How is it smart? Honest question, because it strikes me as pissing off the countries that charter those ships as well as the oil companies (boo hoo, but they have pull with all their money).

Fuck sake, now he’s threatening third-party vessels with his malevolent idiocy. This is a big misstep of an escalation, no?

100%. People having their lives ruined without proof of guilt is unjust.

It’s worth pointing out that there must be proof beyond allegations here, but so far that’s all we have.

I don’t know anything about Swalwell beyond that he’s running for governor, possibly making him a smear target by his opponents.

If he’s guilty then lock his ass up. But that takes proof. Makes me wonder what Ruben Gallego knows since he flipped from supporting Swalwell to pulling his endorsement over the past few days.

Any major news outlet has a duty to report statements from sovereign nations engaged in war. Obviously.

It’s important to keep perspective on what is right and what’s normal, tiring as it is lately. We have to challenge this moron’s tyranny at every little step, lest any of the insanity become normalized.

I’m glad it’s being reported. But like so much of the news, nobody has any right to feel surprised since staffing the cabinet with loyalist yes-men leads to these types of consequences.

And if so it would be a real shame if any of that were to leak. I mean it would serve him right for removing such an obviously competent and loyal AG.

But that would be unconscionable. Right?

When you get no travel money, but the trigger finger still gotta pull some shit

I still can’t get past how maga painted themselves into a corner. Completely bumblefuck blindsided by the consequences of their stupid plan.

All the performative market manipulation and tough guy prayers they can muster won’t get them out of this one. While the dumbfounded clown cries off the makeup it makes everyone laugh harder.

I just hate that he’s dragging with him so many of us who never fell for any of it. I’d see him dragged like Hector.

Just had precisely the same thought! Plastic mug atop a veiny meat missile. Republicans have normalized cringe for themselves