BeachBum retweeted
@WhiteHouse Who we are supposed to believe when he says we are winning.
🇺🇸Trump has stated 85 times that he defeated Iran.
🇺🇸Trump has stated 75 times that Iran is destroyed.
🇺🇸Trump has stated 68 times that a deal is imminent.
🇺🇸Trump has stated 55 times that the Strait of Hormuz is open.
Elect a clown, expect a circus.
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BeachBum retweeted
@WhiteHouse If Republicans win. Everyone gets Jon Husted’s ass I guess is the Republican promise.
Remember when voting on Tuesday that the President is 100% focused on Jon Husted's ass instead of YOUR higher gas and grocery prices, and plans to make life for Americans even MORE expensive when he restarts the war with Iran.
And not ONE Republican will stop him.
VOTE BLUE!
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BeachBum retweeted
Trump's DOJ flew all the way to Alaska to meddle in its election & a judge tossed their bogus suit
& GOP candidate Dan Sullivan says he'll accept results win or lose
They have NO business meddling in state-run elections & NO legitimate reason to try - TN washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/…
& GOP candidate Dan Sullivan says he'll accept results win or lose
They have NO business meddling in state-run elections & NO legitimate reason to try - TN washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/…
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BeachBum retweeted
🚨 Make no mistake: The Trump administration is NOT working every day to serve the American people.
“It is an administration that every day wakes up and says … ‘How can we please Donald Trump?’” Marc Elias says.
They're betting you'll stop paying attention. Follow us to stay tuned in.
“It is an administration that every day wakes up and says … ‘How can we please Donald Trump?’” Marc Elias says.
They're betting you'll stop paying attention. Follow us to stay tuned in.
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BeachBum retweeted
Why do the orphans each have their own "room" at night?
First, the reassuring part: a room of one's own doesn't mean sleeping alone. The orphans bed down on soft hay, surrounded by the comforting rumbles of the others, with a Keeper right beside them throughout the night. to one another through the walls before settling down for sleep.
As for the separate rooms themselves, there's one main reason: they allow the Keepers to provide one-to-one care, feed each orphan during the night and closely monitor how much every individual is eating and how they're doing. Each orphan has its own cosy, secure space – close to the herd, but a space of its own.
As they grow older and need a little less support at night, they graduate to communal stockades, where they can enjoy the company of one another while also encountering nocturnal wild visitors that wander through.
First, the reassuring part: a room of one's own doesn't mean sleeping alone. The orphans bed down on soft hay, surrounded by the comforting rumbles of the others, with a Keeper right beside them throughout the night. to one another through the walls before settling down for sleep.
As for the separate rooms themselves, there's one main reason: they allow the Keepers to provide one-to-one care, feed each orphan during the night and closely monitor how much every individual is eating and how they're doing. Each orphan has its own cosy, secure space – close to the herd, but a space of its own.
As they grow older and need a little less support at night, they graduate to communal stockades, where they can enjoy the company of one another while also encountering nocturnal wild visitors that wander through.
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RT @evamarghe: Il mondo si tinge di Blu e Oro
Da New York a Parigi, Roma, Berlino, Rio e Londra i colori dell'Ucraina sono diventati un si…
Da New York a Parigi, Roma, Berlino, Rio e Londra i colori dell'Ucraina sono diventati un si…
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BeachBum retweeted
THE MOST INCOMPETENT WAR IN HISTORY: SARAH PAINE ON TRUMP’S IRAN DISASTER
Dr. Sarah Paine, a leading historian of great-power conflict and strategy, delivers a blunt verdict on the Iran war. She calls it one of the most incompetent wars in human history. The decision ignored essment, put maximum costs on America itself, and left permanent damage to the country’s power and alliances. This is not hindsight—it is the predictable result of hubris meeting reality.
THE CORE VERDICT
➡️ “The Iran war is probably one of the most incompetent wars in human history.”
➡️ A competent war puts the costs on the enemy and minimizes them for yourself.
➡️ This one did the opposite.
THE COST CATASTROPHE
➡️ It trashed the US economy.
➡️ It blew the US alliance system.
➡️ Iran is hurting, but the collateral damage is taking down the world’s economy.
➡️ That transforms the United States from a partner into an annoyance—and for many, a primary adversary—because it is threatening their economies.
➡️ “That’s breathtakingly incompetent.”
THE STRATEGIC BLIND SPOT
➡️ Any serious assessment looks at the enemy’s strengths and your own weaknesses, plus everyone else who might intervene.
➡️ That was absent.
➡️ The first thing Iran would do is shut Hormuz. Narrow seas close in wartime. Ukraine already showed this with the Black Sea.
➡️ Shore artillery, mines, and other tools stop traffic. There is no mystery here.
➡️ The big naval base in Bahrain becomes unreachable. The fallback is Diego Garcia, 2,500 miles away in the middle of nowhere. “That would be a mess.”
THE HUBRIS THAT MADE IT POSSIBLE
➡️ The people making the calls are historically unqualified for the job. That makes them profoundly dangerous.
➡️ Type A hubris assumes all decisions that matter happen in the United States.
➡️ Type B hubris assumes being good at one thing makes you good at everything.
➡️ Half-court tennis: you only watch your own side and never study the other team.
➡️ The Iranians understand Americans far better than Americans understand them.
THE UNFEASIBLE OBJECTIVE
➡️ Trying to “solve” Iran with 90 million people was never realistic.
➡️ Nazi Germany had roughly 80 million and required an occupation force of about 1.5 million just to hold it after the war—before counting everyone else.
➡️ The goal was unattainable. Pursuing it guarantees overextension and a bad ending.
➡️ The lesson the world takes is simple: get a nuke. The war incentivized proliferation.
➡️ This was a pivotal error. The choices that existed before are gone and will not return. “We will never be the trusted partner ever again. It’s done.”
THE BOTTOM LINE
The Iran war did not merely fail. It maximized American costs, destroyed trust with allies, and handed every rival a clearer reason to treat the United States as a threat to their own prosperity. Competence would have contained the problem at affordable cost. Hubris chose the opposite.
This is what permanent strategic damage looks like.
#IranWar #SarahPaine #StrategicIncompetence #HormuzDisaster #USHubris #AllianceCollapse #CatastrophicMistake
HT: YouTube The Diary Of A CEO
Dr. Sarah Paine, a leading historian of great-power conflict and strategy, delivers a blunt verdict on the Iran war. She calls it one of the most incompetent wars in human history. The decision ignored essment, put maximum costs on America itself, and left permanent damage to the country’s power and alliances. This is not hindsight—it is the predictable result of hubris meeting reality.
THE CORE VERDICT
➡️ “The Iran war is probably one of the most incompetent wars in human history.”
➡️ A competent war puts the costs on the enemy and minimizes them for yourself.
➡️ This one did the opposite.
THE COST CATASTROPHE
➡️ It trashed the US economy.
➡️ It blew the US alliance system.
➡️ Iran is hurting, but the collateral damage is taking down the world’s economy.
➡️ That transforms the United States from a partner into an annoyance—and for many, a primary adversary—because it is threatening their economies.
➡️ “That’s breathtakingly incompetent.”
THE STRATEGIC BLIND SPOT
➡️ Any serious assessment looks at the enemy’s strengths and your own weaknesses, plus everyone else who might intervene.
➡️ That was absent.
➡️ The first thing Iran would do is shut Hormuz. Narrow seas close in wartime. Ukraine already showed this with the Black Sea.
➡️ Shore artillery, mines, and other tools stop traffic. There is no mystery here.
➡️ The big naval base in Bahrain becomes unreachable. The fallback is Diego Garcia, 2,500 miles away in the middle of nowhere. “That would be a mess.”
THE HUBRIS THAT MADE IT POSSIBLE
➡️ The people making the calls are historically unqualified for the job. That makes them profoundly dangerous.
➡️ Type A hubris assumes all decisions that matter happen in the United States.
➡️ Type B hubris assumes being good at one thing makes you good at everything.
➡️ Half-court tennis: you only watch your own side and never study the other team.
➡️ The Iranians understand Americans far better than Americans understand them.
THE UNFEASIBLE OBJECTIVE
➡️ Trying to “solve” Iran with 90 million people was never realistic.
➡️ Nazi Germany had roughly 80 million and required an occupation force of about 1.5 million just to hold it after the war—before counting everyone else.
➡️ The goal was unattainable. Pursuing it guarantees overextension and a bad ending.
➡️ The lesson the world takes is simple: get a nuke. The war incentivized proliferation.
➡️ This was a pivotal error. The choices that existed before are gone and will not return. “We will never be the trusted partner ever again. It’s done.”
THE BOTTOM LINE
The Iran war did not merely fail. It maximized American costs, destroyed trust with allies, and handed every rival a clearer reason to treat the United States as a threat to their own prosperity. Competence would have contained the problem at affordable cost. Hubris chose the opposite.
This is what permanent strategic damage looks like.
#IranWar #SarahPaine #StrategicIncompetence #HormuzDisaster #USHubris #AllianceCollapse #CatastrophicMistake
HT: YouTube The Diary Of A CEO
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BeachBum retweeted
The cost of everyday life, our access to health care, and the rule of law itself are on the ballot right now.
Here in Michigan, I cast my vote for Jocelyn Benson, Abdul el-Sayed, and great Democratic candidates up and down the ballot.
If you haven’t already, make a plan to vote on or before Tuesday at IWillVote.com.
Here in Michigan, I cast my vote for Jocelyn Benson, Abdul el-Sayed, and great Democratic candidates up and down the ballot.
If you haven’t already, make a plan to vote on or before Tuesday at IWillVote.com.
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BeachBum retweeted
this is the first time in US history a city mayor is more popular nationally than the president
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Thank you @nytimes for finally bringing Donald Trump's age to your front page today. @jaketapper see how it's done?
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BeachBum retweeted
@RpsAgainstTrump Vietnam in a week. Meanwhile, he’s trying to get out of Iran like my Roomba trying to get out from under a chair.
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Retweet if you want Abdul El-Sayed to win by an even bigger margin now 🔥
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WOW!! So many people are showing up to vote EARLY that the estimated wait at the Montgomery County Board of Elections in Ohio hit THREE HOURS as of 3 p.m. today.
This isn’t Election Day. This is early voting. People are SHOWING UP.
Trump is SCARED.
This isn’t Election Day. This is early voting. People are SHOWING UP.
Trump is SCARED.
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