Uh, no they don't? They don't give a shit.
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Never take the word of traitors.
Well, they could do something. It's called "impeachment".
Remember when an administration would have to petition Congress for a declaration of war rather than Congress moving to prevent a unilateral invasion/war? You know, like what is in the Constitution? Good times.
I'm younger than the US lying about being attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin and giving LBJ authority to bypass the Congressional declaration of war before fucking about with foreign countries, so no.
I'll believe it when I see it. So far, Republicans' vows to go against Trump seem to have the same sticking power as their vows to their ex-wives.
It's all a performance. These people — most of them anyway — are not stupid. They're criminally corrupt sociopaths and psychopaths. They know their fascist oligarch financiers want Greenland to serve as their beta feudalist dictatorship.
Every single one of them is a part of the nazi regime.
How many? If it's 22 I'm ecstatic, if it's 2 I'm unhappy, if it's 52 I'm impressed.
Murkowski has been a trump enabler from day fucking one, she’s a lying piece of shit and a performative dissenter who only puts the vote against in when she knows it won’t have any impact on the results.
Given that the Republicans just voted to allow Trump to unilaterally wage war in Venezuela, I have my doubts.
TBF, attacking Venezuela like we did has a lot of historical precedent. The US has a long history of deposing inconvenient Latin American leaders.
But engaging in an unprovoked war of conquest against one of our oldest allies? Collapsing our most important defensive alliance? This is an entirely different animal. There's no precedent for an invasion of Greenland.
I thought the other times were CIA special ops where they "plane-crashed" some leaders for not allowing corporate plunder.
Exactly. The US has a history of making inconvenient Latin American leaders disappear. The means vary, but the impact is the same.
When was the last time we violently deposed a Western European head of state?
Hitler?
Hitler declared formal war upon the US.
Never believe a conservative about anything that sounds humane or decent.
Random trivia:
In WW2 Greenland rejected Danish sovereignty because the nazis had captured the Danish government.
The US stepped up and filled the vacuum so that Canada, Norway, or anyone else would claim it, then just let them go back to the Danes after WW2.
Anyways, that's why Greenland has been so cool with US military bases, and we just threw all of that goodwill away.
This will result in a lower US presence over there for decades, if it ever comes back.
It's really breathtaking just how quickly the American hegemony was dismantled.
Yes and no... It literally took decades of meticulous propaganda and division sowing from online Russian (and other) operations, gradually increasing the divide, funding the fringiest groups, boosting the NRA, corrupting every forum, comment section and thread with bots, blackmailing every pedo they could find into going into politics and then backing other pedos... It took a lot of hard work for Putin's wet dream to come to fruition like this! (I'm gonna puke)
Not really...
Our one advantage was we were one of a handful of industrialized nations whose manufacturing power wasn't bombed to hell and back.
Plus, we still sent a shitton of young men to die, so after the war we had a small labor pool which is why factory workers could get a job at 16 and retire at 60 with a full pension.
But our population rebounded, workers became cheap, and then we just sent all of our manufacturing overseas to help corporate profits.
This was always going to happen eventually, it seems sudden but the process has been going on for 40 years at least. Like, it's been ending for as long as it was going on at this point, there's nothing quick about it.
Imagine showing this news article to someone in 1998 or 2000.
Or perhaps even 2015, which wasn't that long ago.
It doesn’t feel that long ago to you, but for many of us, the last 11 years feel like 100,000 years
Yea right
Whatever
This Charlie Brown is not falling for these Lucys ever growing a spine or ever getting to kick the orange fucking pig.
Right up until they bend the knee and approve billions in funding.
I call bullshit. These lapdogs will rollover at the first hint of dissatisfaction.
They set the beast loose and they still think they can reign it in lol I think at this point it wouldn't matter even if they did do something.
If the GOP wants to save itself now would be a smart time to 25th Amendment him out.
If they release his medical files they may be able to keep the hardcore MAGats in line come November.
"We admire President Trump, but the time comes when we all have to concede to age."
Then a large number of Congress would have to admit the same.
Not saying they shouldn't, just that they won't.
That only works if he's so incapacitated that he can't speak or post.
You think Melania wouldn't sign confinement papers on him?
Melania is complicit and evil. She hitched her wagon gleefully and willingly.
True. And she'd kick him to the curb in a hot second.
Republicans signal they are totally going to sign off on the US invading Greenland
So, he’ll have two unread strongly worded letters on his desk?
Even if they don't buckle (they will), what do they think they can do to stop an invasion of Greenland? This administration has already proved many times that they just ignore all laws, objections, and limitations that are thrown their way.
Why is that, does Grindr not operate in Greenland?
Greenland has less people than a small city. There won't be any fighting. It'll simply be put to them as "their best and only option"
Greenland is part of Denmark, which is in turn part of the EU. This is about as ridiculous as saying that Russia could walk into Alaska and claim it because it's sparsely populated.