Dutch Barge First Lady 🇮🇪

Retired Naval Captain, lived on narrowboats since 2001. Bought “First Lady” in 2021 and living full time afloat, cruising Shannon, Lough Erne, Ree and Derg.

[Dutch Barge First Lady 🇮🇪 @swatridge]

@DI313_ Total shambles, let’s wait for the truth to come out.

[Dutch Barge First Lady 🇮🇪 @swatridge]

@FranS199 Disgusting, the King IS OUR head of state, HE IS THERE TO REPRESENT THE PEOPLE. BUT SHOULD HE GO TO SUPPORT TRUMP HE WILL NO LONGER REPRESENTS ME. THEY ARE TOTALLY OUT OF TOUCH.

[Dutch Barge First Lady 🇮🇪 @swatridge]

@beith123 The time has come to suspend all US military activity in Europe and especially the UK. It may not be permanent as one day a proper president may be elected again, but for now STOP.

[Dutch Barge First Lady 🇮🇪 @swatridge]

@RoseUnwin They are so insular and the majority are too thick to understand what this Nazi pedophile president is actually doing on the world stage.

[Dutch Barge First Lady 🇮🇪 @swatridge]

@MikeNew19512115 There will be only one winner and it won’t be the USA. You are heading as a no friends state

[Dutch Barge First Lady 🇮🇪 @swatridge]

@btharris93 That is true but when half your population think he is a god, the future is not one we in Europe can continue to support

[Dutch Barge First Lady 🇮🇪 @swatridge]

@TheLoyalNine65 Then do it NOW, you are no longer welcome here

[Dutch Barge First Lady 🇮🇪 @swatridge]

@andreas_krieg WHY?

[Dutch Barge First Lady 🇮🇪 @swatridge]

@ramonagusta Think you will find UK and AUS and CAN have stopped intelligence exchange to US some months ago because of their Nazi, pedophile president.

[Dutch Barge First Lady 🇮🇪 @swatridge]

@LizJarvisUK It’s absolutely disgusting that the King goes to US, under this pedophile Nazi president. It’s a disgrace.

[Dutch Barge First Lady 🇮🇪 @swatridge]

@Jacob_Rees_Mogg It was the Tory government that decimated the Navy.

[Dutch Barge First Lady 🇮🇪 @swatridge]

@NileGardiner Good, the day has come to say thank you and goodbye. NATO IS A DEFENSIVE ORGANIZATION and was not formed to undertake illegal wars

[Dutch Barge First Lady 🇮🇪 @swatridge]

@glennbeck Please leave Europe you are no longer welcome. Get out in the 48 hours and we will see who comes out stronger. It won’t be the nazi run USA.

[Dutch Barge First Lady 🇮🇪 @swatridge]

@ShaneSchaetzel Get out of Europe you are no longer welcome

[Dutch Barge First Lady 🇮🇪 @swatridge]

@RepNancyMace Please do, you are no longer welcome

[Dutch Barge First Lady 🇮🇪 @swatridge]

@JoJoFromJerz Get out of Europe your forces are no longer welcome, that’s to your nazi criminal pedophile president. Your actions are illegal.

[Dutch Barge First Lady 🇮🇪 @swatridge]

@SlavicNetworks Give them 48 hrs to leave UK bases. Unfortunately with this criminal nazi US president in this US government it is inevitable our paths will separate. Don’t attempt to mend what’s obviously broken and LETS START making plans for a new future NOW.

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

🇮🇹 The speech that all of Italy heard. And that the world must hear.
In a country that will host the Olympic Games, Italian Senator and Vice President of the Human Rights Commission Filippo Sensi took the floor and said what should have been said out loud long ago.
He called it a disgrace that the International Olympic Committee disqualified Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych.
Not for doping.
Not for violating fair play.
But for… memory.
For a helmet bearing the faces of Ukrainian athletes — his friends, colleagues, champions — killed by Russia.
The IOC stated that the helmet “did not comply with regulations.”
And then Sensi asked a question that brought silence to the chamber:
Does aggressive war comply with regulations?
Is there a separate technical protocol for it?
The correct angle of a missile strike?
The permissible size of a crater?
An athlete prepares for the Olympics for years.
A Ukrainian athlete trains between air raid sirens, in shelters, under news of the dead.
He overcomes fear, exhaustion, and loss.
And he steps to the start line not only for a medal — but for the right to exist.
And he is suspended… for remembering.
Because memory is the most dangerous substance. It is hard to add to a prohibited list. But apparently, someone would very much like to.
The senator named names. Just a few among more than 650 Ukrainian athletes killed by Russia:
▪️ Yevhenii Malyshev, 19, biathlete — killed in Kharkiv.
▪️ Mariia Lebid, 15 — missile strike in Dnipro.
▪️ Dmytro Sharpar, 25, figure skater — killed in Bakhmut.
▪️ Volodymyr Androsiuk, 22, track and field athlete — also Bakhmut.
▪️ Daria Kurdel, 20 — missile strike in Kharkiv.
▪️ Alina Perehutova, 14 — standing in line for water with her mother in Mariupol.
▪️ Maksym Halinichev, 22, boxer — killed defending Luhansk region.
▪️ Viktoriia Ivashko, 9, judoka — missile strike in Kyiv.
▪️ Kateryna Diachenko, 11, gymnast — airstrike on Mariupol.
▪️ Karina Bakur, 17, world kickboxing champion — shielded her father with her body.
These were the faces Heraskevych wanted to carry with him to the start line.
So that they would “compete” alongside him.
So that their dream would not die with them.
And for that, he was punished.
Because it turns out that the faces of murdered athletes violate regulations.
But their absence on the track does not.
In his speech, Sensi said the most important thing:
The Olympic Committee did not lose an athlete.
It lost its most valuable medal — its conscience.
Sport without memory is just a show.
Sport without humanity is just decoration.
Sport that fears truth is not about peace.
The Olympic movement was born from the ideals of honor, dignity, and unity.
Yet today Ukrainian athletes must prove not only their strength — but their right to remember their fallen.
And if memory becomes a violation of regulations — then the problem is not the helmet.
The world must hear this.
Because silence is also a position.
And indifference is also a choice.
Memory cannot be disqualified.
And conscience cannot be added to a prohibited list.
🇺🇦 We remember every one of them.
And we will not allow their names to be erased.

[Dutch Barge First Lady 🇮🇪 @swatridge]

@Peston Let’s hope so. Trump is a lost cause, and hasn’t much time on this earth.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

BREAKING: trump is having a temper tantrum, ending ALL trade negotiations with Canada.

He's butthurt that they aired an ad of President Reagan that shows how dumb trump's tariffs are.

It's VERY effective.
Be a shame if it went viral. 🇺🇲🇨🇦