• NekoKoneko@lemmy.world
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    Trump is gone. His mental abilities were never better than failing, and now he is just an occasionally awake lumpy mass of cancerous id, lashing out or lavishing favors in response to basic stimulation and manipulation.

    So who is governing our country?

    • Stephen Miller is handling the most - immigration, domestic extralegal and federal law enforcement, dismantling the Constitution, courts and rule of law, while splitting other domestic policy with the craven consolidated congressional caucuses (Patel is just there for the private jets);
    • RFK is handling all health policy;
    • Putin and Netanyahu are handling foreign affairs and setting policy for the DOD;
    • Mike Johnson is in charge of monitoring his son’s online time;
    • Blanche is now going to be setting DOJ policy.
    • Elon Musk was handling public data, but it seems like he got what he came for, and is now sharing propaganda policies/duties with Larry Ellison.
    • Peter Thiel and Larry Ellison are handling corporate and tech policy.

    Am I missing anyone?

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      Dr Phil just got tasked to run pro-annexation propaganda for the US oil company invading Greenland.

      Greenland Energy has retained Phil McGraw, better known as Dr Phil, a prominent rightwing former chatshow host who served on Trump’s religious freedom commission, to make a documentary series that will “capture the mission of these modern-day wildcatters”.

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        I guess I think its more like him documenting what happens when Greenland and/or Denmark finally steps in when these guys actually do try and drill.

        It will be US propoganda on why we have to invade and pull out of NATO.

        I guess annexation propganda on the US population.

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          The article felt it really reinforces they know they aren’t welcome, but are moving forward regardless.

          They claim it was a misunderstanding, but now that Greenland is clarifying their position with the drilling team is still proceeding, I don’t see how that is anything but being provocative.

          It will be interesting to see how we fight after blowing all our missile reserves in Iran. 😒

          I wonder how aware of the circumstances the actual drill crew members being sent there. Do they know they are being sent there as pawns or possibly expendable cannon fodder?

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            It will be interesting to see how we fight

            Yes, it will be “interesting” to watch you murder innocent people. Again. Shitstains.

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              You got me. I’m the Fediverse’s biggest warmonger. How was I able to fool everyone else but you all this time???

              It’s an interesting strategy to try and take someone out of context when my full statement is right above yours, I never would have thought of that.

              And why am I responsible for every action of my government even if I didn’t vote for any of these guys, but you seem to bear no responsibility for what your country’s government does? If I did that, I might worry I’d come off as a huge hypocrite. But you seem to do it flawlessly! Kudos to you, and your moral high ground. You have truly bested me today.

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              Wow, thank you for making me realize the power I have over my country’s armed forces! I feel so much better now, let’s open the Strait of Hormuz and leave Greenland alone!

              Oh wait, none of us really has fuck all we can do about it. It’s Executive Action, and even if Congress wanted to do something about it, it would have to go through the entirety captured courts. But they don’t, at least at the moment, and the American taxpayer is just a convenient scape goat for people living in other first world countries to blame for the profits of global trade.

              If America hadn’t taken hegemonic power after world war 2 it’s difficult to say that Europe would be as rebuilt and prosperous as it is today. As probably wrong as it was to let happen, American industry post war was what allowed the Western world to rebuild, and what unfortunately cemented that position of hegemony.

              Europe is finally waking up to the problem they were lead into by easy postwar relief and relying on America to police the “radical” portions of the world into congruency with capitalism.

              Now, European citizens that get the benefit of nations rebuilt by capitalism, but spared it’s ravages by a much deeper history of worker solidarity, union action, and left politics, enjoy shitting on the American working class because half of them were sold on cheap, easily digestible propaganda.

              I can’t even remember what point it was I began trying to make, just that I guess it sucks to see the prosperity the first world saw because of American hegemony thrown back in the face of those who benefited from it less than they did, and are currently dealing with a serious constitutional crisis, instead of having some solidarity for people that are essentially the same as them. The average American isn’t a representation of our political landscape, a lot of people are just eeking out a living on the margins.

              Amphetamine rant over, sorry.

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      It will be somewhat satisfying to say “I told you so” if Drump is able to escape accountability for his corruption by being legally incompetent to stand trial.