• Furbag@lemmy.world
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    So to all the folk who voted for Trump because they thought he was the guy who was going to get us out of the endless wars, how to you feel now? You buffoon. You simpleton. You absolute imbecile.

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        These absolute morons don’t realize we are currently experiencing the inflation THAT THE TRAITOR CAUSED.

        Jesus christ this country is fucking insanely stupid.

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          It is very sad that undecided voters couldn’t do the bare minimum of a google search as to why inflation was so bad.

          Could it be because during trumps presidency he approved the printing of trillions of dollars to keep the economy afloat and cut taxes that were set to expire during Bidens presidency?

          No had to be because Biden is old.

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            Biden has been a fantastic president, but his messaging to the people has sucked. He needed to blow his own horn much, much more loudly and more often.

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          We aren’t even in a high inflationary period now! Biden’w policies saw us through this global inflation better than every other industrialized nation, and the inflation rate is now very close to what it was before Covid.

          He did a fucking amazing job dealing with this inflation, but the red codes think trump will being prices back down to what they were 5 years ago. They don’t understand the difference between inflation and higher prices, nor do they understand that deflation like that is just as bad for our economy as inflation. Hell, trump has even said he can’t bring grocery prices back down.

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    Fix your fucking country. You’re going to hurt a lot people because you worship stupidity, bravado, power, and money.

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      Give us a moment. The sane among us are still trying to figure out which of our friends and family are still worth a shit.

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      I would love too. I really don’t think America should invade any country. One thing everyone can do no matter what country they live in you can boycott Tesla and Twitter. Musk is going to be a major funder of the GOP so ending his propaganda megaphone and wealth could change the course of events.

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    Promising a “Golden age of America,” Trump also said he would move to try to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America,” saying that has a “beautiful ring to it.”

    What a dumbass

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      What can I say, though, he knows his deplorable base. I’m not sure they could get any more hard over such performative bullshit.

      I wonder how many have been bitching about the price of eggs lately, by the way? I wonder if eggs went through the same miraculous transformation that fair elections did, post donvict’s win.

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    Any other asshole in Washington would be laughed out of office for saying shit like this. This particular asshole gets sanewashed and taken seriously. Why?

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      He doesn’t get taken seriously. By anybody. Ever. It’s his singular source of effectiveness.

      They all just see him as a wrecking ball to destroy everything with.

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      Easy: People within its ranks will begin to make choices. Not necessarily take action, just make choices. If things continue small insubordinations will occur and eventually rifts at nearly every level.

      If things got really bad the military would split into three:

      1. Pro Trump
      2. Pro United States
      3. Undecided/Everyone else.

      If this happens it will be a test of the quality of leadership on both major sides. A fundamental breaking of the chain. It’s why Trump wants to replace current military leadership: They’ve told him no. A pattern we’ll continue to see for at least two years.

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    The fuck does he even want with Greenland. How did this become a thing. Who planted the idea in his tiny head. Is this some Russian plot putin is making him do.

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      Military dominance in the Arctic. Russia and China are also vying for influence. The US already has a large military base there. Thule Space Base. But taking territory from friends and allies by military force is probably the worst way to go about doing anything.

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      I highly doubt this but they could be looking at it as a future refuge when climate change makes most the land around the equator completely uninhabitable. Though, since half of them are already old ghouls I highly doubt they’re thinking that far into the future.

      I’m guessing to build a resort for them and their rich friends so they can be safe and isolated from the rest of us peasants. Maybe get some natural resources as well with exploitative and unethical labor practices

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        But the people who would go there are rich enough to build their bunkers there already. It’s not like they need it be a part of America to do that.

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      Probably some misguided thought that somehow it will be more habitable than the rest of the US thanks to climate change (the climate change that doesn’t exist) opening up real resource extraction.

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    I read headlines like this and sometimes wonder if someone slipped me crazy pills. It’s just so bonkers. Greenland? WTF? Panama, I kind of understand, because reactionary old assholes have been butthurt about Panama being planned to be handed over, then actually handed over, for fucking decades and donvict is the exact type of crotchety and butthurt old dumbass that I’ve been hearing whine about it for as long as I can remember.

    But why the fuck would America use military force to take either? Other than gender-affirming for someone like donvict, what do we stand to gain?

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      Greenland has oil, and it’ll be prime real-estate in a decade or two once the equatorial regions are inhospitable.

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      Greenland is just the low-hanging fruit, an easy target. Something for the masses at home. Taking it won’t take an afternoon. In fact, they’ll just show up, plant a flag, next to it a “No Danes” sign, then call it a day. Then make a biiig celebration of it at home so everybody is distracted while they irreparably dismantle American democracy.

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      Would probably get Greenland and the US would face a lot of hostility. But he doesn’t seem to care about consequences much.