Every day waking up to yet another insane declaration from Trump. America is losing the respect of the world

Time will tell. If Trump's ego gets too bruised by all the posts about "President Musk" and "Vice President Trump" and saying that Musk is leading him around by the nose, you might be right. But I think Trump may find it harder to get rid of him than we think. Musk is wily too, and I think sneakily savvier than Trump, who has no subtlety himself. He only knows how to convince others to do his dirty work rather than subtly doing it himself. God only knows what dirt Musk may have dug up on Trump in his trolling through the Govt financial systems, which include the IRS database. And Musk knows that he's not eligible to be President so he needs a 'useful idiot' to carry out his commands. Plus sometimes it's better to be the power behind the throne than to sit the throne oneself. Easier to dodge the bullets.

One of the problems with dragging trash around on your coattails is that it can be awful hard to shake off.

The US troops are going to be very busy. They’ve got to invade Panama, Greenland, Canada and Gaza all in the next four years. The overtime bill will be immense.

And he'll be coming here next. He's already interfering massively in European politics.

Ross Douthat of The New York Times sits down with Steve Bannon, is well worth a listen.
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I know that I'm commiting the cardinal sin of quoting myself but I just think that he sees things through the prism of real estate and construction.

That's why he's interested in North Carolina, Palestine, Los Angeles. Build baby build. That's not automatically a bad thing. Infrastructure is a problem. Who knows? I'm not an expert.

Musk scares me far more than Trump and I find Trump pretty terrifying. That an unelected and clearly very right wing person has managed to buy their way right into the heart of government is profoundly worrying. Trump is old, clearly physically unfit and very probably in cognitive decline. There is a possibility he will not see out the full term of his presidency and in the meantime Musk is shoring up his power base in readiness for full control

They share the twisted vision.
What dies "relocating the Palestinians" sound like, fgs.

So sorry for the typos!

There is a great opinion piece in the NY times in faceted the released it on TikTok. It's all about how we shouldn't believe him when he comes out with this stuff, he's using this rapid firing because he doesn't have an actual plan and it would be more concerning if he went in quietly and took him time.

I probably haven't explained it every well but it's by Ezra Khan if anyone wants to take a look

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They are going for defence, withdrawing troops and aid and maybe something to do with NATO

If he carries on he's going to seriously piss off the millions of voters who did vote for him. They wanted more focus on domestic issues, whereas Trump seems to be flailing about, one international land grab attempt after another currently.

I don't think Greenland is a distraction although today's Gaza announcement might be

The US are going for a great big US raft, isolated

He’s temporarily relocating them to other countries whilst Gaza is being rebuilt. Not by himself or Americans, but with the assistance of other Arab countries, if he can get them onboard. As it is currently, Gaza is like a gigantic refugee camp - with a lot of homeless people. What do others think should be done here? Hamas should in theory be rebuilding, but we all know they won’t.

Just been and looked at that Facebook post. 😳😮😫

True

Sadly I am not sure America is losing the respect of the world.

Over half the world does not live in a democracy. Plenty of loony leaders around. More of the world than I would like to contemplate respect him just fine and think he has some great ideas.

He's not planning on giving them homes. They're all going to be dumped in Egypt and Jordan, apparently.

Exactly.

Apart from the immorality of ethnic cleansing the plan is utterly bonkers. Are American soldiers going to force two million people out of their homes and dump them in the desert? How many would be killed doing that? Why would any companies invest in a piece of land that would be subject to constant threat? Who foots the bill for keeping the buildings and construction workers safe?

And who wants to stay in a luxury hotel built on a graveyard surrounded by armed guards and under constant threat of attack? Not exactly a relaxing hiday is it?

I'm no political expert but I think what he does is:

Propose something completely outrageous, get everybody in a panic then negociate a climbdown. He's a New York real estate developer in origin. We're kind of living in an 1980's Sidney Sheldon novel with him.

Yes. It's so much worse than the last time that idiot was in the White House. We were watching the Handmaid's Tale recently and it's terrifying to realize that it might not be that far from reality.

His appeal is that he speaks his brain farts which can come across as "change" as opposed to the Democrat cookie cutter comment by committee status quo merchants. Bernie Sanders being the exception!

Not a poor choice of words.

That is exactly what ethnic cleansing is!

Don’t be giving him any ideas!

Was Musk born in America, I think it was South Africa. But I suppose that prerequisite for candidacy for POTUS could be changed. Watch this space.

If anything to be terrified of it probably is these people who are now very close toTrump: https://newrepublic.com/article/183971/jd-vance-weird-terrifying-techno-authoritarian-ideas