
David Pinchot
660 posts


@Rep_Grijalva Someone that comes into this county illegally and has a baby, that baby should not be a citizen. Chinese ‘birth tourism’ companies (there are 500 of them) sending pregnant mothers to the Northern Mariana Islands to become US citizens is wrong. Just try and defend that.
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@ABridgen He will channel his best Neville Chamberlain and do nothing.
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@RobEld75 @Microinteracti1 Good luck. I hope you can speak Chinese and/or Russian.
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NATO’s 31 members will ‘have to reexamine’ whether they can still afford to have the USA as a partner.
Let’s be honest about what is happening.
The United States, under Trump, is actively supporting Russia. Blocking weapons to Ukraine. Pushing for a peace deal that rewards Moscow. Calling Putin a partner. Washington’s National Security Strategy no longer even identifies Russia as a threat.
Russia is the only reason NATO exists. It has always been the only reason. And Washington is now on Russia’s side.
So the question is not whether NATO can survive without America. The question is whether NATO can survive with it.
And America has already started leaving. Rubio skipped the NATO foreign ministers meeting in December. Hegseth skipped the defense ministers meeting in February. Two top-level meetings in a row. It is rare for a US administration to miss even one.  They are not forgetting to show up. They are choosing not to. NATO noticed. NATO kept meeting. NATO kept working.
Macron said it anyway. “No intimidation or threat will influence us, neither in Ukraine, nor in Greenland, nor anywhere else in the world.”  Sweden’s Prime Minister was blunter. “We will not allow ourselves to be blackmailed.” Good. Because NATO does not need permission.
Thirty-one nations. Nearly a billion people. The world’s largest collective economy. NATO militaries hardened by four years of watching Russia bleed itself dry on NATO’s eastern doorstep.
And here is what
Today it is not the Russia of 2022. That Russia is gone. Ukraine shot it to pieces. Up to two million men lost. Elite units wiped out entirely. Equipment inventories so depleted that Russian forces are pulling tanks from Soviet-era storage and patching them together with parts that belong in museums. The most combat-capable military in NATO’s history is now facing the most degraded Russian army since the Second World War.
NATO knows the enemy. It has watched it die in real time.
America’s own Secretary of State called NATO allies “cowards” and the alliance a “paper tiger.”  This from a country that just spent a month bombing Iran and achieved nothing. A country with a $39 trillion debt, a democracy rated below Mexico by international observers, and a president whose first instinct after re-election was to call Vladimir Putin.
Now look west from Washington. The Pacific. China. No NATO. No thirty-one allies who have trained together for 75 years, shared intelligence, and stood on the same walls. Just two oceans and a government that just told its only friends to go to hell.
America without NATO is not a superpower. It is a large, indebted nation with no friends, two oceans, and China on the other side of one of them.
NATO without Trump’s America is not weaker. It is stronger.
Gandalv / @Microinteracti1
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@RobEld75 @Microinteracti1 Are you really that stupid? Iran is against the western world, Europe included. If Europe is ok with a Nuclear Iran, and Iran being a Russian proxy in the Middle East, then Europe is indeed lost and there is no reason for the US to be in NATO at all.
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@daEdge1960 @Microinteracti1 Iran doesn’t want to nuke Europe, but the US. That’s hardly likely to change after the current campaign.
So if the US is afraid and needs Europe’s help, it would be rather foolish of them to leave NATO, don’t you think?
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@RepDonBeyer Someone that comes into this county illegally and has a baby, that baby should not be a citizen. Chinese ‘birth tourism’ companies (there are 500 of them) sending pregnant mothers to the Northern Mariana Islands to become US citizens is wrong. Just try and defend that.
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@SenatorDurbin You were the son of a legal immigrant. Someone that comes into this county illegally and has a baby, that baby should not be a citizen. Chinese ‘birth tourism’ companies sending pregnant mothers to the Northern Mariana Islands to become US citizens is wrong.
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@RoshanKrRaii Those Iranian rockets can hit Europe, not the US. A failure of eliminating the Iranian threat would only hurt Europe. That is not being ‘courageous’. It be channeling Neville Chamberlain.
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The meltdown over Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is truly something EVERYONE needs to pay attention to. You see, as the first & only black woman to ever serve on the court, she had to be 10 times better than most… She continues to flex her brilliance in oral arguments & many dissents.
Please note that by the time a black woman ascends to a powerful position, she Definitely Earned It… if you have any questions… let’s talk about Senator, now Secretary Mullin… or please pull the resumes of some of the other justices before entering this chat… actually just don’t, it’s not a debate, these are FACTS (alternative facts = LIES).
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@NormEisen Sosmeone comes into this county illegally and has a baby, that baby should not be a citizen. Chinese ‘birth tourism’ companies (there are 500 of them) sending pregnant mothers to the Northern Mariana Islands to become US citizens is wrong. Just try and defend that.
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@MikeLevin NATO is abandoning us. By not allowing the US flyover rights to eliminate the greatest purveyor of terrorism in the world, they are putting themselves at risk. Iran is an axis power of Russian. The US going against Russian interest in this and Europe is helping Russia.
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Abandoning NATO would be the single greatest gift Donald Trump could ever give Vladimir Putin.
It would dismantle the peace that the Greatest Generation bled and died to build after World War II and throw away 80 years of alliances with the friends who have stood beside us through many crises since.
NATO isn't just a military alliance. It's the reason Western Europe hasn't seen a land war between major powers in 80 years. The moment the United States walks away, every authoritarian watching from Moscow to Beijing gets the signal they've been waiting for: America is no longer reliable.
Republicans spent decades calling themselves the party of national security.
For those who meant any of it, I hope they'll say so out loud right now. History will not be kind to those who stayed quiet while Trump dismantled the architecture that kept the world from repeating the catastrophes of the 20th century.
The question is this: Who will stand up while others watch silently as Trump walks America to the edge of a cliff with no democratic allies left to pull us back?
time.com/article/2026/0…
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@repdeliaramirez No. We are tired of this ‘birth tourism’ and countries like China taking advantage of it. Someone coming illegally across the border and having a baby should not make that baby a citizen.
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@TimothyDSnyder When/if we run w/ tuck tail & dicks between legs,Iran will open Straits toll free to all but US & Israel.
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We lost a vanity war in the Persian Gulf and created a huge new problem for our allies. And now we say that it is their fault and that they must solve the problem we created.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Hegseth indicates reopening the Strait of Hormuz is not a core US objective: "We've been willing to lead, President Trump has led the entire time, but it's not just us. You might want to start learning how to fight for yourself."
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@RobEld75 @Microinteracti1 Iranian rockets can reach Europe, not the US. If Europe won’t help or allow flyovers so the US can eliminate the country that has been responsible for more terrorism in the world than any other, you can deal with the consequences.
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@Microinteracti1 Then say goodbye to all your military bases in Europe, Donny. 😄
Good luck carrying out any global operations without your NATO partners.

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You’re so close. Now say it again, but replace “Iran” with the “United States.”
AF Post@AFpost
State Sec. Rubio: “Imagine if instead of spending billions on weapons, Iran spent that money on its people. They’d have a much different country.” Follow: @AFpost
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@TeamTrump47 Minnesota need to be treated like a criminal enterprise and have the federal government come in and take over. When all parts of the state government including judges are corrupt, it’s time to step in.
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Oregonians have successfully voted by mail for over thirty years, and we’ll be damned if we let Donald Trump change the way our state runs its elections. My message to the White House is this: if you come for Oregon’s vote-by-mail, you’ll have hell to pay.
Headquarters@HQNewsNow
Trump announces he is issuing an unconstitutional executive order to shut down mail-in voting nationwide and he will defund states if they do not comply with him
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@RepMikeLevin The framers did not mean to have citizenship to babies born in the US from people that come here illegally. The idea for someone breaking into this country and giving birth to a citizen is a slap in the face to legal citizens and legal immigrants.
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Wake UP.
The Attorney General of the United States just went on national television to say that being a citizen is a privilege, not a right. She went to law school. She presumably knows what the 14th Amendment says: if you are born on American soil, you are a citizen.
This is a preview of exactly what this Administration is arguing before the Supreme Court right now — that they can strip citizenship from Americans born on U.S. soil to parents who are here temporarily or without documentation.
They have been coming for birthright citizenship since Day One. And if they win, millions of people who have lived their entire lives as Americans could suddenly lose the right to vote, the right to a passport, and more.
The Constitution is not optional, no matter how inconvenient this Administration finds it.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Bondi: "Being a citizen in our country is a privilege, not a right. And Donald Trump is going to have everyone in this country who deserves to be here who is a citizen."
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