Raining fire, righteously and rightfully.

Is manipulating the markets really backing down?

It definitely reads like a bad copy/paste from somewhere.

I've never seen a population more united. If people can hold onto that unity, if people can accept that different people will have different ways of confronting fascism, if we can remind NGOs and orgs that they can join but not control the resistance, then, well, people here will write history.

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This may just be a market manipulation interlude.

The U.S. stock market grievously underperformed Europe and Asia in 2025. It shouldn’t have. It did not “do well” relative to the rest of the world.

Here’s the quote you say shows flexibility: “I think that we will work something out, where NATO is going to be very happy and where we're going to be very happy. But we need it for security purposes. We need it for national security and even world security. It's very important.” No compromise there

Source?

I know there’s no malice intended here, but I recommend saying “American” or “American citizen” instead of “legal citizen,” which is a proxy for “wasn’t born here.” The day after naturalization, a new citizen is as American as any Mayflower descendant.

Without the CPB, your funding comes mostly from member stations, individuals, and corporations. Ironically, your poor work in this article suggests that you don’t want to anger your crony capitalist funders. But they’ll cut you off soon anyway - better to speak truth while you still can.

Too late.

NATO is gone. Only the obituary remains to be written.