May you live in interesting times! We do, and the times will grow even more interesting as Trump directs threats at other world leaders, reminding us that his “art of the deal” consists of bullying, bluster, blather and lying
The Wall Street Journal reported today:
President-elect Donald Trump is openly discussing provocative aspirations for U.S. territorial expansion as he prepares to return to the White House, warning about taking over the Panama Canal and wresting control of Greenland from Denmark.
His comments, delivered in public remarks and social-media posts on Sunday, come after he recently trolled Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau by suggesting that Canada should become the 51st state and referring to Trudeau as a governor. During the recent presidential campaign, Trump said he would deploy the U.S. military to impose a naval embargo on Mexican cartels and order the Pentagon to use American special forces to take down cartel leaders.
Taken together, the president-elect’s broadsides signal that he will pursue a confrontational foreign-policy agenda, leveraging unconventional threats and pointed demands in an attempt to gain advantage over allies and adversaries alike. Trump is often prone to provocation, and it wasn’t immediately clear if he would try to follow through on his demands. But if he does, he is likely to face stiff resistance from world leaders, who would object to any effort to undermine their sovereignty.
“We’re being ripped off at the Panama Canal like we’re being ripped off everywhere else,” Trump said at a conservative conference in Phoenix on Sunday, demanding the return of the state-run canal to the U.S. “We will never, never let it fall into the wrong hands….”
Later Sunday, in a statement announcing his pick for U.S. ambassador to Denmark, Trump signaled his continued interest in taking control of Greenland. “For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World, the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity,” Trump said. Denmark controls the self-governing island.
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Trump is thiking about all of the nuclear weapons the US has and how Putin uses them to threaten his enemies. During his first four years in the White House, Doanld the John Trump was talked out of using nukes on China and hurricanes.
After all, on day one for Trump 2.0 with Project 2025 as an outline, in his mind, the convicted rapist, fraud and felon thinks he is going to be a dictator. That it’s going to be easy.
Maybe the malignant narcisist, sociopath and meglamaniac has already divided up the world between him and Putin in a secret deal.
Trump gets the Americas, Austrlia and New Zeland with most of the Pacific’s small, defensless island nations. Putin gets Europe, Africa, and the Atlantic.
Once they acomplish that, they attack China from both sides and nuke the middle east into oblivion.
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Yes it will be like the Treaty of Tordesillas where the Pope divided the world in half for Portugal and Spain to control.
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I don’t know what will happen to the NATO countries if Putin & tRump attempt to take over the world, especially because the UK is likely to play the same role as they did in WWII, since they and their Commonwealth of Nations are still all over the map. However, I suspect that, provided no nuclear weapons are used, for Putin and his best buds, China will be much like the Soviet Union was to Hitler: ultimately, way too vast, populated & well equipped to be subdued. (Hitler lost the war, as well as his own country, primarily because of the Russians to the east, but also due to the war being on two fronts for them, with the UK, their Commonwealth & US to the west.) If nukes are used, all bets are off for everyone on the planet.
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“It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
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In the immediate wake of Nov. 5 I read a novel that was hanging around the house by Carl Hiassen, an author who has a unique way of skewering Flori-duh.
I saw the book, Stormy Weather ((1995), as a bit a of a compromise. A break from the mega trump dump we’ve been enduring while perhaps giving me some insights into and a few laughs at the expense of the state that is regularly our Republic’s undoing i.e 2000, 2016 and now 2024. (From bad to worse to truly dismal…)
But turns out, there he was, trumpy himself, on page 95 of the novel, used as a snarky jibe about a character’s low-brow reading habits. We just cannot escape the 45th (and now 47th) idiot-in-chief.
And it’s not enough that trump and the g.o.p. and, who else, those old farts who turned all selfishy (it takes The Villages to punish the nation’s children) have made the Sunshine state a seemingly never ending disaster zone…
Now they’ve got to poop on countries all over the world! Countries that are just trying to mind their own business.
Panama? Greenland?
Where next?
I predict….Djibouti.
Maybe we should organize a pool on here?
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Trump is not a statesman. His limited knowledge of history, geography and political savvy, compounded by his endless bluster and inflated ego, make him the bull on the world stage china shop. Trump is a greedy business man, used to calling the shots in the family empire. He knows how to bully and threaten anyone that dares oppose him. Everything in his world is transactional. He is particularly dangerous to our country because he is for sale to the highest bidder.
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This is false bravado in the wake of Realpresident Muskox making him look like the small man that he is. Trump is trying to divert the conversation from the fact that Musk rules now.
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Trump told an audience at a conservative gathering that “I’m safe,” because Musk is foreign born and can’t be president. Defensive and sad.
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I saw that. Yet, on Rigjtwing talk, this is all being treated as sanity. I listened for a bit to a talking Radiohead recently. He used “Elon” as a tag, showing him familiarity and respect. These shoes are the only political analysis some people listen to.
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Since trump traffics in cliches….in fact, he is a living, breathing, orange paint-smeared cliche….the tacky, glitzy huckster come to town i.e. The Music Man, let me offer up an age-worn idea:
‘The bigger they are, the harder they fall’
Though, tragically, these mega-dolts could take a huge chunk of the planet along with most of us with them.
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Since Canada has mentioned stopping fossil fuel exports to the United States as a retaliation for tariffs, no wonder he wants to invade
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We could become the Russia of the Americas, invading other nations and taking what we want.
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Yup. That seems to me to be the plan, too. tRump’s call for tariffs on Canada and Mexico, and considering tRump lied about what the new President of Mexico said to him about keeping her people from crossing over into the US, plus the fact that Mexico is the other country on our border (AND she’s a woman) all lead me to think Mexico us likely to be on his list of countries he wants to own next. That would provide him easy access to other countries in Central America, including Panama, and South America as well.
It sounds like being POTUS again isn’t enough for his ginormous ego. He wants world domination and take-overs, too. All very scary and sad stuff…
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-migration-mexico-president-b2655068.html
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Next up:
Trump “sells” Alaska back to Putin at a price that Trump says will make America great again. Just think how many more tax cuts he can get with that money.
I hear Putin has his eye on Hawaii, too.
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First, let him control the doge-man.
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Didn’t Hitler say the same thing about Czechoslovakia and Austria? I don’t like where this is headed…
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