The Texas situation is already turning embarrassing, but if this is true then its even worse.
https://x.com/ryangrim/status/1998607386022494425?s=20
Alred has already dropped out of the race to make sure that the non-Crocket primary vote doesnt get split. Fingers crossed that if she proceeds with this run she doesnt go scorched earth the way some expect.
thats most of the people who post in this thread fucked then!
Iâve seen enough of the US. Absolutely no desire to see more of it.
The corruption is never ending
https://x.com/kenbensinger/status/1998861025987457228?s=20
That could have only been written by the âstable geniusâ who is clearly off his cruet,and just confirming it!
Suits me, donât want to go near the place again, thank you.
Im guessing Trump will try and stop this?
You have convinced me, the project is dead and we are toast. 
USA, the new Somalia?
I was thinking more of a modern privateer, but Somalia is more like it.
My son is going on a school trip to the US next year. Had an info meeting about it yesterday and was saddened that they needed to raise being careful what you say on your socials. Think they would have put it together before the latest news story @koptician posted above too. Already successfully applied for an ESTA for the trip, where supplying your socials was optional. Land of the freeâŚ
Get them ESTAs in while you still can 
I am involved in a couple of local sports organizations - among other things, the annual participation in a tournament in Tampa has been replaced by a trip to Lisbon for exactly this reason. As a director, I am simply not comfortable with the potential liability involved with sending a minor to a country where disappearance and extrajudicial deportation to El Salvador (or elsewhere) is a possibility. However remote, I am not sure a D&O insurance policy will entirely cover me given the advance knowledge of the situation.
Prudent and wise thing to do.
Deeply unserious people. And this from a physician who does know better
https://x.com/DarrigoMelanie/status/1998919595193938217?s=20
It isnt only that the direct to the consumer stipend they are suggesting doesnt move the needle on cost. The issue is the current subsidies being paid to the insurance company are given with a requirement that the money is directly assigned to lower the cost of care, with the companies on the hook for penalties if they are spending above the threshold amount of revenue (including subsidies) on patient care.
Fucking LOL. This guy is such a charlatan.
https://x.com/christopherrufo/status/1998888641243001114?s=20
He was literally a liberal making âwokeâ content until he grew tired of not being able to sell his content in a competitive marketplace and realized how much it easier it was to sell to the right as long as you gave them what they wanted to hear. He then made money and earned himself a position of power in the movement by being an arch conspiracy theorist, but still wanting the adulation of the intellectual left so he explained to them in real time what his actual plan wasâŚwhy he was lying and what he was trying to achieve with it. Now heâs like âwoah, why is our movement full of moron who know nothing and believe anything?â
Criticism of the Dem party is often lazy, based on feelings not facts, and requires a clear double standard to take seriously. But christ the leadership of this party is bad.
The answer to âDo you agree with Trump, the anti war president, pushing for regime change in a foreign country?â is a very simple no, and Chuck cannot get around to it.
https://x.com/kenklippenstein/status/1998895024994676751?s=20
And here is Jeffries praising the outrageously corrupt and inappropriate pardon of Dem house member Cuellar
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5632133-jeffries-trump-pardon-cuellar/
These are not challenging issues to address, but they are so out of step with even the median opinion of their party and cannot stay on message for more than 5 mins.
No.
Itâs not dead and we are not toast. But itâs dangerous and things do not currently have a good forecast. I am not fatalist, no one should be. But it is better to be alarmed than ignore trajectory.
Europe can have a come back, of course it can. But currently it is struggling as a continent, since we have to rely on immigration to offset low birth rates, which again leads to chasms and social friction that is far from unproblemtic (Nationalism etc.). When you then combine the demographic problems with great powers seeking to obliterate the union project and how weak the EU is in terms of military power, it is problematic.
Remember, we still rely on the US. We all here in this thread mock and ridicule the US, but we are currently married and totally reliant. Divorce isnât going to be easy for us since we are weaker than the US is. So the effect of that, is that Europe will be split, no matter how loathsome the US is (it can go full fascist, some European countries will still seek to cling to it, because the alternative is dreadful they think). While maybe strong states like France and Germany will marshall some others around them (I find it highly likely that the UK will stick with the US no matter what in the medium term, as an example, but it wonât be alone). But to do so, they need a lot of military might. And time is moving so fast, mate.
We all rely on the NATO pact. We have no option nr. 2âŚ
The danger is apathy *and ignorance and the EU and the US, have it in oodles!