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Trump's Second Term

Planigale said:
I do think for Russians (Putin) Ukraine is a different issue from say Poland or Finland. Ukraine was never an independent nation prior to the break up of the USSR, and Crimea which was Russian was transferred to Ukraine administratively by the USSR. Ukraine as part of NATO which Russia perceives as an anti Russian alliance would be a significant threat.

I think Russia got a bloody nose from Ukraine, and won't be in a hurry to militarily act against its western neighbours who are better armed than Ukraine was and will get more support. Any expansion would likely be to the south, regaining what was part of the Russian empire. So I do think the threat to the West from the Russian army is overstated, and perhaps driven by the military-industrial complex who will gain from re-arming.

This isn't an argument for disarming, but I don't think that a massive arms race is justified. It isn't also an argument to justify Russia's actions. Understanding why Russia does something doesn't mean that Russia was right to do so.
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Crimea was never Russian. And Ukraine never was either.
 
Here's some truth with its pants on after Trump's disinformation has been quoted multiple times.

apnews.com

Trump says Ukraine started the war that's killing its citizens. What are the facts?

Russia’s army crossed the border on Feb. 24, 2022, in an all-out invasion that Putin sought to justify by falsely saying it was needed to protect Russian-speaking civilians in eastern Ukraine and prevent the country from joining NATO.
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Andy_Ross said:
Trump: "We're gonna spend hundreds of millions of dollars advertising how bad drugs are so that kids don't use them."

I'm sure it will be effective.
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Maybe Don Jr. can be in charge of it. And blunt-smoking Elon Musk can help. And Pete "Pass the scotch" Hegseth.
 
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dirtywick said:
donald trump is, ostensibly, the most powerful man on the planet. realistically, he’s beyond the need for money. he’s not in danger of being arrested anymore. historically, once he’s gotten what he wants from someone he drops them and rips them off.

so, why does he bow to putin? he lets putin insult him and does as he asks. why. what is the plausible reason besides putin has something damning on trump?
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I can't believe there's anything, whether on video or not, that would take down The POSOTUS in most MAGAmorons' eyes. Or most Regpugnicans. (See how I got all those childish names in there? That's all I got.)

Mike! said:
Is there a picture on line, with Musk as Willy Wonka and Trump and a subservient Ompha Lumpha? Because there really should be if there isn't.
You can substitute Putin for Musk if you like, I won't complain.
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I have posted one with The POSOTUS as Wonka, and his Cabinet as the Oompa-Loompas, but that was when he was still ostensibly in charge.
 
The Military Times reported, "Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered senior military officials to develop a budget plan that would slash defense spending by 8%, a dramatic cut which could reshape military end-strength and readiness for decades." WaPo indicated that it was to be a series of 8% cuts per year over five years, but I am not 100% sure about it. Two questions. Is this what the people who voted for Trump were expecting? If Biden had proposed this, would these same people be on board with it?
 
FYI this too is real:


The February 18 executive order moving to assert White House supremacy over federal regulation is momentous, but not for the reason mistakenly surmised in some early reports. In declaring a general presidential authority to pronounce on legal interpretation, in particular, the order does not aim to aggress against the role of the courts in saying what the law is. Rather, the order seeks to conquer and subdue what separate interpretive authority has resided in independent agencies, such as the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

The gist of the order, as regards legal interpretation, is thus that such agencies are no longer free to speak for the Executive Branch on what the law is in their area; only the White House or Department of Justice can henceforth do that in an authoritative way.
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Andy_Ross said:
It looks like DOGE canceled the Security and Exchange Commission's Westlaw access, because Elon's team saw "Thomson Reuters" and thought it had to do with the news agency.
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So Reuters news agency is bad now?

Next DOGE will be banning water, or air, for being too clean or "woke".
 
angrysoba said:
Ah! Doesn't work because it clearly says at the bottom "President Donald J. Trump".

Checkmate, liberal!


/s


Anyway, yes, Trump is leaning into the idea that he's an absolute monarch because he knows that there are people in his orbit who literally want him to be one. People who surround weirdos like Curtis Yarvin.
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Fun fact: Yarvin is an atheist. Which leads to an interesting alliance/struggle between the Christian Nationalists and incel cybertech bros...who would win out?
 
Chris_Halkides said:
The Military Times reported, "Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered senior military officials to develop a budget plan that would slash defense spending by 8%, a dramatic cut which could reshape military end-strength and readiness for decades." WaPo indicated that it was to be a series of 8% cuts per year over five years, but I am not 100% sure about it. Two questions.
Is this what the people who voted for Trump were expecting? If Biden had proposed this, would these same people be on board with it?
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Resume correctly answered the second so I'll answer the first: The only thing the Trumpists expected was for him to own the libs, promote a religious patriarchy, and attack minority groups and immigrants. Actual policies, including the military budget, are largely irrelevant to them.
 
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