despite being a vile piece of shit.
But douchebags on the right are too snooty to support Fuentes or Jones. I don't even agree with them about the war and would be happy to discuss it with them about the whys and the future. But they are people we need.
Trump is like one of Achilles AI agent. People believe what comes out of him open-mouthed until he speaks of something they know about. When he started to talk about gas prices, diesel prices and the cost of living they saw en masse how hallucinatory he is.
"Now it is time for Republican boomers to do the same. Republican boomers have a vision of how the world should be and that means young people get fucked."
Trump did that, that is why I overlooked his flaws and supported him fully. He sold them out. They don't want these wars. A lot of what turned young people against him was effective propaganda about ICE, but young people don't want to fight wars that have nothing to do with defending America.
They agree with George Washington's Farewell Address, which, unfortunately, due to the more sophisticated language of the time, does not offer a single quote, but you should read the whole thing.
If Jews had any influence among the Dems, the Dems might not overreach. But the Jews have been ghettoed. (Still they long for Dem approval; they are holding shiva for the death of Dem approval. That's today; that will pass.) Meanwhile, both elected and professional Dems are throwing off that suffocating Normie mask they had to wear for the election. Lawfare, celebrations of political violence, and quiet discussions on who gets what money are the order of the day. The voters are waiting for affordability to bob up in the conversations, but it's floating off like a lost balloon. You can still just see that speck way up there, but it’s gone.
My AOL feed is leading its news of the day section with a video interview of Coco Gauff talking, shaking, bouncing a little -- an athlete stuck in one spot, answering questions dealing with it. Fortunately for me it's completely silent, for who knows what reason of the gods.... But my second time signing on, I catch the headline: "Coco Gauff Reflects on Midterm Election Results."
Wisconsin's first frost and freeze dates vary heavily by region due to the state's geography, but the 2026 fall season officially brought the first widespread freeze to southern Wisconsin, including Milwaukee, on November 6–7, 2026. This arrival was historically late for the southeastern part of the state, with Milwaukee tying its second-latest first frost on record on November 6 before hitting its official first 32°F freeze on the morning of November 7.
imTay (9:06am) says "young people don't want to fight wars that have nothing to do with defending America".
Has anyone told him, or them, that no one's asking them to? That our forces have been all-volunteer for decades, and that with Hegseth in charge morale, retention, and recruitment are way up, so there's absolutely no danger of needing a draft as long as he's in charge of the DOW?
As for for whether the Iran war is "unnecessary", here's Flopping Aces on Twitter (link):
"Watching supposed America First conservatives lose their goddamn minds over an election while conveniently forgetting nearly half a century of Iranian terrorism is infuriating.
"For decades, this murderous theocracy has taken Americans hostage, slaughtered American servicemen, armed terrorists who killed our troops, funded Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis, plotted assassinations on American soil, and pursued nuclear ambitions while threatening the destruction of America and Israel. We've spent generations watching these fanatical bastards wage war against us while Washington responded with endless diplomatic bullshit, sanctions, and empty threats.
"How many American bodies does this regime get to pile up before somebody finally says ENOUGH?
"And now we're supposed to believe losing congressional seats outweighs preventing these lunatics from acquiring nuclear weapons?
"Fuck that.
"We can criticize the war's execution, demand accountability, and recognize the political damage. But Trump may have faced intelligence suggesting the window to stop Iran's nuclear ambitions was closing. None of us knows everything sitting on the president's desk.
"If he chose to protect future generations of Americans at the expense of his own political fortunes, that's leadership worth defending.
"I'd rather lose Congress than gamble America's future on the goodwill of the fucking ayatollahs."
The Cynical Publius tweet he's replying to is also well worth reading - and pondering.
Of course, even when he was calling himself 'Tim in Vermont', imTay/Jaq was guzzling Russian and Chinese and Qatari and Iranian propaganda, assuring us that Russia had a perfect right to invade Ukraine and commit every war crime listed in the Geneva Conventions there, that China has a right to do the same to Taiwan whenever they want, and other totally unAmerican ideas that made it impossible to tell whether he was actually 'Timofei in Voronezh'.
Was there convincing evidence Iran had an active nuclear weapons program before the war? The U.S. intelligence community assessed in 2025 that Iran was not building a nuclear weapon, and the IAEA said in March 2026 that it saw no structured program to manufacture one. Iran's uranium enrichment activities were certainly concerning, but what evidence made war necessary in February?
"The U.S. intelligence community" is honeycombed with people (I use the term loosely) who are devoted to destroying the Trump administration. Anything they say needs to be taken with a whole spoonful of salt. The IAEA, like every international organization, even more so.
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Noooo!
There is dew on the ground during my runs. Not quiet as pretty as that. But it is 50-60 degrees at least.
Same down here.
Also Frost...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8OgoVfSuBE
Yes, winter is coming. Annoyingly, my local drugstore was playing Christmas music yesterday. Christmas on November 6th. Of course,they called it "Holiday music". Our next holiday hit...
Frost on the Pumpkin.
BTW, Chris Christie is thinking about running in 2028. Why this is national news, I'm not sure. Maybe it got misplaced and was supposed to be in the Yahoo's comedy section.
Yes, winter is coming. And I see the orks are already assembling. I see that among other things, they're threatening Musk, the most beneficial human being on Earth.
My suggestion for Musk is to program all his Optimus robots, Teslas, and rockets so their ultimate AI command is to protect him and to wage war against any persons, "parties", or states that threaten to harm him. The very first demo should be very persuasive. Even more than the Roadster one.
Is it possible? Has he done that already? Well, do ya feel lucky, punk? Do ya?
RCOCEAN II said...
BTW, Chris Christie is thinking about running in 2028. Why this is national news, I'm not sure. Maybe it got misplaced and was supposed to be in the Yahoo's comedy section.
They are trying to pretend Trump lost and voters want the old Republican party back.
They are trying very hard.
But Trump knows what the voters in the country want. That is why Miller is CoS.
It was the old Neocon GoPe that really got wiped out.
It is almost like this was planned.
Trump assembled a coalition that could have dominated politics for decades, then flushed it down the toilet. Democrats will no doubt overreach because they think that people voted for them, which is simply not true. And nobody who participated in this electoral insurrection, if you want to call it that, wants the old Republican Party back. Democrats and old-line Republicans are what got them Trump.
According to El Sayed (D) - we are no longer a melting pot.
Islamic Colonization is real. There is not a historical colonizer greater that Islam.
@mrddmia
"This former illegal immigrant is threatening to jail the new White House chief of staff for helping the President execute federal law?
Import the third world, become the third world."
Winter always comes, as sure as the sun rises every morning.
Hey, presto! A fact on which all can agree!
I do hope that there is a very, very robust primary season in 2028.
imTay: "Trump assembled a coalition that could have dominated politics for decades, then flushed it down the toilet. Democrats will no doubt overreach because they think that people voted for them, which is simply not true."
Gotta give you credit for wisdom. Morning Schmoe also likes to recite his litany of how many Admins and parties thought they had it locked in for good, only to overreach and lose it all in 2 or 4 years: 1976, 1988, 1992, 1994, 2000, etc, etc. Interestingly, I did not hear Schmoe say this on Wednesday morning's show. But give him a few months and the chance to go off (or on) his meds again. CC, JSM
"Hello country bumpkin . . . ."
Get out of there before the frost heaves!
𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘧𝘭𝘶𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘵.
Trump had a golden opportunity to be the coalition-builder of the century: protect Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid while cementing a working-class coalition. Instead, he chose self-enrichment.
Republicans are finally finding their spine. I expect more courage from GOP presidential hopefuls than from Republicans currently serving in Congress, but Trump’s spell has been broken.
The more interesting question is what Marco Rubio does next. Unlike Vance, he has a path to leave the administration and distance himself from Trump. The sooner he takes it, the better positioned he’ll be.
The Republican infighting—and Trump’s reaction to it—should be something to behold. Order plenty of popcorn.
@Achilles, in response to Democrat rhetoric, Donald Trump has replaced a capable peacetime consigliere with a wartime consigliere.
Of course what I fully expect to happen is that Democrats will use their almost unbridled power to change the voting rules so that they can't lose their place at the trough again, and continue to screw the same voters Trump once spoke for.
Wow Tim in Vermont - you're just now figuring out the democrats seek one party rule?
I wouldn't vote for Rubio on a bet, he has a hard on for war.
Wow Tim In Vermont - you're going to be a loyal democrat now. A one issue guy. Wow!
“Democrats will no doubt overreach because they think that people voted for them, which is simply not true.”
Democrats may overreach because we are human, but most Democrats fully realize this midterm was far less about the Dem Party than it was a repudiation of Trump and Trumpism. Dems want to keep the millions of voters we gained and with that Dems should/will proceed with caution.
btw - The Jews in the US are mostly secular democrats.
Very few actual Jewish people vote for Republicans.
Nothing new.
But hey - we gotta blame do jooos.
Do you remember how MAGA "tim in vermont" was? It's funny that you keep dragging back that name, are you just trying to rub it in my face how much I once supported Trump?
And I voted for the Democrats this cycle full well knowing that that is what they plan, but as far as Trump's second term goes, I said to myself "if this is 'winning,' I am tired of it." Republicans can't be trusted with power.
One of the little side benefits of primary coverage is that one ends up hearing about places all over the country, including how they pronounce place names with the same spelling but different pronunciations. I'm a bit of a nerd regarding my interest in such things.
This morning, I've looking up different pronunciation of "Lafayette." Fascinating, to me. My own bias is the way in which "Lafayette" is pronounced in Indiana, my birth native state. (My mom's hometown was not far away, and over the generations there certainly have been plenty of relatives living in Lafayette and West Lafayette.) But it's not the same everywhere.
Anyone else have odd little things, unrelated to politics, that they notice when national elections (midterm and presidential) come around?
Inga said...
“Democrats will no doubt overreach because they think that people voted for them, which is simply not true.”
Democrats may overreach because we are human, but most Democrats fully realize this midterm was far less about the Dem Party than it was a repudiation of Trump and Trumpism. Dems want to keep the millions of voters we gained and with that Dems should/will proceed with caution.
LOL! Democrat voters laugh and cackle at the thought of digging up Charlie Kirk and shooting him again.
You are murderous vile pieces of shit. It is fun to watch you pretend to be a decent person in a place like this when we all know that with other democrats you are talking about killing us and throwing us in jail.
No - I'm not rubbing that in your face. Tim In Vermont. I'm probably less MAGA than you. I voted for Trump, but I too have my issues with the guy. You are allowed to be disgruntled. But you are a one issue guy. Israel.
We heard you the first time. & you will more than likely watch our nation decline into Blue State Hell, along with the rest of us, - while you remain a single issue guy. Israel.
People are not ready for this.
But you will all come around soon.
Nick Fuentes is an incoherent boob.
Like Achilles said, I don't blame Israel for doing what they are doing in their own country, it's just not our obligation to support it or to fight their wars.
We have spent $8 trillion in the "War on terror" since 2001, when we had bin Laden at Tora Bora, and a pause was ordered in the bombing, long enough for him to escape to the Khyber Pass. We probably did this because if we had killed him, the reasons for all of the wars that followed would have evaporated.
"But you are a one issue guy."
Yeah, a foreign government that spends billions on our elections and seems to control both parties. Name a more important issue. Like I just said, we have spent 8 trillion dollars in wars on their behalf in the last 25 years.
𝘖𝘧 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐 𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘶𝘯𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘳𝘶𝘭𝘦𝘴 ..
𝘐𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘴 𝘨𝘰 𝘢𝘴 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥, 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘨𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 392 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘴. ~ Nate Silver
"America first" is sure a terrible message!
Democrat boomers have embraced their young people and invited them in.
Now it is time for Republican boomers to do the same. Republican boomers have a vision of how the world should be and that means young people get fucked.
Don't be surprised when young people don't want to support your bullshit.
Protect the other voices on the right. Hasan Piker is out on every platform motivating people to vote for Democrats despite being a vile piece of shit.
But douchebags on the right are too snooty to support Fuentes or Jones. I don't even agree with them about the war and would be happy to discuss it with them about the whys and the future. But they are people we need.
You all have some choices to make.
Peachy+2 said...
Nick Fuentes is an incoherent boob.
Self defeating retard.
I am going to play golf, but one more question:
"You will more than likely watch our nation decline into Blue State Hell, along with the rest of us."
Was the war worth it?
Trump is like one of Achilles AI agent. People believe what comes out of him open-mouthed until he speaks of something they know about. When he started to talk about gas prices, diesel prices and the cost of living they saw en masse how hallucinatory he is.
You all can pretend you are better than fuentes. That is fine.
But you should fight for him to have the same access to platforms that Piker has.
The left fights for their own.
The right has a bunch of insecure turds who don't want to be seen with the wrong people and would be mortified to be in the same party as Fuentes.
And they don't even know why.
Achilles - you're in the crazy club that got Democrats elected. Thanks!
Wow Tim In Vermont! Billions on elections! hmmm - and what party won - with all that Chi-com, Islamic Lobby, and Russian money illegally flowing?
One more:
"Now it is time for Republican boomers to do the same. Republican boomers have a vision of how the world should be and that means young people get fucked."
Trump did that, that is why I overlooked his flaws and supported him fully. He sold them out. They don't want these wars. A lot of what turned young people against him was effective propaganda about ICE, but young people don't want to fight wars that have nothing to do with defending America.
They agree with George Washington's Farewell Address, which, unfortunately, due to the more sophisticated language of the time, does not offer a single quote, but you should read the whole thing.
If Jews had any influence among the Dems, the Dems might not overreach. But the Jews have been ghettoed. (Still they long for Dem approval; they are holding shiva for the death of Dem approval. That's today; that will pass.) Meanwhile, both elected and professional Dems are throwing off that suffocating Normie mask they had to wear for the election. Lawfare, celebrations of political violence, and quiet discussions on who gets what money are the order of the day. The voters are waiting for affordability to bob up in the conversations, but it's floating off like a lost balloon. You can still just see that speck way up there, but it’s gone.
Achilles - that you are a Fuentes fan makes perfect sense.
@Althouse, this surely isn’t your first frost is it? You living in Wisconsin and all?
IUDEE (D) - You're a leftist Soviet bot.
My AOL feed is leading its news of the day section with a video interview of Coco Gauff talking, shaking, bouncing a little -- an athlete stuck in one spot, answering questions dealing with it. Fortunately for me it's completely silent, for who knows what reason of the gods.... But my second time signing on, I catch the headline: "Coco Gauff Reflects on Midterm Election Results."
LOL LO effin L!!
Wisconsin's first frost and freeze dates vary heavily by region due to the state's geography, but the 2026 fall season officially brought the first widespread freeze to southern Wisconsin, including Milwaukee, on November 6–7, 2026. This arrival was historically late for the southeastern part of the state, with Milwaukee tying its second-latest first frost on record on November 6 before hitting its official first 32°F freeze on the morning of November 7.
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imTay (9:06am) says "young people don't want to fight wars that have nothing to do with defending America".
Has anyone told him, or them, that no one's asking them to? That our forces have been all-volunteer for decades, and that with Hegseth in charge morale, retention, and recruitment are way up, so there's absolutely no danger of needing a draft as long as he's in charge of the DOW?
As for for whether the Iran war is "unnecessary", here's Flopping Aces on Twitter (link):
"Watching supposed America First conservatives lose their goddamn minds over an election while conveniently forgetting nearly half a century of Iranian terrorism is infuriating.
"For decades, this murderous theocracy has taken Americans hostage, slaughtered American servicemen, armed terrorists who killed our troops, funded Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis, plotted assassinations on American soil, and pursued nuclear ambitions while threatening the destruction of America and Israel. We've spent generations watching these fanatical bastards wage war against us while Washington responded with endless diplomatic bullshit, sanctions, and empty threats.
"How many American bodies does this regime get to pile up before somebody finally says ENOUGH?
"And now we're supposed to believe losing congressional seats outweighs preventing these lunatics from acquiring nuclear weapons?
"Fuck that.
"We can criticize the war's execution, demand accountability, and recognize the political damage. But Trump may have faced intelligence suggesting the window to stop Iran's nuclear ambitions was closing. None of us knows everything sitting on the president's desk.
"If he chose to protect future generations of Americans at the expense of his own political fortunes, that's leadership worth defending.
"I'd rather lose Congress than gamble America's future on the goodwill of the fucking ayatollahs."
The Cynical Publius tweet he's replying to is also well worth reading - and pondering.
Of course, even when he was calling himself 'Tim in Vermont', imTay/Jaq was guzzling Russian and Chinese and Qatari and Iranian propaganda, assuring us that Russia had a perfect right to invade Ukraine and commit every war crime listed in the Geneva Conventions there, that China has a right to do the same to Taiwan whenever they want, and other totally unAmerican ideas that made it impossible to tell whether he was actually 'Timofei in Voronezh'.
Was the war worth it?
Does Iran have a nuclear bomb program?
Was there convincing evidence Iran had an active nuclear weapons program before the war? The U.S. intelligence community assessed in 2025 that Iran was not building a nuclear weapon, and the IAEA said in March 2026 that it saw no structured program to manufacture one. Iran's uranium enrichment activities were certainly concerning, but what evidence made war necessary in February?
"The U.S. intelligence community" is honeycombed with people (I use the term loosely) who are devoted to destroying the Trump administration. Anything they say needs to be taken with a whole spoonful of salt. The IAEA, like every international organization, even more so.
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