Duke of Bullshit: "The" Donald

[Recusant]

So now what? A ridiculous show trial then put the kidnapped dastard and his wife in the federal hoosegow? American armed forces protecting American oil company operations? A long-term military presence after installing a puppet regime--occupied territory of the empire? On to Greenland? To quote the late great Tom Lehrer inappropriately, the prospect sickens.

[Icarus]

Not quite a conundrum................https://imgur.com/gallery/give-post-unique-title-IPHkPLV

[zorkan]

Don't know what all the fuss is about.

https://www.reddit.com/r/geography/comments/10jgyei/countries_invaded_by_britain_throughout_the/

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1866-1898/venezuela

[Recusant]

Polls aren't necessarily accurate, but they usually give broad indications about opinion. Especially when the numbers are notably distinct. With that in mind, I think it's reasonable to say that right now about 20% of Americans (at most) are in favor of some kind of unvarnished American imperialism. About 5% are in favor of the imposition of empire via military force. Not that it matters what American citizens want. What the wannabe emperor with a toddler mentality wants, that's what matters.

"Just 4% of Americans Support Trump Seizing Greenland by Military Force" | Common Dreams

A survey released Wednesday shows that just 4% of US voters think it would be a "good idea" for President Donald Trump to seize Greenland by military force, data that came ahead of a closely watched White House meeting between Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and the foreign ministers of Greenland and Denmark.

More broadly, according to the new Reuters/Ipsos poll, only 17% of Americans approve of Trump's push for the US to acquire Greenland by any means.

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[Icarus]

MSNBC commentator Laurence O'Donnel did a zinger last night on his program. He asked the question: "If Donald Trump contracted dementia, how would we know?"

[Icarus]

Copied from an Imgur post

https://imgur.com/gallery/freedom-please-IdYb8mo............................

[Recusant]

Of course these asinine schmucks would get around to doing their own version of "Let me see your papers!" You say you're a citizen, you better be carrying proof or it's off to the DHS detention centers with you. If your complexion makes you a suspect, the ICE goons may not even care one way or another. Thanks to "Kavanaugh stops" that's perfectly legal now.

We are told to believe that this is how it's always been, and that the Fourth Amendment prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures doesn't really apply when it comes to enforcing immigration law. No warrant? No problem, ICE enforcers don't need one. All for the Homeland! 

"ICE Barbie Warns Americans Must Be Prepared to Prove Citizenship" | Daily Beast

Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem defended ICE agents who are demanding that Americans prove they are U.S. citizens in Minneapolis amid escalating tensions.

The DHS secretary spoke with reporters outside the White House on Thursday as protests intensified in Minnesota after an officer shot a man in the leg after he allegedly assaulted an agent.

Noem was asked why Americans were being asked to prove citizenship and whether she was advising Americans to carry proof of citizenship.

"In every situation, we are doing targeted enforcement. If we are on a target and doing an operation, there may be individuals surrounding that criminal that we may be asking who they are and why they're there and validate their identity," Noem claimed. "That's what we've always done in asking people who they are so that we know who's in those surroundings."

She said if they are breaking the law, they will be detained them, "until we've run that processing."

Her response came amid escalating reports of federal agents arresting U.S. citizens not just in Minnesota but nationally.

In Minnesota, video captured ICE violently detaining two Target employees. One of the workers could be heard saying he was a citizen as he was taken away after being thrown to the ground inside the store entrance. A state lawmaker confirmed both were U.S. citizens.

Noem, on Thursday, was asked if she was okay with federal agents violating people's Fourth Amendment rights by asking Americans for papers without reasonable suspicion.

"Every single action that our ICE officers take is according to the law and following protocols that we have used for years," Noem claimed. "They are doing everything correctly."

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[Icarus]

His Highness threatens to invoke the insurrection act.  If we fight back too vigorously. He may have a go at that, I fear.


Venezuela oil? Greenland? Tariffs imposed for countries that disagree with his Greenland ambitions ? Crusty Gnome. JFK jr, Pete Hogsbreath, Speaker Johnson, OCE gestapo ?  My once beloved country is in deep trouble. 

[Recusant]

They're in the minority regardless. Put brownshirts on the streets, disappear people, kill people to effect a kidnapping of the leader of another country, threaten allies with military action, it's not going to get wide support from the citizenry. At this point it's down to the 35-40% ride or die MAGAs who will espouse Trumpism regardless of what happens (according to recent polling). They've always been there when the rest of the country has gone off the Trumpist scheme.

What I'm saying is that there will almost certainly be a course correction, though it may be farther in the future than we would prefer. I won't be surprised to see a President Vance at some point. I don't think it will result in any improvement. Could very well be worse.

Nonetheless most Americans aren't in favor of this bumbling cruelty and viciousness. It will run its course. It will leave a permanent stain I think, but other countries have managed to come out the other side of this sort of thing.

[Icarus]

Know thine enemy!

Here is a rather lengthy history of Trump and the Trump  clan. It is a wikipedia item that is in danger of causing Wikipedia and/or its contributors some serious grief. That is because The Donald is incapable of accepting criticism without striking  ack viciously. Pam Bondi would probably be given the revenge task.

[Icarus]

 ^ OOPs...............try this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump

[Dark Lightning]

The legislature needs to grow a spine, at least enough Republicans, to veto his insane power grabs.

[billy rubin]

the republicans are mostly just fine with it, as are the majority of democrats. most all of them have very different public versus private opinions of trump, and the republicans in general are doing well with him in the white house. a powerful, overreaching executive branch is a tendency built into our system of government, and will continue to get worse.

as his presidency approaches more of a lame duck status, we'll see more and more republicans beginning to contradict him, as they sense the blood in the water as he becomes less powerful and less relevant. but they still like what he says and what he does, because they get the results they want while he takes the heat.

the democrats are invested in the status quo, because thats how they stay in power and enrich themselves. they will pay lip service to an alternative agenda, but much of it is just for show. look at their sternly worded letters, their support for the palestinian genocide, and their soon-to-be-announced continued funding for ICE, with rudimentary restraints.

when they inevitably come back into power, watch the democrats continue to support most republican policies and continue to fund most current republican programs. theyre supporters of the oligarchs to the same degree as the republicans, but take a superficially opposinitional stance.

[Ecurb Noselrub]

Trump is just thumbing his nose at and mooning the world. He wants to appoint Putin to the "Board of Peace" in Gaza. A mass murderer of civilian women and children. A true man of peace.

[Icarus]

https://imgur.com/gallery/miss-greenland-2024-naja-marosi-all-kinda-makes-sense-to-me-now-zPjX8uo