Smells Like Confederate Spirit

🧵on Immigration framing. GOP's hope of for #Midterms2022 success lies in the hope that they can (again) create fear surrounding the Border + Immigration. @TheDemocrats need to find alternative framing immediately to lay waste to this phantom menace. 1/

We entered NATO by Senate Treaty, the President has no right to take us out of it. You should know you sponsored a bill to block the President from getting us out of NATO.

@RubenGallego What in the actual fuck is Rubio saying?? Fuck MAGAts. This is a liberal constitution founded by liberal Renaissance men. The fuck these fascist right-wingers are taking this country from decency and honor. Congress better stand tall and Rubio will never be president.

Breaking: Japan suspends all diplomatic relations with Israel over its hegemonic designs in Middle East

Kristi Noem rigging the property appraiser’s exam while governor so her daughter could get her license, killing a puppy, & giving her boyfriend a powerful job in govt while cheating on her cross-dressing spouse is not that unusual on the spectrum of Republican politician behavior

The Trump administration must restore the legal status of potentially hundreds of thousands of immigrants who came to the United States legally through a Biden-era pathway, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. abcnews.link/iAn9X3o

The U.S. was seen as a superpower until Trump’s attack on Iran exposed its technology. Now other countries realize it can be challenged, and leaders are starting to speak up against it.

@FurkanGozukara Great, let them come out of the shadows and gather.

Terrifying reality check for Washington. As the Pentagon discusses ground raids, Iran's top military command vows to literally "cut off the legs" of any invading force. Iran has already mobilized over a MILLION fighters nationwide. A ground war would be an absolute bloodbath.

@shanaka86 Rubio has been thoroughly corrupted by MAGAts. Shame.

JUST IN: Marco Rubio just said NATO might be a “one-way street.” The Secretary of State of the country that founded the alliance, funded it, commanded it, and expanded it from 12 members to 32 just questioned whether it still serves American interests. He was not speaking hypothetically. He was responding to the fact that three NATO allies refused to let American aircraft use their airspace to conduct a war those allies were never consulted about. France blocked overflight for US weapons shipments to Israel. Italy denied Sigonella, the largest US air base in the Mediterranean, because Washington never formally requested authorisation for combat missions. Spain closed its entire airspace and every joint base. Germany, host of Ramstein, the Pentagon’s European command centre, has publicly called the war “illegal.” The alliance that survived the Berlin Blockade, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the fall of the Soviet Union, the Balkans, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Ukraine fractured over an operation none of its European members were asked to join. This is the structural insight nobody is discussing. NATO’s Article 5 guarantees collective defence when a member is attacked. No NATO member has been attacked. The United States launched a war of choice, invited Israel as its partner, and demanded that European allies provide infrastructure for an operation those allies neither endorsed nor believed was legal. When they said no, Rubio called it a one-way street. The street is one-way because America built it and decided where it goes. Europe is being punished for refusing to drive on a road it did not choose. Meloni was Trump’s closest European ally. She aligned on immigration, China, EU scepticism. Italy still denied Sigonella because Italian law requires government approval for combat use and Washington never asked. The procedural denial exposed the personal alliance as decorative. Meloni is now distancing from a war 77 percent of Italians view unfavourably, turning her Trump friendship into a liability before a referendum. And here is where the fracture connects to the strait. Europe’s energy survival depends on American LNG, which now supplies 55 to 58 percent of EU gas imports. Trump told Europe to “fend for yourselves” on Hormuz while Europe’s fuel arrives on ships transiting sea lanes America says it will no longer protect. Rubio questioned NATO’s value on the same day Europe’s energy infrastructure relies on American supply more completely than at any point since the Marshall Plan. The alliance is being threatened by the country that made the alliance necessary by making Europe dependent on American fuel. The CMA CGM container ships trapped in the Gulf are French. The Hapag-Lloyd vessels stranded are German. The NATO allies whose airspace is denied are the same allies whose merchant fleets are hostage to a chokepoint America closed. The fracture runs from the podium in Washington to the anchorage off Fujairah. The airspace denial and the shipping entrapment are the same refusal expressed in different mediums. Europe is saying no to the war with its sky and paying for it with its sea. NATO survived 75 years because it had a shared enemy. This war has no shared enemy. It has a shared consequence. And the consequence is being distributed by the country that created it. The alliance did not break over a threat. It broke over a choice. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

Now every time they ask me what a woman is I ask them what a minor is.

@PiperK lol, this is where they feel shame. Not anything else. My god.

Huh? 😂😂

@KennyZufall We are a liberal country founded on liberal values and ideas. Agnostic radical liberals from the Renaissance founded our Constitution + instead of fighting you're wringing yr hands on how we can get along. NEWSFLASH: We never will!! The Right is not reconcilable!

@KennyZufall Nobody has said the Democratic party is flawless. Again, another false equivalency. You're normalizing a right-wing fascist movement with your false equivalency framing. You're trying to unite right-wing christo-fascist authoritarians with a liberal population

Trump fucking sucks man. How the hell did we vote for this retard?

@Fan26_America @Franckyy__ Oh, I'm just trolling him at this point 😜

@DemMessaging @Franckyy__ I don’t care about stuff like that, I find it charming. I wish they would be our friends. I only hate how much they hate us.

Close down all US bases in Europe. Leave NATO. The US is no longer our ally.

@Fan26_America @Franckyy__ He's totally beyond reason, for sure. This thread is about Euros, and he's making it about Canada at any rate. Canada is a great country, but one of the big reasons is its proximity to USA. They would hate to admit that, however

@DemMessaging @Franckyy__ There’s really no reasoning with them, they have every right to be angry about how Trump treats them but then expect all Americans even those who hate Trump to roll over and let them continue to look down on us and talk shit like they always have

@angryalien666 @jee_vacation @NXT4EU The projection is epic. 12 months with MAGAts running things and debt doubles, inflation worse than ever, wars, closer to nuclear bomb. MAGAts are the dumbest, least educated, cruelest and most broken of Americans. Trump will surpass Buchanan as the worst president in history.

@DemMessaging @jee_vacation @NXT4EU Dems don’t connect dots. They’re fucking low iq meat puppets.

@Fan26_America @Franckyy__ We have tolerated their accent way too long

@DemMessaging @Franckyy__ Canadians have never seen us as their equals and Trump threatening them for no reason gave them the excuse to finally be open about their disdain for us

@Franckyy__ @Fan26_America wow, when we catch a cold, Canada catches the flu. But sure, great wish. You have American derangement syndrome. Go read your history instead of obsessing about one man.

@Fan26_America @DemMessaging And believe me, we're not the only ones who think we want your country to collapse, you know.

@jee_vacation @NXT4EU Don't you think we're tired of it? Y'all rub it in our faces all the time. Trump is a complete dick and a fucking asshole, and his methods and theories are idiotic and cruel. But he tapped into this frustration with Americans and the insecurity we live with.

@jee_vacation @NXT4EU The legacy of the Marshall plan has been the US completely carries the security of Europe...while Europeans get free health care, education and child care. Do you even connect those dots? 70 years later, Americans can't get this for ourselves?

@Franckyy__ @Fan26_America We somehow got over Canadians aiding and abetting our sworn enemy: England. They helped burn down our white house. Maybe one day you'll get over the verbal insults like we did.

@Franckyy__ @Fan26_America I asked my friend in State dept who is our worst ally. She said Canada because they throw us under the bus all the time. This was in 2015. I will remind Canada that it has benefitted quite well from being our next door neighbor. So maybe don't judge us on one man. jfc.