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He got the FIFA peace price. He didn't go to war with FIFA. The best president. The best. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
NFL better tighten up
"If you don't give me a Nobel Peace Prize I'll go to war with you."
"If you don't give me a Nobel Peace Prize I'll go to war with ~~you~~ the country I've confused for yours."
Someone should make a "Peace Participation Trophy", then present it to him.
How are we to tell our kids to "grow up" when they're acting immature when one of the most powerful men on the planet are acting like this publicly?
8 wars PLUS! So many after 8 we stopped counting and now we don't even know what the number is. Thank God that peace will still be predominant, despite Donald not feeling any obligation towards it.
I just don't understand why he isn't feeling that obligation after being awarded the Fifa Peace Prize, which is the only peace prize that matters.
everyone is shocked I tell you SHOCKED! now what the fuck is going to be done about it? Is he just going to be allowed to steamroll and conquer neighboring countries forever while the news keeps saying "surely this is the last straw"? Why don't other countries cut off the Untied States financially until it behaves?
Because they can't. It well hurt they're GDP and citizens. No more phones no more laptops. The world is to reliant on the US and it's companies.
No more phones no more laptops.
The only thing it would truly affect is Apple; Samsung could offer de-googled phones in the blink of an eye.
Hell, we don't even make the cellphones or laptops here. China has its own stuff. If a single one of the hardware manufacturers dedicated a couple of months to an open source driver project, we could have Linux phones by EOY.
China has entered the convo
The proof is that the entire upper tier of the Executive Branch has completely lost its shit and is crewed by morons. Last time around there were adults in the room that reeled in his worst impulses even though he'd sneak a gainer in once in a while. This time? They're a clown car stuffed with ideologues, racists, and fools with the brake pedal ripped out.
Lol, that letter reads like something a third grader wrote.
"Dear Santa, since you decided not to give me a Nintendo for Christmas, I no longer feel like I need to clean my room and not say bad words. I have done more chores than any other person..."
Next he will demand an Academy Award for Melatonin's piece of shit movie.
Nah hes gonna want her to win an Emmy and then threaten to invade LA despite them explaining Emmys are for TV only.
I will be deeply ashamed if that movie is released in my country
This is a perfect analogy and I will be sharing it to friends and selective family...
Really? This is what does it.
Not all his other deranged bullshit – this?
Fine, I’ll take it, but you’d better be fucking serious, US, or your own credibility is gone.
Do something about it! Now!
Not many people are in a hurry to get shot in the face.
Many protests are going on, but nothing that will affect them.
I worry that general strike won't work because with so much WFH, anyone that can't scab without being seen will
Trump has only killed one infant, and thrown it in a lake. He's only human, Norway, sheesh.
One that we know of
The emperor is naked.
And it’s not a pretty sight!
Remember that your 2nd amendment exists to make the people able to overthrow their government and not only to shoot gay people
Someone in my family that's defended trump tooth and nail since the first term on everythinghas done just told me they oppose what he's doing to Greenland, and the flood of ICE agents in Minneapolis.
I have never heard them speak a word against Trump. Not ever. And they have argued the craziest shit I've ever heard... Like, they think Renee was 'asking for what she got' levels of crazy, and that's after they watched all the videos.
...and they just told me they are now against Trump on these two huge events. This is nuts. I need to go but a lottery ticket or something.
I hope this can be seen as a trend. Maybe there is a high water mark after all.
Congratulate your relative for their independent thought and ability to change their mind.
That is wild. I wonder why Greenland would be the tipping point?
Usually conservatives practically swoon at the notion of invading and occupying things, despite all their talk about "America first", it's usually really Israel first, Americans dead last, and when it's time to bomb/invade something, they are balls-deep on the cheer-leading.
As someone with experience with people who are in the MAGA reality bubble, this is because there is no in-canon explanation of Trump's actions (yet, the story writers patch these up pretty quick). There was no setup for this, no laying the misinformation groundwork and no existing goal that this advances.
Since Greenland wasn't part of the story, it just came out of nowhere. Lacking any in-MAGA explaination, they are examining this situation as a normal person who knows normal facts and this is completely an unforced error by any measure as anyone can see.
If this was something that was serious and planned then we would have started hearing about this months ago as they started preparing the lies and the misinformation seeding into social media via paid/artificial content creators or otherwise useful idiots. This is probably the strongest indication that Greenland is a distraction and not a real move. This is probably the case with Canada too, in my opinion.
They would rather people talk about anything but the Epstein files and how they are very clearly covering them up and not complying with the law. They don't want reporters to have time to report on all of the people that he has pardoned who also have made $2-5 million dollar donations to various MAGA PACs, some of them committing even more crimes and getting another pardon...
They need to throw things into the air to distract people. Some of their planned events are polling negative (the Minnesota Invasion, Healthcare Subsidies) and they don't have anything else so instead we get more random tariffs and more random military threats because they are something that the Executive Branch can do unilaterally and suddenly to ensure that they grab the next news cycle.
This is the "Flood the Zone" tactic that Steve Bannon said that they were using during the first admin.
Basically a DDOS attack on our attention span and journalists capacities