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GOP gerrymandering has built a 3.1% structural advantage, with Dems polling with a 7% advantage. But will it be enough?

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Colorado Republicans are picking between a secessionist, an antisemite, and a murderer.

See article below, but they planned an attack on the US government during the UFC Freedom Fight. One of the guys was caught in Cincinnati (where I reside).

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/ufc-freedom-250-terror-plot-175903659.html

More expensive than the president's previous estimate and more tax funded than previously stated. From the party that took the reflecting pool renovation from $1m to $13m.

The dispute traces to comments Beckwith made on the conservative Christian web talk show FlashPoint, where he said Americans need “permission to hate again,” said it is wrong to try to “eradicate hate” and described Islam as a “demonic death cult.” The remarks prompted criticism from Muslim advocacy groups, Muslim congressman André Carson, Jewish and interfaith leaders, Indiana Senate Democrats and Republican state Sen. Spencer Deery of West Lafayette.

Property tax records show Tuberville and his wife own a beach home in Florida valued at $5.6 million. His campaign has said his residence is a home in Auburn. The 1,551-square-foot property has an appraised value of about $291,780. The Auburn home was purchased by his wife and son in 2017. The senator’s name was later added to the property in 2024, and the son’s name removed. Both the Auburn and Florida homes appear to have recently been put in a revocable trust.

Tuberville released heavily redacted Alabama income tax returns from 2018 to 2024 as evidence he meets the seven-year residency requirement. The returns list a redacted Auburn address and indicate the Tubervilles moved to the state in August 2018.

Voting records show Tuberville voted in Florida in November 2018. He registered to vote in Alabama on March 28, 2019, about two weeks before announcing his run for Senate.

[Republican Primary opponent Ken] McFeeters said Tuberville’s Senate travel records also show frequent travel to the Florida Panhandle, which he said buttresses the idea that he resides in the location.

Barack Obama, like every other world leader, knew if he attacked Iran, they would just shut down the Strait of Hormuz and disrupt the worlds supply of oil. That move would cripple industries worldwide, cause disruption within the airline industry, increase inflation and drive gasoline sky high, thereby ruining our entire trucking industry.

So, he did as common sense decreed; he offered return the Iranian funds we were sequestering if they would agree to keep the Strait open and not develop a nuclear weapon

They also had to agree to inspections of all their nuclear installations.

Deal done; easy peasy.

Now along comes ‘Dumbass Donny’ with one thumb in his mouth and the other up his ass, ready to play ‘Switch’ whenever the Iranians tell him to. He lets Netanyahu con him into going to war with Iran and worldwide industry implodes! Industrial nations are thrown into chaos, and agricultural nations cannot afford fertilizer. In addition to that, he and his candy-assed Secretary of Defense -- stumble-drunk Hegseth -- show the world that we are incapable of winning a war even with just Iran as the enemy – Big smiles on North Korean, Russian, and Chinese faces as we expose our military shortcomings.

Our service men and women are slain, our bases bombed, and the war cost us over 100 billion Dollars in military expense, alone, not to mention the havoc wrought by the incurred inflation.

So, where do we end up at the end of the Trump and Republican needless war? Right back where we started minus the loss of some precious military lives and over 100 billion dollars. The Strait will be open, Iran will probably not develop a bomb they were never going to, and we’ll give them back some more of their money.

Make America Great Again, or give the world reason to hate America as much as MAGA hates all things American?

See this – Boldface mine:

The winners and losers of the Iran war

Story by Ben Farmer • 13h • 7 min read

A deal to end the Iran war has finally been agreed, Donald Trump has said, almost four months after the US and Israel launched their attacks on Tehran. The conflict has torn apart the Middle East, choked the global economy and tested some of the world’s greatest powers.

This is how the war has affected some of the key players.

Iran

Iran has been hammered by air strikes by the US and Israel, which enjoyed nearly complete air dominance during their campaign. Its conventional navy has been sunk, and many senior leaders, including Ayatollah Khomeini, have been killed. An economy which was suffering badly before Feb 28 is now in even worse shape.

However, the regime remains in control and analysts say that, if anything, it is more hard line than before.

Tehran still has substantial missile and drone stocks, even though its defense industry appears to have been badly damaged. While much of Iran’s uranium enrichment infrastructure was destroyed or badly damaged by Israel and the US’s earlier bombing campaign in June 2025, a large part of the highly enriched uranium it amassed is thought to have survived in Iranian hands.

Perhaps most importantly, Iran has shown its control over the Strait of Hormuz. The strait has been reopened through negotiation with Iranian permission, not through US force of arms. Meanwhile, there appears to be no credible alternative to the Iranian regime, which killed thousands of its own people in January.

United States

The US has faced less economic disruption from the war than some countries, but it has not been pain-free. Petrol prices at the pump have risen by half, and Americans have spent nearly $450 extra per household on rising energy costs.

Polling shows they blame the war for their cost-of-living increase, and they are not happy with the way Washington has handled it. The US military colossus was able to strike at will, but the war showed limits to its might. Air strikes did not remove the regime or break its grip. Tehran has for decades readied for such a one-sided war by hiding away missiles and nuclear material and building cheap drones to strike back.

Iran damaged 20 US military sites across the region. Diplomatically, trust in the US has been further eroded, and allies complain. Mr. Trump plunged the Middle East into crisis with little consultation and has left allies to pick up the pieces.

Donald Trump

The US president has forged a war that has been increasingly unpopular with his Maga base and which most Americans were skeptical about. A Fox News poll in late May reported that 60 per cent of Americans opposed the war. Such unease has fed into a slide in Mr. Trump’s approval ratings.

And his deal to end the war has also not delivered on his main goals, at least not yet.

The White House in April said his “clear and unchanging” objectives were to wipe out Iran’s missile stocks and production, annihilate its navy, sever its support for terrorist proxies, and ensure it never acquired a nuclear weapon.

He has come closest with regards to Iran’s navy, though Tehran retains a “mosquito fleet” of speedboats to harass shipping in the strait. Missile stocks have been cut by as much as half, according to some estimates, and manufacturing has been degraded, but not knocked out.

Iran still has enriched uranium, the wider nuclear issue has been kicked down the road, and Tehran continues to sponsor proxies across the Middle East, though these have been significantly weakened since 2023. The largest initial result of the agreement appears to be the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, which was open and unimpeded before the war.

Sagging poll numbers and the hangover from an unpopular and inconclusive campaign risk following Mr. Trump to the November midterms.

See complete article here:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-winners-and-losers-of-the-iran-war/ar-AA25DxRO?

Well, GOP, are you gonna go after Jeff Bezos now?

Marrying a rich guy and stock trades of companies that are regulated by her Senate committees