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He just announced foreign vehicle tariffs and there is a huge scandal brewing around the Signal thing. If the media stays on the Signal leak it could become a Watergate-sized problem.
So, Trump hit the "distract them with Greenland" button. He couldn't use the "distract them with Canada is a state" button again, he used that one for the Social Security thing last week.
I feel like if Watergate happened half the country and most of Congress would find some way of justifying it and no one would even remember it happened a week later because something else equally insane would come up.
Watergate is such a tiny thing in comparison to what tiny hands has done. He has brought a mob to the capital to overthrow the government. Now he is just destroying the government from inside.
.. because overthrow from without is soooo 2021
I think it’s really dangerous to keep dismissing the Greenland talk as a distraction. We have learned the lesson dozens of times before not to dismiss anything he says because it’s just “crazy talk.”
Taking control of Greenland and Canada would give a US-Russian alliance complete control over the Arctic circle, which has been a tactical goal of Putin’s for decades.
The day could come very soon when the US will take military action against Europe on behalf of Russian interests, and the rest of the world should take it seriously and prepare.
He's 100% serious and also using it as a distraction. Both things are true. For some reason everyone cares about the signal leak and only about half of us care about invading Greenland, or rendering immigrants to a slave prison.
Signal is a weakness and Greenland is an attempt at distraction. He fully intends to invade, but distraction is why he's talking about it right now.
Every time an American claims something is just a distraction I get more annoyed. Threats of invading sovereign nations is not just a distraction. It’s pretty fucking alarming as a citizen of one of those nations and the dismissal of it is offensive
It's pretty alarming as a citizen of the US as well. But our conservatives are upset over the signal leak and indifferent to the invasion of Greenland, so if we let trump distract is with the signal leak you lose.
He's flooded the zone with shit to the point that we can't focus on any of it with the attention it deserves.
Trump and the Trump administration are behaving like assholes all over the world.
USA has never been so universally unpopular.
Flight passangers from Canada to USA are down 70%.
Tesla sales in Europe are down 50%.
The boycotts have begun, and numbers like these may be common for 2025.
Trump will cost many jobs in USA, and increased inflation, and it seems an economic downturn too.
Ok but you missed the part that the libs are mad.
Thinking about why the US is so keen on Greenland: It's only relevant for them if they intend to make enemies out of the EU, because they already have all the access they need. But only as long as they are allied with Europe.
It's clear where this is headed. Russia is not the only reason why Europe is rearming.
He's planning to withdraw from NATO. Otherwise it makes no sense. USA already has more or less free access to build any military base they want there
USA already has more or less free access to build any military base they want there
Which makes it extra stupid that Trump is demanding that he own Greenland for security reasons. The Americans can already expand their base there whenever they want.
Danish news today talked about Trump and his people maybe not being aware of this. They are sure that the US consulate on Greenland has informed them but they are not confident that the administration even knows this.
I think that they are either being naive, kind or sarcastic
The plan is easy:
Easy plan for megalo-dictators
why the US is so keen on Greenland
Testing the invasion waters with something most EUs will not want to risk their lives over, and then he doesn't need to justify what he has on his airbase there.
That is also why he wants an ICBM defense mesh, because realistically that's the only chance Europe has to cripple us in a fight.
Hardly. There are many ways to "cripple" the US without need to resort to a simple-minded military slugfest.
They could act to support Trump's next reelection bid, for example. That'd be more devastating to American power than a nuke.
Goddamn we suck so hard right now.
Don't even have to ask if we are the baddies
Yeah, I think that's one of the scariest things. Previous presidents have done a lot of terrible things, but there's always been a basic rhetoric of morality- at oeast a pretence that official policy us "the right thing".
The US's latest bunch of clown have openly hateful and dishonest language, without any sense of shame. I don't even think we've seen the beginning of the level of cruelty a country can achieve when it suddenly abandons any rule of law or accountability.
"but there's always been a basic rhetoric of morality- at oeast a pretence that official policy us "the right thing""
That's what they taught me in school. It's absolutely bullshit. This country was built on genocide to perpetrate slavery. It's a warmongering nation that destroys other countries to ensure its own economic dominance on the world stage.
These fascists need to dangle 🥰
I can’t believe so many people voted for this deranged game show host.
All of a sudden the conservative rhetoric is that indigenous Greenlanders are mistreated by the Danes and that’s unfair; they need America’s help.
That's such transparently stupid bullshit. If they believed that they'd start by helping indigenous Americans. It sickens me that so many people are idiotic enough to either believe this or just not care.
It’s sickening and fucking enraging. It puts my mind for a spin.
I don't want Greenland, I just want you to stop bombing kids and work on our Healthcare. Why on the fuck are you even looking at Greenland????
Please, Europe, just take this as a declaration war and attack the US now to nip this in the bud.
The sooner this child is stopped, the sooner the world can improve.
The worst part is that he is completely unhinged and I can easily imagine launching some nuclear nukes towards Europe.
Try as I may to avoid this absurd political reality I find myself in, I am continuously dumbfounded by these headlines. I have to check everytime if the post is an Onion article.
The Onion is gonna go bankrupt at this rate. I just imagine the editors coming up with stories and headlines, only to crumple and toss them in the trash whenever Trump holds a press conference.
The Dutch equivalent of The Onion actually send a cease and desist letter to one of our ministers, because they can't compete with the shit she is saying (this woman gives Trump's government a run for their money in terms of both evilness and incompetence)
The Onion needs to start publishing articles that discuss trump doing really positive things.
“Trump pledges to increase taxes on billionaires and eliminate their tax loopholes”
“Trump apologizes for renaming the Gulf of Mexico, pledges to undo damage”
“Trump calls on the senate to pass bill that criminalizes insider trading in congress”
“Trump removes all foreign tariffs, making a plea to restore trade deals with the US”
“Trump signed an executive order to forgive all student debt”
Now THAT would be some serious satire.
Can this fucker ever say anything that actually means what he says. I swear to fuck, every fucking thing out of this asses mouth is something that can be taken however he wants it. I understand WHY he does it that way but fuck am I tired of it. Its been barely two months. Holy fuck.
a strange part of me wants to see this go as badly as possible because that's how much I hate Donald Trump and all of the Americans who voted for him and the ones who didn't vote. but that's me being an angry psychopath right? I shouldn't feel this way or want these things. they're really bad
I have full confidence that the US Military could take Greenland, I don't have confidence that the US could deal with the international fallout that would come from it.
So what he’s telling us is that he’s wanting to fight a war on two fronts: one from within and one from without. I see. Very well then. He’s made his bed.
When the hell will the military arrest this stinky Orange Turd as an enemy to the state?
Nice try, Donvict. You and your coward yes-men have their incompetence signal exposed and the distractions aren't working anymore. Please resign! We need Republican Senators to grow a spine, be pro-USA, not tolerate incompetent national security, and impeach this loser.
I wonder if Americans will wake up and start to push back when they and their families start dying for this stuff. Taking over other countries means death and not just to those who are being taken over.
Come on UK. We need a Bond. James Luigi Bond to right this ship.
Im out of the loop on this. Why does the US want greenland?
Whole lotta minerals that will get a lot easier to exploite as the planet warms.