Our Weak And Cowardly Leader Keeps Yielding To Our Adversaries And Selling Out America
Let's keep working hard this weekend for Johnny Garcia in TX-35. The election is Tuesday!
Happy Sunday all. While we do not yet have the details of the deal the regime is striking to-open the Strait of Hormuz what has been reported sure appears as Trump is surrendering to Iran. Here is what Lindsay Graham posted yesterday:
“It makes one wonder why the war starting to begin with if these perceptions are accurate.”
And it isn’t just Senator Graham wondering how Trump could have f-cked this thing up so badly. Here is conservative commentator Stephen Hayes mocking the White House Comms Director (yes Cheung came from the mixed martial arts world, UFC) for attacking a tweet from Mike Pompeo:
Here’s the Pompeo tweet:
Trump has been appeasing Putin and working to help Russia win its war with Ukraine since his first day in office and gotten nothing in return. He just went to China and made major concessions without getting anything in return. And now Iran - it appears he once again is yielding to an adversary, getting nothing in return for the US, and once again leaving the Iranian-Russian (and Chinese) alliance in a far stronger position. As I wrote a few days ago it is as if every chance he gets Trump works to make Russia and China great again and weaken America:
Listen to Senator Thom Tillis rail on Trump and Hegseth this morning on CNN:
Adding this second clip so you can hear how angry Senate Republicans are at Trump for working against Cassidy and Cornyn and leaving them with a disgraced Paxton in Texas. Senate Republicans are incredibly, incredibly angry at the White House right now. It is a huge problem for Trump:
The Iranian government posted this doozy yesterday:
The Wall Street Journal published this chart with a new poll they released yesterday. It shows a similar steep downward slope in both Trump and GOP approval that we saw in the data we reviewed yesterday:
Yesterday I shared the current Real Clear Politics generic ballot tracker showing Dems up 7.4 points, a spread bigger than Election Day 2018 in what was a blow out year for us. Interactive Polls published this historical comparison today that helps explain why Trump is so ready to surrender to the Iranians this weekend. We are running 3 points of 2018, one of the worst mid terms Rs had in many decades, and 9 points ahead of 2022, a mid-term election that was actually pretty good for us:
Have some terrific interviews and presentations for you this weekend:
National leaders Governor Josh Shapiro and Senator Ruben Gallego
Impressive House candidates Jonathan Nez (AZ-02), Denise Powell (NE-02), Bobby Pulido (TX-15) and our terrific new candidate for Governor of Ohio, Amy Acton
My weekly strategy talk, Trump and Trumpism Are Failing, And We Need To Grow More Ambitious Now, and a new interview with the DCCC’s Will Van Nuys on winning this November and new dark tactics the House Rs have rolled out in recent weeks
And now…..
It’s Time To Get To Work Everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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What an absolute disaster this war has been, not least for the Iranian people and especially those who opposed the regime. (Highly recommend the episode of This American Life called Blackout https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-american-life/id201671138?i=1000765777451). If there’s a consolation here it’s that the shithead in the oval office won’t be able to credibly pretend he got a better deal than Obama, if people like Graham and Pompeo are criticizing the deal already.
Tillis saying something like “calling Paxton ethically challenged is like saying Jeffrey Dahmer had an eating disorder” was pretty funny.
I’m off to canvass for a local state assembly candidate (Amy Slavensky). Excited that a college Dems group will be participating.
The problem with Pompeo's tweet is he doesn't present any way this can be done. When we "denied access to Iranian money" before Obama got his deal, it was because of a large scale diplomatic agenda that de-banked anyone doing business with Iranian oil money, and their money was held in escrow (I think in Chinese banks from what I can recall).
We've destroyed every bridge with our allies (I'm not even sure who our allies are now. Russia?), and everyone is desperate for the oil to flow again. Obama kept the oil flowing while the Iranians had limited access to their money.
This administration has no patience to do a deal like that, and tore up the existing deal that was working. They'd never get anything like that. I seriously doubt anyone would trust us to make a deal like that now, especially since the oil and nitrates need to start flowing out of the Gulf as soon as they possibly can. This is just so fucking stupid it boggles the mind how we wound up here.
So I think Pompeo, who also if memory serves opposed the JCPOA as well, is full of shit. We invested so much as a country in JCPOA that tearing it up was the first disastrous step. If it stopped working, fine then tear it up, but once as a country you invest that much in a diplomatic effort, when we reversed course we lost the trust of our allies. I think that happened well before this war started.
Lindsey almost sounds like he's starting to get it through his addled head.
The book "Chokepoints" by Edward Fishman is a great reference for some of the tools we developed that made the JCPOA possible.