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[–] 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's cynically amusing that at this point Trump isn't even doing any of the things his apologists pointed to.

Supposedly it was okay if he had some personal ethics issues, because he was going to drive down prices and inflation, cut wasteful spending, balance the budget and keep the US out of foreign wars.

And instead, he's driving up prices and inflation, increasing wasteful spending, increasing the deficit by the greatest amount ever in history, and warmongering around the world. And his personal ethics issues have exploded into a veritable orgy of ridiculously brazen corruption.

And the apologists just keep shambling along, leading a parade of morons who still can't see it.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    War is a great distraction from these robber baron tactics the current admin is employing.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I heard Venezuela has a USB stick with the Epstein files on it, maybe that's got something to do with it..

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    [–] 92 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Couple days after saying he can prevent elections by going to war

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    It's really too bad most US citizens are genuinely too dense to put this together.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    What are you talking about? This is literally being talked about all the time.

    Get off your high horse, ya dunce

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  • [–] 45 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    It's being talked about in places like this where a tiny fraction of the people are aware of what's going on but not between normal everyday people. I can tell you with no uncertainty that only two or three people in my entire workplace of a few hundred people are even remotely plugged in. Hell even the union reps are asleep at the wheel. They're too busy trying to take care of their kids or pay their rent.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Curious how you know exactly what hundreds of people do or don't know. Did you go and ask each one?

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  • [–] 51 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    the US will never stop meddling internationally as long as they can keep the majority of us focused on homegrown stressors directly impacting our daily lives. they have wrapped themselves up in too many interests. Venezuela now, Laos then. who knows where next?

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    But ma When are we getting the Epstein Files

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    Not I doubt it.. I’m making fun of everyone that thinks Trump can’t be president unless we have Epstein files.. I understand MAGA upset cause it was a campaign promise.. Libs and Dens are just on the band wagon stoking the flames

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago

    dont you mean trump deploys, EPSTEIN-Distracting warships to venuezeula.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    There's also oil in Guyana that America wants and Venezuela wants from Guyana, so Venezuela is bringing up an old claim to the Essiquibo region of Guyana to have access to the coast for oil. It's always about oil. America already owned the politicians in Guyana and it's a little harder to control Venezuela.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I already knew this because Pete Kegseth included me in his Signal chat.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    EPSTEIN

    (͡•_ ͡• )

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    The lesson we learned from the korean war and the vietnam war was that sticking our nose too far into other peoples business is always a great decision. Civilian casualties and traumatized youth give the military industrial conplex a chubby, and the federal government loves its war buddy.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    If he declares war, he can cancel the next election. Is that how that works?

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    He can't declare war OR cancel elections.

    Won't stop him from doing both, though.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I thought there was something in the constitution that let the president suspend elections if the US is at war? If not, my bad, I must have misunderstood.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    We've had lots of elections in time of war. The major conflicts of the 20th century that resulted in a military draft century (WWI, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam) all had Presidential election. Hell, there was an election during the US Civil War.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You may be thinking of Lincoln suspending the writ of habeas corpus during the Civil War?

    Constitution, Article 1, Section 9, Clause 2:

    The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.

    Lincoln signed off on a law saying that the President could suspend the right under the same conditions.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    It’s frankly shocking to learn how many weak, servile cowards there are among the US’s top generals.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I am afraid such a war unfortunately can't change Trump's regime.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Goddamnit... Fuck Donald Trump

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Just a reminder the Trump tried to organize a coup against Venezuela the last time he was in office (John Bolton, the national security advisor, said so in an interview)

    It was a soft coup in the guise of that guy: Juan Guido.

    He popped out of nowhere, months (maybe even a year) after Venezuela's elections, with the US supporting him as the legitimate winner. And because the US does it, so do all the puppet European states.

    It was really confusing episode to me at the time. Only when Bolton's interview came out did it make sense to me.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Them or Cuba are the easy, ideologically popular pickings, right? Instead, he's been looking north, but that's typical of his level of competence, I guess.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    Why do you think he wants Greenland??

    So that he can, with Alaska, Greenland, & the US Navy, extinguish all trade with Canada, so that he can convert us to his carrion, quicker ( he is getting older )..

    Once he's "King of North America", then between Putin & him, they can DESTROY the hated-by-both woke EU.

    Their temporary tiffs & difficulties ( Putin, Trump, Musk, Netanyahu, etc ), are only temporary, & the far-right will become coherent as they realize how fundamentally they hate their common-enemy: civil-rights.

    Then the world will turn, & their currently unconscious game will fully-deploy.

    Wait & see.


    Unconscious-strategy's significant, in our world..

    Hamas's unconscious-strategy's going to work, too..

    They offered that Israel could genocide the Palestinians..

    ..but the reaction against that, which will take a few years more to happen,

    will be when Israel's "deterrent" no-longer deters Muslim anybody,

    because they'll be surrounded by countries willing to risk EVERYthing for sake of annihilating Israel.

    Israel took the bait, & its psychopathy is carving its mark into the regional-population.

    They're going to be annihilated, .. late this-decade, from the looks of it.

    ( there is an unfulfilled Christian prophecy, Matt 24, about it, btw, if you consider there to be any significance in a Jew, benJoseph himself, prophecying the annihilation of Israel, in a way that no assault on Israel in history matches, but .. now is guaranteed to happen, in only a few more years )

    & that is how unconscious-strategy can be playing its game, while surfacemind is scrambling helter-skelter, willy-nilly, in all directions, chaotically, mindlessly..


    Unconscious-mind's reasoning is dangerous-as-hell to our world..

    All the national-identity which intends to "apocalypse" our world, because G-D's going to exempt only-them from consequences, & glorify them, yet..

    that's actually enacting, underlying our world's current unfolding..

    The rip-current of socio-political tides..


    The key to seeing/understanding unconscious-strategy was given by "John Braddock" in his trilogy on thinking/strategy/risk..

    Solve which category-of-GAME each player is playing..

    Postive-sum, win-win-alliance, game, is healthiest..

    Zero-sum, competitive-narcissism, game, is presumed to be the ONLY game, among moneyarchy & concentration-of-wealth-archy, authority-archy, institution/legalism-archy, class-system-archy, etc.

    Negative-sum, competitive-nihilism, game, is mass-shooters, accelerationism, etc: ruling a portion of the world while enforcing the butchering of all others, is how one "wins" in that category-of-game. The greater the "importance"/"authority" & the greater of destruction-of-others, make one's "score" in this category of game..

    Trump's enforcing that there won't every be any ruler of the US who tops him, & that means negative-sum game.

    He's not firing individual-bullets-into-others, in his "mass-shooting", he is firing legislations, destroying the lives of entire populations, in his "mass-shooting" of the US of A's constitution & principles.

    He keeps escalating.. has been for decades, .. so why bother pretending surprise, as the "journalists" do, with their cultivated-and-pushed- incredulity at every escalation, helping to normalize them all..

    So, extrapolate the trend, & see what happens, keeping-in-mind that the vertical-scale ( cost of his mission's action ) is logarithmic..

    He'll declare war against Canada in 3y or less?

    Something like that.

    He'll convert Canada to the Ukraine of the Americas.

    What're we going to do about it?

    ( fight like hell! : )


    There's 1 thing which "levels the playing-field", though:

    He'll be waging multiple wars, simultaneously: Southward, into other countries, internally, US Civil War Part2, AND with Canada..

    That gives us chance, if we are acting coherently, systematically, ruthlessly-effectively, now..

    I hope our leaders understand that..

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    2026 is getting closer, so he's got to start a war to delay the Senate midterms.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Apparently he used systematic-de-registration-of-Democrat-voters, to help swing the last election..

    No need for war for 2026, with systematic-de-registration already in-play ( he even openly promised he would "wipe the blue-states off the map", which is exactly what removing blue-votes does ).

    War'd then be needed as a "lever" only for 2028.

    That's when he'll declare war against Canada, -/+ 1y.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    TBH I think he's just sending ships all over the world so nobody forgets that they're his, like big toys. I wonder what it costs to run all of these fleets like this?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I need to buy some more Diplomatico

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  • What is this dude's hardon for Venezuela?

    Is it like some retribution for their oil?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Oil price needs a boost again?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Bringing peace, freedom, and democracy to a bunch of stinky people! U! S! A!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    that's a weird shaped lump of shit on their shirt.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    The people I know that are from Venezuela are pretty happy about this, they see this as a chance to get rid of Maduro.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    In exchange for what? The Trump admin won't support anyone sane

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    In exhange of a increased standard of living. Whatever "increased" would be, it would probably be much better than the current situation.

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