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Tim Hurlocker's avatar

In Trump's interview with Miranda Devine he said success breeds confidence, which in turn liberates him from worrying about resentful naysayers. It takes a strong individual to suffer those slings and arrows, especially when they threaten to jail him. His persecution fuels his purpose; he does not doubt. Nor should he.

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Thomas's avatar

Steve wrote (twice) about the importance of events being hard to "understate," but I think he means "overstate." Too much midnight sun?

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Steven F. Hayward's avatar

Correct. Between the excessive sunlight and the aquavit, up is down, night is day, and understate is overstate, etc.

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Joseph Shaffer's avatar

Lay off the Black Death! It's called that for a reason. . . .

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Michael Smith's avatar

Anti-discrimination laws for all. So simple even KBJ gets it.

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Max Cossack's avatar

One underappreciated aspect of the Iran operation is the absence of leaks from the Trump Administration. They've known about the Israeli strikes for a while. President Trump runs the tightest ship we've seen in decades.

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Christopher B's avatar

It certainly helps him that most every journo-list is pushing for some kind of negative spin on anything Trump says or does. Makes it easy to figure out how to play them.

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Michael Lee's avatar

I understand Israel was facing an existential threat if Iran obtained a nuclear weapon, and they have initiated this attack in response to that threat.

But there were 1.7 million 'gottaways' who have infiltrated our country during Biden's term. If just 0.01% of those are affiliated with the Iranian regime, there would be 170 potential terrorists who could be activated in response to these attacks.

I still plan to attend the June 14th Army Celebration Day, but its going to feel a lot more like the fall of 2001 than last week when I made my plans.

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Max Cossack's avatar

Keep your eyes peeled.

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Joel J Miller's avatar

The best bet for nuclear will probably be the massive power needs of scaling AI. I say the more the better—and nuclear is probably the best way forward.

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Craig Kisciras's avatar

Steve, please enlighten us on when Trump chickened out on tariffs. He didn't.

They are being used very successfully as a negotiating tool. This TACO nonsense is just that...nonsense. To call this president "chicken" in any way is absurd.

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Justin Fouranno's avatar

On the one hand, Trump has shown a boldness, impatience, and creativity that I am not aware of being present in any other POTUS. He doesn’t accept any conventional wisdom as a given, including all the insistence that “[x]think tank has had [y]intractable problem figured out for a decade or 3 but no one will listen”, though if it makes sense to him he’ll do it.

I think his pragmatism and penchant for deal making makes him fairly unique as a force. Hard to imagine someone would maneuver as well as he has and also eschew being ushered into the blob group think.

Trump bashers like to mock the idea he’s a “genius” using “art of the deal” to play “3D chess” as if any of that needs is a prerequisite to be better than the others by being creative, having maximal optionality, and knowing a good deal from a bad one.

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Ray-SoCa's avatar

What is the picture of?

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Thomas's avatar

Good question. Looks like something between modern art and the missing link.

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Clark Carter's avatar

I believe those are Wolffish drying in the sun, eventually to be made into Lutefisk. I could be wrong, and trust Mr. Hayward will correct me if I am.

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Ralph Fluchel's avatar

Steve seems to imply that they are Democrats screaming about Trump. That does appear to be the case, but I have trouble believing it's actually true. I mean, Democrats' mouths are usually open wider than that when they are on one of their frequent anti-Trump rants.

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Steve's avatar

Looks Like More Wins!

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Richard K.'s avatar

So much information in this newsletter. But what the heck are those fish hanging in the picture? Inquiring minds want to know.

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Joseph Kaplan's avatar

You didn’t even scratch the surface of what Israel accomplished last night. Here one link on x. Follow this guy to find more of the story. https://x.com/osint613/status/1933478650948546780?s=46

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Justin Fouranno's avatar

I’ve read 100 recapitulations already. Steve hit the nail on the head, major change.

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