He’s not even back in office yet and I’m already so. Fucking. Exhausted.
Strap in. This ride down the drain hasn’t even started.
Can someone please set up an AI to track everything he does and says, parse out the important bits, and give us the rundown? Then he can yell into the void all he wants and we can keep our sanity while staying informed.
Already done, though it’s a real person, not an AI
https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/
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Get off of social media?
If anything, these elections should teach us that we shouldn’t be putting our faith in the political process. This generation is learning from experience why previous generations didn’t care to discuss politics; it’s all crapshoot and we are better off focusing on things we can have substantial impact on.
This should be teaching us to work at the local and state levels to change the political process.
You’re right, to an extent.
The problem is that small-town politics are usually red-dominated; it’ll be a big uphill battle to change their minds.
problem is that small-town politics are usually red-dominated
That’s why more progressive people need to get involved at that level - to offset the MAGAts who are trying to insert their bullshit into school boards and municipal politics.
It takes very few people to change things at the local level.
This is true. It is all about social validation for them. Parroting Russian propaganda to TEAM PSYCHOCULT, flexing and intimidating to feel bad ass, screeching about quasi-racist epithet LIBERALS. Any attempt for “discussion” turns out exhausting and fruitless, as fascists dont give a shit about sincerity or even making sense.
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He’s throwing everything he can into the wind so that it distracts the American people from all the heinous shit his compatriots are doing. He has always been good at exactly one thing: distracting bluster. And he’s a master at it.
He’s just an entitled, stupid, obnoxious rich white man like there are hundreds of thousands in America. He’s treating the presidency like a tv show and the country like something he owns. He sees his power as a way to get richer, so he’ll bully other countries if they have something he wants. Strategy and geopolitics don’t mean anything to him.
He’s just an entitled, stupid, obnoxious rich white man like there are hundreds of thousands in America.
Not just in America. In the world. Except for being rich and white part in many cases.
Here’s a recent thread from an Indian tech forum that I used to lurk at occasionally:
https://techenclave.com/threads/how-will-trumps-threat-on-100-tariff-on-brics-pan-out.223705/
See if you can spot Indian MAGA.
He’s not going to do anything. But we’re now talking about this instead of something else. Mission accomplished.
This is it folks, this is his “making us respected on the world’s stage again.” He’s going to piss off absolutely everyone and balkanize the US.
I’d say it’s been a good run, but it hasn’t been.
Wouldn’t be the first time the U.S. ignored a treaty with a land full of indigenous people…
This is our actual national pastime. Baseball is just a fad
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I’m struggling to squeeze the ground rule double into your analogy
Something about a bullshit rule that can be exploited by those in power.
So he has foolish ideas about ending existing wars and plans to start a few new ones.
He really can’t wait to go full Hitler.
I’m sure the 25th Infantry Division is thrilled to know they’ll be required to fight a jungle insurgency for an obsolete canal.
/s
Honestly, I’d prolly die day 1, but as a Honduran, I’d probably consider volunteering to go to Panama and fight you guys if you do end up sending armed forces to take the Canal. Fuck you guys…I mean, not you specifically, or anyone here for that matter, but… you know what I mean…
Yeah the US rep in South America isn’t great…
Is ‘obsolete’ part of the /s or is it actually not as useful now?
It will be not even remotely useful then. It is a easy task for defending force/Guerilla force to disable the canal in a way that it can not be used for years,maybe even decades. Besides,none, absolutely none would insure ships going through it (ask the Egyptians during their various Suez crisis episodes).
So it will be absolutely useless then.
It is actually not as useful. Panamax ships were getting made 1985. But then they figured out they could actually ship more with larger designs even going around the “long way”. So the route is longer but ships are faster and larger enough that the “bandwidth” is higher than going through the canal.
The canal is also running out of water. It’s supplied by a lake at the highest point and every time they run the locks they lose water. They put some pumps in to bring water back up but it’s not enough to offset the loss.
Isn’t Panama a tax haven? Does he really want to mess with a place where he probably has a ton of assets himself?
A Reddit image link here on the Fediverse? Ew.
Sure, reddit’s not getting any money from me using it.
MP4s don’t work embedded, did you mean to post a gif?
They work for me, guess it’s browser dependent.
Ignore him. He is only trying to distract from his latest failures. Expect more distractions as the failures mount up.
What even brought this up? Who in Trump’s orbit is so concerned about the Panama Canal?
Has anyone told him that you first have to have a big dick before you start trying to swing it around?
Yeah.
Arnold Palmer.
Not only Panama, the orange shit stain wants Greenland too!
He’s trying to buy Greenland at least, while annexing the Panama canal.
From a Risk/HoI4 point of view it makes sense, take all territory down to Panama so you can place all your army stacks there so the front is real small.
But this would go as well as when Russia tried to invade it’s neighbor: not good at all.
He wants isolationism in Ukraine and extreme interventionism in Panama… The thing they have in common? Imperialism. Imperialists help other imperialists, then go on to do a little imperialising of their own.
Come-on now, imperialists were all about helping Ukraine too. Proxy wars with client states to deplete your enemies is pretty much imperial 101.
Who is invading whom, again? Russia are the imperialists here. They could leave at any time. Everything that is happening to Russia, they are doing to themselves. Nobody in Europe or the US gives a shit about taking control of Russia or its land. They just want Russia to stay the fuck on its side of the border.
I’m telling you your fundamental premise is flawed. Imperialism isn’t an ideology that finds allies in other empires just because they’re both imperial. Go on Reddit and look for comments about how funding Ukraine is the best military investment they could make if you don’t believe me. You’ve got imperialists on your side too ya know.
The point is to water down the idea of imperialism, which serves Russia and China.
The same way they tried with impeachment over everything, the same way they’re watering down the concept of the pardon, the same way they watered down the term “coup”.
Didn’t the US take Panama already?
I mean they took Panama, but it’s still Panama, hint, hint nudge nudge.
From Columbia, yes, the United States took the Central American portion of Columbia and made Panama. Then built the Canal and leased it from Panama for 100 years.
Edit: there is a lot more to it but that’s the gist of it.
What?
I mean wft are you talking about ?
Well, yes, there’s definitely a hell of a lot more of a fuck about it.
Good grief. Is this what the US education has become ?
Grand Columbia, the Panama Canal project, a Bull Moose, $40 million, Manuel Amador, The Torrijos Carter Treaties, and a little bit of hyperbole.
Your mom is what US education has come to.
