• SarcasticMan@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    He just announced foreign vehicle tariffs and there is a huge scandal brewing around the Signal thing. If the media stays on the Signal leak it could become a Watergate-sized problem.

    So, Trump hit the “distract them with Greenland” button. He couldn’t use the “distract them with Canada is a state” button again, he used that one for the Social Security thing last week.

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      7 days ago

      Yeah he led an insurrection against the capital bro. Do you really think a group chat will be his downfall?

    • JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      9 days ago

      I feel like if Watergate happened half the country and most of Congress would find some way of justifying it and no one would even remember it happened a week later because something else equally insane would come up.

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        9 days ago

        Watergate is such a tiny thing in comparison to what tiny hands has done. He has brought a mob to the capital to overthrow the government. Now he is just destroying the government from inside.

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      8 days ago

      I think it’s really dangerous to keep dismissing the Greenland talk as a distraction. We have learned the lesson dozens of times before not to dismiss anything he says because it’s just “crazy talk.”

      Taking control of Greenland and Canada would give a US-Russian alliance complete control over the Arctic circle, which has been a tactical goal of Putin’s for decades.

      The day could come very soon when the US will take military action against Europe on behalf of Russian interests, and the rest of the world should take it seriously and prepare.

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        8 days ago

        Every time an American claims something is just a distraction I get more annoyed. Threats of invading sovereign nations is not just a distraction. It’s pretty fucking alarming as a citizen of one of those nations and the dismissal of it is offensive

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        8 days ago

        It’s all crazy talk until the flights of American troops and equipment start landing for an occupation force.

        Scary times ahead for all, and Americans will struggle the most.

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          8 days ago

          and Americans will struggle the most.

          I keep trying to encourage Americans to put in the effort to stop Trump and his sycophants/minions from escalating this trade war into a shooting war.

          So far they either ask me for a detailed plan to save their country from itself or say its pointless to even try…

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            8 days ago

            You don’t understand.

            People, everyday Americans don’t matter at all.

            The trade war will destroy him, not because it hurts regular Americans, but because it hurts the rich and pisses them off and nobody messes with their meal ticket.

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            8 days ago

            Some of us are taking steps to resist, including but not limited to protests. It is clearly not anywhere close to enough people, but the discontent and resistance is growing. Sadly, most people are shockingly apathetic about such things, yet act like sportsball is the most important thing in the world.

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      8 days ago

      He’s flooded the zone with shit to the point that we can’t focus on any of it with the attention it deserves.