Karsten Thiemann
George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽I'm trying hard to think how we’re safer but coming up with nada.
Ghostrunner@georgetakei pete did a great job demonstrating this despite the kowtowing of CNBC+ https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/s/jPUcph2uFm
K. E. Aplin🇺🇸🇨🇦@georgetakei I haven't felt this unsafe since waiting to be drafted for Viet Nam
mohs@georgetakei it's "make more room in trump's ass"-time, so he won't do any further dumb steps to destroy NATO.
tunneltoast@georgetakei he is playing good cop so european leaders like Sanchez can be bad cop, but isn’t Trump clearing out their military bases in some european countries? So soon Rutte doesnt have to suck up anymore ig, and he can say what he really thinks lol its good that a leader is this humble for the sake of ukraine and europe’s safety tho I respect mark for it but yh its annoying i also get that lol trump is annoying AF ffs
Koubik@georgetakei I want to know what Rutte is smoking ... must be a good stuff
Archaide 
@Cooba13 @georgetakei aparently the netherlands weed is something else. 😉 someone from eu has to pamper the orange baby. And now it's his turn.
Jens Finkhäuser@georgetakei The only reason that makes sense is spelled E-P-S-T-E-I-N, but is pronounced "world peace". English is a funny language.
GFIdk
Seiðr@georgetakei First the Dutch knew that Rutte is a spineless self-serving opportunist, then Europeans knew it, and now you USAmericans know.
Elizabeth Sudduth@Illuminatus @georgetakei Oh good. I'm glad that's common knowledge already. I heard him talking on NPR and it just blew my mind how much he was sucking up to Trump.
Sandor Spruit 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇺🇦🇨🇦@hydropsyche @Illuminatus @georgetakei And the best thing is: he also has a “selective memory”, can “forget” (…) todays disasters and do it again tomorrow! 🤪😬🙃
Corb_The_Lesser@georgetakei Road safety might be up because people can't afford to buy gas.
ZenDragoness//RES@Corb_The_Lesser @georgetakei perfect point!
MvRiederberg@georgetakei living in the rectum of the big orange leads to a blurred vision of the reality.
Speed demon 🇪🇺 🇳🇴🇺🇦🇵🇸@georgetakei Heard a psychologist on the radio today. Sucking up to a malignant narcissist is a losing strategy. Sober, factual statements is the safest long-term tactic. However, the narcissist rage will hit whenever his will is not fulfilled 100%, and fulfilling his demands is impossible. Trump will shift the blame when reality hits, and lash out at whoever happens to be in his sight. Trump will be in denial about reality and about his own responsibility, mentally like a toddler.
Mike Roach@georgetakei Gas is so expensive so fewer people are on the roads so fewer motorway injuries and deaths? That’s all I can think of.
@georgetakei Rutte is making a joke, there is a game called diplomacy, even if for example the usa do not participate any longer.
Su_G@WingedSnake
And in yhr game Diplomacy, as I recall, no one can ever take Russia without Türkiye. 😐
Eric@georgetakei In The Netherlands we already knew he is a spineless waste of space, but he seems to reach new depths every single day.
Thereverend4253@georgetakei Rutte has to go, this is insane!
twilwel antifascist@thereverend4253 @georgetakei please don’t send him back to Dutch politics. 🙏
@twilwel @georgetakei He's a jabroni, He needs to be out of NATO and out of politics in general
@twilwel @georgetakei I propose building a gigantic trebuchet and launching anti-humanity scum straight into the sun.
Theory: we don't have to stand for this absolute insanity and need to test if we can launch them straight into the sun 😂
Arnd Layer@thereverend4253
AFAIK, launching anything straight into the sun is much harder than you may assume. Let’s figure out a different target.
@iamlayer8 @twilwel @georgetakei I get your reasoning but a) humanity can push further and we can achieve far greater things we have ever done and b) I really want a gigantic trebuchet
@thereverend4253
Nothing from me against the trebuchet.
But a lot of test firings may be necessary to dial in the target.
… OH! 😁
Toni Aittoniemi@georgetakei Oh if it isn’t bootlicking Europe sellout Mark licking the boot and selling out! 🖕🏻🤬🤬🤬🤬
hindsight@gimulnautti And he's had plenty of practice this year...
I'd say he's almost perfect at it.
AJ #AntiFaDon't forget! we, the Dutch, had to cope over 15 years with this Rutte guy
StarkRG@georgetakei Yeah, sure, if by "the world" you mean "the military-industrial complex," by "safer" you mean "wealthier and more powerful," and by "leadership" you mean "willingness to commit atrocities and generally just make the world a worse place to live for the vast majority of people in order to make a few of his closest business acquaintances slightly more wealthy."
Paul Sutton (zleap)You probably need to define safer. But I really don't see how we are safer.
Bernard@georgetakei dit is toch wel een pareltje. VOC-mentaliteit in optima forma. Het land is trots op hem, met zo'n sterke leider als #MaffiaMaatjeRutte gaan we de oorlog wel winnen. Kan niet wachten op de golf van complimenten in de internationale media als die doorkrijgen dat #WimLex en #maxima een pyamaparty met veroordeeld verkrachter en uitbundig gedocumenteerd kinderverkrachter ( #EpsteinFiles? ) #DonCorleoneTrump in de resterende helft van het #WhiteHouse gaan houden. Zou #Melania ook meedoen?
decapitae@georgetakei They say lies in headline form, and their programmed base takes it as truth - same playbook as history shows pootins media destruction, same well-to-do and easily-swayed-to-violence crowd slurping it up. They are not processing things well, because of the state media lies and spin (before 2016 it was just their status and insulation that detached them from reality).
Pedro Quixote ‽ aka MultiVax@georgetakei its a damn sight more expensive
@georgetakei but presumably that was the plan
GJ Groothedde 🇪🇺@georgetakei I'm Dutch. Don't get me started on this Rutte character. 🤐
Snarkle@georgetakei I'm trying to think of one way the United States or the world is better off since Trump took office...
Anyone?
amalia
GrumpyDad 🇺🇦🇵🇸@georgetakei Rutte is in Trumps pocket
Kierkethumbs up convincingly@georgetakei i guess it’s a bit like how getting one’s cancer diagnosis is better than not getting checked?
hnapelRutte is a worse lapdog to Trump than Lavrov is for Putin.
Marion 🦋☀️@georgetakei
The way the men responsible are betraying the values of democracy to not enrage the wicked man in the west is abhorrent.
They are lost cowards, all of them. Unbelievable.
The way the men responsible are betraying the values of democracy to not enrage the wicked man in the west is abhorrent.
They are lost cowards, all of them. Unbelievable.
Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷@georgetakei
Rutte is on another planet. How depressing that he’s anywhere near any decision-making process. You can’t make good decisions if you don’t recognise reality.
Rutte is on another planet. How depressing that he’s anywhere near any decision-making process. You can’t make good decisions if you don’t recognise reality.
spdrnl@KimSJ @georgetakei Rutte is deep into neurolinguistic programming. Loosely, into parroting someone's idiom to excert influence. There is no vision, insight. That is what he is known for in the Netherlands. It is uncanny.
Ivan DjansazovHe is a doormat!
GinevraCat
Gemma 👽@georgetakei Rutte is just brownnosing Trump cos he's trying to hold NATO together. 
Els ten Napel
Fubaroque@georgetakei Rutte is a liar. Fact. Everybody here in the Netherlands has seen the evidence and knows it.
He promised to restore confidence (in him)... didn't happen. All he did was get angry when people referred to his lying.
I have no idea why anybody would think making him head of Nato was a good idea. 🤮
Agitatra 🚲🐻🌿🇪🇺🇺🇦@fubaroque @georgetakei If I remeber it correctly, dutch politicians wanted to get rid of him and saw this job as an appropriate sideline.
derptron@georgetakei This is a really easy one.
He didn't mention us at all.
The answer to this question very much depends on who you think the world should be safer for. You, George, are the one who said "us". He did not.
Arjen van Tol@georgetakei I think Rutte is right.
The situation in the Middle-East was unsafe to begin with. In that sense, no big changes except Iran is dealing to rebuild etc.
Other big side-effect: because of the complete shitshow of the current US administration lead by Trump, Europe woke up. Spendings on defence was never this high, so in essence Rutte is right (and probably somewhat sarcastic).
Deejacker@georgetakei Are they forced to drink the kool-aid, or do you think they drink it willingly???
stony kark@georgetakei mark rutte is in the epstein files
Aussiemandias@georgetakei I wish Europe would grow some balls. All those years of subservience has made them weak. The EU is huge, diverse and potentially very powerful. #Europe
@Aussiemandias Have some patience, we're getting there.
Sharon McCarthy@georgetakei Jake - ask the question, "For WHOM?!" Watch Rutte sputter. Who is safer? Vile white men, pedos, rapists, fascists and Isreal.
Richard R Lee@georgetakei Rutte needs to go