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[UAVoyager🇺🇦 @CrimeanVoyager]

Trump: “russia, frankly, has treated Ukraine pretty well. They haven’t really done much.”

What an absolute piece of shit.

[Vatnik Soup @vatniksoup]

In just 10 days, the Trump administration has:

- Struck a deal to buy Russian diesel and eased sanctions.
- Suspended the bipartisan Graham-Blumenthal Russia sanctions law, just weeks after signing it.
- Restricted Ukraine's access to Starshield satellite services.
- Suspended intelligence warnings about Russian missile launches targeting Ukraine for several days.
- Threatened to cut intelligence sharing unless Ukraine stopped striking Russian oil infrastructure.
- Pressured Ukraine to remove Zelenskyy from power.
- Downplayed Russia's and China's assistance to Iran in its war against the US, dismissing it as "very little."
- Proposed unfreezing Russian sovereign assets and placing some under US control.
- Pursued lucrative US-Russia business deals, including cooperation on data centres.
- Proposed that Europe resume buying Russian gas as part of a Ukraine peace deal

If Trump were actually a Russian agent, what exactly would he be doing differently?

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: BRAVO! Volodymyr Zelenskyy is directly asked if he thinks that Trump is using him as a "scapegoat" for his failed presidency — and the Ukrainian President's response is PERFECT.

This man is truly a gift to his people...

"It's a pretty difficult midterm elections. His personal popularity is very low, diesel prices in the U.S. are very high, and the war that he started in the Middle East is not going the way he wants it. Do you think you are being treated as a scapegoat for his own problems?" a reporter asked Zelenskyy at a European Council summit in Brussels.

Take a moment to consider how you would respond were you in Zelenskyy's shoes.

Trump has been relentlessly smearing you.

He just cut a "deal" with Putin to flood the global markets with Russian diesel, pumping money into a war machine that is slaughtering innocent Ukrainian men, women, and children.

Then, the Starlink service that you use to prevent Russian drones from striking civilian targets inside your country has its service interrupted, seemingly by the White House.

Although he must have been raging inside, Zelenskyy listened carefully to the reporter's question. He then paused for over ten seconds, letting his silence stretch and fill with dramatic meaning.

He then cracked a knowing smirk and the room erupted into laughter. He paused, leaned forward, still smiling and said: "This is my answer."

"Thank you so much," the reporter said as the room continued to laugh.

This is the perfect way to thread the needle. Zelenskyy managed to agree with the assessment that Trump is scapegoating him for his problems without having to say it out loud. He's not afraid to embarrass this disgrace of a President, but at the same time his ultimate responsibility is to the wellbeing of the Ukrainian people. He doesn't want to alienate Trump so badly that there's no hope for a reconciliation and a full resumption of American military support.

This is how it's done.

Please ❤️ and share if you think that Zelenskyy is a hero!

[Ostap Yarysh @OstapYarysh]

A must-watch exchange between Brian @kilmeade and Rachel Campos-Duffy on FOX & Friends about Ukraine and Trump’s Russian diesel deal. Here’s the full transcript:

CAMPOS-DUFFY: I know you're a big fan of Zelensky, but yesterday President Trump said maybe it's time for an election and a new leader in Ukraine because Zelensky keeps blowing up these refineries after the president said, "Please don't do that," especially before the midterms. He keeps doing it, and it's hurting President Trump and the administration, who's been very generous toward him and his war effort.

KILMEADE: The president got ticked off because Zelensky came out and said, "Do not buy 5 million tons of diesel," which is in violation, I thought, of the bill they just signed, Lindsey Graham's bill, that says if you buy any energy from Russia, you're going to get sanctioned with tariffs. Are we going to tariff ourselves? So I have no idea. Zelensky's frustrated because now all this money is going to flow into Russia, which started this whole war unprovoked. They are the bad guys, and there is no way Zelensky turned down any plausible deal. In fact, since that time, when they told him he was going to lose the Donbas, he has gained back portions of the Donbas.

CAMPOS-DUFFY: Are you saying that there were no peace efforts?

KILMEADE: There was no plausible, practical peace effort that Vladimir Putin would participate in effectively that would end this war. There's one person who is responsible: Vladimir Putin. That is it. And he gets his ass kicked.

CAMPOS-DUFFY: There was a peace deal that—I think Turkey was trying to broker it, and Boris Johnson advised Zelensky not to take that deal.

KILMEADE: It doesn't matter. I don't know what Boris Johnson's doing now. Is he in a retirement home?

CAMPOS-DUFFY: I think there's a reason why the president is buying diesel from Russia, and that's because Zelensky keeps blowing up the refineries.

KILMEADE: Can you blame him? That's the war machine that's killing his people, that bombs apartment buildings.

CAMPOS-DUFFY: But he's dependent on us, and the president said, "Don't do this." Are you for America or for Ukraine?

KILMEADE: The diesel fuel got stopped because Iran was blowing up the Gulf states' oil and their refineries, and now all of a sudden there's a new emphasis on Russia. But for me, the way Ukraine innovated drone technology in order to take out what's fueling the Russian war machine is phenomenal. They'll be writing about this in war journals forever. The Ukrainians have modernized modern war before our very eyes.

CAMPOS-DUFFY: I'm not so sure that's a positive, Brian. I mean, there are 30,000 young men on each side who are dying every single month.

KILMEADE: Vladimir Putin.

CAMPOS-DUFFY: Every single month. We should not be practicing drone technology and using these kids as guinea pigs.

KILMEADE: What kids?

CAMPOS-DUFFY: The soldiers. These are young men…

KILMEADE: Rachel, these are in response to attacks. They're getting rocketed, so they found a way…

CAMPOS-DUFFY: The president said he wanted peace in Ukraine, and he said he was going to do that.

KILMEADE: Tell Vladimir Putin.

CAMPOS-DUFFY: Well, now, because of what Zelensky is doing, we're probably going to get peace there because President Trump is now working with Russia, because Zelensky is so arrogant.

KILMEADE: It would be the biggest mistake of his administration to work with Russia. That is the modern Hitler of our generation. He is the cause of all the problems in the region, and now he's helping Iran kill our guys and blow up our bases. And now, yeah, the story you pointed out to me today in The Wall Street Journal—you see that they and China are providing drones to the Houthis. China and Russia are the problem.

[MAKS 26 🇺🇦👀 @Maks_NAFO_FELLA]

🇺🇦🇪🇺 The Ukrainian and European delegations sat like fools at the meeting with the 🇺🇸US representatives: everyone was shocked as hell by the decisions, a Ukrainian official told the Kyiv Independent.

[Mike Pence @Mike_Pence]

President Trump’s decision to lift sanctions on Russian fuel amidst Putin’s ongoing and brutal attacks on civilian targets in Ukraine makes no sense and is a betrayal of the legacy and leadership of the late Senator Lindsey Graham.

While Ukraine fights for its survival, Putin’s war machine continues to prosecute his terrorist war on civilian populations and innocent Ukrainians are dying every day.

Now, Instead of implementing the tough sanctions Lindsey Graham fought to his last breath to enact, President Trump has announced the United States is lifting sanctions on Russian energy, fueling the Putin’s war machine.

As I saw firsthand in Ukraine last month, Putin is losing this war. Ukraine has fought the Russian military to a standstill and reinvented warfare with drones taking the fight into the heart of Russia.

America should not be throwing a lifeline to Putin’s war machine. Now is the time to stand strong against Russian aggression as we did during the first Trump administration.

Putin doesn’t want peace. Putin wants Ukraine. I have no doubt that if Putin overruns Ukraine, it will only be a matter of time until Russia’s military crosses a border that our troops will have to deal with him.

America is the Leader of the Free World. For our National Security, for the security of our Allies in Europe including Ukraine, President Trump should rescind this deal immediately and return to the strong policies of our four years in the White House; impose harsh sanctions on any nation purchasing Russian energy and work with our allies to ensure Ukraine has the military support it needs to repel and defeat this Russian invasion once and for all. Slava Ukraini🇺🇸🇺🇦

[Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 @mtgreenee]

Artificial Intelligence.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Claude Malhuret Was Right about Trump.

On Friday, at Trump's direction, the US Treasury issued a license waving Russian diesel back onto the world market, days after Russia killed dozens of Ukrainians, many of them children. It seems a good moment to revisit the speech in which a French senator told us exactly who these people were.

Claude Malhuret took the floor of the Luxembourg Palace and delivered what may be the most surgical dismantling of the Trump administration ever spoken in a legislative chamber. There were no diplomatic niceties, only a point-by-point indictment from an ally who had clearly had enough.

"A year ago, here in France, I compared Trump's presidency to Nero's Court. I was wrong. It's the Court of Miracles. An anti-vaxxer, former heroin addict as Minister of Health," he began, meaning RFK Jr.

Then came the rest of the cabinet: "A climate-skeptic Minister of Economy. An alcoholic TV host, Minister of the Armed Forces. An old Qatar agent, Minister of Justice. A groupie of Putin, Minister of National Security." That would be Scott Bessent, Pete Hegseth, Pam Bondi and Tulsi Gabbard.

"A Turkish proverb says: when a clown settles in a palace, he does not become king, it is the palace that becomes a circus."

The circus has been busy. Trump came off a phone call with Putin and announced on Truth Social that Russia would send millions of tons of diesel to the world market, promising in capital letters that prices "will be COMING DOWN, IN RECORD NUMBERS, AND FAST!"

Bessent's Treasury promptly made it legal, barely a month after Trump signed a sweeping Russia sanctions law, as NPR points out.

The motive is not hard to find. Diesel prices in America have doubled since the war with Iran began in February and the midterms are weeks away, so the man who set the fuel market on fire is now buying the extinguisher from Vladimir Putin and sending the bill to Ukraine.

According to Axios, Kyiv was blindsided while Witkoff and Kushner were sitting with Ukrainian officials to discuss ending the war, and an analyst told the outlet the volumes are too small to fix the shortage anyway.

So Putin gets revenue and respectability, Americans may or may not get cheaper diesel, and Ukrainians get more missiles. Zelensky called it weakness from partners who are supposed to be strong, which is the polite version. Malhuret gave us the impolite one long ago, and he has been proved right down to the last clown.

Watch the speech and share it loudly.

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[Kateri Seraphina @KateriSeraphina]

Lorsqu'on a demandé à Tchekhov quelle était la nature des sociétés défaillantes, il a répondu :
"Dans les sociétés défaillantes, il y a mille sots pour chaque esprit éclairé, et mille paroles grossières pour chaque mot conscient. La majorité reste toujours ignorante, et l'homme raisonnable est constamment vaincu. Si vous voyez des sujets futiles dominer les discussions dans une société, et les sots occuper le devant de la scène, alors vous êtes en présence d'une société très défaillante.
Par exemple, les chansons et les paroles vides de sens trouvent des millions de gens pour danser et les répéter, et le chanteur devient célèbre, connu et aimé. Au point que les gens prennent son avis sur les questions de la société et de la vie.
Quant aux écrivains et aux auteurs, personne ne les connaît et personne ne leur accorde de valeur ou de poids. La plupart des gens aiment la futilité et l'anesthésie. Quelqu'un qui nous anesthésie pour nous éloigner de nos pensées, et quelqu'un qui nous fait rire avec des futilités, est meilleur que quelqu'un qui nous réveille à la réalité et nous fait mal en disant la vérité. C'est pourquoi la démocratie ne convient pas aux sociétés ignorantes, car c'est la majorité ignorante qui décidera de votre destin." Le monde littéraire.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨HOLY SHIT EVERY WORD OF THIS!

DeNiro: “When that coward, that fucking piece of shit Donald Trump tries to take our voice and power away. What do we tell him? Your fucking hands off our vote.��

DeNiro is a national treasure!

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Dan Driscoll, former US Army Secretary: Ukraine's budget was small relative to ours, and despite that, they had better weapons of war. It was a wake-up call.

In some ways, it was humiliating seeing how quickly a nation could change when it needed to — Rolling Stone. 1/

[BULL @mccutcheon95598]

@macropaperr Don't forget France! That's going to be the one to break.

[BULL @mccutcheon95598]

@BruceBrad6345 @TeamTalaricoHQ @jamestalarico Not the same at all. Marijuana is safer than alcohol. Proven time and time again that it is better to regulate and tax it which allows the government to make income than ban it and drive everyone to the black market and prison eschewing revenue and a drain on the economy.

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

.@JamesTalarico on Texas officially banning THC:

“This bill is insane.

Texans aren’t going to stop smoking weed and eating edibles because politicians in Austin say so. Texans will still use THC — but instead of getting it safely from a local small business, they’ll go back to getting it from the black market. From the drug cartels.

This ban is a gift to the cartels.

We are now telling full-grown adults how to live their lives. This is the nanny state at its worst; this is big government at its worst.

Instead of fully funding our schools, guaranteeing healthcare, or making childcare more affordable — this Legislature is focused on banning a product that gives people a little peace.

We’re making people’s lives harder, not easier.

I want to leave you with a quote: ‘It is time to end needless arrests and incarcerations of adults for small amounts of marijuana for personal use.’ That wasn’t a Democrat. That was President Donald Trump.

To my Republican colleagues, I’m asking you to oppose the cartels, stand with President Trump, and vote no on this insane bill.”

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

A lot of what Trump has done can be undone the minute he’s gone. THIS, however, cannot: the fact that all of America's allies now know that in any four year period, a single man can rip up all treaties, social norms, and economic partnerships.

America is no longer a country they can trust.

America is no longer a country with which long-term deals can be made.

America is no longer a country that prioritizes peace.

Most countries will likely grow their military as a result.

Most countries will likely make deals with other countries as a result.

This damage will likely take more than a generation to START to be undone, if ever.

And THAT will be MAGA’s legacy.

[Nathan Cross @NathanCrossNC]

RAY DALIO JUST SAID THE QUIET PART OUT LOUD.

"IF YOU DEVALUE THE MONEY, IT MAKES EVERYTHING APPEAR TO BE GOING UP."

THE STOCK MARKET BOOM IS A LIE…

WHAT WE'RE REALLY WITNESSING IS THE DEATH OF THE DOLLAR, NOT THE GROWTH OF THE ECONOMY.

99% OF PEOPLE HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA.

[Evan @daviddunn177]

Just when I thought Jack Smith couldn’t be any cooler, he puts on a t-shirt, grabs a beer and goes to a concert.

[Jon Brooks @jonbrooks]

Mortgage demand has crashed.
It's only going to get worse from here folks.

I keep talking to big real estate investor friends and they keep saying "it's already over"... but we are really in the early innings..

This is end of a cycle an we are transitioning into a new one.

The sooner you look at the big picture, the better.

[Stern Drew @SternDrewCrypto]

🚨 Trump Just Admitted the Plan: Inflate Away $40 Trillion and Effectively Wipe Out The Fiat System

Trump just said “certain levels of inflation” could pay down the U.S. national debt “very rapidly.”

Their plan is simple: print a ton of dollars, buy real assets, let prices explode, and make the $40 trillion debt feel tiny.

The government owes a fixed amount of dollars. If those dollars become worth less, the debt shrinks in real life even if the number on the screen stays the same.

It’s like owing someone 100 apples when apples suddenly cost twice as much, you still owe 100, but each one is easier to hand over because money is weaker.

How it works:

1. Print or create more dollars to cover big spending and interest.

2. People and the government rush to buy real assets that outperforms the Fiat debasement(betting mainly on AI, robotics and crypto economy).

3. Everyday prices rise fast.

4. The old debt becomes much cheaper to repay with the new, weaker dollars.

Who wins: anyone who already owns hard assets.
Who loses: people holding cash or living on fixed paychecks, their savings buy less every month.

Judy Shelton just joined the U.S. Treasury as Counselor to the Secretary and she wants gold-linked bonds that work like a modern gold standard.

Scott Bessent also called for a Bretton Woods2.0 within the next 4 years.

The debt doesn’t magically vanish. It just gets paid back with dollars that don’t stretch as far. That’s the whole idea.

This was exactly warned by the famous City Of London banker @LordBelgrave at the start of the year.

Washington will have no choice but to debase the U.S. dollar to get out of its debt trap. So, the jester is indeed Donald Trump.

[CF @fergalpha]

Ray Dalio just said the quiet part out loud.

"If you devalue the money, it makes everything appear to be going up."

The stock market boom is a lie…

What we're really witnessing is the death of the Dollar, not the growth of the economy.

99% of people have absolutely no idea.