Tillis says White House deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, should be fired.
Tillis blasts Trump Administration over Greenland
That video was a real treat.
Tillis Quotes
- Stephen Miller said that obviously Greenland should be part of the US. That is absurd.
- It was an amateurish comment and something that a deputy chief of staff should not have taken a position on. Number 1, he does not speak for the US government.
- Some people call me crazy. You know what makes me cranky? Stupid. What makes me cranky is when people don’t do their homework. It make me cranky when people say we have a right to territory owned by the kingdom of Denmark.
- Folks, amateur hour is over. You don’t speak on behalf of this US Senator or the Congress. It is not the position of this government because we are a co-equal branch. And if that were to come to pass, there would be a vote on the floor to make it real. Not the real sort of environment that some deputy chief of staff thinks was cute to say on TV.
- I would defy you to find any credible general with a star on his shoulder who would say that it is [a good idea]. The flip side is somebody like Miller says this would be cool. Let’s take over Greenland. It would be like a big aircraft carrier. Well that’s stupid too.
- And I’m sick of stupid. The amateurs who said this is a good idea should lose their job.
Finally, someone other than Senator Rand Paul, Rep Tom Massie, or Margorie Taylor Green stepped up to the plate with a well deserved blast at administration stupidity.
Massie
Massie: “It happened again today! Why do I get attacked weekly? Because I’m the only Republican who refuses to rubber stamp foreign aid, endless deficits, and unnecessary wars. I’m also exposing sex traffickers. My primary is in May. Please help if you can.”
“Previous presidents told us to go to war over WMDs, that did not exist. Now it’s the same playbook, except we’re told that drugs are the WMDs. This is about oil and regime change…”
Rand Paul on War
“I’ve been consistent across presidents: only Congress has the power to declare war. Whether it’s Venezuela, Libya, or anywhere else, decisions of war shouldn’t be left to one person. Our Constitution is clear on that.”
Rand Paul on Tariffs
“Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) just proposed a bill that would REQUIRE the President to get Congressional approval for new tariffs.”
War Powers Act
“Bombing another nation’s capitol is an act of war.”
Rand Paul Blasts Feckless Congress
“I oppose socialism everywhere but that’s not today’s debate. The question is simple: Does the Constitution allow one person to take us to war without Congress? The answer is no. War powers belong to the people’s representatives. Full stop.”
An Excuse Not a Right
“Our founder’s intent is not a close call open to equivocation. Pundits argue that presidents have been ignoring this restriction for many decades. That is not an argument but more of an excuse. The Constitution is clear—only Congress can declare war.”
Rand Paul on Greenland
MTG on the Deep State
I’m erasing lines, boundaries, and breaking chains. I’m aligning myself with those who are free thinkers, free speech warriors, and are America First.
I won’t be held in a political party prison of messaging demands, purity and loyalty tests, and I will not be defined by them while I maintain my positions and principles that I have proven by votes and legislation through 5 years in Congress.
The Deep State is the Uniparty and those it serves and all of those who participate and join it, whether by choice, payment, or by blackmail. When you see it, you can’t unsee it.
Ongoing congratulations to Rand Paul, Tom Massie, Marjorie Taylor Greene, plus an unexpected blast by Senator Tom Tillis who gave a nine minute speech regarding “stupid” administration policy on Greenland.
Correction: I repeated a PBS typo a number of times, calling Senator Tillis “Tills”
Apologies offered.
Tom Tillis? RINO traitor
“The amateurs who said this is a good idea should lose their job.”
YOU should lose your job Mr Tillis
We should absolutely take Greenland. Denmark is evil
If we give all 50,000 Greenlanders $100k to vote to leave Denmark and join the US that would be $5 Billion. Much cheaper than what Denmark would ask for
We must leave NATO and the UN immediately. Europe is our enemy. Look at the Denmark PMs insidious lies about Russia. Bye Denmark
Trump’s plan to take over Greenland is the first intelligent approach to Greenland I’ve heard in over 40yrs. end of BS for 40yrs!
I’m from NC and I’m positive our senator’s name is TILLIS.
Thanks
Correction made with an apology
Oh good, a senator 90% have not heard of says something we like.
Or don’t like.
It doesn’t matter.
We do have a casus belli against Venezuela with respect to drug trafficking. So, why is it that nobody seems to be willing to make a case for war for Congress to vote on? Paul has a valid point: we’ve allowed the Executive way too much power to lead the U.S. into war with very little debate or oversight from the Constitutionally-mandated branch of the government responsible for declaring such actions. If Trump has a good case, bring it before Congress, not the bully pulpit.
Good point. Congress is perfectly happy to let Trump take the hit for doing what they should be doing, but are too busy schmoozing with campaign donors.
Are there any motions underway, either to approve Trump’s action, or to disapprove?
To late for republicans to grow a spine. They all will change their tone to get in the political life raft as trumps ship sinks
Also something to throw in the mix. If i recall right the last time this was a topic. The trump team had private money on the ground trying to sway opinion kind of shady
What is interesting to me is that an establishment shill like Tom Tillis (not Tills by the way) goes after a staff guy, Miller. You hold the President accountable not his staff. But the reason Tillis is going after Miller is because Miller is really the architect behind the deportation strategy and that is really what Tillis hates.
In other news, US October trade deficit lowest since 2009 as imports decline. (from Reuters)
hooray – what was the cost in jobs?
I doubt that Greenland is even real, at least as it’s portrayed to us. The US does not fly direct to Greenland.
You’re right. It is way the Simulation uses NPCs to tell Players useless information.
United does!
…and, nothing is as it seems! you and me are gazing at a Mercator Map: convenient junk. Greenland is the major guard/border point of the NorthWest Passage. Its potential importance as the major route ‘tween EU and the Orient is quite simply inexpressible. Denmark LOVES that we have finally shown a MONEY interest in their otherwise useless/expensive shit island. Danes know full well the immense and growing importance of the NorthWest Passage to Muricans….and until the Trumpster, the generally ignorant American public had not an iota of comprehension what’all it meant. You do now.
It feels the Senator is right. If we already have bases there, there’s no reason to provoke the Russians (again). On the other hand, we also need to secure it so we don’t have another Diego Garcia case. That was a recent major blow, initiated by the UK.
Close every military base in Europe. Put the keys under the doormats for Vlad, although he likely doesn’t want any part of it.
I hope the next post Mish makes discusses Trump’s ban on institutional investors buying individual homes. At least to me this is one of the most important things Trump has done.
What happened in British Columbia last year with the Canadian Court giving ownership back to the natives (who didn’t even ask for it) and sending letters to the local homeowners, was the single most important news story of 2025. It signaled the beginning of the end of private property guarantees in the British Commonwealth.
Along with the underlying securities and mining rights of course.
One would expect Zerohedge and Mish would give it special attention, even increasing the font size just for this.
Sounds like a good poison pill to keep Americans or anyone else for that matter from buying or building anything in Canada until this is settled which might take years. Unfortunately, it creates the same uncertainty for Canadians. If someone wanted to paralyze all big decisions in Canada this would be it.
Uncertainty for investors too. You buy stock in a company, and all of a sudden its land assets change ownership without BoD approval.
This court decision was after the encouragement of King Charles to make amends to natives. Meanwhile, there were “No Kings” protests in the USA. You can’t make this stuff up.
“The white man is like a wolf. He devours everything, and when there is nothing left to eat, he turns on himself.” -Thomas Rainwater
The Paleo-Indian tribes were among the earliest known inhabitants of North America, primarily arriving around 15,000 to 20,000 years ago, or 4,000 years ago depending on the AI model.
In 15,000 years, the first settlers managed to build mud huts and teepees. In 400-odd years, white settlers built cities, universities, hospitals, transportation systems, etc.
Yes, it came at a cost, but Mr. Rainwater benefited.
” white settlers built cities, universities, hospitals, transportation systems”
Cities that everyone here posting comments says are unlivable? how long did that take 100 years?
Universities that everyone complains are too woke?
Hospitals everyone complains charges too much and produces those pesky vaccines people complain about?
Transportation systems – US rates D+ on infrastructure (roads, bridges, dams, etc) are dilapidated and on verge of collapse.
Oddly enough, the Native Americans seem to carry on with mostly their same old ways.
“The meek shall inherit the earth” -Some dude 2000 years ago.
Do you get it yet or you still want to argue the point?
Good point. White people are cockroaches. Tell that to the surgeon when he replaces your heart.
You do realize that most of those negative outcomes are the result of the welfare/liberal state?
Pick one, like education, and try to demonstrate the decline in quality is NOT the result of liberals.
the civilizations in new world were the mayans and aztecs and others down that way. the pyramids and forts down there are amazing. a few pyramids in northern GA too. and old mounds, too. things change. history of human primates. in 20,000 years most likely our major cities will be under forests or deserts or what not. some will still be around perhaps.
Those Mayans/Aztecs also had an enormous ADVERSE impact on the land. Look it up.
So we’ve got what–three, maybe four Republicans left in Congress?
Thanks, Mish, for posting the latest.
Senator Tillis always talks a good game, but when it comes down to actions he will again abrogate his constitutional duties to rubber stamp the administration.
And Stephen Miller shouldn’t be fired. He should be imprisoned for all the crimes he has committed while in government.
yeah. it is just a game!!
he probably is going to quit, or something like that
they all paid by MIC! no money, no senator seat
great actors. and they do represent their constituents perfectly.
I rarely watch FoxNews, but when I do turn it on, that blowhard, idiot Miller is always on the screen. I’m ready to ship him off to Israel to work with the moronic Huckaby. Israeli TV will love him.
Taking over Greenland militarily is improper and unnecessary. The proper way to take over territory and install nuclear-armed, Russia-aimed missiles is the way we did it in Finland: have the Europeons in their Pee Wee Herman suits propagandize the population until they’re begging to let the Americans build their bases and install their missiles. Trump’s not patient enough to wait until the Greenlanders are petrified that Russia is about to steal their whale blubber.
=Russia-aimed missiles is the way we did it in Finland
no they did not! nothing done in Finland! outside formal voting!
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only complete idio1t like you WOULD SET UP NUCLEAR SITES w/in
strikes by conventional weapons w/in 1-3 min of flight by missile or warplane, or fvp drones!
you would know if had slightest idea about things you are blathering about!
get lost , mo11ron!!!!
LOL. Sure, the US won’t install any offensive weapons in Finland. Just like how the Aegis missiles in Romania and Poland are to defend Europe from Iran.
The United States shares similar agreements with Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Estonia. So what?
Russia isn’t going to rob anything. Quit pushing NATO to their borders. NATO should be disbanded. Let the Europeans create their own military network. Trump is barking and acting like a Roman Emperor.
While it’s great of Tills to speak out,
is all BOGUS.
If you say so.
“After long and difficult negotiations with Senators, Congressmen, Secretaries, and other political representatives, I have determined that, for the good of our country, especially in these very troubled and dangerous times, our military budget for the year 2027 should not be $1 trillion, but rather $1.5 trillion,” Trump wrote on Truth Social late Wednesday
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USA run $ 2.3 trln deficit in 2025
he’s gone really really mad. no wonder he believes import taxes brought $ trillions ..
i guess gold 6000$, and silver $120-150 in 2026!
alx
“happens to be central casting” the Reality Show lives on…
I kind of agree with Tillis. I mean, shouldn’t we annex Minnesota before we attempt to go after Greenland?
you don’t like bla11ck people of Minnesota??
/s
Far better would be to swap Minnesota for Canada’s western provinces
Moving there this yr.
Wouldn’t mind being a Canadian.
Be my guest.
Minnesota can be saved so let’s save it.
Forget Lake Wobegon. The state itself is woebegone
Saving Minesota would likely require sending in a million or so Texans and Oklahomans to offset the white, woke liberals.
I would support Trump sending in a team of Seals and Rangers in the dead of night to capture Walz-far more than his criminal operation in Venezuela capturing Maduro.
If Denmark wanted to keep its sovereignty over Greenland then they made a grave mistake in according autonomy to the possession back in 2009. Since then and a few years before Chinese companies have made 12 attempts to open mines, get concessions or build infrastructure and each time Denmark was obliged to give its veto to prevent it because of the obvious security risks involved. These companies were courted by the new autonomous Greenland legislature to develop the island and generate wealth for its inhabitants. Many believe they did it to stimulate Western investment but Western companies didn’t seem too interested. It definitely shows that the Greenlanders do want investment because I suppose they want to get rich. Nevertheless this puts Denmark in a no-win situation. The Greenlanders do not want to become American and that’s ok but they do want investment and Trump is offering a great deal for that, one that Denmark and Europe would be hard to match. In any case the invasion talk is just nonsense and everybody knows it. The free association is not. We will see.
Greenland is the only remaining piece of what once was Denmark’s empire when they controlled Norway, Iceland, large parts of Sweden and a bunch of islands here and there as well as Greenland as it is hard for Denmark to even conceive losing it because it is wrapped up in their mythos. You see the same in France. They truly thought Algeria was an integral part of France but as we know it wasn’t. Now France has the same problem with New Caledonia in the Pacific next to Australia.
Paul and Massie are using it to ride the anti-Trump wave till it closes out as it will soon while Greene is now totally irrelevant.
Greenland is not really part of the State of Denmark, more like under some stewardship of the King. I don’t remember the details, they’re on the internet, please correct me and post the actual information.I’m not advocating for Trump, but let’s get the facts straight at least.There’s a lot of info out there (leaning towards Greenland being quite more autonomous than we think), but it feels the Senator is right. If we already have bases, no reason to screw it up.
It is not being screwed up. It is putting the clocks to the correct time. This is not 1917 nor 1950 but 2026.
We already have a base, Pituffik Space Force Base and NORAD sensors, not bases, so our Greenland military presence is minimal.
The question every freedom loving American should be asking, is how to lawfully remove a renegade fascist president and his cadre of enablers?
At this point there should be a bounty on each of them.
please!
bush jr was voted twice.
and he was basically retarded
Why are Obama’s college records still not made public?
Here’s a hint. He applied as a foreign student.
=Obama’s college records still not made public?
what this has anything to do w/ bush jr being plain plain idiot?
obv Obama was smarter than bush jr!!
bush jr could NOT pronounce half of words of 4th grade school boy!
Um, well, if Obama applied as a foreign student, logically, by self-admission, he’s not even eligible to be president.
As for intelligence? What exactly did he achieve?
For example, AI believes:
Barack Obama’s major achievements include the passage of the Affordable Care Act, which expanded health insurance coverage to over twenty million Americans, and the implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to help revive the economy after the 2008 financial crisis. He also made significant strides in foreign policy, including the Iran nuclear deal and efforts to improve America’s global image.
Obama Care? Greatly increased medical costs and the deficit.
The ARRA? Gave Federal funds to states to fix a few potholes. Essentially a bailout, after the recession ended. It did NOTHING to revive the economy except a minor increase in employment. In fact it was so useless, the Fed had to continue negative interest rates for many years.
You want more examples of his brilliance?
The constitution is pretty clear on how impeachment works.
The constitution didn’t account for republican pusilanimy.
But Biden was great!
Yes, Biden was the greatest 78-year-old President in American history.
At doing what? Sitting on the beach, falling off a bike, and eating ice-cream on camera.
Close call between Biden and Trump.
Zelensky–that’s easy. Seal Team Six scoops him up one night, and drops him from the chopper.
Not exactly lawful, but necessary
Russians tried invading Ukraine with helicopters, remind us how that went? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Antonov_Airport
the amerikan people have been voting for nonstop imperial warfare since at least Teddy in 1898. much earlier too but let’s not strain anyone’s history lessons. lots of deluded amerikans who thought we were a force for good.
I upvoted you because I assumed you were referring to Trump. maybe Biden.
Anyone who deludes themselves that having a President who believes that he/she solely makes all consequential decisions on both domestic and foreign policy without meaningful input from either Congress or government-employed career experts has no understanding of why George Washington declined to model the Presidency as an autocratic office where all the power of the nation resides.
The way Trump sees the presidency begs the question why such a President would employ 10s of thousands of subject matter experts. By pressing Senator Thune to kill the filibuster, Trump has shown that he has no respect for the democratic process that inherently calls for a debate and compromise when it comes to legislation and consequential foreign policy decisions, such as going to war, entering into treaties, or exiting treaties.
Support of this President is support for tearing apart the ideals and institutions that truly made the United States the model for democracy and freedom around the world.
Have you looked seriously at those ‘thousands of subject matter experts’?
Maybe it’s a giant hive mind?
Over the years, I have been approached by various Federal departments. To say they were poorly-informed is NOT an exaggeration.
Looking to deport you?
Let them try! My family has been here since the late 1600s, long before the Trumps ever set foot in the New World.
Not you.
Ha Ha! All the best!
Apparently, I did interesting work in risk analysis and predicting stuff, like economic/employment growth.
FYI, Tip O’Neill intervened to bring me back to the USA.
Removing Trump and replacing him with Vance or any of his fascist sycophants, is like shitting in your pants and changing your shirt to get rid of the filth and stench!
It’s worse. Trump is an idiot. Vance isn’t. The upside is MAGA thinks Trump is a genius and Vance must be an idiot. So they’ll never support him.
Feel better now?
NO, Trump NEVER said: “I wish to invade Greenland” or anything remotely close to that. My understanding, is that He Would invade Greenland, if anyone else tries to take it over, for “Security Reasons” and I agree with that statement 100%. Think Russia/Ukraine and the likes of similar situations across the globe.
Find me a quote that says otherwise…
Does “We need Greenland” qualify?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zQModmAwHq4
– Does “We need Greenland” qualify?
> We do! He was 100% correct.
– “one way or another…we are gonna get it”
> Nobody else will.
>> Don’t be blinded by TDS or worse, making language he said, fit a Narrative.
You showed me nothing of the sort, because you can’t.
It’s like talking to a sow.
You’re confusing yourself, Stu.
How about “one way or another…we are gonna get it”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tfYAd82gHI
The “one way or another” quote in conjunction with…
“I don’t take anything off the table,” Trump told NBC News on Saturday, when probed on whether he would authorize the use of military force to take control of Greenland.”
should do it…
but it requires putting 2 and 2 together.
Trump’s mouth is his worst feature. Okay, we know already. Compared to Biden’s dementia, it is not an issue.
Loving those down-votes.
It is clear Trump is not a politician. He’s a real estate developer–ego-driven and profit motivated.
He recognizes the US has major problems (like cutting off kids’ genitalia), losing manufacturing and supporting industries, an education system rife with mind-control and liberal bias, out-of-control health care, unaffordable housing, dependence on unfriendly nations, …
WTF do you do?
=My understanding, is that He Would invade Greenland, if anyone else tries to take it over,
wow! you know trumpking don’t give a fluck about your BS!
so cut it out!
It’s entirely true…
=Think Russia/Ukraine and the likes of similar situations across the globe.
wow!!
you meant 20 years in iraq, or 20 years in afganistan??
or 15 years in Vietnam??
or 800 military bases are all over world
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AND YOU BROUGTH RUSSIA/UKRAINE AS IF it is only war happened ever in world!
jesus! you are mo1ron
What does any of that have to do with what was said. For Security Reasons Alone he Should, Could, and would, and I Agree!!!
=For Security Reasons Alone he Should, Could, and would, and I Agree!!!
against whom , mor11on??
when was last time you opened effing geo map? if ever
Chinese? they live 12 hours to west or east, depending on the view!!
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Russians?
do you even know how EFFING RUSSIANS CAN sail down towards Greenland?
they can use Baltic route which can be blocked in 5 mins, or over Scandinavian Peninsula on north!
Brits and Russians traded 500 years during Ivan terrible over that route!
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do you even know what kind of harsh conditions in second route?
it is free of ice 3*5 months per year, tops!!!!
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french? British?
and don’t get started about inter continental nuclear missiles!
Jesus!!!. YOU CANT BE THAT ST11UPID , just admit you are drunk or something
alx
Sober as a judge, should be anyway… Again you evade, and toss slurs. “Show me“ where and when he said it. You can’t. What’s with all the Countries and water ways? I have maps too, but again, it has nothing to do with what I asked and why. Keep on making crap up, and evading my question, but it just makes my point that much brighter and much more accurate!
Is it TRUMP, or one of his ignorant advisers, coming with these hairball ideas?
Puerto Rico is not a state
But if it was renamed Trumpo Rico it might become one!
And hopefully never will be. Same with DC.
Maybe we should give back Alaska? Definitely, Puerto Rico and Hawaii. And there’s that thing with Mexico. Something about a Louisiana Purchase comes to mind… And Gitmo… Have I missed any? Damn, the US Virgin Islands. Help me out here…
Guam… Am. Samoa… Mariana Islands…
Do you have a mouse in your pocket?
I enjoy pointing out hypocrisy.
Yes you should. Let’s DNA test everyone and all are returned to where they should be. If you have mixed DNA, we toss a coin and leave it to fate.
Does that policy extend to blacks, browns, Asians? Also to whites-? Who were the first inhabitants of the USA?
You amaze me.
That argument only works if you think it’s still the 1800s and conquest by force is a virtue. Most of us were hoping civilisation had progressed a bit since then.
“Vanity of vanities… what has been is what will be. And what has been done is what will be done. There is nothing new under the sun.”
FYI, Virgin Islands Purchased from Denmark (1917)
Let’s not discuss Israel’s annexation of Gaza. Putin’s retaking of….
HOPING for that is really, really naive.
These acquisitions throughout the history of the USA set a precedent. The hypocrisy here is unbelievable.
The important one’s in your list were all willing purchases from willing parties, with the exception of Mexico. Which was the result of the declared, by Congress, war with Mexico.
this empire was founded on voting. for the genocide, the slavery and all the world wide war mongering. the amerikan public seems to enjoy it. the uniparty has been at this for all our lifetimes too. the puppies out there are divided and conquered. idiots rooting for blue or red team thinking their side is righteous. it’s an empire where 98% are nihilist warmongers. you are forgeting about our 180k troops all over the globe shaking down the world at the sharp end of a sword. let’s all keep voting for this. we are going over a cliff. all empires end. this one will bust up by next inauguration day 2028. bank that.
“Finally, someone other than Senator Rand Paul, Rep Tom Massie, or Margorie Taylor Green stepped up to the plate with a well deserved blast at administration stupidity.”
It just shows you how full of cowards and morons the GOP is that there are only 3 speaking up for what’s right.
Excellent work this weeks with all your posts Mish. If you keep it up the next two days you just might receive a coveted Virtual Peace Prize award by your beloved community 🙂
Your bias informs your readers
But at the same time Tillis is condemning Miller he’s sucking up to trump. The whole administration is the problem. MAGA and trump are the problem. The solution is for enough republican congress members to stand up for what they should know is moral and right and impeach this POTUS and all members of his cabinet. This is undoubtedly the most criminal administration ever. If you are not part of the solution you are part of the problem. Almost all republican congress members are cowards and prefer their cushy job to doing what’s right for the American people.
– This is undoubtedly the most criminal administration ever.
> Seriously? Watergate, Iran Contra, Perjury, Election Interference, Obstruction of Justice, Ballot Stuffing, and the list goes on… Both Parties have done plenty through the years, and I hardly see the current Administration anywhere close to some past infractions. Hillary and Biden alone caused more mayhem, had more lies, covered more up, than probably ALL past Presidents combined!!
You are dealing with closed minds. It is the result of media brain-washing; which they will not understand until it is too late.
As a voter who has voted blue most often, I’m very willing to throw the Dems in there too. They have been terrible at holding anyone to account, coming up with half decent ideas, and otherwise finding any of the dozens of ways to easily indict Trump using just objective fact.
The moral vacuum in our leadership is most acute with Trump, but is also evident with the GOP at large, and to a somewhat lesser but still very problematic extent with the Dems.
Our whole country needs an enema to get all the crap flushed out. It’s not happening any time soon, so plan accordingly.
Actually, Biden is the best example of a vacuum. There wasn’t a ‘President’ but mindless slop. For four years, the US was controlled by non-elected players.
How many kids had their genitalia removed?
Other countries laughed at the US, and quietly took advantage.
Ok so what is the answer to your question, “how many kids had their genitalia removed”. Well? The answer is probably not zero but probably not more than a small handful, if actually any. Prove the implied bullshit to your question. MAGA POS.
Correct, we and our Republican representatives are responsible for the election of Trump and we should have the guts to remove him and his cabinet.
The US has had many military bases on Greenland for 70 years and most of them have been closed down. If Greenland is so important, reopen/rebuild those bases. Trump’s talk of ‘invading’ a NATO country is stupid. I wonder…… Just as he insulted the Kennedy Center by sticking his name in front of it, does he want to rename Greenland……Trumpland??
Many performances at the Kennedy center have been cancelled by the performers.
Greenland has stopped allowing US military ships to re-fuel at their few ports. They can now only do so at the military base where Greenland has no control.
Canadas trade with the world has increased and their trade with the US has decreased.
Trump has an MBA in how to offend our allies.
His thugs shooting unarmed mothers in the head with their children’s stuffed animals in the car is just a sample of what will be going on when Trump lets loose his massive fleet of drones to kill Americans opposed to Fascism.
Love your country, but fear your present government…
true and proper. however with one little improvement. always fear your government in modern pax amerika the past century. . too bad we have NOT matured to the point of southern europe where the government boot jackss are afraid of the people.
This will stop when enough of us say NO!
I wish all the members of this administration would be seen and talk less. Each may feel they contribute in one way or another with their commentary (Trump the most), but i have to agree most of it is more stupid than not.
There is a constructive and destructive way to do and say everything. The difference is in one’s sense of judgement.
There is a core MAGA constituency that absolutely loves the tough talk, the violence, the desire to take over other countries. There is a smaller MAGA constituency that deplores the stupidity and makes them embarrassed to have voted for this crowd, but support the activities anyway. Trump will always work to please the core crowd, because that is who he is as a person. Much of the rest of the administration (not to include Hegseth, and Noem) say idiotic things because they know if will please Trump. All the while trying to tone it down a bit when off camera so it won’t destroy their political futures.
I understand your point. But if that propensity made political sense, Trump would not need to lecture Republicans in congress that they need to recognize his great accomplishments and learn to “sell them” for the mid-terms. Trump would have already done the “selling”. But the truth is, Trump is a poor salesman (in the core meaning of the term). How can one accomplish so much in so little time and NOT (NOT) have an obvious majority of people in support of him.
Truth be told, there is a constructive and destructive way to do everything and Trump cannot find the constructive path.
Having said that, by November 2024 our nation was careening in a wrong direction and Trump uttered better ideas. We had a choice of Harris or Trump.
The choices we make
Map the roads we take
The rewards we rake
And the heartache
In history, there was never a path so clear that societies could avoid it sayre of heartache. Certainly not now.
Too late for that, lol
I wish all members of this administration would leave, they provide no positive actions to the public.
Leave was being kind, I actually wish they would shrivel up and blow away.
Trump admin pushing for $1.5 trillion Department of War budget for next year
I’m sure this will lead to peace in our time….
No, but it might avoid WW3. The logic might escape you, though. It did not escape Reagan though, the primary reason for the end of USSR.
says the endlessly repeated propaganda
The USSR ended because nobody believed in it anymore, and everybody knew that about each other. If you insist on thinking about it economically, all Russians are convinced that it was Russian largesse transfer payments that hemmed in further economic development, and point to the poverty and penury all the former states and stans have since fallen into.
WWIII with whom? Who is actually preparing to attack the USA?
Other way around, what countries are going to be attacked by the USA.
It may be a contributing cause to WWIII, use it or lose it.
His last administration did a very similar thing, and we had 4 Years of Peace. Maybe we could have the same results again, but only 3 Years this time unfortunately…
Bullshit! We had our nation brought to a standstill and the FED had to inject trillions to paper over Trumps incredible failures. Inflation came directly in his wake.
The border was not closed, and Mexico did not pay shit. The tariffs failed to do anything but drive our foreign consumers into the arms of the BRICS and bankrupt our family farms. And of Cours make our manufacturers less competitive in foreign markets.
Illiteracy and Newscorps Fox propaganda machine is how Trump got elected again
Did you forget to Name all those places we were at war with? You know the opposite of Peace, which we had… Hmm…
At the time we had troops in combat situations in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and a few North African countries.
Thank you Mish. I hope the MAGA people here hold their heads in shame. Remembering 457 British soldiers killed in support of the US as well.
At the end of WW2, the world was divided. On one side there was the USA. On the other there was the USSR.
The US realized that to successfully confront the existential threat that the USSR and its political ideology represented, the era of isolationism had to come to an end.
So they created a narrative around a fellowship of free, prosperous and politically equal white Western nations. Institutions like the UN, NATO, the IMF and the World bank were put into place. A rules based global order was talked about constantly. Of course, the global south was mostly excluded from the club and most quickly realized that the “rules based global order” only applied to them as punishment, never as a shield.
Then the cold war ended and it took 30 fucking years for someone in the US to finally realize that this narrative had runs its course and served no purpose anymore (Stephen Miller?). The world was a completely different place, the USSR was no more and Russia did not represent an existential threat to the United States. So why keep this narrative? There was no longer any rationale to treat the other old, weak and technologically handicap Western nations as equals, and instead they should be put in their place.
That is what you are seeing. The fable of the fellowship of free, prosperous and politically equal white Western nations is coming to an end.
“The real world is governed by force”
-Stephen Miller
“The real world is governed by demographics” – MPO45v2
Force is fine as long as you have a population willing to serve as your goons but once you hit a demographic death spiral, it’s lights out for your empire. And the major problem with force it leads to attrition of your population.
by 2030 there will be 80 million leeches on social security and medicare screaming for more as inflation takes it’s toll. There aren’t enough young people to cover the old and themselves. Looting and pillaging other nations for resources is a band aid on a cancer patient and the patient is terminal.
You only need to wait 4 years to see and feel what I’m talking about if you aren’t seeing or feeling it already.
I’ll be watching from afar. Got exit strategy?
Paint doesn’t peel off the barn all at once.
AI may drive 100s of millions into poverty before 2030.
Steven Miller is no luminary and is not to be lauded. He is one of the darkest forces at work in the world today. History will show him to be a far bigger player in all of this than is obvious in the day to day.
Saw him on TV last night.
Skinny bald guy with a high voice.
go read the PROJECT FOR THE NEW AMERIKAN CENTURY, white papers. a think tank created by the bush crime family in mid 90s to figure out what to do after the USSR was no longer the scary monster. the 2 huge ideas. they wanted a new pearl harbor (9.11.01). and they would use Saddam as the scary monster. he had a ton of oil and a contrived country of 3 tribes of sunni, shia and kurds, so his ruthless hold was very tenuous. also his invasion of kuwait to extract his payment in oil for fighting the persians with the bush crime family and usa money and support made him a known known. if YOU do not understand this you might of thought 9.11.01 was a big surprise and this imperial rebirth of GWOT……..and trillions spent on the MICC was a big accident. i know a small minority of my boomer peers get this.
This is no country for conservatives. The GOP is now the party of christo-fascists controlled by the biggest grifters and war-mongers of all time. When Massie is called a RINO, the new die is cast.
Trump a decade ago ran off the likes of mark sanford of SC and jeff flake of AZ. they also were decent human beings i had the pleasure of getting to know a little bit. amerika is doomed for the past 60 years. now it’s just accelerating and running on the fumes of nihilism and uniparty never ending world wide warmongering. trump and maga are just the nasty symptoms