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“Until you die, you haven’t lost. You may rub your face in the dirt, you may lose your home or drink muddy water, … but as long as you live on … you can win someday.”
#DemonSlayer
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Sentenced to death for tweeting.
موکلم امیرحسین موسوی بابت اتهام افساد فی‌الارض از طریق فعالیت مجازی در اکانت توییتری جیمز بی‌دین به اعدام محکوم شد.
#امیرحسین_موسوی
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هر فشار اقتصادی که جمهوری اسلامی بتونه به مردم عادی منتقل کنه، هیچگونه تاثیری در تصمیم گیرهای نظام نکبت اسلامی نداره.
در این ۴۷ سال اصولا زندگی و آرامش مردم نه تنها اصلا برای جمهوری اسلامی مهم نبوده بلکه هرگاه بارقه‌ای از زندگی، شادی و رفاه در جایی بین ایرانیان دیده شده جمهوری اسلامی فورا برای «مهار» آن اقدام کرده.
فشار اقتصادی که روی برادران قاچاقچی باشه، روی آقازاده های لندن و نیویورک و تورنتو باشه، یا حزب‌الله لبنان و یمن روهدف قرار بده. میتونه تاثیرداشته باشه.
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بسیاری از ایرانی‌های سیلیکون‌ولی و رانتی‌زاده‌های دانشگاه و صنعت مجیزگوی این پتیاره شده بودند. می‌گوید نخستین برنامه‌ی دموکراتها باید متوقف کردن AI باشد.
دو هدف دارند:
۱. AI در اقتصاد آمریکا چرخاننده‌ی مارکت و بزرگترین سهم را دارد. با این حرفها می‌خواهند مارکت را زمین زده و اقتصاد کشور را فلج کنند تا دولت ناکارامد شود.
۲. از موج سوددهی ai جا ماندند، می‌خواهند مارکت را دستکاری کنند که قیمت‌ها فرو بریزد، سپس خودشان از این درگاه insider trading کنند. این کوتوله‌ها هم هیچ‌کاره‌اند، کسانی که در پشت صحنه شورت کرده‌اند و کسانی که دستکاری را مهندسی کرده‌اند دستورها را می‌رسانند.
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چاک شومر احتمالا خبر نداشته که در ادبیات سیاسی برخی، اصل بر "الْحَرْبُ خُدْعَةٌ" است. ۳۰ میلیون دلار هزینه کرد، غافل از اینکه در این نوع تفکر، استفاده از امکانات طرف مقابل برای رسیدن به قدرت و سپس کنار زدنش، یک تاکتیک به حساب می‌آید:)
یه تضاد عجیبی بین توییت‌‌های قالیباف و خود قالیباف هست که باورناپذیرش میکنه. منو یاد اون سکانس از Men in Black میندازه که ویل اسمیت باید تو یه تصویر شلوغی غیرعادی ترین کارکتر رو پیدا میکرد و بهش شلیک میکرد، اونم دختربچه‌ای که کتاب فیزیک کوانتوم دستش بود رو انتخاب کرد!
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Mr. Vice-President,
Please allow me to present a different perspective.
The problem was not the Iran War. It was the cease fire.
If you start a war, you need to win it and finish it – otherwise don’t start it.
This war should have been over six months ago, with the Strait of Hormuz wide open and oil flowing. The second and third tiers of Iranian leadership should have been destroyed, and we should have supported the pro-western forces who could have taken leadership. We stood on the brink of a new, more peaceful Middle East - and then we blinked. We had a chance not only to deny Iran nuclear weapons, but to get rid of the world’s biggest supporter of terrorism.
Instead, we had a cease fire, which was followed by months of will we or won’t we finish the job. Every day was a different message. There still is. Is the war over? Is it about to begin? No one knows. There is confusion and inconsistency.
In June 2025, America was not involved. This was an Israel vs Iran issue.
No one forced the United States to attack Iran then, or in February of 2026. It was a decision made by President Trump. In my opinion, it was the right decision.
Once the decision was made, we should not have stopped until the regime fell. But instead, you negotiated a cease fire that didn’t last, didn’t work and left us in no man’s land, with higher prices and our troops still deployed.
Our troops could have been home, the Navy returned to its bases, a peaceful regime in place , new alliances forged, and gas prices below $3.00 a gallon.
No, Mr. Vice President. It’s not the war. It’s the so-called cease fire.
One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was "composition"—whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was merely OK, in other states it was downright amazing, and in no state was it catastrophic. There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up.
So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we're going to shock the world? "No," he told me. "We might do better than the polls suggest. But the data is telling us that a lot of Trump/Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us."
Well, that looks prophetic now. Our voters did show up. In Florida, for example, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could have done better on turnout. But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026.
There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn’t sharp enough down the stretch. I’m sure that’s true.
But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone.
Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were:
1) End the war
2) Focus on cost of living/inflation
3) Put America First
4) Change our relationship to Israel
Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (She’s also a great person.)
In the next few months, there's going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty. I'm open to the idea that we should change enforcement—by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you.
The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.
If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that's at least honest.
But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there.
I remain hopeful about our country. To the people who are pissed off and want to say, “I told you so”: you’re right, you did tell us so. Take that energy into electing Republicans who share your worldview. To the people who are just pissed at the results, you should be. Let’s take that anger and get back to the work of saving our country.
