Piers: “Iran is no threat to the US?”
John Mearsheimer: “No.”
Morgan: “They fund groups Israel doesn’t like”
John: “You’re baking the idea that Iran is a threat to Israel, and that any threat to Israel is a threat to the U.S. I don’t buy it.”
90% of self-identified MAGA Republicans support Trump’s Iran War.
In 2016, MAGA was driven by fatigue over the Iraq War and Trump’s ideological opposition to it.
Now Trump has led those same people right back onto the plantation, supporting another Jewish neocon war.
Israel expelled and ethnically cleansed Palestinian Christians in 1948 (both Original First Christians and Original Israelites) and has conducted attrition since. It dispossessed them of their property.
And they are subjected to Apartheid in the West Bank.
You fools. Fools!
The view from China: “The US is not getting ripped off by anybody” “The problem is the US has been living beyond its means for decades. It consumes more than it produces. It has outsourced its manufacturing and borrowed money in order to have a higher standard of living than it’s entitled to based on its productivity. Rather than being ‘cheated’, the US has been taking a free ride on the globalisation train.” #OOTT
Bonkers. This is a great example of why I keep saying that no one should just accept the government's word as fact.
It is run by flawed people who aren't inherently trustworthy—which is something conservatives used to understand. Once again, due process matters.
1/ @CAForever is answering the call to propel American shipbuilding for the next century. With today’s @POTUS Executive Order and the bipartisan SHIPS Act, we’re offering 3 miles of our waterfront to build the Solano Shipyard, the largest shipbuilding complex in America. 🧵
If the USA continues to lack manufacturing, there is no foreseeable future for the continuity of our economic growth. Reserve currency status and services only get you so far. The only thesis that stands the test of time is empires must build, or they fail.
This is MAGA's fundamental error.
They correctly observe that (say) Maui got $700 checks while Ukraine got $100B+, but then incorrectly conclude that all Americans are therefore being ripped off by the world.
In reality, American Empire implements global taxation via dollar inflation. So the smarter route would be for MAGA to fix the empire piece-by-piece, by supporting conservatives and libertarians in Europe, by deregulating domestically, by making the minimum necessary enemies, and by redirecting that flow of printed money — rather than breaking up the whole empire in a negative-sum cloud of dust via tariffs and trade war. That just hands off the world to China, which is poised to pick up the pieces.
After all, the American Empire is the greatest empire in human history, with 750 military bases across the globe, larger than even the British Empire at its peak. Shutting it down precipitously over the illusion that America is simply a "country" like any other will cause tremendous short- and medium-run damage to those in the seat of empire.
Europeans abandoned the defense necessary for their own sovereignty so they could finance welfare states, which they then destroyed with mass immigration
So now they have infinite migrants, bankrupt social programs, and a complete lack of security
Everyone is so surprised whenever Affleck is revealed to be quite intelligent. Why did you think there were so many candid shots of him out there looking miserable?