Rusting Iron

@MarshaBlackburn We saw you sneak out of the Senate at 3AM without passing the save act. You need to be primaried.

Anyone who comes to the United States and steals from American taxpayers by committing fraud should be deported.   My Fraud Accountability Act would hold these criminals accountable for robbing taxpayers.   It’s time to get it passed.

@tedcruz What about Thune's pro forma sessions. You are complicit in blocking the election.

Truly absurd.

@jmontforttx Lol, I refute your basic point with evidence and you deflect. NICE USE OF CAPS.

@Rusting_Iron My tweet has NOTHING TO DO WITH CALIFORNIA. Get a book and read.

Data centers get $3.3 billion in tax breaks, but Abbott won't feed poor kids during summer break, and kicked 1.3 million off medicaid. The GOP is destroying Texas.

@Jim_Jordan Remember when Jim Jordan sounded great talking, but never really delivered for his voters?

Remember when Democrats wanted to ban gas stoves? And when they worked to censor you for posting memes and true information? They want to control and regulate EVERYTHING but illegal immigration.

@Maddyhammy @SamDeirdar @RepYassAnsari Your comments earned a follow

@SamDeirdar @RepYassAnsari Rubbing the balls of politicians? Yikes Make sure to wash your hands

I do not appreciate anyone - Democrat or Republican - taking this moment to make TACO jokes to say Trump “chickened out.” The president was threatening genocide against 90 million Iranians. I’m grateful there’s a ceasefire & scores of innocent people didn’t die tonight.

@VeryBrexitProbs Number 6 is the most important. Not sure it's worth what we spend on them, though.

Trump thinks Europe needs NATO more than America does. His generals know better. Here’s what the US loses without it. 1. Its European base network Over 50 US military bases across Europe housing 84,000 troops. Ramstein in Germany is the largest US air base outside America and the hub for every US operation in the Middle East, Africa and Central Asia. RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk is home to the only US F-35 wing in Europe, the same base the F-15 shot down over Iran last week flew from. These aren’t gifts to Europe. They are America’s front door to the rest of the world. 2. The geography it can never replace The US sits thousands of miles from every major conflict zone on earth. Europe puts American forces within striking distance of the Middle East, North Africa, the Sahel, the Arctic and Russia’s western border. No aircraft carrier replaces an entire continent. Without European bases America is projecting power across two oceans from a single landmass. That is not a superpower posture, it is an island. 3. Its intelligence network GCHQ, MI6 and European intelligence agencies feed directly into US operations. Five Eyes gives America more global surveillance reach than any other arrangement in history. Lose NATO and that pipeline closes. 4. Two allied nuclear powers The UK and France have independent nuclear arsenals. Outside NATO those weapons are no longer guaranteed to be on America’s side. That is two fewer nuclear powers in your corner. 5. Its arms export market European NATO members are America’s biggest weapons customers. F-35s, Apaches and Patriot missiles, hundreds of billions in contracts. If Europe goes it alone they buy European. Lockheed Martin and Boeing lose their biggest export market overnight. 6. The dollar’s global dominance NATO helps underpins the security order that keeps allies trading in dollars and holding dollar reserves. Collapse that alliance and the shift to alternative currencies accelerates. No single advantage matters more to American prosperity. 7. A trillion-dollar insurance policy 31 other countries have a legal obligation to fight for America if attacked. The only time Article 5 was ever triggered was to defend the US after 9/11. Over 1,100 allied soldiers died in Afghanistan answering that call. No other country on earth has anything close to this. 8. Its seat at the head of the table NATO makes America the leader of the free world. Without it the US is just another big country with a big army stranded between two oceans with no allies. China and Russia would celebrate for a decade.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Without NATO, America doesn’t gain independence. It loses an empire.

@elonmusk hear me out. Optimus medbots equipped with these built into their skulls for use on their owners in the event of a stroke. Optimus can have versions specialized for owner medical risks fusfoundation.org/diseases-and-c…

@McFaul Tell me professor, with Iran attacking power plants, oil pipelines and other similar things, are they committing war crimes?

While everyone has moved on, I remain deeply troubled by Trumps threat to wipe out an entire civilization. No American president has talked in such terms. No American president ever should.

@mary_nethery @kaylaguo_ @gbjonestx @DanPatrick CA actually drove them out.

@kaylaguo_ @gbjonestx @DanPatrick ¡Lo Siento Mofo! The crap the Abbott Patrick Paxton Troika has pulled on hard working good Texans is outrageous and tragic. They’ve taken the worst parts of California (Musk, Bezos) and brought them to us to use up all our natural resources and wonderful wild spaces.

"We're going to have a tough time holding the Texas House," @DanPatrick tells TPPF. #txlege

@DudeLore @LimitlesCobz No, Iran has been a genocidal enemy for 30+ years.

@LimitlesCobz Can we all start to agree iran isnt the enemy. And the other guys are?

@LimitlesCobz Good time to own us oil stocks

@jmontforttx Except CA didn't drop. It increased. Here are TX and CA timelines. Perhaps you should spend more time looking up stats instead of imagining pithy insults.

@Rusting_Iron The entire country dropped, zero to do with Texas. We're still above the natuonal average. Go pump iron and let the adults talk.

@fiveyearwaruk @Microinteracti1 "Defense spending gap of $22T and The US heavily subsidized European security"

@Rusting_Iron @Microinteracti1 $22 trillion?! On what? You are counting US defence spending and attributing it to NATO. Those forces can be deployed for NATO missions but obviously they are in regular use by the US. No substantial NATO mission since Kosovo. You live in bizarroland.

I am not sure the American military establishment has fully grasped what Trump has actually done here. So let me spell it out in language even a Pentagon procurement officer can understand. Europe has been buying American weapons at a staggering rate. In 2024 alone, US foreign military sales notifications to European countries hit $76 billion. Four times the European average since 2008.  F-35s, missile systems, air defence, ammunition. All of it American. All of it coming with decades of service contracts, maintenance agreements, spare parts, software updates and training programmes worth hundreds of billions more over their operational lifetimes. Between 2020 and 2024, the United States supplied 64 percent of all European weapons imports.  That is now over. Europe has an $860 billion defence plan, and American contractors are being frozen out. The goal is 80 percent of all military purchases from European factories by 2030.  Airbus. Rheinmetall. KNDS. Saab. Leonardo. BAE Systems. They are about to receive the largest order book in the history of European defence industry. Because Trump made it politically impossible for any European government to keep writing cheques to Washington. Some European governments have discussed worries that the Pentagon could remotely disable American F-35 fighters or impose restrictions on how US weapons can be used.  When your supplier is also threatening to annex your allies, that is not paranoia. That is basic procurement logic. Trump set out to make America great again. He has succeeded magnificently. For Rheinmetall. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@HQNewsNow Every single one of them should have their finances investigated.

The following members of Congress are now calling for Trump to be removed via the 25th Amendment: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) Rep. Diana DeGette (D) Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D) Rep. Mark Pocan (D) Rep. Summer Lee (D) Rep. Delia Ramirez (D) Rep. Sarah McBride (D) Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D) Rep. Ilhan Omar (D) Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green (R) Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D) Rep. Seth Moulton (D) Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D) Rep. Ro Khanna (D) Rep. Maxwell Frost (D) Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D) Rep. Johnny Olszewski (D) Rep. Julie Johnson (D) Rep. Sara Jacobs (D) Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D) Rep. Lateefah Simon (D) Rep. Robert Garcia (D) Rep. Chellie Pingree (D) Sen. Ed Markey (D) Rep. Shri Thanedar (D) Rep. Rob Menendez (D) Rep. April Delaney (D) Rep. Nikema Williams (D) Rep. Steve Cohen (D) Rep. Joaquin Castro (D) Rep. Betty McCollum (D) Rep. Seth Magaziner (D) Rep. Eric Swalwell (D) Sen. Bernie Sanders (D) Rep. Jill Tokuda (D) Rep. Doris Matsui (D) Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D) Rep. Dan Goldman (D) Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D) Rep. Lori Trahan (D) Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D) Rep. Mark DeSaulnier (D) Rep. Valerie Foushee (D) Rep. Val Hoyle (D) Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D) Rep. Morgan McGarvey (D) Rep. Jahana Hayes (D) Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D) Rep. Christian Menefee (D) Rep. Scott Peters (D) Rep. Hank Johnson (D)

@joni_askola Hmm, what have you done? I mean do you have any credibility?

Elon Musk could have gone down in history as one of the greatest entrepreneurs if he had just stuck to tech. Instead, he chose to become a threat to freedom and democracy. What a pathetic waste

@TheBritishIntel Hmm, textbook colonialism from Lefties. I wonder if American Lefties will call it stolen land.

🚨 CHILE SIDES WITH ARGENTINA ON THE FALKLANDS Chile has officially declared its support for Argentina’s claim over the Falkland Islands. This came in a joint statement after a meeting between the two countries’ leaders. The Falklands are British territory - defended with British blood in 1982. Now more countries are openly testing us because they sense weakness in London. Britain must make it crystal clear: The Falklands are ours and will remain ours forever.

@sciencegirl People

What is stopping humanity from living peacefully together?

@marci_shore So a regime that just a couple of days ago was still exterminating political opponents. That paid billion$ every year to exterminate Jews is getting crushed. Sounds exactly like the Holocaust to me.

I've taught European history for 30 years. Americans have always asked me how the Holocaust was possible, how Germans could have enabled a madman reveling in mass murder to carry out his plans. Now we can see in real time how this is enabled; now we have front-row seats.

@fandompulse He knows his scripts are weak so he's stirring up controversy before hand for free marketing.

The Boys showrunner Eric Kripke tells anti-woke viewers who are unhappy with the heavy-handed politics in the show to go watch something else: “I clearly have a perspective, and I’m not shy about putting that perspective in the show. Anyone who wants to call the show ‘woke’ or whatever, that’s OK. Go watch something else.” Does this make you want to continue watching The Boys?