• bampop@lemmy.world
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    So he was Putin’s bitch all along! Who could have guessed it?

    Anyway…

    Release the Trump/Epstein files

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    Trump is handling the peace negotiations in the most spectacularly embarrassing way. Giving the aggressors in a conflict concessions in exchange for a pinky swear that they won’t do it again? Wow, what a concept. Historically bulletproof strategy that has never failed or backfired in any way.

    I saw someone write once that Trump is so obsessed with making deals, and being known as a great dealmaker, to the point where the terms of the deal are often irrelevant to him. If the terms are favorable, he honors the deal. If he discovers later that the terms were not favorable to him, he reneges.

    This kind of behavior works when you are a billionaire developing real estate because the people he screws over rarely have the funds to fight him in court, and have their workers’ livelihoods to think about. Even if they do take him on, or they get a law team to work pro bono, he drags out the court proceedings and delays paying court judgements, or he opts to settle for much less than what was promised initially.

    This doesn’t work in geopolitics, but he doesn’t know how to operate any other way. He wants to make a deal, and if he has to give away America’s most valuable natural resources to close that deal, he’ll do it. Doesn’t matter if Putin has no intention of giving up the fight in Ukraine, Trump just wants to feel like he’s some great peacemaker.

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    How is it that I’m not even born in the US and somehow I’m more American than the average American in my country.

    Traitors, to the gallows.

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      The problem is that he is rich and famous. Americans don’t want to put these people in jail, they want to take selfies with them.

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    Offer the country you’re spending billions against in a proxy war resources that will likely find their way, directly or indirectly, used against the US’s financial expenditures in the war.

    No wonder this idiot bankrupted a casino.

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      Don’t forget: bankruptcy only affects the business, hence golden parachutes. Being a casino owner wasn’t enough, bastard had to screw over the workers too

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    Trump is willing to surrender our our natural resources to Russia cause he is weak. He always has been weak and everyone knows it. Also he rapes children.

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      Trump is willing to surrender our our natural resources to Russia cause he is weak.

      I mean, its weird to say this when Dems are the one hiding under their desks every time Trump stumbles back into DC after a Big Mac bender. Trump sees real estate he thinks is “worthless” because it is part of the National Wildlife Refuge and is trading it for something he considers “worthwhile”, which is a detente in Ukraine that’ll give him time to carve up and sell off the choice bits of its western real estate.

      This isn’t “weak”, its just about personal enrichment. What’s “weak” is a Congress and Court that will rubber stamp his decisions, for fear of looking divisive or intransigent or insufficiently loyal. Like, watch how Senator Dan Sullivan responds to this shit by lining up to lick Trump’s puckered asshole.

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      The only thing I can think of is to be less obvious about it.
      A properly trained russian agent wouldn’t be so blatantly corrupt, surely.

      Then again he’s a damned imbecile so he’s doing the best he can with the 5 brain cells he’s got.

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        He isn’t a Russian agent he is too dumb for that. You don’t “train” assets you handle them, whoever his handler is, their life must be complicated.

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        Not agent, asset. And as for him needing to be subtle, why? There’s been zero consequences for pretty much anything he’s done. At this point I’ll be absolutely shocked if he doesn’t illegally try to hold onto power after his term is up.

        The world would literally be about 100x better without Trump and Putin.

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      I like the Woody Guthrie line from his song Lindbergh about the American fascist collaborators in the 40s:

      And I’m gonna tell you workers,
      'fore you cash in your checks
      They say “America First,” but they mean “America Next!”
      In Washington, Washington…

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          From his 1955 song, Old Man Trump:

          I suppose that Old Man Trump knows just how much racial hate
          He stirred up in that bloodpot of human hearts
          When he drawed that color line
          Here at his Beach Haven family project

          Beach Haven ain’t my home!
          No, I just can’t pay this rent!
          My money’s down the drain,
          And my soul is badly bent!
          Beach Haven is Trump’s Tower
          Where no black folks come to roam,
          No, no, Old Man Trump!
          Old Beach Haven ain’t my home!

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      Honestly the way Americans, and most of all educated and\or elitarian Americans, behave in society, - it makes perfect sense that at some point it will be sold. Nothing like it really in the world, with the UK as the close second.

      It’s still funny, Alaska was sold to the US because the Russian empire’s expectation was for the US to eventually control all of the North American continent. Not even control, but settle first of all. Like with Texas, it’s not very convenient when the main settling power is different from the one having theoretical control.

      So honestly a meeting in Alaska would make the best sense as a prelude to selling Kamchatka to the US or something like that. It’s kinda sobering that the US today (contrary even to 50 years ago) is not a society that can settle anything new.

      And if we think about it, in the middle of the XIX century it was expected that the African continent will be settled by Europeans similarly to the Americas.

      South American states preserved, despite all the crime and poverty and dictatorships, some degree of cultural diversity and even humanism, but don’t look as attractive for immigrants as then. Let’s say they were half-settled.

      USA was half of the world’s GDP at some point. It’s not anymore.

      The whole Africa was in population less than Europe. Settling it was plausible. Not anymore.

      There were fewer Iranians on the planet than European Jews. Not anymore.

      So I would say that, sacrificing Native Americans, the humanity has formed an immunity against European empires. It doesn’t yet look so, but the numbers don’t lie. And building combat drones en masse is honestly nothing that the non-imperial part of the world can’t do. Actually the involved defense-related corruption is probably less everywhere else relevant than in the NATO countries.

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      My man absolutely loves a shady real estate deal. Surprised he isn’t throwing in that collapsed Minnesota bridge and all the leaded pipes in Flint, Michigan.

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    I don’t know how many times I need to spell it out Americans:

    Line item #2

    You need to deal with your worthless president hellbent on destroying the planet.

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      The only time they have guts is when they’re aiming advanced weapons at poorly armed brown people on the other side of the world.

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      Well what are we supposed to do? We have protests and post zingers on social media! There’s literally no other options!

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        His approval rating is at an all-time low! Dems are BLASTING him on the socials! We’re doing everything we can! /s

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    I have been saying for years he is going to donate Alaska to Russia…and now this.

    I should not be, but I am entirely astonished right now, lol.

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      Not donate, that would mean it’s for a cause… Putin has said for a long time now he considers Alaska Russian property and wants it back. So Trump will just give it to him as if it was loaned from Russia.

      This is also why Trump wants Canada and Greenland, he needs to find a way to balance things so it looks like a win for him… “We gave Alaska back to Russia, but won Greenland and Canada for the greatest usa, best deal ever!”

      I would not be surprised in the slightest if he invades Greenland by next year.

      At the very least he needs to find distractions to keep the American people drowning in chaos while the country slips even further in misery.

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    Trump is a bully, and what do bullies do when they enter the big kid playground ? they submit to the bigger bully.

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    How much “fury” has it sparked? Are the republicans furious enough to impeach him? I’ll wait. checks watch