This media can't differentiate between trolling and threats. Just like tRump 'floating' wildly illegal actions to test popularity and desensitize the public before just doing them regardless. I haven't decided whether this is intentional misrepresentation and journalistic malpractice, or ignorance and incompetence (a different kind of malpractice), but I do know the outcome is the same either way.
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What is the us-american opposition doing about this? Trump is literally threatening ww3 and if not stopped he will start it.
Stop. Trade.
Freeze him out.
"Trolls"? Fuck off, seriously. He's going to invade and bomb Greenland and what, are the headlines just going to read "Trump trolls Nuuk citizens"?
Is Trump going to invade and bomb Canada and we'll get to see headlines the next day saying "Epic troll, Trump just flattened Ottawa"? Sorry, I guess "we" as in the rest of the world will see those headlines because I'd be dead
Fuck
It's the media continuing to sane wash Trump rather than do actual journalism.
I watched a movie from the 90s yesterday about civil war breaking out in America. There's a scene where one newsanchor calmly tries to report on other news and the other newsanchor has an absolute meltdown telling him "fuck off, there is no other news". I wanna see a reporter melt down like on air in real life. I wanna see the insanity be properly acknowledged
Turns out that the movie Don't Look Up may have been intended to satirize our response to climate change, but the portrayal of the media response is evergreen.
The movie I'm talking about is called Second Civil War
It's what happens when conservatives buy up the remaining newspapers.
Yeah, I'm generally used to American media doing that by now but this headline is just so absurdly dismissive of non-American lives that it's infuriating
Hitler trolls European Leaders with German Map showing Austria, Sudetenland, and Danzig as German territories.
oh, but surely he wouldn’t actually annex his neighbors! Nobody wants a repeat of the Great War!
That Hitler guy is such a rascal!
What shenanigans will he get up to this week?
The usual hijinks!
He’s not doing this. Someone’s feeding it to him.
Congress and Senate is virtually silent on the issues. This isn’t just Trump; this is representative of the USA.
That is what concerns me the most. There should be so much opposition to crap like this. Like he shouldn't even be able to just show that, this goes through so many people beforehand.
Edit: sorry, just realised he posted it on Truth Social so he probably did this himself and maybe didn't show anyone, but who are we kidding, he probably bragged about it in several meetings beforehand.
There's no way he's opening photoshop and layering the US flag over those countries himself. Maybe he asked someone to do it or he was feed the photo and he passed it by.
Steven miller is the Nazi puppet behind our government
If only, miller himself is a puppet. There are very rich people behind all of what the party is doing. This is all a half century long game, pioneered in it's first iteration in the business roundtable in like 1971.
The entire Republican party are Nazis, and many thousands of 0.01% donors like Musk, Thiel, etc.
Jokes aside, but what have Greenland and Canada even done to him so that he wants to invade them? I got the Venezuela reasons, but is this really again because of the oil reserves?
Your first mistake is thinking someone has to do something for him to act the way he does. Even the rationalization for the illegal actions against Venezuela was contrived as a fig leaf to cover him just doing what he wants to for his own profit. The reason is there's profit to extort for him and his oligarchy buddies, but they'll come up with 20 justifications after the fact just to make you feel consoled.
Then, his actions are no better than actions of any invasive leader. Madlad is actively dumping the country down the slope. I am really amazed how there were no new attempts to kill him.
I'm inclined to believe that it's because you can simply bribe him to change his mind. He's a convenient idiot puppet with power and you can tug on any string to get him to do things you want him to. It's probably why TACO. There's probably a bribery match going on in the background.
It he was a zealot of his beliefs, rigid in his thinking, I believe he would be put down. But he's so malleable, so it's more useful to people that have the option to assassinate to bribe instead.
Correct. Unfortunately the groups that typically would invest real assets in assassination are the ones with all the money, and one thing he's not doing is threatening their power and profits in a meaningful way. He desperately wants to be one of the gangster oligarchs, and would never cross them cause he is cucked to their opulence (see: Putin). People talk about blackmail material controlling his actions, and I'm sure there is that too, but I'm just as sure they don't need it. No, real preemptive assassination attempts tend to target socialists and equalists and those who stand a real chance at elevating the disenfranchised and bridging the gap in the class war. Can't have that. Mind you, assassination after the damage has already been inflicted is not unheard of, like Mussolini, but that's more of a vengeful act and pyrrhic victory cause it's too damn late. Anyway, happy Tuesday!
I wouldn't use the word 'troll', maybe 'mask off'.
Edit: u/shittydwarf had "Threatens", definitely a better word.
Yeah troll is something that does not apply to a US president, even if they are mentally challenged and have the brainpower of a 8 year old spoiled child.
Save us, Rand al'Thor
Threatens
That's a troll? It seems a lot more like an open provocation from the least stable mind on the planet.
I wish my kids would grow out of this bad behavior
That's not trolling...that's a threat that needs to be taken seriously. Wake up, America...you're losing your country to fascists.
Meh, americans still trust the controlled opposition to stop them. It's hopeless.
Every day he draws breath is a day the world gets worse.
This is what the puppet-masters behind them are trying to do - the Technate of America
https://studio.brooklynrail.org/assets/3b4ad0b8-cb97-40aa-b122-720e45385c4c.jpeg
It's what Elon's grandaddy would have wanted.
What a loser
He wants to own Greenland, but moreso he wants to "own the libs".
He wants to own everything he can see and it still won't be enough to fill the empty husk of a man he is.
Was really hoping to find a picture of Epstein hidden in there somewhere.
Can't even change the colors on a pre-existing map without AI... These fucking chodes
Edit: oh never mind, the photo itself is AI. Still chodes though.