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These quick thoughts by Michael Jochum on the disturbing reason Trump gets as much support as he does is a must-read 👇 I used to wonder how it was possible that Trump could have won in 2016, and then again in 2024, given how emotionally toxic and depraved he is. I don’t wonder anymore. I think he won for that exact reason. Because he carried at least one broken shard to reflect the broken shards in millions of others. If you’re a racist, you found your guy. If you’re a misogynist, you found your guy. If money is your only religion, you found your guy. If your heart is armored shut, you found your guy. If you mock the disabled, you found your guy. If intelligence makes you insecure, you found your guy. If you’re a sexual predator, you found your guy. If you trade in humiliation and conspiracy and filth, you found your guy. If you’ve never done a single hour of emotional inventory, you found your guy. If you cheat, stiff contractors, bankrupt your obligations, and call it savvy, you found your guy. If you lie as easily as you breathe, you found your guy. If cruelty feels like strength, you found your guy. If white grievance is your comfort food, you found your guy. If your ego is a black hole no title can fill, you found your guy. If warmongering fuels your ego, you found your guy, If empathy feels like weakness and dominance feels like oxygen, you found your guy. If he’d only carried one or two of these pathologies, he might have been dismissed as just another loud, damaged man. But he carried a buffet of them. That was the appeal. Millions could locate themselves somewhere in the wreckage. They didn’t have to agree with all of it. They just had to recognize a piece of themselves in it. It was never really about him. It was about the validation. The absolution. The permission. He didn’t invent the resentment; he amplified it. He didn’t create the cruelty; he normalized it. He gave millions the intoxicating relief of hearing their ugliest impulses echoed back at rally volume. Trump is a symptom. The deeper illness is collective. If there’s one sentence that defines his power, it’s this: “He says the things I’m thinking.” And that’s the part that should chill us. Because what does it say about us that so many were thinking those things? That tens of millions of Americans harbored resentments so deep, so seething, that they were simply waiting for a demagogue to baptize them as virtue? That after decades of supposed progress on race, gender, and equality, so many white men felt so threatened, so displaced, so furious, that cruelty became a political platform? Maybe we were living in a fool’s paradise, mistaking silence for healing, politeness for progress. Now the mask is off. Now we know. And knowing is a far more dangerous place to stand. – Michael Jochum, Not Just a Drummer: Reflections on Art, Politics, Dogs, and the Human Condition.

I never stop being amazed by them. Launching their “Birdhouse” — a strategic-class missile worth around $100 million, capable of carrying a nuclear warhead — at a garage complex in the Kyiv region. Let’s calculate how much this night cost them. One “Oreshnik” — roughly $100 million. Around ninety cruise and ballistic missiles: Kh-101s, Kalibrs, Iskander-Ks — at an average price of about $8 million each — that’s another roughly $720 million. Six hundred Shahed drones at $50,000 each — another $30 million. Plus fuel, launch platforms, maintenance, reconnaissance. Total: around $850 million for a single night. Nearly a billion dollars. And what did they get for that billion? They hit garages in Bila Tserkva. Destroyed the “Kvadrat” shopping mall. Set the roof of a dormitory on fire in Darnytskyi district. Blew apart an entrance section of a five-story apartment building in Shevchenkivskyi district. Hit a market. A supermarket. A construction hypermarket in Obolon. Dropped debris onto the Valeriy Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium. Two sleeping civilians killed. Fifty-six wounded, including children. Is this their strategic result for a billion dollars? This is their “special operation.” This is their “greatness.” They cannot move forward on the battlefield. Cannot seize a single truly significant settlement. Cannot defeat the army of a country they promised to capture in three days four years ago. And in convulsions, in agony, in powerless rage, they strike residential neighborhoods at night — museums, markets, shops, garages. Impotent on the battlefield, compensating for their failure with the number of munitions fired at sleeping civilians. Blind evil and helplessness at the same time. Monsters. Simply monsters. Rabid, paranoid lunatics with a nuclear button. I have no other words left for them.

What is happening here? The US birthrate is now down -30% since pre-2008 levels while financial wealth is at record highs. Why? Because only asset owners are able to afford this economy. As shown in our below analysis, this crisis accelerated in both 2008 and 2020. And, with every recession and every round of inflationary economic stimulus, the crisis simply accelerates even further. Now, we are seeing the biggest divergence between the S&P 500 and the US birth rate in history. The result? Tons of young Americans simply cannot afford to have kids in another sign of the "K-Shaped" economy. The US is facing a massive demographic crisis.

Die sich abzeichnende Lösung löst garnichts richtig: weder das Atomprogramm noch die Straße v Hormuz. Noch iranische regionale Destabilisierungspolitik oder ballistische Entwicklungen. Trump verliert auf der ganzen Linie - ganz schlecht auch für Europa. Bitte keine Schadenfreude!

Die 16 Energieminister*innen der Bundesländer haben sich auf Norderney getroffen. ALLE 16 LEHNEN die Pläne der Katherina #Reiche ab. Auch die der #CDUCSU Witzige Sidenote: Ratet wer nicht da war wegen "Krankheit" 😂😂🤡 t-online.de/finanzen/energ… via @tonline

🚨Trump is now single handedly responsible for 27.7% of the national debt. This is dramatically more than any President in American history.

@Faktencheck2030 Um das zu wissen, braucht man keinen IQ-Test aus alten Zeiten. Trump fünf Minuten Zuhören genügt völlig.

IQ 73 🥴Trumps Intelligenztest im ersten Jahr an der Militärakademie aufgetaucht! „Der Kerl ist ein Vollidiot“, sagte der Schulleiter.🇺🇸. #Trump #IQ

Man sollte die Dinge beim Namen nennen: China führt einen beinharten Wirtschaftskrieg gegen die alten Industrieländer. Stahl, Chemie, Maschinenbau, E-Mobilität, erneuerbare Energien, KI, Robotik, kritische Rohstoffe: ökonomische Dominanz ist Pekings Weg zur Weltmacht Nr. 1. In diesem Szenario bleibt für Europa allenfalls die Rolle des abhängigen Juniorpartners. Höchste Zeit für eine ökonomische Gegenoffensive und für eine Allianz der Demokratien als Gegenpol zur chinesischen Dominanzpolitik.

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Bewertung wichtiger Politiker | Umfrage Forschungsgruppe Wahlen/ZDF Skala von -5 bis +5 Pistorius (SPD): +1,3 (-0,5) Özdemir (GRÜNE): +1,0 Wadephul (CDU): +0,1 (-0,3) Reichinnek (LINKE): -0,2 (+0,6) Klingbeil (SPD): -0,7 (-0,5) Bas (SPD): -0,7 Söder (CSU): -1,0 (-0,4) Merz (CDU): -1,7 (-0,4) Reiche (CDU): -1,7 (-0,2) Weidel (AfD): -2,6 (-0,4) Änderungen zur letzten Umfrage vom 08. Mai 2026 Verlauf: whln.eu/Zustimmungswer… #btw29

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BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Congress now has the numbers to pass a bill that will tax all payouts from Trump’s $1.776 billion Jan. 6 rioters Payout fund at 100%. Congress will take back all the plan payout to Jan. 6 rioters from them.

@rshereme Kurze Antwort: Ja, das sind sie!

Oklahoma just became the 17th state to ban child marriage. But what is shocking is how hard Republicans fought against it. The bill stating that children under 18 should not be allowed to marry passed the Oklahoma House by a 51–36 vote. All 36 lawmakers who voted against it were Republicans. What is wrong with the Republican Party?! Some lawmakers even tried to use Biblical passages to justify the marriage of children. Are you completely morally bankrupt or insane?!

Iran has destroyed more than two dozen MQ-9 Reaper drones operated by US forces since the war began, a significant loss worth nearly $1 billion that represents 20% of the Pentagon’s prewar inventory for the hard-to-replace unmanned system. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

@markmueller1979 Also Hafermilch und "Glaube nicht jeden Scheiß" sind absolut unverzeihlich! Damit landest du unausweichlich im Umerziehungslager, auch gern als KaZett verniedlicht.

Rechne mir gerade meine Chancen bei einer Machtergreifung der AfD aus. Pro: Weiß Deutsch Männlich Hetero Gesund Spitzenverdiener Contra: Grün Elektroauto Trinke Hafermilch Nutze inklusive Sprache Glaube nicht jeden Scheiß Mir ist völlig egal, ob jemand schwul oder lesbisch oder was auch immer ist Habe in Geschichte aufgepasst Verstehe das Konzept nicht, Menschen abzulehnen, weil sie aus einem anderen Land sind oder ihre Haut eine andere Farbe hat Freund erneuerbarer Energien Halte den ÖRR für wichtig und notwendig Halte die EU für die wichtigste Institution und DEN Garant für Frieden und Wohlstand Halte Zuwanderung für wichtig und notwendig Finde Nazis extrem abstoßend Finde Alice Weidel als Mensch extrem abstoßend Halte Deutschland für eines der schönsten, demokratischsten und freiesten Länder der Welt und die AfD für die größte Bedrohung dieser Freiheit … Tja. Hoffen wir das Beste! 👌

BREAKING: US Consumer Sentiment officially falls to its lowest level on record in data going back to 1952, down another -10% last month. Consumers now see inflation rising to 4.8% over the next 12 months. This puts the Consumer Sentiment index down -21% since February 2026, before the Iran War. Not even the 1980s saw Consumer Sentiment this low.

🚨🚨The Trump Crime Family is more corrupt than the totality of All Previous Organized Crime Families Combined in the history of the United States. ——————————————— I spent thirty (30 years investigating Major Organized Crime Families & Gangs and without a doubt, Donald Trump has committed more crimes against the United States of America and its citizens than all Organized Crime Syndicates. TRUMP is directly responsible for the theft of billions of dollars and the systematic destruction of our economy, the rule of law and our democracy. TRUMP must be Impeached and Removed from office by the U.S. Congress this year. Both Democrats & Republicans must join together to save our nation.

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Bin ich gerade drüber gestolpert. Das war 1983.

Le Pens Ziehsohn hat die zukünftige Zusammenarbeit mit der AfD ausgeschlossen. Bereits vor zwei Jahren hat der Rassemblement National jede Zusammenarbeit eingestellt. Nach den Europawahlen verhinderte er die Aufnahme der #AfD in die große Fraktion der „Patrioten für Europa" und zwang sie dazu, mit skurrilen Einzelkämpfern aus anderen Staaten mühsam die eigene Fraktion „Europa souveräner Nationen" im Europäischen Parlament zusammenzuzimmern. Selbst viele europäische Rechtsnationalisten halten die AfD für politisch toxisch - nicht zuletzt wegen #Kreml-Nähe und fragwürdiger Verbindungen nach #China. Sie würden #Europa zurück in einen Zustand des nationalen Gegeneinander führen, denn ist Europa schwach freut es die Autokraten in #Russland, #China und den #USA! #AfDzerstörtDeutschland #AfdzerstörtEU