Rob Gorthy

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[Rob Gorthy @RobGorthy]

Just a reminder that I now have a book out. Friends of course say it’s very good and it’s already been adopted by some book groups. Hope you enjoy it. @AustinMacauley @J_Bloodworth @NickCohen4 @berkeleymedia

[Rob Gorthy @RobGorthy]

@sciencegirl Call me a sceptic, but has the video been reversed?

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

This should be a no-brainer for other countries. Participate in a war of conquest, don’t get to party and shop in Europe.

[Neo @Realneo101]

🔴DON’T LOOK AWAY

The Islamic regime is going to hang Diana Taherabadi because she participated in the January protests.

She’s only 16.
This is pure barbarism.
Share this before they kill her.

[Neo @Realneo101]

🔴DON’T LOOK AWAY

The Islamic regime is going to hang Saghar Gholami because she participated in the January protests.

She’s only 19.
This is pure barbarism.
Share this before they kill her.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Too on point not to share, “Aussie reply to Trump rant about NATO not being there for us.

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 fucking mouth. Credit (borrowed from) Jim Scroggins - original author 📷 unknown”

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

I am not sure the American military establishment has fully grasped what Trump has actually done here. So let me spell it out in language even a Pentagon procurement officer can understand.

Europe has been buying American weapons at a staggering rate. In 2024 alone, US foreign military sales notifications to European countries hit $76 billion. Four times the European average since 2008.  F-35s, missile systems, air defence, ammunition. All of it American. All of it coming with decades of service contracts, maintenance agreements, spare parts, software updates and training programmes worth hundreds of billions more over their operational lifetimes.
Between 2020 and 2024, the United States supplied 64 percent of all European weapons imports. 
That is now over.

Europe has an $860 billion defence plan, and American contractors are being frozen out. The goal is 80 percent of all military purchases from European factories by 2030.  Airbus. Rheinmetall. KNDS. Saab. Leonardo. BAE Systems. They are about to receive the largest order book in the history of European defence industry. Because Trump made it politically impossible for any European government to keep writing cheques to Washington.

Some European governments have discussed worries that the Pentagon could remotely disable American F-35 fighters or impose restrictions on how US weapons can be used.  When your supplier is also threatening to annex your allies, that is not paranoia. That is basic procurement logic.

Trump set out to make America great again. He has succeeded magnificently. For Rheinmetall.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[Rob Gorthy @RobGorthy]

@mishtal @BBCNews Yes, it was the first overwhelming impression I got on reading the piece.

[Rob Gorthy @RobGorthy]

@sciencegirl Would cease to be a problem if they had a dog.

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

1 December 1926 | Polish Jewish woman, Kitty Felix (Hart-Moxon), was born in Bielsko.

In Auschwitz from April 1943
No. 39934
In November 1944 she was transferred to Gross-Rosen, then to Porta Westfalica. She was liberated during evacuation to Bergen-Belsen.

After the war, she moved to England.

Kity Hart-Moxon dedicated her life to raising awareness of the Holocaust. She has written two autobiographies, 'I am Alive' (1961) and 'Return to Auschwitz' (1981).

Today, she turns 99. Happy Birthday!

Learn more about Kitty: https://t.co/X0lPECW3c4

[Rob Gorthy @RobGorthy]

@sciencegirl You'd have more than 2 billion within a month

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

@politico When someone shows you who they are, believe them.

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

“The Biden FBI”

Who was President on January 6?

[Khaled Abu Toameh @KhaledAbuToameh]

Hamas security forces have arrested dozens of suspected collaborators and anti-Hamas clan members since the ceasefire went into effect. Many are expected to be executed, according to Palestinian sources.

[Gregg Carlstrom @glcarlstrom]

With the ceasefire in place, Hamas is doing the only thing it knows how to do. It won't be able to rebuild Gaza or govern it effectively. But it can exert control over day-to-day life by murdering, torturing and terrorizing its rivals. 🧵 https://t.co/M8kESGPv8k

[Marina Rosenberg @_MarinaRos]

My heart will be with my friends at the British Jewish Community. If you’re in London- go show your support and make sure they know that they are NOT alone and that hate will NOT win!

[Rob Gorthy @RobGorthy]

@gunsnrosesgirl3 Disgust

[Rob Gorthy @RobGorthy]

@katyballs The trouble is that where you want to be, if the MAGA crowd is anything to go by, might not be all that healthy.

[David Griggs @DavidGPuppet]

@piersmorgan He didn't acuse the assassin of being MAGA. He said MAGA was going out of its way to establish him as not being MAGA. That's not the same thing. If you don't like what the guy says, then at least stick to criticizing what the guy actually said.

[Blake @blakepccarter]

Tyler Robinson and his family don’t look like trans liberals to me. Tyler’s family is registered republicans, his father is a minister and former law enforcement, they have family members in the military. Oh and Tyler’s parents introduced him to weapons at an early age.