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@johnkonrad @KurtSchlichter They don’t need to say thanks. They just need to pay their fair share for their defense and not social programs. That’s being a partner.

Hear that sucking sound Rod? That’s our subsidies, our academic/culture/artistic grants, our tourist dollars, our low interest rates, our military protection, our tech… all about to be sucked away. Trillions Rod. Poof. Gone. All because you refuse to say one word: thanks

@RepThomasMassie @Dr_Bry_So_Fly One trick pony. If there was anything in it, the Dems would have used it.

Congratulations AG Blanche. Now you have 30 days to release the rest of the files before becoming criminally liable for failure to comply with the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

@OliLondonTV He should be disqualified.

Imane Khelif returns to the boxing ring in Paris ahead of his ‘big return’ to women’s boxing. “Paris it’s special because I won the Olympic gold medal in Paris.” The Algerian boxer, who has male chromosomes, is scheduled to fight German female boxer Julia Igel later this month.

@McSwayne2000 @johnkonrad You can’t use them. Your militaries are crap.

@ColoradoandMore @johnkonrad Untrue. Go eat another hamburger!

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.

@dwoodwar289 @johnkonrad We don’t tell leakers. Full stop. If you were a partner you’d pay your share if NATO. You haven’t for years. I remember the cue and cry when we drew down in Europe in the early 90s. It was laughable. You wanted our support without providing any yourself.

@ColoradoandMore @johnkonrad We will, and you will now ALWAYS be an untrusted partner. You dont invade another country without discussing with your partners and then complain when your partners ask what you are doing. Then complain that we are not acting like partners. FFS, only in America!

@Pladijs1394 @johnkonrad Horse hockey. You need not be weak militarily. You live on past laurels. You chose social programs over defense. The ignorant colonials have surpassed what you were.

@johnkonrad Your lack of understanding of (European) history is telling and the #1 reason the U.S. hasn’t learned from our mistakes.

@dwoodwar289 @johnkonrad It doesn’t matter. What matters today is the future. Europe is militarily weak. Own it and go something about it.

@johnkonrad You fucking clown. I’m in Malta, walking streets & visiting buildings that stood centuries before white man even saw the Americas, seeing military history & cultural resilience you can’t fathom. Your problem as with most Americans is you think everything starts and ends with you.

@McSwayne2000 @johnkonrad Actually it’s not. NATO and Europe is a shell without the US. Keep your smugness to yourself and own your weakness.

@johnkonrad Hahahahaha! European ‘culture’ existed before you lot were even a country, you ignorant Yankee pig!! NATO without the US is a bigger, stronger more equipped military than the US. That’s a fact. Moron.

@AlexBeaurepaire @johnkonrad @french_report78 I was stationed at NATO Hq for 3 years. The disdain from Europeans was palpable. Every time they needed anything, NATO held their hands out to the US. I was disgusted. Still value in the organization if Europe pulls their weight and quits self-actualizing at our expense.

Can’t believe I’ve juste read this. What kind of hubris and massively inflated ego, completely disconnected from reality, makes you think the U.S. “rebuilt” culture in Europe after WWII? You’re seriously out of your mind. Europeans themselves were the ones who rebuilt things first and foremost, and the war never, ever wiped out European culture. You’re nuts.

@johnkonrad @DataRepublican Best description of Europe, ever. They have self-actualized themselves into ruin at our expense.

@KurtSchlichter That’s remarkably stupid.

Who exactly is the guy who was elected president going to conduct a coup against?

@DrSuneelDhand And have been for at least two generations.

@DavidJHarrisJr She got more.

🚨Michelle Obama: "We didn't get the grace that I think some other [first] families have gotten." Thoughts?

@kryptor1972 @JoshHall2024 Scandal free? Are you kidding?

@JoshHall2024 Disgraced? Obama is the 1st president to do two terms scandal free.This whole post you posted is a disgraced misinformation. Name one thing he’s done to be considered a disgrace. Trump is a disgraced president full of scandals. Goggle what you said

🚨BREAKING: 🚨 DISGRACED former President Barack Hussein Obama has reportedly established a "back channel" and a shadow government to communicate directly with world leaders whose countries are a part of NATO, anticipating a possible Trump administration withdrawal from the alliance. Obama is said to be reassuring his fellow leftist leaders and our so-called allies by forming a "contingency plan" in the event that President Trump does in fact terminate our NATO membership. With Obama recently purchasing a MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR MANSION in The UK and transferring a large chunk of his assets to the country, it appears that he may be orchestrating a GLOBALIST COUP against President Trump and engaging in a CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY to undermine the foreign policy of our duly-elected President. If we had a dollar for every time that Barack Obama has committed TREASON, we'd be as rich as Elon Musk. This man is the worst thing that ever happened to America? ARREST OBAMA NOW! 🇺🇸💪🏻

@Doranimated I thought the Bedouin’s fought in the IDF and did bit act this way toward women.

They fought the law but the law won. A clan of about 20 men from the Tarbin bedouin tribe surrounds a single Israeli policewoman. The man says, "Get out of my sight. You are a woman and I don't talk to women." She says, "What are you going to do to me? All this clan [surrounding me] doesn't mean shit to me." In the end, five of them were arrested.

@FPWellman @Psychologist_Rx I do. And they do. He has done more to revitalize enlistments than anyone in my memory. Former military.

@Psychologist_Rx LOL. Do you know any actual “troops?” thedailybeast.com/pentagon-petes…

Hegseth is a racist, a bigot, a sexist, and a white Christian Nationalist. He is the most dangerous member of Trump’s very malevolent Cabinet. He must be removed. The Republican Doormat Congress is the failure.

@GraemeFrew5 @MikeLevin Rein and reign. Know the difference.

@MikeLevin As someone from the UK, I don't understand why Congress doesn't reign in this nonsense. They have legislative power; surely they aren't all afraid of being primaried or are they?

The Army Chief of Staff, a combat veteran with tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, asked Pete Hegseth why he was blocking the promotions of two Black officers and two female officers who had earned them. Hegseth refused to answer. Then he fired him. Nine U.S. officials told NBC News that Hegseth has blocked or delayed promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military. Hegseth has now fired or sidelined more than a dozen generals and admirals. He is an out-of-control, unqualified former TV host and nobody in the Republican Party will say a word about it because they don’t want to make Trump angry. nbcnews.com/politics/natio…

@OliLondonTV She’s right. Neither of those women are happy.

Multimillionaire Michelle Obama tells Jamie Lee Curtis that fame and money don’t make people happy. “The millionaires, the people who are famous, the people who have it all…what they’re doing isn’t making them happy.”

@gerardtbaker You forget that Iran could reach a NATO ally with their missiles and has been exporting global terrorism-a direct threat to Europe. Reagan helped Britain during the Falklands war, knowing it world be unpopular but he supported the alliance, regardless. Learn something.

The casuistry here is remarkable. This is the simple reality: Like most Americans, most Europeans think this war is a bad idea.Their governments are being asked to take a huge risk by a man who has proved unreliable, volatile and intemperate over and over. Who would do that?

@infantrydort @KurtSchlichter Maybe 20 higher ranking general officers. But, the number is close to 197 when you include relieving lower ranking generals and senior officers.

Obama did not purge 197 generals and admirals. He removed less than 20 directly if I recall. His methods to shape the military were far more surreptitious than direct career confrontation.