It only takes about 5 minutes of watching Fox News to understand why Trump supporters live in a completely fucking different reality than everyone else.
Applebaum: U.S. power was never only military. America’s real strength was values-based alliances, institutions and countries wanting to imitate its system.
Trump has damaged that operating system and replaced it with a childlike idea: bomb things and call it victory. 5X
Applebaum: What binds Russia, China, Iran and North Korea is not religion or ideology.
China is communist, Russia nationalist, Iran theocratic. What binds them is fear of liberal language: rights, rule of law, separation of powers and independent courts. 1/
FBI shows up to interrogate a U.S. citizen at his house—for writing an anti-ICE social media post.
"This is about comments that you posted online," said agent.
Orders homeowner to stop recording—refuses to even tell him which comments.
Agent wearing unique World Cup uniform to indicate he is currently assigned to work with ICE on immigration issues.
Craig Brittain has been actively documenting and participating in protests at the Delaney Hall ICE detention facility in Newark, New Jersey.
His social media posts videos of demonstrations, conflicts with agents, and calls for the facility’s closure.
@bradley_tindall@Acyn Calling it "rampant abuse" doesn't make it so. The remarkable thing about this claim is that after six years of searching, lawsuits, audits, recounts, and investigations, its strongest evidence is still that some people keep asserting it happened...
Bolton: No regime change in Tehran means nuclear proliferation. Iran rebuilds everything when oil flows again.
Saudi Arabia, UAE, Turkey, Egypt watch US resolve collapse — and start their own nuclear programs. That's the dynamic we've triggered.
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@bonchieredstate@Lynn_Henning It just seems to me that if you have to disclose to your audience you are being paid to push a product on social media, then the same principle should apply to pushing political takes for money….
Russia: 75% divorce rate. Collapsed birth rates. Sky-high alcoholism, sex-trafficking, and domestic abuse. Very low church attendance.
The only way you can say Russia isn’t in sharper decline is if you’re being paid to say that.
Coincidently, know the op when you see it.
Here’s another video of all these MAGA that thought they could take a road trip to California and vote for Spencer Pratt illegally because they’ve been told that they didn’t need ID to vote and they found out they were wrong and now some will likely be charged for it.
@factpostnews The politicians these days think they can lecture the voters instead of viewing themselves as public servants. Its a super weird authoritarian trend.
CANADA WINS THE BRIDGE WAR!
According to the Detroit News the Gordie Howe bridge, linking Michigan and Ontario, will open on Friday. Trump threatened to keep it closed unless Canada turned over ownership to the US.
Canada said "no." And Trump backed down!