It’s so weird they always look outside to fix the American problems.
Instead of heavily taxing the American billionaires and giant corporations plus halving the defense budget, if only for a year or two, they expect to claim money from outside of the US to fix it all.
How much of it exists at this moment to cover the lost imported goods?
How much of the “catch-up” industry can be running efficiently enough within 2 years?
(How much of that same manufacturing will not be crippled by other measures that Trump shakes out of his pants?)
This is why Trump wants Greenland, to balance off the loss of oil and other reserves when Putin claims Alaska again, like he said he will.
Yup, it all fits the bill.
They’re so different that if he tries he will be shot, either through official order or some frothing at the mouth maniac.
Frankly, I don’t think infighting is enough … a huge riot is required, doesn’t matter which side or in what form but it has to be an enormous thing that makes it permanently prohibitive to continue on the current path. If it is not then they just replace one unwanted idiot with the next in line…
“But he promised (lied again) about not knowing a thing about it!”
The line of trafficking is crossed where the person is wholly dependant on the other, ie. they hold/control your passport/means of identification and finances plus are your only means of a roof over your head in an unknown area.
Ah, perhaps this will be the war he needs to stay on his throne indefinitely…
He’ll start a war, internally or externally and use that as an excuse to block elections. Probably takes Zelenski as an example, no elections during wartime…
Or he’ll do a Putin, all election preparations go into a blender, real opponents are disqualified for arbitrary reasons, force his own name on the ballot then declare himself a winner.
Or… as he keeps throwing around, make sure there is voter fraud, hide it 'till it leaks then just proclaim the win/fraudulent elections and stay in power.
The constitution declared him ineligible to hold the position because he is a proven insurrectionist … But here we are… the courts declared the constitution wrong and he was to be put on the ballot.
Trump should have been behind bars but the judiciary branch did not want to make haste nor prosecute an up and coming president … so here we are…
He put unelected people in places that they have absolutely no knowledge of, nor had they any security clearance, but no one dares to challenge them or Trump about it.
He’s stealing public funds here and there, under the guise of “savings from fraud” but no one knows where the money will be siphoned off to… and no one dares try to stop it.
He is disappearing people for no reasons other than not liking someone’s opinion, and denies them any form of legal recourse. They just dissappear.
He’s installed unmonitored internet in the White House through Starlink, no one tries to stop it or enquire what the need for that is.
He is trying to start wars over territory that is not his, think about that, a US-president personally being a warmonger, for no reasons other than his own.
He unabashedly promised no more need to vote after he was elected, already has multiple people promoting a 3rd term. And we’re now supposed to think this will be the reason someone will rise up to stop him? Or a senator here and there will dare to claim power from under him just because Trump’s term ended?
I’m waiting for the moment Trump actually shoots someone, in the white house or his palace in Florida, and it’s all laughed off with some lame reason.
He was in the elections as a presidential candidate, but everyone knew he’d be elected as a dictator, and as such he nor his cronies will not simply go away at the end of his term.
He can’t even just go away, he’d have various lawsuits hanging above his head, so he’ll keep his power for as long as he can.
He’ll just start claiming “We helped those people, send them the best help and goods they need”.
And that’s it, in his mind the aid somehow has materialized and he can go back to his golf course again.
Putin considers Alaska to still be Russian territory and wants it back, so he made the Greenland suggestion to agent Krasnov…
But Trump does realize he needs Canada to complete his set of Northern America cards …
If it fails spectaculairly who will take the blame? Will there be any repercussions at all?
Or will Musk and Trump shrug their shoulders? Halfheartedly blame Biden for badly programming the original database then go play some golf/videogaminges?
Yeah about that … putin considers Alaska to still be Russian territory and wants it back … so he whispered to agent Krasnov to take Greenland to balance it out so they both have more arctic mining possibilities again… “it is a fair deal”.
This is also why Trump dreams he wants Canada as an extra state, to buffer against a Russian Alaska…
“Russia will leave Ukraine alone if it gives up all Nuclear arms.”
“Russia only wants to lease the harbor of Crimea 'till about 2042.”
“Russia has no soldiers in Ukraine Donbas or Crimea regions, these Russian Veterans are on holiday, can’t you see that they wear unmarked uniforms?.”
“Russia did not shoot down Malaysian Air MH17, it is unknown why that specific mobile missile launcher was seen driving from Russia into Ukraine and back again after firing.”
“Russia started only a police action inside Ukraine to take out certain elements, should take about 3 days.”
“Russia is Russia, Ukraine never existed and has no right to now.”
“Russia is not at war in Ukraine, it is Russia who was attacked.”
“Russia does not want parts of Europe, the people of East Germany, Hungary, Romania, Czechoslovakia live in happy unison under the Warsaw pact and mother Russia’s bosom.”
“Trump and Musk will leave social security alone, privatising it is a ridiculous notion.”
“Trump is a president of law and order and respects the judicial branch.”
Oh wait, how did comrade Krasnov get mixed in with this…
Close, a story like it is/was a classic on reddit, person started receiving/finding anonymous notes that over a few months spiraled downward…
Wish I had saved it or wrote down the title, was a fun read.
Interesting, it reads fine as small print on the Jerboa client.
The lawbook is the same, as is any judge’s role to oversee/uphold such law… But that’s inconvenient information.
So, as usual they use nice and plausible sounding words, but the end of the matter is that someone needs his decrees to be above (judgement against) the law…
Slowly taking away local judges’ (and states) rights to review nationwide law and only rule on local matters while the king decides is a callback to the middle ages.
It’s because he is not a businessman, he is a scammer and grifter.
The concept of a good deal where both parties leave the table satisfied is strange to him, he needs to have “the win” over the other side.
If he does not get “the win” he considers it a bad deal where he got ripped off, this is what he projects on the USA.
He will not consider WHY foreign trading partners do not want his inferior products. He is selling them and they must buy, and if they do not buy it is “how they rip off america”.
This is the core of his thinking to strike back with his tariffs, he directly equates the unbalanced import/export lists as enemy tariffs on his goods.
Look at the list he showed, he gives Vietnam 54% tariffs “because they do it” … but actually it’s the 54% of import/export that is traded…
His whole reasoning makes no sense, it only does if you realize he has no knowledge of the workings of imports and exports and he plainly is not educated as a businessman at all.