Maybe I’m in the minority here, but I’ve been in Lemmy for almost 2 years since the API migration, and I don’t know if I’ve ever encountered a tankie, despite seeing hundreds of memes about them.

I’m guessing my instance just doesn’t federate with the same weird shit y’all are seeing?

I loved how they laid that out all matter of fact like, as if I had any idea WTF they were talking about. Definitely a case of:

Not trying to victim blame here, but Canada’s mistake was thinking these tariffs had anything to do with fentanyl or border security. These tariffs are literally just an ego thing for Trump. Outside of building a giant golden Trump monument and gifting it to the US like the Statue of Liberty, I don’t think there’s much they could have done.

Either that or take a note from Putin and find some kompromat.

I think a lot of the problems with the current administration wouldn’t change if Trump was Luigied. Dismantling our federal institutions, consolidating power in the executive branch, stripping away human rights - all those things would continue.

However, I think that the support for Putin nearly exclusively comes from Trump himself.

You are correct

It got him impeached the first time he did it. But that was back when we had separation of powers. Now, Republicans have shown they are unwilling to question their dear ruler.

Trump is such a master negotiator. Betray our allies, threaten to leave the UN, stop all cyber security operations against Russian, lift sanctions against Russia that are working, block Ukraine from joining the UN, and say that any chance of ending the war has to result in Ukraine ceding stolen territory.

All before negotiations even start. What a mastermind.

This is her “lifelong” dream? Not even a recent fantasy? Like when she was in kindergarten writing about what she wanted to do when she grew up, this was first on the list?

They are absolute crackheads. Adorable, fuzzy, crackheads.

I think that was a reference to this A former KGB officer alleged Donald Trump was enlisted by the KGB in 1987 and was given the codename “Krasnov”.

Exactly, it was all a setup to push the narrative that Ukraine doesn’t respect the Oval Office. Same reason Couch Fucker Vance kept saying “you haven’t even said thank you once.”

I’ve been trying to think what the Trump / Vance plan was. Like you said, it was obvious that Vance was there to pick a fight. But I couldn’t tell if they were legitimately trying to blow up diplomatic relations like they did, or if they thought they were going to get the upper hand in exploring Ukraine for their natural resources.

Either way, it was disgusting to watch.

Where can you watch the unedited video?

Edit: Seems like this is it. https://youtu.be/ayBRXIN9Kro

Double edit: It’s obvious that Couch Fucker Vance was told to tank this. He went as combative as possible.

True, but it was just an internal memo. I’m sure the public-facade won’t be as honest.

Republican senators shit the bed after January 6th. That was their last realistic chance of putting a stop to the MAGA crazy train. They could’ve found Trump guilty at his 2nd impeachment trial without anyone blaming them for it.

Instead they gave Trump a pass and abandoned the idea of separation of powers. Since then, it’s forced the Trump-packed Supreme Court to agree with them that the President is above the law and can’t be checked by anyone.

Now it’s too late. Congress can’t hold him accountable. The courts can’t. He can do whatever the fuck he wants.

The gall of these billionaires to just buy a news organization and then blatantly state “we’re not going to do news anymore” is just incredible.

Even Rupert Murdock had the courtesy to come up with the Fox News “Fair and Balanced” slogan (even though it was completely full of shit).

Bezos is just like “yeah we’re going full on propaganda, go fuck yourself.”

I don’t know why but the “There is no God in this” got me full on belly laughing

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Haven’t you heard? Elon doesn’t work for the government. Apparently there is no administrator for DOGE, so don’t go trying to hold him accountable or anything.

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