âInterestingâ words, lol
https://x.com/Acyn/status/1870899088633610384
I believe @Magnus now calls himself Norse God. Please keep that in mind for future posts.
Itâs become impossible to know whatâs satire these days.
Polling has shown that concern about being drafted and sent away to fight if Harris won was somehow a key concern among young voters who voted for Trump. Yet the anti war candidate they voted for is now openly antagonizing 3 of our neighbors over insane things
I donât know who coined the term originally, but we genuinely are more so than ever in a post-truth era. Where the truth literally doesnât matter anymore.
Neoliberalism in action.
The Internet killed the truth and the validy of experts.
The Gaetz report is out. This does nothing to fight the perception that there is a 2 tiered justice system, just structured oppositely to how MAGA clowns cry about
And as an aside, in normal times this would be devastating to the credibility of the incoming administration that they nominated this guy to be the head of the justice department. Alas, these are not normal times
And why isnât he or hasnât he faced criminal prosecution for this?
I make it at least four now. Denmark/Greenland, Canada, Mexico, and Panama, though I guess the Greenland one is not really a dispute yet.
I actually havent counted Mexico because it seems like his everyday shit talking to them, but fair point.
The evidentiary standards are different here. In the criminal investigation, key witnesses refused to testify and those who were cooperating (Greenberg) were considered too problematic to make their say so be so critical a part of the case when the standard to meet was âbeyond reasonable doubtâ
He is more or less treating Canada and Mexico about the same, but has a personal grudge with Trudeau so is chirping north more.
Personally, I am appalled at our leadersâ willingness to throw Mexico under the bus so eagerly. Mexicoâs Sheinbaum has conducted herself with far more dignity and gravitas
In his last term he said he wanted to buy Greenland from Denmark. It all felt a bit like a real estate deal, and he probably didnât understand the orders of magnitude difference to some apartment block in New York. Denmark told him to bugger off.
Whatâs the interest in Greenland? Mineral wealth and rare earth metals to power the future economy? Made more accessible as ice melts?
Possible strategic interest too, for military bases?
Seems mostly like a straightforward economic play, but he seems to have no concept that it belongs to another sovereign country. We are living in a strange time. Trump seems to agree that might is right. Netanyahu smashing the Palestinians. Russia invading, and presumably soon annexing vast swathes of Ukraine, in a âpeaceâ deal?
In this sort of world Trump openly talks about Greenland, Panama, Canada⌠itâs weird, and disconcerting. Heâs a loon.
One of the motifs of his second term will be the further antagonizing of allies and cosying up to authoritarian regimes that would normally be considered enemies.
Beyond the fact that it is part of Denmark, there is the simple fact that Greenland and Denmark have negotiated a complex regime to give Greenlanders self-rule and limited sovereignty over their traditional land. There isnât a indigenous population in the US that has anything approaching that recognition and self-governing status, and you can be damned sure that Trumpâs vision doesnât involve the Inuit.
Republicans: not white? Donât care.