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Putting aside the actual policy considerations inherent in Greenland, Canada, etc. I love Love LOVE the irritation this is causing in certain leftist circles. And I love Love LOVE that President Trump is not afraid to exhibit some master-level trolling to make that happen. If you're American, he'll be your president on Jan 20th, whether you like it or not. And if you don't like it, all the better. PS IMO the US should pursue Greenland and the Panama Canal -- via diplomacy.

Some are just upset with AfD because they dared to create a poster showing Teutonic-looking people enjoying their own country.

How would non-stop flights between the USA and Thailand actually help you in practice? If you live in a place that requires multiple connecting flights now, you are not likely to be served by any nonstop to Bangkok. You could connect to the nonstop through YVR today; having a nonstop at some other North American city would make little difference (and would be a longer flight, since YVR is geographically the most proximate to Asian cities).

Trump is "dumb" sorta like how every (male) person he nominates for his government is suddenly revealed to be a "sexual predator" about five minutes after being nominated.

The way this topic is going, someone will be citing the Protocol of the Elders of Zion as fact in 5... 4... 3... 2...

Actually, it might surprise the leftofascists to learn that plenty of us MAGA types wouldn't care that much either... except that the left cannot seem to resist pushing their insanity to the point of pushback. The occasional transexual person, fully living life as a woman, entering and using the bathroom without fanfare? Probably not that big of a deal. Some bearded fat slob in a singlet and pink tutu waving his peepee around and loudly demanding that women accept his "womanhood" in female spaces? No thanks. The former is generally somewhere along the spectrum of "harmless delusion". The latter presents a danger to women and girls.

I think "fascists" doesn't mean what you (incorrectly) think it means. [...basking in the glow of the triumph of sanity...]

The only take-away "progressives" ever have from failure is the conclusion that there wasn't enough leftism -- and that they therefore need to double down (on the ideas that led to failure).

I'd be surprised if there aren't cigars and carnivorous catering in those back rooms... Hypocrisy rules the roost among that crowd.

I can see how someone might be unaware of this opinion because it's been thinly and disingenuously stated in terms of Israelis instead of being nakedly stated as the ole' fashioned Jew-hating that it actually is.

We're not crying about 2020. We're looking out hopefully, towards the (MAGA) future. Woo-hoo!

Oh noes! Americans elected a president they can relate to? The HORROR!

Huh?

...yeah, and?

Insightful.

There is no evidence of this, and in any case Trump can't "collapse" humanity without doing things like, hmmm, I don't know... starting WW3. But starting world wars is the left's province these days.

The game is indeed up. MAGA is an America First movement. What is Ukraine's actual value to the USA? In this context, "Russia Russia Russia" rants from the usual suspects still desperate to discredit President Trump don't count as "value". Nor do contracts for the military-industrial complex. This is still true even if Putin is bad! Because the USA doesn't owe the world intervention and policing in every hotspot. This is a big tenet of the MAGA movement. If Putin is so bad, Europe could have started a decade or two ago by not becoming dependent on Russian gas and oil, and then continuing to dig themselves in deeper and deeper and deeper over time.

The "cornerstone" is that the federal government should be limited to powers enumerated in The Constitution. That does include enforcing our national border. It does not include things like education and abortion -- and those things are thus state-level issues. Sanctuary jurisdictions cannot legally stop the federal government from removing illegal aliens (side note: these people are not "immigrants"). That doesn't mean places like LA won't be successful obstructionists, at least to some extent. But if the feds want to get nasty about it, well, sanctuary jurisdictions are in for a rough ride. The sight of federal police exercising power in jurisdictions adamantly opposed to it could easily morph into civil war, IMO, so both sides need to tread carefully.

What you are describing is *exactly* how "progressives" operate; I think applying it to the (R) side is just projection because the big story in the 2024 election cycle is how the (R) side morphed into a "big tent" movement. As such there's actually quite a bit of variation in our thinking -- for example, there definitely is not uniform consensus about abortion, previously a pretty monolithic issue within the (R) party. At his inauguration, I could imagine Trump repeating (from 2016) that he would like to be the president for *all* of the USA, not just his true believers. And -- unlike the disingenuous (D) slate being replaced -- he'll actually mean it.

Thank you for your help in getting Trump elected, along with the House and Senate. Please keep this up!

Whether Mr. T is disgusting or wonderful is subjective... but what's objectively true is that on Jan 20th he will be your president -- again. Awesome!

With the adults now on deck to take charge, there's a non-zero chance of this actually happening. Not a big chance, because Swamp. But non-zero.

Yawn. Congratulations -- this attitude and the constant harping on identity politics was a huge factor in Trump's win. Thanks, please keep it up! And yes, that commie pinko Tim Walz deservedly received lots of negative attention. But he wasn't the top of the ticket, Harris was, so she naturally received the lion's share of the criticism.

In the context of this topic -- which is about Ukraine using American missiles -- your stance presumes that Ukraine is worth American involvement to defend. My opinion: nope, let Europe handle it, with their own tax Euros instead of my tax dollars, and cleaning up their own mess after propping up Russia by e.g. buying their oil and gas for many years.

We know by now that the left only has two definitions of "democratic": (1) When leftist candidates win (2) Communist, as in "Democratic People's Republic of..." Come to think of it, those two things are pretty strongly related! But neither is actually correct.