US went from “We don’t negotiate with terrorists.” to “We are the terrorists.” Sources: All recent happenings in the US. Killing of the innocent, invasion to the foreign countries, market manipulation, hostile takeover or the main govt. branches etc…
I mean they did proudly display “we are domestic terrorists” at a convention years ago.
and then negotiating with several state sponsored terrorist states, SA, russia,etc.
Yeah but Obama wore a tan suit !!!
he was half-black, and has a muslim name that was enough for righties to lose thier minds.
blinks the hell is up with this timeline.
Starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane, Lenny Bruce is not afraid.
The stupid, it hurts
Firstly, Greenland is part of Denmark, not Norway. Not the same thing.
Secondly, I might be wrong but I don’t think the Norwegian government gives the Nobel prizes, an organization based in Norway does
Thirdly, how deranged does someone have to be to threaten war over not getting a peace prize?
He’s terrorizing Minnesota because the population votes for the opposing party. The madness with the Orange knows no bounds.
also because walz stepped down from running for the gov, because hes too non-confrontational. the right wingers are trying to spin up the propaganda so that an R can take MINNESOTA, kristi noem even had to say it burned down a couple times to keep the lie going on CBS.
He’s terrorizing Minnesota because the population votes
Don’t worry, not for long! 🤪
gestures broadly this deranged. It’s all excuses. Dictators don’t need reasons they just act.
How does Karoline Leavitt spin this one to reporters? Another joke? Or just attack the journalist for asking?
after she gets her lip injections, and botox, letting it rip after consuming mexican restuarant food. of course she wears lying CROSS.
She’ll go ballistic at the reporter for daring to ask the question, just like any other day.
shes only 28, married to someone that most likely groomer her, and more than TWICE HER AGE.
I’m waiting for the day the whole administration tries to flip the script and claim this was all a giant social experiment. They crashed the economy, invaded US cities with a militia, started killing civilians, and dragged us into a foreign war over oil and then kicked off WWIII bc they knew it was the only way they could get all the sheeple to wake up.
Like the current grift will just shift into a new grift where they pretend an angry mob of millions forming outside of the White House was actually their plan the entire time.
“This was a test and you passed. Congratulations, give yourself a round of applause.”
Even if it were a joke, some jokes aren’t appropriate for the leader of a country to make. Multiple countries are taking him seriously and gearing up to defend Greenland. If I called someone’s house repeatedly and threatened to rob them, I’d probably be arrested and the defence “it was just a joke” would do little good.
It was just a prank, bro!
Absolutely. I’m not making excuses, by the way. It’s just that every other shitty thing he’s ever said is passed off as some kind of a joke.
The limpest of limp dick energy.
“I’m so fucking pissed that you didn’t give me the Nobel Peace Prize that I’m going to go to war with you to teach you a lesson.”
He doesn’t even realize that Norway and Denmark are different countries.
He so pissed at Norway he’s going to go to war with Denmark. So idiotic.
Markets are closed today to celebrate MLK Day. Tomorrow marks a ton of state legislation getting scheduled as well. Gonna suck.
A lot of places around here aren’t observing this holiday. It’s kinda sad.
MLK Day is a US holiday. It’s not celebrated anywhere outside the United States of America.
I know you’re replying to a photo of the S&P 500, but I’m equally confused about the statement since I’ve not seen any global market slump.
Agreed. The German DAX eat largest at 1% down on close. Markets can swing that hard in a day for absolutely no reason so there’s no market sell off that I can see
Aaaah, I see
Oh? Awesome.
The S&P 500 is primarily US companies so a global sell off isn’t really going to affect it.
“Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize … I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America,” Trump’s message to Jonas Gahr Støre said. “The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland.”
The Norwegian government has no control over how the Nobel Committee awards its prizes. Greenland is a territory of Denmark, not Norway.
I don’t understand how this is “normal.”
Like, I can bring this up to Trump-liking family, genuinely smart people, and it’s just brushed off.
If Biden so much as stuttered in a speech, it was like a national emergency. What do you think would happen if he started mixing up EU countries and impulse texting them over “your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize?”
Congress would impeach any other president on the spot. Democrat or Republican.
Even accounting for Fox News, I just don’t understand how this gets a pass.
Cognitive bias affects all classes and education levels. But in my experience conservatives are the most flagrant, “the only moral abortion is my abortion” for example.
Are you familiar with the concept of limerence? It’s an intense infatuation with a person typically rooted in romantic interest. It occurs when you don’t really know a person, and you build an idealized version of them in your mind that likely doesn’t reflect reality. You attribute all sorts of positive traits to them and overlook all their negative traits. You effectively view them through “rose colored glasses”. This is how Trump’s followers look at him. They have this delusional view of him as this strong man here to save them from the mean old leftists. His efforts to seize and wield extraordinary power is viewed favorably, because he is their savior. Everything he does is either awesome or it’s just minimized and ignored. When he does horrible things, it’s just haters looking to knock him down, because he’s just giving the U.S. the tough medicine it needs. There is no way to reason with them, because you can’t reason someone out of something they didn’t reason themselves into in the first place. It’s an emotional thing, in the same way you might be smitten by an attractive woman and build her up in your mind into something that she isn’t. The only way to break the spell is when your fantasy runs into cold, hard reality. In this case, the cold, hard reality will be financial collapse of the U.S. (or worse).
You effectively view them through “rose colored glasses”
They must be seeing him through orange colored glasses, effectively normalizing his appearance. . . But who knows what they’re smoking to ignore all their other senses!
you can’t reason someone out of something they didn’t reason themselves into
This is the crux. None of it is reasoned.
Yep. This is why you have to code your language to things that are emotionally evocative to them. To some Christians, it’s using the world evil (“this action is evil”). To others it’s using the word weak (“this makes him look really weak”).
Edit: and to be clear, it doesn’t actually need to be logical. You can say something like “his makeup makes him look weak” or “I heard that he sings in a falsetto, that’s super weird”. It doesn’t matter (by definition, it doesn’t need to be logical). What matters is repeatedly associating a negative stimulus with the target position you’re trying to dislodge (or positive stimulus for a position you want held, but humans in America and maybe generally tend to be very profoundly negative averse). The reason these people are hear is because this association game has been played very long and very hard. It is the basis of propaganda.
People do this with fictional characters too. TVtropes calls it “Draco in Leather Pants”. People find an evil character attractive and so paint a picture of that character in their head that is nothing like they are in canon, exaggerating any good thing about them (or just making up good things about them) and ignoring or justifying anything bad about them
Huh, this is kinda like the creepy phenomenon where (usually) chicks with an unhealthy true-crime obsession start crushing over (often deceased) serial killers. . .
Or what I did with my ex wife. It’s some powerful shit
By what metric are those people “genuinely smart?”
Script theory does a good job of showing how being able to follow certain social scripts does not suggest that the person does not hold a strong delusion that is unchallenged by those scripts.
You can believe you can fly while not needing to contest that until it becomes an active choice you are forced to make. Some might back off from the belief when put to contest, because they are okay believing whatever feels good despite the dissonance they feel. Some might take action believing they can fly. Both exist comfortable in a shared social group of online “flying truthers.”
People are easily deluded, and usually those delusions cover vaguely bounded and varying social groups, where a single person and an LLM can confirm the person into a noticeable delusion that hasn’t been socialized into the surrounding social scripts.
This is also how you can get a genuinely smart person in math or something, which also holds confident deluded beliefs on some other context.
On the whole: Eco-niche specialization, misplaced confidence, and social affirmation, generally can lead to this.
It’s because nothing Trump is doing scares them as much as:
- Whites becoming a minority
- Gender not being a fundamental way of organizing society
- Random made up things they heard online that they believe to be true
Trump doesn’t look so bad if you believe every US city was burned to the ground 6 years ago and had to be rebuilt using taxes from rural america which were collected by black & latino paramilitary troops controlled by the jews.
Worlds biggest fucking baby. They seriously voted in a fucking baby as president of the USA…
a 79 yo baby with dementia that had decades of drug abuse and on diapers.
Don’t forget “Who famously raped and was party to the murder of other people’s babies.”
Twice. TWICE.
I can believe once, the second one was almost certainly stolen. There is just too much evidence and litteral coffesions to think otherwise.
Democrats nominated Kamala Harris. There’s a reason she had to drop out of the primaries in 2020 before a single vote was cast. She was quite literally the worst option out of every Democrat option.
trump is far worst, plus there were other issues that were playing against her, israeli and russian propaganda, musk rigging the machines, states choosing to end COUNTING early to make trump win.
Maybe, but Any Sane person on the planet could see Trump was far worse
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I don’t know man, I currently got a baby and she seems rather reasonable in comparison. Sure she cries when she’s hungry but so far she has only hungered for milk and not a nobel peace price. I’ll let you know if things change.
To be a completely fair comparison, you should give your baby access to nuclear weapons.
Hey man, you can’t hug with nuclear arms!
And they knew him all too well. They saw his baby antics on television long before he started appearing on ballots.
Once would’ve been bad enough. They elected him twice (or allowed him to steal an election, effectively same thing if you accept it and don’t fight it)
The first time was a terrible mistake, the second time was unforgivable. If you don’t learn from your mistakes, there is no helping you. Fight the orange man-baby and his supporters, or there is no future for you.
3 times, and both elections were STOLEN with the help of the same actors, plus a new one for the recent election.
Not all of us, we feel truly hopeless at the moment and depressed
Waitaminit… a private Norwegian organization decides the manbaby isn’t getting an award, so he decides to take it out on Denmark?
That’s straight up a pussy bitch move.
He’s too stupid to know the difference, plus he’s probably being bribed by some other pedophile racist billionarie in exchange for mineral rights or whatever.
It’s the Estee Lauder heir that is apparently the one pushing Trump on this…
Not even Denmark. Greenland, an autonomous country under Denmark’s administration(?).
Frankly, it makes more sense than many things he’s done. And it doesn’t make any sense at all.
I would just be fascinated to know if that letter went through the state department. Did somebody put eyes on that and approve it? Cuz that is amazing.
Yes, JD put some googly eyes on it
In 2016, America put a gun to its head
In 2024, America pulled the trigger
You mean America is doing an extended?
You mean 2015/2016
Guys there’s no way Hitler’s gonna invade the demilitarized Rhineland you guys are just fear mongering.
…Sorry what were we talking about?
