It would have bought attention and time, maybe.

With Schumer effectively sabotaging any kind of internal resistance within the party though…

Should have filibustered the continuing resolution

I saw this going yesterday. can’t believe he’s still going

Abolish the police?

disappointed that the phrase refers to biochemistry

If its not loading, your ISP might be blocking catbox. Try the YT link.

since these guys don’t understand opsec I think I’m safe to assume they don’t understand surface area either

I mean look, it’s so disgusting, but because of Bidens failure to restrain Israel, the political structure for whatever ambitions he has in Gaza have weight.

But Canada? Greenland? Panama?

Look maybe he could strong arm Panama. If it was all he did with the US military in it’s entirety.

But Canada? Like, give me a break. Even with the entirety of the US military they couldn’t do this. And what the world’s going to just stand by?

And Greenland? why? For what purpose? To what ends?

It really doesn’t make sense.

Except maybe what you are saying.

Is he trying to copy Putin?

No one is rejecting the seriousness of whats going on. If you dont get that, then spend more time developing context for the comments you are responding to.

I had a kindergarten teacher who grew up in Romania suggested a similar interpretation to me. I should have her over for wine and pick her brain on the matter.

I do think it matters to understand the mind, however horrendous, of someone like Trump. There is plenty to do. Lots of work ahead of us.

Why you responding bruh I thought I was blocked?

Something he values beyond all else – even money, even fame, even attention, even power, since those seem to be all he loves.

This is exactly why I struggle with the assertion. I literally can-not come up with anything he loves any more than himself. He’s not a loyal person; he has no loyalty in him: its a purely one way street, loyalty is only a thing shown to him, not something he ever shows to someone else. He would sell Ivanka, or anyone in his family, and has, for a mere peppercorn.

Which is why I come to the conclusion that the explanation is insufficient. There is something being missed here, even if we don’t know what it is. And until we can identify that something, we wont be able to build a strategy that splits Trump off from the real source of his power: Putin.

Hmm. You think this might be an extension of Russian foreign policy?

So instead of “What does Trump gain from this?” we should be asking “What does Putin gain from this?”.

That is one of those things I’ve never really been able to fully wire in. Why is Trump seemingly so perpetually willing to enact (and somehow aware of) Putin’s will? Its totally out of character for him. Trump is incredibly predictable. Maybe one of the most predictable people there is. Whatever serves Trump, most directly and completely, whatever elevates him above all others; this is the thing he will do.

And yet he always defers to Putin. I’ve never fully understood this. I know we can all speculate, blah blah, peepee tapes, blah blah we all hate Trump sure.

But it still doesn’t match. He’s a guy who doesn’t keep promises. He doesn’t pay his debts. He’ll lie, cheat, steal, anything, to set the situation up to serve himself. Why is he keeping this one? Why is his loyalty/ sycophantry to Putin beyond reproach?

They talk about geopolitics like they’re 14 and think everything is zero sum, lacking even the most basic elements is game theory and economics.

Yeah. I know some of those types. The almost always misunderstand the moment and deploy some of the worst strategies.

What in the fuck even is this Greenland thing? There is obviously no way that any one would have ever taken it seriously so why even put it out there?

Is this reaction fog of war they are injecting into the media narrative to obscure the fact they are running disappearance/ concentration camps?

… you dont report your science this way?

If you want to continue to lose elections, keep being like this.

The entire purpose in my consistency is to remove your ability to give yourself the excuse that you didn’t know better; that you weren’t being told other wise. You now know better; you don’t have an excuse next time.

I can’t get you to route out your own brain worms.

The argument that I have been making, am making and will continue to make, is that the exact approach to elections and electorism present in your comment is what we tried and it failed. And we knew before hand that your argument would fail when pushed against the American people; that you refused to change your approach to rhetoric; that you insisted on pursuing a strategy we knew in advance would fail. You can-not predicate your strategy for getting someone into office on changing the electorate: They ONLY option you have is to change/ move the candidates positions.

I’ve been incredibly consistent in this. I started making the point over at (the bad place) in 2015/16, when your above argument was the exact one being used to justify Hillary atrocious campaign. It completely misunderstand the electorate and electoral-ism in the US. It misunderstand the American identity and Americanism. It misunderstand the real pain Democrats (and Republicans) have caused the American people. In 2016 when we were being told to “shut up and vote for Clinton or you’ll get Trump”, I can and did tell people, that by relying on that approach that they would lose this election.

By defending bad positions of the candidates, by apologizing their strategies which had obvious and predictable outcomes, like losing the elections, those who insisted we simply had to suck it up doomed us to this path. And I can cite the ever living fuck out of this, not only here on lemmy, but across all of media.

How many times are you going to insist we lose an election to prop up the egos of neoliberals and Democrats who cant win elections? If this was the most important election of our lives why didn’t you demand that Democrats campaign like it?

Democrats, and their apologists, bear 100% of the blame for blowing this election as hard as they did. Trump is and was DEEPLY unpopular and they couldn’t even fucking manage that. And MOST of the reason why is this cowardly, apologist, fallacious excusing of Democratic failings.