This Japanese MP (whose name is Shinji Oguma) absolutely nails it, and reflects what pretty all countries in Asia are thinking: https://t.co/frpDJAO2Ru
"When Japan negotiates with what [Trump] is saying it's akin to being extorted by a delinquent.
If Japan gives in, thinking it's a negotiation or a deal, and compromises on its position, it sets a bad precedent as a customary practice.
If you give money to someone extorting you, they'll just come back to extort you again."
Fed Chair Jerome Powell is sounding the alarm about Donald Trump's tariffs as diplomatically as he can.
The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act sent us into the Great Depression and was among the most catastrophic economic acts in history.
Wake up, folks!!!!!
"TRUMP IS A TYRANT! " Rand Paul calls out Trump on the Senate floor, revealing his authoritarian regime and illegal governance! With a corrupt GOP Supreme Court and colluding House Republicans, they are stealing your tax money while creating divisions among us!
Soaring tariffs are driving up expenses, neglecting veterans, healthcare, education, and Social Security! If we do not take action IMMEDIATELY, fascism will take away our freedoms!"
It's kind of strange that Pres. Obama is back, Kamala is back, and Walz is touring the country. It makes me think that there is something going on. Hmmm....
My heart breaks with you.
We won't forget these heroes – nor the values they were courageous enough to defend.
We owe them a debt which can never be repaid.
SEN. BOOKER KICKS OFF LENGTHY FILIBUSTER TO PROTEST TRUMP REGIME
“I rise tonight with the intention of disrupting the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able… Our constituents are asking us to acknowledge that this is not normal, that this is a crisis. So I am going to stand here until I no longer can. I am going to speak up.”
@EvieDecker1686@MacFarlaneNews I agree completely! As a designer I know it takes careful planning and design before starting such a project and these guys don’t seem to have a clue. They are engaged in random acts of demolition which will end up in a hole in the wall! Good luck!!
Walz: If trade is so bad with Canada. He was the guy who signed the deal. I think this is how he ran business. He stiffed contractors, he stiffed workers. He doesn't pay his bills. He declares bankruptcy. The one thing is his claim that he's the business president. He is the worst possible business executive that I have ever witnessed
🇨🇦 Canada’s incoming Prime Minister, Mark Carney, just put Donald Trump in his place shortly after being selected by the Liberal Party:
“A person who worships at the alter of Donald Trump will kneel before him, not stand up to him”
“These are dark days. Dark days brought on by a country we can no longer trust.”
“My government will keep tariffs on until the Americans show us respect.”
He’s not playing around. Trump has pissed off the Canadians.
1/ An interesting analysis by ChatGPT on the psychological aspects of the meeting between Zelensky and Trump-Vance is circulating online.
It reveals a masterclass in gaslighting, manipulation, and coercion from Trump and his entourage. Let’s break it down.
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@realDonaldTrump, you greasy, gold-plated grifter—sitting there in the Oval Office, drooling over Ukraine’s minerals like a slobbering hog at a trough, treating a goddamn war for democracy’s survival like it’s your personal pawn shop. You’ve got the nerve to smirk and babble about “loaning money to Ukraine” and “getting their money back” with rare earth and oil, as if the free world’s fight against Putin’s bloodthirsty tyranny is just another shady real estate deal for you to fleece. What a pathetic, penny-pinching coward you are—turning the battle for democracy into a transactional dick-measuring contest, too cheap and stupid to see it’s not about your bank account, you miserable bastard.
Macron’s sitting there, straight-up fact-checking your dumb ass—“No, we paid 60% of the total effort”—and you just blink like a confused turtle, too busy counting imaginary profits to grasp that Ukraine’s survival isn’t a fucking loan shark gig. You’re not a leader, Trump—you’re a bottom-feeding traitor, pimping out democracy’s last stand for a quick buck, stabbing the free world in the back while you fantasize about plundering Ukraine’s resources. It’s a betrayal so vile, so weak, it makes a snake look loyal—selling out the soul of America and the world just to line your spray-tanned pockets. Choke on your greed, you treasonous, mineral-obsessed moron. Democracy deserves better than your filthy, profit-obsessed paws.
@EmmanuelMacron@DefenceU@Keir_Starmer@_FriedrichMerz