Ytzen Terpstra 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 retweeted
So here's what happened in today's Stupid Olympics.
There are two people named Dana White.
One is President and CEO of the UFC
The other is Dana W. White, who served as the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs and Chief Pentagon Spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Defense under Secretary James Mattis
Their pictures are below. He's the white guy. She's the Black woman. I'll call them UFC Dana and DOD Dana to make it easier for you.
Suzie Wiles, shortly before being replaced by Count Stephen Miller, advised Trump that his new Press Secretary should be Dana White.
And Trump in all his finite wisdom, immediately assumed the UFC Dana, who has never done anything to prepare him for press secretary, and not DOD Dana, whose entire career has been in preparation for that.
Now you might be saying, "Kelly, not everyone knows about DOD Dana. It's an honest mistake."
But he's NOT just "everyone." He's the President of the United States. And this is a man whose administration has been firing Black people, women, trans people, and so on, insisting that none of them got their job based on merit.
And then he's going to name someone completely unqualified to be Press Secretary because the President is a fan of the UFC.
And he didn't even think to ask anyone. It never even occurred to him to ponder whether UFC Dana is the person he should pick as Press Secretary.
Stupid and incurious are a dangerous combination, and this man is both of those things.
And that got me to thinking about the two Dan Sullivan in Alaska. And I get it now. The man who is too stupid to know the difference between two Dana Whites thinks Alaskans are too stupid to know the difference between two Dan Sullivans.
Ytzen Terpstra 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 retweeted
This is why Jon Ossoff won in a landslide in Georgia. He took the gloves off and didn’t pussyfoot around the truth.
Putting aside the fact I wrote about what he said here when many were silent, he’s making the case for why Democrats MUST now hold these monsters accountable.
This isn’t about retribution, it’s about ensuring what Trump and his puppet masters have done NEVER happens again THAT is what the American people voted for.
Of course legislation is a priority it was a priority they didn’t address in 2024, when they failed hard pressed American families who were screaming for help, while they were chasing upper middle class voters who were NEVER going to vote for them.
Then, when they were punished for it at the ballot box, they blamed the American people for rejecting them, and then stayed silent for almost a year while Trump dismantled democracy and tore down the government.
If Democratic leadership can’t walk and chew gum at the same time, then step the fuck aside and let someone who can deliver justice to the American people get the job done. I’d go even further and suggest they step down anyway, because they don’t have the integrity or the trust required for this mission critical moment.
This is NOT the time for more of the same old same old, and that’s what this current leadership represents I’m afraid. It’s why they went into this election with popularity ratings underwater.
This landslide was NOT about a ringing endorsement of the Democratic Party, it was a repudiation of a broken political system.
It’s time for a PEOPLE FIRST REVOLUTION. This is a once in a generation opportunity to deliver transformative change. GET IT DONE.
Oh and before I finish, why does Hakeem Jeffries put full stops in the most odd places in his totally irritating sentences? An orator he is not I’m afraid, yet in a comedic twist of irony, he’s about to become Speaker of the House. Democrats can and MUST do better.
They need to listen and READ THE ROOM, otherwise 2028 will be a repeat of 2024. It’s hard to hear I know, but sometimes the truth hurts and someone has to say it.
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Ytzen Terpstra 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 retweeted
Ossoff: Abroad, American credibility and leadership are in decay, and the world is rearming for global conflict. And at our grave peril, humanity is fast forgetting the terrible lessons of two World Wars and the Holocaust.
Meanwhile, the titans of Silicon Valley dig bunkers for themselves and warn that the artificial intelligence they're creating risks human extinction.
And amidst these challenges of unprecedented consequence and complexity, though we rightly celebrate tonight's historic victory, the fact is we’ve been too long mired in a small and selfish politics, bought by big money, unmoored from fixed moral principles, and resigned to intractable division.
In other words, the United States has been adrift in a gale.
But, Georgia, we can and will reclaim control over our own destiny.
Ytzen Terpstra 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 retweeted
Bizarre kindermarketing:
"Lesmateriaal" suggereert dat dieren in de bio-industrie van hun boeren zouden houden🤨
En Jagersvereniging promoot in kindermagazine de drijfjacht😡
@PartijvdDieren stelt het aan de kaak in #onderwijsdebat
@LammertvanRaan
Ytzen Terpstra 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 retweeted
This guy is incredible.
I've been in politics for a quarter century. It's hard to express how staggering it is to see a conversation like this on corporate US media. The Morning Joe panel gobsmacked by the directness of @AbdulElSayed's points.
(clip via @DropSiteNews)
Onder de foto bij het artikel staat dat de bijdrage voor “ een leuke verassing” is 😳 Zouden er velen een bijdrage willen leveren?
Rijken en hun lakeien zijn de schaamte voorbij.
Wat je aan je personeel vraagt is een (digitaal) kaartje te tekenen en dat is het dan.
telegraaf.nl/financieel/mass…
Ytzen Terpstra 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 retweeted
Rijken en hun lakeien zijn de schaamte voorbij.
Wat je aan je personeel vraagt is een (digitaal) kaartje te tekenen en dat is het dan.
telegraaf.nl/financieel/mass…
Ytzen Terpstra 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 retweeted
Serial killer with a gun demands potential targets give up their bulletproof vests to advance peace deal.
Jared Kushner seems to be saying here that the United States is prepared to put NATO's military presence in Eastern Europe on the negotiating table as part of a deal to end the war in Ukraine.
It means that that Putin's long-standing demands to demilitarise NATO's eastern flank could become part of the bargaining.
This has been coming for some time. Russia has demanded restrictions on NATO's military presence in Central and Eastern Europe for years.
And when Steve Witkoff met Vladimir Putin in St Petersburg last month, he said, according to Putin, that discussions about a new European security architecture should be part of the agenda.
This is alarming for Poland and eastern flank countries.
They will be asking what Washington might actually be prepared to concede in negotiations with Moscow.
Poland is currently negotiating with Washington over a permanent American military base on its territory.
Ytzen Terpstra 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 retweeted
‘A week before the midterms, we asked popular AI assistants 1,000 times about American politics, and 12.5% of the answers cited Kremlin propaganda such as usa.news-pravda.com, Russia Today and Sputnik’
dosimeteraudit.org/research/…
Ytzen Terpstra 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 retweeted
New reporting reveals Trump’s Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has between $18.1M-$64.4M invested in AI companies looking to build data centers.
Burgum has strongly advocated for using public lands to build data centers and stands to profit off their development.
Ytzen Terpstra 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 retweeted
This really just happened. Trump signed an executive order saying no one in the future can make major modifications to the Oval Office or Cabinet Room without Congressional Approval.
This comes after he literally tore apart an entire wing of the White House without Congressional approval.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Trump signed a proclamation (not an executive order) designating the Oval Office and Cabinet Room a national monument. The text does not require congressional approval for modifications and explicitly allows presidents to redecorate.
whitehouse.gov/presidential-a…
apnews.com/article/trump-…
Ytzen Terpstra 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 retweeted
The day after the midterms, the stock market went up. Trump took credit.
Today, the market crashed. Trump blames Democrats.
Imagine still taking this narcissistic buffoon seriously
The man is delusional #TrumpOut
Ytzen Terpstra 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 retweeted
I read JD Vance's post on this site yesterday and at first I was shocked. The Vice President all but admitted that his own administration made a mistake going to war with Iran. I can't think of a sitting VP breaking with his President this publicly in my lifetime.
And at first glance his analysis seems spot on. His first prescription is to end the war. A war that he and the President, until this week, refused to even call a war.
It's hard to disagree with him. But like everything MAGA, the thread of truth is there to hide the larger truth. And the larger truth is this.
Tuesday was the greatest repudiation of a sitting President by voters in the history of this country.
Not a repudiation of a policy. A repudiation of a man.
The message was not only about Iran or Israel or slogans or even the price at the pump. The message was simple.
WE ARE DONE WITH DONALD TRUMP.
We are done with his lies. We are done with the corruption and the gaslighting. We are done with the insanity. We are done with the cruelty.
The message from Mississippi to Iowa, from Kansas to Maine, from North Carolina to Texas, young and old, North and South, East and West, was the same.
Fuck Donald Trump.
This country desperately needs a healthy Republican Party. A party with room for Mitt Romney and Thomas Massie, for Chris Christie and (I can't believe I'm saying this) Marjorie Taylor Greene. A party that puts this constitutional republic above the interests of one man. A party that knows the difference between a Ken Paxton and a John Cornyn, between a Vivek Ramaswamy and a Mike DeWine.
That is the message voters sent on Tuesday, with more ballots cast than in any midterm in American history.
WE ARE DONE WITH DONALD TRUMP.
The sooner the brave members of whatever remains of the Republican Party understand that, the sooner we can begin to heal.
I hope Democrats in Congress heard it too. Voters sent the same message in 2020, and we failed to make it stick. I for one don't think this country can afford 26 more months of this madness before we do the one thing voters just demanded in historic numbers.
Trump needs to leave, and he needs to leave now.
All it would take this January is eleven Republican senators willing to acknowledge the existential threat this lawless President poses to the country and the world. Eleven brave Republicans need to stand up and end this madness. Save their party. Save the country.
It's up to all of us to give them the courage to do what's right.
Ytzen Terpstra 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 retweeted
Wrong. He said it would be over after a week of bombing. Said the people would rise up, there would be regime change, a pro-US Iranian govt would take power, and we would make tons of money from Iran’s oil just like Venezuela. That’s EXACTLY what he said was going to happen.
