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The emperor is naked.
And it’s not a pretty sight!
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.
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
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.
He did start babbling about it early in his second failed term. And I did see attempts to sanewash this talk about Greenland in places like The Atlantic, for example.
But yeah, the messaging on this has been extremely scattershot.
Not enough challenge. We "liberate" "armed" countries from their "oppressors" and go into the very bad places and make things "better"
We're now raiding Sunny Side Daycare. There's no fairytale there.
Because Greenland is full of white people. If it were full of brown people, especially if they immigrate to the US frequently enough and “steal our jobs”, we might be hearing a different tune.
The population of Greenland is nearly 90% Inuit, you wouldn't normally class them as "white".
Shhh….don’t tell the republicans that.
Conservatives seem to oscillate between isolationism and aggressive intervention. They're both from the stance of American primacy, either using our military for our benefit and to enforce our wishes or saying the world has nothing to offer us we need and that we're better off not extending effort or energy on the rest of the world.
Currently our conservatives are swinging towards isolationism, which is why the anti immigration rhetoric and pulling out of international organizations was very popular. That's not compatible with a plan to forcibly annex another country.
dude is so pissed about not getting a peace prize hes going to war with the planet... as if to demonstrate why he would never, ever be deserving of such a prize.
its hard to really wrap your brain around how stupid a human you would have to be to write that letter... and who is worse the clearly mentally deficient president, or the circle of sycophants enabling this bullshit?
I mean, it fits entirely however for anyone paying attention.
He hated New York high society because New York high society snubbed him and wouldn't let him in their club, because he's a classless ass.
He hated the US neoliberal democratic order because they snubbed him and wouldn't let him in their club, because he doesn't actually know what the fuck is he doing and doesn't care about democracy.
He vows to destroy any group or idea that would reject him. He views it as a personal affront and never feels like maybe he should be a better person.
No, his solution is to destroy everything in his path, which is why he is also tearing apart NATO because he was snubbed by other democratic world leaders. He is such a giant fucking pussy baby bitch who can't handle rejection at all.
He doesn't even care about ruling over the ashes, he just wants to see it all fall and neither understands nor cares to understand how any of it might impact him in the long run because he'll be dead before consequences come knocking.
The fact that a third of the country are exactly the same really exposes how deep the USA's problems with mental health go.
The fact that a third of the country are exactly the same really exposes how deep the USA’s problems with mental health go.
This last part is the scary part. Normal humans see Grandpa Klan Robe here raging out and calling for "retribution" and think - someone should take the keys away.
Dumbass conservative apes with broken brains look at that and cheer him on and want to vote for him even harder. 1984 was all too prescient, but that's because he was looking at quite recent events - "We've always been at war with [Greenland|Venezuela|Canada|Mexico]!"
I genuinely think there's a chance that everyone is completely missing his motivation here.
Trump turns 80 on 14th June 2026. He wants someone, be it Denmark or the US Army, to give him a country for his birthday.
What better gift is there?
“I don’t see how you can be a serious person and not find this extremely worrisome,” wrote Sen. Brian SchatSchatz (D-HI) in a social media post on X Monday. “He is not stable at all and his reality is warped. He was always a bit like this of course but now he’s [79].”
As the oldest sitting U.S. president in history, Trump has increasingly shown signs of aging, both physically and mentally, multiple outlets have reported. And, with his recent letter – the authenticity of which was questioned by critics due to its “jaw-dropping” content and “unhinged crazy talk” – speculation as to the president’s mental well-being only grew louder.
This is fucked up journalism inside the fucked up story that is super fucked up. Look at this - in the first quote they replace whatever word he used with [79]. Why? Presumably the original word was "old" and they wanted to reinforce the 79 as that has become shorthand for dementia, since the press has decided they can't say anything due to their billionaire owners telling them they can't say anything about it.
But what if it was "super fucked up"? That'd have been a way better quote.
And the constant referring to Xitter is awful, and the "shows signs of [decline] multiple outlets have reported" as if they're not allowed to say it, as if it's not as obvious as the nose on one's face. They won't take the burden of saying it, they'll refer you to other corporate propaganda rags that have meekly implied it for them.
SAD!
This is fucked up journalism inside the fucked up story that is super fucked up. Look at this - in the first quote they replace whatever word he used with [79]. Why? Presumably the original word was “old” and they wanted to reinforce the 79 as that has become shorthand for dementia, since the press has decided they can’t say anything due to their billionaire owners telling them they can’t say anything about it.
Am I missing something? If you actually click the link to the tweet you'd have seen that Brian Schatz said, and I quote directly:
"I don’t see how you can be a serious person and not find this extremely worrisome. He is not stable at all and his reality is warped. He was always a bit like this of course but now he’s 80.".
There is no replacement of the word "old" or anything like that, at the very least it was a minor correction from 80 y/o to Trumps actual age of 79 y/o.
And even if that is the case, replacing "old" with "79" or "80" would have been way more damning in my opinion. Maybe I'm too young for this shit but "old" for me is 55+. Not fucking retirement age, AKA 67+ where I live, let alone 79 or 80 years old.
I truly don't know what to make of this comment. Yeah trump is a shithead and I truly am sad that he still isn't 6 feet deep, but what are you trying to achieve with this comment? It just seems like ragebait aimed at journalist or something, I really, truly, don't know.
EDIT: made a couple of small edits to make my points more clear. Don't know if lemmy lets you see the first version of a post but if it does feel free to compare. As of this edit I still stand by my point
Is been mostly an embarrassing decade
I dunno, I was pretty embarrassed by Dubya, as well, so it feels like its been almost a solid two and a half decades of embarrassment.
Dubya and his middle east clusterfuck is when other nations started questioning US stability and relations but was considered an anomaly.
Trump turned the anomaly into a certainty.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!?!?! I am not surprised by Krasnov and he continues to be a complete POS.
His legacy will be that of the most embarrassing thing to ever happen to America. No joke- This “man” will die being remembered as a cowardly little moron that threw temper tantrums when he didn’t get what he never deserved in the first place.
20 years ago, many of us thought George W. Bush's legacy would be that he was the most embarrassing president to ever happen to America...
Never forget that Trump is the most embarrassing president that we've ever had yet...
And prior to that, we had Ronnie Raygun. W was embarrassing on a lot of levels, but Ronnie Raygun had the most criminal administration in history (at least so far) and the things they did set us on the path we are still on....
The irony is that he was the President that followed an incredibly accomplished, intelligent, and thoughtful man. I disagreed with Obama on a lot, from policy to style, but there was no doubt that he had great charisma and intelligence. To be followed by that shit show TWICE must hurt.
I feel like crazy, because signs of his dementia have been clearly obvious for several years now. Why is anyone surprised by this nonsensical letter?
He is not "running" the country, his cronies are. They let him pop off with stupid shit like this because his handlers have learned that if they don't let him do shit like this while their machinations are carried out in the background, he turns on them and they get kicked out of his cult. So they loot and pillage the country while their cult leader goes off on his tangents and pursues his weird/ridiculous/frightening vendettas. M
Going by recent history, no one is going to do anything and he's going to send troops to Greenland to avoid the Epstein files. This is going to dissolve NATO, trade embargoes will ensue, countries will attempt to collect their US debt, the US dollar will crumble, the market will collapse, your entire life savings will be worth nothing, and food supplies will dwindle.
You think I'm wrong? Name one business that Trump has successfully run. Name a time they have stopped him from getting what he wants in the past.
Start collecting food and weapons now to be prepared. He's about to light this candle.
And this is all because the 1% would rather burn the world down than pay their fair share back to society. They bought up all the media outlets and platforms and sowed as much division among the middle and lower income brackets as much as possible to prevent us from uniting against them.
Do dumbasses like Miller and Taco even hear themselves when they make these arguments about boats landing on a country?
Miller is a vicious little shit who has what fantasy authors would call "low cunning". He knows very well that he will never be as influential as he is right now, and that his influence will likely die with Trump. So he's speed running all his stuff.
It's almost cute, he's angry at Norway for not awarding him with a prize that Norway doesn't even give out. Truly a great mind of our time.
