Common sense liberal ideas don’t sell because people don’t understand them or they are saturated in propaganda. As paternal as it sounds, we just need to do it without trying to market it.

You don’t convince your dog to take medicine, you put the pill in some peanut butter.

Let’s get on this. I’m tired of losing the battle to make people’s lives better.

The primary risk of Iran was their ability to constrain oil shipments through the strait of Hormuz. This is something they have never done, until this week.

If you can tolerate it, look at your stock accounts and see the damage this administration has created. It is small matter compared to the cruelty of war, but from half a world away, a red number on a screen may be the only way we get some attention in this.

We spent 20 years of war and about 2.5 trillion dollars to replace the Taliban with the Taliban In Afghanistan.

I’m sure we are circumspect and learned important lessons in that experience.

For the current war (an odd statement itself) there is no ask. The largest peace time movement of military happened with no public debate or act of Congress. No international coalition exists and it just happens. This is where we are.

We don’t even get the pretense of a lie because nothing is asked or said - just naked violence.