DSA is Antifa

 

DSA Plan: Abolish ICE, Borders, Prisons & Senate

Megan Romer, Fox News Sunday

 

 

 

In the first story ICE murdered a U.S. citizen in March 2025, a woman's son, in the second story a drunk illegal alien murdered a U.S. citizen in late 2024, a man's daughter

In both cases our incompetent government is ultimately to blame, Joe, but only in your case will someone pay any price.

 

My Son Was Killed by ICE. I Want Accountability

Rachel Reyes, New York Times

 

The Moral Test of Self Government

Joe Abraham, RealClearPolitics

 

 

 

Rubio might as well be Pilate washing his hands and saying he is innocent of the Persian Gulf debacle

 Rubio: "It Is Not The United States' Job To Protect Shipping For The Entire Planet, Forever"

 

 

I'm so confused

 

 Libertarian Bill King spends 90% of his essay on the Fourth of July telling us how joyous, proud, fundamentally good, commonsensical, and apolitical it all was, only to end it by saying a political reckoning can't come soon enough lol.

Here. 

OK Bill. 

Yes, unfortunately

 Alex Karp: CEOs Bragging About AI Layoffs Will Create Backlash That Makes Bernie Sanders Look Moderate

I'll bet he ate Hitler Ice Cream when he was a kid

 Giridharadas: DSA is Social Democracy, "Not Gulag Socialism"—Center-Left Ideology That "We Can Have Nice Things"

...This is not gulag socialism ...

Yeah, we know, it's final solution socialism.  

 

Yeah, 10-12 for the moment, but Carville is right, the Anti-Semites have to go from the Democrat Caucus, including AOC, Rashida Tlaib, and Bernie Sanders

But don't kid yourself that the Republican Party is a morally superior alternative anymore.

J. D. Vance already has no anti-semitic enemies to the right in the Republican Party.

Everything forbidden is becoming permitted. 

 

Larry Sabato: We're Talking About 10-12 Democratic Socialists Out Of 200-230 Democrats, "It's A Small Group"

Colorado District One victor over Diana DeGette: Melat Kiros: Gaza "Genocide We Are Complicit In With Our Taxpayer Dollars" Is "A Defining Issue" Of 2026 Campaign

Ocasio-Cortez Endorses El-Sayed in Michigan Dem Senate Primary 

Carville on Democratic Socialists: It's Time To Negotiate A Schism, "I'm Not In That F*cking Political Party"

Carville: Democrats Should Not Seat Avila Chevalier In The Democratic Caucus

 

J. D. Vance wants you to believe white people got Reagan elected in 1984 but not Nixon in 1972, among other fantasies

In any case he's going with "we're more like Nixon than Reagan".

Alrighty then.

I think they'll be a LOT more like Nixon after November.

Watergate a Story of How the Deep State Took Down Nixon

VP Vance, Nixon Library

 

It's not a story, it's a statement of an opinion: "Watergate is a story ...".

 

Like the remark about whites, the Deep State remark is just another one-off Vance burbles more than he argues.

 

Some call this knowing how to get in the headlines, others call it dog-whistling.

 

But let's talk substance instead. 

 

The actual luminaries of the Deep State in 1974 turned out to be Richard Hofstadter's 1964 practitioner of the paranoid style himself, the father of the conservative movement, Senator Barry Goldwater, and a moderate Republican Senator, Howard Baker from Tennessee, Nixon's would-be protector.

 

Goldwater was the one who had to break it to Nixon on August 7, 1974 that once impeached by the House there were not 34 votes to acquit in the U.S. Senate, not even half that, and maybe not even his vote. He was 1974's John Thune of 2026, who doesn't have the votes for Trump's election interference bill.

 

Baker's June 1973 question, "What did the president know, and when did he know it?", asked 53 years ago tomorrow, unintentionally became the opportunity for White House Counsel John Dean to detail Nixon conversations which implicated Nixon in the cover-up of his aides' Baker-styled "rogue activity", the Watergate break-in. 

 

It didn't take long for Baker to realize Nixon also was guilty.

 

At length seven Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee joined all the Democrats in voting to impeach Nixon by July 1974.

 

Had Nixon not taped himself, however, there would have been no Smoking Gun tape from June 23, 1972, which showed that the president ordered H. R. Haldeman to use the CIA to stop the FBI's investigation into the Watergate break-in six days earlier.

 

It doesn't get more Deep State than that. 

 

The release of its transcript on August 5, 1974 convinced everybody that Nixon obstructed justice and covered it up. That's what sent Goldwater & Co. to the White House on August 7th.

 

Nixon announced his resignation the very next day and left office August 9, 1974. 

 

Nobody took down Richard Nixon except Richard Nixon. 

 

By August 1974 66% of the country had joined this so-called Deep State conspiracy against Nixon, which marked an astounding reversal from the 67% who had approved of him in January 1973. 

 

Trump's not far behind Nixon at 58.6% disapproval just one month ago.

 

We'll see what mood the country is in to get rid of him shortly. The November election will be a referendum on this. 

 

A healthy republic repents of its mistakes, and a Christian society accepts that repentance. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

J. D. Vance: Barry Goldwater was the Deep State lol

 Vance: Watergate Is A "Story Of How The Deep State Took Down Nixon"

 

Yes indeedy

 Ukraine Launches War's Largest Attack On Moscow: Zelensky Says "If Ukraine Burns, Moscow Will Burn As Well"

Typical straw man argument from Trump when Saudi Arabia has primarily defensive ballistic missiles, 30x fewer of them than Iran, and used none of them in the recent war when Iran launched 135 against them

 Trump On Iran Deal: "What Am I Going To Do? Let Saudi Arabia Have Missiles, But They Can't?"

Creating space for taking the insane mullahs of Iran seriously is insane, Senator

 

 Sen. Eric Schmitt: Trump Created "Space For Diplomacy" With Iran That Experts Thought Was Impossible

Like I said, Trump is making us all nuts. 

Real Clear Politics puts a guy in its lineup this morning to whom the Obama presidential library denied access three times

 

A Tombstone for Obamaism

Ryan Zickgraf, UnHerd

 

"... the Obama Foundation denied my media credentials for the opening three times ..." 

 

Gee, why would Obama do that to someone who traffics in fabricated anti-gay slurs, even if they're about Trump?

 

 

 I carry no brief for Obama. I've been whaling on (look it up) the guy since 2009.

 

But criticizing Obama's so-called library because it's all about Obama, and Obama himself post-2016 for being apolitical, strike me as bizarre criticisms.

 

Isn't the latter what we want in an ex-president? In fact if the comparison is between George W. Bush and Barack H. Obama in their post-presidencies, it is Obama who has been far more political, most recently sealing the fate of Biden at the eleventh hour of the 2024 race. Bush merely fancies himself a painter.

 

That the Obama library isn't really a library only reminds us that the Affordable Care Act provided neither care nor affordability, just as America will not be great again when Trump leaves office and millions of illegal aliens will still be here.

 

To say that there isn't anything very tangible left of the Obama era can be said of all the presidents in our lifetimes to one degree or another.

 

Yes, it will be hard to ignore Obama's giant tombstone jutting up into the sky from Jackson Park, if you happen to be traveling there. Otherwise he'll be as forgettable as the next guy.

 

But to speak at this hour of Obama's excess of vanity when there has never been a more self-important and grandiose spectacle erupting daily from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue than now in the person of Donald Trump is as batshit crazy as Trump is.

 

Trump is making us all nuts. 

What we want is the truth

Can you imagine a Vance presidency?

I can't. 

Vance: Iran Deal Critics "Want This To Go On Until Every Bomb Has Been Dropped Or Until Every Iranian Is Dead" 

Three Iranian tankers exit U.S. blockade as shipowners eye Hormuz in ‘wary disbelief’ 

 ... The U.S. and Iran signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Monday to end the nearly four-month war, with a formal signing ceremony to take place on Friday in Geneva. The pact, whose details have not been disclosed, is expected to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and waive sanctions on Iran’s oil sales. ... 

Update 12:10pm 

Read the 14-point draft agreement between the US and Iran

... The 14-point memorandum of understanding has not yet been officially released but a copy of it was obtained by CNN from a US official.

... A White House spokesperson said the text did not reflect the actual memorandum. 

... The US official told CNN that the text reflects the agreement signed digitally by President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Iranian parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf on Sunday. 

... Bloomberg earlier published a version of the draft. ...                                          

Update 5:20pm

The CNN story above now contains the official agreement, as of 38 minutes ago.  

A day after the June 16th primaries, everybody has 95% of the vote counted, except for California

 

You can always count on Brit Hume to state the obvious long after the fact

 Brit Hume: "Iran Has Lost A Lot, But This Is Not Unconditional Surrender"

 

 

Trump is a POS, he's describing what Putin does routinely to Ukraine and for which he never lifts a finger to complain to or sanction Russia

 Israel meanwhile sends evacuation warnings ahead of strikes.

 Trump: Israeli Attacks In Lebanon Are "Vicious," "Too Much" -- "Knock Down Entire Apartment House Looking For Someone"

It's a giant con: They signed a nothingburger with Iran, that's why they're not showing it to us

 

 

It is another desperate ploy to jawbone oil prices down in a world hurtling toward tank bottom.

 

Meanwhile, why did Vance have to sign?

 

Is Trump on his last legs?

 

And we're still dealing with Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf? I thought Trump said all this took extra time because they were trying to find a more moderate faction?

 

It's all BS, MS, Piledhigh and Deep. 

 

 

June 11:  Oil executives warn White House that gas prices will get worse 

 

... “Both camps know exactly what is at stake,” said one industry official who frequently interacts with the administration. “The industry folks are intent on making sure that if the worm turns, the White House does not point fingers that the industry did not do enough.”

“Everyone everywhere fully appreciates that the standoff cannot go on for another 30-45 days without the political calculations changing,” the official said.

“The White House knows and understands the severity of the potential situation. … They are politically constricted from saying that publicly.” ...

 

June 15: Trump, Vance, Iranian official sign US-Iran peace memo

... Both President Trump and Vice President Vance electronically signed a memorandum of understanding with Iran on Sunday, while Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, speaker of the Iranian Parliament, signed for the Iranian side, senior U.S. officials said Monday. ...

 

 Vance: Iran Deal A "Very General Document," We'll Figure Out The Details In The "Technical Negotiation Phase"

Vice President Vance acknowledged that the preliminary U.S.-Iran memorandum is only "about a page and a half" and described it as a "very general document. ... what the MOU does is set up a framework ..."                                   

 

Trump is a terrible judge of character. Ghalibaf is an IRGC fundamentalist.

 

 

President Paula White calleth those things which be not as though they were

 

No new wars

Says He Never Promised No New Wars...

Trump: "I Didn't Guarantee No War," "This Is Not An Endless War"

C-SPAN

The Times of Israel 

 

 

 

Update:

Trump storms out of interview after being challenged about election fraud claims, DOJ fund