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Nobel Giftee Trump ‘No Longer Obliged To Think Purely Of Peace’
Donald Trump's bid to acquire (or seize or steal or whatever verb you prefer) Greenland was a bridge
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H-Man, scary times.
One of the things the founding fathers missed. What if when our country reaches one of its most critical junctures it is being run by a group of the most ignorant people ever to be put in charge of anything serious? These people have no idea how to analyze the danger they have created. Egypt and China ruled for thousands of years, Greece, Rome, Britain for a few brief centuries. The US will certainly not last for 300 years. The “Thousand-Year Reich” lasted less than a century.
‘Stop the Steal’ – of Greenland, the Nobel Peace Prize, American democracy and the free world’s sanity.
Not obligated only to peace? Maybe he can prevent Jacob Ingebrigtsen from participating in the 2028 Olympics. That’ll show ’em. Wouldn’t put it past this kind of crazy.
Parallels with Putin are becoming more and more obvious. Not a surprise Trump is mimicking his idol’s actions. Now we have reached to history lessons – one taught the world on the Pechenegs and Cumans and a fake country, this one – on boats centuries ago and a fake island. Looks like another message “hey, look, metoo!, we can be friends!”
I just can’t get it why GOP is still tolerating this. I just can’t stop denying that 50+% of voters kind of support all that tragicomedy.
Your answer:
A recent poll suggested that 80% of Republicans support the president’s immigration sweeps.
Half of them said they hoped it was limited to the capture of immigrants who had committed crimes. The other 50% advocated for rounding up all illegal immigrants.
Trump’s inexorable assault on American democracy has always reminded me of a warning given by Winston Churchill in 1938:
“And do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only the first sip, the first foretaste of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by year unless by a supreme recovery of moral health and martial vigour, we arise again and take our stand for freedom as in the olden time.
Churchill was responding to the Munich Agreement which ceded the Sudetenland (a part of Czechoslovakia) to Germany in an effort to “appease” the demands of its leader. Those words seem just as prescient to me now as they were then.
The number of US and Danish troops in Greenland is now roughly equal – roughly 200 each.
Maybe each side could pick their best soldier for a Winner Take All Death Match a la WWF. Trump could Emcee (and judge) the really big show. Used to be Captain America vs. the Iron Sheik (you can guess who won). Maybe Fox News could help pick, name, and credential a soldier “representative” of Greenland since they are so good at adapting the WWF/soap opera genre to the news format.
That most of us couldn’t believe the person bestowed with the most powerful military/political might in the world would engage in such childish action/words, in public, in official communication, indicates the failure of imagination, or the failure of mainstream values + education system (which is imposed on the 99% but often fails to show them how the real world actually works)?
Recently i wonder if these factors form the fundamental flaws of a democracy: i) generally emotion, not reason, drives people’s action/votes; ii) showmen/women who can most effectively arouse emotions or perform best on stage get votes; iii) the best showmen are not necessarily qualified leader/strategist/visionary to find and lead smart people to solve complex problems in the world, so they just wing it through election cycles, scarring the world and fattening their pockets along the way.
Separately, am really curious what Machado’s supporters in Venezuela think of her latest act in white house. Doesn’t it just taint her reputation and moral high ground earned over the years? Or maybe, if the most powerful and smartest free world leader ever seen in the history of the universe puts her in power, the people’s opinions do not matter that much anymore?
The skills needed to win the Presidency are not the same skills needed to be a good President.
In today’s situation, I believe the opposition party (Democratic), at the national level, has completely failed over the past 10 years to understand the issues with Trump and combat it effectively.
Trump is slipping. The Old Donny would have marketed the H out of the NCAA championship. You know; add his name to the championship, put his mugshot on the tickets and extort a percentage of the gate. Now he’ll have to go big at Davos hawking seats in his peace club.
Would love to see the Nobel Committee revoke Machado’s prize and award it to someone else…kinda like Lan e Armstrong’s TDFs (can they do that…has it ever happened?).