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@MikeBales But the other guy's method really piques curiosity.

A man was sitting on a plane when the passenger next to him pulled out a laptop and started working nonstop. After two hours, the man finally asked, “Wow… do you always work during flights?” The passenger sighed, “No, I’m just pretending to look busy so nobody talks to me.” The man nodded slowly and said, “That’s smart.” Then he sat quietly for a full minute before asking, “So… what are you working on?”

@Microinteracti1 @Tinta19689015 Putin trapped Trump when he did business in Russia. But Israel also trapped Trump (and many other US politicians). The Epstein files may have been pushed for release by Israel. In short, Trump's policies are 20% controlled by Russia, 40% by Israel, and 40% by his own personality.

People are starting to ask whether Trump is destroying America from the inside. The evidence says they're right. So! How to destroy the world's most powerful nation, one policy at a time, and make sure nobody notices until it's too late. open.substack.com/pub/gandalv/p/…

@MrPitbull07 The world is reverting to the 19th century, a time when the state and employers were on the same side, and with state protection, employers could exploit workers at will.

A father told his 23-year-old son to “man up.” Months later, he was standing at his son’s grave wishing he could take those words back. To him, his son looked lazy. He slept late. Delivered food for gig apps. Lived at home. Spent hours on his phone. The father came from a different America. At 24, he already had a factory job, a mortgage, and a family. So when his son said: “The economy is different now.” “The math doesn’t work anymore.” …he thought those were excuses. One evening, he found his son quietly eating cereal after finishing deliveries. The son looked exhausted. Not sleepy. Exhausted. “I’m trying, Dad,” he said softly. “I’m just so tired.” The father rolled his eyes. “Tired from what? Sitting in a car all day? You kids have everything handed to you.” The room went silent. Then the son said: “I’m sorry the math doesn’t work for me.” Before going downstairs, he hugged his father and whispered: “I won’t be a burden anymore.” The next morning, his room was spotless. Bed made. Phone on the pillow. A note waiting. His father discovered the truth too late: His son had applied to hundreds of jobs. Worked endless hours delivering food. Stopped taking medication after losing insurance. Was drowning silently under debt, rejection, and hopelessness. The note ended with these words: “You were right. The world is for the strong. And I don’t have any fight left.” He drove to a bridge and never came home. Later, the father admitted something heartbreaking: “I judged my son using rules from a world that no longer exists.” Back then: • Homes cost a few years’ salary • Jobs came with pensions • One income could support a family Today, many young people work harder than ever while feeling permanently stuck. And too often, exhaustion gets mistaken for laziness. Sometimes when someone says: “I’m tired…” What they really mean is: “I’m losing the fight to keep going.” Before judging someone for struggling in today’s world, listen first. You may be looking at someone fighting a battle you cannot see.

@Microinteracti1 @truescandic Trump has turned America from the world's number one superpower into the region's number one bully.

Abraham Lincoln got shot in the head and still managed to keep the country together. Franklin Roosevelt ran the entire Second World War from a wheelchair. Eisenhower defeated Hitler and then, just to stay busy, built 48,000 miles of motorway. Kennedy looked at the moon, said “we’ll have that,” and inside a decade they did. Reagan stared down the Soviet Union until it simply gave up and went home. Two hundred and fifty years. Forty-six men. Men who stormed beaches, split atoms, faced down nuclear annihilation over breakfast and then filed sensible paperwork about it afterward. And then, after all of that, the entire accumulated weight of American history, the most consequential democratic experiment the world has ever seen, produced this. A television review. No Mars landing. No cure for cancer. No Soviet empire dissolved before lunch. Just a man in the White House, in the year 2026, informing the internet that a CBS chat show host had no talent. That is what 250 years of American greatness built. America should be deeply, permanently ashamed of itself. If you like what you read, follow Gandalv on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/gandalv

@commons96055467 Trump and the GOP appear unfazed by the poll numbers, growing more and more authoritarian, proving they've got a secret card to play.

Americans are still playing by the rule of hope and prayers, and established laws. Trump is playing by the rules of criminality. Win at any cost. We think we can stop him through democratic election. He thinks how to stop that, he has the means. We are the loser in this game.

@MemyselfandI019 Both could happen.

@HanVuOmenIsReal An internal conflict or a war with an external power?

Nearly 20 years ago, I made two predictions: 1. From 2021 to 2033 would be a period of instability for the US. 2. Around 2025, the US would face a war of existential importance. The first prediction is already coming true. I am waiting for the second one to happen.

@OccupyDemocrats The blindness of MAGA and the Republican Party is a great mystery, not only for the United States but for the entire world. Should the Democratic Party take note of this, as failing to understand one's enemy is a guaranteed path to defeat?

BREAKING: HELL YES! Senator Ed Markey calls for Trump to be impeached over his corrupt $1.8 billion slush fund for MAGA insurrectionists and pedophiles. It's time to start laying the groundwork now... "Trump’s 'weaponization fund' and ban on future IRS audits is his latest impeachable offense: using the machinery of government and billions in taxpayer dollars to reward allies, pay off insurrectionists, and shield himself, his family, and associates from accountability," Markey said. "This is exactly the kind of corruption and abuse of public trust the Framers feared most. Impeach now." We couldn't agree more. The Founding Fathers would have been horrified to learn that a sitting president was funneling $1.776 billion of the American people's money into an opaque piggy bank for insurrectionists and Republican Party loyalists. As if that weren't bad enough, the Justice Department has refused to rule out the possibility of payments being made to sex offenders like Andrew Paul Johnson. Johnson was pardoned by Trump for his role in the insurrection and then went on to molest two children. He assumed that he would eventually receive money from Trump, and promised to pay his victims in return for their silence. He's just one example of the individuals "targeted" by the Biden administration. The Constitution states that a President can be impeached for "bribery" as well as "high crimes and misdemeanors." Stealing tax dollars to compensate your criminal supporters for their role in a deadly insurrection certainly meets those criteria. Of course, the real hurtle here is institutional. Right now, Republicans control the House and Senate. But after the midterm elections this fall, that will almost certainly change. Add to that the fact that many Republicans are furious about this slush fund, and impeachment starts to look like a viable path forward. To those who are skeptical of impeachment, allow us to make a final point. The day will come when Trump leaves office. When that happens, the future of our democracy depends upon us prosecuting and imprisoning him for his endless parade of crimes. In order to do that, we must convince the American people that he deserves it. Pursuing impeachment proceedings allows us to center his criminality in the public discourse, paving the way for that prosecution. Do you support impeachment? What about prosecution? Please ❤️ and share if you support impeaching Trump!

@jurgen_nauditt @Masstator Did China advise Iran? They want Trump stuck in Iran so they can move on Taiwan and capture the vital chip technology that America depends on.

Trump's success story continues. Iran threatens to impose fees on submarine cables in the Strait of Hormuz. According to CNN, Zolfaghari—a representative of the Iranian military command—announced plans to levy fees for the use and maintenance of the "data highways" that facilitate digital communication between Europe and Asia. A refusal to pay would result in a "disruption of service." Tehran is demanding compliance with local legislation as well as financial payments from technology giants—including Google, Microsoft, and Amazon—and from cable network operators (including the FALCON and Gulf Bridge International systems).

@ianbremmer China is waiting for Trump to become further entangled in Iran before moving to occupy Taiwan. This is not merely a territorial issue; it is about world-leading semiconductor technology that the United States relies heavily upon.

protip: almost none of these countries want the iran war to continue

@RpsAgainstTrump Why wait five years? They are well aware of Trump's vulnerabilities and will act during his presidency. Acquiring Taiwan would make them the world's number one power in semiconductor technology. Trump's criticism of Taiwan is a critical error.

BREAKING: Close advisers to Donald Trump fear the biggest substantive result of the China summit is heightened danger that Xi Jinping will invade Taiwan in the next five years, per Axios. One Trump adviser told Axios Xi is "trying to move China to a new position where he's saying: 'We're not a rising power. We're your equal. And Taiwan is mine.'" “This trip signaled a much higher likelihood that Taiwan will be on the table in the next five years," the adviser added.

@Patriot5715 @PhilosophyOfPhy Einstein contradicted himself, so I believe Maxwell.

@HanVuOmenIsReal @PhilosophyOfPhy Einstein utilized an aether to explain why light bends around stars.

Light is not a thing moving through empty space.Light is what empty space can do. That sounds strange, because we are used to thinking of waves as things that need something to wave. Water waves need water. Sound waves need air. A rope wave needs rope. But light needs no material medium. Maxwell showed why. A changing electric field creates a magnetic field. A changing magnetic field creates an electric field. If the pattern is arranged just right, the two keep regenerating each other and move forward through space. That self-sustaining motion is an electromagnetic wave. Not a little object flying through the void. Not sound without air. Not a ripple in some hidden substance. A moving pattern of fields. This is why sunlight can cross millions of kilometers of near-empty space and still arrive on your skin. The emptiness between the Sun and Earth is not carrying light like air carries sound. The fields are the motion. The pattern carries itself. Empty space is not a dead stage where physics happens. It has structure. It has laws. It can carry energy, momentum, and light. Maybe nothing was never as empty as it looked.

@GrandpaSnarky A fascinating story. Behind the blindness of MAGA and the Republican Party, there seems to be another power pulling the strings.

The GOP isn’t smarter than this 10-year-old. Last week while taking our grandson to school, stuck in traffic, a news report about Trump came on the radio. My wife and I barely noticed it – until our grandson quietly said, “I don’t like Donald Trump.” My wife turned and gently asked, “Why, honey?” Without even looking up from his tablet, he said: “Because he’s not kind to people.” That’s it. That’s the whole thing. A 10-year-old understood in one sentence what an entire political party keeps pretending not to see.

@OccupyDemocrats Trump despises anyone who is generally weaker than him but holds an advantage in a specific area. He resents Taiwan because its semiconductor technology dominates the global market.

BREAKING: Trump throws Taiwan under the bus in shocking capitulation to the will of man-crush Xi and China! In a jaw-dropping display of weakness, Donald Trump just signaled to China that America’s commitment to defending Taiwan is shaky at best.While discussing Taiwan with Sean Hannity, Trump whined: “China is a very, very powerful big country. That’s a very small island … We’re 9,500 miles away. That’s a little bit of a difficult problem.” He went on to blame previous presidents for “letting” Taiwan develop its chip industry, claiming they “stole” it from America. He even lectured Taiwan, saying they “would be very smart to cool it a little bit.” What a crock of excrement, complaining that Taipei is far away (less than 8,000 miles, not 9,500) when he’s in the middle of a war with a country more than 6,000 miles away. "A little bit of a difficult problem"? STFU, dude. Make no mistake, Trump is throwing a key democratic ally under the bus in favor of the Communist dictator Xi, and in so doing humiliating the United States in front of the world. For decades, U.S. policy has been deliberately ambiguous about defending Taiwan in order to deter Chinese aggression. But the thread of American intervention in the face of an attack has kept China at bay. Trump just ripped that ambiguity to pieces. By publicly emphasizing how small and far away Taiwan is, and telling them to “cool it,” he’s signaling to Beijing that America’s support is weak and conditional. Remember when the United States used to stand up for democracy all over the world? Us too. Taiwan is a thriving democracy of 23 million people that produces the majority of the world’s most advanced semiconductors. China has made it crystal clear they want to seize it. Trump’s rhetoric doesn’t make peace more likely, it makes Chinese aggression more likely by convincing Xi Jinping that America won’t stand up for its friends. Instead of projecting strength, Trump is projecting weakness and transactional selfishness. He sees Taiwan not as a strategic partner, but as an economic competitor that took American jobs. His “America First” policy is rapidly becoming “Abandon Your Allies First.” This is what happens when you put a man who views everything through the lens of real estate deals, and gets a woody for totalitarian dictators, in charge of American foreign policy. America must stand with its democratic allies, not throw them under the bus to appease a government of one-man rule, that stifles the press, persecutes minorities, blocks Winnie the Pooh from the internet (look it up!) and purges politicians who dare to oppose him. If you agree, like and share this post.

@ianbremmer Maybe Trump prefers Greenland because he’d get to become the Snow King.

trump apparently recognizing his canada effort failed.

@egil_marcussen @Microinteracti1 Iran! Trump’s goal is to hold the highest possible titles, and becoming Ayatollah Trump is probably easier than becoming Pope Trump.

@Microinteracti1 One week, Canada is designated as the 51st state of the United States. The next, it's Greenland, and now Venezuela. Which country will be next? The United States is led by a very mentally disturbed person who needs professional help.

Let’s be honest about what we’re watching here. 🇺🇸 330 million people, the country that put men on the moon, defeated the Nazis is now sitting on its sofa watching its president post crayon drawings of Venezuela with an American flag on it. At least the Russians who oppose Putin have a reasonable excuse not to speak up. Siberia is cold and windows are tall. At least North Koreans can point to the very real possibility of their entire extended family being relocated to a concrete box with no heating. These are legitimate barriers to civic engagement. What’s America’s excuse? You can vote. You can protest. You can run for office. Nobody is sending you to a gulag. The worst thing that happens is someone calls you a name on Truth Social. And yet, there you all sit, 330 million of you, watching a man who cannot spell “Venezuela” claim it as American territory, while nodding along like this is a completely normal thing for a head of state to do. No dictator in modern history has done more damage to the prestige of a country’s highest office than this man, and he’s done it entirely voluntarily, with access to the full resources of the American government, and a communications team that apparently just lets him post whatever falls out of his head before breakfast. Kim Jong-un, for all his considerable faults, has never once posted a map with a flag on it and called it foreign policy. Think about that. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@Microinteracti1 Will JD Vance become president within the next two years?

The President of the United States has trashed the office and turned it into a timeshare pitch.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ it’s never coming back.

@JamesTate121 Trump is someone who only knows how to take; he rarely gives. So, who paid for them? I addressed this issue in my book, Omens in Politics, published in 2025.

For eight years, Ashley St. Clair was a paid soldier inside the MAGA influence machine — posting from Mar-a-Lago, coordinating talking points, and building the infrastructure of right-wing online outrage. Now she's on TikTok releasing the screenshots. White House officials. Private group chats. Thousands of dollars per post, deposited to personal accounts. Behind NDAs. She estimates 99 percent of the largest right-wing influencers are compensated — and none of it is disclosed, because courts have ruled political speech doesn't require the same transparency as commercial advertising. This is not a conspiracy theory. This is a confession. From someone who ran the operation. The Logical Leftist breaks down exactly how the MAGA influence machine works — and what happens when one of its architects finally talks. Watch: youtu.be/PkFwe0X0nh4

@Microinteracti1 Netanyahu is very shrewd. He’s afraid that Trump’s overly blatant support for Israel could trigger a backlash against Israel and Jewish people in the U.S., so he’s just saying that for show.

When Benjamin Netanyahu told CBS’s 60 Minutes on Sunday that he wants to reduce American military support to Israel to zero, most commentators treated it as an Israeli story. It isn’t. “We’ve come of age,” Netanyahu said, announcing his intention to draw US financial support down to zero. Israel currently receives $3.8 billion in annual military aid annually. Netanyahu said he does not want to wait for the next Congress. He wants to start now.  He is not alone. At the Munich Security Conference in February, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, French President Emmanuel Macron, and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer appeared on stage together to launch the “Global Europe” initiative, calling for a joint roadmap toward a strong and sovereign Europe with its own security strategy. Germany’s rearmament plan explicitly aims to replace Europe’s defense dependency on what Berlin officials now openly describe as an increasingly unpredictable United States. A recent Kiel Institute report projects that Europe is on track for military independence from the US in most areas by the 2030s, at a cost of roughly 500 billion euros.  Canada is moving the same direction. During last year’s election campaign, Prime Minister Mark Carney declared that the old relationship between Canada and the United States is simply over. Canada has since hit the NATO 2% spending target for the first time, and declined to participate in the 2026 Iran war.  European leaders from Macron to Merz to Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever have converged on the same argument: strategic autonomy is no longer an ideological preference but a condition of freedom.  The lesson drawn from the Trump years is simple and shared: an alliance built entirely on one partner’s political will is not an alliance. It is a dependency. And one by one, America’s closest partners have decided they are done depending.

@ianbremmer Trump isn't de-escalating tensions with Iran; he’s de-escalating tensions with American public opinion.

@ianbremmer The Chinese have a tactic called 'Removing the firewood from under the pot' to gradually de-escalate tension. Trump is doing something similar. His negotiation demands are being lowered little by little. But there will be no deal at all, and Trump will simply declare victory.

iran continues to believe they have the upper hand in negotiations…and that extending the “ceasefire” benefits them, not the americans.