Patrick C Thomas

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I write short essays on #politics and society in the age of #Trump & #fascism. I #followback. #Vote

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My latest 2 minute Facebook read - 50 years since #nixon resigned, what is the history we should remember and lessons learned?

"If this had existed then, Nixon would not have had to resign."

https://t.co/dMjI9a7syo

#RepublicansAreTheProblem #RepublicansLieAboutEverything

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@nicksortor That's what happens when u fill an arena with people who can afford $5000 tickets.

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@DecisionDeskHQ What the MAGA conspiracy theorists who want the federal government to take over a state's elections is that the same exact people running the elections when R's win suddenly stopped rigging the election & R's won fair & square. They're only rigging them when a D wins.
Idiotic.

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People keep asking me what America is actually capable of, now that it has driven away every ally it has. The answer is not hypothetical. It is the Persian Gulf, right now.

Iran is a nation of 90 million people sitting on a mountain range that runs the entire length of its borders. Its military infrastructure is buried inside those mountains. Command centers, missile batteries, fuel depots, weapons production, all of it underground and dispersed across a country roughly the size of Western Europe. Operation Epic Fury struck approximately 6,000 targets.

Iran is still firing.

The Strait of Hormuz has been closed since late February. A quarter of the world’s daily oil supply has nowhere to go. The entrance is mined, patrolled and locked. And the most expensive military in human history is sitting outside it, unable to go in.

This is the moment to be honest about what America is missing.

Europe operates roughly 10,000 military aircraft. Not little propeller trainers. More than ten thousand combat-capable jets that would immediately transform the air campaign over the Gulf, free up American assets for the deep-penetration mountain missions that actually matter, and sustain an operational tempo no single nation can manage alone.

Britain fields two aircraft carriers and seven nuclear-armed hunter-killer submarines. France brings a nuclear carrier, fifteen frigates and its own nuclear submarine fleet. Belgium and the Netherlands operate the finest mine countermeasure vessels on earth, built specifically for strait-clearing operations of exactly this kind. Italy contributes two carriers and eight FREMM frigates. Poland has the largest land army in Europe. Norway has completed its conversion to the F-35 and fields fifty-two of them.

The map below shows some capabilities in Europe, but It represents only a fraction of what Europe actually has. It does not include Finland, Sweden, Spain, Romania, Greece or Portugal, each of which contributes substantial air power, naval tonnage and ground forces of their own. The full picture is considerably larger than what fits on one page.

And then there is Ukraine. Four years of industrial-scale warfare have produced the most battle-tested drone force in existence. Autonomous strike systems, mass swarm tactics and electronic warfare capabilities developed under live fire at a pace no peacetime military can replicate. An allied force with Ukrainian drone expertise integrated into it would look fundamentally different over the mountains of Iran than what America has there now.

European intelligence services have human networks inside Iran and across the Gulf that no satellite can replace. Germany and France maintained functioning diplomatic back-channels into Tehran until late 2025. That kind of quiet credibility is the difference between a negotiated shipping corridor and a permanent blockade. It cannot be improvised. It cannot be bombed into existence.

None of this is available, because Washington spent years treating its allies as freeloaders, adversaries and negotiating targets, and then went to war expecting the same loyalty it had spent years deliberately destroying.

The alliance built after 1945 was never charity. It was a force multiplier that no defense budget, however grotesque in size, can replace on its own. America is learning that now, at roughly a hundred million dollars per day in operational costs, with the strait still closed and the oil still not moving.

Trump was not acting in America’s interest. He was acting in the interest of a man who has never in his life had to live with the consequences of his own decisions. America is living with them now.

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@SundayBriefFNC Damn. It's breeding again.

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@EricLDaugh The slap in the face is the march by people who claim to support freedom and justice, marching in support of a genocidal Zionist government.

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@RepFine He is not bothered by the existence of a Jewish state, he is bothered by the existence of a genocidal Jewish state. As everyone should be.

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@NYPDPC @MikeBloomberg @NYPDnews Why are you marching in support of a genocidal country?

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@em_Lazzy Yes

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@GenFlynn There is absolutely zero reference to God in our founding Constitution, not in our original motto, etc. and the "creator" mentioned in the declaration is absolutely a deist God, just like most of the founders were deists and were men of the age of Enlightenment.
Idiot.

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@WW3finalboss C. Ireland. England, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, poland, Latvia, Ukraine once they defeat Russia. Easy choice.

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@AriFleischer Of course, you miss the single most salient difference - these people are rioting to stop masked, unidentified federal agents who arrest people at random without a warrant in violation of our constitution, while J6 rioters attached police defending democracy in action.

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@RepJackKimble Let me get this straight... As a show of freedom artists should be forced to perform whether they want to or not?

Do you understand what freedom means?

Have you read the constitution?

Do you know what fascism looks like?

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@ericadamsfornyc @AmirOhana @MosheLion @Ofir_Akunis This is the Israel Parade.
Not the Jewish parade.
I can boycott Israel, a government which commits genocide, and not be antisemitic at all. That's called antizionism, and genocide should always be boycotted, yet you supported it today.

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@ScottPresler How do you know what form.god takes?
Burning bush, old man w a beard, holy ghost, jesus-god-spirit at the same time. Yet you think you know God can't be both the genders that God supposedly created?

Because of the pronouns chosen by some old men thousands of years ago?

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@Brooklynmonk @DougJBalloon Our economy is spiraling and we don't have enough munitions left to wage a full war. What do you mean they can't do any damage to us?

Why do u think Trump keeps blustering for a 1 page memorandum meaning nothing, but does nothing?

He has no option. And they know it.

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@Franklin_Graham Yet you support the death penalty and senseless wars - killing people who are actually fully formed human beings with a conscience.

You are a vile hypocrite.

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@craigcartonlive on @wfan rightly say some are more upset at @JaxsonDart introducing Trump than at alleged sexual assault & violence of Jacobs.

But, once we excuse proven sexual assault by 1 person it gets easier to minimize accusations of it for another, so they are related.

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Tip of the iceberg.

Trump praised, pardoned & now paid people who violently helped him try to overthrow the will of the people, so they know they will be protected & rewarded for doing it again.

& he has a masked, unidentified militia in unmarked vehicles at his disposal also.

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Voting at a Sandy Springs elementary school will continue for an extra four hours tonight following reports of a suspicious person and possible gunshots.

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@EdGallrein Don't forget to thank the billionaires who spent millions buying a seat for you because they knew you'd represent their interests going forward.

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Timeline of Iran threat:
2015 Obama & 6 other countries sign JCPOA limiting Iran enrichment

2018 Trump withdraws US from JCPOA, says "bad deal" despite IAEA & State Dept say Iran in compliance

2026 Trump says "imminent threat," attacks & now looking for deal like JPCOA

#smh