Trump is NOT TROLLING about Panama, Greenland, and Canada.

[orangecrush]

He is emulating Putin.

Proposing attacking and siezing sovereign nations.

It is his way of glorifying the actions of a murderous thug, and putting the world on notice that the United States is no longer to be trusted.

[WestofDenver]

1. I agree

but I think these comments by *rump serve as smoke-screen as well. Holman / Voight and the rest benefit from the cover to finalize their plans. *rump for sure has the Putin mind-set, but I think the near term goal of the administration is internal conquest.

[Takket]

2. i hope all the people who voted drumpf because they "just want peace" and Democrats bring "endless wars"

are happy.

[Prairie Gates]

3. It's pretty much axiomatic that every fascist dictatorship will engage in territory aquisition

They have different reasons for it (lebensraum, anticolonialism, etc), but it is a feature of the form of government.

[anciano]

4. Toothless bravado ....

the US military has not only the right, but also the duty to refuse to obey unlawful orders.

[mike_c]

5. I'm having that same thought

Trump wants a war.

[Igel]

6. One can do both at the same time.

Look, here's my wrangle with most Trump commentary.

Trump: "I'll do something bad!"

--He's telling the absolute truth; Trump never lies! He's an evil genius.

Trump: "Look what else I'll do--it's phenomalicious!"

--Rat-f**ker wouldn't be able to tell the truth and say the sky is blue if his life depended on it--effing liar! He's a buffoon idiot that needs a staff of servants to wipe his ass and pull his, um, ... never mind.

In other words, he's necessarily in a state of true-valid superposition, in which he's both 100% truthful and 100% mendacious (and everything in between) all the time, until observed by somebody. Then the wave equation/superposition immediately collapses--and, weirdly enough, always conforms to the observers preconceptions. Even if the same utterance collapses 19 different ways for 18 different observers, they're still completely correct.

Whatevs.

Most of the time Trump doesn't so much lie or tell the truth as speak without reference to the truth. To use a Princeton professor's technical term, he "bullshits." A liar must intend to deceive, knowing he's deceiving. Trump just talks and doesn't even consider whether there's a truth deeper than the sound waves produced by his buccal cavity. On occasion it's likely he lies or truth-tells, but there's no way of knowing when those are. (And, honestly, it's often the same on commentary about him, because that's just based on what the observer believes Trump would have said, even if he spouts word salad and sentence spaghetti.)

[ExoticMei]

11. New member to all eyes here.

Hello all! This is my 1st reply. I signed up finally during the lockout cause I was scared. Nothing has gotten me to comment.
I've been a lurker since 2008, a great and grand poster RIP got me here through huffpost then. I've had a Birdseye view of du. Mostly been satisfied, but too afraid to post/reply since Nov.
But you... you got me to, just to say: I love this! I wish there was more.
Merry Christmas to you and everyone.

[allegorical oracle]

14. Hello -- and welcome. :)

[ExoticMei]

15. Hello

Been here a while, not seen.
And
Thank you 😊

[LetMyPeopleVote]

23. Welcome to DU

[Fullduplexxx]

7. Look squirrel

Don't look at my failed Attorney General don't look at my terrible pics for political posts let's not talk about my fading mandate. Let's go invade Canada

[The Madcap]

8. What happens when a NATO nation attacks another NATO nation?

i.e., T****-land attacks Canada. Does that trigger Article 5 against T****-land?

[VGNonly]

9. Pax Trumpia?

Whats next Australia...New Zealand...Antarctica...the Moon?

Will Maga-Lardo become the "New Vatican City"?

[orangecrush]

13. ...

[Ping Tung]

10. Hitler was just kidding about Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Austria.

So nobody worried about it until........

[Fiendish Thingy]

12. Greenland is part of Denmark

Denmark is part of NATO

If Trump invades Greenland, WWIII starts.

Same with Canada.

Don’t be ridiculous- He’s trolling.

[DeepWinter]

18. Totally agree

He knows what gets liberal/Progressives riled up and he leans into it. And it clearly works, look around.

[Johnny2X2X]

16. A year or so ago I mentioned this

Last edited Tue Dec 24, 2024, 10:51 PM - Edit history (1)

I mentioned how I told my concerned Canadian friend that they should be worried if Trump gets in again because he will not rule out taking parts of Canada.

My post was reported and removed as being kooky conspiracy theory nonsense.

[orangecrush]

17. You are owed

An apology.

[milestogo]

19. Why can't we seize Russia?

[orangecrush]

20. Nobody wants

A second rate gas station located on a stinking beet farm.

[milestogo]

21. ...

[LisaL]

22. Cause Russia got a lot of nukes?

NT