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As a European, I wish a hearty "fuck you" to Trump, and anyone dumb enough to support him.
As an American, same
Trump is obviously an agent of Putin, he is not even hiding it any more. Putin probably has videos of Trump abusing minors on Epstein island or something similarly compromising.
No it’s worse than this. If it were based upon compromising info, Trump would be an UNWILLING participant. He is so invested in the Russian oligarchy money laundering for decades that he is a WILLING participant. He BELIEVES they are on the same team.
These two aren't even mutually exclusive. An idiot like Trump, upon getting blackmailed, could probably convince himself that the other guy would never release his secrets because they're such good friends.
And it's entirely possible Russia has promised to be his plan B if his plans fail.
That is of course also probable.
I'm guessing both.
Yes, the actual P-(edo) tapes
And plenty of financial money laundering kompromat too
Trump is a threat. Neutralize the threat.
Unfortunately, he is a product of the American way, remove him from the equation and some other narcissistic, imbecile will eventually walk the same walk.
Unfortunately, trump is just a symptom of a much bigger problem.
Sounds like a good way to winnow the gene pool a bit.
So pootin is a product of the American way. Got it.
Are you still convinced that you live in the "best democracy in the world"?
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Yeah but they probably won't get themselves organized in time for the upcoming election. The CIA supposedly have a heart attack gun, and I'm just saying no one would be that surprised if that's the way he went.
GOP in 2016 We need Trump because the rest of the world is laughing at us.
GOP in 2024 Who cares what the rest of the world thinks about us?
Tbh I think the world was already laughing in 2016. Even back then Trump was an absolutely ridiculous candidate. The real joke, though, is that even after his disastrous tenure as president and despite all of his criminal dealings, Trump is running again (and will probably even win the election). That would be funny if it were just about what this fact says about the American electorate. But unfortunately, the USA is still the strongest military power in the world. So it's not too funny for the rest of the world to have to worry about how to deal with an orange psychopath with a gigantic arsenal of weapons and enormous economic power. I therefore assume that at least the democratic rest of the world has stopped laughing by now.
Yeah, this shit stopped being funny a long time ago.
I knew I was in the Twilight Zone when Trump, [a draft dodging rich boy who compared tomcatting around Manhattan in the 1970s with actually going to Vietnam ] talked about shit John McCain and wasn't lynched by the GOP
No, you see, Trump isn't a black man kneeling during the national anthem so he's not being disrespectful at all. Honestly I'm surprised they don't all have serious whiplash from that turn around.
One of my favorites.
Conservative woman goes on The View TV show after the 'pussy grabber' tape comes out. One of the panelists keeps saying 'pussy' over and over.
Conservative woman asks her to stop using that offensive term.
“You gotta lay your bills” says the guy who hasn’t paid his bills in decades.
Why hasn’t Trump been labeled a terrorist and been sanctioned?
I guess its because roughly 40% of americans would still vote for him
That's nice of him to say. What's he going to do about it? So sick of all these spineless, yellow-bellied wimps saying how bad Trump is, and doing precisely fuck all. GROW A FUCKING BACKBONE, ALREADY, YOU COWARDS!
That's nice of you to say. What do you suggest he does about it? I'm so sick of these spineless, yellow-bellied Internet commenters saying that something should be done about it and suggesting precisely fuck all. OFFER A SOLUTION, ALREADY, YOU COWARDS!
Edit: Mocking tone aside, I'm serious, what can Jens realistically do? Kick the USA out of NATO? That's Trump's goal anyways. The issues with Trump are an internal American issue that can't be fixed by Norwegian politicians unfortunately.
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What do you expect NATO to do? A drone strike??
Really? Trump mentioning that most nato members do not meet the required defense spending undermines nato.
Yeah I'm sure that was what undermined nato and not the fact that America is the only threatening part of nato and the rest of the members haven't been contributing shit. I don't like trump but it's clear that nato needs a kick up the ass.
You know how this isn’t 2015 right? People are no longer fooled by you guys creating accounts to concern troll.
It's gotten real damn bad in the last week
lol. Yeah I’m surprised he didn’t lead with “I used to be a Democrat…”
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That's not what he said though
If you have to misrepresent what was said in order to feel ok about it, maybe you shouldn't feel ok about it.
Found the person living in an alternate reality.
Wake me up if you actually wanted to have a good faith discussion otherwise take your ignorance of geopolitics elsewhere.
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So you basically admit "if at any part a country hasn't reached the obligated 2% they shouldn't be defended by nato"?
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Really? Trump mentioning that most nato members do not meet the required defense spending undermines nato.
As a member of a NATO military that doesn't meet the targets for spending, I agree this doesn't undermine NATO, it's just the truth that we need to start pulling more weight monetarily.
BUT that's not the point and you missed key details about what he said that absolutely DOES undermine NATO, such as:
"I said: 'You didn't pay? You're delinquent?'... 'No I would not protect you, in fact I would encourage them to do whatever they want. You gotta pay.'"
So you're showing that you either didn't read the article, didn't understand the article or are being willfully ignorant of the article.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Donald Trump's suggestion the US would not protect Nato allies failing to spend enough on defence "undermines all of our security", the Western military alliance's chief has said.
Addressing crowds during a rally in South Carolina on Saturday, Mr Trump said he had made his comments about Russia during a previous meeting of leaders of Nato countries.
In a statement on Sunday, Mr Stoltenberg emphasised the alliance remains "ready and able" to defend its members and any attack "will be met with a united and forceful response".
Following Mr Stoltenberg's comments, US President Joe Biden said: "Donald Trump's admission that he intends to give Putin a green light for more war and violence, to continue his brutal assault against a free Ukraine, and to expand his aggression to the people of Poland and the Baltic states, [is] appalling and dangerous."
Mr Trump has long been critical of Nato and what he sees as an excessive financial burden on the United States to guarantee the defence of 30 other nations.
However, Republicans in Congress have since the turn of the year blocked all new funding - demanding tough measures to restrict migration into the US on its southern border, and then refusing the amended bill when it was presented earlier this week.
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