What is beginning to happen on the ground in DC has already been spelled out in specifics in Project 2025. This is nothing new. There should be nothing taken with a grain of salt.
The Trump Presidency - Part 2
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That was my point. They had already committed 1.3B prior to this weekend.
One thing the left needs to learn from this is that when you say you’re gonna do something, do it. I disagree with every single thing trump has done, and some of it is truly deplorable, but he’s just going ahead and doing what he said he would.
Trump turning Gaza into a parking lot as predicted.
I said it multiple times....
Trump would love to see Gaza flattened. To him, it's oceanside land, ideal for golf clubs, maybe even a Trump Gaza resort!
https://www.redcafe.net/threads/2024-u-s-elections-thread-closed.473958/post-32320463
And people said Trump would be better, or at least, no worse than Biden / Harris.
At least now we have yet another reason why big corporations all jumped on the Trump train. They can make a new land in the image of his orange holiness.
https://www.redcafe.net/threads/isr...fully-discuss-more-tweet-less.438643/page-893
Are you flooding the thread with this to distract from the fact that your boy Trump did exactly what people said he would. And exactly what Bibi wanted.
Trump said...
“I don’t think people should be going back to Gaza. I think Gaza has been very unlucky for them.” "Gaza is not a place for people to be living.”
Yet also said that new homes will be built. For who exactly?
And you spent the last year saying that Trump was just the same as Biden / Harris
So he wants to annex Greenland, Canada, the Panama Canal & Gaza.
Anyone who thought trump would be better was surely being disingenuous. Mind you, people did consider Biden/Harris to be the antichrist because they couldn’t reign in Bibi.
Partial and not final list.
Next: Poland. After that: Lebanon or something like that. Maybe Germany too.
But Kamala?!
In other news, man sets record time for turning his country into the absolutely most hated one on earth.
Not only do Elon's minions now have "write" access to the servers. But people in the departments are reaching out to journalists "as there's no one left to report crimes to".
But that was already because of Trump. And they did add a bit more now, small as it is. So the point remains (or my point, anyway) that Trump exerted pressure and Canada gave in while it cost the US nothing at all. And so it's likely Trump will be back for more.
Authoritarian democracy, where in you are elected democratically, but you use your office to destroy all democratic institutions, make the work force submissive to you (not necessarily one person, maybe a gang of them), by firing them or coercing them. Then use the work force to hunt your critics till they have no strength or money to fight back. The critics will either slip into oblivion or have their backers desert them and join the powerful. Then use the combined power of money and power to run continuous smear campaigns and make the critics invalid in the society. People who used to support the critics start doubting whether their views are anymore relevant and become silent.
It is very different from a traditional coup or dictatorship, but it serves the same purpose.
Benjie wasn't ready for that
How far are we from Trump saying Gaza or the whole area should become the next American state?
Yes, which he did without executing the tariffs and prior to signing the order. Signing the order this weekend didn't change anything other than the vague "fentanyl Czar", whatever the feck that means, and that was my point. The reaction this weekend was hardly "bending the knee" and I would imagine that the Canadian government is likely now minded towards a trade diversification strategy, which again, will result in the opposite of "bending the knee" to the US.
Plus if Canada was really going to bend the knee, it wouldn't enact retaliatory tariffs, it would likely open discussions about becoming the 51st state, etc. It's just a silly term to use in these circumstances, in my opinion.
Not even a month in and the world is already watching the US pull out of the UNHRC and formalising agreements with foreign countries to send US citizens to foreign jail camps.
When people say things can't get worse than X/Y/Z, you're either privileged enough to ride it out, realise you can pay your way out of it, or simply ignorant.
When people say things can't get worse than X/Y/Z, you're either privileged enough to ride it out, realise you can pay your way out of it, or simply ignorant.
What is he going to do when Jordan and Egypt again say no? Or when Palestinians don't agree to leave?
Wonder what is he gonna do on the 1 month anniversay
Tarriffs and sanctions.
So Hillary is in jail?
Couldn't agree more. They have to deal with the hand they are dealt and not turning into a copy of Trump is hardly "bending the knee". Every country will need to figure out how to maximize it's benefits from it's relation to the US and given how predictable Trump has become it shouldn't take geniuses to figure it out in the long term.
When it was so obvious that Trump would be worse. How quickly he proved this right is almost impressive. Almost.
And that he has gone straight in and in effect said that he will use US troops to ethnically cleanse Gaza is next level even for him.
How far are we from Trump saying Gaza or the whole area should become the next American state?
He just said it. He said it would be US owned.
"The Riviera of the Middle East".
Fox news reporters believes Trump may have just killed the ceasefire.
https://www.mediaite.com/trump/foxs...ps-gaza-comments-torpedo-ceasefire-agreement/
https://www.mediaite.com/trump/foxs...ps-gaza-comments-torpedo-ceasefire-agreement/
Stunning that there were "Pro Palestinian" people on here would would argue all day that Trump and Biden/Harris were two sides of the same coin.
currently trump has killed between 60,000-100,000 less palestinians than biden/harris. i believe he has the capacity to catch up and maybe even surpass them though.
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Had that been a second term promise, then she would.
We know he wanted this in his first term, but had institutionalists who served the constitution and adhered to the norms of government....
https://apnews.com/article/060ca2399a744b4a9554dbd2ec276a90
Oh ok so he doesnt do everything he promises.
currently trump has killed between 60,000-100,000 less palestinians than biden/harris. i believe he has the capacity to catch up and maybe even surpass them though.
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Who did Harris kill?
Which bill did she sign, or agreement did she make to send weapons or funding to Israel ?
Please take I/P centric discussions to the other thread. I don't mind the discussion about how trump's actions may impact the region going forward, based on things he's saying now. But if we are going to get into a pissing match about body counts, at least do that in the thread where we can choose to hide it.
Trump won, Harris lost. lets focus on what this lunatic is doing.
Trump won, Harris lost. lets focus on what this lunatic is doing.
No, we know he doesn't. Like he hasn't ended the Ukraine war day one.
Lets stay on topic. The man had just announced that the US are about to violate international law and back explicit ethnic cleansing, using US troops to do so.
He said the US will "own" Gaza and make it into the "Riviera of the Middle East".
But you know, what about Hunter Biden's Laptop and Hillarys emails?
Not to mention the threat of a US led military force ethnically cleansing the whole of Gaza.currently trump has killed between 60,000-100,000 less palestinians than biden/harris. i believe he has the capacity to catch up and maybe even surpass them though.
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Again. What did she sign?
You are taking this and somehow making a moral equivalency between this and what Trump is saying he is about to do in "owning Gaza".
As you well know, she was running a campaign. There was never a world in which she would say would say her bosses actions were incorrect.
Fact is, she didn't win, so we don't know what her stance would have been pro Gaza. The residents of Dearborn, MI got what they wanted - a Trump presidency.
But do we think she would have stood next to Bibi for over an hour and announced that the US would "own Gaza" and make in into the "Riviera of the Middle East" and that the Palestinians would never return there because it had been "an unlucky place for them".