🧐🤔YOU WANTED A WALL, TRUMP? YOU’LL HAVE ONE.
Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, responded to Trump’s threats:
“So you voted to build a wall.
Well then, dear Americans — even if geography isn’t your strong suit, and you see America as a country rather than a continent — you should know that on the other side of that wall stand 7 billion people.
And if the word ‘people’ doesn’t resonate with you, let’s call them ‘consumers.’
Those 7 billion consumers can switch from iPhone to Samsung or Huawei in less than two days.
They can trade Levi’s for Zara or Massimo Dutti, and within six months replace Ford and Chevrolet with Toyota, KIA, Mazda, Honda, Hyundai, Volvo, Subaru, Renault, or BMW — brands that are already more popular in many places.
They can cancel DirecTV.
And even if they choose not to, they can stop watching Hollywood films and turn instead to higher-quality productions from Latin America or Europe — with richer storytelling and better filmmaking.
Believe it or not, people can skip Disney and visit the Xcaret resort in Cancún instead — or explore destinations across Mexico, Canada, or South America.
Even in Mexico, you can find better burgers than McDonald’s — with higher nutritional value.
Have you ever seen pyramids in the United States?
Egypt, Mexico, Peru, Guatemala, and Sudan have ancient wonders — none of them in the U.S.
If they were, Trump would probably have bought and resold them by now.
We know Nike isn’t the only sneaker brand. There’s Adidas — and even Mexican brands like Panama.
We understand economics better than you think.
And we also know that when those 7 billion consumers stop buying American products, unemployment will rise, and your economy — trapped behind its own self-imposed wall — will begin to collapse to the point where you’ll be begging for help.
We didn’t want to do this.
But you wanted a wall?
Well.
You’ve got one.”
Her approval rating has reached a historic level — according to a recent poll, it stands at 85%.
Iran just turned American precision against America. Sixteen bases destroyed across eight countries, using satellite data borrowed from China and Russia and munitions that cost nothing.
Meanwhile the United States had four years watching Ukraine rewrite the rules of modern warfare under live fire. Learned nothing. Sent an invoice. Insulted Zelensky on the way out.
Europe, Canada, and half of Asia signed production agreements with Kyiv instead. Building the new model with the people who actually fought the war.
Washington still thinks it is selling the future. It is selling the past at a premium.
https://t.co/6Me6ZfFjRK
Note the underlying stupidity behind these threats. US bases and troops around the world are there for US global force projection, not to protect Spain or Italy or whatever he thinks. America’s enemies would love it if he picked up his toys and went home.
Europe already has everything to be a superpower:
1. 22T economy
2. 450M people
3. Largest single market on Earth
4. Most educated, highly developed population globally
But it’s failing for one reason: Fragmentation.
No unified capital markets.
No energy sovereignty.
No defense integration.
Too slow to act.
Europe either integrates → or becomes strategically irrelevant.
Breakdown: https://t.co/nfjNKo8pzW
Don't forget these people raped kids, killed them, ate them and not a single culprit got arrested.
Instead, we are having a war with Iran to liberate its women.
This should haunt everyone. Please don't normalize it. Keep talking about it.
Jared Golden was the one and only Democrat who voted to continue Donald Trump's war on Iran.
The vote was won by Trump by 214-213.
Won by just one vote, Jared's.
What a scumbag.
Salió a buscar comida para sus hijos, pero al regresar descubrió que Israel había bombardeado su casa y los había matado a todos.
¡NO DEJEN DE HABLAR DE GAZA!
In 1983, Paul Newman stated that the American state disregards the truth, always creating exaggerated enemies to justify wars and massacres for profit, while ignoring crimes committed by others like Israel..
Europe is not a collection of isolated countries. It is an integrated spatial system.
And when you have an integrated spatial system, sooner or later you need more integrated governance.
That is why European federalism is not a fantasy. It is the political form that geography keeps pushing us toward.
Dear friends: I don’t know any Catholic in the United States, from the most traditional to the most progressive, who does not have strong feelings about the comments from President Trump and Vice President Vance about Pope Leo XIV. These include not only President Trump’s initial disrespectful Truth Social post about the Holy Father, but also Vice President Vance’s similarly disrespectful comments about Pope Leo having to be “careful” when he speaks about theology.
Let me share some of my own feelings. First of all, it is shocking that a President and Vice President would treat such a good, holy and learned man with such disdain. Imagine telling a man with the Holy Father’s learning and experience (and authority) that he doesn’t understand theology sufficiently. What’s more, imagine attacking him as, ridiculously, “weak on crime” or somehow not understanding foreign policy.
Second, I’m edified by Pope Leo’s charitable and courageous response to all this. Charitable because he has not responded in any way other than with charity and respect. As some of you may know, I know the Holy Father slightly, thanks to our being seated together at the Synod for two weeks, and know him to be a kind, reserved, discerning and highly intelligent person. In a word, holy.
But courageous too: as we have seen during his time in Algeria and Cameroon, Pope Leo has not shied away from continuing to preach the Gospel, and speaking out in favor of peace (and yes, he understands St. Augustine’s concept of the “just war”) and against, as he said today, tyrants and those who would use God’s name to support violence of bloodshed.
So, where will this all end? It’s hard to say. But I would imagine that now that the taboo has been broken, politicians will continue to denigrate him and thus try to persuade people, without saying it explicitly, to think that the Pope’s words do not need to be listened to.
But this will be in vain for two reasons. First, Pope Leo is clearly fearless. A few hours after he was elected as pope, I spoke with a fellow Augustinian priest who had known “Bob” for decades. “He’s a great listener, very kind and much loved.” Then he paused. “But he’s no pushover.” But the main reason that the Pope’s words will be heard is less about Robert Prevost’s own many virtues but something else: the Vicar of Christ will be heard because he is preaching the Gospel. As Jesus told his disciples, “Heaven and earth may pass away, but my words will never pass away.” So, in these strange times, fear not.
#ULTIMAHORA El comentario más acertado en medios ‼️
Mehdi Hassan: "¿Qué país de Oriente Medio tiene armas nucleares? No es Irán, es Israel... ¿Qué país de Oriente Medio atacó a seis países el año pasado? No fue Irán, fue Israel."
El problema es Israel, no Irán y el mundo lo tiene claro, solo #EEUU opina lo contrario
#Netanyahu_War_Criminal
#Netanyahu_Genocide 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
"If we fail to support Ukraine sufficiently, we risk creating a precedent where military aggression becomes an effective tool of foreign policy."
- Kaja Kallas
concise and accurate🤷♀️