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@JWhitebread1 🎯💯

Okay, I think I need to explain something to any Japanese listeners. In American culture, very close friends often express affection through a practice we call "giving grief" or less delicately, "bustin' balls." We insult each other, make inappropriate comments at the other's expense, often at very inappropriate times, etc. It is frankly, one of the surest signs of trust and closeness between equals. We wouldn't do this with someone who WASN'T a very close friend and confidant. You see this more amongst men, and more in informal situations. Admittedly, you don't see it much in professional settings, and it almost never appears in international diplomacy, BUT, Trump is built different. I have no doubt, that's how Trump meant it. It's too on the nose to be anything else. He's trying to say, we respect you and admire you greatly, and we can banter like this, because we are equals. The correct response is to utterly ROAST or insult your friend back in response. This can even evolve into what is called a "game of dozens" which is a friendly contest to see you can insult their friend with the best, most scathing insult. I think I will stop before I have to explain "Your Momma" jokes, but I think you can get the gist. Please feel free to utterly destroy America with a clever insult in response.

@RonDeSantis 💯❗️⚖️

At a minimum this needs to happen.

@EricTrump 💯🎯❗️🥂

🤣🤣 One of the great responses to a reporter in history! JAPANESE REPORTER: Why didn't you tell Japan before the Iran war? PRESIDENT TRUMP: "Why didn't you tell ME about PEARL HARBOR?!" "You believe in surprise much more-so than US!"

@Yuutraining ✔️

高市さんって総理になってからどんどん綺麗になっていってない？結果も出してるし最高の首相だよね。

@USNavy 🇺🇸

At the heart of America’s story is the sea. From the Continental Navy to today’s global force, the Navy’s story is America’s story.   As we celebrate our nation's 250th anniversary, we're launching our "13 Colonies" series to highlight the contributions of the states that started it all.   Our journey begins in Georgia. From establishing one of the original NROTC programs to hosting the heart of the Navy's strategic deterrence at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Georgia's contribution to our naval history is profound and enduring.   #Navy250 #Freedom250 #America250

@NavalInstitute 🇺🇸

#OTD in 1917, the Navy broke with convention of the era by authorizing women to enroll in the Naval Reserve with pay and benefits equal to men of the same rank. Women who enlisted in the Naval Reserve were also recognized as veterans after the war.

@HSILosAngeles @IRS_CI @FDIC_OIG @TIGTA @SBAOIG 🇺🇸⚖️💯

On March 18, HSI Orange County, along with partners @IRS_CI, @FDIC_OIG, @TIGTA, and @SBAOIG, arrested Bruce Choi of Koreatown on federal charges and seized the more than $2 million in COVID-19 business-relief loans that he defrauded from the United States

@RapidResponse47 @POTUS 🌸💯❗️

.@POTUS: "This year, we're honored to receive an additional 250 cherry trees — and they're very big, beautiful trees — from the great people of Japan in recognition of America's 250th anniversary. They will remind every future generation of our timeless bond." 🇯🇵🌸🇺🇸

@takaichi_sanae @realDonaldTrump 🇯🇵🥂🇺🇸

Thank you, President @realDonaldTrump, for your warm hospitality today at the White House and at this evening’s dinner. We had substantive and forward-looking discussions across a wide range of issues, reaffirming the strength of the Japan-U.S. Alliance. It was a truly meaningful and productive day. I look forward to continuing close cooperation between Japan and the United States to make our two nations stronger and more prosperous. トランプ大統領、本日のホワイトハウス、そして今晩の夕食会での温かいおもてなしに感謝します。 幅広い分野について、内容の充実した前向きな議論を行い、日米同盟の力強さを改めて確認することができました。 大変実り多く、有意義な一日となりました。 強く豊かな国作りのために、今後も日米で緊密に協力していきたいと思います。

@MrPitbull07 🇺🇸⭐️💯

May 16, 1963. Gordon Cooper was orbiting Earth alone inside a capsule barely big enough to turn around in, moving at 17,500 miles per hour. He had been up there for over a day. Then the warnings started. First a faulty sensor screaming that the ship was falling — it wasn't. He switched it off. Then something far worse: a short circuit knocked out the entire automated guidance system. The one that kept the capsule steady. The one that was supposed to bring him home. Without it, reentry was nearly impossible. Too shallow an angle and the capsule would bounce off the atmosphere back into space. Too steep and it would incinerate. The margin for error was razor thin — and every computer that was supposed to hit that margin was dead. Down on the ground, NASA engineers watched the telemetry in silence. They could see everything going wrong. They could fix nothing. Cooper didn't panic. He uncapped a grease pencil and drew lines directly on the inside of his window to track the horizon. He looked up at the stars he had spent months memorizing and used their positions to orient the ship by eye. Then he set his wristwatch. Because when you have no computers left, you become the computer. At exactly the right moment — calculated in his head, confirmed by the stars outside — he fired the retrorockets. The capsule shook. The sky turned to fire. For several minutes, no one on Earth could reach him as plasma swallowed the ship whole. Then the parachutes opened. Faith 7 hit the water just four miles from the recovery ship — the single most accurate splashdown in the entire Mercury program. The man with a wristwatch and a few pencil marks on a window had outperformed every automated system NASA had. We talk a lot about technology saving us. And it often does. But Cooper's story is a quiet reminder that behind every machine, there still has to be a human being who can look out the window, think clearly under pressure, and decide what to do next. The final backup was never the software. It was him.

@DOWResponse @DeptofWar 🇺🇸

We will not stop until the mission is COMPLETE.

@Interior 🇺🇸🦬💯❗️

As America’s national mammal and a majestic symbol of strength and resilience, the American bison is inextricably tied to Indigenous communities and cultures, the health of the Great Plains, and the history of our nation. Photo by Jacob W. Frank

@pinatubo2007 @SawyerMerritt *f yor chynese batteries. ✔️ 🖕

@SawyerMerritt Time will tell. The new Chinese batteries will help improve range and performance of these Trucks. China has been making them for years. 18 Wheelers are where the EV revolution should have started, sustained by mandates to eliminate diesel trucks and their pollution.

WSJ: Tesla Finally Has Its First Semi-Truck and It’s Already a Hit With Truckers. "Truckers who drove it in pilot tests say they loved features including a centered driving position, faster charging and longer range for about $100,000 less than other battery-electric trucks. Angel Rodriguez, a 56-year-old truck driver for Hight Logistics in Long Beach, Calif., recently swapped out a 13-gear diesel truck for a Tesla Semi, which is automatic, for a one-month pilot test. “It’s just easier on your body. It’s less stressful because you’re not really having to engage the clutch and the stick shift.” Big F Transport employs five mechanics to service more than 40 diesel-powered rigs and a fleet of trailer chassis in Wilmington, Calif. “If we go all EV we will only need one [mechanic] to service chassis,” said Geovanny Melendez, the carrier’s VP of operations, who went to see the Semi earlier this month at a ride-and-drive event near the Port of Long Beach. Jennie Abarca, co-founder and CEO of King Fio Trucking in Long Beach, Calif., once worked as a truck dispatcher and her husband is a truck driver, so she knows all too well the toll a diesel engine takes on people’s lungs and hearing. She eventually wants to swap out King Fio’s 27 diesel trucks to create an all-electric fleet. King Fio already has 11 battery-electric trucks from Volvo and Nikola. But the company limits those trucks to shorter trips to and from local ports because they only have a range of about 225 miles. The Semi, by contrast, can travel 500 miles on a single charge, according to Tesla. For King Fio that means two or three round-trips a day from Long Beach to warehouses in the nearby Inland Empire or a single round-trip to Las Vegas. She has 20 Semis on order. “The Teslas change everything,” Abarca said. “It opens up a whole different type of delivery that I can make.”

@MissinRoyko 💯❗️

The Bailey campaign doesn’t need to hire Ted Dabrowski, he’s committed to working for free ………

@GOP please Senators , for our Country 🇺🇸

@notguiltyCHI @BobFiorettiChi 💯❗️

People taking notice at Fioretti's cost-effectiveness per vote. A Republican AG is an independent check on Springfield and lawlessness.

@elonmusk @BillyM2k 🎯

@BillyM2k The reality is that there is massive cheating. But it is impossible to prove that without ID and in-person voting.

i don’t understand why the left is against voter id while simultaneously saying how it won’t make a difference because people aren’t illegally voting so then pass the law? if the results are the same and it makes no difference, it takes away the talking point

@HelenLevinson 💬now suppose Ted joins with the nominee in an important policy or regulatory role that brings this state back to sanity ❗️ 💭

These IL GOP primary results by county say a lot. Dabrowski’s support came largely from Cook and Lake Counties, exactly where Republicans really need to compete. Instead, that path was split. Missed opportunities for both candidates here. What’s your take? Here’s mine, if Bailey hadn’t been in the race, Dabrowski likely could’ve consolidated those votes and changed the outcome. ipmnewsroom.org/illinois-prima…

@USArmy ✔️🇺🇸💯❗️

Nothing beats the fighting spirit of a U.S. Army Soldier.

@AGPamBondi 🇯🇵🥂🇺🇸

Great State dinner with President Trump and Prime Minister Takaichi