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I want to be soft. I want to be steady.
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Remember when we said NY AG Letitia James had the power to investigate Trump tariff-related stock market manipulation and insider trading?
IT'S HAPPENING.
James just confirmed an investigation has been opened.
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but EVERY FUCKING RETAILER needs to show the tariffs next to the price -- not just Amazon.
Walmart, Target (where I do not shop), ALL OF THEM. It's a fucking tax, why shouldn't we see it?
I want to know exactly how much trump's tariffs are jacking my prices up. DON'T YOU?
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I’m going to say something that shouldn’t be controversial but will be. If you are a Christian, you can support border control and immigration being legal vs illegal. You CANNOT celebrate deportations and get off on the cruelty, and be a real Christ follower. Period
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Humans were never meant to be this busy that’s why everybody is anxious and depressed.
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Will's points about Lebanese Hezbollah are real--particularly with respect to its rocket arsenal. LH is sitting atop--conservative numbers here--150,000+ rockets that are much more advanced than the crude "Qassam rockets" that Hamas uses (Iranian short-to-medium range missiles vs Hamas machine shop rockets). Anti-Missile Defense (AMD) systems like Iron Dome--or even American-made Patriot-3 and AEGIS-based systems--are all vulnerable to sensor saturation because their tracking systems have a max…
"If a war starts, Hezbollah may use a low-level drone attack rather than the barrage of 1960s-era artillery rockets that Israel is expecting."
It will be a mix. That's a tactic we've seen proliferating out of Ukraine--a mix of projectiles varying by size and speed to throw off AMD systems. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't (the volley the US/UK/Jordan/Israel shot down heading toward Israel was a mixed volley of drones and varying size/speed rockets for example). That said, the principles …
Three-dimensional chess with exploding pieces.
It's more like a game of Texas Hold'em where nobody wants to turn the cards over. It's all bluffing and posturing until the cards get turned over and people find out who was bluffing and who wasn't, but by then it's too late and the metaphorical "pot"--the collective body count--is getting divided up and paid for amongst the players.
Hmmm. I think most Arab players in this war, or its expansion (Sunni or Shia), would prefer the chess analogy to any suggestion they resembled "Texas" gamesmanship.
The diplomacy is in the implications.
I'm talking about Israel vs Hamas/Houthis/LH/Iran here, not the Arab regional players. The dirty little secret of the Near East is that most of the Arab states don't give a shit about what happens to the Palestinians apart from Jordan and to a certain extent Egypt because they both have to deal with the border issue and Palestinian refugees. Iran hates Israel, Jordan is sympathetic to the Palestinians, Egypt doesn't want border issues, everyone else mostly doesn't give a shit and doesn't want to touch that area with a 10ft pole.
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It’s not just about tariffs. Trump and Republicans are pursuing a coordinated suite of policies designed to cause economic meltdown.
And it’s working.
We’re getting close to the sum of all fears.
Trump refuses to repatriate Abrego Garcia and tells Bukele that “home growns” are next and that he’s going to need to build “five more places” to hold them.
Does John Roberts understand this moment?
Maybe the most JVL piece I’ve ever JVL’d.
