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Yeah, that’s the saving grace of the UK deal, it’s that it was very visibly a deal just to keep appearances of cooperation and buy time. And the terms of the deal (especially the import of US meats/poultry) indicated this.

Now this with the EU, with the military spending and energy, I’m way more concerned since those are big sensitive areas where the EU is in a very disadvantageous position and might very well cave in all the way with enough pressure, especially when we bring Russia’s energy stuff into the mix.

Of course it was, since he successfully managed to break EU into a deal unfavorable to itself. Especially on the military part.

And because this has way more implications than “EU bends the knee”, since the EU is one of the biggest trading blocs in the world, which now gives Trump way more leverage in bullying other partners.

What happened to standing with Canada, UK, Mexico, and so on? What about all the bravado and strong worded letters? Where’s the action to go along with all that talk?

I really hope EU long term keeps doing the work to be an independent power, otherwise just like now it won’t have anyone else to blame for being susceptible to pressure from outside.

Ashamed to call myself European today, for how easily we caved in. And hopefully new, more reliant leadership comes soon.

Oh my. Many would do it for free, but with this much incentive perhaps someone more “skilled” might want to get some skin in the game and expedite results.

Under other circumstances I’d find this kind of effort deplorable, but oh well. I’ll label it balance/Newton’s 3rd Law and call it a day. When you have these elephants dancing around with billions of lives there tends to be a push back of some kind, sooner or later.

Even if not now, with this specific effort, someday the bill will have to come due to those involved. Just like Hitler managed to get pretty far in his quest to spread suffering but eventually got his comeuppance. A marathon, not a race, as they say.

What was he gonna say?

“Oh yes, yes. Mr. Garcia enjoyed the finest torture available in El Salvador, courtesy of me - the self-proclaimed world’s best dictator. Everyone’s welcome, we have great torturing facilities and the best staff for you and your loved ones. 💝”

Closeted men of war preaching about peace. Closeted gays fighting against gay rights. Judgemental/greedy/racist religious people putting themselves on a pedestal about how you should “take care of thy neighbor”.

It’s always the ones who preach the most, the same ones doing the exact opposite of what they preach. Always the ones bitching about the bad in the world actively hard at work making the world a shittier place.

Seriously, if Trump says the sky is blue I’ll immediately look up just to check if it hasn’t turned red/green/pink/whatever.

Be always wary of the ones telling you how to live, and watch out for their actions closely. There’s no hate like the ‘love’ of these hypocrites.

I bet if that was that easy he and most of the administration would already be 6 under, with the increasing amount of people with nothing to lose.

They know what they’re doing, they know they’re wrong and they’re hated. They handpick and filter the crowds through various means.

The only real time someone got an ‘honest’ shot at Trump was at that fateful rally where a far-right guy suspiciously got to spend hour-plus at a nearby rooftop, completely noticed and without action from security. And then the miraculous ‘shot’ that granted Trump near-martyrdom as God’s chosen representative before his cult. Funny all things considered.

Yup. Just saw it and came back to check if someone had already replied the obvious before I could. Thank you.

What a joke of a justice system. Things are where they are because as slow as Fat Blob Trump is, he’s still faster than the law. By the time they finally decide to actually state his actions are illegal it’ll be last year’s news already, while another judge’s order gets paused on the latest scandal of the day.

If the law were any good neither him or his ilk would even get the chance to run a first term. Because many of them would be jailed for all sorts of crimes, and the rest wouldn’t dare to act with fear of the consequences. Weak men create hard times.

Lemme guess. He’s gonna appeal and another judge will pause this decision while they take their time to review the appeal, because Trump shows daily how deserving he is of the benefit of the doubt.

Meanwhile things keep escalating and people get hurt.

Right?

Keep giving fingers, keep losing arms. Trump relies on shortsightedness to advance, and there’s plenty to go around. You falter, he swallows you whole before you can even react. Be cordial, get taken advantage of, like a sucker. 100 out of 100 times. Guaranteed.

While I believe this may very well be the case (there sure are big red signs pointing to it, beginning with Musk) - it won’t do much unless there’s hard undeniable proof. And I mean, the kind of unignorable nuclear bombshell where they start scrambling and telling on each other to save their sorry behinds as a last ditch effort to salvage anything they can.

And even then hardcore MAGA will still call it fake and in their desperation go even crazier before anyone has a chance to take them out of power.

Besides, “every accusation is a confession”, as if by accusing their opposition of doing something it gave them the justification of “they did it so we are free to as well”. You know damn well Trump wasn’t going to leave it to fate a second time, especially after failling his insurrection to stay in power the first time.

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• Step 1: Claim you want a baby boom.
• Step 2: Step in to remove authority from parents, while replacing them in the ‘education’ of the new generation.
• Step 3: Enjoy elite life with an entire population of modern slaves who don’t know or dream of better.

Vance and co. needs meat for his economic meat grinder when he reaches Trump’s age. Trump, egomaniacal as can be, is doing it “for the greater good”, whatever it may mean for him.

The US’s founding fathers would be proud of how the nation they forcibly took away from the British Empire is being used as a dirty rag against every single democratic value and representation of the individual in a fair society. The very same values which allowed these wannabe kings to rise from peasants who would otherwise have to kneel before the british monarch.

Shameless, to betray the very foundation of the nation that took them and their ancestors in and allowed them to prosper, to be able to enjoy the “american dream” they so want to deny others.

Nope, it has a protective case all around.

Right, plus car keys.

Earbud case and home keys on the left.

Well, Europe welcomes them, their talents and their research. And it’s a stable place, which in any other circumstance would just be the bare minimum instead of an actual benefit.

What better way to manipulate someone with self-worth issues who must flaunt his “power” and “wealth” to “prove others wrong” than stroking his fragile ego?

Small pp energy. Or rather, botched pp energy in this specific case.

Same for the Trump and co. axis of evil - a bunch of adult children with ego issues wanting revenge on the world that belittled or thwarted their constant schemes, all banded together.

Oh shoot. What did Biden do this time? Who’s constantly letting him sneak back into the White House to sign random stuff with the DJT signature?

I mean, every apologist and defender of capitalist apocalyptic hellscapes will have that view, sadly. So long as it makes them an extra buck it’s good for them, consequences to society or environment be damned.

As an European who does advocate and see value in the use of AI, but not at any cost, I’ll take his opinion as a compliment. As they say, “I want AI to do my dishes while I create art, not for me to do the dishes while the AI produces insta-art”.

And eventually if AI gets capitalistically out of hand and leads to many people in service-based economies to poverty and unhappiness we’re sure to see a revolution to restore balance, as many times in history when a few elites made things unbearable for the rest of the population. AI is here to serve humanity, that’s where the value is, not to serve only a select few.

Oh no. If this happens Canada could lose its “shut pornhub down” card. How dare the US take that gun and willingly shoot itself in the foot?

What’s next, they’ll start taxing themselves on Europe’s use of their digital goods and send the money to Europe before they can impose the taxes on their consumers? 47D chess moves here.

My first thought seeing this news was “Why would Trump get such a plane for other future Presidents?”.

Firstly, Trump being Trump would find a way to make the plane personally his, even placing some of those special Rolls Royce-made silent engines he likes so much. Secondly he already has his own Trump Force 1 to compete with the current AF1 - would he really be able to see another president flying around on his lux-plane while he has to return to the “poor-billionaire’s” TF1?

Smells like yet another small sign that he isn’t really planning on leaving. Seems like he’s just getting his own upgraded Trump Force 1 under the guise of presidency, using taxpayer money, to serve him until he dies - not until the end of the term - and spend a heck-a-ton more taxpayer money in operating costs to fund his weekly golf trips.

I hear good things about this Pope, from how he spent a relatively long time in Peru, to how Pope Francis liked him and how both share about the same views on the world.

I must confess I was a bit wary when I heard the new Pope was American, but at least he seems like a good one, thankfully.

That, however, does not erase the very real pressure he’ll face from MAGA, who will undoubtedly try to make him their puppet through whatever means necessary, be it flattery, or even attempts at blackmailing behind closed doors - expect this especially if Vance or Trump rush to visit him now. In their mind he’s surely American before being Pope, ergo he’s expected to bend the knee to them, ergo they surely think they already own the Vatican.

My hopes are up for Pope Leo XIV to show them how wrong they are, and prove the critics of his nationality wrong.