“Defy a court order”. They were already out of the country, where no American judge has jurisdiction. I guess you ought to have wondered when an Obama-appointed judge believed he had power beyond his jurisdiction.

Hilarious. President of El Salvador trolling! Activist judges butthurt.

ISS is manned and can have astronauts there, even longer. I think this was just basically a cost cutting decision not to create a new flight, but just follow the time table, because nobody needed an evacuation.

And is cost cutting evil? Ask your DOGE.

You’re thinking like Biden now.

I've noticed

I’m still curious, though, why have an EU parliament if you don’t want them to have any oversight? It’s all so odd that Europeans need two governments, a government for their government, but why another parliament?

A SpaceX crew landed at the ISS to pick up those astronauts rotting in space. It’s crazy that all it took was Trump to tell Musk to go and get them. That means Biden just left them up there. Evil.

Let’s hoe for a safe return.

https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/2025/03/16/spacex-dragon-docks-to-station-with-four-crew-10-members/

Do you understand the difference and the different roles of the European Parliament and the national Parliaments of each member state? And when it come to national defense, it's the member states that decide this. Ursula can simply talk about EU budgeting agreements etc. Another thing is what the countries actually do.

Is parliament just a parliament in name only, then? I could care less, to be honest.

But Ursula isn’t just talking about it; she’s come up with a plan to borrow hundreds of billions of dollars to send to member states so they can spend it on military or Ukraine without any oversight of EU parliament, whether parliament means anything to you or not. I guess that’s the schizophrenic nature of having both national and continental authorities. we’ll see what members do with it.

You know that the USD being a reserve currency was a political decision made in Bretton Woods. There's no "natural" reserve currency. The most natural things is to have it like it has been for hundreds if not a few thousand years: you have different currencies and if you are handling international trade, then have a basket of currencies.

I agree.

This just shows how little you know of Europe.

The European Parliament isn't here important. It's the national Parliaments, because the decisions are rearmament is in the end made at the national level. The European Parliament is an OK talking arena that focuses on what the Commission and the EU bureaucracy is doing and what EU laws are made. That's fine, but this is actually a country-level issue.

That’s not what the head of the European People's Party said. I guess he knows very little about the EU, according to ssu.

Yeah, let's see what happens to Americans when the dollar isn't anymore the reserve currency and the World isn't their host anymore.

Let’s see what happens to Europe when the reserve currency is the Yuan.

Jealous of what?

The EU elites are using emergency powers to circumvent parliament in order to push forward with their rearmament.

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/03/12/bypassing-parliament-is-a-mistake-meps-sidelined-on-new-rearm-europe-plan

It’s interesting to watch what a parasite does when it finds itself without its host. For so long many EU states were able to build up their bloated welfare states under the protection of the US military and American taxpayer, who were essentially subsidizing their livelihoods until now. I suspect the old world will turn back to their old ways before long.

Redditors angry.

More news.

Another non sequitur courtesy of nos4. Thank you, nos4! Someone please throw him a banana and put a blanket over his cage.

My pleasure.

There you go. You didn’t even know that did you? I wonder why. Glad I could help.

Do mean the man who banned Epstein from his club for hitting on young girls?

An Infowars reporter was murdered the other day. Could be random act of violence, but given their status as persona non grata among some circles, there is perhaps some political motives. He also appeared on Ukraine’s “hit list”.

Haven't you insisted that such influence on people is impossible?

It is. What is possible is people believing nonsense. A combo of moral panic and decline in mental health is a bad idea.

Another suicidal assassin taken out by the secret service yesterday.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gdwde82ldo.amp

At this point it’s impossible to discern who is or isn’t a potential assassin in Anti-Trumpistan.

One has been litigated with a microscope and proven stupid, the other is being defended and ruled fake news by the commentariat.

Yeah, a central banker who has pictures with Ghislaine Maxwell. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

I see the claims but not the documents supporting them. You know, the sort that Congress would demand.

It’s an official government website from an official arm of the executive branch. Transparency is tough to grapple with, but given past administrations, I kinda get it.

Do you condone Trump's blatant assault on free speech?

No, as I’ve already stated.

https://doge.gov/ And the official x account.

Poor Elon! Must be just awful for him. When all he’s doing is trying to help out!

It’s true. There is no reason for it nor any reasoning behind it. All of his cuts are available for anyone to see yet no one can choose one that was a bad idea to remove. Maybe you will take the challenge?

https://doge.gov/

Until then it’s just a blizzard of lies and conspiracy theories, and it’s activating violent psychos to take it upon themselves to take matters into their own hands outside the democratic process.

Elon describes the political terrorism he is facing.

It looks like justice to me.

Tulsi doing God’s work. All the election-meddling conspirators lose their security clearances.

Perhaps you’re right. But if his crime is “aligning with Hamas”, or anti-semitism, it’s not a good enough reason to deport him, especially if he was in the country legally.

This is terrible policy of the Trump administration, and a violation of human rights, possibly the constitution. Nothing good can come of this.

A large amount of government waste disappeared in a matter of weeks from the CIA cutout USAID. Grifters and dependents are no doubt angry but that’s a small price to pay for less cultural imperialism and corruption.

However, since Bob1 and Bob2 have all of the same goals, beliefs, etc., there is nothing different between them to which we can appeal to explain why Bob1 chose to go the bookshelf at time T2 and Bob2 chose to go the kitchen at time T2.

There are plenty of differences. Two different worlds, two different Bobs, two different positions in space and time, etc.

There is always a story hidden beneath the layers of anti-Trumpism.

European countries are discussing plans that will let them carry out seizures of Moscow’s oil-exporting tankers in the Baltic Sea.

World War 3 is coming.

The Democrat funding machine ActBlue is in turmoil. It’s probably the corruption. Rats are leaving the sinking ship. Time for a new party.

ActBlue, the Democratic Fund-Raising Powerhouse, Faces Internal Chaos

At least seven senior officials have left the group, setting off deep concerns about its future as it confronts scrutiny from congressional Republicans.

https://archive.ph/DFegW

Revenge is sweet. The Clinton Campaign’s bagmen of the Russia hoax lose their security clearances.

A masterclass in DNC political marketing.

We’ll see what comes of this. But in their infinite wisdom the previous administration was handing out massive multi-billion dollar grants to brand new climate change startups with only $100 revenue, some with friends of the party at the helm. Virtue-signalling into crime with the Green new scam.

You just made two provably false statements in one sentence.

Same old tired crap. ssu was discussing Mueller, and you bring up a distorted view of the predecessor investigation - omitting the fact that it was most certainly warranted (even Durham acknowledged that).

Mueller took over crossfire hurricane. He even hired people who worked on Crossfire hurricane, started crossfire hurricane, and many more from the FBI. They were let go once their anti-Trump bias was exposed, but it’s still poison from the same tree. Speaking of facts, Durham did not acknowledge it was most certainly warranted. He wrote an entire chapter on how flimsy it all was.

I do. But you never write things like this:

The speed and manner in which the FBI opened and investigated Crossfire Hurricane during the presidential election season based on raw, unanalyzed, and uncorroborated intelligence also reflected a noticeable departure from how it approached prior matters involving possible attempted foreign election interference plans aimed at the Clinton campaign. As described in Section IV.B, in the eighteen months leading up to the 2016 election, the FBI was required to deal with a number of proposed investigations that had the potential of affecting the election. In each of those instances, the FBI moved with considerable caution. In one such matter… FBI Headquarters and Department officials required defensive briefings to be provided to Clinton and other officials or candidates who appeared to be the targets of foreign interference. In another, the FBI elected to end an investigation after one of its longtime and valuable CHSs went beyond what was authorized and made an improper and possibly illegal financial contribution to the Clinton campaign on behalf of a foreign entity as a precursor to a much larger donation being contemplated.

And we know why you won’t, ssu.

That’s right. As the Durham report found “the government possessed no verified intelligence reflecting that Trump or the Trump campaign was involved in a conspiracy or collaborative relationship with officials of the Russian government”, and “neither U.S. law enforcement nor the Intelligence Community appears to have possessed any actual evidence of collusion in their holdings at the commencement of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation”, and that they “failed to uphold their important mission of strict fidelity to the law”.

Worse are the details.

“The matter was opened as a full investigation without ever having spoken to the persons who provided the information. Further, the FBI did so without (1) any significant review of its own intelligence databases, (2) collection and examination of any relevant intelligence from other U.S. intelligence entities, (3) interviews of witnesses essential to understand the raw information it had received or (4) using any of the standard analytical tools typically employed by the FBI in evaluating raw intelligence. Had it done so…the FBI would have learned that their own experienced Russia analysts had no information about Trump being involved with Russian leadership officials, nor were others in sensitive positions at the CIA, the NSA, and the Department of State aware of such evidence concerning the subject. In addition, FBI records prepared by Strzok in February and March 2017 show that at the time of the opening of Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI had no information in its holdings indicating that at any time during the campaign anyone in the Trump campaign had been in contact with any Russian intelligence officials.”

“The FBI discounted or willfully ignored material information that did not support the narrative of a collusive relationship between Trump and Russia.”

https://www.justice.gov/archives/media/1381211/dl

Given this, why do you keep waving these investigations around?

You guys were duped by the Clinton campaign and will never come to terms with it. That’s fine by me; your errors have resulted in world we live in today, and you have to live in it. Enjoy!