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Based in Spain and trying to make sense of what's going on in the World today. Alarmed at recent developments in the US.

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31.03.2025 18:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 22    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Well said ๐Ÿ‘

31.03.2025 03:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2772    ๐Ÿ” 847    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 72    ๐Ÿ“Œ 47
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Thou Shalt Not Let Donold Have 3 Terms For the love of god.

Planes are falling from the skies. Measles is spreading rapidly. The economy is getting hit by tariffs, trade wars and a collapsing tourism industry. He needs to be stopped. Nayโ€ฆhe must be stopped.

31.03.2025 16:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7389    ๐Ÿ” 1698    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 457    ๐Ÿ“Œ 86

I'm playing devil's advocate, due to interest. If he couldn't stack the deck when he was president, how was he able to do it as a private citizen? (not saying he didn't, just interested in the mechanics).

22.03.2025 21:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Genuinely interested. If the Republicans are so out of touch, why were they voted in so strongly?

I think Trump doesn't live in reality - he lives in Putin's alternative reality (one which hates America). Which makes it even more baffling as to why he got some many "patriot's" votes.

22.03.2025 21:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Donald Trump says 'nasty' Canada 'meant to be 51st state' "I deal with every country, indirectly or directly. One of the nastiest countries to deal with is Canada," Trump said.

Let me get this right. #Trump says Canada, a country famed for its politeness, are 'nasty'. While Russia, a warmonger who calls for the death of all Americans almost daily, are very good friends.

The USA is mentally ill.

www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

19.03.2025 15:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Trump says the economy โ€˜went to hellโ€™ under Biden. The opposite is true By standard measures such as job and GDP growth and the stock market, the US economy was in excellent shape

Interesting analysis showing how the #US-Economy performed under Biden.

Given the facts, making claims that the economy 'went to hell' shows #Trump'sEconomicIgnorance is shocking.

Why would anyone put such ignorance in charge of their economy?

#FascistUSA

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

16.03.2025 16:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Only in America could a Ketamine-infused South African oligarch call a navy captain, astronaut and sitting US senator "a traitor" for supporting our allies and standing up to Russia...

10.03.2025 16:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 60607    ๐Ÿ” 18128    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3541    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1560

In his first term, Trump twice broke protocol to have a meeting with a world leader without any staff - no note-taker, no translator. Both times was to meet Putin. If he had nothing to hide, why does he keep hiding his meetings?

Of course he knew about the plan to invade Ukraine! #TraitorTrump

07.03.2025 20:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The find out part

07.03.2025 17:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15417    ๐Ÿ” 3402    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1512    ๐Ÿ“Œ 347
NO Nigel Farage - the vaccine rollout was not helped by Brexit
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic NO Nigel Farage - the vaccine rollout was not helped by Brexit

If UK news shows are going to give Nigel Farage a platform to spout this absolute boll**** about Brexit & the vaccine rollout (unchallenged) Iโ€™ll happily come back every week to correct it

We cannot allow them to rewrite history.

If you agree share this FACT CHECK widely
youtu.be/MUrf7addcTA?...

01.02.2025 11:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3636    ๐Ÿ” 1801    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 128    ๐Ÿ“Œ 64
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Jimmy Kimmel Roasts Trump for Claiming Biden Spent โ€˜$8 Million on Making Mice Transgenderโ€™: โ€˜Are They So Dumb They Donโ€™t Know How to Google?โ€™ Donald Trump claimed Biden had spent $8 million on making mice transgender. Jimmy Kimmel roasted the absurd claim.

So Trump told Congress they spent $8m making transgender mice.

This was referring to transgenic which means inserting human genes to study cancer and asthma.

How do people listen to this and actually believe the complete rubbish?
#OrangeClown #FascistPuppet #Trump

variety.com/2025/tv/news...

06.03.2025 21:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I know and it's good to know. But he's has 4 years in power and he can do massive power since the Republicans also control both houses. Following the Putin playbook, there may not be a democracy left in 4 years.

06.03.2025 21:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

He didn't win by a landslide, but he had a huge disinformation campaigns being run on all social media by Musk and Putin, and possibly other sources too. Without that, there's no way he would have won.

06.03.2025 21:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Agreed. But those are factors being created by the Trump's and Musk's. Twitter was trying to flag questionable posts to give people an idea when to double check things. Thatvwas what Musk objevted to and removed. He's creating AI for the same purpose, to control and misinform.

06.03.2025 21:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I agree it's generally good. But Trump and Musk are deliberately prolific and know most people don't fact-check. They are tool which spread mass disinformation. I don't think Trump would have been reelected if twitter had not been sold to Musk and turned into a propaganda machine.

06.03.2025 21:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

In fairness the Internet is one of the main places for disinformation. Why do you think Musk and trump have social media platforms. Musk doesn't care about free speech - his campaign is to protect him from the consequences of abusing that freedom. He wanted twitter to spread misinformation.

06.03.2025 21:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Know their 'oranges'

06.03.2025 11:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13302    ๐Ÿ” 4268    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 236    ๐Ÿ“Œ 115

This is excellent. We all need to learn from each other's experiences and try to put this into action. I will certainly take this on board, and thank you for your efforts. Every success counts.

06.03.2025 20:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Well done. My heart goes out to you, but persistence and teaching how to verify facts can go a long way. If everyone does what you do with 1 radical, the swing would be immense with time and energy.

Of only everyone would perform such a public service.

06.03.2025 20:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You're right. But many are more fearful of war than they are of liberalism. And trump is pushing the world in that direction. It's very sobering when faced with the prospect of war.

06.03.2025 20:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Also they're basically out of reserves of yuan so can't pay for Chinese goods. Economically they're not doing as good as the numbers seem. They're running on fumes.

06.03.2025 20:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Throwing more bodies into Ukraine will quickly turn his people against him. Russia is taking 50 year old tanks out of storage and going cap in hand to DPRK. They're not strong.

Thwir cyber capability is limited since Trump is actually undermining their disinformation campaigns without intention.

06.03.2025 20:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Indeed. And it's likely that the Trump shit show which is going on is a step too far. Many Europeans are rethinking voting for the far right as a result. Even in the USA less than 10% went with him about 'Ukraine starting the war'. So I think he's damaging the far right in the EU.

06.03.2025 20:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Russia is not a threat. They have been so badly damaged by the Ukrainian war that they couldn't contribute to such a thing. The question is whether enough politicians would stand up to trump to block such an action.

06.03.2025 20:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Well Putin's military are in really bad shape - the Ukraine conflict has had a major impact.

And I think the US military would hesitate to attack an ally, especially in conjunction with a country who calls for America to be nuked almost daily...

06.03.2025 20:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Trouble is he's cozying up to Putin whose a much more shrewd operator and who has his own ideas that won't favour America.

Putin is a WWII fan and things right now feel like the days prior to the Nazi/Russian invasion of Poland which started WWII, only with Putin and Trump.

06.03.2025 20:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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