They love chaos and conflict. Some of the protestors love chaos and conflict. You seem willing to call out the protestors for their role while remaining blithely unconcerned about the fondness Miller, Lewandowski, Noem, and Miller have for conflict. Also about how chaos is an ongoing part of the President’s MO.
Russia is collapsing under the weight of the war they started. In the 1980's, Reagan saw a similar situation, though much less dire, as an opportunity to break the USSR because they were anti democracy, anti US, and threatened world peace. Today, Trump sees this as Russia needing a lifeline. So Trump is cutting weapons to Ukraine and dragging out peace negotiations. Putin wants to break the US and Trump is willing to help if it makes him money and keeps him in power. The Republica party has enabled this. What a precipitous fall from the Reagan years.
^ This is why Trump is demanding an additional $10B to further fund the expansion of private police force (ICE). How many Trump loving trolls will jump on the train for money: sally, disco, jamin?
Russia is collapsing under the weight of the war they started. In the 1980's, Reagan saw a similar situation, though much less dire, as an opportunity to break the USSR because they were anti democracy, anti US, and threatened world peace. Today, Trump sees this as Russia needing a lifeline. So Trump is cutting weapons to Ukraine and dragging out peace negotiations. Putin wants to break the US and Trump is willing to help if it makes him money and keeps him in power. The Republica party has enabled this. What a precipitous fall from the Reagan years.
There is a belief out there that I felt was a bit to conspiratorial for my taste. It is that China gets the Far East. Russia gets Ukraine and some of Europe and the US gets North and South America.
Still don't fully go along with this one. But it is hard to argue against it when you look at Trump's actions. If he had done the opposite of what he did with Ukraine and Russia, Russia would very likely have been close to collapse.
But this conspiratorial belief require one to believe there is a master strategy with Trump and that is almost certainly never the case.
Trump won't get Canada or Greenland. The EU will add both to their Union.
There is a belief out there that I felt was a bit to conspiratorial for my taste. It is that China gets the Far East. Russia gets Ukraine and some of Europe and the US gets North and South America.
Still don't fully go along with this one. But it is hard to argue against it when you look at Trump's actions. If he had done the opposite of what he did with Ukraine and Russia, Russia would very likely have been close to collapse.
But this conspiratorial belief require one to believe there is a master strategy with Trump and that is almost certainly never the case.
Trump won't get Canada or Greenland. The EU will add both to their Union.
For me, it’s always been part of the answer against the “but what do you dislike about his policies?” folks: His very essence is …
Yet another take on issues that underlie some of the reasons why a Trump administration is all but certain to be much much worse than any other Republican administration (that’s among people likely to be able to govern, not like Boebert or somebody similar):
Conservative on X replying to someone who thinks he’s just siding with Libs in calling for Noem’s ouster: ”Aside from shooting dogs, Noem is a useless political opportunist who prioritizes scoring social media points over keeping agents safe and getting results.
She’s sidelined competent people who know what they are doing, such as Tom Homan, because they won’t pander to her nonsense.
Her public comments, often filled with unnecessary falsehoods and inexplicable tangents, have significantly undermined trust in DHS when it is needed most. That has put the agents actually carrying out these complicated operations in greater danger and is risked the entire Trump admin immigration policy agenda.
Anyone who actually cares about gaining support for immigration enforcement and effectively carrying out such policies should want her gone.”
There are competent people in the administration, but they are too few and far between. The president selects people first and foremost for loyalty, then for other shallow qualities, then possibly for competence. All the followers who rail against DEI, presumably primarily because it leaves incompetent people in important positions, have little problem with the way competence gets sidelined in Trump’s way of doing things.
Trump won't get Canada or Greenland. The EU will add both to their Union.
Greenland is part of Denmark (for now), moran...
Deer Trumpers: Trump has been president for over a year. As far as I know, we’ve done little or nothing to fortify Greenland in that time, nor have we planned much, or anything, to do so. We COULD have done whatever we wanted in the last year. We COULD have started turning it into a fortress (and lord knows that the GOP wouldn’t mind going further into debt to do so). But zilch.
Of course, it’s 100% a shallow, bullying Trump map fantasy. But he lied to you and said that it was about security. And you pretended to buy it. Of course.
Deer Trumpers: Trump has been president for over a year. As far as I know, we’ve done little or nothing to fortify Greenland in that time, nor have we planned much, or anything, to do so. We COULD have done whatever we wanted in the last year. We COULD have started turning it into a fortress (and lord knows that the GOP wouldn’t mind going further into debt to do so). But zilch.
Of course, it’s 100% a shallow, bullying Trump map fantasy. But he lied to you and said that it was about security. And you pretended to buy it. Of course.
Look how much land Greenland would be. And it'd have a ton of resources as well, as well as being an incredibly important strategic location. It'd be the Louisiana purchase of our time.
Yet another take on issues that underlie some of the reasons why a Trump administration is all but certain to be much much worse than any other Republican administration (that’s among people likely to be able to govern, not like Boebert or somebody similar):
Conservative on X replying to someone who thinks he’s just siding with Libs in calling for Noem’s ouster: ”Aside from shooting dogs, Noem is a useless political opportunist who prioritizes scoring social media points over keeping agents safe and getting results.
She’s sidelined competent people who know what they are doing, such as Tom Homan, because they won’t pander to her nonsense.
Her public comments, often filled with unnecessary falsehoods and inexplicable tangents, have significantly undermined trust in DHS when it is needed most. That has put the agents actually carrying out these complicated operations in greater danger and is risked the entire Trump admin immigration policy agenda.
Anyone who actually cares about gaining support for immigration enforcement and effectively carrying out such policies should want her gone.”
There are competent people in the administration, but they are too few and far between. The president selects people first and foremost for loyalty, then for other shallow qualities, then possibly for competence. All the followers who rail against DEI, presumably primarily because it leaves incompetent people in important positions, have little problem with the way competence gets sidelined in Trump’s way of doing things.
Loyalty is key. He was burned FAR too much in his first term by picking people who weren't fully loyal to him and his agenda. He learned a ton over the 4 years he was out of office, and now he's picked people based on how devoted they are to fully implementing his America-first agenda.
I don't know how the government accounts for the bagman's missing $50K large. This isn't hiring Mexicans off the books. It's hiring bagmens ON the books. So where does the $50K get ledgered? "Legal expenses"? "Miscellaneous"? "Argentina Slush"? Which goddam account? We don't even know what agency budget it's under. Jesus Christ. You'd think DOG or GOA would find the goddam Homan money. The American taxpayer deserves answers here.
Deer Trumpers: Trump has been president for over a year. As far as I know, we’ve done little or nothing to fortify Greenland in that time, nor have we planned much, or anything, to do so. We COULD have done whatever we wanted in the last year. We COULD have started turning it into a fortress (and lord knows that the GOP wouldn’t mind going further into debt to do so). But zilch.
Of course, it’s 100% a shallow, bullying Trump map fantasy. But he lied to you and said that it was about security. And you pretended to buy it. Of course.
Look how much land Greenland would be. And it'd have a ton of resources as well, as well as being an incredibly important strategic location. It'd be the Louisiana purchase of our time.
The Mercator projection visually distorts the size of Greenland and other Arctic regions. You need to post a globe if you want to make your size point.
Look how much land Greenland would be. And it'd have a ton of resources as well, as well as being an incredibly important strategic location. It'd be the Louisiana purchase of our time.
The Mercator projection visually distorts the size of Greenland and other Arctic regions. You need to post a globe if you want to make your size point.
Loyalty is key for him, the way it is for any strongman. He was burned held in check FAR too much little in his first term by picking in spite of selecting a number of people who weren't fully were more loyal to they country than to him and his agenda. But he was still held in check much more than in his current term, which is why we’re seeing more problems now.
“It will never not be bitterly ironic that the most anti-immigrant administration in American history has a FLOTUS that sounds like Latka Gravas’ sister”.
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