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Treasury secretary defends Greenland tariffs
BumRushDaShow
(171,671 posts)ornotna
(11,542 posts)An administration of professional trolls and provocateurs.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,782 posts)...social groups defined by their extreme religious, philosophical or spiritual beliefs focused on a particular personality, object or goal."
Dr. T
(687 posts)Guess I'd better start doing preemptive bathroom breaks.
The Dimwit Administration is state-of-the-art when it comes to word salad. That's an award they can have, like being the dumbest kid in the classroom.
Seinan Sensei
(1,619 posts)vapor2
(4,817 posts)OGBuzz
(494 posts)If King Donald wants to "take" Greenland so badly that he would risk war with NATO, or worse, maybe we should help him. We could load the King, Eric, Jr., Barron, Jared, and the Kings entire sycophantic cabinet on a C-5M Super Galaxy and fly them to Greenland to finally realise the Kings dream of "taking Greenland". I don't believe booking a return flight will be necessary.
Initech
(109,131 posts)He and his goons need to be thrown out on their ass now!
Bengus81
(10,325 posts)orangecrush
(30,906 posts)Go watch "Civil War" (2024).
It doesn't make a political statement (directly) and is careful to avoid doing so, but depicts very well what it will look like if shit goes completely sideways.
EarlG
(23,689 posts)Great movie. I took it as a lesson that while civil wars are going on all over the world, we don't give them much thought because they're always happening "over there." Staging the movie in America made it much easier to relate to what civil wars actually look like when they're happening around you.
Going off at a slight tangent, it reminded me a little of how the western actors' real regional accents are used for all the characters in "The Death of Stalin," instead of having them all do generic Russian accents. It's jarring at first, but ultimately made me feel as if I was not watching something taking place in a faraway foreign land, but rather, that "it could happen here."
orangecrush
(30,906 posts)Scenes like a crashed helicopter in front of the JC Penneys were a bit jarring.
It drove home the point that we have been mostly untouched by war in this country on our own soil since the 1st Civil War.
Also drove home the idea that no one on any side in their right mind wants this.
And the old guy saying that the woman had "lost her faith in the power of journalism".
Unfortunately too many of today's have forgotten the sacrifices made for truth by those who went before.
infullview
(1,140 posts)bronxiteforever
(11,212 posts)Tasmanian Devil
(210 posts)MarcoZandrini
(204 posts)
a trumpdork did read it.
Fukkkem
dedl67
(238 posts)BidenRocks
(3,455 posts)any of the bullshit he is peddling.
That also makes him a despicable asshole on top of being a Dandy!
Regime change! Every last one in the docks!
yellow dahlia
(6,376 posts)LiberalArkie
(19,900 posts)mikelewis
(4,598 posts)They're all afraid of child.
niyad
(133,718 posts)crap makes sense???
Aviation Pro
(15,728 posts)From Office Space.

2na fisherman
(351 posts)suspicion of suspicion.
Wounded Bear
(64,530 posts)underpants
(197,018 posts)That's some catch that Trump-22
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220948552
a dilemma or difficult circumstance from which there is no escape because of mutually conflicting or dependent conditions.
"a catch-22 situation"
nycbos
(6,718 posts)It was banned in Soviet Union for being anti-communist, and was targeted for bans in the USA by Christian conservatives for being pro-communist.
pat_k
(13,818 posts)The asinine notion that even the most minimal risk of attack required a maximum response as if the threat were a certainty.
LetMyPeopleVote
(181,503 posts)spike jones
(2,026 posts)vapor2
(4,817 posts)Stop lying to us, we aren't stupid and you should read about the consequences of seizing Greenland. Europe could close all trump golf courses . lol