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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
I didn't think I was implying any great strategic thought behind the Greenland story. My assumption was that this was a Trumpian flight of fancy that was never going to go anywhere. And if the press hadn't picked it up then it would have quietly died as Trump moved on to his next impulse.
But the press did pick it up. It forced a response from the White House, from Denmark and from Greenland itself. So now it's a thing and so Trump responds to it, and he can't look weak by backing down so up the ante we go until we have a full diplomatic row.
Perhaps I overplayed it with how it would play on news bulletins but this is a classic silly season story and would have been treated as such. I mean Maddow reported it as "Stop Pranking Donald Trump With Ideas About Buying Greenland" - a tone which doesn't exactly suggest a serious analysis of this subject. And Maddow is about as far from a Trump friendly outlet as you can get.
So no, I don't believe Trump has a masterplan. But nor do I believe a complex masterplan is required to get the news media to follow well worn tropes in reporting a story that is slightly off beat and whimsical.
How ironic - the Religious Right loves him for fulfilling their bigoted dreams, and extolls his virtues as a religious man, when he happily namedrops an office associated with the son of the devil in Biblical Apocalypse theology, and behaves the part of a cruel, malicious despot.
It's almost like the religious right is composed entirely of grifters who want you to pay them for the privilege of praying over you to heal your sicknesses.
To use a religious theme for this, they worship two gods; Amon and Mammon.
I have proposed (in a not ‘’entirely’’) serious way, that he could be the false profit, and Putin is the Antichrist. Or the other way around.
Leviticus 19:34Would that be an insult to Noriega?
Edited by RainingMetal on Aug 21st 2019 at 10:45:36 AM
ASAB: All Sponsors Are Bad.While we are on light stories, Wikipedia has selected Hillary's biography
to be their main page article
for today.
At least 27 people have been arrested over threats to commit mass attacks since the El Paso and Dayton shootings
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/08/21/us/mass-shooting-threats-tuesday/index.html
Saw this initially on TV and looked for the article, which ends on a list of just about every arrest.
The TV report had a bit how at least a couple of the patterns seen were predominantly white males ranging from teenage to middle aged. Most of the threats were also posted on social media.
Edited by sgamer82 on Aug 21st 2019 at 12:16:47 PM
It should be noted that Ayn Rand never said anything especially positive about fascism and also fascists have banned her works before.
Leviticus 19:34Objectivism may not have been fascist but it was just as unjust and exploitative, just instead of a fascist vanguard benefiting industrialists, you would have the industrialists ruling directly.
(I realize no one has necessarily said otherwise, I just felt the need to point it out)
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang![]()
Because someone said that Objetivism was fascist apologia when Rand actually was negative with fascism.
Edited by KazuyaProta on Aug 21st 2019 at 1:47:18 PM
Watch me destroying my countryShould be noted that Ayn Rand, hypocrite though she may be, did grow up in the Soviet Union. Authoritarian as they are, and fascist-like as they are, they were officially opposed to it and were invaded by the Nazis back in the day, so it would make sense that Rand would take an anti-Fascist position. Especially given that fascism while often used synecdotally for it is not equivalent with the extreme right as a whole. You could argue that objectivism vs fascism is the anarchists (and the anarcho-communists who aren't tankies) vs communists of the right.
x2 Yeah, it's absolutely appalling. It certainly isn't going to get him any favors with the Jewish People of the United States (especially with regards to the whole "Second Coming" part). It might also make some Israeli's (who certainly wouldn't want a Christian King) get less friendly with Trump.
Edited by DingoWalley1 on Aug 21st 2019 at 3:10:06 PM
Yeah, though that probably won't affect Trump very much.
Jewish-Americans mostly support the Democrats.
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang

I'm not sure but I think Trump might have declared himself King of Israel
.
"Yup. That tasted purple."