MoreThanAConqueror

Those advocating for "finishing" strikes on Iran want to have it both ways, always. Here are some of the common contradictory positions on X: - We already won against Iran, they're desperate for a deal, but we need far more aggressive strikes against them now otherwise we will have lost - Trump was calling the shots, no undue influence from anyone else; but JD is responsible for any failures of the war, and only he should be blamed - Trump achieved stopping Iran from *ever* getting a nuclear weapon; if we don't keep fighting Iran until regime change happens, they'll rebuild and one day get a nuclear weapon - 'Nobody is saying ground troops' are needed in Iran; the only way to ensure Iran never gets a nuke is to overthrow the regime with some ground troops (ours, Kurdish, etc) - Iran was about to be a nuclear power threatening the west and any political price was worth paying to stop them; Iran caused no political price in the midterms, it was tariffs, saying otherwise is bad faith (or worse) - "we've been at war with Iran for almost 50 years"; Trump said the war is over last week, so it's over now because he says so --- There are many other positions like these, but arguing with cognitive dissonance is exhausting. The war clearly had a major political cost by spiking gas prices. It did not go as planned. And it's not over as long as the IRGC controls the country. There's a lot to argue about Iran, but some things aren't opinion, they're reality. And it still matters to get this right because the Iran problem is far from solved.

Apparently we’re still going to pretend the entire country suddenly went dark blue because of anti-Trump unhappiness with the economy that is still ten times better than the O’Biden disaster.

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They don't even understand what we mean when we say this. Going on two weeks, and the party doesn't seem to be learning any of the right lessons.

Contrary to the crybabies who say we have to blow all our treasure and spill all our blood in their pointless wars, of course non-neocons have answers. Realists are right. Duh. That's why you didn't bother to respond to a single thing I had to say in that post. Donald Trump 1.0 already showed us what works in his first term. The United States is an insular power (that means we are very hard to attack) because we are surrounded by vast bodies of water and two weaker allies on borders. China rose without firing a shot. War is one of the dumbest strategies to gain relative power in the world because it is so costly and risky. That's why interventionists have lied us into every single one of their foolish, catastrophic wars. Believing the lunatic interventionist lies are the only reason to believe their foolish wars are worth losing your country over, which you likely just did. See, that is one of the biggest problems with neocons. They lie. They use lies to scare people into doing stupid shit, like fight wars with no military solution other than total genocide, which destabilizes regions, displaces populations, and contributes to invasions. That was Charlie's position and belief, btw. Was he anti-Semitic too? Iran was not enriching for a nuclear bomb. That is a lie. Iranian public opinion was against it until they were attacked and the Ayatollah's fatwah was preventing the more hardline elements from pushing enrichment to those levels. That is what all non-Israeli intelligence showed. To include our own from @TulsiGabbard at DNI, the Brits and even Ratcliffe at CIA. Even IF they did, they still did not have a delivery system, which is why Mark Levin had to lie to his viewers on Fox News and tell them Iran could hit major U.S. cities with a nuclear strike. It was to scare them. But it was a lie. We lost everything for a lie at a time when the demographic and debt clocks are both about to run out. They will be dead and buried when we are still living through the nightmare of a failing superpower and a future they squandered. Notice they said nothing about that? Notice they said nothing about costing us the Senate for a decade? The census? The Electoral College? Those are the real threats. Iranians didn't kill Charlie. Iranians scream "death to America"? Great. So what? So does North Korea, who consequently, was also supposed to end the world if they got nuclear weapons. Welp, they have them and yet we're still here. The world survived. You know what didn't? The security agreement in the Middle East, which also means in Asia. Our inability to defend our allies has been laid bare for the world to see and we lost a dozen or so bases in the region that will never be rebuilt. So, we will be kicked out of the Middle East the way voters just kicked us out of the majorities, and they want to call names to continue the grift. That's what neocons do best. Literally and figuratively blow shit up and blame others for their repeatedly disproven thesis failing.

Is it the job of a White House Chief of Staff to call podcasters and blacklist their friends who didn't take the check? Just asking for a friend.

It is an insult to the American voter for so-called people of the Right inside and outside this admin to use leftist tactics to deflect and squirm out of accountability after supporting policies that led to this defeat. Victor started this leftist-like attempt to cancel the word neocon because he is one and he cannot defend his repeated support for catastrophically foolish wars of choice that have led to the destruction of two rightwing coalitions this century, only 26 years into it.

I’m literally blown away by the amount of people that fell for the total garbage that they got fed at that press conference yesterday. If you’re an American, we as a country are in over $40 trillion in debt, have spent approximately $15 trillion in foreign countries and foreign wars over the past 25 years, and yet they have done shit updating our infrastructure that is literally falling apart. And then they force all airplanes to stop yesterday creating chaos all over the country and fear among the American people sending them to the grocery stores buying emergency supplies and then they turn around and demand more money, $50 billion, and then lie at a press conference about what happened. I don’t care who they are. I don’t care who you voted for, if you’re not pissed off then there is absolutely no help for you. Yes, duh, we need to update our systems. Yes, duh, it takes money to do that. We, as Americans, pay $5.7 trillion a year in taxes, they have plenty of money to update all of our infrastructure all over the country if they actually gave a damn, they would do it. But they don’t give a damn. And if you’re living under some delusion that they do, then you’re beyond help. Washington DC doesn’t work for you the American people no matter which party is in control. They work for the big corporations and lobbyist, the big donors that fund their campaigns, and even foreign nations for foreign causes. Wake up! The American people are basically raped, robbed, and pillaged over and over again and if you continue to stay loyal to a political party like you are for your favorite sports team and excuse every single failure just because that’s your party, then you are not able to face truth and reality and nothing will ever change. You get treated like crap because you take it and you continue to vote for it. I’ve been to Washington. I know how it works. The bullshit ends when you finally stand up for yourself and realize they’ve been lying to you all along and using you like a dirty rag and they have no intention of changing anything.

New @CookPolitical: with 118.2 million votes counted, Dems' lead in the national House vote is up to 13.9 points. cookpolitical.com/vote-track…

Trump constantly railed about fixing the reflection pool so much that he used the last day before massively losing the midterms to give a speech in front of the reflection pool bragging about he fixed the reflection pool, but today when his own FAA enforces a nationwide ground stop supposedly because the system in so old and needs $50 billion dollars to fix it immediately, President Trump doesn’t even issue so much as a Truth Social post. For a man that constantly tells us how he is the only one capable of fixing things, while Americans were stranded at airports and in planes, he instead chose to post about saving Hollywood and the motion picture and television industry by giving them money in the form of tax incentives. While everyone was freaking out thinking we are under some sort of attack, Trump didn’t even bother to address the nation. And he didn’t even show up at the press conference, or rather blackmail session, to brag to everyone that he will fix the old system like no one ever before and how no one can fix it like he can fix it. 🤦‍♀️

The Republican Party is going to have to undergo some serious soul-searching to win back young men. The trust has been broken, and rebuilding it won’t happen overnight. Accountability, transparency, and authenticity need to become more than campaign slogans. Trust has to be earned back through actions, not promises and more empty rhetoric.

Mississippi was in danger years ago. The white vote was trending DEM there too until Pre-Iran War Donald Trump came along. First episode of Inside The Numbers identified it and the Deep South as in danger YEARS ago when they almost lost the Governorship. Lose those WC men, you lose these states. No white vote margin, no statewide margin. The genius consultant class never saw it coming because they are STUPID and the GOP is a kleptocracy, not a meritocracy.

Van Hollen on the blue wave: “The notion that this was somehow a Washington-engineered victory is delusional. This was the power of the people.”

Well, that was retarded. Don't lie to people because not even MAGATard AI is going to believe this bullshit story. Please, someone wake me from this nightmare. It just keeps getting worse.

Imagine watching the Blue Tsunami as a Republican and thinking “John Thune is the problem.” Pure idiocy. It was Tariffs, the war in Iran, corruption, and heavy handed ICE enforcement tactics directed by the White House.

Van Hollen is right. This was an outside-in, populist victory not some DC-designed strategy. Democrats must get that message or they will miss the point of what just happened

The lesson Republican should have learned is that the era of party politics is over, and we are now in transactional politics. Looks like they need a louder message to learn this.