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@JessePeltan I'm old enough to remember when everyone said Japan would end up owning the US. The tides of time.

Cancel all tariffs on Japan and mail everyone a Green Card.

@theyondan Well then, decoupling shouldn't be an issue.

Europe does pay for its own defense. However, for 80 years, the US has leveraged all its allies, stopping European programmes, sidelining them and demanding that they all just pay the US to take care of and supply everything, because 'interoperability'

@libsoftiktok Don't forget to thank the Queen.

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@haaretzcom You can't make that stuff up. Or are they?

IDF air crew member suspected of betting on Iran war in Polymarket: 'The entire Air Force is betting' haaretz.com/israel-news/is…

@ProfMJCleveland At what point does that become the next step? We're not voting our way out from under the boot that is on our necks.

I think we need "No Democrats" rallies because they actually exist and are doing the country grave harm.

@LibertyCappy They traded their castles for skyscrapers.

And worse of all they just print the money to fund whatever they want anyway

@JulKuss @JulienHoez @clashreport France is on track to be governed by Sharia law within the next 20 years. Good luck, at least you didn't mothball your nuclear power plants like those whacky Germans. I'm old enough to remember when they used to make stuff, but at least they have an immigrant problem too.

@jpou91 @JulienHoez @clashreport It's been 60 years France has been waiting for this and be able to take the place of USA as arms provider, you're on the right track to achieve it

Trump is considering withdrawing US troops from Germany, a move he has been weighing since returning to office. Source: The Telegraph

@JulienHoez No, we'll still be in eastern Europe and we'll be able to house bases in Russia for forward projection, if it's even needed. Frankly the globalists here and in Europe take a leap off a tall building. But you keep on plugging, while your gov imports your demise/illegal aliens.

Great, leave your European bases, cripple your force projection, and prove the French right while fuelling a European army that stops spending billions on American weaponry and equipment. Bahahahahahaha

@maziehirono I'm old enough to remember you helped Biden to raise gas to over $5/gal. You're such a hypocrite

Trump dragged us into this war, targeting Iranian oil infrastructure, and spiking gas prices. He lifted oil sanctions on Russia, who's reportedly helping Iran target U.S. servicemembers. And now, he's lifting oil sanctions on Iran, the country HE began a war with? Foolish.

@maziehirono Jesus is the King of kings

Donald Trump is not, never will be, and has never been a king. #NoKings

@JulienHoez @clashreport Or better yet, just let you all pay for your own defense, bahahaha. I say if you want our protection, we should start charging you 5% of your GDP. Or maybe 10%, out of spite.

@clashreport Europeans need to call Donald Trump's bluff; he's not going to pull out military forces from countries that are an essential forward deployment point for American military forces. In fact, what we should do is make it more expensive for Trump and start benefiting from this.

@WarClandestine @MarkWarner It's not about illegals voting, it's about allowing them to register so that mail in ballots can be manipulated in order to impact an election. Then you get Dems to do the counting so that illegal ballots are processed and elections stolen.

@MarkWarner If it’s not real, why are you so worried about having ID to vote? Why did you and your fellow Dems keep the border open and flood the nation with illegals? Why did you create “sanctuary cities”? You did all that out of the goodness of your hearts? Treason.

Noncitizen voting is extraordinarily rare – in many audits, less than one hundreth of one percent of all votes cast. The SAVE Act is a total sham, cracking down on a problem that isn’t real.

@TheLastRefuge2 @realtomquite And only one solution?

Quit pretending. In April 2024, 165 Democrats voted for a foreign aid package brought to the floor by Republican Speaker Mike Johnson.  The measure included $26 billion more for Israel, $61 billion more for Ukraine and around $10 billion for Taiwan.   151 Republicans voted to support the aid bill. There is almost $100 billion in total foreign aid and approximately $0 to secure the southern U.S. border.  This is a “Republican” bill, that passed with Democrats, not Republicans.  The ideological UniParty is very real in Washington DC, and this vote was entirely against the wishes of most Americans. politico.com/live-updates/2… It’s really not just Mike Johnson, the root of the issue is much deeper than just corrupt and detached Republican leadership.  The issue extends to every aspect of life and politics in Washington DC.  Every member is participating in a process to give money to other countries, regardless of whether the American voter wants that to happen or not. There is a complete collapse of the governmental structure of the United States as it pertains to representative government.  The concept of representative government is completely gone, not even considered any longer amid the professional political class from both wings of the UniParty vulture. I have no idea how this structural collapse can be fixed.  There doesn’t seem to be any entity willing to stop the nonsense as it relates to financial systems and U.S. foreign aid. We are in an abusive relationship with our government. There really is no other way to look at it.

U.S. senators (mostly) write foreign aid policy, rules and regulations thereby creating the financing mechanisms to transmit U.S. funds.  Those same senators then received a portion of the laundered funds back through their various “institutes” and business connections to the foreign government offices. Everyone in DC knows the gig. Example: Ukraine laundry to Biden, Haiti laundry to Clinton, Iran laundry to Obama. The U.S. State Dept. served as a distribution network for the authorization of the money laundering by granting DC conflict waivers, approvals for financing (McCain Institute, Clinton Global Initiative etc), and permission slips for the payment of foreign money.   The officials within the State Dept. take a cut of the overall payments through a system of “indulgence fees”, commissions, junkets, gifts and expense account payments to those with political oversight. If anyone gets too close to revealing the process they become a target of the apparatus.  President Trump was considered a threat to this process.  In reality all of the U.S. Senators (both parties) on the Foreign Relations Committee understand what is going on and/or are participating in a process for receiving taxpayer money and contributions from foreign governments. [See Bob Menendez] A “Codel” is a congressional delegation that takes trips to work out the payments terms/conditions of any changes in graft financing.  On the right the McCain Institute was/is one of the obvious examples of the financing network. [That is the primary reason why Cindy McCain was such an outspoken critic of President Trump.] On the left you see the Clinton Global Initiative, same/same. This is why Senators spend $20 million on a campaign to earn a job paying $350k/year.  The “institutes” is where the real foreign money comes in; billions paid by governments like China, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Ukraine, etc. etc.  There are trillions at stake. The current nation of focus is the Ukraine laundry operation. The U.S. intelligence services, including CIA operations in USAID, have historically been the bagmen. That's why they consider Gabbard as a threat.

@Schwalm5132 @nv_bessie2003 Brought to you by Big Pharma.

Oh lord...Grandma out there protesting again. Somebody please make sure she keeps her titties in her shirt this time. You can see they had to drive fast while recording because they only had about 45 minutes worth of solid protesting activity in them.

@VivekGRamaswamy @amyactonoh Get rid of the wasteful administrative states that have been created within all these universities. Get rid of all the useless degrees that leave graduates with no real job perspectives.

Ohio’s state-funded universities face an enrollment cliff, tuition is going up, and the value of a college degree is going down. We can’t ignore the problem & I’ve offered an actual solution to fix it, while my opponent @amyactonoh offers what she always does: absolutely nothing. My piece in the Columbus Dispatch this week: The race for governor of Ohio can be a positive opportunity to give voters a choice between competing policy visions for our state – and to have a healthy debate about the right way to improve Ohio. But we risk missing that opportunity in 2026: While I aim to offer clear policies to improve the lives of Ohioans, my opponent offers little more than cheap criticisms of my ideas while offering no solutions of her own. The recent debate about Ohio’s publicly funded universities continues that growing pattern. Ohio’s higher education system faces a severe enrollment cliff that threatens the future of our state-funded universities, and rising tuition costs are becoming unsustainable for Ohio families. The next governor of Ohio needs a real plan to address this growing problem, and ignoring it isn’t a solution. The facts are stark. America is aging fast, and Ohio is aging faster. The number of high school graduates in Ohio has peaked, hitting our highwater mark in 2024 with roughly 149,000 graduates. But by 2041, that number falls to about 124,000 – a 17% decline in as many years. Meanwhile, fewer Ohio students are choosing four-year universities – and understandably so. Graduate salaries aren’t keeping pace with climbing tuition and student debt. Just 47.6% of Ohio graduates in the class of 2021 enrolled in higher education within two years of graduation, down from 59% in 2015, while the total cost of attending Ohio's public universities has increased by nearly 50% over the past 15 years. Families across the state are feeling the strain. Despite these headwinds, Ohio still operates one of the most fragmented public university systems in the country, enrolling roughly 313,000 students across 14 public universities, 24 regional branch campuses and 22 community colleges. Florida, with about twice our population, only operates 12 public universities. That means Ohio is spreading its limited state dollars across too many bloated bureaucracies, and alarms are already blaring. Just last week, Lourdes University became the fifth private college to close since 2020. Meanwhile, public universities that receive hundreds of millions in taxpayer funding are feeling the impact of fewer students. In recent years, Cleveland State has cut staff and eliminated NCAA sports programs. The student count at the University of Akron inched up this past year but is at half of its 2010 enrollment level. Kent State launched a "Transformation 2028" restructuring plan last year in search of administrative efficiencies. Central State University remains on “fiscal watch.” While universities struggle to get by, other states have benefited from commonsense reforms. Consider Georgia, which adopted a sensible plan that reduced the number of state universities from 35 in 2011 to 26 by 2018. Notably, their process didn’t start with an agenda of consolidation for its own sake, or with targets set on certain universities. Instead, it began with a set of principles. Their leadership decided they wanted to expand access, reduce duplication, improve attainment and strengthen regional economic development. The results were better retention and more on-time graduation, without increasing tuition. That is what real reform looks like. Ohio should go further. As governor, I intend to lead a pragmatic reform that guides certain state-funded universities that suffer from under-enrollment to instead become “centers of excellence” – national leaders in a specific field – with the goal of offering a higher-quality education to students at a lower cost. Specialization creates distinction, and distinction attracts students. This will push our state-funded universities to work together, instead of in separate siloes. My first budget will propose to empower the Chancellor of Higher Education to conduct a statewide review, guided by clear statutory criteria, not backroom favoritism. It will identify where missions overlap, where enrollment collapse has made independence untenable, and where administrative functions can be unified without harming students. The chancellor will then return to the General Assembly with a concrete plan on a fixed timeline. Critics will say this threatens campus identity. This is an understandable concern, but it does not justify inaction. Georgia’s experience shows that campuses and local identities need not vanish, even if excess overhead costs do. A campus can keep its traditions and its local role without carrying the full cost of an outdated administrative hierarchy. The purpose of a university isn’t to sustain a legacy bureaucracy; it’s to educate students. When the structure stops serving that mission, the structure should change in a positive way. My plan will ensure that the dollars saved from administrative duplication go back to benefit students. Options abound for how to achieve this goal: Ohio could reinvest these dollars through the State Share of Instruction formula and tie that formula more directly to affordability, or improve the quality of instruction, academic experience and tuition relief in other ways. Skyrocketing tuition, cratering enrollment and declining quality of education are real problems that demand thoughtful solutions. While my opponent sneered on social media at my ideas, she offers absolutely no alternative solutions to help Ohioans. By contrast, I’m willing to start the challenging conversations we need to lead Ohio to new heights, in higher education and beyond. My plan will create a more competitive, increasingly affordable and rightsized higher education system for taxpayers and students. As other states have demonstrated, thoughtful reform can attract and retain more students, keep tuition affordable and better prepare graduates to compete for higher-paying jobs. There’s no reason Ohio can’t do even better. Either we reform our higher education system with purpose, or we watch it decline by default.

@Phoenix2A_1980s And they all voted 2 times in the last election, by mail in ballots of course.

Breaking news: The liberals are now deploying the heavies for the No Kings protests this weekend

@AwakenedOutlaw Would that be like panty crockets?

Jasmine Crotch-itch

@farhadesmaeili4 @clashreport If the shoe fits?

@clashreport Fuck, Trump talks to European leaders as if they are shit on his shoes

Trump is considering a major change to how NATO works, proposing a “pay-to-play” system where countries that don’t spend 5% of their GDP on defence could lose their say in key decisions, including military action. Source: The Telegraph

@BuzzPatterson Sounds like she's been listening to Kamala's 4 minute tutorial on public speaking.

Can you imagine 4 years of this? We’ll all Jim Jones ourselves.

@nocflyer @01Funkytown Don't forget the Oklahoma City bombing.

@01Funkytown THE SAME CIA THAT COVERED UP THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE OF THAT FORIEGN BORN POS TRAITOR OBAMA & PUT HIM & HIS HUSBAND IN THE WHITE HOUSE! SAME CIA THAT COLLUDED WITH FBI TO ASSASINATE JFK, RFK, MLK, MARILYN MONROE & COUNTLESS OTHERS WHO STOOD IN THEIR WAY OH & 9/11 WAS CIA/FBI.

Big News – House Intel Committee Releases Hidden Transcript of Inspector General Michael Atkinson Tulsi Gabbard declassified the transcripts. The transcript of Inspector General Michael Atkinson’s testimony becomes a key document to release because, at its core, Atkinson testified that WHISTLEBLOWER Ciaramella LIED.   The Ciaramella lie is at the heart of the impeachment attempt against President Trump. This was an operation to impeach a sitting President that came from within the CIA, and it almost succeeded. Chairman Adam Schiff sealed the transcript of ICIG Atkinson testimony, classifying it under the guise of national security interests and burying it in the HPSCI control system. If there were a Hall of Fame for American Heroes and Patriots, it would most certainly include President Trump and Tulsi Gabbard.