United States Politics Thread 47

[alice]

Here's a post on BlueSky which succinctly explains why annexing Greenland would be a Very Bad Thing. Thoughts?

[bradrn]

Here's a post on BlueSky which succinctly explains why annexing Greenland would be a Very Bad Thing. Thoughts?

Of course it’s a bloody stupid idea, but I can’t take seriously a person who can’t even spell ‘Pituffik’. (Actually he misspells it twice, in a different way each time.)

[MysteryMan23]

Ugh...

I'm having severe angst over what Trump's doing to American relations with its allies.

That bastard is more than likely doing Russia's bidding in this mess, and it seems to be working.

I'm not even 100% convinced it's really Americans' fault. Maybe a fraction of Americans, but not as a whole.

I can only hope that when all this is over, we can get relationships on a positive trajectory; even if they don't work exactly like before, they can at least be in the same ballpark, maybe even an improvement somehow.

[jcb]

Trump floats the idea of cancelling the midterm elections.
- https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/17/politics ... 6-analysis

The DoJ is now investigating the governor of Minnesota and mayor of Minneapolis for "impeding federal immigration agents" with their words.
- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/justice-de ... minnesota/

[malloc]

I can only hope that when all this is over, we can get relationships on a positive trajectory; even if they don't work exactly like before, they can at least be in the same ballpark, maybe even an improvement somehow.

Though honestly I wouldn't blame Europe for holding a grudge given that Trump is basically threatening war at this point. Even if the next president apologizes profusely, Europeans will have good reason to worry about another Trump getting elected at some point.

[rotting bones]

You gave the impression that nobody agreed with you, that your ideas were new and that nobody understood them. I tried to underline that the first of this can be true without the other two.

I have written long posts partly defending leftist theorists, even contemporary ones, from ZBBers: viewtopic.php?p=94517#p94517

So your claim is false unless you're talking about ZBBers rather than leftist theorists. If no ZBBer has agreed with me, my opinions can't have been copied from them.

[rotting bones]

Even expecting Trump to go full steam ahead with Project 2025, I wasn't expecting his second term to get quite this bad so quickly. I hope voters react to this with sanity and vote out the Republicans.

[Raphael]

When I saw that I had gotten an automated email telling me that zompist had written a blog post titled "Full Speed to a Crash Landing", my first thought was that he was talking about politics.

[malloc]

When I saw that I had gotten an automated email telling me that zompist had written a blog post titled "Full Speed to a Crash Landing", my first thought was that he was talking about politics.

Certainly there is nothing stopping him from reusing that title for his next blog post. That said, I hear that Trump has cancelled his plans to invade Greenland for now, which means at least a temporary reprieve from WWIII.

[rotting bones]

When I saw that I had gotten an automated email telling me that zompist had written a blog post titled "Full Speed to a Crash Landing", my first thought was that he was talking about politics.

Certainly there is nothing stopping him from reusing that title for his next blog post. That said, I hear that Trump has cancelled his plans to invade Greenland for now, which means at least a temporary reprieve from WWIII.

So he successfully deflected from Epstein?

[alice]

When I saw that I had gotten an automated email telling me that zompist had written a blog post titled "Full Speed to a Crash Landing", my first thought was that he was talking about politics.

Certainly there is nothing stopping him from reusing that title for his next blog post. That said, I hear that Trump has cancelled his plans to invade Greenland for now, which means at least a temporary reprieve from WWIII.

So he successfully deflected from Epstein?

Aside from the minor detail that the last island the USA bought from Denmark is better known as Epstein Island, it would seem so.

[Raphael]

That said, I hear that Trump has cancelled his plans to invade Greenland for now, which means at least a temporary reprieve from WWIII.

So he successfully deflected from Epstein?

Aside from the minor detail that the last island the USA bought from Denmark is better known as Epstein Island, it would seem so.

Good catch!

[jcb]

What’s PBS?

The "Public Broadcasting Service". It's probably best known for playing many universally beloved (by Americans) children's TV shows:

As a child in the 1990s, it was one of only five TV channels that my home got.

I will always remember Sagwa as the show that they ran on PBS on 9/11. There was a chyron over it that was basically telling parents that they’d be running kids’ programming so there’d be something to keep them occupied.

I liked "Sagwa". Many of the episodes are on YouTube:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0skmm0F ... YyE27ZceXH

[jcb]

The USA has withdrawn from the WHO (World Health Organization).
- https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/us/p ... ation.html
- https://news.sky.com/story/why-has-dona ... n-13293556

[Raphael]

So he successfully deflected from Epstein?

Aside from the minor detail that the last island the USA bought from Denmark is better known as Epstein Island, it would seem so.

Good catch!

OK, perhaps people who want to make Trump less obsessed with Greenland could start a meme campaign or something that centers on a brief message connecting these things, something like "Never forget what happens on islands the USA gets from Greenland"? Are there any ZBB regulars who are in a position where they might try to make something like that a thing? Perhaps connected with an easily pronounced acronym hashtag like TEGVI, for "Trump Epstein Greenland Virgin Islands".

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Somewhat larger version:

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Sources:

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[Raphael]

The USA has withdrawn from the WHO (World Health Organization).
- https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/us/p ... ation.html
- https://news.sky.com/story/why-has-dona ... n-13293556

Perhaps that might at least make it a bit more difficult for that lying psychopathic vaccine-hater to pursue his goal of having as many children as possible die of preventable illnesses on a global scale.

[zompist]

So he successfully deflected from Epstein?

I just read an article saying that dozens of government lawyers right now are redacting Epstein files for release. So whatever that means, it'll be back in the news.

Now, I suspect the files are a nothingburger. If they incriminated Republicans, Biden would have been happy to say so; if they incriminated Democrats, Trump would have pounced on them. They're mostly damaging because Trump, after a year or two of playing them up, made a huge effort to keep them under wraps-- angering his own base.

[Raphael]

Now, I suspect the files are a nothingburger. If they incriminated Republicans, Biden would have been happy to say so;

Given how much many Democrats of the Biden variety have traditionally disliked doing anything that might look a bit like fighting dirty, I wouldn't be so sure of that.

[MacAnDàil]

You gave the impression that nobody agreed with you, that your ideas were new and that nobody understood them. I tried to underline that the first of this can be true without the other two.

I have written long posts partly defending leftist theorists, even contemporary ones, from ZBBers: viewtopic.php?p=94517#p94517

So your claim is false unless you're talking about ZBBers rather than leftist theorists. If no ZBBer has agreed with me, my opinions can't have been copied from them.

Yes, the claim refers to ZBBers, as your previous post from the 4th:

Well, good for you, you've rediscovered what Noam Chomsky was saying 40 years ago.

I don't mean to be terribly hard on you, but sometimes it seems like you think you're the only one who's ever thought about this stuff.

I am in this forum. No one else has agreed with me so far.

[Ahzoh]

Alberta wants to separate from Canada and is covertly/subtly asking the US for help.