U.S. Politics

[Damien]

I mean... no. If anyone of any note was going to demand his resignation for being completely incompetent and unable to tell fact from fiction, it would have been when he thought someone typing 'MS13' on a piece of paper was a tattoo.

 

[Ru1977]

Is this him setting up an alibi? Oh no, I was totally in the dark, it was my cabinet that were evil and feeding me misinformation. No need for a guillotine.

 

[Damien]

Is this him setting up an alibi? Oh no, I was totally in the dark, it was my cabinet that were evil and feeding me misinformation. No need for a guillotine.

I'd say it's him playing both sides. He can say he deployed the military on bad advice, but still deployed them because he couldn't POSSIBLY be expected to tell fact from fiction and just trusted his advisors. So he still gets to do the authoritarian thing he desperately wants to do, but also pretend he didn't want to do it and wouldn't have done it under better advice.

You know... 'Oops, All Authoritarians.'

 

[SDcomics]

Is this him setting up an alibi? Oh no, I was totally in the dark, it was my cabinet that were evil and feeding me misinformation. No need for a guillotine.

“Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.”

― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

 

[mrboshek]

I just read an email from a vendor and it ended with, "Thank you for your attention to this matter..." It was amazing, I defied time and space and violated all known physics by reaching into my monitor, grabbing Dennis by the neck, and pulling him into my office.

 

[Goldbug]

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Oh and if you guys want a laugh check out these stories about your ambassador to Canada. Nothing quite so lovely as having the person who is supposed to represent your government in another country threaten that country at multiple events. Of course with the current situation in the US I guess he is representing the Trump regime exactly how they want:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/us...disappointed-anti-american-campaign-1.7637534

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/us-ambassador-airport-pre-clearance-1.7644088

oof he's also a character & member of Project 2025

Pete Hoekstra - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Armed Border Patrol agents patrol downtown Chicago, drawing mayoral criticism

United States Border Patrol agents, wearing bulletproof vests and carrying rifles, were observed patrolling in downtown Chicago on Sunday afternoon.

www.nbcchicago.com

DHS requests military deployment to Illinois amid immigration crackdown, Pritzker says

The Department of Homeland Security is requesting that 100 military personnel be sent to Illinois, Gov. JB Pritzker said during a press conference on Monday afternoon.

abc7chicago.com

what are they arresting tourists now???

 

[Damien]

Guys, I don't want to be an alarmist or anything. And I don't want to freak anyone out. But I think the United States government MIGHT be doing a fascism.

 

[TheSameIdiot]

I'm so alarmed by the internet weaponizing nostalgia. This is a fascist's dream. Pretty easy to draw a comparison between this video and the slogan "make America great again."

https://bsky.app/profile/mugrimm.bsky.social%2Fpost%2F3lzy77zydrc2q

 

[Ru1977]

I like how they added film grain and artifacts because that's how walmart commercials were made in 2002.

Also appreciate the comments on that post at least ("Back in 2002, our family had walmart lobsters for every meal!")

 

[JakeEkiss]

I just hate is fuckwit ass so much. You know this is just a means to extort the US film industry for a permit so they can film overseas. That's all it is. Another grift to hit one of the few industries that doesn't fellate him universally. He's such a transparent child.

 

[canprime]

Wait I thought Republicans were against student debt relief?

https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/sacramento-ice-ads-recruit-local-law-enforcement/

That is truly disgusting. Six figures salaries. $50,000 signing bonus and student debt relief? I guess someone at ICE has been watching Russian propaganda to get the numbers for what makes for good incentives to recruit the worst of the worst.

 

[Misfit]

I'm so alarmed by the internet weaponizing nostalgia. This is a fascist's dream. Pretty easy to draw a comparison between this video and the slogan "make America great again."

https://bsky.app/profile/mugrimm.bsky.social%2Fpost%2F3lzy77zydrc2q

This is worse than Blockbuster nostalgia.

What is a tariff on a film production? I don't even know how that is assessed. I'm guessing he hasn't even thought that hard about it either. It seems like the only way to punish such a thing is through how they allow production companies to itemize their costs for tax purposes, but that creates more work for a department he's already slashed to hell.

 

[jonaskane]

The truly scary part is that's probably the LEAST unhinged thing he's said for the past week.

 

[JakeEkiss]

What is a tariff on a film production? I don't even know how that is assessed. I'm guessing he hasn't even thought that hard about it either. It seems like the only way to punish such a thing is through how they allow production companies to itemize their costs for tax purposes, but that creates more work for a department he's already slashed to hell.

Yeah he isn't actually concerned with the mechanics of it at all. There's no actual plan here. It's just something scary he's saying using his favorite buzzwords and at some point he'll introduce some method whereby he gets to charge film studios unless they pay him off.

It's just a setup for extortion. Plain and simple.

 

[Damien]

Trump has learned two of the only things he has been given direct control over is tariffs and military deployment. When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. So he looks at the situation and picks option A or B: tariff it or shoot it. Honestly, I'm kind of surprised he didn't announce he was authorizing the military to stop any movies being produced overseas.