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Drinking Liberally — Seattle

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DLBottlePlease join us this evening as the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally gets together for conversations over a drink. All are welcomed.

We meet tonight and every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us in the back room starting about 8:00pm.

Chapters of Living Liberally are all over the place…if you can’t make it to the Seattle chapter, stop by another chapter near you.

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  1. Iran is offering to re-open the strait under the exact terms they offered in February.

    PLUS

    $2m passage charges going forward, halt to attacks by Israel in Lebanon, halt to proxy war funding by UNited Israeli States of America in Yemen and Syria.

    AND

    Payment for damages caused to Iranian civilian infrastructure.

    TACO TUESDAY

    Donnie says, “Let’s talk!”

  4. In a Truth post tonight the Insane Failing Cult Leader says the 10 point proposal he received from Iran, that includes turning over control of the Strait to Iran, allowing Iran to retain its ballistic missiles, allowing Iran to enrich uranium, and paying reparations to Iran is “workable”.

  5. The girls are fighting.

    Ann Coulter
    @AnnCoulter

    Every single Trump advisor is now – off the record telling the @nytimes they were opposed Netanyahu’s argument for the Iran war.

    THAT’S how well the war is going.

    Ratcliffe: “Farcical.”
    Rubio: “It’s bullshit”
    Caine: “Standard operating procedure for the Israelis. They oversell.”
    Wiles: against “being dragged into another war in the Middle East.”
    Cheung: “How would they explain away eight months of insisting that Iranian nuclear facilities had been totally obliterated?”

  7. Markwayne Mullin, the US homeland security secretary, used a visit to Asheville, North Carolina to call for a fundamental shift in the role of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema), arguing that states and local governments – not the federal agency – should lead disaster response.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/07/dhs-secretary-state-fema-disaster-response

    This is just another attempt by Republicans to offload federal fiscal responsibilities to states, while keeping federal tax revenues.

    The federal government collects two-thirds of America’s taxes. State and local governments, which collect the other third, are already responsible for schools; police and fire; streets, roads, and most highways and bridges; water and sewer mains, garbage collection, animal control, parks, and libraries; so how are they supposed to take on disaster relief without new funding?

    If they want to transfer federal responsibilities to states and local governments, then Republicans should also transfer the federal resources that pay for those functions.

  10. J.D. Vance, who’s in Hungary to…

    …bravely hide out as far away from the failure as he can drag himself and still find sofas.

  11. If this Republican/Israeli fuckup comes to a conclusion with Iran controlling a $2 million toll gate on access to 20% of the planet’s petroleum energy supply there is simply no other way to describe this but as a massive win for Iran, and a massive loss for everyone else except Russia.

    Coincidence?

  12. 30,000 ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz each year at $2 million per transit works out to $60 billion each year in all new foreign currency revenues.

    The current annual government budget for the Iranian Guardian Council to spend is $56 billion.

    So well played.

  13. When the people in TX trying to defend this give up to save their house seat…

    Congressman Nathaniel Moran
    @RepNateMoran

    The United States of America must always be prepared to use overwhelming military force when necessary to defend our national security interests and protect Americans at home and abroad. And, a President should have the latitude to make decisions to that end, but only to the extent that those decisions are also consistent with the inherent authority of a Commander-in-Chief under the U. S. Constitution and the provisions of the War Powers Resolution.

    To date, I have supported the President’s decisions relating to the Iranian conflict because they were consistent with these authorities and the ultimate goal of protecting national security interests.

    At the same time, what sets America apart is not only our strength, but how we use it. Our nation has always conducted military operations for just causes and through just and moral means. This must continue in the future; otherwise we forfeit our legitimacy to lead the world.

    So, let me be clear: I do not support the destruction of a “whole civilization.” That is not who we are, and it is not consistent with the principles that have long guided America. I have and will continue to support a strong national defense—one that is focused, disciplined, and firmly rooted in protecting the safety and security of the American people. But, how we protect the lives of the innocent is just as important as how we engage the enemy.

    America is great because America is good.
    2:38 PM • Apr 7, 2026 • 1.3M Views

    Someone’s staffers fielded a couple thousand phone calls.

  14. BuT oBuMmEr GaVe IrAn A pAlLeT oF mOnIeS!!!!!🤪🤡💩🧌🤪😜🤯🤡

  15. Levin and Hannity spinning as hard as they can.

    Hannity:
    “It worked for the Contras” (Daniel Ortega, the Sandinista leader the Contras tried to depose is still the dictator of Nicaragua today, 40 years)

    “It worked for the Mujahideen” (until some Mujahideen funded guy named Osama Bin Laden went and…)

    Levin:

    “We have to arm the people… Reagan did it in Afghanistan. He did it in Nicaragua. He did it in Honduras. He did it in Angola. Donald Trump can do exactly the same thing.”

    Honduras see Contra murders in base of operations for failed takeover of neighboring Nicaragua

    Angola – the Marxist MPLA the US tried to topple has been in power since the early 2000s. Over the course of US intervention 800,000-1,000.000 Angolans died in the conflict and 1-1.2m refugees fled the country.

    Side note, This exchange is acknowledgement that Trump failed and the next step….ARM THE RESISTANCE!

  16. Vice Fuhrer Diet Private:

    “(T)he Iranians are better negotiators than they are fighters.”

    Better negotiators than Republicans, anyway.

  17. We have to arm the people…

    Thanks to Republicans and Israel the Iranian people are today more unified and supportive of the Guardian Council and the Islamic Revolution than they have ever been before, including when they rose up and deposed the Shah.

    While MAGA cult chuds like the lying troll sat at home masturbating to their Xitter feed of combat footage, the Iranian people freely volunteered to literally put their lives and the lives of their children on the line to protect their infrastructure. These are the kinds of things that permanently change a nation’s culture and define their national mythology for centuries.

    But what other choice was there? Obama made a deal. But Obama was black. So that just had to go.

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