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Trump's Second Term

Agreed. Gabbard is on really thin ice.....One GOPer on the hill said if it was a secret ballot, Tulsi would not have gotten close to getting confirmed.
A lot of hard line GOp senators just do not like her.
I don't get why Trump chose her. RFK I get, a straight up deal for his pulling out of the race but Gabbrd?
 
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dudalb said:
I don't get why Trump chose her. RFK I get, a straight up deal for his pulling out of the race but Gabbrd?
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She has a legitimate grudge with the intelligence community. He wants to clean house. He trusts that she will do that. It's really not complicated.
 
It's spiritual:
RFK Jr.: "We're not just in a health crisis, we're in a spiritual crisis We don't need to get up and say what am I going to do to be happy today, we need to get up and say what am I going to do to be useful today."
 
dudalb said:
And Trump pushes Canada as the 51st state again.............
What does he hope to gain from this? If it some kind of negotatring rrieck, it is backfiring.
And it is just a nutty idea.
WHat he had done is make the Canadians, who usually sort of consider openly Patriotic displays to be sort of bad form (to use a British expression) into a bunch of Maple Leaf FLag waving patriots overnight.' FLag sales are booming in Canada.
And Saturday is Canada's Natoinal FLag day. Going to be quite the display, I think.
And Canadians are remembering exactly who they are guarding against in their national anthem.
Besides, if Canada were to become a state it would be solid blue and probably ensure a Democratic advantage in elections. Makes no sense.
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If Canada were ever to come under the control of the US, you can be certain we wouldn't be given voting rights. It would be a Puerto Rico situation where the country would be open for America's plunder but have no say in anything other than local matters.
 
Tero said:
It's spiritual:
RFK Jr.: "We're not just in a health crisis, we're in a spiritual crisis We don't need to get up and say what am I going to do to be happy today, we need to get up and say what am I going to do to be useful today."
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There's a very useful thing he could do today, but to suggest it violates a cardinal forum rule.
 
Ziggurat said:
She has a legitimate grudge with the intelligence community. He wants to clean house. He trusts that she will do that. It's really not complicated.
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Mmm. Clean house. Just like all the other people that he's appointed in the past that expressly opposed or sought to destroy what they were put in charge of. Uh huh.
 
dudalb said:
Agreed. Gabbard is on really thin ice.....One GOPer on the hill said if it was a secret ballot, Tulsi would not have gotten close to getting confirmed.
A lot of hard line GOp senators just do not like her.
I don't get why Trump chose her. RFK I get, a straight up deal for his pulling out of the race but Gabbrd?
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Seat-filler. She can now go back to wherever the hell she came from and play prairie housewife or whatever, and leave the "spies and spooks" stuff to the brainiacs like Muskrat and Trump directly.
 
Ziggurat said:
It's not actually that hard to say. Start with the current level of support for Ukraine. That's enough to keep Russia in a stalemate. Can Europe provide at least that much aid? Can they provide more? If a peace agreement is reached, can they commit their own forces to defend it? Are those forces sufficient to do so?

And if they can't, why not?
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I strongly suspect that the current setup evolved because it was in US interests. NATO is an alliance and it would be exceedingly stupid to set it up in a way where each member produces every single thing themselves, in the same that not all US states produce all their own military equipment.
In the case of a war where soldiers and military equipment matter between the west and the USSR (which is what NATO was designed for) putting your production in the area that the enemy can easily reach is not smart.
So the setup would make sense that most is produced in the US, which was unreachable by anything conventional.
This had the added bonus that a lot of the military budget of the NATO flows to US companies, so there would have been little reason for the US to change it during the time that peace was an actual hope. You still got the most of the budget flowing back, while having to do little for it.

The trade off would always be that in case of a non global nuclear exchange the EU would be (partly) in ruins with massive civilian casualties and the US would just lose soldiers. But while a Russia alone would not be a threat to the US, a Russian dominated EU would give away all the resources in Africa and the Middle East to Russia rather than flowing to the US as they do now.
 
thaiboxerken said:
It's like they are ashamed of the fact that they are supporting the demise of democracy. They know they are, but want to convince others that they aren't.
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This is an interesting difference between the Nazis and the Republicans: the Nazis were proud of dismantling democracy, which for them was all talk and no action. And they unashamedly exclaimed “Lead us, Leader [Führer]”. The Republicans do follow the lead of their designated Leader, no matter where it leads, but they do not admit so.
 
Stacyhs said:
Exactly. Zig has a very unrealistic view.
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More importantly, he doesn’t give a damn if Ukraine is swallowed up Russia or not.

Trump admires Putin (the type of leader he aspires to be) so much that when Putin tells him it was Ukraine that forced Putin into war, he believes it. It would only be fair if Ukraine was Russified and would no longer pose a mortal danger to Mother Russia. The Baltics should probably also be a part of Russia again. They are indefensible after all, and so on.
 
steenkh said:
This is an interesting difference between the Nazis and the Republicans: the Nazis were proud of dismantling democracy, which for them was all talk and no action. And they unashamedly exclaimed “Lead us, Leader [Führer]”. The Republicans do follow the lead of their designated Leader, no matter where it leads, but they do not admit so.
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Yes they do, whenever anyone asks, because, just like with the Nazis, they are scared what will happen to them if they don't.
 
dudalb said:
Agreed. Gabbard is on really thin ice.....One GOPer on the hill said if it was a secret ballot, Tulsi would not have gotten close to getting confirmed.
A lot of hard line GOp senators just do not like her.
I don't get why Trump chose her. RFK I get, a straight up deal for his pulling out of the race but Gabbrd?
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It doesn't matter what the GOP are willing to do in private. It public they cravenly do whatever Trump wants and will continue to do so.

Who knows why Trump picked Gabbard, a loyalty test, Putin wanted it, she asked nicely.
 
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