madrediterra

Leftie, political junkie, diehard Mets fan.

[madrediterra @madrediterra1]

I’ve caught a nasty virus & must delete this account. >10,000 blocked accts, + muted accts. Losing followers daily...less content to read.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 BOMBSHELL! Tucker Carlson confirms Donald Trump personally shut down the investigation into his own assassination attempt. He reveals Dan Bongino was completely terrified when confronted with hidden FBI evidence.

The White House is covering up the Butler shooting!

[David Moore @ppolitics]

In a federal case in Oregon, ICE officers admitted under oath they have daily arrest quotas and use Palantir's app ELITE for mass targeting.

(January reporting by 404 Media, linked here, describes the app in more detail.)

https://t.co/waLETiPHqe

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Trump’s Pentagon is recruiting Wall Street investment bankers by promising access to government officials and wealthy foreign royal families.

They are making corruption a job perk.

This is the most corrupt administration ever, and it’s not even close.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

“There is no superior race.”

“There is no chosen people of God.”

“It is neither the United States nor Israel.”

“The chosen people of God is all of humanity.”

President of Colombia - Gustavo Petro

[Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari @RepYassAnsari]

🚨Major new developments in our Epstein investigation.

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

Trump voter realizes "no tax on Social Security" was a lie

[Ford Fischer @FordFischer]

Right now: Pro-gun activists hand out free 30-round AR-15 magazines outside the Virginia State Capitol ahead of the likely signature of a bill that would ban the sale of these magazines in the state.

[Semitic Jew @semitic_jew]

Young white males are disproportionately represented in acts of mass shootings & domestic terrorism.

They comprise 7% to 9% of the total U.S. population yet they account for 52% of all mass shootings in America.

Notably, this demographic is often not perceived as violent or dangerous to society, whereas young black males have been inaccurately portrayed as the embodiment of violence and subjected to racist sterotypes & excessive policing.

#america #thinkforyourself #violenceprevention #Terrorism

[Fernando Oliver, Esq. @Fernand46357857]

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO THE AMERICA I KNEW WHEN GROWING UP? WE SET THE MORAL STANDARDS FOR THE WORLD. UNDER DONALD TRUMP, WE SET THE STANDARDS FOR CORRUPTION AND PERVERSION

[madrediterra @madrediterra1]

@RichardAngwin #SendICEtotheGulf

[Richard Angwin @RichardAngwin]

excellent idea

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

President Trump says the US in conjunction with "many countries" is sending war ships to the Strait of Hormuz to keep it "open and safe."
Trump also calls on China, France, Japan, South Korea, the UK, and others to send war ships to Hormuz.
Oh. Oh this is beautiful. This is the geopolitical equivalent of the guy who starts a bar fight, gets his head put through the pool table, and then looks up at the bouncer with blood pouring out of his nose going "Are you gonna DO something about these guys?!"
Let me get this straight. You bombed Iran. YOU started this. You launched Operation Epic Fury like a kid naming his Nerf gun. You flattened their cities, cratered their infrastructure, killed God knows how many civilians, and now that they've done the ONE thing that every single analyst on Earth said they would do... close the Strait of Hormuz... you're asking CHINA for help?
CHINA. The country you've spent three years tariffing into oblivion. The country you called an enemy of civilisation. You want THEM to send warships to protect YOUR oil supply chain? In what universe does Xi Jinping take that phone call and not just put it on speaker so the whole room can laugh?
And here's the bit that should be printed on a plaque and hung in the Smithsonian under the heading "Weapons Grade Cognitive Dissonance Dipshit." Direct quote from the man himself:
"We have already destroyed 100% of Iran's Military capability."
Next sentence. LITERALLY the next sentence:
"But it's easy for them to send a drone or two, drop a mine, or deliver a close range missile somewhere along, or in, this Waterway."
I'M SORRY, WHAT? You destroyed ONE HUNDRED PERCENT of their military capability and they can STILL mine one of the most important shipping lanes on the planet? What kind of shit maths is that? That's not 100%, mate. That's not even close to 100%. If you hired a pest exterminator and he said "I've eliminated 100% of the termites, but they can still eat your house," you'd want your money back.
He calls the Strait closure an "artificial constraint." ARTIFICIAL. Brother, there is nothing artificial about it. You dropped bombs on a sovereign nation and they blocked a chokepoint that carries 20% of the world's oil. That's not artificial. That's called CONSEQUENCES. That's cause and effect. That's the thing that happens AFTER the thing you did. Toddlers understand this concept. You touch the stove, you get burned. You bomb Iran, they close Hormuz. This is not complicated.
And the absolute cheek of calling Iran "a Nation that has been totally decapitated" while simultaneously admitting they're holding the entire global energy market hostage with speedboats and sea mines. Pick a lane, Donald. Either they're decapitated or they're not. You don't get to claim total victory AND beg France for naval escorts in the same paragraph.
Speaking of France. And Japan. And South Korea. And the UK. Notice who's NOT on that list? Australia. Not even worth asking apparently. Which, honestly, fair enough, because we've got about four days of fuel reserves and a navy that couldn't project force to Bondi Beach, but it does sort of highlight how far down the pecking order we've fallen while our politicians were busy kissing the ring at Mar-a-Lago.
But here's the real headline buried under all the tough-guy cosplay. He's LOSING. This post is what losing looks like when you're a narcissist who can't say the word. He can't reopen the Strait alone. The US Navy, for all its power, cannot clear mines and fight asymmetric warfare across a narrow waterway while simultaneously bombing the shoreline AND keeping tanker traffic flowing. It's a logistical nightmare and he knows it. That's why he's begging. That's why a man who has never asked anyone for anything in his life is out here publicly requesting that other nations come bail him out.
And they won't. Because why would they? China's already getting its oil overland from Russia. France has no skin in this game. Japan and South Korea are furious about tariffs. And the UK is trying to figure out how to diplomatically distance itself from a war it never supported without losing its trade deal.
He's alone. He did this to himself. And the only people who'll pay the price are the rest of us, watching fuel prices rip through the roof while this spray-tanned catastrophe stands at the podium claiming everything is going exactly to plan.
One way or the other, he says. OPEN, SAFE, and FREE, he says.
Mate, the only thing that's open is the hole you've dug yourself into. And it's getting deeper by the hour.

[Royal Ambassador @JaokooMoses]

CONFIRMED: Several US military bases are experiencing internal revolt as a huge number of soldiers are refusing to go to the battlefield and die for Israel. This will have a devastating impact on pentagon and the Whitehouse. Internal revolt is the first time to be experienced.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

Another Republican bites the dust because of falsifying Military ballots! I hope she has fun in prison unless Trump pardons her! 🤬

[Growth Labs @growthhub_]

This man literally tells Neuroscience trick to stop negative thought loops.

[madrediterra @madrediterra1]

“... we are unfortunately at the whim right now of some of the least talented & least intelligent & least competent people we've ever seen.”
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[ABetterWay2A @ABetterWay2A]

People in South Burlington, VT stepping up to stop ICE from raiding a house they don't have a warrant for. We need more of this. Hats off to the community!

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

9/ All of this was totally foreseeable. Frankly, it’s why previous presidents weren’t so stupid to start a war like this.

Trump has lost control of the war. His best course now is to cut his losses and end it. That’s the only way to prevent an even bigger disaster.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

5/ If Trump paid any attention to the Ukraine War he would have noticed how warfare has changed. But he didn’t. And he blundered.

Worse, the Gulf states are running out of interceptors to stop Iranian missiles and drones - meaning that soon more oil sites will be vulnerable.