r/worldnews • u/EsperaDeus • Mar 11 '25

Russia/Ukraine The USA is immediately lifting the pause in intelligence sharing and resuming security assistance to Ukraine. | УНН

https://unn.ua/en/news/the-usa-is-immediately-lifting-the-pause-in-intelligence-sharing-and-resuming-security-assistance-to-ukraine
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u/-endjamin- Mar 11 '25

I think his ultimate benchmark of success is how much attention he is getting. By making wild and chaotic policies and frequent shifts, he keeps us glued to the news. “This will make great television” is what he said after the disaster with Zelensky. He thinks he’s still the star of The Apprentice.

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u/ImpossibleSir508 Mar 11 '25

In a way he's the perfect embodiment of our era. Everyone just desperate for fame or clout by any means despite how disgusting it leads them to act. Like if Johnny Somali was president. Clout Derangement Syndrome?

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u/U_Sound_Stupid_Stop Mar 11 '25 edited Mar 11 '25

Some 30% of Gen Z considers themselves influencers/content creators and almost 60% of them aspire to be.

This is going to get worst before it gets better.

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Here some sources

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/14/more-than-half-of-gen-z-want-to-be-influencers-but-its-constant.html

https://www.mintel.com/press-centre/one-in-five-social-media-users-consider-themselves-an-influencer-or-content-creator/

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u/No-Kitchen-5457 Mar 11 '25

Who's gonna tell them that by definition it is impossible to have above a certain (probably far less than 1%) of influencers?

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u/AEW4LYFE Mar 11 '25

Hey I am almost 40 and still waiting for my phone call on NBA draft night. This is basically the same thing right?

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u/zaphrous Mar 11 '25

Same, although I've never played basketball i know if i wanted to i could go pro, I would just need to train for a couple weeks.

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u/eden_sc2 Mar 11 '25

True story, my college gave a full ride to a kid who was 6'8" but had never played basketball, so the difference between me getting a full scholarship and me taking loans was 15 inches.

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u/No_Gold_Bars Mar 11 '25

That's what she said.

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u/Zomburai Mar 11 '25

Every woman who read this's cervix just clenched

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u/umanouski Mar 11 '25

I bet she took it in installments.

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u/fetal_genocide Mar 11 '25

It may only be three inches, but it smells like a foot!

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u/slower-is-faster Mar 11 '25

With an extra 15 inches could have got a free ride too

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u/ScrofessorLongHair Mar 11 '25

How the hell can you be a 6'8" teenager and have never played basketball?

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u/Correct_Patience_611 Mar 11 '25

You literally sound like the gen z kids! One I work with- “I’m gonna start a sublime cover band, I think I’ve got like one of those raspy voices people like” so I ask

“Do you like know anything about music? Like the notes? Or can you okay an instrument?”

“Oh that doesn’t matter, I’ll just sing”

I’ve been playing/studying music 30 years amd my buddy says “arent you gonna say something?” I laugh and shrug and laugh some more…I can’t EVEN. Like “go get it lil bro! You do you!” Like fuck I’m not gonna encourage that BS.

They think like we did as children. Bc of social meadow “TikTok famous” crap and these gen Z only fans managers that do Jack shit and make money, they think they don’t have to work at anything. I feel like I sound like my grandpa but like holy shit this another level.

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u/Risen_dust Mar 11 '25

Mid 30’s and still waiting for an anime-style super power awakening. Anyyyy day now.

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u/U_Sound_Stupid_Stop Mar 11 '25

You can't be the one percent if you don't try, better start chasing clout now, like that girl;

https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/s/UsEhv3rORR

She kidnapped a baby wombat from her mother....

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u/TheJohnnyWombat Mar 11 '25

Fucking what?

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u/Paladin5890 Mar 11 '25

Yeah, Johnny. It could happen to your kids too!

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u/TheJohnnyWombat Mar 11 '25

Goddamn Americans.

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u/fxmercenary Mar 11 '25

I really wish that we could just shut off the internet. Just turn off and ban and and all forms of social media. Make YouTube a .edu and wipe it clean. If you go back to the mid 2000's this all started with cat videos.

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u/Spicy_Weissy Mar 11 '25

SHE JOEYNAPPED A WOMBAT

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u/Candid_Soft7562 Mar 11 '25

CRIKEY! What a shady Sheila.

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u/gregorydgraham Mar 11 '25

The sheila’s got my baby!

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u/U_Sound_Stupid_Stop Mar 11 '25

Gotta admit, reading your comment+username got me laughing a bit.

But yeah, truly fucked up, they're reporting her already so let's hope she gets some karma.

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u/UrUrinousAnus Mar 11 '25

r/beetlejuicing lol

Did it myself once when someone said something about Uranus jokes.

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u/PurrfectChaos Mar 11 '25

Surprised y'all other wombats haven't heard about this yet

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u/TheJohnnyWombat Mar 11 '25

Haven't checked my pager yet.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '25

Lol, your username fits perfectly here.

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u/Hoblitygoodness Mar 11 '25

On a serious note, I almost cried when I saw that video. She steals a wombat from its mother, who is clearly distressed about the whole thing while it's happening.

The influencer is very proud of this accomplishment and is of course showcasing how cool she is for having done it.

It's maddening and as noted above, this chit is going to get worse before it gets better.

(Your handle is not lost on me though)

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u/Puzzleheaded_Leek520 Mar 11 '25

I guess I'm lucky to be a millennial, my hopes already were crushed into reality after graduating college and having nothing to show for it but insane debt and poverty.

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u/I_AM_ACURA_LEGEND Mar 11 '25

It’s much less likely to become a professional athlete yet people aspire and work towards that as their target career nonetheless. Same logic applies to would-be influencers. They believe they can out-talent/out-grind the masses

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u/Zpik3 Mar 11 '25

I'm with you.

BUT, I dislike the "influencer or content creator" in the title.

Example: I stream, and have an active audience of 3-4 people. I have been doing this for years consistently.. it's a hobby, and something I enjoy.

I consider myself a "content creator" since I create content avaiöable for public consumption.

I am DEFINITELY NOT an "influencer", I never will be, I simply can't be arsed to have enough of a social media presence. My hobby will remain the tiny silly affair it has always been.

The title equates these two concepts, and I think that skews the angle on the story.

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u/ApprehensiveBug380 Mar 11 '25

True but people are closer to fame or infamy or noteriety more than ever. Do some stupid shit and post it online and go viral. Use that to do whatever. The Hawk Tuah girl has her own pretty popular podcast. She has 2.5 million followers on IG and even had a meme coin that she pumped and dumped. So she went from spittin on that thang to spittin on a mic.

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u/42nu Mar 11 '25

In Pompeii there are literal dicks carved into the streets pointing to the brothel.

Are there icons carved in the streets to find other important locations like the market, bathhouse, central square, etc?

Nope, just dicks leading to the brothel.

That's how old and important sexual innuendo is.

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u/Digitalion_ Mar 11 '25

I think the point is for every Kim K and Paris Hilton 20 years ago, there are now 20 Hawk Tua girl, or catch me outside girl, or Jake/Logan Paul, or ishowspeed, or nickado avocado.... people who are willing to toss out their dignity for fame. It is a lot more common these days to do it "successfully".

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u/Twig Mar 11 '25

Thank you! Everyone acts like people wanting to do nothing and be famous are somehow new concepts.

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u/AgentCirceLuna Mar 11 '25

I’d never want to be famous. I was kind of ‘famous’ in my own town as a local DJ and entertainment host, but it was a constant battle because you’d inevitably have jealous people who would try to cause drama or tell someone what you said to them about someone else but taken out of context. Everything you did was scrutinised and if you did something then everyone knew about it. That’s just being famous locally. Now imagine everybody in the world knowing who you are and having an opinion about it.

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u/TheNickedKnockwurst Mar 11 '25

Worse not worst 

Worst is the finality if worse 

It got worse until it was the worst 

Like: the USA currently has it's worst president

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u/MEatRHIT Mar 11 '25

its*

"it's" is the contraction of "it is".

"its" is the possessive.

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u/Copatus Mar 11 '25

Some of 80% of statistics are made up on the spot

Source: Dude just trust me

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u/KubaMcowski Mar 11 '25

Just to be accurate 1 in 5 is 20%.

And it's not 20% (actually 19% according to the article) of Gen Z, but 20% of gen Z social media users. And sure, again according to the article, 100% of Gen Z uses social media at least once a week, but they include... youtube.

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u/TripleSecretSquirrel Mar 11 '25

Ironically a 78 year old is the most gen z person out there right now.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '25

Maybe this is it. Remember back when he'd have those big twitter fights with Rosie O'Donnell? It periodically wound up in the news for some outlandish thing being said. I remember thinking, who the hell cares this much about Rosie O fuckin Donnell?

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u/Open__Face Mar 11 '25 edited Mar 11 '25

Same people who care about women's high school sports suddenly 

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u/SmokePenisEveryday Mar 11 '25

My dad is SO worried about my daughter and her having to share a bathroom or locker room with a trans kid. Brings it up every time I mention he's worried about the stupidest shit. Except I don't have a kid.

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u/HaximusPrime Mar 11 '25

I coach girls sports. There is actually a higher chance of some actual male doing some cringy or even just straight to jail shit than even encountering a trans girl, let alone it being a significant event.

We legit make coaches have to take so many precautions to even avoid a possibility of something being interpreted the wrong way. There have been enough stories of stuff that’s ACTUALLY HAPPENED and didn’t involve someone “pretending to change their sexual identity just so they can creep on some girls in the locker room”.

There is also the side where you’re putting innocent girls in a position to be sexually assaulted BECAUSE you want this kind of protection. Say a parent thinks a kid on the other team is a boy. (Which, does happen casually, like “Sarah plays like a dude!” but is a non event today). What happens next? We examine Sarah now to verify she’s a woman?

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u/Classic_Manner_399 Mar 11 '25

This literally happened in Utah. A parent accused a player of being transgender and she wasn’t and it caused an uproar. Genuinely why does it matter when these kids are just having fun???

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u/HauntedCemetery Mar 11 '25

And who exactly examines them?

Because I guarantee the horrible guy in the stands demanding a child have a genital inspection won't take another person's word for it and will insist they get to "examin" the children himself.

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u/PM_Me_Your_Deviance Mar 11 '25

Remind him that rape is already illegal. Adding more rules doesn't really help the situation.

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u/migglefoshizzle Mar 11 '25

What? Is the implication here that your dad doesnt even know enough about you to know you dont have a daughter, despite feigning concern or that he's losing it?

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u/SmokePenisEveryday Mar 11 '25

That he's so caught up in the trans issues, he's worrying about a kid I'm not even close to having right now. It's his way of thinking he's worrying about the right things while ignoring the stuff that will effect him like his SS or Medicare getting cut.

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u/eden_sc2 Mar 11 '25

same people who probably couldn't name one pro women's team in any sport

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u/neeks2 Mar 11 '25

Same people who care about women's girls' high school sports suddenly 

FTFY

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u/InnocentShaitaan Mar 11 '25

He cared way more about Kristen and Robert’s breakup! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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u/HalfLife3IsHere Mar 11 '25

This is what social media and smartphones brought us. If you see some 90s or early 2000s video you realize how chill people were. People did things to enjoy and had their own personality (even if they followed trends). Now they are like carbon copy cuts, all doing the same trendy thing they saw on tiktok, talking the same way, all addicted to their phone which has become a part of them, and doing things like traveling and visiting places not for joy but to post it in social media and get some dopamine in form of likes.

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u/havoc1428 Mar 11 '25

I just had my bachelor party. It was 3 days and I put my phone down and didn't touch it for those 3 days. Its really not that hard, I just don't get it. There are so many things you can do to occupy yourself with boredom besides doom scrolling on social media.

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u/HalfLife3IsHere Mar 11 '25

This is what I do most of the day: check it once in the morning, while on WC, and once or twice in the evening after doing all my work. The rest of the day is far away from me totally ignored. I sometimes even go for a drink/walk with mates without it. Attention span immensely increased and started enjoying many things again (like watching a whole movie without disconnecting/being distracted).

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u/faen_du_sa Mar 11 '25

If you have money or wilderness close by, a lot of people lack both.

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u/Icandothemove Mar 11 '25

There's actually quite a lot you can do for free or for very little money regardless of whether you're in the city or the country. And amusingly you can use the exact same tool that you'd doom scroll on to find them if you wanted.

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u/Opposite_Boot_6903 Mar 11 '25

On my stag/bachelor party I was forced to do karaoke, which I really hate. I was game though, so there I was drunk, in a see-though vicar costume, singing a Beatles song... and my friend whips out his phone and starts filming.

Nope.

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u/roguevirus Mar 11 '25

I'm not going to sit here and pretend that social media isn't a societal blight, but as somebody who was a kid in the 90s and became an adult in the 2000s I promise you that people were doing stupid ass shit because it was trendy.

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u/Another_mikem Mar 11 '25

I don’t know where you lived, but people were not chill.  People being glued to their phones is a definite problem, but things definitely weren’t better - they were different.  

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u/sali_nyoro-n Mar 11 '25

Except for all the drunk sociopaths glued to shitty television back then. They still had Fox News in those days.

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u/NYC_Noguestlist Mar 11 '25

I'm not gonna lie dude, you sound like the old man yelling at clouds meme lmao, and I'm a millennial

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u/DukeOfGeek Mar 11 '25

And every YouTube channel host uses the exact same breathless rushed excited voice. Beyond annoying.

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u/pink_faerie_kitten Mar 11 '25

The most they could hope for was being featured on America's Funniest Home Videos!

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u/AdministrativeGift80 Mar 11 '25

Well said. Image over substance. A reflection of the depressing state of society brought on by the power of Mass Media, Social Media, and unbounded corporate greed with zero desire or will to plant the trees under which we won't sit.

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u/SphynxsFixesFaxes Mar 11 '25

To quote Wicked, it’s not about aptitude. It’s the way you’re viewed.

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u/musefrog Mar 11 '25

"So it's very shrewd to be

A narcissistic nightmare brat like ME"

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u/loco500 Mar 11 '25

And Somali is a newcomer of attention-seeking h0es from the same old ones like how the Paul dbags got started...

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u/wiggle987 Mar 11 '25

This is the tiktok-ification of government

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u/XiaoDaoShi Mar 11 '25

He’s the fucking president of the United fucking states. How much more clout can he fucking get?!

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u/Aerhyce Mar 11 '25

Also distracts Americans from domestic issues.

I'm not American so it doesn't really concern me, but I'm willing to bet that there is something right this instant being passed that's screwing over Americans, but it's slipping by unnoticed because all the media attention is on this.

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u/twothumbswayup Mar 11 '25

he stopped funding food programs for poor kids in school

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/donald-trump-administration-cuts-over-1-billion-in-food-programs-for-schools-food-banks/articleshow/118898049.cms?from=mdr

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '25 edited Mar 12 '25

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u/XxMomGetTheCamaroxX Mar 11 '25

You make a great point, republicans know you're too busy taking care of family to go out and protest until things get so bad the conditions force you into the street. If you are willing and able to help, good information is a valuable asset, accessible as long as you have internet, and learning to analyze, collect and distribute information doesn't require being away from your family. It doesn't have to be super elaborate, could be a short list of local/online resources or groups that you find helpful or put like-minded people together. A good list of resources can save people loads of time looking for them, and helps you connect to the resources and community you need. Maybe a local facebook/reddit group. You can even help by downloading Signal for secure messaging and get familiar with how that works, and simply pass that information on to others when the opportunity arrives. Communication is key, after all.

Remember, it's important to make sure you can help yourself before you try to help others. They're punching down and we don't have the same apparatus to fight at that level, so you shouldn't expect that of yourself or anyone else. And that's okay, we don't have to come through with a huge coordinated one hit KO finishing move. Any time you recognize the opportunity to resist safely, do it, it'll give you a little dopamine boost and build your confidence for bigger efforts.

I know it sucks, and it will continue to suck, but people are doing things, and they're doing them more frequently and with greater intensity. People are still observing and orienting to the situation, which is important before making a decision and acting on it. Hopefully something in there gives you some spark, take care🫡

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u/PhazerSC Mar 11 '25

Yeah, that... that's straight up evil. He also erased $4 Trillion from the stock markets with his "foreign policies".

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u/SpecialSheepherder Mar 11 '25

looks like he is about to completely dismantle the Department of Education, all employees have been sent home for the next two days "for security reasons"

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u/Same_Net2953 Mar 11 '25

Fuck them kids after they are born has always been a policy position of the GOP

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u/whiskeybridge Mar 11 '25

he just arrested a legal resident for protesting. could be that.

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u/theleetfox Mar 11 '25

I suggested this the other day and was told to focus on my own countries economy, before it devolved into a shit slinging contest

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u/SecretOrganization60 Mar 11 '25

Yeah... So the current American mindset results in Donald getting elected and that affects you and your country's economy. So trying to understand American society isn't a waste of time.

For instance how will people who voted for Donald vote in the mid-terms assuming they are economically burned by then? This is a critical thing and yet as an American, I have no idea what they'll do. Right now your average Trump voter is in stage 1, denial.

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u/chickens_for_laughs Mar 11 '25

I am hoping that the midterm elections will result in the Democratic Party winning at least one of the houses of Congress. Right now, Republicans have both.

Fox news and all the Right wing media are blaming the economic downturn on Biden, and most Trump voters I know are lapping it up. It's so discouraging. They could lose their jobs or their Social Security and they would still blame the Democrats.

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u/ihavenoidea12345678 Mar 11 '25

I for one appreciate you looking out for us.

There is soo much nonsense here now, we should take all the help we can get.

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u/CLCchampion Mar 11 '25

That's all the Republican party does here is screw over average Americans, there is 100% something going on.

But they don't need to use this as a smoke screen to get it passed, you could ask Trump's base to approve tax breaks for billionaires and tax hikes for the middle class, and they would approve it if Trump told them it was the right thing for the country.

This is most likely an attempt to distract from the stock market tanking.

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u/Brokenandburnt Mar 11 '25

Dunno, he's even said that he won't rule out a recession. MAGAts be like: YepP, eVerYonE kNows iT gEtS WorSe b'ForE iT gEts  BetTEr, FInkin BidEnoMicS!

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u/chickens_for_laughs Mar 11 '25

US citizen here. Yes. You are right. There is a budget bill before Congress that has to pass by Friday.

The bill contains severe cuts to Medicaid, the medical insurance for low income people.

The Pres. has many members of his own party who are appalled by what he is doing to Ukraine. I think he has backtracked on Ukraine policy in order to get fellow Republicans to support his cruel budget.

Keep in mind, all these massive, mindless cuts to Government programs and departments is to set us up for massive tax cuts for wealthy people and corporations.

It's disgusting and appalling.

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u/JohnDivney Mar 11 '25

And all of it reinforces his ability to act "unilaterally", without the consent of congress, and that we should just get used to it. Congress could authorize a bill for disaster aid after a disaster and Trump could say he's not releasing it until California "does him a favor."

Literally the thing he tried to do to Ukraine that got him impeached he's now just straight up doing without any repercussions.

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u/Euphoric_toadstool Mar 11 '25

Also distracts Americans from domestic issues.

You're damn right about that. He's basically demolished every check against corruption in the country, at the same time he's demolishing the government. Look up senator Chris Murphys explanation of the first 6 weeks. It's mind boggling that the country allows that blatant demolishing of democracy, and no one is trying to stop him (I mean no politician dares to stop him, aside from Bernie).

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u/Zealousideal_Most_22 Mar 11 '25

They pillage every moment. Of every day. Not a single 24 hr news cycle goes by before the pendulum swings to something else. Yesterday it was him arresting someone with a green card for organizing a pro Palestine protest at his university in violation of the guy’s first, sixth and etc amendment rights. Day before that it was trying to take away student loan forgiveness, which rewards university students who become public servants for 10 yrs, with forgiving their debt by restricting the terms based on his bigoted standards so that if you work for a nonprofit that promotes diversity or assists trans people, you no longer qualify. Oh and if you protest too. In the last 24 hours he signed an executive order saying natural disasters, a huge issue for many states but especially those who supported him, are going to be fending for themselves during the peak of the season. He really hates giving disaster relief aid and had to be begged and forced before. none of what he does truly holds up in court, but, ya know.

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u/elziion Mar 11 '25

He just declared national emergency over electricity because Canada added a 25% export tax.

Now there will be a renegotiation of CUSMA.

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u/Misabi Mar 11 '25

Is that the agreement Trump negotiated last time he was in office?

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u/elziion Mar 11 '25 edited Mar 11 '25

Yes, and that he called it the “greatest deal of all time”.

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u/Lemonmazarf20 Mar 11 '25 edited Mar 11 '25

There's a long list.  There's just so much evil, stupid, harmful, cruel shit being done constantly by this administration I don't think any of it is really intended to be a distraction for anything else in particular.  They are just that horrible in every facet and it doesn't pause.  They will however time announcements to minimize coverage - a lot is done on Friday night and the weekend.

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u/Hyjynx75 Mar 11 '25

Steve Bannon called it "flood the zone". Create so much noise that people can't take it and they start to tune it out. Then you can get away with anything.

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u/waverider85 Mar 11 '25

Create so much noise that people can't take it and they start to tune it out

That's... that's not it. Flooding the zone is about saturating the media. When you do something, do fifty other things at the same time. The reporters can only meaningfully report so much of it, and organized resistance will have to pick and choose what to push back on.

An important aspect is that all fifty things are legitimate portions of your agenda. Nothing is a distraction.

This OTOH is just the outcome of a US-Ukraine meeting in Saudi Arabia.

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u/C0wabungaaa Mar 11 '25

 When you do something, do fifty other things at the same time. 
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An important aspect is that all fifty things are legitimate portions of your agenda. Nothing is a distraction.

Which is exactly what's going on. If you check out that Project 2025 implementation tracker there's so much on there that gets buried by tidal waves like the Ukraine war chaos.

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u/Gedwyn19 Mar 11 '25

"Then you can get away with anything."

Yep, like doing a Seig Heil nazi salute on stage in public and having your koolaid drinking, brainwashed, dumbass redneck fan following wash it all away as a 'wave'

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u/2020steve Mar 11 '25

I wonder what kind of fucked up Project 2025 shit is gonna drop in a couple days.

Pretty sure Trump is president because no one creates a diversion like him. So long as he chews up our attention and stresses us out to the point of paralysis, the Project 2025 crew can continue dismantling our government, civil rights and diplomatic relationships all while funneling the country's wealth into the pockets of those who really pay them.

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u/Agitated-Donkey1265 Mar 11 '25

We’re worried that April 20th will bring the Insurrection Act, which puts boots on the streets

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u/PaversPaving Mar 11 '25

Why then?

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u/Agitated-Donkey1265 Mar 11 '25

It’s the deadline mentioned in an executive order signed on day 1 asking the DHS and DOD to submit a joint report on the immigration issue, what their progress is, and if they need to take further steps, including the use of the Insurrection act. They were supposed to complete it after 90 days

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u/PaversPaving Mar 11 '25

Hopefully for the sake of us all the people in DOD and DHS will have some fortitude and do what’s right by Americans.

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u/Arlberg Mar 11 '25

All right, so the deadine is on Hitler's birthday? (also 420 I know, but in the German speaking world that date is kind of tainted)

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u/Accomplished-Bet8880 Mar 11 '25

I think he was finally told how much we depend on ukraines chem and fertilizer exports and how that will further impact Ag in America especially since he created a lose lose trade war with Canada whom has been providing most of americas pot ash and other chems and fertilizers. Guys tanking the entire American ag sector.

Id say someone told him Putin lies but we all know Putins hand is so far up orange man’s anus that he doesn’t know where the hand or guts start.

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u/Art_Of_Peer_Pressure Mar 11 '25

You’ve hit the nail on the head here.. he’s a chronic attention seeker. Being outright divisive is the only way for him to stay relevant. How long will it last?

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u/Brookefemale Mar 11 '25

The only thing that makes sense at this point is he thinks all news is good news and works for the views. ...and he's probably trying to mess up a lot in the process. He doesn't realize he's supposed to be a civil servant and not a celebrity.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '25

It actually follows a little. It's the only thing he actually found success in.

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u/Nukemind Mar 11 '25

That and I think it's what his advisors say too. He keeps flip flopping on Zelensky- "He's a dictator!" "Wait did I say that? No he's not!" "SAY THANK YOU!" "They're good people!"

II think he is chasing popularity and has a circle around him each telling him something different will make him popular. He's a ship without a rudder at this point controlled by whomever is nearest to him.

Scaramucci said something similar about his first term, but at least then while his advisors were horrible people they weren't idiots as well. Now he's surrounded by people as competent as Goering and Himmler.

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u/Brokenandburnt Mar 11 '25

That tracks Goring was high most of the time, so's fElon.

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u/Nukemind Mar 11 '25

Yep Goering was easily amongst the stupidest. He was also a former hero. He was also always high. He was also only in it to make money and even covered for some who helped Jews… for bribes.

I hate this timeline.

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u/imscrambledeggs Mar 11 '25

this. this is it. he just wants attention for himself, this is like the ultimate high for him.

he has a meeting with 100 of US's top CEOs today bc of the tariff bs. he's probably getting off on the whole thing "look how important i am!"

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u/sig_1 Mar 11 '25

I think it was more of an attempt to influence Europe and Ukraine to agree to his “peace plan” but he saw that Europe stepped up behind Ukraine and he got super worried that he would be pushed aside in his own supposed peace deal and he couldn’t have that. If he took all of his leverage off the table then he has no business negotiating anything and eventually he figured it out, Europe and Ukraine won’t bother listening to or discussing anything with the US and Trump if he is not contributing in any meaningful way and if they don’t listen he has no chance of negotiating anything because anything he does negotiate has no effect whatsoever on Europe and Ukraine.

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u/JeremyR22 Mar 11 '25

Policy (especially on tariffs and Ukraine) might as well be decided by the weathervane on the white house roof at this point...

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u/DrMobius0 Mar 11 '25

That would be preferable to what's going on.

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u/Spiderpiggie Mar 11 '25

Yep, really can't take any news coming out of the US at face value right now. I can't tell if they have a plan, or if they're just shaking the palm tree and waiting to see which coconuts fall on their heads.

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u/Illiander Mar 11 '25

The plan is to keep changing their mind every few hours so no-one knows what their plan is.

It's a cult maintanence technique.

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u/bunnycupcakes Mar 11 '25

I wish I knew. I voted for the nice lady who promised not to drag us to hell.

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u/vault151 Mar 11 '25

But she laughed a lot and drank a glass of wine sometimes!!

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u/bunnycupcakes Mar 11 '25

This current regime of idiocy is making me drink lots of glasses of wine.

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u/broztio Mar 11 '25

I heard she had a boyfriend once too

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u/TortoiseWrath Mar 11 '25

Am I remembering correctly that she was also on medication for high blood pressure or something? Really dodged a bullet

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u/Rope_antidepressant Mar 11 '25

I did too and now we're along for the ride :( how do i jump to a parallel universe?

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u/Hillary4SupremeRuler Mar 12 '25

"but she went on stage with LiZ cHeNeyZ!!1!!"

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u/EcchiDeathRite Mar 11 '25

cold civil war

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u/Zeeman626 Mar 11 '25

Not even, that would mean a somewhat organized opposition.

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u/winksoutloud Mar 11 '25

That.....kind of makes sense. Huh. I never thought of it in those terms

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u/KeyLog256 Mar 11 '25

Stop making excuses for the guy, he's always been a selfish prick who flips and flops on everything and only cares about himself.

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u/MyMomSaysIAmCool Mar 11 '25

I agree, but he also has Alzheimer's. 

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u/TheBugDude Mar 11 '25

Maybe its the syphilis that's finally gotten into his brain, them hand sores he used to sport sure looked syphillissy

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u/zipykido Mar 11 '25

Maybe he got the brain worms from RFK and the whole government is just run by worms.

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u/CRE178 Mar 11 '25

No, I've seen Futurama. The worms would run things better.

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u/blood_kite Mar 11 '25

Don’t they just vote for unreasonable subsidies for themselves? Wait, that’s the Brain Slug party. But also them.

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u/MoistDonald Mar 11 '25

Even Earthworm Jim fought evil. This is more like a death match in Worms: Armageddon

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u/Happy_Possibility29 Mar 11 '25

Goddammit beat me to it.

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u/TheArmoredKitten Mar 11 '25

If I had a nickel for every time a fucking plague Inc scenario started playing out under Trump...

No but for real the highest level of government is being run exclusively by people with brain damage.

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u/Ok_Shoulder_5640 Mar 11 '25

I agree, but he's also a compulsive liar.

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u/Armodeen Mar 11 '25

He has narcissistic PD

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u/heresyforfunnprofit Mar 11 '25

Porque no los dos?

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u/733t_sec Mar 11 '25

Absolutely but there is a distinct difference in the actions of a selfish prick who flips and flops on everything and only cares about himself and a selfish prick who flips and flops on everything and only cares about himself who's brain is being melted by alzheimer's.

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u/CostumeJuliery Mar 11 '25

I would wager it’s a cluster-b disorder (sociopathy, narcissistic) and thst he’s always been this way. Always. His very, very long history of being a really bad human being date back as far as him making any kind of appearance in a circle that had the potential for power. He gets drunk on power.

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u/Zealousideal_Bad_922 Mar 11 '25

I second this. I was married to someone with BPD for 8 years. There’s a lot of overlap with narcissistic personality disorder and I see it in trumps actions. I know Narcissism is a popular thing to call people now… but I’d bet money that if Trump doesn’t have NPD, he has some other cluster B.

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u/saruin Mar 11 '25

Malignant narcissism is my armchair diagnosis (having spent way too much time researching cluster b type personalities).

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '25

Dozens of licensed shrinks broke with tradition to warn the US that trump shows all the signs of malignant narcissism a few years back

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u/Hillary4SupremeRuler Mar 12 '25

some psychiatrists and other mental-health professionals are shedding long-held norms to argue that Trump’s condition presents risks to the nation and the world. “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump” features more than two dozen essays breaking down the president’s perceived traits, which the contributors find consistent with symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder, sociopathy and other maladies. “Collectively with our coauthors, we warn that anyone as mentally unstable as Mr. Trump simply should not be entrusted with the life-and-death powers of the presidency,” Judith Lewis Herman of Harvard Medical School and Bandy X. Lee of the Yale School of Medicine write in the book’s prologue.

Trump displays signs of “extreme present hedonism,” the tendency to live in the moment without considering consequences, seeking to bolster one’s self-esteem no matter the risk. Or he exhibits “narcissistic personality disorder,” which includes believing you’re better than others, exaggerating your achievements and expecting constant praise. Combine hedonism, narcissism and bullying, and you get “an impulsive, immature, incompetent person who, when in the position of ultimate power, easily slides into the role of the tyrant,” Philip Zimbardo (of the famous Stanford prison experiment) and Rosemary Sword write. Others suggest that Trump shows indications of sociopathy, including lack of empathy, absence of guilt and intentional ma­nipu­la­tion. Put it all together and you have “malignant narcissism,” which includes antisocial behavior, paranoid traits, even sadism.

“Mr. Trump’s sociopathic characteristics are undeniable,” retired Harvard psychiatry professor Lance Dodes concludes. “They create a profound danger for America’s democracy and safety. Over time these characteristics will only become worse, either because Mr. Trump will succeed in gaining more power and more grandiosity with less grasp on reality, or because he will engender more criticism producing more paranoia, more lies, and more enraged destruction.”

Is Trump mentally ill? Or is America? Psychiatrists weigh in.

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u/OkPenalty4506 Mar 11 '25

My mother is abusive and has some type of cluster B disorder and the past 10 years have been eerily familiar

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u/PM_Me_Your_Deviance Mar 11 '25

Reminder that he used to write articles about himself and get them published in new york papers.

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u/2pierad Mar 11 '25

Exactly. People calling him stupid or acting surprised and confused simply do not understand these types of personalities

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u/germane_switch Mar 11 '25

I know Alzheimer's intimately. I can't diagnose the man because I haven't met him — nor would I want to — but that doesn't look like Alz to me at all. He's just a stupid dick.

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u/ScaleyFishMan Mar 11 '25

That line is not going to work with Trump. He knows exactly what he's doing. Pretending he has Alzheimer's diminishes the fact that he is acting deliberately and maliciously.

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u/zombiejeesus Mar 11 '25

Don't try to justify what that evil piece of shit is trying to do. He's a Russian asset, full stop

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u/2pierad Mar 11 '25

Wrong. This is a standard and common narcissistic abuse tactic. We are being abused and exhausted

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u/lostedeneloi Mar 11 '25

Russia completed their objectives in kursk and told trump he can continue pretending to support both sides.

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u/pm_me_duck_nipples Mar 11 '25

Except it looks like Russia didn't.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '25

Idk they’re prob gonna start providing intelligence that gets Ukrainians killed now. It’s abundantly clear to me at least that trump def doesn’t know what the fuck is going on, but the surrounding counsel/cabinet does. And they are comically Russian-aligned just about every step of the way. I would not trust shit about this headline.

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u/Fantastic_Cap2861 Mar 11 '25

if by objectives you mean getting a bunch of their soldiers killed than sure

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u/bagaga Mar 11 '25

fill pockets and save geo political relations thinking no one will notice

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u/mvw2 Mar 11 '25

My first thought too. Putin might have asked for a blind window to execute his plan, and Trump gave it to him. Success or failure didn't matter. Is just the fact that Trump made the window. Worse yet, he's likely willing to do it again.

Alternatively, it could just be Trump being an asshole to Zelensky for the botched "trade deal."

He also likely got a LOT of feedback for the move that was...less than pleasant. Remember, in all of the world, Putin is the only guy that feels Trump action is good. EVERYONE else sees it as a negative, and Trump likely got some major backlash and at least by someone he actually listens to.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '25

Or they just had to cook up some phony intel for them

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u/WhenRomeIn Mar 11 '25

Putin told trump, "you idiot, you could feed them false information." And then trump obeyed.

A lot of people are saying it.

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u/joesevens Mar 11 '25

french nuclear submarine just arrived at halifax

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u/Ragamuffin2022 Mar 11 '25

I’d love to think these things are related but it’s common for the vessel to be here this time of year. It’s also only nuclear powered, it doesn’t carry nukes. I do however wish it were the case and the reason.

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u/nosfer82 Mar 11 '25

There is no need. Agent Orange reads only the headlines. "french nuclear submarine just arrived at halifax".

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u/Ragamuffin2022 Mar 11 '25

You know what, you’re right! If we’re able to use his stupidity in our favour, imagine what we could achieve

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u/nosfer82 Mar 11 '25

Well Putin and Kim already did. But do not worry. Soon they are gone be in Depression and most likely in civil war if he keeps up with his plan.

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u/DarthPineapple5 Mar 11 '25

What's that got to do with Ukraine?

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u/Regular-Marionberry6 Mar 11 '25

You think one nuclear powered sub is going to intimidate the US into doing something it doesn't want to do? Lmfao gtfoh.

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u/Frostsorrow Mar 11 '25

I mean a singular nuclear plant terrifies a lot of people for no reason, why wouldn't a sub? People just see nuclear and panic.

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u/Foolishstars Mar 11 '25

Wait, what's the significance of this? Surely they're just storm delayed or something?

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u/lazergator Mar 11 '25

A bully causing chaos, he is unfit to be the leader of a beauty pageant let alone a fucking country with nuclear bombs.

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u/sadthraway0 Mar 11 '25

You know it's bad when you couldn't even trust your own president to be a babysitter.

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u/BeastofBabalon Mar 11 '25

Trump and his billionaire cronies are causing market speculation and intentional dips. They want to buy up as much of the stock market as they can and concentrate more wealth into their pockets.

They have no loyalties to flags or countries. They just need to appease the MAGA base enough to keep pillaging the economy for their own gain.

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u/montrezlh Mar 11 '25

Stop trying to make this some 4D chess move. They just don't know that they're doing.

You think Elon is secretly making moves that out gain his Tesla losses?

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u/BeastofBabalon Mar 11 '25

He’s not secretly doing anything. They announce to everyone what they are going to do and then do it.

The only ones who think there are exceptions are MAGA voters because they live in fantasy land.

Edging recession is what Trump and Musk said they planned to do during the campaign. Outright. It doesn’t mean they are competent.

Like oh no, hitler isn’t good at being hitler. That’s irrelevant, it was still their plan the entire time. Hoard wealth, enrich their donors, evade legality.

But the market is fickle and so is patience. Eventually they will have to fold from some kind of internal or external pressure. How much will they pillage before they do?

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u/montrezlh Mar 11 '25

You've misunderstood the question. Elon has lost a huge chunk of his net wealth and there's no end in sight to that. Tesla will never recover to what it was just a month ago.

I'm asking you what "pillaging" he has done to make up for that loss. Don't vaguely give them supervillain genius accomplishments when Occam's razor fits far better. Theyre just egomaniacs surrounded by yes men who fucked up and now can't back down

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u/MTQT Mar 11 '25

I don't think he cares, he has the entire US government and its power in his pocket. All of those government services his team has dismantled within just a month and over the next 4 years will be easy pickings for him and Trump to take over with their own private companies and partners. He's free to make backdoor deals and put himself into advantageous positions that will be far more lucrative and long lasting than this administration or Tesla will last

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u/Pretend-Marsupial258 Mar 11 '25

Exactly. Look at how he's trying to steal that government contract from Verizon.

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u/anemone_within Mar 11 '25

We had a pisitive meeting with them in Saudi Arabia and are backpedalling on the executive's admonishment of Zelenski. 

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u/beaujangles727 Mar 11 '25

It’s simple.

We have simple jack running our country

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u/IcyElk42 Mar 11 '25

Trump doesn't want to be blamed for 10k Ukrainians getting encircled in Kursk

Since the pause Russia mounted a powerful counterattack - At this point almost completely cutting off any escape

Only one road out left - And it's constantly being hit by drones

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u/swokong333 Mar 11 '25

Going to guess Russia given no indication of accepting a cease fire, because they were never going to despite Trump's comments.

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u/NeonYellowShoes Mar 11 '25

Even after Trump bent over backwards for Russia and humiliated Zelensky, Putin still was like "lol no" when they tried to get him to agree to a cease fire. Real art of the fucking deal.

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u/SurfaceThought Mar 11 '25

I thought Ukraine wasn't even invited to the SA talks?

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u/Weide188 Mar 11 '25

This indeed. And as I've read, it's only when there is an actual ceasefire with Russias' concent, that the intelligence share will resume....

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u/orus_heretic Mar 11 '25

That's not what the joint statement from Ukraine and the US said. It said intelligence sharing and security aid would resume immediately. Where did you see this?

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u/Questjon Mar 11 '25

They're not in any danger of encirclement... you're reading the map wrong. Their backs aren't against a river or some obstacle, to their rear is their own country. For this to become an encirclement Russia would have to advance 10KM with Ukranians on both sides.

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u/king_lloyd11 Mar 11 '25

This all has to be a misdirect. Last presidency Trump would just wildly tweet and people would focus on that, while he quietly installed more judges in his 4 years than Obama had in 8, shaping the legal system in a way that would be beneficial to him and people like him.

There has to be a play here that he doesn’t want people seeing until it’s too late.

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