Donald Trump said Friday his administration will take action on Greenland “whether they like it or not,” further escalating his rhetoric as he pushes to acquire the Danish territory for the U.S.
The comments came during a meeting with oil executives to discuss the prospect of doing business in Venezuela. Less than a week earlier, the U.S. military invaded the oil-rich South American nation and captured its leader, Nicolás Maduro.
Denmark and its European allies in NATO – the military alliance co-founded by the U.S. – have pushed back, reiterating that Greenland is not for sale. But the Trump administration nevertheless says it is currently weighing a range of options on Greenland, including utilizing the U.S. military or cutting a deal to purchase it from Denmark.
I hope he tries The Thing that finally gets domestic power to remove him. 25th amendment, impeach & remove, resign. Whatever. None of those seem particularly likely at this point.
I very much hope he doesn’t ever get the opportunity to do The Thing that finally gets a foreign power to stop him. He’s had no consequences so far. Barely any meaningful resistance. It’s hard to imagine what someone with his brain damage thinks, but he doesn’t have any evidence that he can’t do whatever he wants, and it won’t be surprising if he tries.
I find it essentially impossible to believe there is a The Thing for the first one. Where things are at now, I can’t even imagine what that could possibly be.
The oligarchs. If Europe blocks facebook, amazon, netflix and whatever… Trump will be removed from office within a week.
But but then america will sanction those countries
There’s always a Franz Ferdinand.
I prefer a Benito Mussolini.
Take him out.
The 25th amendment is invoked by the cabinet and the vice president. Those are the people supporting this shit, they aren’t going to get rid of him. He’s doing what they want and giving them cover.
I would say that the only thing that could convince them to remove him is if he became such a liability that they felt the need to get rid of him out of self-preservation. But honestly, I don’t think they have the necessary level of awareness. If anything, I suspect most of them would be more likely to double down on being cartoonishly evil and try to do whatever it takes to cling to power.
There’s also the possibility that Vance invokes the 25th two years and one month into Trump’s term. He gets to be either the guy that saved America or the guy who made the tough choice for the good of the nation. Then he’s POTUS for nearly two years and can still be elected to two terms. If this is his plan, he’ll start sounding half-way reasonable in six months.
Without a change in congress I have no idea what he could possibly do to get republicans to do something. It’s literally a cult. He could come to their houses and rape their kids and they’d be out there the next day explaining how this is good for America, actually.
Same outcome with a change in Congress
Not sure I agree with this. With the right people in there they could do something. Not that I think this is likely.
435 voting members of the House. You could get 200 new people and still won’t have enough.
100 senators. Most of the country is sparsely populated. 52% of the population has 20% of the votes in the Senate. That’s unfixable.
That will never happen and short of people showing up with pitchforks and torches or guns and bombs. This will continue. Republicans will continue to whinge and wince publicly. While squealing orgasmicly inward at everything he steals and everyone he hurts.
The only possibility would be for every Republican in this coming midterm to lose their elections. And even that wouldn’t guarantee it. Democratic leadership will have to grow a spine as well.
It feels hopeless but the real way to stop the train a’rolling is a general strike.
I saw signs calling for a general strike Jan 20 at the last demonstration, but I haven’t seen any real momentum. Tell me when it is and I’ll have a neighborhood barbecue.
The only one I heard of was this one: https://generalstrikeus.com/ and I think Cory Doctorow was trying to get one planned: https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2024-11-11-rip-jane-mcalevey-organize-f8ba7e91c5c9. He set his date out pretty far in the future because he knows that it’s difficult to organize one.
A single strike would do it if they hit him hard enough and in the right spot.
He will never be 25th-ed, he made Dan sure to only pick those with his cock firmly down their throat at all times
Classic Dan.
They don’t call him “Dan The Man” for nothing.
I like to fantasize that all of a sudden, sense will prevail and Trump will immediately be arrested and be very confused