Catterwallin

Scientists should largely be respected and regarded similar to politicians. The incentive structures which rule them are virtually identical; money and ego.

NATO is in far bigger danger than anyone realizes. And the reason has nothing to do with defense budgets. The real danger is psychological. It’s cultural. Europeans didn’t just free-ride on American security for 80 years. They built an entire identity around the idea that they evolved past the Americans protecting them. That identity is now the single biggest obstacle to Western survival. And the darkest irony is: we helped build it. After World War II, Europe wasn’t just economically shattered. Its culture was in ruins. The cities, the universities, the concert halls, the museums. Rubble. The Marshall Plan rebuilt the economy. But culture wasn’t a priority. Not at first. Then the Iron Curtain dropped. And suddenly culture became a weapon. American diplomats, academics, artists & scholars flooded Western Europe. We funded their universities. Supported their orchestras. Rebuilt their museums. Promoted their intellectual life. Not because European culture needed saving for its own sake. Because Eastern Europeans were struggling for Maslow’s mist basic needs. We needed the view from the other side of that Wall to be intoxicating. So America built Western Europe into a showcase of self-actualization. Art. Philosophy. Cafe culture. Long vacations. Universities where people studied literature instead of surviving. We were manufacturing jealousy. And it worked. The Wall came down. But here’s what no one accounted for. When you give a society self-actualization on someone else’s tab long enough, they forget it was a gift. They start believing it was organically theirs. And when they look at the country that funded it all, a country busy building aircraft carriers and semiconductor fabs and shale fields instead of reaching the Maslow’s pinnacle. An overweight American in a ball cap who can’t tell Monet from Pissarro. Who eats fast food. Who drives a truck. Who builds strip malls instead of piazzas. And to a culture trained in aesthetics but stripped of strategic awareness, that American looks uncivilized. So the arrogance takes root. And once a culture decides another is beneath them, they stop listening. Americans say wars are sometimes necessary: crude. Oil is the backbone of prosperity: unsophisticated. Kids build companies in garages that reshape the planet: crass. Wall Street finances the global economy: vulgar. Europe has no world-class technology sector. No military capable of strong defense. No energy independence. No AI capacity. What Europe has is culture. The culture we paid for at the expense of us reaching Maslow’s pinnacle. For decades that was fine. We funded the museums, protected the sea lanes, and tolerated the sneering because the arrangement worked. Then Europeans stopped keeping the contempt private. They started saying it to our faces. In their media. In their parliaments. At every international forum. “Americans are stupid. Americans are violent. Americans are a threat to democracy.” We could have moved the Louvre to NY. We could have built a Venice here. We could have stolen your best artists, designers, philosophers and more… like your conquering armies did for centuries. Instead we funded them. And all we asked for in return was to let us visit. You don’t have the military to defend your borders. You don’t have the technology to compete. You don’t have the energy to heat your homes without begging dictators. What you have is an 80-year superiority complex FUNDED BY AMERICANS, protected by American soldiers, and built on the false belief that self-actualization is civilization. It isn’t. Civilization is the ability to sustain itself. By that measure, Europe isn’t a civilization at all. It’s a dependency with better wine. That’s not a threat. It’s a weather report. Build a Navy. Or don’t. But stop lecturing the people who made you “better than us” Our “crudeness” our “stunted liberal education” our “ugly strip malls” are because we sacrificed our culture to support yours.

After careful consideration I have decided to root for my own country in the war

Death Penalty for foreign felons.

@SenSanders An in-kind gift to China. This is the Manhattan Project moment of our time; ceding ground to China dooms the West. Or is that your actual intent Senator?

AI and robotics are going to bring cataclysmic changes to our society. Sadly, Congress has done virtually nothing. AI must work for working families, not the billionaires. Today, I’m introducing a moratorium on new data centers until we protect working people.

Every day there is more evidence the Dem Socialist movement is just a front working on behalf of China.

Iran executes 19-year-old champion wrestler Saleh Mohammadi, two others in horrific public hangings trib.al/E63jG1q

~85% of the citizenry supports the SAVE America act and the government refuses to pass it; we are fast approaching a “casting off tyranny” moment.

@joekent16jan19 Didn’t seem to be doing a bang up job, given the rash of recent terrorism on American soil but, go off with your “protest”

After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today. I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby. It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC. May God bless America.

@SenSchumer Scum

Not a single Senate Democrat will support the SAVE Act. Not this week. Not next week. Not ever. We will oppose it on the floor as long as it takes.

🚨 JUST IN: One of the American airmen who lost his life in the KC-135 crash in Iraq has been identified as Maj. Alex Klinner Klinner leaves behind a wife, a 2-year-old, and 7 month old twins Absolutely heartbreaking. Pray for the Klinner family 💔🙏🏻

Don’t go to the Senate tomorrow.

@SenGillibrand When four terror attacks by radical islamists occur on American soil within two weeks - one cannot seriously hold that a fear of islam is irrational.

This type of Islamophobia is disgraceful and unbecoming of a senator. Delete it immediately and apologize.

The victim of the terrorist attack at Old Dominion has been identified as Lt. Col. Brandon Shah-- who was a Professor of Military Science and the leader of the university's ROTC program. He was a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom, and Atlantic Resolve. His awards included two Bronze Stars, Senior Army Aviator Badge, Combat Action Badge, Parachutist Badge, Air Assault Badge, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, Air Medal with Valor, Joint Service Commendation Medal, Army Commendation Medal, and the Joint Service Achievement Medal. RIP. 🙏

When I was in Iraq serving at a very remote FOB not far from the Iranian border, we had steak and crab legs almost every Sunday. It was the military’s version of a thank you meal, and it was very appreciated. There are lots of things to be outraged at, but feeding our deployed troops well is not one of them.

What grinds my gears at the moment is I’m personally seeing more outrage over surf and turf than I ever saw for the Afghan withdrawal. Quite telling, isn’t it? Screaming for the career guillotine over chow. Completely mum on Abbey Gate though. We see you. Or at least I do.

“Senseless” about a conflict with the single most oppressive regime on the planet that also happens to be the world’s most prolific state sponsor of terror. Moronic.

@GovKathyHochul Lower my energy bill.

Today, I met with Tom Homan and delivered a clear message: End the unlawful ICE operations in New York. My full statement:

@RepPaulTonko @NPCA Why did you vote to hide congressional sexual misconduct?

Hundreds of millions of people visit our national parks every year. Amidst recent attacks to our history & cuts to cultural resources, I joined colleagues and advocates at @NPCA to renew our push to protect and support our national parks as places of connection, learning & truth.

NYC mayor Mamdani’s wife liked social media posts celebrating the October 7th attacks that led to 1200 Israelis being murdered and 250 being taken hostage. jewishinsider.com/2026/03/zohran…