He can plot all he wants, but he's not the president anymore.
I don't know why news outlets insist on headlining their articles like he has some kind of presidential power when he doesn't even have the power to keep his speeches on topic.
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As a warning?
Granted, I'd word it a bit differently: "This burned-cheese looking sack of rotten assholes would upend all national security, destroy NATO, and allow Putin's Russia and the CCP raw-dog-rape the rest of the planet while he becomes another pathetic fatass watching military parades like Kim Jong Un. If you refuse to adore him, his regime will murder and/or rape you. Now tell us again why you would vote for this moronic dumpster fire of unrealized liposuction profits because he's only three years younger than the guy spending his remaining years on this planet unfucking what this #1 blue-ribbon gold medalist of Shitshow Olympics and rapist already did to the country."
Er, something like that, anyway.
*chef's kiss*
He can plot all he wants, but he’s not the president anymore. I don’t know why news outlets insist on headlining their articles like he has some kind of presidential power when he doesn’t even have the power to keep his speeches on topic.
Because there is a very real chance he can become president again. He is not one of the fringe candidates like Tim Scott or something that have no realistic chance of becoming the nominee, let alone POTUS. Trump is the front-runner for the GOP, and the criminal charges laid out against him have only boosted his popularity. And right now, he's pretty much neck-and-neck with Biden.
And it's important that people understand that a vote for Trump is essentially an endorsement of the Trump revenge tour at the very least, if not a direct march to authoritarianism. If you think his first term was bad, what do you think his second term is going to be like when he has four years of absolutely nothing to lose and nothing standing in his way of doing whatever he wants? I don't understand how any "swing voters" could exist and not know the chaos a second Trump presidency could bring, but apparently they are out there, and we need to at least try to inform them of what they'd be voting for.
And all that's needed is Biden to fall ill with no credible back up available. It could be that simple.
I am not enjoying a lot of what I see. I hope, however, people understand what's at stake - or that they will.
And all that’s needed is Biden to fall ill with no credible back up available. It could be that simple.
I don't think there's even a realistic situation where a Dem sits in the White House in 2025 if Biden drops dead or something. Harris has all the personality of sandpaper and is about as popular, and there are absolutely no Democrats coming up the pike that would be able to get enough support and survive the Trump Hate Machine. MAYBE Sanders or Warren, but that's a hell of a long shot. Plus, she herself is 74. Sanders is 82. Which means even they would end up having to overcome similar baggage: They'd be perceived as simply too old, and it would quickly devolve into "Look what happened to Biden. Why would we want to vote for another Democrat who's just as old and probably living on borrowed time themselves?"
Make no mistake: If anything happens to Biden, Trump is President in 2025. And if Trump himself drops dead or is disqualified, it'll be another member of the GOP. I do not see a realistic scenario where Democrats retain if Biden dies.
You’re absolutely right.
Can’t be Sanders: the centrist and corporate Democrats won’t allow that. Plus, he’s a party outsider. As the dems just showed with Laphonza Butler’s appointment, being tight with the party machine matters more than any other qualification. Even living in the state you’re supposed to represent.
Can’t be Warren: the GOP has a hate machine on standby for “Pocahontas” if she were to ever be in the national spotlight again. Plus, corporate Democrats won’t allow her due to her work creating the CFPB. She interferes with too much profit.
He famously visited Russia in the 80s and immediately returned loudly isolationist.
He wants to pull out of all international organizations that are part of the world order the US set up to favor the US. He lies about how much it costs (he said the US pays 90% of NATO costs when it really pays 20%) so they will obviously never meet whatever insane demands he puts on them because on the off chance they do he will just lie and say they didn't.
I don't want to be the "weird how every radical move he makes helps Russia" guy because it needs to be allowable for folks to have a variety of views in a Democracy. But his position on NATO is essentially indefensible among people who know what they're talking about, and aligns entirely with Russian propaganda.
Trump wanted to install a secret backchannel to Russia when he was elected, (largely via Russian propaganda.) He is a Russian asset. You can watch him kowtow to Putin in Helsinki.
we can have a variety of reasonable views but no democracy works going over every fringe view coming out of the nuthouse.
Pull what out of NATO? He's not in charge of anything. He can pretend to pull out of NATO while in prison
I'd be surprised if he didn't have little secret hush money Donnie Jrs running around because he couldn't pull out before. Hell, I don't even expect him to pull his own foot out of his mouth.
It is a SENATE RATIFIED TREATY.
He cannot rescind unilaterally.
Trump plans to dissolve the Senate and install himself Dictator for life. This should be obvious by now.
And 60 years from now somehow he will return...
If only trump’s mom pulled her dick out of trump’s dad’s ass before he conceived this turd.
COGNITO HAZARD WARNING
If we Europeans had any doubts about making our own defense policy outside the USA, Trum's electoral options make it clear that it is a necessity
This is the best summary I could come up with:
When the former president has privately discussed the United States’ role in the transatlantic military alliance this year, Trump has made clear that he doesn’t want the upper ranks of a second administration to be staffed by “NATO lovers,” according to two sources who’ve heard him make such comments.
One former senior administration official recalls to Rolling Stone a moment in the Oval Office in mid-2018 when the then-president started reading from a written list of smaller NATO countries, some of which he argued most Americans had never even heard of before.
Trump then vented that “starting World War III” over some of these countries’ sovereignty made absolutely no sense, and that he shouldn’t be forced to automatically commit American troops to any such crisis.
But this time around, an array of nationalist allies and pro-Trump policy wonks have been eager to offer the ex-president frameworks for how to MAGA-fy the U.S. approach to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Bolton recounted a number of attempts in which Trump, frustrated by an impression that NATO members were stiffing the U.S. on an imagined tab, alternately threatened to leave or reduce America’s commitment to the Atlantic alliance, only to have the threats walked back by staff.
The measure would tie up any attempt at a formal withdrawal in Congress but would not prevent a future Trump administration from undermining confidence in the U.S. security guarantees implicit in the alliance.
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So we’re literally just running a five year old story then?
This is if he wins in 2024, the article is from today
So we're literally not even checking the article before saying stupid shit?
Might as well go back to Reddit with that attitude.
I read the tldr, was corrected once, and read the actual thing for more context. Keep the elitist snark on reddit.