Jaime Bastidas

Family man, sports aficionado, gaming and tech entusiast, environmentally aware. Views are mine alone. Retweets/replies/follows do not imply endorsement.

[Make FIFA Great Again @MFGA___]

FINALLY a big content creator has said what we’re all thinking about women in UT.

It’s not sexist to not be interested in women’s football.

It’s not sexist to not want players from a sport we don’t watch in the game and see them outperform R9 Ronaldo.

Well said🙏🏻 @NickRTFM

[Nick Young @nickofnz]

This is a must-read.

This gargantuan lie, that “we have more time when it comes to climate change”, has put billions of lives in peril.

The truth is that the oil industry is taking us rapidly towards a virtually uninhabitable planet.

#ClimateCrisis
https://t.co/KbRRrCgJCr

[Colin McCarthy @US_Stormwatch]

Temperatures hit as high as 43°C (109°F) in France today as the fifth major heatwave of the year has arrived in Europe. Hundreds of cities and towns across the continent experienced their hottest August temperatures ever recorded.

This is getting ludicrous.

[Dr. Sydney Watson @SydneyLWatson]

Right wingers aren't the reason people can't stand the trans movement.

I'd argue MOST people, me included, used to be totally indifferent to all of this. My position genuinely used to be that I don't care what you do as an adult, provided it doesn't affect me.

I don't feel like that any more. Not even a little.

Somewhere along the road, trans activists and progressives got extremely forceful and loud. And then it became impossible to ignore their bullshit.

"Please let us live in peace" turned into forcing transition on minors.
And forcing men into women's spaces.
And quite literally changing the definition of the word "woman".

In medicine, we have been pushed to change how we understand the female sex in order to accommodate a bunch of men who think they are female (lmfao what the fuck are we even doing?)

Then it was all the legal battles where judges undermined what it is to be a woman. Forcing women to accept men into female-only gyms, locker rooms, bathrooms and apps. Making women feel uncomfortable and unsafe in order to protect the precious feelings of these men.

We have been to thoroughly dehumanized by the trans community.
"Chest feeding"
"Front hole"
"Menstruating person"
"Birthing person"

Anything and everything that makes women remarkable, unique, and DIFFERENT to men has been erased so we can include a bunch of mentally ill men in our ranks.

Voicing concern got you fired and socially ostracized. Women have been too terrified to speak up and do anything because, across the Western world, we have virtually no support and no protections from the justice system.

Women (and men) in Britain were (maybe still are) being charged and arrested for MISGENDERING people online. Harassed for pointing out the biological reality that MEN CANNOT BE WOMEN.

And this doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of what women, girls and children have had to endure for the past decade or so.

Public opinion went backwards because the most insane people have had the microphone for the better part of ten years. And they have pushed everyone's tolerance to the brink.

Blame yourselves. You did this to yourselves. You have hurt women and children so significantly and so thoroughly that there is no coming back from this.

You are exclusively the ones at fault for where you are, Tim McBride.

[Lesia Vasylenko @lesiavasylenko]

#russia strikes. #Kyiv has no patriots for defence. @POTUS45 continues to stall on the patriots for defence. #putin happy and orders more strikes. War goes on. Ukrainians killed every night in their beds. World watches.

[Sulkhan Metreveli @Sulkhan]

I use the word ‘evil’ about Russia’s war, and sophisticated people wince. Too simple, they tell me. Too moral. ‘It’s complicated.’

Let us see who is simplifying.

Torture chambers found in every liberated town — standardized, equipped, staffed. Children deported by the thousands for ‘reeducation.’ Filtration camps. Mass graves with bound hands. A missile for a children’s hospital — then a second missile, timed for the rescuers.

Describe all of this without the word evil, and listen to yourself. Every substitute — ‘security interests,’ ‘sphere of influence,’ ‘complex realities’ — is a small act of laundering.

The refusal to name evil is not analysis. It is anesthesia for the analyst.

Our grandparents’ generation knew the word and acted on it. We traded it for vocabulary that lets us watch.

I will keep the old word. It still fits the photographs.

Some things are complicated. Bucha is not one of them.

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

When you Westerners visit Iran, the Islamic regime say: “Our country, our rules.” Wear the hijab. Cover your hair. No handshakes.

But when they come to the West, somehow it’s still their rules. Cover the nude statues. Hide the wine. Tone down your traditions. Don’t offend Islam.

Watch my conversation with @jaketapper to see why the regime is now asking America to respect Islamic values on American soil.

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

Remember that FIFA technically is a nonprofit organization. It’s a corrupt machine that deserves to die. The goal should always be to maximize exposure to football, to democratize the sport, to buy fans first. I wonder if FIFA will survive the next 40 years (roughly the rest of my lifespan).

[Jaime Bastidas @jaime_dk]

@ZT7861 @piersmorgan No.

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[Jaime Bastidas @jaime_dk]

@FIFA22_INFO Please

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

As another man who once worked with me declares himself saddened by my beliefs on gender and sex, I thought it might be useful to compile a list for handy reference. Which of the following do you imagine makes actors and directors who aren’t involved with the HBO reboot of Harry Potter so miserable?

Is it my belief that women and girls should have their own public changing rooms and bathrooms?

That women should retain female-only rape crisis centres?

That men don’t belong in women’s sport?

That female prisoners shouldn’t be incarcerated with violent men and male sex offenders?

That women should remain a protected class in law, because they have sex-specific needs and issues?

That language should reflect reality rather than ideological jargon, especially in a medical context?

That women shouldn’t be harassed, persecuted or fired for refusing to pretend humans can change sex?

That women should not be threatened with violence and rape when they assert their rights?

That freedom of speech and belief are essential to a pluralistic democratic society?

That troubled minors, especially those who are gay, autistic and trauma-experienced, should be given mental health support instead of irreversible surgeries and drug treatments on non-existent evidence of benefit?

That gay people shouldn’t be pressured to include the opposite sex in their dating pools, nor should they be smeared as ‘genital fetishists’ when they don’t?

That cross-dressing heterosexual male fetishists aren’t actually oppressed, but having the time of their lives piggybacking off gender identity ideology?

That said ideology, and the privileged, blinkered fools pushing it because they suffer zero consequences themselves, have done more damage to the political left’s credibility than Trump and Farage could have achieved in a century?

Let me have your thoughts.

[Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt]

Trump wins the prize for repugnance.

Donald Trump, the self-proclaimed "wartime president" and master of distraction, has reached a new low in moral depravity with his latest attack on Volodymyr Zelenskyy as the "P.T. Barnum of Ukraine."

This repugnant rhetoric is nothing more than a desperate attempt to mask his own catastrophic incompetence in every area—from foreign policy to military leadership to basic humanity. By shifting the blame for his own failures onto Zelenskyy and Ukraine, which has suffered four years of brutal Russian aggression, Trump exposes himself for what he truly is: a weak, evil, and utterly repugnant individual incapable of taking responsibility.

Trump has unleashed a war against Iran—without congressional approval, based on flimsy justifications that were already refuted by his own Pentagon briefings on the second day.
US soldiers dead, the Gulf region ablaze, Dubai a battlefield—and who's to blame? Not the man who pulled the trigger, but Biden and Zelenskyy, who supposedly "gave away" ammunition. This isn't just ridiculous, it's pathological. Trump, who boasts of having "rebuilt" the military, is implicitly admitting that his armed forces aren't even equipped for a "four- to five-week" conflict.
And instead of acknowledging his failures—such as underfunding ammunition production or chaotic planning—he shifts the blame to a nation fighting a genocide-prone aggressor.
Ukraine has received billions in aid since 2022 to defend itself, not to "cheat." Trump is twisting this to justify his own waste in "Epic Fury"—a war that's swallowing billions while he dismisses Ukraine as a "show."

The comparison to P.T. Barnum is particularly toxic and dehumanizing. Barnum, the charlatan who turned suffering into entertainment—that's Trump's code for: The Ukraine war is fake, the massacres in Bucha, the destroyed cities, the traumatized children? All a staged event to fleece "suckers" like Biden and thus America. This isn't just a lie; it's an insult to every victim of Russian terror.

Trump is dehumanizing an entire people who are heroically resisting in order to sell his own "strength." He, the man who eliminates Khamenei's successor without a plan for the consequences, poses as a "winner" while sending thousands to their deaths.

That's not strength; that's madness disguised as machismo.

People like Trump—incompetent, flawed, and cowardly—are the real charlatans. They build empires on lies, shift the blame onto the weak, and destroy everything they touch.

Zelenskyy is fighting for freedom; Trump is fighting only for his ego.

This rhetoric is not only repugnant, it's dangerous: it undermines alliances, emboldens aggressors like Putin, and betrays American values.

Trump doesn't deserve a platform; he deserves contempt. History will expose him as the ultimate "sucker"—the one who leads a country to ruin just to save himself.

Thanks, Regina @Sunnymica , for the tip and the template!

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

Astonishing.

Four years into defending themselves from Putin’s brutal invasion, outmanned, outgunned, after suffering enormous losses and being abandoned by the US, Ukraine is still pushing back, now with a tactical counter offensive.

In an age of growing nihilism, the Ukrainian people are showing the world the meaning of the ancient virtues: fortitude, patriotism, valour.

Slava Ukraini!

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Kaja Kallas:

The greatest threat Russia presents right now is that it gains more at the negotiation table than it has achieved on the battlefield.

Russia is no superpower. After more than a decade of conflict, including four years of full-scale war in Ukraine, Russia has barely advanced beyond the 2014 lines. And the cost? 1.2 million casualties.

Today, Russia is broken. Its economy is in shreds. It is disconnecting from the European energy markets, and its own citizens are fleeing.

[Kaja Kallas @kajakallas]

The greatest threat Russia presents right now is that it gains more at the negotiation table than it has achieved on the battlefield.

Russia’s maximalist demands cannot be met with a minimalist response.

Extract of my speech at @MunSecConf ↓

[Mick Ryan, AM @WarintheFuture]

“Please remember the moment when Russia began to take diplomacy most seriously in these 4 years. It was when our deep strikes against Russian oil refineries began to work – and when everyone started talking about Tomahawks…The stronger we are, the more realistic peace becomes.” https://t.co/RniKOSpruT

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

PM Tusk:

Some say that Ukraine should be grateful for everything.
The truth is exactly the opposite. The rest of us should be grateful to Ukraine.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Sport shouldn’t mean amnesia, and the Olympic movement should help stop wars, not play into the hands of aggressors. Unfortunately, the decision of the International Olympic Committee to disqualify Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych says otherwise. This is certainly not about the principles of Olympism, which are founded on fairness and the support of peace.

I thank our athlete for his clear stance. His helmet, bearing the portraits of fallen Ukrainian athletes, is about honour and remembrance. It is a reminder to the whole world of what Russian aggression is and the cost of fighting for independence. And in this, no rule has been broken.

It is Russia that constantly violates Olympic principles, using the period of the Olympic Games to wage war. In 2008, it was the war against Georgia; in 2014 – the occupation of Crimea; in 2022 – the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. And now, in 2026, despite repeated calls for a ceasefire during the Winter Olympics, Russia shows complete disregard, increasing missile and drone strikes on our energy infrastructure and our people.

660 Ukrainian athletes and coaches have been killed by Russia since the full-scale invasion began. Hundreds of our athletes will never again be able to take part in the Olympic Games or any other international competitions. And yet, 13 Russians are currently in Italy competing at the Olympics. They compete under “neutral” flags at the Games, while in real life publicly supporting Russian aggression against Ukraine and the occupation of our territories. And they are the ones who deserve disqualification.

We are proud of Vladyslav and of what he did. Having courage is worth more than any medal.

[Rogue POTUS Staff @RoguePOTUSStaff]

The IOC betrayed itself with its black armband proposal. Their armband would have been equally political as @heraskevych's helmet. The only difference would be to erase the faces of Ukrainian victims.

Ukrainians have shown they're too brave to back down. The IOC is a disgrace.