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But why oh why do these tariffs exist on us? Good thing the Old Media, like Old Europe, is dead.

U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld touched a nerve in Europe this week, dividing the continent into what he called "old Europe" and "new Europe." Reaction from France and Germany -- which Rumsfeld put squarely in the "old" category -- was swift and harsh. But the U.S. official's underlying point cannot be denied. On Iraq, divisions in Europe appear to run deep, with the main fault line falling between NATO's "older" European members and its new ones. Prague, 24 January 2003 (RFE/RL) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld this week put his finger on an uncomfortable division in Europe with his comment that the continent could be broken into "old" and "new" categories -- at least with respect to its thinking on Iraq. Rumsfeld, responding to a reporter's question on 22 January about "European" opposition to the use of force in Iraq, said the reporter meant France and Germany, which were part of "old" Europe. He contrasted them with the vitality of the "new" Europe -- made up in large part of NATO's new, formerly communist, inductees. "You're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's 'old Europe.' If you look at the entire NATO Europe today, the center of gravity is shifting to the East. And there are a lot of new members. And if you just take the list of all the members of NATO and all of those who have been invited in recently -- what is it, 26, something like that? [But] you're right. Germany has been a problem, and France has been a problem. https://www.rferl.org/amp/1102012.html

That was 25 years ago. And you were probably only 1 at the time, but Western Europe was not as “helpful” as you seem to think. It got to the point Donald Rumsfeld was essentially saying - to heck with Old (Western) Europe - the future is New Eastern Europe - former Soviet bloc territory. Bc the Old Europe was not so eager to help. We had to play World Police in Afghanistan. Which, fine. We will defend FREEDOM (not democracy) around the world. Western Europe no longer values FREEDOM. They are the Fascists now. They are not our friends. They are friends with the globalists statists. They do NOTHING for us. If your policies don’t start with “how can we provide more freedom and more individual freedoms” then gtfo.

Putin, Ukraine, France, Britain, Romania - all f***ing suck and are not worth our time. They are banana republics.

EXPLAINED: How The Lawfare Against Marine Le Pen Led to Her Prison Sentence and Politics Ban. A French court convicted Marine Le Pen, leader of the populist National Rally (RN) party, on March 31, 2025, of “embezzling” European Parliament funds—but make no mistake, the move was nothing short of politically orchestrated lawfare. Prosecutors alleged that from 2004 to 2017, during her time as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP), Le Pen and 24 co-defendants funneled over €3 million (~$3.2 million) earmarked for assistants to support their Brussels-based parliamentary work into party operations in France. For this, she received a four-year prison term—two years suspended, two under house arrest—a $108,000 fine, and a five-year ban from public office, slamming the door on a projected 2027 presidential election triumph. To be clear, RN doesn’t deny Le Pen’s assistants performed RN work. They argue that, as the leader of a national movement, advancing the RN platform she was elected on was a perfectly legitimate part of their work—particularly when it comes to fighting European Union overreach into national affairs. “Parliamentary assistants do not work for the Parliament. They are political assistants to elected officials, political by definition,” she argued at trial. “Their role is to assist us in our political work, which is inseparable from our mandate as elected representatives.” Such work is commonplace, even standard, among MEPs’ assistants, and the fact that Le Pen is being singled out is a dead giveaway of bias from a judiciary in lockstep with France’s liberal elite and the EU she’s vowed to defy. Even if you accept that Le Pen violated some technical, selectively enforced interpretation of the European Parliament’s rules around assistants, the 56-year-old’s sentence is clearly disproportionate. Contrast the iron fist used against her with Christine Lagarde’s velvet-glove treatment. In 2016, Lagarde, then France’s finance minister—later head of the International Monetary Fund, and now the head of the European Central Bank—was convicted of negligence over a €404 million (~$428 million) payout to businessman Bernard Tapie. The court ruled her guilty but handed down no punishment at all—no fine, no jail, no ban. She sailed into one of Europe’s top jobs without consequence. The EU playbook is clear: when populists like Le Pen and Georgescu surge, the EU doesn’t seek to defeat them at the ballot box; it shuts them out. Americans should be thankful similar partisan efforts to stop Donald Trump from standing last November failed, but they should be wary of the way Europe is normalizing such behavior. https://thenationalpulse.com/2025/03/31/explained-how-the-lawfare-against-marine-le-pen-led-to-her-prison-sentence-and-politics-ban/

With the 3rd pick in the draft, the New York Football Giants select CB/WR/best player in the draft Travis Hunter, Colorado. QB will wait till day 2. And if this were a trade draft, we’d be taking calls - and we would look to trade back and draft Sanders later in round 1. We can’t pass up Hunter here. Stack elite talent - at least if drafting one doesn’t pan out, we need to make the roster as attractive as possible for a vet QB that may be on the move in a trade. We shall see. The Patriots and @section122 are on the clock.

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They are not our friends.

No. I was out in public maskless around people as soon as the 15 days was over and it was confirmed a fraud. By April 1 of 2020 when Trump started talking about being open on Easter and you cried, that was indeed confirmed.

Because now she’s a threat "The judge emphasized that this was not about personal enrichment—Le Pen and her co-defendants didn’t pocket the money themselves—but rather a deliberate misuse of public funds." Again. This practice went on for over 20 years. In all that time, no one suggested it was a misuse of public funds until 2024.

You shouldn’t take an experimental vaccine if you did not want to because it still has not been approved by the FDA and some countries are now moving toward banning it. But you keep taking your advice from the people bought by Pfizer. No one is saying don’t take Tylenol if you’re sick. That’s the narrative you’ve created in your TDS rotted brain. No one is saying ignore all doctors. Literally no one. Btw - did you mean to include the doctors censored or fired for speaking out against the Covid policies or just the ones dancing in Tik Tok videos? But you do you and go get a 5th or 10th booster. The stupid. Especially considering in October of 2020 you had these same people telling you they would never take a vaccine fast tracked under a Trump administration.

Because at the time LeBron and the NBA only promoted “right think” and were talking of freaking boycotting the NBA All star game in Georgia bc it passed a law that made you show ID to vote. And all other things woke. Enes talked about China and the NBAs hypocrisy in doing business there while they railed during the summer of woke 2020 about how evil and bad America is. That is nothing like Hasek and his nonsense comments on the NHL and Ovi.

Don’t do drugs and post. The people that ignored downplayed and lied about the economy for 3 years - and didn’t give 2 ***ts about what would happen when you shut down the country for 18 plus months while pumping 8 trillion dollars into it - you don’t get to tell us whats suddenly the problem you are making up a cause to. “This is a mess.” Good God you people are truly insane.

I’m not sure our argument was ever just about his authority to do so. Rather, just a completely gross use of potential presidential power. Deporting illegals committing crimes? With no right to be here? Eliminating the agencies that all fall under your purview - for example - USAID can just permanently exist? Certain Federal workers can never be fired without what type of process exactly? If you now need full control of Congress and the Courts to get significant things done - explain how this is a democracy? Oooooooooooooooooooo that’s right - We aren’t.

We can just make it up. There is NO action by the executive a court cannot put on hold.

ONLY 6! Everyone relax! And it’s CBS News btw. Please put their whole quote: “The hospital confirms it has been investigating since December and has interviewed ten nurses, six of whom it says have differing brain tumors.” Are the other 4 still being determined? Frightening still to this day how this flu fell along partisan lines.

That’s all well and good. But did something in their radiation procedures change in the last 5 years? Should be easy to figure that out. And they absolutely would have by now.

No. This is why judges blocking the attempts by DOGE to cut worthless federal jobs is something you should oppose. Cash. Jobs. No difference.