If you ever doubt how magical this world is, one day you will decide to go to a World Cup watch party in Oakland that you found online to root for a country where you spent two years trying to coax English out of the mouths of Cape Verdean teenagers. 1/7
@kenzianidiot TBH I assumed he was talking about Paul McCartney because with him “wearing someone else’s face” does seem oddly appropriate. But more puffy than tight. Don’t see it re: you though.
@baylisswagner Every single one of them will march into that booth and vote Paxton in November. I remember October 2016 when every normie Republican disavowed Trump… and proceeded to pull the lever for him a month later and started this decade long shitstorm.
@1776nationalism@Mericamemed No but I can imagine them beating their wives and children because it was socially acceptable behind closed doors. So maybe I don’t care what they would find funny.
@ZacharyKane19@Tusk_4Real I'm not generally a bubble wrap guy, but I'm a psychologist and have been blown away by the number of people with childhood sexual trauma. I recognize my office is a self-selecting population, but these people never told anyone about it in childhood. So it doesn't seem worth it.
For years, Canada sent 70 cents of every defence dollar straight to the United States. Mark Carney just told Parliament that stops now. The room gave him a standing ovation.
It is a striking thing to get a standing ovation for announcing that your country will stop subsidising someone else’s arms industry. But that is where Canada is in 2025.
Carney’s case is blunt: the United States is “beginning to monetize its hegemony, charging for access to its markets and reducing its relative contributions to collective security.” 

And MAGA is celebrating. Winning. Always winning. USA, USA. Somewhere a man in a red hat is pumping his fist.
Let me explain what is actually happening, because clearly no one has bothered.
In ten months, the United States has torched eighty years of alliance architecture that its own soldiers, diplomats and taxpayers built from the rubble of the Second World War. Eighty years. Gone. Detonated, with a smile, by people who genuinely believe this is genius.
Canada is not drifting away. Canada is leaving. Europe is not hedging. Europe is building a defence industry specifically designed to cut Washington out. Allies are not quietly grumbling over dinner. They are signing contracts with other people.
And the MAGA faithful are cheering every single step of it, because someone told them this is what dominance looks like.
It is not dominance. It is a man burning down his own house and whooping at the flames. The saddest part is not that America is losing its allies. The saddest part is that half the country thinks that is the point.
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