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”.
Ignore him. He is only trying to distract from his latest failures. Expect more distractions as the failures mount up.
Not only Panama, the orange shit stain wants Greenland too!
He’s trying to buy Greenland at least, while annexing the Panama canal.
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.
What even brought this up? Who in Trump’s orbit is so concerned about the Panama Canal?
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.
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.
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.
Take a break from the internet fam
He’s the fucking president elect, not some troll. You can’t ignore him and make him go away.
You definitely can, but you’ll have to uninstall Lemmy and all other social media for a while.
There are two parts to my statement. You can ignore him… BUT he doesn’t simply go away. He will be deciding us policy for the next two years.
This is the one thing that’s better about that other site. It’s so big that you can ignore politics while still enjoying your communities.
I’m really missing keyword filtering from Lemmy. I had it in Infinity. I filtered so many keywords, from American politicians, bitcoin, and others. It was blissful.
Many of the Lemmy apps have keyword filtering. The one I know of is Thunder but I know there are others.
Nice, have to explore them. Jerboa is great but lacks that.
You definitely can ignore [Trump quote of the day] and the 24h news cycle.
Reading about what’s current once a week and otherwise just picking up stuff from conversations with your peers is enough.
There are two parts to my statement. You can ignore him… BUT he doesn’t simply go away. He will be deciding us policy for the next two years.
You can take a break from being offended too
It’s not about “being offended”. This moron is going to be the most powerful person in the county. What he says and thinks effects markets and trade.
Isn’t Panama a tax haven? Does he really want to mess with a place where he probably has a ton of assets himself?
MP4s don’t work embedded, did you mean to post a gif?
They work for me, guess it’s browser dependent.
A Reddit image link here on the Fediverse? Ew.
Sure, reddit’s not getting any money from me using it.
Wildcard, Bitches!
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.
As they should. Chump is fucking insane.
Yo what?
Defending the Borders of allies like Ukraine: Nope
Randomly taking other country’s land: Yes
Wtf?
Is he even taking it for the US? Or is he gonna sell it to russia?
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.
Still, Trump said, that, once his second term is underway, “If the principles, both moral and legal, of this magnanimous gesture of giving are not followed, then we will demand that the Panama Canal be returned to the United States of America, in full, quickly and without question.”
“I’m not going to stand for it,” Trump said. “So to the officials of Panama, please be guided accordingly.”
Trump then took to his social media site to offer in response, “We’ll see about that!” He also posted a picture of a U.S. flag planted in the canal zone under the phrase, “Welcome to the United States Canal!”
Yo what the fuck. So he said it on truth aocial, then said all of the above during a speech today, and then went back to his social network for a follow up.
This entire thing is so fucked up.
This entire thing is so fucked up.
A succinct and accurate summary of a trump presidency.
Four. More. Years of this bs. Ugh.
Hopefully just four.
It’ll be either four or a total failure of US democracy. He’ll be at his term limit.
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.
This time you don’t get the ‘we didn’t see it coming’ excuse
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
The rules to baseball seem to line up even:
- Someone tosses you a gift (Baseball)
- You smack the shit out of in a way that forces everyone to go looking for/chasing it as a distraction.
- Invade their bases, stealing whatever you can.
- Return home with your stolen bases without the other side being able to touch you in any way.
- Hailed as a hero.
Which part of sportsball am I missing here.
I’m struggling to squeeze the ground rule double into your analogy
Don’t anyone panic! There are still 3 death row inmates to do something about and a whole constitution to scramble.
