Øyvind Ebbestad

Husband, father, engineer, ex navy.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Trump losing credibility with the democratic world in
a way that will damage the US for decades

Extraordinary that an American President should prefer dictators

[RobertFella 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @Bonkavision5]

Too on point not to share. This is great, but too bad the Orange Felon’s enablers won’t let him see it.
This Australian's reply to #Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."
- Tony Locke

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

The United States has spent EIGHT TRILLION DOLLARS fighting and policing in the Middle East. Thousands of our Great Soldiers have died or been badly wounded. Millions of people have died on the other side. GOING INTO THE MIDDLE EAST IS THE WORST DECISION EVER MADE.....

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

Let me walk you through what happened one hour before Trump announced the five day moratorium on Iran strikes.

$1.5 billion in notional S&P E-mini futures contracts. Four to six times normal activity.

One hour before the announcement.

Simultaneously, $192 million in crude oil futures purchased at the same time.

They made between $300 and $400 million dollars off those trades.

Trump claimed he spoke to an Iranian official to negotiate the moratorium.

The Iranians said that person doesn't exist and the conversation never happened.

This is not the first time.

It has happened multiple times. He says something. The trade goes on. He says another thing. The market moves.

But whatever you call it — they are laughing at you and they are laughing at me while they do it.

Hunter Biden sold a painting and Washington lost its mind.

These people are making hundreds upon hundreds of millions of dollars trading on information that only exists inside the most powerful office in the world.

I think we are dramatically underreporting how much money is actually being made here.

This isn't politics anymore.

This is a financial operation running out of the White House.

[Øyvind Ebbestad @oebbestad]

@Angelina738738 @Microinteracti1 @DrEliDavid Trump entering the chat

[Øyvind Ebbestad @oebbestad]

@EricTrump This comment proves you are a classless piece of sh*t

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

In the record book of most asinine, embarrassing things any President ever told a fellow Head of State, trump's Pearl Harbor dig at Japan's Prime Minister is the most cringe.

And he wonders why nobody is rushing to help. Disgraceful.

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

Retired 4-Star Navy Admiral and former Navy SEAL William McRaven on Donald Trump: "Through your actions, you have embarrassed us in the eyes of our children, humiliated us on the world stage and, worst of all, divided us as a nation."

RETWEET if you stand with Admiral McRaven!

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

OK, MAGA.

Russia is giving Iran intelligence to help target American forces.

Ukraine is offering to help defend American troops from Iranian drones.

So tell me again: which one is the “enemy,” and which one is the ally?

[Bricktop_NAFO @Bricktop_NAFO]

“We're awaiting the U.S. response to Russia's strikes. It was America that proposed pausing energy infrastructure attacks during diplomacy and the cold winter. This request came directly from the U.S. President. We see Russia answered this request with a record number of missile strikes. Less than four days passed of the week Russia was asked to pause. This speaks volumes about any promises Russia makes or might make. If they break their word now, what can we expect later? They lied before this war began. Russia launched this full-scale war while deceiving everyone about their intentions toward Ukraine. And now, even in these specific agreements with America, we see Russian deception again. Moscow is desperate and trying to use the cold because they can't defeat Ukraine militarily”

- President Zelensky

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Witkoff makes me sick with his "lots of good things happening" between russia and Ukraine

What good things? Russia bombing a passenger train, blowing people to pieces, burning them alive, and forcing mothers with newborns to jump out of the train in terror for their lives? Or the humanitarian disaster Russia caused in Kyiv, where people freeze to death in their homes—especially the elderly, too weak and cold to seek help, with no phones to call anyone after days without power? Or maybe when Russia murders, with drones, a married couple simply walking away from the frontline? These are good things? This all happened this week, so WHAT GOOD THINGS, YOU MORONIC JERK?

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

If Russian warships are sailing freely around Greenland, Ukraine can help – we have the expertise and weapons to ensure not one of those ships remains.

They can sink near Greenland just as they do near Crimea. No problem – we have the tools and people.

If we were asked, and if Ukraine were in NATO – but we are not – we would solve this problem with the Russian ships.

[Øyvind Ebbestad @oebbestad]

@Acyn Who is that sleezy, screaming, utterly stupid man?

[Øyvind Ebbestad @oebbestad]

@RpsAgainstTrump I think Herr Flick forgot his glasses

[Statsministeriet @Statsmin]

Joint Statement on Greenland
https://t.co/ORMWHpKEJt

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

Bruce Springsteen on Trump: “I couldn't care less what he thinks about me. He's the living personification of what the 25th Amendment and impeachment were for. If Congress had any guts, he'd be consigned to the trash heap of history."

RETWEET if you stand with @Springsteen!

[Senator Mark Kelly @SenMarkKelly]

Over twenty-five years in the U.S. Navy, thirty-nine combat missions, and four missions to space, I risked my life for this country and to defend our Constitution – including the First Amendment rights of every American to speak out. I never expected that the President of the United States and the Secretary of Defense would attack me for doing exactly that.

My rank and retirement are things that I earned through my service and sacrifice for this country. I got shot at. I missed holidays and birthdays. I commanded a space shuttle mission while my wife Gabby recovered from a gunshot wound to the head– all while proudly wearing the American flag on my shoulder. Generations of servicemembers have made these same patriotic sacrifices for this country, earning the respect, appreciation, and rank they deserve.

Pete Hegseth wants to send the message to every single retired servicemember that if they say something he or Donald Trump doesn’t like, they will come after them the same way. It’s outrageous and it is wrong. There is nothing more un-American than that.

If Pete Hegseth, the most unqualified Secretary of Defense in our country’s history, thinks he can intimidate me with a censure or threats to demote me or prosecute me, he still doesn’t get it. I will fight this with everything I’ve got — not for myself, but to send a message back that Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump don’t get to decide what Americans in this country get to say about their government.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Drone view of the consequences of a Russian missile attack on an apartment building in Kharkiv today‼️

Bastards. Murderers.

[Richard Branson @richardbranson]

This is not a peace plan for Ukraine

https://t.co/GQUWZBUPgp

[Øyvind Ebbestad @oebbestad]

WTF🤯

[BigBlueWaveUSA2026® 🇺🇸🌊🇺🇦 @BigBlueWaveUSA]

Crawford County, red state Arkansas. THIS is yet another reason Colin Kaepernick was right to kneel from Day One.
All three cops are serving over five years in prison. The victim was acquitted.
ICE is doing this now AND kidnapping innocent Americans.