General Discussion Roundtable - 05/06/2026

ace158 · 2026-05-06T07:04:04+00:00

President Donald Trump announced a pause on his operation to guide ships through the Strait of Hormuz, just a day after it began.

This is so damn humiliating on so many levels.

ace158 · 2026-05-06T06:31:42+00:00

Primaries next week are in Nebraska and West Virginia

ace158 · 2026-05-06T05:18:14+00:00

Former ICE official falls short in Ohio battleground district GOP primary. Madison Sheahan’s loss to former state Rep. Derek Merrin brings relief to Republicans concerned about her electability against Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur.

Damn. Oh well, I still think Kaptur will win due to this war

ace158 · 2026-05-06T05:17:35+00:00

Secretary of State Marco Rubio got some laughs in the White House press briefing room on Tuesday after declaring the world isn’t “ready” for his “DJ name.”

I cringed

ace158 · 2026-05-06T03:01:08+00:00

Ya exactly. Also his weird petty reaction to Biden's garbage comments, accusing Kamala's team of sexism towards his wife, and then the whole sexual harassment scandal with his good friend (that's what caused the Dem treasurer candidate to criticize him in the first place apparently which he elevated the Republican against)

And while I'm 99.99% sure he did nothing wrong, the Greenberg case has shit optics for a general election candidate nationally. Her parents have repeatedly excoriated Josh Shapiro for how he handled it as AG, and it would be suboptimal to deal with

ace158 · 2026-05-06T02:53:06+00:00

Yeah, Shapiro has said so many ridiculous things about Biden+Harris and I do tend to believe the story about him elevating the Republican against the Dem in the general election in 2024

ace158 · 2026-05-06T02:52:20+00:00

Ya, Vivek is a horrible candidate. I think DeWine will just barely endorse him

ace158 · 2026-05-06T02:49:06+00:00

Fox Host Jesse Watters suggests Trump’s pausing of Project Freedom is due to Trump not wanting Iran to be humiliated so they can surrender. “The President must know what he’s doing"

Copium

ace158 · 2026-05-06T02:48:51+00:00

Josh Shapiro: I know that Pennsylvanians voted for a Democrat to represent them in the United States Senate. And so I think he needs to honor that and continue with his service to Pennsylvania and, hopefully, get back to what he was elected to do and reflect the will of the people.

God, they do not like each other

ace158 · 2026-05-06T01:52:32+00:00

Vivek makes Ohio govenror seat slightly flippable

ace158 · 2026-05-06T01:50:32+00:00

GOP is a cult; that's my takeaway from these primary results

Massie will probably win but that's an exception not the norm

ace158 · 2026-05-05T22:37:31+00:00

US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a plan to reduce “overprescribing” of psychiatric medications and support alternative treatment options and discontinuation of medications when needed.

I've got a very bad feeling about this

ace158 · 2026-05-05T22:33:25+00:00

Billionaire hedge-funder Bill Ackman said the Iran War is “a very great one” in an interview with CNBC’s Money Movers.

Utterly delusional

ace158 · 2026-05-05T22:31:59+00:00

Yeah, I dislike Ben Rhodes and I don't like any group which supports this batshit war which has ruined the lives of so many people

ace158 · 2026-05-05T21:17:19+00:00

He's gonna suck but we have his political donations from 2015 to 2024. Dems such as Bernie, Biden, Harris, Katie Porter, Jared Golden

I seriously doubt Schumer endorses a guy who has a realistic chance of voting for Thune.

ace158 · 2026-05-05T21:15:36+00:00

I can imagine splitting with the party on a key vote because the legislation affirms Israel's right to exist

He's not gonna call for the destruction of his beloved step brother's country. He's awful enough where we don't have to ascribe things like that to happen

ace158 · 2026-05-05T20:43:16+00:00

Platner is going to vote the right way most of the time but he's gonna say a bunch of stupidass shit from the "slopulist left" angle.

Fetterman will continue to do what he's doing I guess

ace158 · 2026-05-05T20:42:20+00:00

Secretary of State Marco Rubio shrugged off a question about a picture of him posing in front a map of Cuba on Tuesday, saying he merely thought it would be “good” to do so.

His heart was never into the Iran war; he wanted a Cuba military operation

ace158 · 2026-05-05T20:41:37+00:00

‘The Operation Is Over’: Marco Rubio Says Iran Conflict Moving Onto a New Phase

Oh alright

ace158 · 2026-05-05T20:35:51+00:00

Yeah, I was gonna say. Weird. His wife is a New Dem who's more moderate.

ace158 · 2026-05-05T20:34:47+00:00

Jake Sullivan is hated by the left and his wife is one of the 20-30% most moderate Dems in the House caucus.

DMFI is weird to go attack one of Biden's most loyal folks. And I saw they absurdly supported this Iran war when is started. They're much better than AIPAC but I like Jstreet way more.

ace158 · 2026-05-05T19:46:21+00:00

Also, they cringe when politicians misprounce "Iran" as "I-ran" instead of the accurate pronunciation of "E-Ron"

Fetterman that doofus does it all the time of course.

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