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TBH I Trump post because it makes all the right people so mad.
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@judgedread Comment from the Z Blog (which I refuse to link), so reproduced here in full. Basically: we were right
"Trump is being backed by the defense industry and its aligned people in Silicon Valley, such as Peter Thiel (opposed by non defense LinkedIn Reid Hoffman) as Ukraine has exposed the useless nature of the boutique American weaponry. The ATACMS missile is first rate, and takes 38 months to build. Quantity indeed has its own quality.
No one associated with Bolton who has trashed Trump as unfit to lead and endorsed Harris is going anywhere with Trump if he wins. The same is true with neocons like the Kagans (who also trashed Trump as unfit) or their Congressional Allies. Trump has made it clear that Elon and Thiel and other Defense Associated moguls are going to be in charge of personnel selection.
Ukraine absent a draft and massive US casualties is lost anyway. The US Army War College put out a whitepaper outlining US intervention in Ukraine and projected 50,000 casualties a month. Requiring a draft BEFORE intervention as the US combat personnel in Europe is only about 90,000. A draft even with Trump would not be politically sustainable (as only straight White men aka “Garbage” would be drafted).
Most likely: tariffs to sustain domestic production of everything, steel, auto, ship building, aircraft, lower income taxes to offset higher prices, subsidies for domestic production transition, radically increasing the Navy and Air Force, and withdrawal to the Western Hemisphere leaving Europe on its own, the same for Japan and South Korea and Taiwan. The Russians and Chinese have been projecting power in and around Alaska which is poorly defended and resource rich.
Note: Keir Starmer has sent over 1,000 Labor Party activists to the US to campaign for Harris. At the same time his CCDH Think Tank has schemed to work with the EU to destroy X/Twitter and extradite Musk for criminal prosecution in the UK and EU. Which though they don’t understand it is a direct threat to the US Defense Dept. [It is rumored that Musk has sent up a LOT of classified US assets in space, and is the only launch capacity at scale]. This is going to create a brush-back pitch by the Defense Dept.
In other words, Trump is not just Trump this time — he is the tool of the Defense Dept. and elements of Wall Street that can add two and two and get four"
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@TrevorGoodchild @judgedread all of those elements sound feasible, but without some actual hard evidence ( sans the war college report, which to me had the 'dont blame us if things go bad' feeling ) it loses a lot of power.
Regarding the "no-one is going anywhere" - we don't know that because Trump was unable to fill the positions with people he could trust and the system made sure to punish people that stuck their necks out enough (e.g Bannon ) so the assumption that he would be able to do this time time is not a forgone conclusion.
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@Orkin_Awk @judgedread Why would you, a billionare who had a term as president that you feel was successful, decide to roll the dice and run again, with risk of death - just to sell the country for cheap?
If all the things he could be doing this for, money is probably the poorest explanation.
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@Orkin_Awk Of all the things that don't matter that doesn't matter the most.
Trump considers Iraq a disaster and will avoid invading middle eastern countries no matter what neocon retards whisper in his ear.
As proven by the lack of any such invasions during his first term.
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@judgedread Trump doesn't need to seek re-election if he "wins" now. He can sell foreign policy to the highest bidding kike. If the price is right, he'll do a ground invasion.
You saw his first term, right? You know Trump is fundamentally evil, right?
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@TrevorGoodchild @judgedread I don't know. Pompeo, if he's appointed Secretary of State, could name Nuland Deputy Secretary (does that position need Senate confirmation?). Pompeo seems to be dying of cancer. Nuland becomes acting Secretary of State for the duration of Trump's term. Trump's and Republican senators' hands are "clean".
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@sickburnbro @judgedread I expect an equal level of abysmal administrative incompetence, disloyal personnel selection, and flat out poor performance should cheeto retardo make his way back in
This time is never different
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@TrevorGoodchild @judgedread if pence vs vance is used as a baseline, the selection will be better and I think the amount of people in the pipeline who are looking to go back to "the GOP of GWB" is probably substantially lower this time.
The progressives are ready for war though, so it would be most exciting if they got their war
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@sickburnbro @TrevorGoodchild @judgedread Didn't he also have that SIL that was actively undermining him whenever he could?
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who won the election?
... the government
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@JollyR @BattleDwarfGimli @TrevorGoodchild @judgedread I suppose this is the real definition of a coup - when the government doesn't win the election.
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“Elected representatives are in charge.”
[insert Three’s Company laugh track here, with clip of Jack’s pratfall]
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Bread up, Bro
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