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So Trump destroyed the hard-earned 80-year history of the United States for strength and stability for what exactly?

Apparently he's been bragging today that world leaders are "kissing his ass", which seems to be just as likely to be his motivation as anything else.

He's also planning a $100M military parade in DC, apparently on his birthday (although he denies that point).

He's a wannabe dictator - seems same motivation for Greenland, Panana, Canada (51st state), maybe also strikes on Houthi.

At least we got the Gulf of America. The only question now is, now that we've alienated our allies, shown our unwillingness to cooperate on anything, demonstrated our inability to back up our show of strength, openly laid out our lack of solidarity, and established our irrationality and volatility to the world, how long will it take China to decide to waltz a few battleships into Hawaii and claim the Pacific as the Gulf of China.

> He's also planning a $100M military parade in DC, apparently on his birthday (although he denies that point).

This would be straight Roman Emperor stuff.

Without the slave reminding him of his mortality.

Yeah, it's so dumb that it's kinda funny, even if he's wasting $100M on it.

Makes me think of Woody Allen in "Bananas". Maybe Trump will play dress-up as general too? Would a fake Castro beard be too much to ask ?

More Kim Jong-Il/Un than Julius Caesar.

Strikes on houthi are not because "he's a wannabe dictator", let's be real. US is involved in ME for one reason and one reason only.

I assume it was part of the deal he made to get elected: Take the US out of the game internationally, and you can be in charge of whatever's left over. Nothing else adequately describes his actions.

Apparently, for insider trading

Because he can, and because "owning the libs" is the whole modus operandi of the Republican Party that put him there. Seems obvious to me that the reason Trump uses tariffs is simply because that's the only tool available to him to exert his power.

Tariffs let him wave his dick around. Cutting taxes requires passing legislation. Raising other taxes requires passing legislation.

... and because 75,000,000 voters approved it. I fear what's coming next.

Could be (a bit) worse. Lyndon Johnson named his dick "jumbo", and on occasion would take it out in front of journalists etc.

Would that be worse? Compared to drastically increasing the number of people who are able to afford to put food on the table, that's downright whimsical.

Imagine being able to trade, knowing what he was about to say.

On margin.

Both the ups, and the downs (short trades).

Imagine being able to make it an open secret that if someone pays you and publicly kisses your ass a little, you'll send some of those advance hints their way.

Imagine how much money you could make in a matter of weeks.

Are we really going to not consider Trump really being a Russian Asset and this is just WAI (destroy America's credibility) as far as he is concerned? What else even makes sense at this point?

Trump being a Russian asset is so tiring and wildly invalid.

He's threatening Iran because he's a Russian asset right? Bombing Houthis too? No, someone else benefits from those, maybe he's an asset of that country?

I seem to remember the previous Trump term being a bit nuts too.

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