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Trump's Second Term

Andy_Ross said:
Trump: I used to call it the China virus. But he said could you use a different name. I decided to do that.

Host: You’re a true diplomat

https://twitter.com/x/status/2013991947736924604
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The interviewer mocks him to his face and he is too self-absorbed to even understand.

I hope that one day, before his death, he can be made to understand what the large majority of the world thinks of him. How he isn't any sort of respected world leader but a laughingstock who will be the subject of jokes long after his demise. A loser of epic proportions.

But that's probably being unrealistic. He will more likely die thinking he is the most wonderful human who ever lived and everyone loves him.
 
Jack by the hedge said:
There are a lot of US bases in other NATO countries which could be closed. On the other hand, is that much leverage if Trump's looking forward to a post-NATO future where Europe is not in America's "sphere of influence". Perhaps hence why Trump "has to have" Greenland because, in the future he wants to create, it won't be protected by NATO.

Anticipating that imagined future, I'm curious about why he's suddenly blowing cold over the Chagos islands deal. He sang its praises until now. It's not like he'd have to invade Diego Garcia to get a hold of it; he can just sit tight and ignore any order from his new landlord to budge. So I can't see why Britain handing it over to Mauritius upsets him now. Is he worried by Indian influence over Mauritius? Or Chinese influence? (I say "he" but of course I mean his handlers throughout.)
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He just wants to say something mean about Starmer. Anything mean. He also seems to think Starmer is making money on it, maybe he's pissed he isn't getting a cut? He obviously doesn't understand it.
 
So I go to sleep and when I wake up, I find 5 pages of demented, rambling, incoherent nonsense from the dumbest, most inept human being to ever occupy the Oval Office. This senile old ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ goat needs to be 25th-ed, impeached, maybe both, and sent to one of those insane asylums he babbles about . . . Then we concentrate on Vance.
 
Andy_Ross said:
Donald said earlier in Davos, Switzerland:

"Without us, right now you'd all be speaking German".

German is the main language of Switzerland.
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It's even the most common language in Graubünden, the canton where Davos is. If Trump had made his speech in Geneva, he could at least have appealed to local pride.
 
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Armitage72 said:
He also claimed that "somebody" may have deliberately set him up to be hurt by the binder clip.
"That was nasty. I think somebody did that."

When my mother was developing dementia before she passed away, she became noticeably paranoid.
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Those clips are designed to not snap back that hard, they'll sting, and maybe raise a bruise, but they should not cause any serious injury.
 
Andy_Ross said:
Surprise! Mike Johnson says he hasn't seen any of Trump's (bonkers) speech in Davos
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Some time, I would like to see some reporter at a press conference ask him "Since you seem to be unaware of what is going on, do you think you are a bad choice for house speaker? Shouldn't we have someone in the position who knows what is happening?"
 
Chris_Halkides said:
The New York Post used The Daily Telegraph to report, "President Trump has reportedly demanded half of Ukraine’s revenues from natural resources, ports and infrastructure as reparations for the billions of dollars the US contributed to Kyiv’s war effort. The demand — which was included in a draft contract on the “reconstruction of Ukraine” that reached Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s desk last week — has caused “consternation and panic” in Kyiv, according to The Telegraph." My mind cannot get around this.
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The Economist reported, "The president had earlier sent Scott Bessent, his treasury secretary, to Kyiv to demand that Ukraine hand over rights to what the Trump administration says are $500bn of critical minerals as payment for all the aid America has given in the past. A lot of the minerals are in Russian-held territory, though America is thought to have asked Russia to negotiate over access. Ukraine refused those demands, asking for clarity over what the country would get in return. In Munich American officials at first pressed Ukraine to sign a deal, but later agreed to continue to talk."
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This kind of ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ is so frustrating. When the United States fought against and defeated Japan, we invested HEAVILY into that nation. Same with Germany and Italy. Though I do disagree with the handling of Korea, at least South Korea turned out great. Same thing with Taiwan. Though our relations with China has always been pretty rocky, our corporate leaders and politicians have managed to crack open that tough nut and worked their way into there.

While the labor issues were and are still horrendous in China, at least the trading and business deals have probably largely prevented a blood bath between the west and China by stabilizing our relations through frequent open contact; not just between our national leaders, but also between the businesspeople making deals with each other, and through sporting events. There has been a great cultural exchange between us. Theres a ton of value in that, which we cannot quantify in terms of dollar amounts. There have been countless trillions of dollars made in exchange of goods and services; but also how many countless trillions have been saved in maintaining business relations rather than have political deterioration into outright war, along with saving millions of lives and trillions in property damage from such a catastrophic failure?

When we invest heavily into other nations, it greatly benefits us. In return, there is greater security in the world, and more trading opportunities. It actually strengthens capitalism. It's amazing to me just how much capitalists work against themselves, even as democratic socialists (like Bernie Sanders and famously FDR and Teddy Roosevelt), work to PROTECT the free market from themselves to such great economic success and opportunities that otherwise would not have been there. No way Jeff Bezos would ever have gotten to where he and his former company Amazon are now after he started selling textbooks out of his parents' garage.
 
bruto said:
Relax to the lullabye of compassionate conservatism:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1891923570768384107
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Sorry, I want to make another post. An interesting observation I've been seeing all over social media that gives me a ton of hope. Look at these screen shots, and look at the number of "likes" each type of comment gets. This is only just one example, but I see this sort of thing all over facebook, twitter, and everywhere else.

The psychopathic MAGA-world is MASSIVELY outnumbered. Which demonstrates very clearly that this is NOT normal human behavior.

In my (VERY!) unscientific approach here, I tend to see about a very roughly 2:1 ratio of "likes" for normal-people comments vs. the comments made by insane psychopaths.

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