Jim Saintsing

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Allies? What does Hungary do for the US? Or do you mean your personal ally and his and your personal prosperity? Trying to buy Hungarian votes with American taxpayer money on Putin's orders may be a new low for Trump, at least until he surpasses it tomorrow.

[Jim Saintsing @jsaintsing]

@RepMcDowell @VP So you support Trump's threat to commit genocide.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: Protesters in Hungary have flooded the streets in open defiance of Viktor Orbán and his ally Vladimir Putin demanding an end to creeping authoritarianism.

Mainstream media is barely touching it. Let’s make sure the world sees it.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

3/3. No matter what else is going on, the one predictable thing about any Trump policy is that he will find a way to prop up Putin and his fascist regime.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

1/2. Notice that after losing the war Trump threatens his allies rather than Russia — even though Russia quite literally helped Iran defeat the US and he knows it.

[Roland Jôintz (the one and only) 🌎 @News4Laughs]

@joncoopertweets @Rafael47518447 Who exactly did he take his oath to? Seriously…

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

The two days that JD Vance spent in Hungary desperately trying to shore up support for Putin’s lapdog Viktor Orbán reminded me of what a pathetic, loathsome, lying, traitorous scumbag he is.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

A Trump insider opened a $51,000,000 oil short position — hours before Trump announced a ceasefire with Iran. This guy is now 16 for 16. $170 million in profit. A perfect streak.
This is not a talented trader.
"We placed the bet." "The ceasefire dropped." "We cashed out." Sixteen times in a row.
That is not skill. That is not instinct. That is not research.
That is someone who knows what is coming before it comes.
Think about what that actually means. A private individual is placing a $51 million bet that oil prices are about to collapse — hours before a sitting president announces a ceasefire that collapses oil prices. Not once. Sixteen times. Zero losses.
There are only two explanations and both should terrify you.
Either someone inside the White House — or with direct access to it — is leaking ceasefire negotiations to traders before diplomats, before the press, before the American people hear a single word. That is insider trading. That is corruption. That is a federal crime.
Or the timing of the announcement itself is being shaped around the trade. Which is worse.
This is not a genius investor who reads the news faster than you do. The news hadn't happened yet. He wasn't reading the news. He was getting a phone call.
While Americans were watching the ceasefire announcement and feeling relieved — somebody already knew. Somebody had already bet $51 million on it. And somebody was already counting their winnings.
You are not watching a free market. You are watching a White House with a side hustle. Via~ Really American

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

Obama got Iran to halt its nuke program without closing the Strait of Hormuz and murdering little girls

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

No serious nation in the history of warfare has spent fourteen months insulting its allies, siding with their common enemy, and then knocked on their door expecting them to rescue a catastrophe of its own making.

You abused the UK. Threatened Canada. Tried to grab Greenland. Called the EU an adversary. Praised Putin. Hosted Kremlin officials in the Capitol. Abandoned Ukraine. And did all of it loudly, proudly, and on camera.

And now you are surprised that nobody is returning your calls.
You want European boots on the ground? Start by explaining why America is more aligned with Moscow than with Brussels.
Take your time. We will wait.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[Governor Newsom Press Office (parody) @AwesomeNewsom]

DEAR MR. TRUMP,

THANK YOU FOR SUBMITTING YOUR APPLICATION TO THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE COMMITTEE. WHILE WE REVIEW YOUR "LIVING IN HELL" STATEMENT OF LOVE AND PEACE, WE SUGGEST YOU APPLY TO THE INTERNATIONAL COURT AT THE HAGUE. YOU ARE EXACTLY WHO THEY'RE LOOKING FOR.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

No lies detected. These people screwed the country. All of us are suffering for their stupidity.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

The Secretary of State’s voter purge in Louisiana is way worse than anyone imagined because they have already purged over 500,000 voters & put them on the inactive list so the deadline is April 15th therefore you need to go get it fixed before then at your Parish in person only.

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

I hope this statement is the end of Rubio in Europe:
1. Trump has insisted on annexing Canada & Greenland, which are part of NATO. That aggression is impermissible.
2. The main threat to European security is Russia's aggression against Ukraine & Europe. Your National Security Strategy ignores that and claims that Europe is the main threat.
3. The US has cut off all assistance to Ukraine.
4. The US has voted with Russia & a dozen of its rouge states in the UN claiming that Russia did not pursue a war of aggression against Ukraine.
5. NATO Article 5 has only been invoked once, but the US in 2001 after 9/11 & the whole of NATO stood up for the US.
6. Trump has repeatedly insulted the allies that lost about 1,000 soldiers for the US in Afghanistan.
7. Trump has all along claimed that NATO allies do not pay their share of NATO costs, which is untrue. They are now spending more on their own defense because nobody trusts the US under Trump.
8. Trump incessantly insults NATO allies for no reason. If you don't know how to behave, you deserve no sympathy or support.
9. The US started a mad war of aggression on Iran without consulting any allies but Israel. Immediately afterwards Trump started insulting allies as usual.
10. Trump's war on Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz & is causing a global economic crisis, which is entirely due to the stupidity and power of Trump, but you are defending this atrocity.
If you don't know how to think or behave, shut up!

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Applebaum's piece is worth reading slowly because the specific details are doing work that the summary can't.

Danish military commanders - inside a NATO alliance the United States founded - had to sit in a room and war-game whether their forces would shoot down American planes and kill American soldiers. Some of them still haven't fully recovered from running that exercise. The most popular app in Denmark during Applebaum's visit was one that identifies American products so users know not to buy them.

NATO has invoked Article 5 exactly once in its history. On behalf of the United States. After September 11th. Allied troops went to Afghanistan and some of them died there. Trump told reporters those allies "stayed a little back, a little off the front lines." The families of soldiers who didn't come back heard that.

Now Trump is in the middle of a war in the Persian Gulf with the Strait of Hormuz locked, oil prices spiking, and he's telling NATO allies - the same ones he insulted and tariffed and threatened - that he's "demanding" they come help solve a problem his own decisions helped create.

Applebaum's conclusion is precise: he doesn't connect what he does on one day to what happens weeks later. Allied leaders have drawn their conclusions. The rupture, as Mark Carney called it, isn't coming. It already happened.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

TRUMP STARTED A DAMN WAR WITH IRAN SO HIS KIDS, ERIC AND DON JR, COULD GET RICH SELLING DRONES IN THE MIDDLE EAST!!!

On top of that, he wants $1.5 trillion MORE taxpayer funds for his war, but nothing for American families.

Y'all were mad about Hunter Biden selling a painting.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Tick-tock motherfuckers. 😳👇

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Trump’s kids buy into drone companies

Trump cancels existing drone contracts

Trump’s kids’ companies get military contracts

Trump starts wars

Trump’s kids’ try to sell their drones to the countries being attacked because of Trump’s wars

👉🏻 This is what corruption looks like.

[Jim Saintsing @jsaintsing]

Because @realDonaldTrump is Putin’s servant.

[Johanna Nyman @JohannaNyman5]

“If we consider that President Donald Trump is not a very patient person, then for some reason his patience with the Russians does not seem to run out.”

– Kaja Kallas, EU's chief diplomat

[Johanna Nyman @JohannaNyman5]

“If we consider that President Donald Trump is not a very patient person, then for some reason his patience with the Russians does not seem to run out.”

– Kaja Kallas, EU's chief diplomat