RockyRaccoon

America has gone bananas and I don't get any of it confused engineer, designer, inventor of lab diagnostics and automation
support Ukraine to win

[RockyRaccoon @jatry_again]

Sleepy Don
is very funny to watch in a cabinet meeting

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump is about to hit REM

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

Enjoy this mind blowing work of art 🎶🎶🎶

[RockyRaccoon @jatry_again]

@lindyli G F Y weirdo

[RockyRaccoon @jatry_again]

do this
but be careful
protect yourself

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

This man is a true American patriot.

Patriotism is not waving a flag while masked government agents racially profile and indiscriminately seize Latino workers. It is understanding the Constitution, defending equal protection, and fighting for “liberty and justice for all.”

He confronted ICE and alerted his neighbors. Together, they drove the agents away. No warrant. No court order. Just an attempted drive-by, racist abduction of good, legal, law-abiding, hardworking people.

Know your rights. Stand with your neighbors. Use https://t.co/du9bv2U4pY to prepare for and respond to ICE encounters legally and constitutionally. Help keep it free: https://t.co/Hi5Yo2N2N2

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

Dems are doing ok refuting Trump's narrative from his bizarro speech, but - IMO - that's NOT the most important thing they should be doing! Dems REALLY need to focus on forcefully and pointedly presenting the argument that Trump is so erratic, unstable, and so full of falsehood and delusion, that he is NO LONGER ABLE to carry out the duties of the presidency and therefore MUST BE REMOVED from office.
Look at him! Listen to him! To do anything but broach his unfitness and removal is to normalize that. And to normalize Trump, is to normalize psychopathy, FFS!
So say it, Dems. Say it loud. And say it on TV.
It's true, it's 100% accurate, it shows the mettle that Dem and Indie voters want to see, and it needs to be out there now, all day, every day.

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

Yesterday, Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s Press Secretary, when asked if Trump will accept the results of the 2026 election, refused to say yes. She refused to say whether Trump will accept the results of this year’s election.

I’ve repeatedly called Donald Trump a traitor to this country and an enemy to this country. And I stand by that. Anyone who accepts election results only when they win, or only when their side wins, is in fact an enemy of our democracy. And they should be treated as such.

And I know deep down you ALL know this. I know deep down you ALL believe it’s wrong to accept election results only when your side wins. But I also know that most of you who support Trump won’t say that publicly because you won’t criticize your dear leader. And that’s such a shame.

Because like he did when he lost in 2020, again this year, if Republicans lose the House and/or the Senate, Trump will refuse to accept the results and, once again, he’ll scream “stolen election.” We all know that’s what he’s going to do. He’s already been signaling that that’s what he’s going to do.

A democracy ends when a people refuses to accept the will of the people every two years, when a people refuses to accept the results of elections they lose.

And btw, NONE of you raised your kids to be this way. NONE of you raised your kids to be sore losers. You ALL raised your kids to do their best, try as hard as they can, but if they lose the game or the match or the contest, they must accept the defeat graciously and congratulate the winning team. That’s how you were raised, and that’s how you raised your kids.

Donald Trump is the antithesis of that. In fact, you raised your kids to be the opposite of Trump.

Have a nice weekend.

[RockyRaccoon @jatry_again]

@EdKrassen donald requires his toadies to violate the law for him and promises them he will pardon totally and completely

[RockyRaccoon @jatry_again]

@atrupar newsmax recruiting on only fans now

[RockyRaccoon @jatry_again]

this account now identified itself as bullshit spam and not a real teacher mom. https://t.co/UgyjDzL8Ob

[RockyRaccoon @jatry_again]

@SecMullinDHS @DHSgov fuck you and the lollipop guild

[RockyRaccoon @jatry_again]

is it this bad? wow. certainly at restaurants. maybe because their costs also skyrocketed.

[Jeremy @jeremyct]

My wife and I got into it last night about the grocery bill.

I pulled up an old Target order from February 2020.

28 items. $64.50.

Added every single one back to the cart just to see.

$158.30.
Same 28 items. Same store. Same cart.
$93.80 more.

In five years.
We didn’t buy more.
Didn’t upgrade anything.
Didn’t add a single extra item.

Just needed the same things we always needed.

They told us inflation was transitory. They told us it was under control. They told us the economy was strong.

Our cart didn’t get any of those memos.
145% increase in five years.

Not one member of Congress has looked at a grocery receipt in decades.

And it shows.

[RockyRaccoon @jatry_again]

@KerryHolmekb team dumbass

[Tom Powell Jr @RealTomPowellJr]

The truth about Trump's national monument shrinking, according to the proclamations

[RockyRaccoon @jatry_again]

trump tells his toadies to violate the laws for him and that he will pardon them. they are stupid and do it.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Markwayne Mullin says he’s making “mandatory” changes to elections, including requiring states to “scrub” their voter rolls

[Julie B(rooklyn) BABY WOKE AF 🇺🇸🇯🇲 @JMeanypants]

Love this!!!

[RockyRaccoon @jatry_again]

@miadmaleki ... and weapons

[RockyRaccoon @jatry_again]

@hkb73 cut back the number of rented land line phones in the house to just one main one in the hallway near the kitchen.

[RockyRaccoon @jatry_again]

@LGMicahBeckwith your stupidity must burn

[Rep. Jim McGovern @RepMcGovern]

Trump says Democrats forgot to rig the election in 2016, successfully rigged it while *he* was president in 2020, then forgot how to rig it again in 2024. So the only election Democrats supposedly stole was the one he himself controlled.

You have to be a special kind of stupid to believe this bullshit.

[RockyRaccoon @jatry_again]

this guy was/is a mental bomb with a badge and a gun

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Shocking new reporting shows that the ICE agent who murdered Johan Guerrero in Maine is “extremely mentally ill” and has a LONG history of violence, including brutally beating his wife and kids and throwing boiling water at his infant child, but was given a badge and a gun anyway!

They’re hiring the worst of the worst…

There’s no wonder why people are getting shot if this is the quality of person that ICE is putting on the street in their Gestapo squads.

Ashley Brouillette, the ex-wife of ICE killer David Brouillette, revealed his deeply disturbing past to the media after he called her and asked her to lie for him. She would not.

She revealed that he “once threw boiling water at her while she was holding their child,” which was confirmed by her mother Avis Collins.

His SECOND ex-wife – red flag right there – “alleged that he had stalked and harassed her and physically and verbally abused his daughter, according to multiple requests for temporary protection orders. Brouillette tackled his teenage daughter and smashed spaghetti in her hair, and during another outburst, he dragged his daughter around the house as she cried, she said.”

He once left his ex-wife a voicemail that said “And all of you should have your f——–g throats cut. Yeah, you should. Am I threatening that I’m gonna do that? Nope. Nope. But do I think that you should have your f——-g throats cuts? Or should have had them cut? Yep.”

A relative said that David was “extremely mentally ill” and said he attempted suicide twice at age 12 and was hospitalized multiple times. His daughter said that she came home from school once and he told her he had been sitting on a tree stump with a gun to his head.

This is the kind of person that Donald Trump is giving a gun to and sending out on the street to terrorize innocent people. It just goes to show that they are doing ZERO vetting and don’t care at ALL about who dies as a consequence.

David Brouillette needs to face justice for murdering Johan – but so does everyone up the chain who put him in a position to kill, because this man should NEVER have been allowed anywhere near a firearm.

[Brian Berletic @BrianJBerletic]

🇺🇸🇷🇺NEW ARTICLE: The Ukraine War is a US war on Russia

(NOTE: Because Elon Musk's X continues censoring content together with the State Department, NEO articles are unavailable on the platform, therefore the entire article is reprinted below).

As the Western media continues shaping narratives depicting a growing divide between the US and Europe regarding the ongoing conflict in Ukraine - a narrative involving an increasingly disinterested and disengaging US with an increasingly desperate and confrontational Europe - it is important to remember precisely how this war was started and why, as well as the material reality shaping its continuation.

By doing so, it is revealed the only "division" taking place between the US and Europe is a “division of labor,” a phrase literally spoken by the US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth in Brussels in February 2025 delegating the continuation of what is a US proxy war on Russia to Europe while the US redirects resources toward Asia.

Precisely because the war in Ukraine is a US proxy war on Russia, and the fact that Ukraine’s trained military manpower and territory continue to contract under the pressure of Russia’s strategy of attrition, to continue the war will require introducing additional pools of trained military manpower - and to extend Russia further - to do so along a wider front.

The military build-up of the Baltic states appears to be at a minimum an attempt to fix Russian forces along their border with Russia. The worst case scenario for Moscow would be for the US to repeat with its Baltic state proxies what it has already done in 2008 with its Georgian proxies and what it has done from 2011 onward with its Ukrainian proxies - attack Russia and its allies militarily, precipitating wider war along a wider front.

Western European nations, including the so-called “coalition of the willing,” led by France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, have implemented Secretary Hegseth’s directives from February 2025 enthusiastically - directives including to “double down” on arming Ukraine, “spending more on defense,” and convincing the European public of the “threat facing Europe” (meaning Russia).

With this in mind, it is clear there is not only no split of any kind between the US and its European proxies, Washington’s European proxies have demonstrated unflinching servile obedience even at the cost of placing themselves on the precipice of war with neighboring nuclear-armed Russia themselves.

The Larger, Long-Engineered War on Russia

Surrounding Russia with a number of geopolitical and economic crises to “extend Russia” with the hope of eventually precipitating a Soviet Union-style collapse, is the subject of numerous US policy papers spanning the entirety of the post-Cold War period.

There is even a paper published by the RAND Corporation literally titled, “Extending Russia,” listing a number of measures the US has since implemented verbatim before and since its publication in 2019.

The paper lays out the economic and geopolitical measures the US has since used to both prepare the grounds for this current proxy war, and to both perpetuate and expand it over time.

These measures include targeting Russia’s energy exports including specifically targeting pipeline expansion (Nord Stream, since destroyed by the US), the imposition of sanctions on Russia, the destabilization, destruction and/or the political capture of Russia’s allies both along its borders and beyond (including Ukraine, Georgia, Belarus, and Armenia, as well as Syria), and the arming of Ukraine itself following its political capture by Washington in 2014.

This latter measure, the RAND paper admits, would inevitably invite in wider conflict with Russia - and it did. The paper also admitted the measure would likely end in “disproportionately large Ukrainian casualties, territorial losses, and refugee flows,” and that, “it might even lead Ukraine into a disadvantageous peace.”

The purpose of US policy is not to necessarily “defeat” Russia in Ukraine, or in Georgia, or Armenia, Syria, or in any other particular region - but to create a multitude of crises mounting ever increasing pressure on Russia to create cracks and collapse wherever opportunities allow, and eventually precipitate overall collapse following pressure along a large and growing collection of fronts.

And this is precisely what the US is doing.

It doesn’t matter that Ukraine can’t win the current US proxy war against Russia - or that Europe collectively might not be able to either. US objectives are to create a growing conflict that eventually outpaces Russia’s ability to respond and defend itself against.

Similar strategies have been used against other targets of US “regime change” including Libya, Syria, and Iraq spanning decades before finally and fully succeeding.

Thus, the measure of Russia’s success is not simply on the battlefield in Ukraine, but its success or failure in defending itself against this much wider campaign of US-driven encroachment - a campaign that has transcended all US presidential administrations since the end of the Cold War without exception and will continue to do so into the foreseeable future.

The Growing Drone & Missile War

Growing attention has been placed on the steadily expanding drone and missile campaign targeting Russia deep within its territory. While proponents of Ukraine claim the strikes have “turned the tide” in Ukraine’s favor, and Russian proponents claim the attacks have had no impact at all - the truth is likely somewhere in between and subject to shift as both sides adapt. .

The Western media has already admitted “Ukraine’s” deep strikes into Russia using both US and European-manufactured missiles and drones are actually the product of the US intelligence community and the US military.

In late 2025 the New York Times would admit, “the Central Intelligence Agency and the U.S. military, with [US President Donald Trump’s ] blessing, supercharged a Ukrainian campaign of drone strikes on Russian oil facilities and tankers.”

More recently, the Financial Times would explain:

"Analysts attribute the growing success of Ukraine’s drone campaign to its ability to significantly increase production, as well as improved management.

American intelligence assistance has also played a role, aiding Kyiv in charting the best paths for its drones and helping to skirt air defences, senior Ukrainian officials told the FT."

Of course, Ukraine’s “ability to significantly increase production” actually translates into expanded production by both the US and Europe who then simply transfer components, kits, or entirely assembled drones to Ukraine for storage and use.
This includes the US-made artificial intelligence (AI) driven “Hornet” drones - a result of former Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s AI drone campaign announced at least 2 years ago.

These US-made and directed drones are carrying out a large-scale region-wide campaign of strikes on Russian maritime shipping in the Sea of Azov, the Black Sea, the Mediterranean Sea and beyond, as well as military, civilian, and energy production infrastructure at further and further ranges from the Russian-Ukrainian border deep inside Russian territory.

While the damage inflicted by these attacks has not matched Russia’s missile, guided bomb, drone, and guided rocket attacks on Ukraine, it is admittedly causing disruptions even according to the Russian government itself, especially for specific regions like Crimea and logistical routes leading into it.

Remembering that Washington’s goal with its war in Ukraine on Russia and its wider campaign of encroachment is meant to “extend,” not “defeat” Russia, it cannot be denied that the US strategy has significantly raised the costs of an already expensive war forced onto Russia.

The US and its European proxies will likely never match Russia in military industrial production, but given enough time, it will certainly continue to expand its ability to inflict greater and greater costs unless and until Russia is able to fully and finally end the war in Ukraine on the battlefield.

With the prospect of Ukraine collapsing and the war ending - the temptation for the US to open up additional fronts along Russia’s borders will increase - with preparations seemingly already underway for just such a front in at least the Baltic states.

Wider War on Multipolarism

As the US continues escalating its war on Russia in Ukraine - threatening to expand it even further across the rest of Europe - the US also continues its direct war of aggression against Iran - together precipitating a widening, global energy crisis aimed directly at China itself.

Meanwhile, the United States continues shaping the Asia-Pacific region in precisely the way it shaped and transformed Europe vis-a-vis Russia and West Asia vis-a-vis Iran - for large-scale war and/or proxy war with China.

The US is in the process of transforming the Philippines in Southeast Asia into the Asia-Pacific’s “Ukraine,” while integrating the military capabilities of South Korea, Japan, and the Philippines under a single interoperable US military command.

Just as the US has utilized drone attacks on Russia laundered through “Ukraine,” the US is likewise preparing the Philippines and the Chinese island province of Taiwan as launching points for similar attacks on China.

Understanding the wider, global nature of US foreign policy the US proxy war on Russia fits into helps explain the growing degree of cooperation between the primary targets of this US foreign policy - notably Russia, China, and Iran. Understanding that the US is advancing this policy by not only directly targeting these three nations, but also targeting third-parties - undermining, politically capturing, and using them as proxies to advance this policy - helps highlight the imperative of creating a global effort to expose and defend against this threat the US pursuit of primacy poses.

This threat is not only of a military and economic dimension, but also targets information, education, and political space.

Centuries ago - securing only one’s castle against a siege gives an enemy access to all the space and resources surrounding that castle - creating dynamics of attrition that favor the enemy over time no matter how well-protected the castle itself is. A besieged castle that creates strategic depth far beyond the walls of the castle, enabling it to attack and deny an enemy the ability to approach let alone begin the siege, increases the odds of victory in the long-term.

Today, the multipolar world needs to improve its strategic depth as much as individual nations need to fortify their borders against US encroachment, aggression, infiltration, destabilization, and political capture or collapse. This must be done not only through the traditional domains of national and global security, but also by focusing on information space - a domain as important to protect in the 21st century as one’s airspace, land borders, and shores.

Integrating this policy not only nationally, but across the emerging multipolar world in a collective manner helps create the strategic depth required in the 21st century to frustrate and defeat aggression today as strategic depth has done in past centuries.

Only time will tell whether or not Russia’s advantages amid the US proxy war in Ukraine can be extended successfully to the much wider campaign of encroachment the US is pursuing against Moscow - and whether Russia, Iran, and China can combine their efforts sufficiently enough to frustrate and defeat Washington’s global campaign of encroachment and aggression it is subjecting the rest of the world to.

Brian Berletic is a Bangkok-based geopolitical researcher and writer.