This is the foreign policy equivalent of, "Nobody is less racist than me, but ..."

https://bird.makeup/@kevinrobertstx/1710389720990007607 

 McCarthy lost the speakership in 2023 because his party lost the elections of 2022 - but refused to acknowledge reality

https://bird.makeup/@jon_rauch/1709588910756499459 

 Republicans lost the 2022 election as they lost in 2021, 2020, and 2018. They could not face that reality -and Kevin McCarthy just paid the price. Latest in @a36052cb  
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/10/kevin-mccarthy-republican-party-delusion/675538/ 

 James Buchanan was intelligent and worldly. Andrew Johnson was physically brave. Franklin Pierce was a good father. Warren Harding was fun at a party. Trump has no redeeming qualities at all.

https://bird.makeup/@david49906178/1709196617851469871 

 Tonight, Trump supporters are insisting that General John Kelly is a liar. Tomorrow, Trump will post a long tirade about how he was absolutely right to call America's war dead "losers" and "suckers" - and MAGA will all abjectly applaud. 

 45 days to get Ukraine the money its defenders need and deserve. 

 Wherever do people get this idea that Speaker McCarthy is a faithless double-crosser whose word is worthless? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/29/us/politics/trump-shutdown.html

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 Today's hearing was not a failure. It was a great success in revealing the emptiness of the allegations against President Biden.

https://bird.makeup/@acyn/1707490323281199560 

 The problem facing all the aspirants on the Reagan Library stage tonight: Republican primary voters don't care about policy. What they want is a proven record of violent sedition, sexual assault, and financial fraud. 

 Emerging Republican consensus: having a drug-addicted child is an impeachable offense - but trying to mount a coup d'etat and overturn the Constitution by violence is not. 

 A little better than Michael Dukakis, but worse than John Kerry

https://bird.makeup/@ronfilipkowski/1700235000006734273 

 Musk bought Twitter and sabotaged Ukraine in the same month, October 2022. 

 Maybe a partial compensation for Musk's sabotage of Ukraine's Crimea operation: US seems on verge of sending rockets that will quadruple Ukraine's striking distance, putting almost all of Crimea in range.  https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-send-long-range-atacms-missiles-ukraine-time/story?id=103031722