Seems like a good time to repost what @jansmolenski.bsky.social and I wrote about Mearsheimer and his moronic ilk back in 2022: newrepublic.com/article/1656...

Well... bsky.app/profile/umla...

So much support! This is really pathetic.

The berating of Zelenskyy in the White House is perhaps the final defeat of the pro-atlanticist faction in the Republican Party. MAGA with its strange blend of isolationist rhetoric and extortionist actions won. It is not inconceivable that the whole thing was staged Vance for just this purpose.

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably IS a duck.

Who is the teacher? Trump or Putin?

Lindsey Graham repeating Putin's talking points is the new low even for the Republican Party.

This is the message that Europeans have been receiving for some time. And we need to act accordingly.

Vance blew up that meeting on purpose

Lindsey Graham sucking up to Trump on Fox News is embarrassing. No, Senator, Putin watching Trump defending him is not scared of Trump, he is happy he has his fanboy in the White House.

Presidency-ending scandals for any POTUS from Truman to Obama, massively endangering US national security, now happening on a daily basis, while Congress sits on its hands & does nothing. Total, comprehensive failure of Article I of the Constitution.

Putin’s lifelong dream was to somehow separate the US from NATO. But how to break up a strong alliance that stood for 80 years and continued to expand? There really was only one way to do it, he figured it out a decade ago, and played the long game. Now his guy will do it.

Keep this in mind as House Republicans vote for a budget framework that would gut Medicaid (relied on by 72 million) and food stamp programs (relied on by 42 million people).

Perhaps Nikki wants to consult a mirror?

Removing "your" people from the reach of the law is one of the traits of authoritarianism. It rests on providing favors in exchange for loyalty. And favors in the form of temporary exemption from criminal prosecution are the best, because they guarantee control.

The new American government: protecting... (checks notes) poor loan sharks against their scammed victims. And no, this is not a joke nor The Onion, as much as I'd wish it were.

Serious question I do not have enough time to answer myself: how many of these incompetent people have crypto investments and can be controlled through them?

How? Against Trump's political opponents. This is not about the effective use of the power of the state but about its use against specific people. Here the competence is not needed. What is needed is blind loyalty.

Time for this I think. Every new signal from the White House says they’re abandoning Ukraine and actually want to ally with Russia. Worse than even just the pessimistic prediction of simple abandonment.

So far the US elites did next to nothing…

"...expectations vis-à-vis the parties are asymmetrical: Democrats must be the adults in the room; the Republican party has license to feature Marjorie Taylor Greene... Accepting this...asymmetry – and...politicians never facing consequences...– is part of what has brought us to this moment."

9 tweets per hour if he didn’t sleep. Too much k🐎💉?

Looks like Democrats stopped censoring themselves. Maybe this is the way to mobilize and capitalize on people’s anger at DOGE

No one should full themselves. It is not about not being advantage of anymore. It is about exploiting vulnerability. This is not a behavior of an ally but of a predator.

My favourite part of the new Captain America movie is when he tries to extort Wakanda for $500b in Vibranium rights before "ironically" teaming up with Hydra to own the libs.

This is a deal between Trump and Putin.

Posted by @rothschildmd.bsky.social on another platform: “The entire federal government now apparently reports to Elon Musk, who is not the president, doesn't run DOGE according to Trump administration court filings, has no authority to remove federal employees, and tweets all day.”

This is fake. If this were true Trudeau would be referred to as governor

Americans voted this man saying things like this into office twice. American political elites are going along with it. The problem is not Trump. For Europe, the problem is that voting Americans and American elites decided to terminate the transatlantic alliance.

Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

Yes.

Some strong Führerprinzip vibes here

Giorgia Meloni may be Musk’s personal friend, but even she has to see that investing in Starlink isn’t smart

Report that Zelensky will cave to Trump's mafia-style threats. US allies need to pay extremely close attn to this. Given this dramatic transformation, the US can bully each of its allies this way so the lesson is-- don't rely on the US for anything, start treating them as a rapacious adversary.

This, of course, is the way the US under Musk-Putin-Trump-Vance will treat other Europeans states. Maybe not with such heavy-handedness, but with the same goal and equal contempt. I’m wondering how ppl like Lindsey Graham feel knowing that they buried the most successful alliance in modern history.

This $200m was certainly appropriated by Congress for exactly this purpose.

Americans should know that Trump just abandoned allies with a combined GDP equivalent to US GDP, in exchange for Russia which has a GDP only 6% the size of US GDP. And Trump convinced MAGA that they were all going to be rich.

This is not going to go well

If this happens, it’s clear that Trump’s prime commitment is to make Russia great again.

WOW "Seven western Wisconsin Republican lawmakers did not appear at an event hosted by the Wisconsin Farmers Union in Chippewa Falls Friday as farmers from the area said they were concerned about the effect that President Donald Trump’s first month in office is having on their livelihoods." ⤵️

Donald Trump ponosi druzgocącą klęskę w negocjacjach z Kremlem - piszą eksperci analitycznego ośrodka Re-Russia. Powodem jest rażąca niekompetencja ludzi prezydenta i jego maniakalne dążenie do błyskotliwego sukcesu. wyborcza.pl/7,75399,3171...

He is getting it. It will be white and very, very mediocre.

Trump pardoned the sentence of arguably the single biggest drug trafficker in American history on his second day in office!

I think people are missing the reality of the growing US-Russian alliance under Putin and Trump. Its not going to force a ceasefire on Ukraine, it will be to help Russia try to win the war. The US is now an active enemy of freedom.

They are telling us, out loud, exactly how the 2026/28 elections will not be free & fair. They will go after vote by mail (bsky.app/profile/mira...). They will go after computer voting. They will then say we can't count all the paper ballots because it's taking too long & there must be fraud. Etc.

FOX NEWS: You are against people bringing in eggs that have not been-- I mean, we have the USDA for a reason. These could be contaminated and bring illnesses in. GALLEGO: Absolutely. This is why we shouldn't be firing USDA inspectors that are actually doing oversight over avian flu