Thanks for defending Ann Selzer & FREE SPEECH!! The next 4 F-ing years will be very LONG!! Hope he does not totally destroy our country! Uggh!!! Why are some people so brainwashed??? Thanks Bill Kristol, Bulwark, AB, JVL, Tim & Sarah & all contributors. I would lose my mind totally if I didn’t have Bulwark daily read & podcast!!
FWIW Claudia Sheinbaum gave a talk a couple days ago showing a map of North America from 1607 where a huge chunk of what is now western US was labeled Mexican America. She thought it sounded beautiful.
Yes. Why shouldn't Mexico take back Alta California and the rest of the Southwest? France probably should take back the Louisiana Purchase. Russia should take back Alaska. And the UK the 13 colonies.
On Biden's delusions that he could have won, I think there is a parallel with the Iraq War. There was one thing that George W. Bush was unwilling to do in order to suppress the insurgency, thereby creating a decent outcome from the war. That one thing wad to reevaluate his, and Cheney's/Rumsfeld's prior beliefs about what would subdue the insurgency. Likewise, there was one thing Biden was unwilling to do in order prevent the reelection of Donald Trump. That one thing was to reevaluate his prior beliefs about how Trump could be beaten.
Isn't the answer simply that because we are in NATO, we don't need to "buy" Greenland (or, much worse, take the territory by force)? On this (and on Panama, another partner) we should be saying that Trump is the farmer with a herd of cows who can't stop complaining about how much he has to pay for milk at the local grocery.
Trump’s dismissal of the authority of the U.S./Canada border is on par with his Sharpie enhancement of that hurricane path to justify him avoiding a trip to the South.
Nothing Trump says has any credibility, yet as POTUS everything he says still carries weight. For anyone looking to stay informed, as most are on this site, the next four years will be fucking exhausting. This is how we become addicted to sleeping pills.
Just one thing about the Mar el Lago blob. He has a desire to bully other nation states. Perhaps his bullying has something to do with his inability to have a normal relationship with any woman with a brain and even those w/o a brain. Maybe the blob needs to get laid and leave us Americans out of his personal problems.
The Putin angle of this whole Greenland Fiasco needs to be taken more seriously. Putin met with Trump on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka on June 28, 2019. On August 16, 2019 Trump calls for the purchase of Greenland. On August 20th, Trump cancelled his state visit to Denmark on the 2nd and 3rd of September, 2019. On Dec 24, 2024, Russia openly endorses Trump's Greenland idea, from the newsweek article: Russian state TV pundits saw Trump's idea as a signal for an imminent carve-up of the world into "spheres of influence."
I realize I'm sounding like a conspiracy theorist, the US will likely not ever invade Greenland, but Trump may still use this as a wedge issue and as an excuse to leave NATO and leave Ukraine to Russia. Only time will tell if Trump was just being a clown and that I'm just crazy and paranoid :)
This smells a lot like Putin Envy or maybe just like Putin. America just voted in a leader of the new AXIS of Evil: Putin, Xi Jinping, Kim Jong Un, Viktor Orbán, Donald Trump. And most of America doesn’t even blink. Meanwhile, I’m crawling out of my skin.
Has anyone considered that perhaps trump adopts an American isolationism approach because he does not understand geopolitical strategy?
I'll go further and posit he says outrageous trash then watches liberals in outrage, BUT also gets ideas from experts who speak out and do analysis from an expert perspective.
The first question to ask is does he even understand what he's saying? In most cases, trump knows nada.
The Greenland, Canada, Panama Canal thing feels very related to Putin. Like they've reached an agreement if Trump won't (can't) end the Ukraine war in a manner acceptable to Putin, Trump can legitimize expansionism to stay friends with Putin.
Thanks for defending Ann Selzer & FREE SPEECH!! The next 4 F-ing years will be very LONG!! Hope he does not totally destroy our country! Uggh!!! Why are some people so brainwashed??? Thanks Bill Kristol, Bulwark, AB, JVL, Tim & Sarah & all contributors. I would lose my mind totally if I didn’t have Bulwark daily read & podcast!!
FWIW Claudia Sheinbaum gave a talk a couple days ago showing a map of North America from 1607 where a huge chunk of what is now western US was labeled Mexican America. She thought it sounded beautiful.
Yes. Why shouldn't Mexico take back Alta California and the rest of the Southwest? France probably should take back the Louisiana Purchase. Russia should take back Alaska. And the UK the 13 colonies.
On Biden's delusions that he could have won, I think there is a parallel with the Iraq War. There was one thing that George W. Bush was unwilling to do in order to suppress the insurgency, thereby creating a decent outcome from the war. That one thing wad to reevaluate his, and Cheney's/Rumsfeld's prior beliefs about what would subdue the insurgency. Likewise, there was one thing Biden was unwilling to do in order prevent the reelection of Donald Trump. That one thing was to reevaluate his prior beliefs about how Trump could be beaten.
He's an idiot
Isn't the answer simply that because we are in NATO, we don't need to "buy" Greenland (or, much worse, take the territory by force)? On this (and on Panama, another partner) we should be saying that Trump is the farmer with a herd of cows who can't stop complaining about how much he has to pay for milk at the local grocery.
Trump’s dismissal of the authority of the U.S./Canada border is on par with his Sharpie enhancement of that hurricane path to justify him avoiding a trip to the South.
Nothing Trump says has any credibility, yet as POTUS everything he says still carries weight. For anyone looking to stay informed, as most are on this site, the next four years will be fucking exhausting. This is how we become addicted to sleeping pills.
Just one thing about the Mar el Lago blob. He has a desire to bully other nation states. Perhaps his bullying has something to do with his inability to have a normal relationship with any woman with a brain and even those w/o a brain. Maybe the blob needs to get laid and leave us Americans out of his personal problems.
"Voting by tantrum". I like it.
The Putin angle of this whole Greenland Fiasco needs to be taken more seriously. Putin met with Trump on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka on June 28, 2019. On August 16, 2019 Trump calls for the purchase of Greenland. On August 20th, Trump cancelled his state visit to Denmark on the 2nd and 3rd of September, 2019. On Dec 24, 2024, Russia openly endorses Trump's Greenland idea, from the newsweek article: Russian state TV pundits saw Trump's idea as a signal for an imminent carve-up of the world into "spheres of influence."
I realize I'm sounding like a conspiracy theorist, the US will likely not ever invade Greenland, but Trump may still use this as a wedge issue and as an excuse to leave NATO and leave Ukraine to Russia. Only time will tell if Trump was just being a clown and that I'm just crazy and paranoid :)
This smells a lot like Putin Envy or maybe just like Putin. America just voted in a leader of the new AXIS of Evil: Putin, Xi Jinping, Kim Jong Un, Viktor Orbán, Donald Trump. And most of America doesn’t even blink. Meanwhile, I’m crawling out of my skin.
all of this is because bad presidents love foreign policy. Its sandbagging and preSucking. Nothing more.
Denmark should take a lesson from the new President of Mexico. She isn’t taking any guff from Trump!
Has anyone considered that perhaps trump adopts an American isolationism approach because he does not understand geopolitical strategy?
I'll go further and posit he says outrageous trash then watches liberals in outrage, BUT also gets ideas from experts who speak out and do analysis from an expert perspective.
The first question to ask is does he even understand what he's saying? In most cases, trump knows nada.
The Greenland, Canada, Panama Canal thing feels very related to Putin. Like they've reached an agreement if Trump won't (can't) end the Ukraine war in a manner acceptable to Putin, Trump can legitimize expansionism to stay friends with Putin.
The Danes will just stop selling us Ozempic, and that will be that.