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Donald Trump allowed himself to be outplayed in China, according to the academic and author @peterfrankopan. From accepting a lower seat beside Xi Jinping to showing gratitude and respect to him, Trump acted like the humble number two. Just what Xi wanted him to portray. ‘Poor preparation; lack of expertise; the total conviction that business deals are the way to do foreign policy all play a part in what will go down one day as a set-piece of how not to do a summit.’

@CaptG2 @garrytan Absolutely, small plane, handgun, American flag Guy.

@garrytan Exactly. This has nothing to do with environmental concerns. It has everything to do with furthering the violent Progressive Leftist ideology.

Hard leftists and DSA-types will fight AI tooth and nail because AI is the universal solvent for socialism’s three prerequisites. AI will reduce scarcity (abundance), eliminate victimhood (agency), and eliminate the need for intermediaries (disintermediation).

@garrytan Where did you all learn to talk like this? With jargon piled on top of cliches. And every sentence is a separate paragraph.

This isn't left vs right. Do you believe people are fundamentally capable and just need tools? Or fundamentally helpless and need management? AI is the biggest test of that question we've ever run. I know my answer, and am building open source accordingly.

@Acyn He makes Neville Chamberlain look like Patton.

Trump on Taiwan: When you look at the odds, China is very, very powerful, big country. That's a very small island. Think of it, it's 59 miles away. We're 9500 miles away. That's a little bit of a difficult problem. Taiwan was developed because we had presidents that didn't know what the hell they were doing. They stole our chip industry.

Historically, American presidents have inspired nations & challenged tyrants. Now America has a fucking dipshit proudly explaining he swapped one vowel and came up with “Dumocrats,” like a drunk uncle who just learned he can spell ‘BOOBS’ on a calculator.

@GatianFor2028 @prem_thakker Do you know how Congress works? You need to be in the majority caucus to get anything done. There will never be a majority “independent caucus”.

@ChrisBaynes1 @prem_thakker The future of this country is strictly independent, if you don’t like it, then get out of the way because you are stopping progress and change.

Man…no words. "My dad got cancer and my mom's employer collapsed. The executives got paid and the workers got screwed. She didn't have the heart to tell us, even when the bank took the house. And when she took her own life, the eviction notice was in her pocket."

@MikeBales Tara Reade? Didn’t she move to Russia? A nut case.

Joe Biden was credibly accused of sexually assaulting Tara Reade. Democrat voters shrugged. Bill Clinton faced multiple credible sexual assault and harassment allegations. Hillary Clinton actively worked to discredit and silence the women. Democrat voters shrugged. Hunter Biden was filmed smoking crack and cavorting with prostitutes. Democrat voters shrugged. Kamala Harris’s husband, Doug Emhoff, was accused of getting his nanny pregnant and pressuring her to have an abortion. Democrat voters shrugged. Yet the moment anyone mentions Donald Trump, the same people erupt in moral fury. Their Trump hatred doesn’t magically erase this glaring hypocrisy. It just reveals it.

@ahlmanforne Narcissist

I'm Austin Ahlman. Nebraska is my home. This is our fight. You are my people. Let’s take Nebraska back.

@utahagen @Hot_Pepper76 That's Peter Gabriel (Solsbury Hill)

@Hot_Pepper76 Salisbury Hill

What’s the one Steve Winwood song you will never skip? Happy 78th Birthday to Steve Winwood! From Spencer Davis Group to Traffic, Blind Faith, and his solo career, he gave us decades of incredible music.🥰 Still one of my favorite voices.

@ByronYork Do you touch on the 80% of Republicans who think “Trump really won” in 2020?

A Democratic fantasy world. A new poll shows a sizable number of Democrats believe the Trump assassination attempts were fake. The one that seems most undeniably real--the Butler shooting--is the one the most Democrats believe is phony. washingtonexaminer.com/daily-memo/456…

@ckieser13 The R Senate refused to even interview Garland, then jammed Coney through on the same timeline. The response was “nananana, too bad, so sorry.” The desire for revenge is deep.

@ChrisBaynes1 Remains true that the president only has the power to nominate and can't appoint anyone without the consent of the senate.

I bet Claude told him this was a really clever argument.

@utahagen @PatriotCharles @TheOnlyDSC This whole thing is insane. Drew Barrymore shouldn’t dance in the rain???

@PatriotCharles @TheOnlyDSC Which black boundaries is this woman even talking about? I've NEVER heard it's a faux pas to shake my hair around.

Black women hate White women for being able to get their hair wet in the rain because they’re bald.

@bravo19eight5 @Fahrenthold “Beautification” being millions to paint the Reflecting Pool so it looks like Water Slide World.

@Fahrenthold I’m tired of people who’s biggest complain is we aren’t financing transgernderism in the third world, complaining about beautification projects in our own capitol. I just don’t care what you scoundrels think. You lost your credibility

NEW: The cost of President Trump's plan to repair the Reflecting Pool has jumped by 88 percent, to $13.1M, gov't records show. The price appears to include a 20 percent profit margin for Trump's handpicked contractor, who got the job in a no-bid contract. nytimes.com/2026/05/11/us/…

@PatsSoxFreedom @greggnunziata Biden returned them voluntarily. Trump refused and lied about them. And had boxes full of highly sensitive military secrets that he intentionally moved. These are important distinctions that you seem incapable or unwilling to understand.

@ChrisBaynes1 @greggnunziata And we know Biden had docs. The Special Counsel affirmed he broke laws. He just excused him because, well…who would prosecute a demented old coot like Biden. The double standard is amazing.

The president is a constitutional arsonist and the GOP is happy to stand aside at best, or pour on the gas at worst. We desperately need a pro democracy and pro rule of law party. Alas, the Democrats refuse to be that party, wanting only their turn. We're in a bad place.

@PatsSoxFreedom @greggnunziata Why did Trump refuse to return classified military secrets and lie about it?

@greggnunziata That, after Democrats spent 4 years pushing censorship, with attempts to silence people for so called “misinformation” they didn’t like, and direct attempts to imprison their political opposition. You have some nerve.

Don't know what the mechanisms are but these Virginia judges need to go.

@GregLamb1066 @roddreher I responded to your post.

@ChrisBaynes1 @roddreher Your citing a few outliers does not change my comment. Democrats have Gerrymandered radically for decades and you know it.

Have all these Republicans and Democrats who are all about redistricting to disempower the opposite party given a moment's though to what this stands to do to the faith of the American people in their democracy? I see nothing of this. Only "Win, baby, win."

@GregLamb1066 @roddreher NH and ME have one liberal district and one conservative district. Try winning yours. VT has only one district. Try making a compact R district in MA or CT. Can’t do it. You’re clueless.

Rod, can you please show me all your posts about all the Northeast States with literally zero Republican Congressman for years and years? Where was your outrage then? Right now, we are in a battle for the very soul of this country. We must use the same, legal tactics that the Democrats have used for decades. You only seem to comment when it's the Republicans that do something strategic. Why is that?