@ColorApril Wow ... That is some Kool aid you got there.
America first is not spending billions on foreign wars while Americans lose access to healthcare, education, and basic human rights.
@DarrigoMelanie Serious question, will we need a passport + RealID or will RealID be enough? We don't travel, our passports are expired... Rather not waste the money on renewing if it's unnecessary.
@RealJamesWoods Serious question, will we need a passport + RealID or will RealID be enough? We don't travel, our passports are expired... Rather not waste the money on renewing if it's unnecessary.
Vance: "When people like Kamala Harris send our sons and daughters, our young people, to fight in stupid wars, it is the young generation that carries the burden of that. We're gonna stop sending our young people to far away lands. We are not the policemen of the world."
@ScottPresler@VoteRandyFine Serious question, will we need a passport + RealID or will RealID be enough? We don't travel, our passports are expired... Rather not waste the money on renewing if it's unnecessary.
@SenToddYoung Serious question cause I'll need to start planning.. if me and my wife have RealIDs do we also need a passport to vote? We do have all the documents for getting RealIDs, our passports are expired.
@EricLDaugh Serious question cause I'll need to start planning.. if me and my wife have RealIDs do we also need a passport to vote? We do have all the documents for getting RealIDs, our passports are expired.
@I_willnotcomply@PastorLandonC@PastorMark Why can't women be free too? I get confused why we are all of the sudden going backwards with equal treatment of humans regardless of their gender? I've been married 20 years, love my wife and want nothing more for her to be happy.
.@JamesTalarico: Can you name a school where it has been confirmed that students are using litter boxes?
Republican: W-well… This bill prevents that from happening
Talarico: Can you name a school where that’s happening?
Republican: N-no I cannot
Talarico: I find it concerning that these types of debunked conspiracy theories are being used by politicians at the highest levels of our government who know that they're incorrect. This whole thing is just weird and honestly a little creepy, and I think that's the point because this is all, in my opinion, a manufactured, debunked smear campaign against our Texas public schools.
These culture war attacks are nothing more than an effort to discredit our public schools to justify defunding those public schools. Texas librarians are not grooming kids, Texas teachers are not indoctrinating kids, and Texas schools are not providing litter boxes. And I think the most disappointing part about all this is that I think you know that.
@RussiaIsntEnemy Why did you attack a sovereign nation? Start there... Why did you attack civilians and their infrastructure? Why did you kidnap Ukrainian children? Rape Ukrainian women? Those are the questions YOU should answer.
@mtgreenee You do realize that you for the past few years have been a major part of this problem you are complaining about. You were literally Queen of Performance.
If this weren’t so tragic, it would be hilarious. This regime just can’t help itself when it comes to blame shifting.
When the US was the manufacturing powerhouse of the world and was getting exponentially richer each year, providing Europe with the materials to rebuild after WWII, the greed of the rich dictated that they wanted yet more profit.
Human labour was their biggest cost and as such was inhibiting their bottom line. So under Reagan, they decided to throw American workers under the bus and ship jobs and in some cases whole manufacturing plants to China. That was a conscious and deliberate decision.
This accelerated under Clinton, as the sole focus of American corporations was on profit. They were happy to destroy US manufacturing to simply make more money.
China said ‘Thanks very much’ and used the American investment to lift 850 million Chinese out of absolute poverty and build the most advanced infrastructure in the world.
They did that with greedy American’s money because they don’t have a shareholder class. As a result, China now has the most advanced automated manufacturing systems and are now the manufacturing capital of the world.
The American response? Play the victim, impose tariffs and attempt to choke Chinese progress and innovation by taxing Americans to do it. The result? China has a $1.2 trillion trade surplus, as well as infrastructure across Africa, Europe and South America. It controls 80% of global rare earth processing and owns almost $700 billion of U.S. sovereign debt.
That’s before we talk about them seeking to dominate the global AI Tech Stack and robotics space, all while leading the world in nuclear technology and cheap renewable energy, outpacing US energy generation capacity.
Don’t blame China for the biggest economic fuck up in history. As a result of Trump’s short sighted imbecilic policies, is far from hot, it’s simply a legend it its own lunch break. His obsession with power and stuffing his own pockets with money is breaking America.
The American people deserve better and above all deserve to know the truth, that this corrupt regime is NOT winning on anything except economic and geopolitical incompetence at which they have become world champions.
Trump’s delusional belief that the U.S. is respected is embarrassing. The world is laughing, in the knowledge that it is rewiring trade and security ties quietly in the background. Inside a decade the U.S. is facing irrelevance in what will be a new world order in which they no longer call the shots.
Empires rise and fall as do reserve currencies. China can smell blood in the water and if it’s one thing China excels at, it’s playing the long game. It doesn’t have to worry about four year election cycles or a fickle voting public. It can wait as the economic lifeblood is drained from a nation eating itself alive.
They’re happy to wait, because they have global infrastructure in place, highly advanced manufacturing and AI capable economy with a pipeline of highly educated graduates. Their shift away from fossil fuel imports dependency with an objective to electrify the nation using low cost renewable and next generation nuclear energy, is all baked into their roadmap.
The days of America dictating the future are receding. The change will not happen overnight, and China is fine with that. They’re prepared to wait as long as it takes for the U.S. to slowly self suffocate.
The sad thing is, because of Trump, and his treatment of longstanding allies, nobody will lift a finger to help the U.S. without the kind of concessions that will further diminish American standing on the world stage.
If Democrats think it just needs a change of government to make things better, those days are long gone. It will take a generation to repair the damage done. People don’t easily forget extortion attempts and arrogant posturing.
We are at a true inflection point, sadly it’s not one recognised by the delusional convicted criminal in the White House.