Michelle Pollino

"Go take a hike!": Art professor absolutely unloads on the pronoun police with a rant for the ages notthebee.com/article/an-art…

There’s a revolution happening in the Trump administration right now. I am shocked about who I am hearing from - senior leaders throughout the government who are ready to take off the shackles and get BIG things done for the American people - which is what @StephenM and @POTUS want. I can’t stress this enough: some of President Trump and RFK’s strongest campaign promises deal with institutional reform that democrats ran on too - not innately partisan issues. Don’t let the media talk us down. We can get BIG things done in the next year - and Americans want that.

The party that raises my taxes, enforces huge taxes on every gallon of gasoline, crushes small businesses with onerous LLC taxes, hikes sales tax, and bankrupted you with out of control health insurance premiums Is the party that ran and won on "affordability" and "lowering costs" You have to admire it

Trump is a political genius. He accomplished the impossible, defeating BOTH duopoly parties. Then, this political genius, for no obvious reason, torched his presidency and legacy over a war the public didn’t want. That’s surprising. Why on Earth would he do that? Maybe the world looked very different from inside the Truman Show bubble constructed around him. After rapid success in Venezuela and “the 12 Day War” he may have been lead to believe he had the power to fix Iran, cheaply and quickly, and walk away a hero. That would explain it. But it would have required those opposed to the plan, people who knew better and were willing to say so, to be removed from his inner circle. Tucker could be shoved aside, but Charlie was a problem. Shoving Charlie out would have turned TPUSA into a powerful adversary. Bad move. But fate took care of that when Tyler Robinson, acting alone, killed Charlie for unrelated reasons. And here we are, Trump’s insurgency dead at midterms with the race-bating Marxists headed back to power.

Bret Weinstein just dropped a bombshell announcement. He’s launching a new America First party. This changes everything about the 2028 election. “We will not be voting our way out of our crisis through the uniparty.” “The idea is to take over the Libertarian Party.” “And to rebrand it the American Liberty Party.” “I’m partnering with the Mises Caucus.” “The hard-headed folks who have libertarian values, but are also frustrated by the way the party functions.” “Some of us thought that we might drain the swamp by voting for a renegade.” “That does not seem to have worked.” “Overwhelmingly, the Trump administration has fallen short on many of its promises.” “I think we would be at war in Iran no matter what.” “This war was going to happen because the powers involved in the uniparty wanted this war to happen.” “Our system is built to frustrate the production of a viable third party.” “The Libertarian Party, for all of its defects, has managed to gain ballot access in all 50 states.” “That said, the Libertarian Party has historically had difficulty finding a candidate worth voting for.” “The idea is a friendly takeover of the Libertarian Party.” “The slogan [is] the new home for the America First movement.” “What we mean here is America First in the most obvious sense of the term.” “American policy should always be in the interests of the American people.” @BretWeinstein @LPMisesCaucus @ALPNational

On the Iran war, *of course*, it hurt Republicans badly on Tuesday. The war was never popular, Trump hasn’t won it, and it increased fuel costs for everyone in the country. That’s not a formula for political success in the run-up to midterms that we’re going to be very bad regardless (as a matter of sheer political gravity and as a function of all the other things Trump did to alienate voters). But some critics of the war make it sound like the Iran war was something *done to* Trump, something that he had little or not control over, when it was an utterly characteristic Trump decision. Here’s a president who loves wielding power, who prefers to do it with no interference from Congress, and who is obsessed with strength. It shouldn’t be a shock that the U.S. military, the most powerful and technically proficient fighting force known to man, seems a very alluring tool to him. On top of this, he ordered two hugely impressive, successful military operations in the Venezuela raid and Midnight Hammer. Why not try a third? And he’s always hated the Iranian regime and believes, for good reason, that it’s been trying to kill him. Finally, he’s after big, legacy-defining achievements and defanging the Iranian regime or, better still, ending it would fit the bill. Was it risky? Yes, of course. But he *likes taking risks.* So, whatever else you think of it, this was a *Trump* war fought for *Trump* reasons. You know who has been particularly insistent that it’s a Trump war? Trump! He clearly didn’t see a contradiction between his inveighing against “stupid,” “forever” wars and launching this one because he didn’t think it was stupid or was going to last forever. (It’s also important to remember that in his first term, he was perfectly happy to double down on a Middle Eastern conflict—the bombing campaign against ISIS.) Now, the Iran war hasn’t gone well (although the regime is very damaged), in part for reasons that also directly relate to Trump. It was poorly planned; there was no thought to go Congress beforehand; the execution has been shambolic; the rationales have constantly shifted; there have been repeated, unconvincing declarations of victory; and there’s been an overwhelming sense that the thing is being run entirely on his personal whim. In other words, it shares a lot in common with other Trump initiatives, most importantly the tariffs. So rather than coming up with bizarre conspiracy theories about how Trump was somehow tricked or pressured into the war, or reserving their vitriol entirely for rival pundits, the critics of the war—and everyone else—should acknowledge that Trump has been the decider here, that he’s the author of the war and—one way or the other—will be its finisher.

Last night is exactly why no President has dealt with Iran before now We don't reward Presidents for acting in the best long-term interest of the country We reward them for avoiding difficult decisions if it means we don't have to make any sacrifices during any given 2yr period

Last night, the GOP suffered historic losses in the midterms — but Trump has a moment he can take, just as Bill Clinton did in 1994. Clinton misread the mandate, got whipped in the midterms, but rolled up his sleeves and started working with Republicans. He moved to the center and, two years later, won reelection by wide margins and left office with high approval numbers. Politics is not hard. It’s about making people’s lives better. Once Democrats and Republicans work together to make people’s lives better, America will get better. That is the mandate.