PASTOR LORAN LIVINGSTON (@CentralChurchNC): “There has never been a Christian nation, and never will be. You don’t live in one now. A Christian nation wouldn’t have killed and displaced 20 million Native Americans, or thought owning slaves was pleasing to God.”
THE REASON WE IN EUROPE DON'T HAVE AIR CONDITIONING IS THAT WE'VE NEVER NEEDED IT BEFORE ! THE REASON WE NEED IT NOW IS THAT IDIOTS LIKE YOUR BOSS KEEP ON IGNORING SCIENCE AND TELLING PEOPLE TO "DRILL, BABY, DRILL" !
@RepLisaMcClain
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."
- Tony Locke
🔴Savaş muhabiri Janine di Giovanni:
▪️Eğer Ukrayna'da bir hastaneye füze düşerse Avrupa bunun bir savaş suçu olduğunu söylüyor.
▪️Ama eğer Gazze'ye çok sayıda füze düşüp 100 insan ölürse bu İsrail'in kendini savunma hakkı oluyor.
🔴🎙️ "Ce qui me fait le plus souffrir, c'est que je suis pratiquement le seul à souffrir de ce qu'il se passe en Iran", indique Bertrand Badie, auteur de "Par delà la puissance et la guerre" aux éditions Odile Jacob. #ToutEstPolitique#canal16
"We Europeans doubt ourselves too much. The world looks to us as people who respect the rule of law and international order, full of innovation. Let's believe in ourselves more !"
Macron's passionate plea for more European self-confidence today in Greece 🇪🇺💪
My English s/t 👇
🇨🇦🇺🇸 Esta mañana, el primer ministro canadiense, Mark Carney, se sentó en una sala de estar, miró a la cámara y pronunció un mensaje que se resume así: Estados Unidos —nuestro vecino, nuestro principal socio comercial, el país cuya economía ha estado ligada a la nuestra durante casi dos siglos— ya no es un aliado con el que podamos contar. Estados Unidos se está desmoronando, y sí, esa relación especial no solo ha terminado; es una carga. Los lazos que nos fortalecieron se han convertido en lazos que nos hacen vulnerables porque Estados Unidos es una nación disfuncional y malévola.
Je regarde beaucoup les médias internationaux. Dans un monde peuplé par des Trump, Putin, Xi Jinping, Netanyahu et autres Supreme Leaders, et même chez nous en Europe avec nos Johnson, Orbán, PiS et autres populistes maison, la France de Macron est tout sauf "sortie de l'Histoire" et "marginalisée"
On peut critiquer Macron pour sa politique nationale. Sur la scène internationale la France s'en sort plutôt très bien par les temps qui courent, du moins dans tout ce que je lis et vois ailleurs @NicolasBaverez
Applebaum's piece is worth reading slowly because the specific details are doing work that the summary can't.
Danish military commanders - inside a NATO alliance the United States founded - had to sit in a room and war-game whether their forces would shoot down American planes and kill American soldiers. Some of them still haven't fully recovered from running that exercise. The most popular app in Denmark during Applebaum's visit was one that identifies American products so users know not to buy them.
NATO has invoked Article 5 exactly once in its history. On behalf of the United States. After September 11th. Allied troops went to Afghanistan and some of them died there. Trump told reporters those allies "stayed a little back, a little off the front lines." The families of soldiers who didn't come back heard that.
Now Trump is in the middle of a war in the Persian Gulf with the Strait of Hormuz locked, oil prices spiking, and he's telling NATO allies - the same ones he insulted and tariffed and threatened - that he's "demanding" they come help solve a problem his own decisions helped create.
Applebaum's conclusion is precise: he doesn't connect what he does on one day to what happens weeks later. Allied leaders have drawn their conclusions. The rupture, as Mark Carney called it, isn't coming. It already happened.
Après plus de cinq minutes de suspension, l'audition de Xavier Niel reprend : très remonté, le cofondateur de Mediawan dénonce les "mensonges" prononcés selon lui par le rapporteur @CHAlloncle.
#DirectAN cc @Xavier75