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Look inward

[Jason D. Meister 🇺🇸 @jason_meister]

They arrested the President of the United States of America 4X, charged him 91X, indicted him 4X, spied on his campaign, sabotaged his first term, jailed his supporters, raided his private residence, censored him, gagged him, tried to bankrupt him, and attempted to remove him from state ballots.

When all of that failed they tried to assassinate him not once but four times.

And they go on national television to talk about how we need to vote for them to save democracy.

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

Let’s be real here. Europe has spent decades freeloading on American security. Even now, with every NATO member finally hitting the 2% GDP target in 2025.

But beyond the financial contributions, the real rupture is philosophical and the Iran crisis has shown a spotlight on it.

Europe worships process. Endless committees, consultations, and “predictability.” Macron actually calls it a virtue. For Trump, this is paralysis as his style is to articulate a threat, fix a target, and act. The Americans are men of conviction and purpose. Europe on the other hand lives by bureaucratic liturgy and in high-minded abstractions.

Sure, Americans might make mistakes when acting. But Europe never considers what the costs of not acting actually are.

Just look at how their nations are doing on various fronts, especially on the border crisis, and you see the same cancerous rot that undergirds their foreign policy approach play out domestically. It's the same problem on a different scale.

Iran is currently holding the Strait of Hormuz hostage, choking 20% of global oil and spiking prices past $100 a barrel. Meanwhile, the regime is bleeding from strikes, its nuclear ambitions are still alive despite degraded capability, and its proxies are firing missiles at allies and oil tankers. If this isn’t a clear and present danger to the global economy - of which Europe is a part - then I don’t know what is.

Yet when Washington asked to use European bases to finish the job - bases the US has defended for generations, the response was hesitation and hand-wringing. The US did strike from RAF Fairford, but only after warnings that British soil could become a “legitimate target.”

If you cannot agree that a theocratic regime with eschatological ambitions who have shown no restraint in hitting out at Gulf countries and threatening the world’s energy jugular is an enemy worth confronting, then what, exactly, are we allies about?

Europe loves to preen about being tough on Russia. They issue condemnations and speeches and slap sanctions that hardly work to cripple the Russian economy.

Now here was a chance to do something concrete: let the Americans use the bases they already pay for, help clear the Strait, and actually degrade the Iranian war machine that arms Moscow’s proxies. Turmp didn’t ask for boots on the ground or any kind of more offensive action. All he wanted was permission to operate from the infrastructure America has underwritten for decades.

They couldn’t even manage that.

So can you blame the Americans for seeing NATO for what it is? A paper-tiger alliance that expects Washington to bleed and pay while Brussels and London convenes and deliberates.

If Europe refuses to treat Iran as the threat it is while happily letting American power keep the Strait open and the lights on, then the alliance is already dead. Trump is simply stating the obvious and the Americans are becoming very reluctant to subsidize the European delusion any longer.

[Fry @codesurfer_8]

@ArthurMacwaters We can’t be invaded. So this is how you topple the country. Deliberately from within.

[Fry @codesurfer_8]

@RinoTheBouncer Story has potential to have a large societal culture impact if moved on correctly

[Fry @codesurfer_8]

@GavinNewsom

[Fry @codesurfer_8]

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[Fry @codesurfer_8]

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[Fry @codesurfer_8]

@OriginaleSoul @OgCrypt @AsherOdom @JillThomas22 @RootTangle Not even a single supporting statement to your accusation? Endangering your life? Have you any introspection whatsoever?

We feel bad for you, honestly.

[Trump War Room @TrumpWarRoom]

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[Fry @codesurfer_8]

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[Trump War Room @TrumpWarRoom]

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[Valyrian Fire 🐉 @turtledumplin]

Our side lost because of the intolerance of the tolerant left. If you don’t see that, then we will keep losing.
People didn’t vote for Trump, they voted against you.
They voted against your “if you don’t agree with me then you’re my enemy” mentality.
They voted against your need to have an echo chamber or risk being canceled.
They voted against being attacked for a difference in opinion.
They voted against being called pedos, racists, homophobes, Nazis simply for disagreeing with you.
They voted for the right to keep YOU out of decisions for their children.
They voted against having to walk on eggshells for fear of offending someone.

I don’t care who I piss off by saying this, step out of the tunnel vision and have a civil conversation with folks and take responsibility for your part in pushing people, who are on the fence, to vote against you.

[Fry @codesurfer_8]

@MikeWiseguy Seek help. Maybe sue some media outlets for wrongful psychological abuse and deterioration. Praying for you

[Alexandros Marinos 🏴‍☠️ @alexandrosM]

If you voted Democrat and you are feeling that the election result is truly horrifying, do this one simple thing for your mental health:

Write down your fears of what might happen in the next 4 years on a piece of paper.

Re-read and check in on them every few months.

It will be a constant source of relief to you when you see that your fears will not, in fact, come true.

Then start asking why you had those fears in the first place and how you can prevent them from forming the next time.

[Fry @codesurfer_8]

@buggirl You have been gaslit and psychologically abused by mainstream media and left wing talking points. I am sorry, you are not alone. We won’t let them abuse you anymore.

[Fry @codesurfer_8]

@MichaelJStern1 Our mistake. You were right! How could “we the people” be so naive?

[Fry @codesurfer_8]

@bitandbang Ever take a moment to look internally and ask, “am I the problem?”. It might help here. You might find this very resentment is directly correlated to the division in this country.

Something something seek empathy? Or are you above that? Isn’t that the left’s whole schtick?

[Fry @codesurfer_8]

@FPWellman @TonyHinchcliffe Ayyyy big dog how you feeling now? Lotta vitriol on this L

[Robert F. Kennedy Jr @RobertKennedyJr]

If you want to avoid nuclear war, I strongly urge you to vote for Donald Trump. In fact, I would go so far as to say that a vote for Kamala Harris is a vote for nuclear war.

[New York Yankees @Yankees]

We're headin' to the World Series.

#RepBX

[Bryce M. Lipscomb @BryceMLipscomb]

I wanna apologize to #MAGA, I made fun of you all for saying @TheDemocrats cheat in elections. As a @RobertKennedyJr supporter, I have witnessed it first hand. The @DNC will do anything they can to ruin & destroy not only their opponents but THE FABRIC OF AMERICAN SOCIETY.

ITS A UNITED TRUMP/KENNEDY VS THE COMMIES.