America’s Golden Age

@EuropeanRetired @johnkonrad Personally I think the EU should finance and equip Ukraine. I don’t want and didn’t want a dime or one piece or artillery going there. As to our budget, once we remove ourselves from NATO and pull our troops/equipment from bases in NATO countries we will have more. Next the UN.

@catgrey58 @johnkonrad U sent 40yo equipment and replenished your own stock creating jobs in maga states. Trump stopped Biden’s payment and let eu buy weapons with a 10% surcharge. U live in a web of lies, partly bcs all us media is bought and have no journalists.

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.

Yes we need more Libya anarchy, apology tours through Middle East, premature pullouts of a quiet Iraq that gave us ISIS, unenforced redlines in Syria…and pallets of cash for Iran..stick to Epstein files RO

@CBSNews @camiloreports I would experience trauma if my parent abandoned me, too.

Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, the boy whose ICE detention in Minnesota sparked global outrage after he was taken away wearing a blue bunny hat and carrying his school backpack, is still living with the trauma, his parents told CBS News' @camiloreports in an exclusive interview. More than two months later, they say Liam is no longer the same child: He’s afraid to go outside, asks if police are ICE, and worries they will “take me away again.” His parents say he is now getting support, but fear the emotional scars from his time in detention may not heal quickly.

@EuropeanRetired @johnkonrad Never contributed to Ukraine? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@catgrey58 @johnkonrad Good luck with getting your budget in balance, and the debt shooting to the moon. All while petro $ dies bcs no one trust u any more. U never contributed to ukraine, another lie but another story.

@Noirchick1 8 but 5 would be fun too!

A little bit of fun this morning.... where are you sitting?

@EuropeanRetired @johnkonrad Sounds good. Good luck to you all! American tax payer and member of middle America. Go your own way. Good luck in Ukraine.

@johnkonrad BS. another lie engineered to deflect from your own problems. 🇺🇸 is a grifting culture, example; U pay 2x for health and 3x for meds, bcs; U have 900 health insurance co employing 1M americans. Doing nothing more than grift. 1 of ∞ examples.

@SenWarren You are not a serious person. Not at all

Jeff Bezos has $222 billion. If he paid my wealth tax this year, we could fund insulin in America for everyone who needs it plus free school lunch for every kid in Texas—and have plenty of money left over. And Bezos would still have $215 billion dollars to spare.

@the_jefferymead No doubt!

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@timsoret Thank you 🇺🇸… and doing all of that at once. Come join us!

As a European, I apologize to Americans for all the idiocy coming from our side. You save your pilots no matter the cost. You send humans to the moon. You fight authoritarianism head-on. It's truly inspiring. We're on the wrong side of the moral equation.

@moymiz United Kingdom….not so sure

Who believes this should be the new NATO? •🇺🇸 United States •🇬🇷 Greece •🇪🇪 Estonia •🇱🇻 Latvia •🇵🇱 Poland •🇱🇹 Lithuania •🇬🇧 United Kingdom •🇯🇵 Japan •🇮🇱 Israel •🇰🇷 South Korea •🇦🇷 Argentina

@timburchett Truth!!!!!

Public Service Announcement: If your “cornbread” is sweet it is not cornbread it is cake.

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@SecRubio Thank you!!🇺🇸🇺🇸

Until recently, Hamideh Soleimani Afshar and her daughter were green card holders living lavishly in the United States. Afshar is the niece of deceased Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani. She is also an outspoken supporter of the Iranian regime who celebrated attacks on Americans and referred to our country as the "Great Satan." This week, I terminated both Afshar and her daughter's legal status and they are now in ICE custody, pending removal from the United States. The Trump Administration will not allow our country to become a home for foreign nationals who support anti-American terrorist regimes.

Huge scoop from @realmuckraker. This NGO has reportedly received $16 Million in grants funded by taxpayers in only ONE YEAR, including $1.6M from federal taxpayers. Now they’re bussing in people for No Kings Protests. So… basically, we’re subsidizing crowds at these "protests."

@DHSgov @ICEgov Thank you!!!

Today, @ICEgov arrested a Jordanian national with a prior conviction for THROWING A MOLOTOV COCKTAIL at the homes of Israeli Forces. He lied on his immigration application and became a green card holder under President Clinton. This terrorist will remain in ICE custody pending removal proceedings.

NEW: A Guatemalan illegal alien with a deportation order has been charged with raping a 5-year-old girl he was babysitting on Long Island, NY. The girl’s mother came home, noticed her bleeding, and took her to the hospital where a rape kit was used. DHS says local law enforcement in Suffolk County contacted ICE NYC and asked them to arrest Carlos Aguilar Reynoso to keep him out of the community while they built their case. ICE did arrest him, and transferred him back to local law enforcement once the DA charged him for the child rape. He is now facing a litany of charges and is in custody. In a statement, ICE says this is why cooperation between local and federal law enforcement is crucial, and why sanctuary policies that prohibit that cooperation endanger the public.

@BrandonStraka Gosh…I guess the other countries better pick up the pace.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres warns the organization faces collapse without continued U.S. funding, which contributes roughly $2.2 billion to its core budget. "the United Nations is on the brink of total collapse"

@MaMoMVPY The Russian asset angle is so tedious!!

Everything Trump does is about weakening NATO and Europe and strengthening Russia. And this, by the way, has been the case ever since he visited the Soviet Union in 1987. There is little doubt that he is a Russian asset. The only question is why.

@LeaderJohnThune Pass the SAVE Act!!!!!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸