Pete

[Chris D. Jackson @ChrisDJackson]

My Lord.

@JoeBiden, 83 years old, battling Stage 4 cancer that has spread to his bones, stood for HOURS alongside @DrBiden as the names of 9/11 victims were read.

Donald Trump fell asleep at the 9/11 event at the Pentagon.

One showed respect despite his pain. The other couldn't even stay awake.

Trump is an embarrassment to the nation and the office he holds.

Really says it all.

[Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada]

If you believe Trump is actually going to send you a $5,000 dividend check, just like you believed he’d send you a $5,000 DOGE check and a $2,000 tariff check, then I’ve got some bad news for you:

You’re a fucking idiot.

[Pete @pullpete2]

@beerandopinions @ZelenskyyUa @MarkJCarney So what does that make putin?

[Pete @pullpete2]

@1tonyg @ZelenskyyUa @MarkJCarney 28 actually. This response actually epitomisise the MAGA moron mentality... all you care about is attention and vanity. Perfect for Trump's cult. 👌
🤡💩

[Pete @pullpete2]

"this whole war is a blunder of epic proportions". Nail on the head!

[(((Tendar))) @Tendar]

The amount of Patriot interceptor missiles the US are using to counter Iranian attacks is mind-boggling. Between 60 and 100 missiles, possibly even more, fired in a matter of minutes, the majority being PAC-3 MSE interceptors.

It is obvious that Iran is deliberately exhausting US stockpiles using rather cheap missiles. The political backlash in the US is already huge, and any further uncoordinated escalation is primarily hurting the US and the West altogether.

The Iranian regime has also nothing seriously to fear from the Trump administration, because of the wasted time in the beginning of the year. Only a full-scale invasion would change their calculus, but of course, there is virtually a zero chance that this is going to happen. Hence, they are feeling emboldened.

The White House is even not capable to grasp or admit that Tehran is clearly coordinating with Russia. The coordination is certainly going beyond providing target coordinates of US troops. Not to mention the surging oil price which helps them both.

The only good news is that Ukraine is depleting Russia, and by extension Iran. But Washington is clearly squandering that momentum.

Without any serious grand strategy by the US administration, which would also consider the inclusion of allies and partners, this whole war is a blunder of epic proportions. It is only the latest example how important a clear strategy, solid alliances and trust are.

[Pete @pullpete2]

@1tonyg @ZelenskyyUa @MarkJCarney Tony just got owned! MAGA MORON! 🤣🤣🤣

[Pete @pullpete2]

@ZelenskyyUa @MarkJCarney Ouch! That'll hurt Trump's ego, big time. Bravo! 👏

[Game of Frowns @GameOfFrowns]

@WarMonitor3 Sounds like Trump wants to get him some more Russian cock.

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

What a morally bankrupt administration. Trump’s Secretary Bessent blames Ukraine for high gas prices: “We are going through an energy shock right now due to the war in Ukraine… Ukraine has decided that they want to blow up Russian energy assets and refined products, so that is creating upward price pressure on a global basis.”

What kind of person would put a blame on a victim who is fighting for its survival and not a single word against the aggressor?

I still cannot believe people voted for this administration of complete moral bankruptcy.

[Pete @pullpete2]

@McNippie @RealJakeBroe russia been doing it for 4.5 years...it's called reciprocal retaliation. Moron

[Pete @pullpete2]

@JackSavageSr @WarMonitor3 Or the taliban 🤣🤣🤣

[Dr. Alice Frost @PoliSciChick84]

I really am sick of the argument that our allies have been freeloading. Those arguments are fundamentally flawed and, frankly, not very intelligent.

1. Our allies provide forward bases, ports, airspace access, logistics hubs, intelligence, prepositioning, and other infrastructure that dramatically extend the global reach of the U.S. military. U.S. Transportation Command itself describes allies and partners as essential to America's ability to move forces and supplies around the world. Without that network, American power projection would be substantially more difficult and expensive.

2. Our allies came to our defense after 9/11. NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in its history, and allied troops fought alongside Americans in Afghanistan for nearly twenty years. Some allies paid a very substantial price. Denmark, for example, lost 44 soldiers, giving it a military fatality rate per capita roughly comparable to, and slightly higher by some measures than, that of the United States.

3. Our allies buy enormous quantities of American weapons, technology, and military equipment. Those purchases support the U.S. defense-industrial base, sustain production lines, and create economies of scale. Foreign Military Sales orders can be combined with Pentagon procurement specifically to reduce the unit cost of equipment purchased by the U.S. military.

4. Allied countries also contribute industrial capacity, components, munitions, technology, and joint production to increasingly integrated defense supply chains. Companies such as Rheinmetall and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries are part of a much broader allied industrial ecosystem; MHI, for example, produces Patriot systems and has participated in U.S.-Japanese missile production and component programs.

5. Most importantly, our allies are force multipliers. A major war with China would become vastly more difficult without Japanese bases, Australian and other regional access, allied logistics, intelligence, naval and air forces, and industrial capacity. Even the Trump administration's 2026 National Defense Strategy says that allied and partner contributions in the Indo-Pacific will be “vital” to deterring and balancing China.

Alliances have costs. So does having the world's most capable global military network. Calling allies “freeloaders” while ignoring what the United States receives in return is poor strategic accounting and, ultimately, dumb.

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

🇺🇸🇺🇸🧐🤔“AND YOU STILL DARE TO OPEN YOUR MOUTH…”

Sasha Legerman: This is too accurate not to share.

This Australian’s response to Trump’s rant that “NATO does nothing for America” is absolutely devastating:

“Mate. You run a country where 600,000 homeless people will sleep on the streets 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 ration it just to stay alive.

A country where medical debt is the number one cause of bankruptcy.

A country where women die in hospital parking lots because doctors are too afraid of abortion laws to treat miscarriages.

You imprison more of your own citizens than any country on Earth.
More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea.

In the land of the free, 2 million people sit in cages, and a quarter of them haven’t even been convicted of anything.
They’re simply too poor to afford bail.

Your life expectancy is declining. You’re the only developed nation where that’s happening.

Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba’s.

Your children practice active shooter drills between math and English classes while you sell defense stocks to your friends.

Your minimum wage hasn’t changed in 15 years.

Your teachers work two jobs, your veterans sleep under bridges, and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that never attacked you.

And now a convicted criminal — found liable for sexual abuse, defending a pedophile, sleeping with a porn star, and running the biggest dumpster-fire campaign since the Taliban — is thanking you for yet another disaster.

And you call Greenland badly governed?

Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world.
Nobody there goes bankrupt because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because insurance refused treatment.

‘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 twenty years.

And then you left at 2 a.m. without telling anyone and left everybody else to clean up the mess.

You don’t care that a great nation is being terrorized by your friend, and you haven’t shown it a single ounce of sympathy.

So maybe before calling other countries badly governed, take a look at your own backyard, you aluminum siding salesman with a spray tan.

The only thing badly managed in this picture is your damn mouth.

And you still dare to lecture the rest of the world?”

[Pete @pullpete2]

@korky122 @danielpriest66 Ignorant bunch of peoples those yanks

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Trump on Joe Biden's cancer diagnosis: "If you feel sorry for him, don't feel so sorry, because he's vicious. I really don't feel sorry for him."

Let that sink in. A sitting president is asked about an old man with cancer, and his answer is to tell people not to feel sorry for him.

For us in Europe it is almost impossible to grasp that a country can turn this cold, this depraved. Not disagreeing with, but completely stripped of the simplest form of human decency. To deny a sick man even a single moment of compassion, just because he is a political opponent, is not tough or honest. It is just petty and vile.

And the worst part is not that one sentence. The worst part is that this has become the norm. Think of the children growing up over there right now, learning that this is how a leader speaks, that contempt is strength and that cruelty is something to applaud. That is how a culture rots from the inside, bit by bit, until it becomes normal.

This is not the American people. There are millions over there who are as ashamed as we are, who still have their decency intact. But they have a president who drags the whole nation through the mud, and the world is watching.

It should be beneath any human being to say something like that. That it comes from the man at the top only makes it more disturbing.
Stay connected,
Follow Gandalv @Microinteracti1

[Pete @pullpete2]

@Feargal_Sharkey I cant use my hose to clean my car right now, so today, I paid someone to come and use my hose to clean my car 👍

[Pete @pullpete2]

@HeinAye @TiffanyReesMoog @sentdefender Not defending Trump here, but... You can leak false information 😂😂😂

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

The US war on Iran is presumably the most stupid war in US history:
1. Trump started it for no good reason, whether to detract from the Epstein files or because he was carried away by Netanyahu. It was a lose-lose war & remains so.
2. Apart from wishful thinking that the Iranian regime would collapse, Trump had no strategy. When the regime did not collapse, Trump had lost.
3. The US has effectively given Iran control of the Strait of Hormus.
4. The US has facilitated Iran's acquisition of nuclear arms out of sheer stupidity.
5. With incredible thoughtlessness, the US has wasted on minor targets its most expensive & important missiles, Tomahawks and Patriots, which cannot be replaced for years.
6. Through its attack on Iran, then US has exposed its Gulf allies & its own bases in the region with little defense.
7. Through his outrageous & unjustified attacks on European allies, Trump has weakened whatever remains of the Western alliance.
Is there any greater enemy of the Western alliance than Trump?

[Pete @pullpete2]

@Cristin37107433 @LauraLoomer He is adhering to the constitution, not changing, you dumb POS

[Masu Zafi 🔥🔥 @masuzafi]

🚨 Rep. Sarah Jacobs just left Pete Hegseth STUNNED in this hearing.
With 2,500 Marines from her district off the coast of Iran and military families calling her office in panic, she asked the question no one else would : “Do you believe the president is mentally stable enough to be Commander-in-Chief?”
Hegseth deflected hard. She didn’t flinch.
Then she dropped this : “If you think this is what winning looks like… maybe we should be questioning your mental stability.”

Pure accountability.
No notes.
It takes a woman to say what needs to be said when lives and billions of dollars are on the line.
This clip is everything.