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“AND YOU STILL DARE TO OPEN YOUR MOUTH…”
Sasha Legerman: This is too accurate not to share.
This Australian’s response to Trump’s rant that “NATO does nothing for America” is absolutely devastating:
“Mate. You run a country where 600,000 homeless people will sleep on the streets tonight.
A country where 40% of adults can’t cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money.
A country where insulin costs more than a car payment, and people ration it just to stay alive.
A country where medical debt is the number one cause of bankruptcy.
A country where women die in hospital parking lots because doctors are too afraid of abortion laws to treat miscarriages.
You imprison more of your own citizens than any country on Earth.
More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea.
In the land of the free, 2 million people sit in cages, and a quarter of them haven’t even been convicted of anything.
They’re simply too poor to afford bail.
Your life expectancy is declining. You’re the only developed nation where that’s happening.
Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba’s.
Your children practice active shooter drills between math and English classes while you sell defense stocks to your friends.
Your minimum wage hasn’t changed in 15 years.
Your teachers work two jobs, your veterans sleep under bridges, and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that never attacked you.
And now a convicted criminal — found liable for sexual abuse, defending a pedophile, sleeping with a porn star, and running the biggest dumpster-fire campaign since the Taliban — is thanking you for yet another disaster.
And you call Greenland badly governed?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world.
Nobody there goes bankrupt because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because insurance refused treatment.
‘NATO wasn’t there when we needed them.’
When exactly was that, champ?
September 11?
Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU.
Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU.
Australia wasn’t even in NATO, and we still showed up. For twenty years.
And then you left at 2 a.m. without telling anyone and left everybody else to clean up the mess.
You don’t care that a great nation is being terrorized by your friend, and you haven’t shown it a single ounce of sympathy.
So maybe before calling other countries badly governed, take a look at your own backyard, you aluminum siding salesman with a spray tan.
The only thing badly managed in this picture is your damn mouth.
And you still dare to lecture the rest of the world?”
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Freedom of Expression Index 2024
1. Denmark🇩🇰
2. Ireland🇮🇪
3. Switzerland🇨🇭
4. Belgium🇧🇪
5. Estonia🇪🇪
6. Czechia🇨🇿
7. France🇫🇷
8. Luxembourg🇱🇺
9. New Zealand🇳🇿
10. Finland🇫🇮
11. Sweden🇸🇪
12. Norway🇳🇴
13. Canada🇨🇦
14. Australia🇦🇺
15. Germany🇩🇪
16. Lithuania🇱🇹
17. Brazil🇧🇷
18. Latvia🇱🇻
19. Chile🇨🇱
20. Jamaica🇯🇲
21. Uruguay🇺🇾
22. Austria🇦🇹
23. UK🇬🇧
24. Costa Rica🇨🇷
25. Poland🇵🇱
26. Iceland🇮🇸
31. Portugal🇵🇹
32. USA🇺🇸
33. Netherlands🇳🇱
39. Spain🇪🇸
42. Japan🇯🇵
43. Taiwan🇹🇼
45. Italy🇮🇹
46. Colombia🇨🇴
51. South Africa🇿🇦
52. Israel🇮🇱
55. Greece🇬🇷
57. Nepal🇳🇵
64. Slovakia🇸🇰
69. Korea🇰🇷
75. Argentina🇦🇷
79. Ecuador🇪🇨
80. Paraguay🇵🇾
81. Slovenia🇸🇮
83. Armenia🇦🇲
84. Peru🇵🇪
85. Romania🇷🇴
87. Indonesia🇮🇩
88. Lebanon🇱🇧
89. Bolivia🇧🇴
93. Georgia🇬🇪
94. Moldova🇲🇩
95. Tanzania🇹🇿
98. Mongolia🇲🇳
99. Mexico🇲🇽
101. Philippines🇵🇭
109. Malaysia🇲🇾
113. Cameroon🇨🇲
114. Morocco🇲🇦
118. Pakistan🇵🇰
123. Thailand🇹🇭
126. Uganda🇺🇬
128. Hungary🇭🇺
129. India🇮🇳
132. Serbia🇷🇸
133. Ukraine🇺🇦
135. El Salvador🇸🇻
136. Zimbabwe🇿🇼
137. Kazakhstan🇰🇿
139. Algeria🇩🇿
141. Singapore🇸🇬
142. Hong Kong🇭🇰
144. Bangladesh🇧🇩
149. Iran🇮🇷
150. Venezuela🇻🇪
152. Egypt🇪🇬
153. Türkiye🇹🇷
154. Burundi🇧🇮
155. Cambodia🇰🇭
156. Rwanda🇷🇼
159. Vietnam🇻🇳
161. Azerbaijan🇦🇿
164. Cuba🇨🇺
165. Afghanistan🇦🇫
166. Saudi Arabia🇸🇦
167. Russia🇷🇺
170. UAE🇦🇪
171. Qatar🇶🇦
172. Myanmar🇲🇲
173. China🇨🇳
174. Turkmenistan🇹🇲
176. Belarus🇧🇾
177. Nicaragua🇳🇮
179. North Korea🇰🇵
@OurWorldInData
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BREAKING: Sir Keir Starmer announces a four step plan to stop the fighting in Ukraine.
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This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.
This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
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Oligarchs are waging a war on the working class, and they are intent on winning.
But this is what I know:
The worst fear that the ruling class in this country has is that Americans come together to demand a government that represents all of us, not just the wealthy few.
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☃️Season's Greetings from the TEPSA Secretariat🎅
We would like to thank all of our followers for the European discussions we've had in 2024, and here's to more of the same in 2025 🍾🥂
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🧐Have you read our #TEPSArecommendations?
We asked experts to give us their views and policy advice for the incoming Polish Presidency of the Council. 🇵🇱
Find the full text here 👉tepsa.eu/policy-advice/recom…
@Carnegie_Europe @IAIonline @EUI_Schuman @LIIA_LV @VisegradInsight
Dare I go back to de Gaulle to look for inspiration? Yes I do. Read below.
tepsa.eu/analysis/time-for-a…
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#NewPublication 👉 a #BookReview by our Secretary-General @CloosJim: "Antifragile: Things that gain from disorder" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Read in full 📖 tepsa.eu/analysis/antifragil…
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Read @CloosJim's recent editorial looking at the causes of disintegration of social cohesion and the rise of polarisation in European and world politics 👉 tepsa.eu/analysis/disintegra…
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🗓️ On August 2⃣7⃣ our Secretary-General @CloosJim will speak at the @forumalpbach to discuss the previous @EU_Commission cycle (and preview the next one) alongside @mariademertzis, @spornschlegel & @EnricoLetta
Learn more 👉 alpbach.org/sessions/closing…
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Check out the new @EgmontInstitute policy brief by @CloosJim & @GilesMerritt 👉 at the outset of a new institutional cycle they give recommendations informed by the challenges that will have to be addressed ⤵️
📄𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗣𝗨𝗕𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡
The future team for the EU Commission seems to be on track to take over in the autumn, this is a message to the incumbents and their teams in view of the decisions they will have to take #EUGovernance @CloosJim @GilesMerritt @EgmontInstitute @tepsaeu
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How does the 🇪🇺#EU accession process work?
In this talk with @tepsaeu, I explain what we mean when we talk of "adopting the EU acquis", "fundamentals" and "clusters".
Learn more in our full #EuropeChats interview 👉 youtube.com/watch?v=kMUTIok_…
#EUEnlargement
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‼️New #EuropeChats 👉 in our latest episode TEPSA Executive Director Mariam Khotenashvili sits down with Erik Jones, Director of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, to discuss all things 🇪🇺 #enlargement, #democracy, and #security
youtube.com/watch?v=ZKQHswz4…
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Jacques Delors a accompli l’exploit de relancer l’Europe en s’appuyant sur l’économie.
Il était aussi convaincu que l’Europe devait jouer pleinement son rôle dans le monde.
Avec liberté et solidarité comme valeurs humanistes à promouvoir face aux bouleversements du monde.
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🤩We are thrilled that @dreynders, European Commissioner for Justice, has agreed to speak at the #RADARdisinfo Policy Conference on Friday 🗓️
👉 We can't wait to share our #YouthRecommendations on fighting #disinformation with him!
Learn more ➡️ tepsa.eu/events/save-the-dat…
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These are all the countries whose perspectives are featured in our new book on 🇪🇺 #enlargement 👉 we gathered 60 authors to give us their analysis and recommendations
➡️ tepsa.eu/book-on-the-future-…
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📚#NewPublication‼️ In this year's first edition of the Reading Corner, TEPSA Secretary-General @CloosJim gives his TOP 10 book recommendations for 2⃣0⃣2⃣4⃣
👉 tepsa.eu/analysis/jims-readi…
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We are proud that so many TEPSA members have been featured in the @EUCouncil Library's Think Tank Review: @CidobBarcelona, @Clingendaelorg, @epc_eu, @IAIonline & @UISweden are all there 👉 And our latest European Council Experts' Debrief also features!❤️
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