Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him. Also, he really is maniacally, unhealthily obsessive about the Nobel Prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee, not the Norwegian government and certainly not the Danish government, determines the winner of that prize. Yet Trump now not only blames Norway for failing to give it to him, but is using it as a justification for an invasion of Greenland.
Think about where this is leading. One possibility, anticipated this morning by financial markets, is a damaging trade war. Another is an American military occupation of Greenland. Try to imagine it: The U.S. Marines arrive in Nuuk, the island’s capital. Perhaps they kill some Danes; perhaps some American soldiers die too. And then what? If the invaders were Russians, they would arrest all of the politicians, put gangsters in charge, shoot people on the street for speaking Danish, change school curricula, and carry out a fake referendum to rubber-stamp the conquest. Is that the American plan too? If not, then what is it? This would not be the occupation of Iraq, which was difficult enough. U.S. troops would need to force Greenlanders, citizens of a treaty ally, to become American against their will.
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The last ten years have been filled with last straws. Pick one for godsakes! This dude is a child rapist
“Give me the Peace Prize or else I’ll invade other countries and start wars” sounds like something out of a sitcom.
The author is married to the polish minister of defense. Not that it matters, just a fun fact.
He’s currently Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs.
And in case anyone reading takes her professional credentials to be “wife” instead of just taking it as a fun fact, she’s a renowned journalist, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and one of the world’s most important experts on modern authoritarianism. wiki
Right, Foreign Affairs. I wasn’t sure but don’t care enough to double check :) As I said, just a fan fact. I knew she was a writer but I never saw her “in the wild”.
Totally. It is a fun fact!
start with Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution
Straw? Seems it’s more like a bunch of sledgehammers that won’t break the camel’s back.
More evidence that there’s a black hole of shit calling itself Donald Trump, and absolutely nobody who has been pulled into his orbit cares about this, or even allegations that he raped little girls.
The thing we’re missing here is that while normal, well-adjusted, educated people who recognize the alarm bells of an elected official publishing gaffs and mistakes like these, the MAGA base frequently makes and overlooks these kinds of mistakes, overlooking them as inconsequential. We all do shit, but none of it matters if it’s done with charisma.
It’s like when a Gen-Z college intern reads an email from a Gen-X, C-Level boss that’s riddled with possessive apostrophes and misspellings and he wonders how someone who never achieved a commensurate literacy is promoted into that role. But it’s not a deal-breaker because his network of peers and competitive, extroverted personality are thought to keep the business thriving.
Jump ahead to a thriving workplace where the hardworking hourly employees show up everyday.
Jump to a Master’s graduate who vibe-authored all of his papers and never had to deal with minutia like punctuation in his resume.
Jump to a charismatic personality.
People can overlook a lot when they want you on their team.
So this is, what, the 329th ‘last straw’? (just a number I plucked out of the air - it’s probably way higher) Fuck me I’m sick of people treating this dickhead with kid gloves while he and his cronies run rough-shod over every institution. Grow a fucking backbone, America.
It should be, but will it be?
The road is currently littered with things that should have been the last straw
And that’s just from today. Here’s the haul since new years
I was unable to find a photo of enough hay bales to represent 2016 till now. And that’s just the current stuff, we’d need a full planet of hay to represent the number of last straws from before that, and a whole galaxy to represent the global last straws throughout history (obviously).
Yeah, throw it on the pile.
the last straw should have been “grab them by the pussy”
but here we are, getting murdered in the street by nazi fascist pigfuck thugs
The last straw should have been mocking a disabled reporter. That was a decade ago.
If only someone time-travels themselves to convince future Trump voters in 2015 to vote for Hillary instead, then everyone would’ve been better off.
Which is probably nowhere close to the end. We’re probably going to have to go through a civil war, experience a nuclear catastrophe, something to cow the cultists back.
Anybody who reads that and doesn’t immediately conclude he’s absolutely fucked in the head and a threat to… everyone needs to get on the next SpaceX test rocket.
The problem is even if haalf of trump voters finally agreed. And united left and right all decided to message our reps to stop this it either goes discarded or Vance is next in line and he still pursues it
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There are no more straws. Anyone who supports Trump at this point has already locked in and there isn’t anything him or his admin can do to change their minds.
It’s not about who supports him. It’s about the people and organizations that have the power to do something about it sitting on their hands.
Dementia speaks folks… it’s the late night sundowning and the posting in the wee hours when he should and would be sleeping if his brain wasn’t turning to plaque that’s the give away. Man is falling into the same disease that his father went down with and has played the ‘batshit’ game for so long it’s hiding what would be obvious in a normal, decent person.
His dad, his granddad, and his sister all died suffering terrible dementia.
So will he. And we’ll be there. Wheeee.
It’s his personal terror, according to his niece, Mary Trump. I hope it takes him screaming, into the void in absolute rage and fear.
(I actually got a strike on Reddit for posting this… can you believe it?)
Okay, so I can’t really get angry over a demented old man yelling at the clouds, it’s what they do…
But exactly what is happening in USA since there’s nobody telling him to shut the fuck up? Somebody wrote this on a piece of paper for him and put it in an envelope and send it through as diplomatic post between two nations. And NOBODY at any point whatsoever had the courage to tell him what is obvious to everyone else on the planet: That these are the dumbest words every written on a piece of paper in the entire history of mankind. Really?
What are they so afraid of?
NOBODY at any point whatsoever had the courage to tell him what is obvious to everyone else on the planet
You described it well. It’s what happens to tyrants, and invariably brings their downfall. It’s a process: they replace more and more annoying critical voices with yesmen and -women. It strengthens their power, until literally nobody dares to criticize them anymore. And suddenly there’s no way to correct course back to normal, and it all turns into a farce.
We have other living examples for that, historical examples, even fairytales - and measures against it. Separation of powers, no more than two consecutive terms, and ultimately the democratic process itself - if those haven’t been hollowed out for decades.
Part of me wants to believe its because they enjoy letting him make a dook of himself but I know better.
Edit: somehow, ‘fool’ got autocorrected to ‘dook’.
I have decided I like dook better.
A fool of a dook.
dookie
They are afraid their corporate donors will get mad. Who benefits from this chaos? Corporations. Corporations who are handed the new contracts for resource extraction.
Just about our entire government is captured by these corporate interests. Foreign policy to enrich these powers has always been uniparty in this country try as we might to lie and obfuscate that. No one wants to speak out against Trump and lose out on the gravy train they have coming in with their kickbacks from donors.
Maybe the Epstein files don’t just have pedobloat in them. SCROTUS/GOP/Billionaires, etc…they are all covering for each other’s kompromat.
Not the rape, murder, torture, kidnapping, corruption, illegitimacy, illegality, unconstitutionality, warmongering, domestic and international terrorism, pedophilia, economic harm, environmental harm, the destruction of public landmarks, undermining congressional power, illegal firings and appointments, nepotism, theft, convictions, insurrection, sedition, or treason but his grade school bullying of our allies? THAT should be the last straw?
I mean, apart from all that, what’s so bad about him? ;)
(a: He’s also ugly and smells like poo.)
