Maarten

Groeit ICE in de VS uit tot een soort proto-SS achtige entiteit? De functie is verschoven van grenscontrole naar binnenlandse dreigingsbestrijding, wat ‘dreiging’ is wordt steeds meer opgeschoven en de cultuur verschuift van wetten handhaven naar MAGA ideologie.

Sodeknetters

Apparently "The Art of the Deal" has a chapter on pleading.

Dagelijks scholen en ziekenhuizen bombarderen, mensen in concentratiekampen duwen en dan omwille van ‘Pasen’ een weekend lang niet schieten. Zo gebruiken dictators religie.

How can @marcorubio.bsky.social say the US will stop pursuing something they were never doing in the first place (promote the chances of a credible peace)

The USA is running out of patience with Ukraine for being bombed by Russia.

Make that UBER slow learners. Off course Trump has no plan. Just like there was no Ukraine plan, no Gaza plan things he would change within a single stroke with his magic wand.

Just left X. Maybe start anew someday. Reason: I used to have thousands reads. Now it's just 10 or 20. I assume algorithms suppressing the visibility because I think Elon is an idiot (who doesn't?) and Trump a crime family grandpa. JD Vance talking about 'freedom of speech' in Europe is laughable.

Retirement Cosplay: The tariff war edition @vonderleyen refers to offers predating Trump @cnn.com spins it as EU giving in to bullying, handing him optical win. We’re in a presidential LARP: pretending an 80-yo with 2-min attention span is a dealmaker, actively participating in a post-truth society

Trump “ready to talk” @cnn.com reporter does not mention how to deal with an 80-yo economic illiterate with a 3 minute attention span. Trump also thinks ownership lies with people who need to come to him to kiss the ring and beg for favours. We’re not in the MAGA-cult. www.cnn.com/2025/04/07/p...

Heel veelzeggend dit. Deze enge man loopt warm voor Potus

4 more years of #trump is too long for the world

This is a travesty.

What a perfect day for Newsmax to ring the opening bell on the stock exchange.

When you think tarriffs are a weapon

You can’t make this stuff up. The illiterates the Trump government calls a trade surplus “the sum of all cheating”. These ppl are the sum of all cheetos.

Harris Faulkner's Fox News show has been on for 20 minutes now. She has not mentioned tariffs or stocks once and a stock ticker isn't being displayed. Strong state media vibes.

www.cnn.com/2025/04/03/e... Words matter @cnn.com It’s not a ‘dubious way’ tarriffs were calculated. They entire list was the biggest lie by a PotUS ever. It sets up US citizens against the outside world. Europe has avg 3-4% tarriffs, Trump calls it 39% and calls us ‘rapists and looters’ of the US.

“Als jij dit niet tekent, heb ik als premier geen gezag meer. Dus of jij gaat, of ik” (Die woorden sprak Schoof niet maar zijn de enige juiste) www.nu.nl/politiek/635...

Word has it the US asks 4% interest on past support. Those were gifts, never loans. Approved by bipartisan Congress. Who in the future will ever accept US help when it can retroactively be turned into a loan + interest. The US also seeks exclusive access to minerals. An #extortion by mobster Trump.

www.cnn.com/2025/03/17/p... Negotiators without Ukraine are “dividing certain assets — like land and power plants — US President Donald Trump said Sunday as he announced to speak to Vladimir Putin on Tuesday. Americans have no idea just how fuming allies in Europe, Canada and pacific are.

#macron #musk

Budget discipline for our time!

"President Trump took time out of his busy day today - from tanking the stock markets, inflaming trade wars with our allies, threatening to annex more sovereign territories - to produce a car infomercial for his largest campaign donor and fellow Nazi enthusiast, Elon Musk."

Te gênant voor woorden. Gelukkig kan deze motie gewoon genegeerd worden. Het liefst zou je nieuwe verkiezingen zien. Dit keer niet met immigratie als verkiezingsthema, maar democratie, rechtstaat en gezond geopolitiek verstand. NSC en BBB raken dan ws in de vergetelheid.

Epic idea

Putin and Trump are both regressives. Putin longs to pre-1991. When the USSR existed with a hemisphere in Eastern Europe. He puts fresh flowers on Stalin's grave everyday, despite 15 million dead. Trump wants to return to pre-Obama and pre 60's civil rights movement when white men called the shots.

Rep. Jim Himes: Zelenskyy is watching 70,000 dead Ukrainians. Missiles are slamming into hospitals. This is what he’s seeing, and he comes to the Oval Office, and a reporter asks him why he’s not wearing a suit. And the effing VP wants him to say thank you…

I know why Trump wants Zelensky to step down. He is the face of resilience against autocracy. He is also a man who had the opportunity to flee, but he stayed. He also does not bait to extortion by Trump. Next to him, Trump and Vance are snowflakes. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

What mineral ‘deals’ are worth with Trump

His properties have always been inflated due to foreign actors. Tesla being worth more than all other car companies in the world never made sense. Some called Tesla a meme stock. I call it a hybrid warfare stock. Same with Truth social.

“Make America Great Again” In one week a 3% GDP growth projection was changed into a 3% recession by the Atlanta FED. Six percentage points due to trade war and Europe turning its back on the US for letting Ukraine down. www.atlantafed.org/-/media/docu...