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[Björn Håkansson @bjornhakansson]

I DN skriver Björn Wiman i halva artikeln om den gryende nazismen i Berlin 1935 och den andra halvan om Tidösamarbetet, som om det fanns liknelser mellan de två. Det är både oförskämt och intellektuellt ohederligt. Vad får då Wiman att jämföra Tidö med nazismen? Jo, bl.a, en kommentar om folkrätten som rycks ur sitt sammanhang, regeringens klimatarbete och att regeringen inte tog till sig allt som Lagrådet ville. Samt ett utspel från Jimmie Åkesson från 2014 om att maten de äldre får är dålig därför att kommunerna tyngs av kostnader för invandringen. Wiman lyfter fram en aktuell analys av Bengt Westerberg, som menar att den mycket lägre asylinvandringen nu utan att maten för äldre förbättrats skulle bevisa att Åkessons utspel då var en lögn. Wiman får detta till att det på något sätt har med nazismen att göra? Men har kommunerna numera inga kostnader för asylinvandringen då? Det är ju snarare tvärtom. Kommunerna får ju ersättning från staten för asylkostnaderna de första åren. När asylinvandringen nu minskat minskar även ersättningarna till kommunerna, men många av kostnaderna har knappast försvunnit. Kommunerna har nog inte mer pengar nu enbart för att asylinvandringen minskat. Men en sådan liten detalj betyder såklart ingenting om man kan skriva en kulturartikel om nazismen och göra liknelser med nuvarande regeringssamarbete. Vilken slaskjournalistik, om det nu ens går att kalla Wiman för journalist. Det är aktivistisk propaganda förklätt till kulturjournalistik.
https://t.co/rTuDeBbO3L

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

If you want to have a better day, watch this 30 second video of Zelensky meeting a bunch of school kids last week.

[Ulf Kristersson @SwedishPM]

Dear Viktor,

I understand that there is an election campaign in your country, and that this time you are truly being challenged for power.

But we do not interfere in your election campaign, nor do we want to become part of it.

Sweden and the Swedish people have always been friends of Hungary and the Hungarian people, as you know. We were friends of Hungary before your government, during your government, and we will remain so after your government.

We remember when Hitler’s genocide of Jews struck Hungary, and how Sweden in 1944 sent diplomat Raoul Wallenberg on a special mission to Budapest, to save as many Hungarian lives as possible.

Tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews survived because we provided them with provisional protective passports and citizenship here in Sweden. When the Soviet Union later invaded Hungary, Raoul Wallenberg was forcibly taken to Moscow and disappeared.

The Swedish diplomat died, but tens of thousands of Hungarian lives were saved. We would do it again.

We also remember when the Soviet Union brutally crushed your Hungarian struggle for democracy and freedom in 1956, and when Prime Minister Imre Nagy was later executed for his efforts to democratize the country.

When Russian tanks crushed the Hungarian freedom struggle, the Hungarian people pleaded with the UN and all Western powers for help. Almost no one listened.
But one country that showed deep solidarity with you was Sweden.

We opened our arms to your freedom fighters and dissidents. We allowed you to build exile opposition against Soviet communism here, despite our non-alignment. It was not without risk for us. But we did it anyway—because it was the right thing to do.

Today, over 40,000 people of Hungarian descent live in Sweden, many of whom are descendants of the Hungarian refugees who came here in connection with the 1956 uprising. They are a well-integrated immigrant group in our Swedish society.

Democratic states help each other, then and now. And they stand up against countries that try to oppress others.

That is why, just as in 1944 and 1956, we support democratic countries that Russian tanks try to overrun. Back then, it was about Hungary; today, it is about Ukraine. And if we do not act, it could be about another country tomorrow.

This is also why we often express concern about the developments in Hungary in recent years. Hungary ultimately regained its freedom, but freedom must also be defended.

That is why we question when you go to have coffee with the leader of the same country that crushed your compatriots’ freedom struggle in 1956 and that today attacks your neighbour, Ukraine.

Hungary and the West are not strengthened by closing the door to their European friends or by attacking each other and the very things that distinguish us from barbarism — democracy and the rule of law.

Let me conclude with some wise words from yourself in 2007:

“As kind of a new generation of the West, our message to those younger than we is to stick to a Western type Hungary, not to let Hungary be derailed from its Western path, and to love that Hungary is a Western type country, which means that we believe in the free will of people and in the mutual responsibility towards each other that we take upon us, which are inseparable parts of Western culture.

The oil might come from the east, but freedom always comes from the west. And democracy cannot be directed from above, it can only grow from the hearts of people and in this way create a viable, Hungarian life.”

Finally, I wish to convey Sweden’s respect for the Hungarian people, and to wish your country a free, peaceful, and successful election.

[Libby Fella 🇫🇮 @LibbySnowflak]

JD Vance is a cunt.

[F is for Freedom @NurdieFreiheit]

@ronzheimer Nicht überraschend, Krasnov bleibt Krasnov. Beseitigung der "Grundursache" wäre ja vor allem eine kollektive Psychotherapie für Putin und die Russen, die nicht über die Minderwertigkeitskomplexe hinwegkommen, keine Weltmacht sondern nur noch degenerierten Regionalmacht zu sein.

[Gustav Boëthius @GustavBoethius]

I dag skriver jag om hur den gröna miljardrullningen gör Sverige korrupt. I den och här på Twitter ger jag ny och tidigare opublicerad information om @Ygeman-affären. Varning för lång 🧵:

https://t.co/c1UKFAlk8f

[NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @NOELreports]

SitRep - 17/03/25 - Ukraine has tested a 3000km long-range drone and Trump will talk to Putin tomorrow.

An overview of the daily events in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Zelensky confirmed Ukraine has succesfully tested a 3000km long-range drone.

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[Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦 @JessicaBRiedl]

“Why aren’t you cheering Trump & DOGE? I thought you wanted spending and deficit cuts!"

Because I’ve been doing this for 25 years and can’t be tricked by gimmicky nonsense. Trump’s first term added $8 trillion in enacted spending hikes and tax cuts to the deficit - half of which was unrelated to the pandemic. This time around, Trump has proposed roughly $8 trillion more in tax cuts and spending hikes over the decade. And right now, a GOP Congress is preparing to abandon most reconciliation cuts and instead add $325 billion this year in new spending. We’re headed towards $4 trillion deficits within a decade.

So, no, I don’t get excited when DOGE cancels $1 billion in govt contracts. Or saves $3 billion in federal workforce reductions out of a $7,000 billion budget. Not when Trump and Congress are also preparing to add $800 billion more annually in proposed new tax cuts and spending.

And no, the huge savings are not coming. Even (unrealistically) eliminating 20% of the federal workforce would save $60 billion, and overhauling federal systems to sharply reduce payment errors may save perhaps $80 billion (and is probably unlikely too). For all of DOGE’s bluster, administrative and executive reforms would at best save 1-2% of federal spending and offset only a small fraction of Trump’s red ink agenda.

That leaves trying to unilaterally impound spending such as USAID—which is wildly illegal—or actually going to Congress to pare back spending the constitutional way. But Trump has already taken Social Security, Medicare, defense, veterans, border (and interest) off the table, which is 2/3 of all spending and is driving deficits. And the GOP Congress seems ready to give up on cutting the remaining one-third of spending. Want to cut spending and the deficit? How about they stop passing budget-busting bills. Don’t brag about your coupon-clipping frugality at the same time you are buying a $250,000 Ferrari. I’m not going to cheer Trump and DOGE for adding “only” $750 billion to deficits instead of $800 billion. We’re still going backwards.

I’ve spent decades studying the federal budget. I know that $7 trillion(!) behemoth inside and out – where the money really goes, and where the savings opportunities lie. So I can also detect bullshitters who talk tough about trillion-dollar spending cuts without doing their homework. It’s the ones who claim most spending goes to undefined “waste,” federal salaries, immigrants, foreigners, Ukraine, or non-working welfare recipients. It’s the ones who claim we can easily balance the budget or cut $1 trillion without specifying exactly what line-items to cut. Or that we can return to 2019 spending levels for each program, which means a 20% inflationary cut, defaulting on the federal debt, and kicking off every senior who has since retired into Social Security and Medicare. It’s all hot air and empty bluster. Tough talk without following through on anything substantive. Just wait until you see the final deficit numbers in October.

And this is why GOP movements to cut spending always fail. They make absurdly ambitious promises without doing their homework, understanding where the money goes, and specifying real plans to fix it. You can’t significantly cut the deficit just by cutting waste, firing bureaucrats, and defunding immigrants and foreigners. There are no easy short cuts. You have to stop cutting taxes and then address Social Security, Medicare, defense, and a lot of other popular programs. Wake me when the GOP goes there.

So, no, I will not get excited about a couple billion in DOGE savings on one hand while Trump pushes Congress to add $8 trillion over the decade in tax cuts and spending with the other hand. I’m not that gullible.

[Adele Josephi 🇮🇱 @JosephiAdele]

Utan Dagens Nyheter hade en ny Holocaust ägt rum. Tack DN för ni har backat oss judar så mycket sedan 7/10-23. Puss på er.

[NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @NOELreports]

SitRep - 15/02/24 - Avdiivka withdrawal is taking place

An overview of the daily events in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. In Avdiivka, Ukrainian forces are gradually withdrawing. Meanwhile, Zelenskyi is on its way to Germany and France for more aid...

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[GW @GWinqvist]

Filmen handlar om en påhittad man https://t.co/OquG8uKR4W via @SvD

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

This is the prime minister of Sweden and deputy minister of economy of Ukraine (and me) last week in Sweden.

We visited to talk about recovery and fundraise.

But what struck me is how informal the prime minister was 1/

[GW @GWinqvist]

@ThomasIvar62 1948

[GW @GWinqvist]

En ensam ballong från DNs skånska utpost återvänder till basen i Marieberg.

[Johan Ingerö Alias 🇺🇦🇮🇱 @JohanIngero]

Nu har även TV4 prövat påståendena i @dagensnyheter om intäktstaket för energibolag.

Inte alldeles smickrande för tidningen som anser sig jobba för "en upplyst värld".

[GW @GWinqvist]

@SZ Are you out of your mind? Do you believe Russia is a more "lebensfähiger" state?

[GW @GWinqvist]

Challenging myths about Italy’s economy and macro policies https://t.co/p5E53eEaXT

[GW @GWinqvist]

@AndreasSteno If you want to learn anything useful about Italy instead of the usual prejudiced bs. I suggest you could start with

@heimbergecon; @ErikFossing

[GW @GWinqvist]

@Open_gol Berlusconi e corrotto, antidemocratico e probabilmente semisenile!

[GW @GWinqvist]

@WallStreetSilv https://t.co/XfsnHMZmlj