defpac
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Given Europe's economic dependency on the US, it has three strategic options:
- Become sovereign but also poor and cut-off from progress
- Become dependent on autocratic China
- Stick with the United States
Ulrich Speck@ulrichspeck
New EU trade deals are nice to have, but the transatlantic economic relationship remains vital: foreignaffairs.com/united-states/…
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@rthak50 @AdamKinzinger The idea of bringing down that regime isn't totally crazy.
But there is a reason no prior POTUS was talked into it by Israel... They understood the risk.
Trump didn't, and the best we can say is he chickened out before destroying the global economy for good.
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@AdamKinzinger Good for them. Who are we to decide how people should operate in their own country and homes
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The people of Iran aren’t free. Iran can now charge tolls. The nuclear material sits EXACTLY where it did, in the same amount, since June. The regime is still in place with a younger ayatollah. Iran still was launching missiles, now with more money to rebuild.
Period
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While correct, the evergrande crisis has fucked china
Q. Anthony Ali@NobleQAli
Never wrong, just early
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@txgermanbre What are you referring to? Special election this week? Or polls?
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Holy shit, is it THIS close in the Marjorie Taylor Greene race?
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@VeryBadLlama It's a mystery. And then it's also your neighbors fault. Only half of them screamed their lungs out to warn you.
Who on earth is supposed to notice that and reconsider.
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I didn't vote to burn my house down. I just voted to pour gasoline all over everything I own and then handed the keys to Crazy Arson Jim. I thought it would be funny to watch the fumes bother the guy next door, how was I supposed to know this would happen?
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Biden: Approved and pushed billions in humanitarian aid + pressured Israel to allow aid trucks, airdrops, and temporary ceasefire windows. The U.S. even built a temporary maritime pier to physically deliver aid into Gaza.
Trump: Cut Palestinian aid to ZERO
Biden: Paused or delayed specific munitions like large bombs over concerns about use in dense civilian areas like Rafah.
Trump: NO RESTRICTIONS AND EVEN SPED UP THE SHIPMENTS
Biden: Imposed actual financial sanctions and visa bans on Israeli settlers involved in violence against Palestinians.
Trump: NO SANCTIONS
Biden: Tried to restore the Obama Iran deal that Trump unilaterally ended
Trump: STARTED A WAR WITH IRAN AND IS THREATENING TO WIPE THEIR ENTIRE POPULATION OFF THE MAP
So while you dumb bitches are sitting on the internet with watermelon emojis safe and sound in your home, millions more people are going to die because you wanted to feel morally superior on social media
Super Saiyan MailGod Flow@umeprobdupree
Only the liberal mind thinks that not voting for the mass murder and rape of hundreds of people is somehow a bad thing and somehow voting for it makes them the good guy in the situation.
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@RVN256 @latteranfald Regelt man dann halt mit viel mehr Chemie im Waschmittel 🙄
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@latteranfald 1. Die sind nicht schonender. Im Gegenteil.
2. Die Waschleistung ist nicht okay. Im Gegenteil.
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Amerikaner müssen endlich von diesen verfluchten Bottichwaschmaschinen loskommen.
Die sind einfach der größte Müll.
Washingtons ghost@washghost1
Is this the new washers everyone keeps telling me about
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@phl43 Iran may think twice. Because, they can really be sent to the Stone Age if they insist in their strategy.
Is it worth it? Should they play the clock and wait that Trump is out of office?
That was one of your (brilliant) take a few weeks ago: Iran may over-persist strategically
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The reason why I no longer dismiss the possibility that Trump might do something crazy is that I distinctly remember thinking that the libs were being hysterical when they predicted that Trump would refuse to acknowledge the results of the election if he lost and then he did exactly that.
I don't think he's going to nuke Iran, that's obviously crazy talk, but I think people are being way too casual about the possibility that it might start going after Iran's energy infrastructure systematically and trigger a tit-for-tat that would cause a global economic meltdown. And even if he doesn't do that tonight, the longer it lasts, the more likely it is that it will come to that.
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@JohnnyAGI You are talking about people who pick their shoes to not annoy dear leader.
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16 people.
Below are the 16 people that hold the keys to the 25th Amendment. Look at these names.
Do you foresee JD Vance plus 8 of these rising up against Trump?
Rubio, Hegseth, and RFK Jr are non-starters.
If the 25th is going to happen, it's going to take bravery.
Let's hope they have it.
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Scott Bessent, the Treasury
Todd Blanche, Justice
Doug Burgum, the Interior
Brooke Rollins, Agriculture
Howard Lutnick, Commerce
Marco Rubio, State
Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Labor
Pete Hegseth, Defense
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Health and Human Services
Scott Turner, Housing and Urban Development
Sean Duffy, Transportation
Chris Wright, Energy
Linda McMahon, Education
Doug Collins, Veterans Affairs
Markwayne Mullin, Homeland Security
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How Trump gutted the CFPB, the agency that recovered $11.7 billion for consumers👇
• Russell Vought, who wrote in 2023 the CFPB "has no reason to exist," installed as acting director February 1 and froze all work within 72 hours.
• 1,500 of 1,700 employees fired by April, including the entire enforcement division and every senior Wall Street examiner.
• Active enforcement cases dropped against Citibank for double-charging customers, Equifax for its 147-million-person data breach, and Bank of America for opening fake accounts.
• Consumer complaint database shut down March 28, after processing 1.6 million complaints in 2024 at a 97% company response rate and serving as a fraud detection tool for 50 state attorneys general.
• All supervision of nonbank lenders frozen, including payday lenders charging 400%+ APR to 12 million borrowers.
• Office of Servicemember Affairs dissolved after recovering $440 million for military families targeted by predatory lenders near Fort Bragg, Camp Lejeune, and Camp Pendleton.
• Student loan ombudsman eliminated, halting 14 investigations into servicers like MOHELA and Nelnet for misapplying payments on $1.77 trillion in debt.
• All fair lending enforcement suspended, including three pending redlining cases in Houston, Philadelphia, and Atlanta.
• Legally mandated semi-annual report to Congress stopped for the first time in the agency's 14-year history.
• Joint investigations with 23 state attorneys general abandoned, including one targeting a debt collector that illegally garnished wages from 85,000 consumers.
• Rule requiring data brokers to get consent before selling your financial records killed one week after the data broker lobby spent $2.1 million fighting it.
Lemon Sturgis@LemonSturgis
Trump's NIH has gutted research into the diseases most likely to kill you or someone you love. Here's the damage👇 • 116 cancer research grants terminated or frozen, worth $273 million • 255 fewer new cancer grants funded in 2025 compared to 2024, a 12% decline • Duke lost nearly $20 million for brain cancer treatment research. Brain cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death in children under 15. • Duke lost a separate $20.8 million grant for next-generation cancer treatments, including tumor vaccines. Terminated. • MD Anderson lost $9 million in ovarian cancer research. Ovarian cancer kills 13,000 American women per year. • The Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium, 26 years of clinical trials for children with brain tumors, was defunded. Enrollment in ongoing trials has been paused. • A UCLA scientist had his T-cell cancer immunotherapy research suspended. Even after reinstatement, the uncertainty forced him to scale back and prepare to end his work. • 65 Alzheimer's research grants terminated or frozen, worth $94 million • 357 fewer new Alzheimer's grants funded in 2025 compared to 2024, a 33% decline, the steepest of any disease area • 14 of 35 NIH-funded Alzheimer's Disease Research Centers saw approximately $65 million in funding halted • Approximately 1,000 grants worth an estimated $600 million were delayed after the cancellation of National Advisory Council on Aging meetings • A 35-year Johns Hopkins study tracking individuals from childhood to midlife to identify Alzheimer's risk factors was terminated. A generation of irreplaceable data, destroyed. • A Midwestern physician-scientist with 13 years as a principal investigator and over 100 publications saw two major NIH grants end. In their words: "I am very concerned that I will not be able to continue in this line of work." • 72 diabetes research grants terminated or frozen, worth $99 million • 168 fewer new diabetes grants funded in 2025 compared to 2024, a 16% decline • Stanford lost a $2.7 million grant testing whether home food deliveries improved outcomes for diabetes patients. Terminated. • 67 heart disease research grants terminated or frozen, worth $95 million • 183 fewer new heart disease grants funded in 2025 compared to 2024, a 13% decline • Johns Hopkins lost an $18.9 million grant funding strategies to reduce heart health disparities. Terminated.
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@jdbish31 @FmrRepMTG What sort of tactic is this?
Threatening religious crazies with doomsday?
If Trumps follows through, the whole region might burn, and global economy might see a 5, 10 year collapse.
If he chickens out, Iran has basically won.
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@FmrRepMTG Not even you are that dense, are you? This is a negotiation tactic, not an actual event. Why don't you just go back to cheating on your men and stay out of politics, since you chickened out and ran away!
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25TH AMENDMENT!!!
Not a single bomb has dropped on America. We cannot kill an entire civilization.
This is evil and madness.
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This is the most alarmed
I’ve ever seen Preston who is generally chronically chill. We need to pay attention youtu.be/JHW7Ti68JfI?is…
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@txgermanbre He is actively rooting for Putin in Hungary.
It doesn't get more treason than that anyway 🤷♂️
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It’s getting to the point where the 25th is being discussed in public discourse: really fucking wish Vance wasn’t in fucking Hungary. The US needs you back. Unbelievably irresponsible of Vance and borderline treason
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@NQR2025 @ImtiazMadmood @Rinainteriors LOL.
Asshole reacts with an add hominem, while also blocking, to avoid further replies.
Such a surprise.
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@NQR2025 @ImtiazMadmood @Rinainteriors Capitalism US style:
The rich farmer next door steals your two cows, the Sheriff is his son in law and does nothing, and when you sue him, he can afford the better lawyers, and you end up paying him for defamation.
And right, he hires your kids to milk the cows. For a penny.
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Why Socialism Doesn't Work, Explained for a 10-Year-Old.
You're in a class of 30 students. One kid works like crazy and gets an 18 average. Another does nothing and gets a 4. The teacher decides it's unfair and gives everyone the class average: 11.
The one who had 18 stops working. Why bother if it changes nothing? The one who had 4 keeps doing nothing. Why work if you're handed 11 for free?
The next year the class average is 7. Then 5. Then 3.
The teacher doesn't get it. He thinks the problem is that the students aren't supportive enough of each other. So he starts punishing those who don't put in enough effort. He monitors everyone. He decides who studies what. He bans switching classes.
That's exactly what happened. Every time. In every country. No exceptions.
USSR, China, Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea, Cambodia, Ethiopia, East Germany. 40 attempts. Same result. Every time.
Socialism punishes those who produce and rewards those who don't. Everyone ends up producing nothing. And when no one's producing anymore, the government uses force to make people work.
It's not an accident. It's the design.
- @BrivaelFr
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@DrDiGiorgio @mlonnroth What's your solution to the problem here?
Does it involve insanely expensive medical bills, a system of private insurance companies each trying to maximize their profits?
In your world, how many brain tumors get treated, leaving the patients bankrupted?
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@mlonnroth Ok so if you have a brain tumor and the next neurosurgeon appointment is in 6 months, how does the government protect your “right?”
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If there are 50 people who want to see the neurosurgeon but he only has 10 appointments available, how does one guarantee that right to healthcare?
European Commission@EU_Commission
Healthcare is a basic right. Not a privilege. Not a luxury. This World Health Day, we stand for access, protection, and care for all.
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@jungpionier_ @txgermanbre At what cost? And timeline.
That's the crucial point.
The greens warned about depending on Russia, since 2014 and Crimea.
SPD and CDU did nothing for years.
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@txgermanbre Habeck himself literally admitted in the video that they could have fully reversed the nuclear phase-out. He was part of the government, he had the power to. And it was not him who delayed the shutdown, it was Scholz with the help of this Richtlinienkompetenz as the chancellor.
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If Habeck was aware of the problem and warned us, why did he forcefully shut down our nuclear power plants? Why did he make a gas deal with Qatar? I'm sorry, but Habeck should be the last that we should listen to. His party takes most of the credit for the high gas dependency.
breanna 🇺🇸🇩🇪@txgermanbre
Habeck warned us.
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@Eppsorn @robosecsual What makes you think anything you say matters to anyone?
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@defpac76381 @robosecsual Haha this is actually way more correct than you can possibly imagine
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Norway as well.
We could have been 10 million now.
Instead we are 3 million + 2,5 million immigrants who the 3 million is forced to provide for.
But of the 3 million, 2 million are too old and too young to create value.
Of the 1 remaining million, 500,000 are State employees, and therefore also carried like the other 4 million.
Therefore, Norway is now a nation where 500,000 people are taxed 90%, so that 4,5 million people get to relax and vote every election for more Socialism.
Of the 500,000 taxation-workers, the top 10% pay 1000x more net tax than the average man does.
Those 10% have been leaving lately, many to Switzerland, which means the tax burden of the remaining 450,000 tax-slaves have skyrocketed even further.
We now live in poverty, losing more every year, our own «countrymen» refuse to let us be free, and refuse to have a conversation about the situation.
Put another way:
- Norway is so far into the darkness that it may be too late to save it.
TOMIHASU AIO@hjernevakta
Once upon a time in Sweden (before the UN destruction started)
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@txgermanbre in the US will (partially) make a lot of money from capacities destroyed elsewhere.
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@txgermanbre Well, the US started ramping up LNG production; there are some big projects ongoing that will add massive capacities over the next 3 years or so.
Whereas the Middle East capacities will be impacted for 3 or 5 years minimum.
Yes, probably not "the plan", but fossil fuel corps..
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Not just that, it will create a Democrat trifecta. The damage is so bad that Trump can’t even rig the midterms even if he wanted to. But aside from that, screw the midterms talk -
We need a solution right NOW. 25th
𝔏𝔢𝔫𝔞 🎀@clusterbitch_
what happens tomorrow could lead to elevated oil prices for years. it could decimate the gulf's oil and LNG capacity, send energy prices soaring, and hand the democrats the senate in the midterms. we're on the edge of the rubicon
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