- Bridget Brink
Former US Ambassador to Ukraine:
“I served as our Ambassador in Ukraine for 3 years under Putin’s missiles and drones but resigned when Trump kept appeasing Putin.
America does not bow to dictators. It’s not who we are.
Here’s why this Trump-Putin so-called ‘peace plan’ is a disaster:
The plan gives Putin a clear victory:
• Ukraine ceding territory it now holds, after 4 years of fighting;
• Reducing Ukraine’s military by over half, making it weak;
• No NATO enlargement, giving Putin a veto over NATO.
This is unthinkable for Ukraine and undermines U.S. national security.
Appeasing dictators never achieves long-term peace. It didn’t work in 1938 — and it won’t work now.”
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Awesome woman
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I agree with every sentence..
Thank you for standing with Ukraine.🇺🇦🫡
This is Marta Kostyuk from Kyiv telling you how her family survives the war.
The official US Open channel avoided posting this. Please share this video so a Ukrainian voice can be heard. 🇺🇦🙏
The president of the United States is posting AI slop videos of giant ducks that resemble him marching along “Lake America” with machine guns, fireworks, and American flags.
The man with the nuclear codes is literally out of his fucking mind.
Hey @google I’d like to report an error.
The lake that borders New York and Ontario is an international body of water, and it is widely agreed by the entire world, except one rogue leader, that the name of this lake is “Lake Ontario”
Grow a spine and fix it.
Hi, My Name Is Gandalv, and I Have Trump Derangement Syndrome.
It started innocently enough. Someone announced that a 50 percent tariff on imported goods would be paid by the exporting country, and I opened my mouth and said that this is not how tariffs work, that the American importer pays it at the border and passes it on to the American consumer, and that a president who does this is essentially fining his own voters for shopping.
The reply came within seconds. TDS. That was the diagnosis.
Not an argument, just three letters and a shrug, the way a doctor might say “terminal” and leave the room.
So I have decided to stop hiding. I am standing up in the church basement with the bad coffee and the folding chairs, and I am saying it out loud.
I have Trump Derangement Syndrome, and the first step is admitting that you find the following things deranged.
I find it deranged that a man imposed tariffs on Heard Island, a territory inhabited exclusively by penguins, and then explained the formula on a cardboard chart in the Rose Garden.
I find it deranged that he wanted to buy Greenland, threatened to take it anyway, and then acted surprised that Denmark, a NATO ally that lost soldiers in Afghanistan on America’s behalf, was not flattered.
I find it deranged that Canada, the country that shares a continent, a hockey rivalry and a nine thousand kilometre undefended border with the United States, was told it should be the 51st state, and that this was meant as a compliment.
I find it deranged that a hurricane forecast was corrected with a Sharpie, that disinfectant was floated as an internal remedy on live television, that windmills were accused of causing cancer, and that the Gulf of Mexico was renamed.
I find it deranged that the men who beat police officers with flagpoles on January 6th were pardoned as patriots, that the Defense Secretary posted strike timings in a group chat that happened to include a journalist, and that a foreign government offered a 400 million dollar aircraft and the answer was not no.
I find it deranged that the East Wing of the White House was demolished for a ballroom, that Zelensky was shouted at in the Oval Office for not saying thank you enough, and that NATO allies were told their protection is conditional while the actual adversary was told he was doing a great job.
And yes, I find it deranged that all of this is defended by people who will pay more for their groceries, their cars and their phones as a direct result, and who will call you sick for noticing.
Here is the thing about TDS. The symptoms are reading, remembering and doing arithmetic. There is no known cure, and frankly none of us are looking for one.
So if you have ever winced at a tariff, sighed at a Sharpie or asked what exactly the penguins did wrong, you belong here. You do not need to whisper. You do not need to hide behind a burner account. Come out of the closet. There are more of us than you think, we are not ashamed, and we saved you a folding chair.
Proud TDS sufferers, welcome home.
Stay deranged, Follow Gandalv @Microinteracti1
As a Retired US Army paratrooper, pictures like these hit hard. Trump never had the courage to pick up a rifle and man a post when he was called to serve.
Yet he has the nerve to promote AI pictures like this showing him wearing things like Parachutist badges, and rows of ribbons he never had to courage to obtain. Anyone who has ever served should be pissed at garbage like this.
His father paid a doctor’s note so he wouldn't have to serve. But remember that for every one of the draft deferments, someone else had to go in his place.
A pure disgrace.
Just a reminder to @RepJeffries. kushner is not a member of govt despite pretending he is.
He is driving intense self dealing and corruption. He enables Trump.
There really is no excuse for a secret meeting, especially before the election
Steve Schmidt, who ran John McCain's 2008 campaign for president, was interviewed on MSNOW. In response to a very general question regarding the Trump presidency, Mr. Schmidt spoke for two minutes and gave the most insightful and brutally honest response of what the Trump presidency has done to our great country: "Donald Trump has been the worst president this country has ever had. And, I don't say that hyperbolically. He is.
But he is a consequential president. And, he has brought this country in three short years to a place of weakness that is simply unimaginable if you were pondering where we are today from the day where Barack Obama left office. And, there were a lot of us on that day who were deeply skeptical and very worried about what a Trump presidency would be. But this is a moment of unparalleled national humiliation, of weakness.” "When you listen to the President, these are the musings of an imbecile.
An idiot. And I don't use those words to name call. I use them because they are the precise words of the English language to describe his behavior. His comportment. His actions. We've never seen a level of incompetence, a level of ineptitude so staggering on a daily basis by anybody in the history of the country whose ever been charged with substantial responsibilities.” "It's just astonishing that this man is president of the United States. The man, the con man, from New York City.
Many bankruptcies, failed businesses, a reality show, that branded him as something that he never was. A successful businessman. Well, he's the President of the United States now, and the man who said he would make the country great again. And he's brought death, suffering, and economic collapse on truly an epic scale. And, let's be clear. This isn't happening in every country around the world. This place. Our place. Our home. Our country. The United States. We are the epicenter.
We are the place where you're the most likely to die from this disease. We're the ones with the most shattered economy. And we are, because of the fool that sits in the Oval Office behind the Resolute Desk." @SteveSchmidtSES r/t Ron Tipton
A kernel of truth. A whole lot of fear.
Trump, Vance and Fox News seized on a story about migrants from Morocco reaching Spanish territory and turned it into “Europe is being overrun.”
There’s just one pretty important detail they left out: the Spanish territory is in North Africa.
This is how propaganda works. Take something real, strip away the context, and make it as scary as possible.
Here’s what actually happened. 👇
Kash Patel is planning a trip to Russia in mid-October, with stops in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Let me be clear: there is no good reason for him to visit. Russia is an adversary waging a war of aggression against a European country, has killed thousands of civilians, represses its own people, and is led by Vladimir Putin, who is the subject of an ICC arrest warrant for war crimes.
The broader context is also extraordinary: under Patel, the FBI has established an unprecedented degree of law-enforcement cooperation with Russia.
Is it any wonder that our allies trust us less?
U.S. acceptance of Iranian control over the Strait of Hormuz is an extraordinary outcome only made conceivable by an administration that squandered legitimacy, alienated allies, attempted regime change in a war it had not adequately prepared for and that is being forced to accept a catastrophic outcome without viable alternatives.
Counterfactuals are impossible to prove but in other circumstances Iran's closure of Strait by brazenly attacking maritime traffic and neighbors' civilian infrastructure would likely have justified and led to a united, global response--like the U.S.-led naval escort mission during the Iran-Iraq war, the global coalition that reversed Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1991, the multinational naval force enforcing UN sanctions in the Gulf in the 1990s, or the UN Security Council sanctions on the Iranian nuclear program in the 2010s--that led to the JCPOA.
Instead US and other countries are now being forced to accept an outcome that would have been unthinkable before the war but seems to have become unavoidable because of it.
This is not the picture of a man at peace.
I promise you, someday soon, if not already, he will be consumed with regret.
RFK jr, Kash Patel, and now Blanche.
History will vomit these people out of our memory, and all those like @SenBillCassidy who enabled them
🚨 Elon Musk is currently refusing to allow Ukraine to use Starlink to conduct strikes on Russian territory, reportedly arguing that it is time for Ukraine to reach a peace agreement, according to The Atlantic.
It’s unfortunate that Musk still seems to misunderstand the fundamental problem: Ukraine is not the obstacle to peace — Russia is.
Ukraine did not invade Russia. Russia invaded Ukraine.
A “peace deal” cannot be achieved simply by restricting Ukraine’s ability to defend itself while the aggressor continues its war.
Right now, more than 5,000 sailors and Marines are stuck aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln in the ninth month of a deployment that was supposed to last seven, supporting military operations against Iran that Congress never authorized.
Their families are begging someone to listen.
Moldy showers, broken toilets, no hot water for weeks, meals that came down to half a cup of rice and two tortillas.
A ship’s store out of soap, deodorant, and toothpaste.
Sailors so worn down that, according to one family member, the ship’s own doctor warned they need to reach port soon or people are going to start losing their minds.
Back in April, when families first raised the alarm, Pete Hegseth dismissed the reports as fake news. These are the people we ask to serve in one of the most dangerous workplaces on Earth, the flight deck of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.
They, and their families, deserve answers. https://t.co/rUAliN8294
Bill Cassidy voted to convict Trump.
Then Trump turned against him, endorsed his opponent, and helped end his career.
Cassidy owes Trump NOTHING.
And yet, on his way out the door, he still can’t find the courage to stand up to him.
Why?
This is what the complete surrender and defeat looks like:
🚨 BREAKING:
Trump’s sons became partners in a Kazakh mining company.
The company received a $1.6 billion U.S. government contract shortly afterward!
Are we having fun, America?