We are entering the American Midnight with the second Presidency of Trump’s Orange Fascism.
He has used the Undermensch to empower the Ubermensch by using the resentment generated by the United States of Wounded Masculinity to elect a naked Plutocracy.
This time around however, he believes God saved him.
The difference between war crime and genocide always tends to be the belief that God is on your side.
Look at this madness…
Germany, France warn Donald Trump over threat to take over Greenland
Donald Trump has been warned by both Germany and France after the US president-elect refused to rule out the use of military force to take control of Greenland.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Thursday (NZT) that the principle of inviolability of borders applies to every country, however powerful, and suggested that expansionist comments by Trump are meeting with “incomprehension” among European leaders.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot told a French radio station “there is obviously no question that the European Union would let other nations of the world attack its sovereign borders”.
Barrot added that he did not believe the US would invade Greenland, but said the world had “entered into a period of time when it is survival of the fittest”.
…his interview was fucking unhinged.
Threatening military force to seize Greenland, the Panama Canal and Canada???
Note – if any other Western Leader started threatening military force to simply seize strategic global assets, the Right would be screaming, yet Trump does it and his MAGA acolytes and apologists fawn over his every word and perform Cirque du Soleil level mental gymnastics to contort themselves into whatever demented narrative Trump wants.
That’s not a functioning Democracy, that’s a proto-fascist state built upon a Cult of Personality minus the personality!
It’s terrifying watching the largest Super Power acting like a belligerent adult man child with ADHD.
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Similar to wondering what would have happened to the world if Archduke Franz Ferdinand had buggered off home after the first assassination attempt that fateful day, you can’t help pondering our fate if that young bloke hadn’t missed last year. The day the world didn’t dodge a bullet but the orange buffoon did.
The Donroe Doctrine.
https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/monroe-doctrine#:~:text=President%20James%20Monroe's%201823%20annual,affairs%20of%20the%20Western%20Hemisphere.
god help the world now that the sick USA has elected Musk and his Orange puppet .We have the same right here in NZ and may well have been the blue print for Musk .Luxon is our own Orange puppet and Seymoure our Musk and Winston is just a nutter along for the ride till he dies .
Then we have all the rich pulling the puppets strings while Semour fucks us all over including himself as they will soon cut him loose when he has done what they want .
How much crazier do you want this world to become people? Thanks to waddling burger munching fuckwits in the ’States we are about to find out.
Satirist Randy Newman nailed the US approach years ago with his song “Political Science”, this version is from mid 2000s, but still lands well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg_LDeUEiWY&list=RDKg_LDeUEiWY&start_radio=1
The partisan media and politicians can’t help reacting like this which is why Trump trolls them.
Their hysterical overreactions cause more of the public -who hate the media and political establishment- to back Trump.
Hands up who actually believes he will invade Greenland?
No one?
Idiot. Do you think the insurrection would have happened without Trumps immaturity? Blaming a media you believe is partisan is the issue because my question to you is which media platform do you believe, Fox news? If so tell by you think they are neutral?
Trump is a complete ass, his only credibility is he employs people around him who are intelligent and will do his bidding and work for him. He’s not intelligent enough to do it himself.
According to Clay Higgins, US Congressman and former cop who investigated the Jan 6 insurrection, it wouldn’t have happened without 200 FBI agent provocatuers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlG6hxxx-Bk
Is this guy dispensing Truth or Kool Aid?
I love how you blame the messenger( media) but not the message. The message is Trumps alone to own.
Trump stated that no one who rioted on Capitol Hill had a gun but multiple media outlets confirmed 6 people have been charged and convicted with possession of guns.
Not hysterical, hysteria is trying to find a reason that it was someone other than Trumps fault.
Keepcalm he has to create distractions otherwise people will cotton on to the fact he won’t bring down prices, won’t bring jobs back, and is not remotely a champion of the people who voted for him. Blame the media all you like the guy is complete f wit.
I wonder what is taking place behind Mr Marmalade’s madness. Is this a smokescreen, or is it real, well, we won’t have to wait long to find out.
With you on this one A.O. It’s a smokescreen.
I don’t know why people are pretending this is unusual. Interfering in human countries isn’t something unique to Donald Trump. It’s just what yanks do. And that’s why yanks and yank-lovers should be kicked out of human countries.
I agree Mohammed. The default American position is exceptionalism which when added to oligarchy and imperialism gives us unending aggression. Doesn’t really matter if Trump is a neocon or not, he’s not going to change things.
I don’t blame people for electing an eccentric old man who paints himself orange while believing, as such people do, that it improves his ‘look’. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not writing that it’s a good thing. It’s just that it is a ‘thing’.
We AO/NZ’ers are in a similar position and have been for forty years now as is evident in a neoliberal mono-politic of greed. The U$A is a floundering lame duck who’s only collective talent is marketing bankster bullshit and jelly beans to a now fully Idiocratised population of ” Boo Yeah! Mutha Fuckas! ” The real USA is anyone’s guess. I’ve met and worked with Americans and I can say they we’re generally lovely people, which means they’re the same as anyone else. They, like some of us, are human, human beings. Many, however, are now not.
The problem as I see it is that in keeping with the Orange Tide of gimme-gimme’s swelling up around trumps seams is that far too much is still far too little. Enough, for a Trumpist ‘merican is never going to be enough. What’s worse perhaps is that in order to maintain the beliefs of the average ‘merican Walmartian living in their faux wood grain lined mobile home with a machine gun and a six pack is to feed them fat and sugar then pay God to bless them. My advice would be to simply stand well back then wait and watch them implode.
I hate to write this but fuck it. I can see the U$A’s heading to where it’ll get its arse kicked. There’ll be a sudden flash of light, a smell of burning hair and a strange orange glow to an early winter sunset.
Which brings me to here. Our AO/NZ. You know how everything’s connected to everything else right? We should revoke peter thiel and larry page’s citizenship and cancel their passports. We should also ask the Crown to install temporary governance here so we might conduct a royal commission of inquiry up and into every single crack and crevice of what’s an undeniably corrupt politic and economy.
I’ve just travelled far too many kilometers up, down and across the south island and do you know what I saw? Fuck all.
A few dairy cows. Here and there. Most farms are in crisis. That means, we’re in crisis which means we’re vulnerable to exploitation and manipulation. And where’s our agriculture minister? Do you know the name of the MP who heads up our most critical parliamentary portfolio? If you don’t, then you’re in far greater danger than you could possibly believe.
FYI
Todd McClay is the current Minister of Agriculture for New Zealand. He also holds the portfolios of Minister of Forestry, Minister for Hunting and Fishing, Minister for Trade, and Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Isn’t it odd that we never, ever hear from the flash fucker. Our farming primary industry infrastructure is in crisis and dashing todd’s never mentioned.
Todd is an absolute traitor to New Zealand. I hear he completely endorses the genocide of Palestinians in responses to constituents.
I never thought I would say this but:
Maybe it is time for U.S. Navy Seals to storm Mar a Largo and eliminate the major threat to U.S. National Security.
Good commentary TCell. I just read George Monbiots book The Invisible Doctrine that neatly sums up how the whole excrescence fits together. I’ve always regarded Monbiot as a Guardian reading namby pamby bourgeois handwringer, but here he nails it
I think he has ruled out war with Canada for now. The idea of a war to take Greenland did surprise. I had reckoned that Trump might see the prospect of a war with Venezuela as offering the highest cost/benefit ratio. However I have to admit the numbers look even better for invading Greenland because the troops and bases are already in place and the rotten state of Denmark will not put up a fight. So if decisions of war and peace are to be made according to the Trump Corporation investment criteria, then America’s enemies can breathe a sigh of relief and America’s friends will get what they always deserved.
Indeed. Though before attacking Venezuela (which is primarily a target because it does not pretend ‘israel’ is a real country) it seems more likely that he will follow the orders of his masters and escalates the genocidal air attacks on Yemeni civilians that Biden is already perpetrating with the help of the Luxon regime, possibly with a ground invasion.
Troll Level: Grand Master.
you would think it was..obvious..by..now.