Britain is 6% Muslim. Germany 5%. France 10%. Sweden 9%. Belgium 7%.
At this rate of Islamic conquest, Europe will be majority Muslim sometime around the year 2847. I’d pencil in some mild concern for around 2600 and see how things look then.
Now. The refugees. Since someone asked who’s paying for all this. Let’s follow the money back a bit further.
America invaded Afghanistan, spent 20 years there achieving absolutely nothing, then left in such breathtaking chaos that people were literally hanging off aircraft. It then invaded Iraq over weapons that turned out not to exist, killed somewhere between 150,000 and a million people, and converted a functioning country into a sectarian hellscape. This is before we even get to the drones over Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan.
The people washing up on European shores are, in very large part, the direct human wreckage of American foreign policy. America created the disaster. Europe is housing the survivors. And America is on the internet asking why Europe keeps letting people in. Remarkable cheek, really.
As for eliminating indigenous culture: the United States actually eliminated its indigenous people. Deliberately. With rifles and government paperwork. Europe took in Syrian doctors. These are not comparable situations, and pretending they are requires a truly heroic indifference to history.
The culture is fine. France still has the cheese. The Louvre is still there. Bach is still there. Nothing has been eliminated except, apparently, the ability to read a percentage.
23 years ago tonight, in an Oval Office address, George W. Bush announced the start of the Iraq War.
4,492 American service members were killed in the years that followed. 32,292 were wounded.
At least 200,000 Iraqi civilians died. The humanitarian impact was immense.
America wasted 9 years and 3 trillion dollars on a war that never should have happened—a war predicated on a lie, pushed by warmongering neocon politicians, and paid for by everyday people.
Imagine what that $3 trillion could have bought here at home. Imagine the decade we could have spent focusing on America, our people, our place in the world. Imagine the lives our service members, stolen from us, would have lived. But instead, the president took us to war. Yet another costly quagmire in the Middle East.
I voted against the Iraq War. I knew the White House would lie to Members of Congress and voters alike to manufacture the pretext for a conflict—and they did.
Now, Iran is shaping up to be Iraq 2.0—new lies, new bloodthirsty politicians, still paid for by American families. Yesterday, we learned that Trump wants another $200 billion for his war. That's after Congress already gave the Pentagon more money than it even asked for in the budget.
Enough is enough. It is not too late to learn from the past. Stop this madness. Bring our troops home. End this war.
SEN. SANDERS: “60% of our people living paycheck-to-paycheck, and one guy, Elon Musk, owns more wealth than the bottom 53% of American households.”
“Think maybe that might be an issue that we should be talking about?"
Apparently this needs to be said out loud.
If ANYONE abused children:
President — prison.
Billionaire — prison.
Pastor — prison.
Priest — prison.
Coach — prison.
Celebrity — prison.
Democrat? Prison.
Republican? Prison.
Man. Woman. Mother. Father.
I don’t care about your politics.
I don’t care about your status.
I don’t care about your fan base.
If you hurt kids, the only place you belong is a cell.
If wars were named after the aggressors instead of the victims we’d have:
The American War 1950-1953
The American War 1955-1975
The American War 1981-1990
The American War 1990-1991
The American War 2001-2021
The American War 2003-2011
The American War 2026-
Bombing school kids: zero response
Bombing gas and oil: global task force
This is why capitalism as a governing ideology is incompatible with our basic humanity