Bruce Strom

Tweeting about #Huskers, progressive causes, conservatism, other stuff, using irony, satire, fact.

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

"Very poor white people” are being convinced that “very poor, hard-working brown or Black people” are responsible for the “problems caused by billionaire white men”, Allison Morris, Crime Correspondent at the Belfast Telegraph, says in the wake of the riots that spread through the capital of Northern Ireland overnight.

[Mike McNulty 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇺🇦✊ @bankaudits1]

@FraserNelson @Jim_Cornelius It’s classic “stealing cookies” BS…🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪

[Murray Rothbard @MurraySuggests]

The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.

The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.

Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.

If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

[Bruce Strom @bnkstrom]

@JackMitchellLNK Get this on the Huskers bulletin board!

[Bruce Strom @bnkstrom]

@HuskGuys Is it possible that, after 25 seasons with sh*tty offensive line play, that the Huskers have figured out how important the OL really is?

[Bruce Strom @bnkstrom]

@WildscapeWonder Paris

[tigerstorm 🇺🇸 @stormcoinc]

@SenTuberville Slava Ukraine, you’re a cultist!

[Cane Fields @bluewavemaui]

This is what you got

Too on point not to share. This is great, but too bad the Orange Felon’s enablers won’t let him see it.
This Australian's reply to #Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."
Credit - Tony Locke

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

HOLY CRAP Trump actually accomplished a miracle. Here is what he got out of Iran:

- Reduce its stockpile of enriched uranium by about 98%

- Limit uranium enrichment to 3.67% purity (far below weapons-grade)

- Cut the number of installed centrifuges by roughly two-thirds

- Only enrich uranium at one declared site (Natanz)

- Stop enrichment activities at Fordow and convert it into a research facility

- Redesign the Arak heavy-water reactor so it could not easily produce weapons-grade plutonium

- Ship out or dilute excess enriched uranium
Allow extensive inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Permit continuous monitoring of nuclear facilities and supply chains

- Accept “snap” inspections under expanded monitoring rules

- Avoid building new heavy-water reactors for years

- Stay within strict limits on uranium stockpile size and centrifuge development for set periods ranging from 10–25 years

Ooops, sorry!

That was the JCPOA that Obama signed with Iran, only to have him tear it up, kill 140 kids, get hundreds of Americans injured, 13 killed, and gas prices to surge 50%.

[Bruce Strom @bnkstrom]

@allenanalysis I like to think of this as sh*ts deserting a sinking rat.

[Fight for a Union @FightForAUnion]

wait a minute 🤔

[The Daily Britain @dailybritainonx]

Quote of the day 👇

[Local Nancy🟧🟦🏴‍☠️🇺🇲🚩🌎♻️🇨🇦🇲🇽🇩🇰🇺🇦🇬🇱 @hrhsophy]

@Gianl1974 @yamane_patricia

[Elizabeth de la Vega 🇺🇸🦅 @Delavegalaw]

The Pope calling for peace and decency and just/fair treatment of the vulnerable all over the world is not political unless your political platform is hatred, division and cruelty. Trump and Vance and their ilk are so twisted it's breathtaking.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Very Good I would say!

[Bruce Strom @bnkstrom]

@DecklinNagel I don’t understand. I did reply.

[Bruce Strom @bnkstrom]

Or they’re in Hawaii, or Fiji, or Tahiti, or some other island as the guest of a billionaire donor/lobbyist, whether he’s a pedophile or not.

[Decklin Nagel 🇺🇸 @DecklinNagel]

@theasscat Close, but 700,000 not 70,000

The staffers should be able to tell you what’s up, but it is difficult to talk to a member directly. Also you should be able to find out if they’re in DC by checking the session schedule. If they’re not in session, they’re probably in the district

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 The consequences of Trump’s illegal war are already hitting your wallet.

Iran threatens to close the strait. Energy prices soar. And Delta just raised baggage fees.

Here’s what they won’t tell you:

Corporations never lower prices after a crisis ends.

The pandemic proved it. The supply chain shock proved it. Every economic disruption in modern history proved it.

They raise fees citing the emergency. The emergency eventually passes. The fees stay — permanently baked into the new normal.

[Siddharth @DearthOfSid]

No country in the world needs a regime change as much as the United States does.

[Sarah Ironside 💙 @SarahIronside6]

Call me crazy, but we shouldn't have to wake up every day trying to figure out if the president of the United States is trying to manipulate the market or start a nuclear war.