• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    So a protection racket, in other words.

    Setup by the dollar store godfather wannabe

    Ever since trump got elected, the news has been either bizarre, devastating, hilarious, insane, removed, cringe, maddening…

    Can that heart attack come already? Come on, McDonald’s hamburgers, do your job

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        Yeah. A crushing defeat in midterms is a better outcome. Also, if some republican senators and congrespeople figured that they can save their asses by opposing Trump, those from tariff ravaged states, for example, he could even be impeached.

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          I don’t think you’ll have midterms. Trump’s just one year into his presidency and already has his SS(private military) deporting people with citizenship. There’s no consequences to his actions, so why follow laws?

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      Absolutely fucking terrible protection racket if that’s what it is.

      The US spends 7tn per year on government spending. Even if the entire UN ponied up a billion each, every year, that would be less than 200bn in additional revenue. Not nothing, but barely a fraction of the 5tn in tax revenue the US government takes in every year.

      That’s like the mafia hitting you up for $50 a month.

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          Actually, at least according to this article, the charter does state that any funds will be personally controlled by Trump (or whoever he designates as his successor).

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      Can that heart attack come already? Come on, McDonald’s hamburgers, do your job

      Can We the people wake the fuck up already and use the 2A to do a burger’s job?

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      Satire now would just be him doing anything like a normal sane president.

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        And it won’t be by GDP either. He will ask the exact same amount from each country. If you’re too small to pay, you get conquered

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    On Friday, the White House presented the composition of “a founding Executive Board”, consisting exclusively of figures loyal to Trump: his Middle East adviser Steve Witkoff, his son-in-law Jared Kushner, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and former UK prime minister Tony Blair.

    It’s astonishing how often Tony Blair manages to find new ways to be a massive fucking disappointment. It’s like he’s already concluded that he’s going to hell for the whole Iraq thing so he’d may as well lean into it by being a huge cunt while he’s alive.

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      I thought the same thing. I mean the whole Iraq thing could be seen as a misjudgement in hindsight. Now though he just looks evil.

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    Rimmer: United America? Who’s that?

    Kryten: Well, at the end of the 23rd century, America attempted to bring peace to the world by asking every nation on Earth to sign a peace treaty.

    Any nation that refused, they invaded.

    Now, a war ensued that was called the War Against War. Those countries who went to war because they were so against war, they were prepared to go to war to fight in a war against war, called themselves United America.

    United America

    (Sorry can’t find a better source)

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      I was not prepared for how Craig Charles looked in that clip.

      But then I gave up on the show ages ago. The Series 6 finale was the end as far as I’m concerned.

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        That’s what years of curry and lager in deep space does to you.

        Krytens skin is still young looking though.

        Seemingly Cat hasn’t aged at all.

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          Black don’t crack.

          Kryten’s looking a little worse for wear, but has still fared a lot better than Data in that Picard series.

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      The next 90 days will decide if the EU is a puppet state of the US.

      By the soldier count on Greenland right now, it’s lookin kinda sus. They couldn’t defend a movie theater rn.

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        The soldiers are symbolic. Any attack on them is an attack on all of Europe (well those countries present in Greenland).

        If you are going to have a war, you don’t want 1000s of your best soldiers stuck in a snowdrift.

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        Any nation that joins this farcical board makes itself a vassal to the US. I kinda expect random small nations with low stakes in the UN to go for it, to suck up to tRump and try to curry favor. For them, becoming a vassal will be moving up in the world. But any self-respecting European nation needs to double down on its commitments to Europe.

        Who becomes chairman when trump leaves office? The next US president, a senior member of the board, or is it a position for life? Or is he so convinced that he’ll never leave office that he didn’t bother describing that in the charter?

        He’s trying to make himself chancellor king of the world.

        Also Europe having a few dozen soldiers on Greenland is more of a deterrent. It says “you attack here, you’re attacking all of us,” and it also acts as an assurance to Denmark that the other nations will respond if something happens. Since Article 5 wouldn’t apply if attacked by another NATO country…

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          to suck up to tRump and try to curry favor.

          Give the bully your lunchbox and she’ll want your lunchbox tomorrow.

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    A board of peace - after telling the Norwegian prime minister that he’s not committed to peace anymore because he didn’t get the peace price (and no, the PM doesn’t control the peace price)

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    Every pro Trumper I know also has a deep fear of the UN or some shadowy organisation controlling the world. Every conversation ended up with “Well at least he will take back power from the elites”. Now Trump declares he wants to rule the world, and outlines their exact fears as his plan and they are silent. No comment. Why are people so stupid? And pathetically so. It not even hard to see how ridiculous this guy is, but people are still bowing down to it.