Russia is not my enemy.

What exactly has Iran done that is so unforgivable? Did it invade continents? Colonize half the earth? Drop atomic bombs on civilians? Build military bases around the globe? Topple the governments? Starve nations with sanctions? NO. It's US who did this all!

Seeing Green Bay get destroyed on TNF somehow was only the third best sports story yesterday for Chicago fans.

Russia and Iran need to be loud and clear: no deals, no ceasefires. Come to us when you've had enough and are ready to surrender.

Netanyahu walked into the United Nations expecting a global audience—and instead got rows of empty seats. As he took the podium, diplomats from more than 50 countries walked out. An Israeli tally later counted 77 delegations left the chamber when he entered to speak. Nothing says “greatest ally” quite like delivering a speech to a half-empty room. Whatever Netanyahu came to say, a significant number of governments had already decided they had no interest in hearing it. I love that for him.

Jeffrey Sachs: a president stood at the UN and claimed the right to annihilate a civilization. Congress said nothing. That is the constitutional order collapsing in public. “I shuddered then, and I shudder now that a president of the United States can stand at the podium of the UN General Assembly speaking to world leaders in a language of annihilation of other countries and of sending them to hell. It was ghastly, unprecedented, totally disgusting, disgraceful for the United States. But I would also say a measure of how broken the constitutional order of the United States is. Trump basically said, like a madman, which I think arguably he is, that he and he alone will decide the survival of Iran. He said that he has a big, big choice to make. Maybe Iran will be a great country. Maybe Iran will be annihilated. Maybe Trump will send it to hell. And not only was the language vulgar in a way that I certainly could never in my lifetime have imagined coming from a president of the United States or anybody standing at the UN podium—because what Trump said was odious and completely in violation of every religious, moral, ethical, and legal standard that we have in this world—it was also a measure of the brazen collapse of our Constitution. Is there a political system where one man decides the fate of another civilization? Is that how the American system works? Of course the answer is no. The founding fathers who rebelled against a mad King George III were very explicit in the Declaration of Independence, celebrated this year 250 years after its issuance. We’re in the 250th anniversary, one that Trump says is about our freedom. It was explicitly that King George arrogated, took on the authority to put the military above civil rule. And when the founding fathers wrote the US Constitution, they assigned specifically the power to declare war not to the commander-in-chief, but solely and exclusively—and not by choice, not if they care about it or want to or want to delegate it or not, but solely—to the United States Congress. And Trump said yesterday he doesn’t care what the public thinks. He doesn’t care what the vote is. He says it doesn’t even cross my mind. And he said earlier this year, when he was asked, well, are there any limits on your power? He thought about it. He said Yes, my morality, but it’s my will. It’s what I want to do. Otherwise, no, there are no other limits. What did our Congress do on that occasion? I can tell you, as we know, that the majority party in both houses simply remained silent. That is a violation of their sacred oath of office, which is to uphold the Constitution. Trump yesterday said he’s going to have the difficult choice of whether to annihilate, by the way, one of the most ancient civilizations in the world, 5,000 years old, twenty times older than the United States of America. And what did our Speaker of the House say? Well, he said nothing, of course. What did our Senate majority leader say? He said, of course, nothing. What did all of the party of the president of the United States say, the members of Congress? They said, of course, nothing. This is worse than the Roman Empire. There was a Senate that actually still said something. Our Senate says nothing. We are so broken that not only do we have a madman in power, but there is no respect for our constitutional order. And the president can make statements as he made yesterday, unprecedented in the chamber of the General Assembly in front of the world leaders, speaking like the worst tyrant or gangster imaginable, and not a murmur from the Republican Party which dominates the House and the Senate. You know, I am not partisan. And a Democratic president who dared to be as absolutely mad and deranged as this president would probably find subservience in that party too. So I’m not even making a partisan point. I’m making a point about the collapse of our constitutional order. Have we come to a point where one man, who I happen to think is utterly incompetent, utterly sociopathic, actually—when people are killed under his order, not a moment of reflection or remorse when 150 schoolgirls are murdered, and he knows the truth. He says, yeah, the Iranians probably did it. We’ll find out. No, not any control at all in our system of government. So for me, you asked how I feel. I shudder at the last 24 hours, both at what the president said. It made my skin crawl. I was sitting there in the chamber listening to this madness. I mean it really, psychopathic madness, speaking in this way, with a vulgarity that is unimaginable. But then I’ve shuddered since then at the lack of response by the leaders, the majority leader of the US Senate, the Speaker of the House, Supreme Court justices, anybody to say no. In our system of government, it’s not one person who decides on the fate of another civilization. We are a country, we say, first of all, of representation, and the American people are aghast at this. They oppose it overwhelmingly. They do not support this war of Netanyahu and Trump, which is a two-person war of murder and destruction and assassination of leaders of another country. They do not support it. And the constitutional order is that we are a representative government, and our representatives have an oath of office that only they can declare war. So where are they standing up to say No, you don’t have a penny to spend on this? We control the power of the purse. The tens or hundreds of billions of dollars that Trump has wasted of American income in this flagrant war of whim. Where is Congress to say you have no authority whatsoever to spend that because only we can decide on the spending and only we can declare war. So this is the grim fact. It wasn’t just the awful statements. That was my first reaction. But then I thought, what have we come to when one person can make a statement like this and then remain essentially unchallenged in the United States system of government?” Annihilation is not diplomacy. Congressional silence is not restraint. A constitutional republic cannot survive if one man claims the power to decide whether another civilization lives or dies.

‼️ Pezeshkian is severely criticized by a great many Iranians for not being aggressive enough. All I know is the man boldly stood on enemy ground in the midst of a major war — an enemy who seeks to kill him — and delivered a powerfully defiant speech in behalf of his people.

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Iran President Pezeshkian at the UN: "Those who are terrorists and train terrorists tell us that we are terrorists." "For two hundred years, Iran has not attacked any country. For two hundred years, we have always defended ourselves." "They bombed and killed these children, with weapons supplied by America and Israel. They were guilty of nothing. They had committed no crime." "In Gaza, they murdered more than eighty thousand innocent people." "Then they say others are terrorists, these are the ones causing instability -- are we the ones causing instability?" "Anyone they want to destroy, they label a terrorist." "Palestine remains a wound on the body of the conscience of the international community, and Gaza remains a symbol of the failure of international mechanisms to prevent the suffering of civilians." "Israel murders thousands of people in Gaza every week. But Iran was bombed while at the negotiating table." "Yet Israel receives billions of dollars in free weapons as a reward, and it is licensed to bomb any capital it wishes." "The nuclear bombs are in Israel, but the inspectors are in Iran. Israel kills, yet Iran is sanctioned, and this is a tragedy that would make anyone you tell laugh." "We must not build a world in which military power replaces legitimacy, sanctions replace diplomacy, terror replaces politics, and war replaces dialogue." "We have found our answer. We need power. Because a nation that cannot defend itself, they crush it in this world." "Let him know: the Iranian nation, in the face of force, will not bow its head, and will make the aggressors regret it."

RT @sdayyy1:

Dear world, Iran is not killing the babies, Israel is.

🇮🇷|"Israel kills and kills. But Iran is subject to sanctions. This is a true tragedy, which would make anyone hearing it laugh at best." He said it at the UN. The irony is so thick you could choke on it. Israel bombs hospitals. Israel bombs schools. Israel bombs universities. Israel kills 74,000 people in Gaza. Israel has nuclear weapons and refuses to sign the NPT. Israel refuses IAEA inspections. And who gets sanctioned? Iran. For what? For existing. For not bowing. For saying "no nuclear weapons" while Israel has hundreds. "They kill, we are sanctioned." This isn't justice. It's not even hypocrisy. Hypocrisy requires a pretense of principles. This is something more naked: the law of the bully. The strong do what they want. The weak suffer what they must. And if the weak refuse to be weak, they get punished for it. "We are punished, those who are ill, innocent people, the poor, the least privileged in our society are the targets of these sanctions." That's the point. That's always been the point. Sanctions aren't designed to change government behavior. They're designed to make life unbearable for ordinary people until they overthrow their own government. It's collective punishment. It's a siege. It's economic warfare. And this is what the US seeks to do with all countries: sacrifice the population of a country to achieve illegitimate goals. They did it to Iraq. Half a million children dead. Madeleine Albright said "we think the price is worth it." They did it to Venezuela. They did it to Cuba. They did it to Syria. They're doing it to Iran. They can't defeat Iran militarily. So they strangle its people. But here's the thing: Iran has been under sanctions for 47 years. And it's still standing. Its missiles still fly. Its oil still flows to China. Its people still fill the streets. Its Supreme Leader's picture still goes up at the UN. They can sanction. They can blockade. They can threaten. They can kill. But they cannot make Iran bow. That's the tragedy. For them. #Iran #UNGA #Pezeshkian #Sanctions #Hypocrisy #Resistance

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With the response being an overwhelming yes here’s my promise: If elected I will vote to remove Mike Johnson and will nominate and exclusively vote to make Thomas Massie Speaker of the House. If you’re in, help me win. It only takes 34%.

And some people say that cow farts are destroying the planet.

Question to non-israeli zionists: If you met someone who delibrately killed a baby, would you ever call them your friend? No? Then how is it possible that you would call israel a friend? Can you answer that?

OK it’s gone enough. Rise up. Russia is not our enemy. #NoWarWithRussia

Iran doesn’t own the porn industry. Iran doesn’t run Epstein Island. Iran doesn’t traffic children behind private gates and famous names. Iran doesn’t mock Jesus and call it "Freedom". Iran doesn’t kill people, then walk onto a stage and sell itself as the peacemaker.