Sharon R retweeted
A lot of what Trump has done can be undone the minute he’s gone. THIS, however, cannot: the fact that all of America's allies now know that in any four year period, a single man can rip up all treaties, social norms, and economic partnerships.
America is no longer a country they can trust.
America is no longer a country with which long-term deals can be made.
America is no longer a country that prioritizes peace.
Most countries will likely grow their military as a result.
Most countries will likely make deals with other countries as a result.
This damage will likely take more than a generation to START to be undone, if ever.
And THAT will be MAGA’s legacy.
Sharon R retweeted
Hard to overstate how big a failure DOGE was. The government slashed its workforce without meaningfully shrinking the government’s overall footprint. So taxpayers got a less capable bureaucracy while spending billions paying people not to work. It was mostly performance art.
The cost of DOGE: The Trump administration paid federal employees $9.5 billion not to work during 2025, GAO finds nytimes.com/2026/09/15/us/po…
Sharon R retweeted
We sometimes hear that Russia only wants limited territorial concessions in eastern Ukraine.
It doesn’t.
Ceding that territory would force Ukrainian troops out of fortified positions. Add Moscow’s demand for immediate elections, and the broader aim becomes clear: political collapse — followed by the takeover of Ukraine.
We have seen this playbook before.
In 1939, Moscow demanded limited basing rights from Estonia. Less than a year later, we were occupied and annexed.
Territory is the means. Ukraine is the objective.
Let’s not fall for it.
Sharon R retweeted
Giving away a Legion Go S Windows edition handheld this month only in our Legion Gaming Community!
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Sharon R retweeted
Every single part of the story President Trump told today about South Korea's military cost-sharing spending is wrong:
- "They essentially weren't paying" for the US troop presence before Trump's first term? Actually the US cost-sharing deals with South Korea have existed since 1991; Trump secured an incremental 8.2% increase, not some transformational boost
- Trump got South Korea to agree to "$3 billion" a year and that it would go up every year? No, SK agreed to pay less than $1 billion even with that 8.2% increase, and it was a one-year deal; negotiations on a longer-term arrangement were unresolved when Trump left office
- Then the 2020 election was rigged? No
- South Korea then called Biden, declared it shouldn't be paying, and Biden "immediately rescinded" the "order" for SK to pay? No, Biden actually secured two new deals with further increases in South Korea's payments: 1) a 2021 deal with a 13.9% SK increase and then 2022-thru-2025 increases tied to SK's defense budget increases; 2) a 2024 deal with an 8.3% increase in 2026 and additional increases tied to South Korean inflation.
Sharon R retweeted
Ossoff: When he first announced the tariffs, you remember that? He called it Liberation Day, and it crashed the markets because it was clown policy. You remember that?
OK, so follow me through on this. He announces the tariffs on April 2 of last year. The markets tank nonstop for like a week because it’s a disastrous trade policy, and six days into the crash, April 8, Trump buys millions in stock. I’m talking Amazon, Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft, Berkshire Hathaway, and then the very next morning, April 9, he posts on Truth Social, quote, “This is a great time to buy.” Three exclamation marks.
OK, now listen to this. Three hours and 41 minutes after that post, one day after he bought millions in stock, he canceled the tariffs and triggered one of the biggest same-day rebound rallies in market history.
He’s trying to get money. And you saw, now he’s offering paid subscriptions to presidential announcements, right? Just understand what’s for sale here: The sitting president’s pronouncements on war and peace and economic policy delivered first to paying customers.
What an absolute crook.
Sharon R retweeted
Periodic reminder that virtually every major elected official claims, or tries to claim, that they are an outsider, a rebel, a maverick taking on “the establishment.” The President, Vice President, and speaker of the House talk that way. So did Barack Obama. Ted Cruz. Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, AOC, Jim Jordan do it, when their party is in power and out. When they are committee chairs or ranking members etc. Even partisan media does it. Everyone wants to be “the resistance” to some nebulous establishment no one claims membership in.
You can’t run a stable, serious, government when the people in power refuse to accept responsibility for being in power. None of them are “outsiders” taking on “elites.” They are all insiders and elites blaming other elites for their collective failure to do their jobs.
Sharon R retweeted
Vaccines do not cause autism
Vaccine doses are nowhere close to “the size of a bottle of soda,” they’re a fraction of a teaspoon
The combo MMR vaccine is not “quite lethal,” it’s been very safe for more than five decades
There are no separate M/M/R shots available in the US and won’t be anytime soon
Autism prevalence wasn’t “1 in 10,000” in 2006, it was 1 in 110
No state has been requiring little kids to get “72 jabs,” nor even by age 18
Fact check on the rapid-fire vaccine misinformation President Trump delivered yesterday while pushing to change US vaccine policy: cnn.com/2026/08/11/politics/…
Sharon R retweeted
President Trump moments ago, again: "I saw this early on and I've seen proof of it - where they have a vaccination (that) looks like the size of a bottle of soda poured into a little child's body."
In reality, childhood vaccine doses are a small fraction of a teaspoon.
Sharon R retweeted
For the first time in its history, Russia cannot wage war without reinforcements from North Korea. It is now preparing to deploy an additional North Korean contingent on its territory. It has also received additional ballistic missiles from North Korea. Everyone around the world must understand what this means.
This is not only about the lives of people in Ukraine, and not only about the threats we face. North Korea’s ballistic missiles and other weapons are being improved through its collaboration with Russia. The more North Korean strikes there are here in Ukraine, in Europe, the more their missiles and soldiers are used, the more they correct their shortcomings and blind spots, the greater the danger will later be for Japan, the Republic of Korea, the Philippines, and other countries in the region.
That is why, when we speak about the need for joint action, for coordination and mutual support, when we speak about the need to help us strengthen our air defense, we are also, in fact, speaking about taking away North Korea’s appetite and any interest in coming here – to our land and into our skies – with its weapons in order to learn how to wage war. Everyone across the globe who respects human life must stand together in taking action to protect people.
From the evening address.
Sharon R retweeted
Anyone who has spent more than five minutes looking at this issue or talking to abuse survivors knows that victims of domestic violence are desperate to feel safe, and they can believe (at least for some time) that appeasement works. Cooking. Sex. Professions of love. etc. All are tried to make the violence stop.
Get this man out of Congress.
Sharon R retweeted
How about we stop looking for "authenticity" in politicians and instead look for virtue?
Sharon R retweeted
Require SAT/ACT scores for all applicants, say UC's non-STEM professors. "Without foundational literacy," students struggle in all fields.
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Sharon R retweeted
I find it incredibly easy to believe. Pratt basically performed at his poll numbers, in a city that is bluer than the county and in a county that is bluer than a very blue state. Bass is establishment Dem (not by her resume but by virtue of her incumbency) at a time of surging leftwing populism. The idea that either of the Democrat candidates wouldn’t have preferred to run against Pratt is preposterous. So the conspiracy to tank Pratt would have to be against the wishes of both candidates who benefitted from this conspiracy. Also, the forces that tanked Pratt were fine with letting the Trump backed Republican gubernatorial candidate make it to the general? Really? Also the demographics of Raman voters are perfectly consonant with the habits of young voters. Last, California’s incompetence at counting votes has yielded GOP wins in the past. Assuming that the same delays now “prove” anything other than consistently lethargic counting is a giant logical error.
Meanwhile, the fact that a lot of low information people think it was obviously stolen means nothing to me in terms of how to think about the facts, but you’re right that it matters politically and culturally. That people who should know better are letting their motivated reasoning get the better of them and are stoking this belief matters more.
Sharon R retweeted
Absolutely insane levels of corruption happening right before your eyes.
The Humanities aren't dying because of STEM, they are dying because teachers and professors have made the study of literature and history miserable. If you have a kid in your life in high school or college, you already know what I mean!
What A.I. Kant Do nytimes.com/2026/05/16/opini…
Sharon R retweeted
Maybe not just one song or even two. But maybe three or four. All these years on this journey of faith and I’m still astonished by the power that praising God has on the human heart. And not just the heart. The eyes, the way worship can clear the fog. The ears, the way praise can unlock our capacity to hear.
Come to Jesus in your true condition. Praise his name then praise him still. Praise him till that hard shell on your heart cracks wide open and you are broken free.