• snekerpimp@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Everything he does is a distraction from what is really going on elsewhere in the government, the systematic destruction of our rights through the judicial and legislative branches.

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      Trump has no idea why he wants Greenland. Someone close to him is feeding him ideas, while feeding his ego.

      Greenland is set to become an economic producer in the future, but we have maybe a century before that even starts. I gotta think you’re right, Greenland is a distraction from all the other bullshit. Keep them talking and no one will notice the really evil shit

      • AngryRobot@lemmy.world
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        Greenland is because Putin wants to destabilize both the EU and NATO. He wants the US to lose its allies.

        Panama is because Russian ships aren’t allowed through, and Outin wants that to change.

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          There’s that, but also whoever controls the panama canal has a huge amount of power in global trade. Almost anything made in China and sold East of the Mississippi in the US went through the canal. Almost anything Made in the western US and sold in the EU went through the canal. Panama is also going through a drought that is lowering the levels in the reservoirs they use to raise the locks. This is causing them to raise crossing fees and restrict traffic. The line-go-up people hate that, as they’d turn panama into a desert before they slowed the increase in their profits.

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        “Get the bafoon back on stage to distract the pleebs and give mainstream media something to report other than us making sure only the people we like have rights”

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    When my kids were little, they wanted random shit too. We just waited for them fo latch onto something else.

    People analyze what Trump says way too much. Let him spew BS and wait until it passes.

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      I agree. This all feels like garbage to pull our attention away from something else.

      He just spouts nonsense to spout nonsense.

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        No one took him serious when he claimed he would be reelected earlier in the year 2024.

        No one took him serious when he claimed he had all the votes and that he can make it so that there would be no need to vote again.

        No one took him serious when he said he’d get away with shooting someone on Times Square.

        No one took him serious when he handled a firearm while under various felony indictments and lawsuits.

        No one took him serious when he claimed full immunity before the supreme court.

        No one took him serious when he said dictators are great people and his friends.

        No one took him serious after he said he had had multiple talks with those dictators about US foreign policy while he was a private citizen.

        No one took him serious on him wanting to be a dictator on day 1.

        No one took him serious when he said drill baby drill.

        No one took him serious when he said he didn’t care if his vice president would have been lynched.

        No one took him serious when his actions clearly designated him as an insurrectionist as stated in the constitution.

        No one took him serious when he said he de-classified documents just by saying so and could do whatever with them because they were his.

        No one took him serious when he started claiming land belonging to other allied countries.

        No one takes him serious when his remarks and wishes go against the constitution.

        All this without sitting in the white house…

        So when will it be time to take him serious? Far after when it is too late?

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      Do you think this Greenland idea came from him? Greenland has vast amounts of mineral resources being exposed due to melting glaciers and, more importantly in a U.S that is pumping out more groundwater than is being replaced, a massive amount of fresh water.

      He may not realize any of that or care, but he’s not the one who is actually in charge either.

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        Of course not. Trump has never had an original idea of his own - apart perhaps the late great Hannibal Lecter and whale-killing windmills. But he’s the one who’s stupid enough to spell them out.

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          Right, so it’s not about analyzing what he wants. It’s about analyzing what the people controlling him want. And they want Greenland for a reason beyond Trump’s dementia-addled fantasies.

          They don’t even want to talk about the water part. That would mean admitting there’s a major water crisis in America. And the tech bros won’t like that because they really need all that water for their AI data centers.

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    Doing as Putin tells him. Despite being the most powerful country in the world, Trump wants to ruin that by destroying the alliances that make it possible.

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    The President is very much a figurehead - he wields no real power whatsoever. He is apparently chosen by the government, but the qualities he is required to display are not those of leadership but those of finely judged outrage. For this reason the President is always a controversial choice, always an infuriating but fascinating character. His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it.

    https://hitchhikersguidetoearth.fandom.com/wiki/President_of_the_Imperial_Galactic_Government

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    It’s important to security because he wants to tear down the alliances with Canada and NATO. But the primary reason is to cash in on the natural resources without worrying about environmental laws if it’s an occupied territory.

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    My pet theory for the whole owning Canada, Greenland and the Gulf of Mexico is for the oil tbh. Tale as old as time