Trump Catch-All | Trump won’t rule out military action to take Panama Canal or Greenland; changing name of Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America

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BlooVooDoo said:
He’s simply obsessed with size. He sees Greenland on a map (Mercator projection, most likely) and thinks it’s freaking huge. He wants Canada and Greenland to be part of the US so we can be physically bigger. I think Putin said something to him about how enormous Russia is and it made Trump feel inferior.
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And I’m ok with it. Adding Greenland and Canada would inadvertently push the United States significantly to the left.
 
finesse said:
We'd need to add Puerto Rico to help balance the national cooling.
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52nd state? I remember President Ford and others pushing for PR statehood.
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And Greenland, when its ice cap melts due to global warming, would be some nice real estate. Jared could build some condos there after he's finished his waterfront projects in Gaza. ;)
 
Mulberry Heel said:
Yep. For the past eight years all we've heard from Republicans is "trust us, Trump won't actually be as bad as y'all fear or do all of the shit he's saying, it's just for show." His first term was still pretty damn bad, but I think starting January 20 we're pretty quickly going to find out once and for all whether Trump and his minions are actually going to carry through (or at least try to) with all of these promises and claims, or whether it really is just for show. I suspect and fear it's going to mostly be the former, but we'll see soon enough.
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Do you actually think he is planning to take the panama canal? I mean do you seriously think that? How would he do it? He wants something from panama. Likely to stop refugees from coming or help in stemming the flow of drugs. Could be anything. Its the typical trump playbook. Its almost laughable how you guys freak out over something that he isn't even capable of doing. He really does live in your heads rent free. He can literally just post something and your pearls get polished over and over.
 
So what is the political theory behind wanting as many people as possible willing to do you a bad turn at the worst possible moment?
 
Callatoroy said:
Do you actually think he is planning to take the panama canal? I mean do you seriously think that? How would he do it? He wants something from panama. Likely to stop refugees from coming or help in stemming the flow of drugs. Could be anything. Its the typical trump playbook. Its almost laughable how you guys freak out over something that he isn't even capable of doing. He really does live in your heads rent free. He can literally just post something and your pearls get polished over and over.
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The only thing I "freak out over something he isn't even capable of doing " is competently governing as President Musk's sidekick.
 
Callatoroy said:
Do you actually think he is planning to take the panama canal? I mean do you seriously think that? How would he do it? He wants something from panama. Likely to stop refugees from coming or help in stemming the flow of drugs. Could be anything. Its the typical trump playbook. Its almost laughable how you guys freak out over something that he isn't even capable of doing. He really does live in your heads rent free. He can literally just post something and your pearls get polished over and over.
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So, Trump has no capability to do anything regarding Panama but will try use that non-leverage to his advantage.
I agree, it is just more useless flailing about by Trump that will probably have only mild negative ramifications when really the point is just empty rhetoric for his gullible acolytes so they can think he is fighting for them as he takes away their social security benefits.
 
Callatoroy said:
Do you actually think he is planning to take the panama canal? I mean do you seriously think that? How would he do it? He wants something from panama. Likely to stop refugees from coming or help in stemming the flow of drugs. Could be anything. Its the typical trump playbook. Its almost laughable how you guys freak out over something that he isn't even capable of doing. He really does live in your heads rent free. He can literally just post something and your pearls get polished over and over.
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And you see this as a legitimate form of diplomacy?
 
mynameisbond said:
And you see this as a legitimate form of diplomacy?
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I see this as trump's way of diplomacy. I often think surely these people see this for what it is and then I see a thread like this and think these people really think he is planning on taking the panama canal.
 
ChileG said:
So, Trump has no capability to do anything regarding Panama but will try use that non-leverage to his advantage.
I agree, it is just more useless flailing about by Trump that will probably have only mild negative ramifications when really the point is just empty rhetoric for his gullible acolytes so they can think he is fighting for them as he takes away their social security benefits.
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It sure sent this group on here into a frenzy so maybe he thinks it will work on panama as well.
 
finesse said:
We'd need to add Puerto Rico to help balance the national cooling.
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Before the Civil War, white Southern slaveowners were freaking out about slave states steadily falling behind the free states in population growth, and so there were efforts before the war for the South to buy or take over places that they felt they could turn into new slave states or territories. One was Cuba, and there was apparently some discussion in the South of just keeping parts of Mexico after the Mexican War, which of course didn't happen. In the end they focused on trying to open the Western territories taken from Mexico to slavery, which aroused strong free state opposition and helped bring on the Civil War. James McPherson writes about all this in his chapter "An Empire for Slavery" in his Pulitzer-prize winning Battle Cry of Freedom.

I know that Pat Buchanan used to openly talk about annexing parts of Canada to keep our white population up, so I don't find it surprising that there is discussion among Trumpers of annexing places like Canada and Greenland, and none about making Puerto Rico a state. And anyone who thinks the racial component of Canada and Puerto Rico isn't a factor in such discussions is very naive, imo.
 
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Callatoroy said:
Do you actually think he is planning to take the panama canal? I mean do you seriously think that? How would he do it? He wants something from panama. Likely to stop refugees from coming or help in stemming the flow of drugs. Could be anything. Its the typical trump playbook. Its almost laughable how you guys freak out over something that he isn't even capable of doing. He really does live in your heads rent free. He can literally just post something and your pearls get polished over and over.
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Not likely. But if trump really wanted Panama and/or the canal, who is going to stop him? Actually, at some point we may have to reclaim the canal. Reclaim not just for national security but also to keep the darn thing functioning.
 
Callatoroy said:
Do you actually think he is planning to take the panama canal? I mean do you seriously think that? How would he do it? He wants something from panama. Likely to stop refugees from coming or help in stemming the flow of drugs. Could be anything. Its the typical trump playbook. Its almost laughable how you guys freak out over something that he isn't even capable of doing. He really does live in your heads rent free. He can literally just post something and your pearls get polished over and over.
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If he isn't, then why does he even discuss it?

Exactly, typical trump playbook, lie lie lie.
 
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