@JohnCleese Cutting all ties with NATO and watching the whole squabbling lot of grifters drift slowly over the horizon will be a joy to see.
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Yes
The Trump regime is now an enemy of Western democracy
In fact, of any kind of democracy !
Trump is allied only with dictators
Putin, Lukashenko, Orban...
It's very sad
I can't help wondering if this is what Americans really want
Furkan Gözükara@FurkanGozukara
The special relationship is completely dead. Trump brutally humiliates the UK on the world stage, mocking their aircraft carriers as pathetic toys compared to the US. He openly rejects their delayed offer for help, proving the Western coalition has completely fractured.
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@JonathanTurley Sniffing one's own farts is not the path to prophesy.
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Rep. Eric Swalwell is the latest Democrat to confirm that the shutdown is about defunding and eliminating ICE: "I don’t want to fund ICE, I want to abolish them." This follows his pledge to arrest ICE, take away their licenses, and bar them from jobs. jonathanturley.org/2025/12/31/swa…
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@JohnCleese Happily, who runs the US is not a question left to alien twits - since 1776.
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He has lost all contact with reality
Should he be running America ?
Republicans against Trump@RpsAgainstTrump
Trump: “When I didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize. You gotta understand, I don't care. Norway has lost so credible. I stopped 8 wars… I do it the best. I stopped wars that nobody thought—President Putin called me, he said, 'I can't believe you stopped this one and this one.’”
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@BasedMikeLee What's the purpose of having a Senate if they can't take vacations every two weeks?
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The Senate must reconvene
Immediately
A staggering 260,000 DHS employees and their families have gone without pay for more than a month
This is not a time for any Senate recess—let alone an unusually long one
Nor was it a good time to recess a month ago—at the beginning of the DHS shutdown—when the Senate recessed for ten days, ignoring my stern warnings about the dire consequences that decision would produce
As it turns out, I was right; what I warned would happen has happened
To double down on the same mistake now—and recess for not just for one week but for two—would be unforgivable
Bad things happen when we make bad decisions
And bad decisions are far more likely to occur when scheduling decisions are prompted more by a desire to let senators leave Washington—whether for international travel or just to go home—than to achieve favorable policy outcomes
The Post Millennial@TPostMillennial
House GOP proposes 60-day CR with full DHS funding—likely rejecting Senate deal ow.ly/Ip7r50YzZjE
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@BasedMikeLee @CletaMitchell The filibuster has morphed to shutdown hostage taking. There is no filibuster. There are only shutdowns.
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This is an excellent explanation of the filibuster—and why it has evolved into such a problem that it must be addressed quickly and aggressively—from the great @CletaMitchell, a true gift to the conservative movement
Cleta Mitchell@CletaMitchell
There is a serious constitutional crisis when the legislative branch of the federal government is unable to legislate because of self-imposed ‘extra-constitutional’ rules and procedures. The Byrd Rule… named for a long-dead Democrat leader who appears to control the Senate from the grave. The filibuster rule that can’t work because of some long ago interpretation of the filibuster process. The question is whether the Senate leaders will continue to allow their foolish adherence to arcane rules and procedures to create this constitutional crisis. They say they won’t “nuke” the filibuster. But they also won’t overturn the long ago ruling by a parliamentarian who “interpreted” the 2-speech rule to mean the filibuster can never ever end. As we have had to learn more about the Senate rules, it is becoming increasingly clear that the Senate is refusing to protect the filibuster by overturning the interpretation that makes the filibuster impossible to end without a supermajority. That’s a constitutional crisis and rather than seriously address the issue and the procedures and the rules, the Senators left town. So disgraceful. We will know soon enough where these Senators went if they traveled during the recess. How many went on junkets. Who had fundraising trips. What they did rather than face their responsibilities. Like funding DHS. Like securing our elections. Like addressing this constitutional crisis they have allowed to take over the Senate and that they refuse to remedy. This is not what the voters bargained for. This irresponsible bunch of Senators who refuse to protect the Senate and ensure its ability to function to serve the people. They’re mad at @BasedMikeLee for calling this all into public view. On full display so we now see it - understand it. And hate it. But he’s not the problem. They just didn’t want the public to ever find out. But now we know. And we are disgusted. @EIwatchdogs @BasedMikeLee @chiproytx
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@BasedMikeLee Until it passes or the Senate takes another vacation. I'm betting on vacation.
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We can’t use budget reconciliation to pass the SAVE America Act because (1) it’s unavoidably non-budgetary, (2) the parliamentarian will deem it as such, and (3) the Senate GOP won’t overrule her.
Suggesting otherwise undermines our central message: that when the Senate reconvenes, we *must* keep it on the Senate floor until it passes.
Don’t fall for—or feed—the distraction!
Rep. Keith Self@RepKeithSelf
“Rep. Keith Self, R-Texas, and Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, two members who have been pushing hard for this legislation to reach the president’s desk, agreed that this is not a viable option. Self went as far as to say that anyone who says they can is ‘lying to you.’” dailysignal.com/2026/03/26/lat…
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I can help you, sir
I can say the following because I am not in the US
Putin has compromat on Trump that will end Trump's
career overnight
He used this to force Trump to make decisions against
America's best interests
Simple as that
Sadly
Dr. Fred Hoffman, Lieutenant Colonel (ret.)@InfoAgeStrategy
I remain mystified by President Trump's continual deference to Vladimir Putin, who: - Is a dictator - Is a terrorist - Hates the West in general and the U.S. in particular I have no plausible explanation for President Trump's inexplicable behavior towards Putin (the aggressor) and Zelensky (the victim).
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@LeaderJohnThune I think it's unfair to compare Thune to Arnold. Arnold won a few battles.
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Let’s summarize where we are after a 40+ day Democrat shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security.
1) ICE and CBP are funded, thanks to the Working Families Tax Cuts and the foresight of President Trump and Republicans in Congress.
2) After holding DHS and the American people hostage for over 40 days, Dems got ZERO restrictions that would prevent ICE and CBP agents from doing their jobs safely.
3) Due to Dem obstruction of the appropriations process, ICE and CBP will get even more funding through budget reconciliation.
4) Dems have once again established themselves as the “Open Borders, Defund the Police” party heading into an election.
5) Dem leadership has proven once again they can’t be trusted to make a deal.
Which begs the question if you’re a Dem senator or one of their left-wing supporters: What was this really all about?
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Update on UK operations in the Middle East, 27 March 2026.
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Look at the official abuse directed at Air Canada’s CEO who has spent hundreds of hours trying to learn French but hasn’t been able to master it.
This is exactly how they feel about every Albertan, by the way.
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@afneil Europe has toy military establishments. They expect the US to do all the fighting.
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The current state of the Royal Navy:
2 aircraft carriers — neither operational.
6 Type 45 destroyers (our most powerful warships) — one operational (in Cyprus).
7 Type 23 frigates (less powerful, much older) — three operational
5 Astute class nuke-powered subs — one operational (in Arabian Sea?).
Surely those responsible for this appalling state of unreadiness (a national embarrassment if ever there was one)— political, civilian and military — should be fired/charged.
Their incompetence has effectively left us without a navy.
Quite an achievement for an ancient island nation.
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BREAKING: The Nasdaq 100 has now traded below its all-time high for 100 days, the longest streak since 2023.
At the same time, the index is trading less than -10% off the peak, the 6th time this pattern has occurred since 1985.
In the previous 5 instances, the Nasdaq 100 was either flat or positive 80% of the time 1 month later, with an average gain of +1.1%.
2 months later, the average return was +2.3% with 80% positive outcomes.
After 12 months, the index was higher 100% of the time, with an average gain of +17.0%.
History suggests technology stocks are set to recover soon.
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@BasedMikeLee When the going gets tough, the Senate goes on vacation.
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Time to recognize reality — Democrats will never take yes for an answer. Stop trying to negotiate with them, and begin the Reconciliation Appropriation Process to fund @DHSgov for multiple years.
And do not fund ANY Democrat priorities!!!!
Rapid Response 47@RapidResponse47
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@SenRonJohnson Or, just take a vacation. That's what you usually do.
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The Senate was meant to “cool” political passions like a saucer cools tea, but after serving for 15 years, I’d say it’s more like plaque clogging arteries.
My op-ed in the Daily Wire explains how the filibuster and outdated Senate procedures cause dysfunction and gridlock.
Read more at the link below⬇️
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