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@Scaramucci The issue is that two of the three co-equal branches of government chose to let the Executive run wild. All three need to do their job.

He needs to be removed from office. He is obviously unwell. The sooner both sides of the Congress get out of denial and accept the gravity of the situation the better for the country and the world.

@Xees380792 @FurkanGozukara @schachin @PutinsPuppet Spot on!

@TimNorthants @FurkanGozukara @schachin @PutinsPuppet

BOMBSHELL: Donald Trump accidentally reveals the terrifying truth behind his feud with NATO. He admits he abandoned European allies and fractured the alliance simply because they refused to sell him Greenland! He is risking global security over a petty real estate dispute.

@PrfChrisPainter That certainly needs to be recognised. The problem is that fact is currently regularly over-ridden by fiction.

These guys are still deluded enough to think they're election winners when, in actual fact, they're the kiss of death.

@dave43law @JosephFordCotto We’ve come to expect incompetence, & even corruption, in government. But did even MAGA vote for Congress, DoJ & USSC to just help @POTUS contract the US from a global power to a regional power just to avoid his past becoming public & enrich his family & friends? America first?

@JosephFordCotto No US bases No US influence No unified intelligence US unable to enact any missions No power no more

Rubio Warns of Closing U.S. Bases in Europe Over NATO Denials I strongly support this. So should you.

@JosephFordCotto Well destroying NATO puts someone first, but it’s certainly not America. Trump has done more to damage the stability NATO has brought than either Russia or China has managed in 80y. They must be very happy.

@WalshFreedom @MaMoMVPY A Congress that won’t hold a President to account, and a DoJ that actively hides criminal evidence against him, are enablers of a President going rogue. The system of checks & balances that for 250y have prevented a President becoming a king is broken.

The truth is we’ve always held Donald Trump to a pathetically low standard - the lowest standard any politician has ever been held to. Trump gets away with behavior no other politician would ever get away with. He’s treated like a child who doesn’t know any better. Shameful.

@SenMarkKelly @Kasparov63 The US military has gamed-out action against Iran since Carter. Nothing that’s happened can be a surprise. Is @PutinsPuppet ignoring expert military advice, then firing its leadership to start a war he can’t end, more likely to produce regime change in America or Iran?

Threatening to target power plants and other non-military targets is not strength. If those words become orders to destroy civilian infrastructure with no valid military purpose, it’s hard to see how they would not violate the laws of armed conflict. America leads best with strength, discipline, and professionalism. Illegal orders to make civilians suffer would be a black mark on our military and our country.

@RBReich Well, Trump is about to find out that it’s a lot easier to start a war than stop one, and it’s impossible to stop a war until both sides agree to that. The Iranians know all about TACO. His army could well be the best in the works, but Iran has him by the sensitive parts

Throughout history, war has always been part of the authoritarian playbook. That’s because war allows so-called "strongmen" to feign strength, even if they are operating from a place of weakness. This is exactly what is happening to Donald Trump.

@PaulRudnickNY @WinkowitschSara Well for the first time I actually believe what she said!

Karoline Leavitt actually said, "It's hard for President Trump to make key decisions on Iran when he doesn't have enough intelligence." Bless her heart

@BlueGeorgia @Dede_Watson Well that’s the world’s biggest understatement.

Mark Hertling: Two things are happening; The president is becoming increasingly enamored with the power of American military, and he believes that he can use it in any way he wants without regard to international law, the laws of land warfare, the Geneva Convention, or straight out morality. Something is amiss in his personality.

@roblesslie @TimesRadio @BenWallace70 Hardly Iron Dome, is it? Problem is that we either fund deterrence, or war fighting. One costs 5%GDP ongoing, and the other costs an awful lot more. I’m not saying Ben did nothing, but he didn’t win the arguments to get what’s needed either.

@TimNorthants @TimesRadio @BenWallace70 He did. He started Sea Viper Evolution - the upgrade to the Type 45 which adds an ant-ballistic missile capability. royalnavy.mod.uk/news/2024/janu…

“A minister appeared on your show trying to play down that any ranges within the UK were unrealistic. That’s not correct.” Not only can Iran strike the UK, but we are incapable of taking out a missile fired at our country, says former defence secretary @BenWallace70.

@Scaramucci @MHartleyJones Trump isn’t the leader of the free world, that was every President before him for 100y. If @PutinsPuppet looked around once in a while he’d see no-one was following & even his boss is standing there laughing at him. If the free world now has a leader then it’s Mark Carney.

You don't say you're going to bomb 90 million people back to the Stone Age when you're the leader of the free world. 👇🏼 That is an inappropriate statement. It is beneath the office. And it is beneath this country. But here's what he's actually doing with that rhetoric. He's softening the public up for ground troops. That's the tell. You don't talk like that unless you're preparing people psychologically for what comes next. And what comes next — I have it at 55 to 60 percent probability — is ground troops going into Iran. And once ground troops are in, everything changes. The Strait of Hormuz situation becomes infinitely more complex. Oil flow becomes a live variable in a shooting war and here's the piece nobody is talking about loudly enough: 40 to 50 percent of that oil flows to China. If ground troops go in and the Strait gets disrupted — we are simultaneously slowing down the Chinese economy. That is not a side effect. That may be part of the calculation. But you are playing with fire at a scale that has consequences for every economy on earth including ours. $300 oil doesn't just hurt China. It destroys the American consumer. Think carefully about what you're being prepared to accept.

@DalrympleWill @Dede_Watson @NesrineMalik And in 6 weeks Congress has neither imposed its authority nor questioned the legality of what’s being done in the US name, & DoJ still hasn’t charged anyone with Epstein crimes. A Congress & DoJ that fail to act are as much a problem as a rogue President. The system is broken.

Brilliant @NesrineMalik "Trump’s chaotic war on Iran has dragged into its sixth week because he is fighting an adversary he doesn’t understand" theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

@krassenstein When a President gets a reputation like TACO everyone but him pays the price.

BREAKING: Iran has JUST rejected Trump's ceasefire proposal and plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. We are now 38 hours away from all hell breaking lose in the Middle East.

@Rep_Stansbury @birdyork True “The King has no clothes”, but maybe the phrase should be “The President has no cards”!

The emperor has no clothes. Time for the #25thAmendment. Congress and the Cabinet must act.

@DavidGauke @Nigel_Farage @BorisJohnson @trussliz @RobertJenrick @Jacob_Rees_Mogg They already knew all about Access Hollywd, 5x Draft dodges & bone spurs, Rape adjudication, Stormy D & 34 fraud convictions, Racketeering & Espionage indictments, documented Epstein links, & Russian kompromat/Rape/Paedophile allegations. Is war crimes a game changer for them?

Any regrets yet from @Nigel_Farage @BorisJohnson @trussliz @RobertJenrick @Jacob_Rees_Mogg for backing this man to be President?

@SteveShovlar @AndertonJohn True. The only problem with being elected on that basis is that it does rather give the advantage to the other side during any negotiations. It would be better for the shape of the deal to be negotiated first, and approved by a GE vote.

Any party who clearly states we will return to full membership of the EU in their General Election manifesto, has every opportunity of forming the next British Government. Keir Starmer must realise it’s a huge vote winner and make it one of his main policies for 2029.

@afneil And, critically, a strong offshore engineering sector is exactly what’s needed to exploit the UK’s island geography by developing tidal energy which is the way UK renewable investments would be going if government had any clue what it was doing.

@afneil Energy security would take a long time, & a lot of investment, to recreate. But the economic benefits of a major engineering industry that supports good jobs & training that’re not quickly vulnerable to AI, & tax raising & balance of payments benefits, would be relatively quick.

So producing your own oil and gas does nothing for energy security. I see. If that’s true of Britain it must be true of other fossil fuel producers too. But of course it isn’t.