Peter Rabl

Der legitime Platz des Liberalen ist zwischen allen Stühlen. (Marion Gräfin Dönhoff)
Man muss auch mit heißem Herzen kühlen Kopf bewahren. (Peter Rabl)

[Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt]

Trump engaged in a thoughtful, extended conversation with—nothingness. He suddenly stopped, waved, saluted, offered greetings, and chatted for a bit with the empty space. 😁🤭

The cameraman deliberately zoomed out to show that there was absolutely no one to be seen for hundreds of meters in any direction.

Apparently, Trump received a visit from the very same "invisible person"—the kind of encounter he had previously mocked Joe Biden for supposedly having.

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[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

The donor list for Trump's ballroom is finally public, and it blows the lid off a huge can of worms.

There’s a LOT here, so let’s break it down:

1) Surprise, surprise...a ton of the donors conveniently got things they wanted after donating, and several of them asked to remain anonymous. Makes you wonder why.

2) Roughly HALF of the money for the ballroom came from companies or executives whose firms have had federal contracts under Trump.

3) Julio Herrera Velutini, an international banker indicted on bribery charges, was pardoned after his daughter gave $3.5 million to Trump’s PAC and pledged another $2.5 million for the ballroom. Trump pardoned him after the first check for the ballroom hit.

4) Charles Ergen, a telecoms exec whose company was being investigated by the FCC, had a closed-door meeting with Trump and the Chair of the FCC. That meeting reportedly involved talks about his political donations. The Administration dropped the investigation, and Ergen donated a total of $25 million.

5) Rocket, a housing fintech company, needed federal approval of a major acquisition. The deal raised a ton of questions from lawmakers about potential anticompetitive business practices. The Trump Administration gave the company the green light, and three weeks later, a Rocket subsidiary donated $10 million to the ballroom.

6) Salesforce committed a total of $3 million in three installments. Between those payments, the Army awarded the company a $5.6 billion contract, the largest public government contract in the company's history.

7) ServiceNow committed $5 million just one month after the federal government announced a deal to make their AI software available across federal agencies.

And this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Trump has created a system where the people who need something from his government know exactly how to get his attention.

These companies and executives are foaming at the mouth to shower him with money, because he’s made it clear that he’ll help them in exchange.

There is no honest word for that other than corruption.
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[CBS News @CBSNews]

Iran says its ties with Russia are stronger than ever after a visit by Putin's top envoy, challenging Trump's assertion that Moscow isn't helping Iran in the war. https://t.co/zTO9vFcLg1

[Andrew Weinstein @AWeinstein]

We are past the point of political disagreement. We are witnessing a catastrophic collision between unchecked narcissism and obvious neurological decay. It is the most dangerous intersection in American history: a man with the absolute power of the Presidency and the absolute cognitive failure of a person no longer tethered to reality.

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

Wow, the US truly has the most incompetent president in history.

Just listening to how clueless this man is, it’s no wonder we have been humiliated in Iran.

Trump: “The Russians had a thousand tanks riding up a concrete highway. They would have been in Ukraine in four hours, going maximum tank speed, which is 48 miles an hour, to be exact. Nothing to stop them. The war would have been over in one day. And this very stupid general - I have no idea who he is. I doubt he’s still with us. I doubt he’s still living. He decided to hang a right onto the farmland and then take a left and go up to Kyiv, rather than staying on the highway - the concrete highway, perfectly good highway - where they were doing very nicely. It would have been three and a half, four hours, and the whole war would have ended. He ended up getting stuck in the mud.”

Does he understand that Ukrainian troops destroyed all the bridges and cut off the retreat points, so the only option left was to go off the highway? I mean, if you have the IQ of a 10-year-old child, you should be able to get it.

I am honestly shocked at the basic level of ignorance. And this is the man who is in charge of the US Army.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

A man who kills civilians, every day, is a "humanitarian" ? Who kidnaps children? Who authorizes soldiers to use torture and rape?

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Steve Witkoff to Putin:

“You talk so much about President Trump being a humanitarian. You are a humanitarian also, sir, and I salute that. I commend you, and I thank you.”

Sickening!

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

These are defensive weapons that Europeans have paid for

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

Imagine if in 1943 FDR had decided that the US would stop helping Britain and instead would side with the Third Reich. That's a bit like what President Trump is now doing by cozying up to Russia as it tries to destroy Ukraine. Utterly shameful. A humiliating moment for the US.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

These are not transfers from the US, but from other countries. The US is now actively sabotaging Ukrainian defense of civilians.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

This is like a textbook definition of a collapsing narcissist.

—“Nobody appreciates me” (blame)
—“It’s very sad.” (victimhood)
—“Oh wait. I’m in the Oval Office. I’m the President.” (restorative superiority/grandiose delusions)

There’s nothing left but symptoms of this man’s brain shutting down.

“I don't even talk about myself, what they did with me. But now I look up and I say, oh, gee, I'm in the Oval Office. I say, sometimes I'll say, nobody appreciates what I've done. I've created the greatest. You know, we have $22 trillion coming in.

No, I do it. You know, we just we just did favorite nations in medicine, like as an example and all these things. And I did so much. And it's so much. And, you know, we're in the golden age of America.

We were the dark ages. But I say, oftentimes, nobody appreciates what I did. And I feel very sad. No, no, no. I took drug prices from the highest price in history to the lowest.

And the press doesn't write. No, that's OK. Don't worry. You're killing my final line here. That's OK. I never will turn down applause.

But now I say to myself, sadly, as I sit in the most magnificent office in the world, the most powerful 3,000 feet, 3,000 square feet, most powerful by hundreds and hundreds of times, I'd say nobody appreciates how great a president I am. I say it.

I say nobody appreciates that I got $21 trillion invested on our country. And the highest ever was a different country 10 years ago called China. Three trillion. And I'm 21. It's actually now 22. A little more time went by. I said nobody appreciates that I rebuilt our military, that I started Space Force, that I did all these things. Nobody appreciates that we have the best job numbers in history. Nobody appreciates that nobody ever. Nobody comes through our border anymore. It's lonely. And hundreds and hundreds of other things.

And you know, I said promises made, promises kept. And a very nice anchor last week who was inclined toward the liberal said, you know, whether you like Trump or not, he said, promises made, promises kept, and he kept more promises that he said he was going to make. He said that's the only time that's ever happened in politics. But I said to a group of brilliant people sitting in the Oval Office with me, nobody appreciates what I did. It is very sad. It's very sad.

And then I look up and I say, oh, wait, oh, wait. Is this the Oval Office that we're in? Yes. Oh, I'm in the Oval Office. That means I'm president. I guess they do appreciate what we've done. Right. Right. I guess I guess I guess now I guess. What the hell? I'm president. What can I complain? I guess they do appreciate you appreciate. I tell you, Kansas appreciates it. Texas appreciates it. Texas appreciates it. Alaska appreciates it.”

[Harry Bergmann @HarryBergmann1]

Ich werde am Samstag nach Israel fliegen.
Werde aus der“Loge18“ von der Wahl berichten.

Im Moment schaut es für die Netanjahu-Opposition ganz gut aus.

Atem anhalten und Daumen drücken.

[Michael Bonvalot @MichaelBonvalot]

🔴 Er winkt einfach ins Nichts - Trump scheint komplett kaputt. Doch das wirklich erschreckende: Die Fans seiner MAGA-Sekte - auch in Österreich, Deutschland und der Schweiz - schweigen dazu. Egal, wie kaputt ihr Führer ist. Sie plappern alles nach.

[Damaan, AKA 'Philly's Finest!' @Damaan4u33]

Trumper: "Trump is the best president we've ever had!"

Interviewer: "You think he's better than George Washington?'

Trumper: "Definitely, he's the best forever! I'm voting for him in '28! Two more years ain't enough!"

Interviewer: 'That would be against the Constitution!"

Trumper: "Doesn't matter; they did it for Obama!"

Interviewer: "But he didn't run!

Trumper: "That's because they didn't want him!"

Every time one of them talks, it becomes more crystal clear that education needs to be one of the highest priorities in America; these people are voting! 😳

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

Is JD Vance seriously suggesting that immigrants have brought a culture of revolution and protest TO FRANCE? @jonstewart

[Hans Winkler @winkler409]

Die MA 55 verweigert @vedrandzihic, dem profitierten Politologen und anerkannten Balkanexperten nach 33 herausragender Tätigkeit die öst. StB, statt sich glücklich zu schätzen, einen Wissenschaftler wie ihn zu haben. Wir wollen int. Forscher zu uns locken? Dass ich nicht lache.

[Peter Rabl @RablPeter]

Gefährlich irrer Extremist

[איתמר בן גביר @itamarbengvir]

Gaza ♥️ Paris

[Peter Rabl @RablPeter]

The Last Photos of Gloria Steinem https://t.co/HDXRo3ZGhi

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Trump on cognitive tests:

I think I am sharper now than I was 20 years ago. I don't know why…

They show you a lion, bear, snake, and giraffe. And they say, 'Which one is the giraffe?' None of those people could come close to getting a perfect score.

[Peter Rabl @RablPeter]

It’s Not Just France. Europe’s Political Center Is Crumbling. https://t.co/SEeZGbLrQo