With all that is going on in the U.S./world, THIS is the "scandal of the summer"? (it's not)
With all that is going on in the U.S./world, THIS is the "scandal of the summer"? (it's not)
Question: Why did US put big tariffs on India despite major national interest in cultivating a strategic counterweight to China and trying to isolate Russia? Answer: Because the US president lied that he fixed India-Pakistan and India wouldn’t go along with the lie. (Seriously, that’s the answer)
It would be a huge step forward for Democrats and for general clarity in political writing if these terms went away. These came mostly from academic hothouses.
You know Dan, I appreciate you continuing to post here, even though I'm sure you get a small fraction of the engagement you get on Twitter. But I appreciate it.
yes they will
The question wasn't "Should the U.S. have bombed Iran?" You're equating two largely separate questions as if they were the same thing, and they're not.
Of course Iran has a nuclear weapons program, and nothing about the current situation is similar to Iraq. There's no credible peaceful use for 60% enriched uranium, being enriched in fortified bunkers a half mile underground. Embarrassing.
And how's that strategy working out for Iran right now? Also what would it look like if Iran had given up its obsession with destroying Israel for the last 50 years and instead focused on bettering the lives of everyday Iranians?
What non-military use is there for 60% enriched uranium?
The Iran collateral human casualties are many orders of magnitude lower than the 500K number you brought up with a nonsensical and irrelevant historical comparison from decades ago... ...because it's easier to argue that number rather than the actual total. Definitionally a strawman.
Do we have 500K dead Iranians? Again, you like arguing against strawmen, presumably because arguing against reality is less persuasive.
Unless said argument is which city has the larger population.
"People" are not being bombed, with strategic exceptions. Weapons and infrastructure are being bombed, obviously with collateral human causalities. My question--and my only question--was why Wajahat views it as a blunder. Also, the population of Tehran vs NYC is immaterial to any argument.
Why do you believe it to be a blunder?
0% chance it was an allergic reaction.
Other than being occupied by brown-skinned muslims and residing in the Middle East, what do Iraq and Iran have in common such that you feel so (very) confident comparing U.S. interests in regime change in one country to regime change in the other?
Don't understand...why is that "the quiet part"? It's a worthwhile goal and I see no problem with it being explicitly stated.
I 100% blame Biden for not passing reforms, and have said repeatedly since the 2020 election that ALL I wanted from a Biden presidency was for him to preserve democracy and Trump-proof America, and he was an abject failure at it. Horrible strategic error, that I think was largely due to his vanity.
wait wait wait you can't possibly be that credulous
does not have the ring of truth
He very obviously does not know what that phrase means. He heard it somewhere and has co-opted it without having any idea how it's used in real life.
*judgment
The WNBA very much does rise and fall with Caitlin Clark.
Yeah the tone (and honestly, content) of the article is at odds with reality. The WNBA has never been profitable, and lost $50M last year. That's fine, newer ventures often aren't, but it will be 30 years old next year. If it weren't subsized heavily by the NBA, it would have been bankrupt long ago.
I couldn't agree more. I just don't like misportrayals.
If you'd replied to any of the actual things that I'd said, I'd reply to this, but you didn't, so I won't.
Agree. But people who are in denial about Biden's mental state, and who continue to try to excuse it with "he was sick, etc" are hurting, not helping. It was what it was; agree much more pressing things to focus on. But don't lie to me that it's "because he was ill/jetlagged etc, because it wasn't.
He showed he was irrefutably not qualified to be president due to diminished mental capacity. You can say Trump is worse, and of course that's true. However Biden was not mentally competent enough for a second term, and everyone around him knew it, and they hid it from the public. Not defensible.
100%
You've absolutely lost me. I hope you think it was worth it, you fucking sellout.
Charles Kushner
Charles Kushner
Charles Kushner
Charles Kushner
No one gives a shit what you have to say when you're voting to approve rightly convicted felon Charles Kushner as ambassador to France. Please just shut the fuck up if you have no moral compass. No one wants to hear from you anymore, you sellout.
Democratic party seems rife with cowards and profiteers. If you're in public service for fame and enrichment, you're in the wrong line of work. Voting to approve Kushner is indefensible.
anything and anyone
Fuck off with your vote for felon Kushner. I just wrote you off. I'm sorry you don't get it, but you clearly never will.
I don't know of any public figure who has lost so much credibility with me, so quickly, as Jake Tapper has.
Can't. So cringe.
It's embarrassing.
The "Dr. Jill" post was gross. This one is pretty accurate, medically. The odds are incredibly small that Biden and family didn't know he had prostate cancer when he decided to run for re-election. I'm sure there are anecdotal exceptions, but odds are he knew, with very little doubt.
The outcome was interesting, the fight was unwatchable. I remember thinking around round 4 that every round thereafter was going to be the complete same as the first four (they were).
Not weighing in on the veracity of your premise, but will weigh in that I disagree completely with your reading of the proverbial Democratic room. I don't know many Democrats who feel his support was zealous, nor do I feel that there was significant damage to the party as a result of his decisions.
not a good movie *despite* very well done cinematography and acting, imo
Good for them, more of this please.
please choose severe recession
🤡
Sounds about right.
That is 100% correct.
agree, how do you get the archive links?
Are you a masochist? Serious question. Get the fuck out of here and retire so that someone with integrity and fight can replace you.
This is the opposite of what is going to happen.
goddamn right
She answered your question. You asked if she attacked Rs as well. She said yes, absolutely. You ignored her response to your question, and pretended as if she said the opposite. You're now saying "if she attacks Rs" as if she didn't already address that issue. You're a clown, go troll elsewhere.
Would his replacement have voted for the Republican budget resolution?
Are you deliberately ignoring her "ALL THE TIME!" and pretending she didn't say it?
WHY ARE YOU POSTING ON SOCIAL MEDIA. YOUR MESSAGES JUST MAKE PEOPLE HATE YOU EVEN MORE. EVERYONE HERE KNOWS HOW INADEQUATE YOU ARE. PLEASE JUST RETIRE.
Fucking retire and leave governing to people who care more about the country than they do their career and their political donations.
THANK YOU CHUCK! HISTORY WILL REMEMBER YOUR FIGHTING SPIRIT DURING THESE UNPRECEDENTED TIMES!!! clown
These posts feel like you're deliberately trolling your audience. Can you please immediately fire your inept messaging/comms people? They're absolutely terrible at their job. I mean, unless their/your intent is to announce to the world you're in so far over your head and don't get it. Retire.
so poignant and inspiring. Congratulations everyone involved.
Chuck you gotta retire. You're so incredibly inadequate, this is approaching Dianne Feinstein level. The people around you need to tell you that you're too old and feeble. An intervention is needed. You are not able to meet this moment, please retire.
Amen.
One of my top five favorite fights ever. Terrific announcing on top of all the action.
It's no Amok Time
I'd love to know why all the projections were divorced from what the teams themselves were thinking.
Such Freshman year in college vibes from an ostensible adult.
Not gonna get a warm welcome from my Kangal.
There will be shootouts.
I believe if it's going to happen (and it *is* going to happen), it's best that it happen when it can still have a chance to coerce the U.S. course-correct rather than happening later, when it's less likely to impact U.S. policy.
What's that Chuck?
yes and the earlier the better
“After Donald Trump won in November, I sat down to read all 922 pages of Project 2025,” @dgraham.bsky.social writes in The Atlantic Daily. “What I discovered was more radical and more interesting than I’d expected.”
Yeah it's called fighting back Chuck. You might want to look into it.
God you're awful at this.
You are insufferably annoying.
Thanks for writing this, Mike.
Hahaha fuck you
Yep that's a different style. I did that with my Greek inlaws as well but usually grilled rather than baked. They did it both ways. Different styles, one not inherently better than the other necessarily.
LOL My ex was Greek and this isn't too different from her Yiayia's recipe. I understand people's instincts to suggest fresh garlic etc, but they're really misunderstanding what the end product of this recipe is going to be. It's easy for me to visualize and sounds delicious as is.
And whichever of them vows most strongly to relentlessly prosecute the crimes of the previous administration, and make that their number one administrative priority will be the one who gets my vote.
Currently completely worthless. Hard to imagine someone being worse.
I'm sorry to hear that. Literally two days ago, I thought "Boy I sure don't see much from Matt Yglesias" and checked to see if I'd been blocked or if Bsky was muting your posts or something. I have abandoned twitter and find this site to be a bit of an echo chamber but have missed your posts.
I honestly think we are where we are now because Rumsfield and Cheney weren't prosecuted for war crimes, despite obviously being guilty of them.
So inadequate. How can you not get it?
This, more than your earlier point, is where I am. I'm going to vote for whichever D says they'll aggressively prosecute crimes committed during the previous administration.
Owner?
I'll have to re-watch. It's been a while.
Have had the same thought.
Pathetic.
100% correct. I went from having no strong opinion about him to not being able to stomach watching him speak without wanting to scream at him. He proved himself completely inadequate to the task in front of him, and he should be shamed out of leadership.
good point, hadn't thought of that
There's no question that today's tariff announcement will give the United States the highest tariff rates of any industrialized country. And it's not even close.
Stfu, seriously. Yeah we get it, you're edgy and have really hot takes. Clown.
DeLorean
Dave's fantastic. And yes you're right...he says it's over, it's over.