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George Conway, the ex-husband of President Donald Trump’s first term senior counselor Kellyanne Conway (now Fitzpatrick), posted on the social media platform X that members of Congress need to show “courage” against the Republican agenda. “The spirit of liberty requires moral courage among the people who are elected to Congress — who take the oath to serve as members of Congress under the Constitution, to uphold the constitutional laws of the United States,” Conway said in a video posted to X on Wednesday . “But it also requires all of us. It requires us to speak out without fear. It requires us to tell others unpleasant truths that they do not want to hear. It requires us to march in the streets, to vote, to organize, to ensure that the spirit of liberty spreads and lives and finds its way into the Congress of the United States.” Conway added that in addition to engaging in activism and organizing, people need to display both humility and empathy. “This rekindling of the spirit o...
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Trump's using WWI-era tactics in Iran: WSJ

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President Donald Trump is trying to win his war in Iran using geopolitical tactics not employed since World War I, according to a foreign policy expert. “Mr. Trump, however, operates from an older playbook” than the one used in the prevailing geopolitical order, “one in which tariffs, embargoes and the application of economic power were far more common,” Josh Lipsky, chairman of international economics at the Atlantic Council and senior director of the council’s GeoEconomics Center, wrote for The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday . These tools include using the U.S. International Development Finance Corp. to insure ships crossing the Strait of Hormuz and threatening Spain with an absolute trade embargo “based on the government’s refusal to allow U.S. aircraft to use Spanish bases as a staging location for attacks” by relying on the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. Lipsky suggested the administration is also considering using the Defense Production Act “to direct the priva...
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Trump team 'frantically' trying to avoid admitting they’re 'a bunch of morons': expert

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An international policy expert says it’s no longer a matter of which direction President Donald Trump plans to take his self-started Middle Eastern war — it’s about a president desperately trying to hide the truth of his stupidity. “… [E]ven the war supporters are realizing that this was a horrible idea ,” Duss told Wajahat Ali on Ali’s “Left Hook” podcast. “And I think this is a particularly dangerous moment because now they're frantically trying to find ways not to have to admit that they're a bunch of morons, which means that they're going to argue for escalation. There's no other option.” “I mean, the other option is admitting that they were wrong. And as we know, that is something that does not happen when you're a Washington war hawk who loves war. The only answer is more war. If the war didn't work, it's because we didn't war hard enough,” said Duss, who served as president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace and later as foreign policy a...
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Former Trump official rails against 'decapitation' of US intel as terrorists advance

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President Donald Trump’s former DHS Chief decried Trump 2.0 imploding the U.S.’s intelligence community at a time when Trump has single-handedly incited war with a historic catalyst for terrorism. Miles Taylor could not stop himself from piling onto the concerns of MS NOW guest speaker Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), who warned MS NOW anchor Nicole Wallace that Trump officials have hollowed out U.S. intelligence’s counterterrorism wing with dismissals and firings. “[FBI Director] Kash Patel, over the last year, has waged war on our counterterrorism capabilities at the FBI. He has summarily dismissed some of our top people who hunt terrorists domestically right now, CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency), which is the agency that protects us from cyber threats, is closed,” said Murphy. “… So not only are they not starting up protection against terrorist attacks, they are weakening our ability to find those plots and stop them. And the plot and the threat is going to...
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Ex-Bush aide tears into entire 'sickening' Trump admin

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Steve Schmidt, a former Republican strategist who once worked for President George W. Bush , posted on his Monday Substack that President Donald Trump’s entire administration is “barbaric.” “Things are rotten in America,” Schmidt said. “The president is rotten, and so is his villainous Cabinet.” He cited as one example the fact that Secretary of State Marco Rubio attended the “Shield of the Americas” summit with Enrique Tarrio, a “Proud Boy terrorist” who was convicted of conspiracy for Trump’s attempted coup after the 2020 presidential election. “It is a sickening picture — an MRI — that exposes the rot of Rubio’s character,” Schmidt argued. “The scripture-quoting hypocrite is directly, personally and morally responsible for the destruction of American aid programs that will cause the deaths of 14 million human beings by 2030 before the bell tolls at the end of these rotten years.” Elaborating on the “barbaric” administration, Schmidt wrote of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth th...
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Trump speech skewered as 'ultimate betrayal of the MAGA voter base'

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President Donald Trump declared on Monday that although America has "won" in the Iran war he started, it has not yet "won enough" — and his wishy-washiness is being noticed and mocked online. For example, an X user who goes by Adam Langriyal posted that he did not accept Trump's attempts to play up the Iran war. "Trump was the first President of the USA dumb enough to bomb Iran for Israel," Langriyal said. "The Epstien files indicate rhat they had some pretty damning stuff on him that made it impossible for him to say No." Another X user, going merely by WM, shared a meme from the 2012 movie "Django Unchained" in which Leonardo DiCaprio laughs at a joke. "Hanging on the daily word of Trump still 😔," WM posted. The shared post noted that Trump seems to be withdrawing "in a rush from yet another conflict without a strategy." These comments reacted to Trump's Monday speech to Republican lawmakers at a ...
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News24 | Cape Town taxi association halts Nyanga services amid shootings, rank tensions

Thousands of commuters in Nyanga are expected to be stranded on Monday after taxi operators decided to halt services over safety fears. from News24 News24/TopStories/rss https://ift.tt/1jhiLtC via sinceretalk
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