4. Sell off US debt

Realistically probably the most devastating thing they could do.

He said in the article, based on “no one’s going to stop us”:

“Nobody’s going to fight the United States militarily over the future of Greenland,”

“We live in a world, in the real world, Jake, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,” he said. “These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.”

“The United States of America is running Venezuela,” Mr. Miller said, dismissing international treaties enshrining a nation’s right to independence and sovereignty as “international niceties.”

If someone really deserves just getting a beat down, it’s Stephen Miller.

Fear will keep the local systems in line

And what’s your point?

I know that’s the deadline, but are they actually doing it? I’ve been assuming they’ll declare some bs on why it’s not viable to do so, hoping that somehow everyone has gotten over it after the bill passed.

It’s funny how many super common phrases and words are “invented” just now according to him… like the word affordability…

He claimed that all these tariffs will cause just a ton of companies to build big factories all of a sudden next year.

He claimed that getting all those Hispanics out will mean more jobs and houses for the rest.

Basically that everything they’ve done is right, and depending on which minute he is speaking the economy is already great and everyone is lying about it or it’s bad but only because of Biden but in 2026 everything he did will finally work.

They’ve evidently already made the call that millions of people losing healthcare is a small enough percentage to not worry about. I’ve been presuming that they would pull off a seemingly better circumstance by temporarily unwinding their worst policies, but they may be actually true believers…

I think the PJ25b people are pragmatic enough to get those good optics in the short term.

If Trump actually gets adamant they can just make him a trophy and he’ll be happy.

To find the cloud in the silver lining, I can easily see how this doesn’t happen.

Currently we are outraged at ICE and military in our streets inflicting harm on innocents, nervous about getting in a war no one would have even thought of, suffering from tariffs increasing prices and ACA premiums going way up.

The thing about every single one of those is that Republicans caused them and Republicans can mostly fix them. Simply by undoing the things they caused in the first place makes folks feel like things are getting fixed, and many will forget why they were broken and just be focused on how they got better during the election year.

So I expect immigration enforcement to tone down (already saw a story to that effect), for them to manage a last minute ACA subsidy extension with much drama, pulling back a lot of tariffs, and chilling out on Venezuela for 2026. Going extra by cutting some “tariff fund” checks and some HSA deposits, to make sure the people get some money, even if it is smaller than the money lost, people fall for “windfalls”. Maybe throw some folks under the bus like RFK Jr and Hegseth, to drain the swamp so to speak.

Their goal was not to destroy the US per se, it was to just get them out of the region. Destroying might have been nice, but only in a way that destroyed their power.

So an unleashed unhinged US was not something they wanted. Sure we might not have the freedom, but they never cared one way or another about that.

And also 100% why we won’t ever have that

“but at least they aren’t Democrats”

A refrain I’ve heard so often from them after bemoaning some inhumanly bad thing they think a Republican has done.

I don’t agree with that strategy either, but she didn’t carry enough votes to have made the difference anyway…

Have funds in an index fund but not specific stocks.

I could accept owning stock, but no buying or selling as of the moment you register as a candidate until a year out of office

Yeah but it’s not like he actually uses his brain anyway…

No, they are appealing to MAGA folks that are picturing getting rid of all the dark skinned people they don’t like.

The people that consider that nuance have already been against the ICE crap, you don’t have to convince those. The only people that can be convinced are those that you need to get their racism aside before they’ll join you. It’s distasteful, but it’s a way to grow the voices condemning this behavior.

Hey, he earned that purple heart when that skateboard viciously injured him

On the flip side, folks have repeatedly shown Trump to be susceptible to being manipulated. Famously flipping back and forth on issues based on who had the most recent pleasant conversation with him.

It’s distasteful, but an opportunity that shouldn’t be skipped. Otherwise only the worst people get their turn at manipulating him.

Yes, also, their excuse for why “they’re eating the pets” was worth hearing out even as it was demonstrably false. Because even if it didn’t exactly happen, it is a reasonable perspective on what “those people” would do…

Someone is going to rationalize it by saying "while it was false, it was “directionally true”, just what the leftists would do so it’s worth thinking about.