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Sadly the US is clearly in the lead of leveraging AS (actual stupidity)...
Trump47 Foreign Policy Catch-All | Vance in Munich
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gtyellowjacket
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One thing to remember is that Latinos aren't necessarily as homogeneous as the pollsters seem to lump them. There's a fair amount of Mexican American voters, maybe even majority, that don't really like the central Americans.
But I'm not sure Trump is necessarily going to make that distinction. I think those Mexican American voters who are citizens now and have been here for a while think that they are safe and it's going to be the folks they don't really care for that get deported. But somebody's cousin or somebody's nephew is going to get deported and that's going to hurt.
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From Wiki…
Ogles graduated from Franklin High School and later attended Western Kentucky University and Columbia State Community Collegefrom 1990 to 1993, studying allied language arts and English.
Ogles later studied at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU), where he failed every course taken in the fall of 1995 and the fall of 1998; he returned to the university in 2007 and graduated with a 2.4 grade point average, with a Bachelor of Science in liberal studies.
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Was not...
Tell that to the Sioux.
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That’s been a while (and there are plenty of other Tribes who might have called the Sioux predatory in their heyday, but no need to digress).
4thgenheel
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there is no distinction with this admin. they are going to do offensive things to all latinos. mexicans, central americans and south americans.
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Funny how Pubs are always screeching about America's sovereignty in various contexts but then are like "Let's take Greenland" or "We should annex Canada." They have zero respect for the sovereignty of other nations. Situational ethics and morality as always with the GQP.
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Just a complete dumb ass for making a comment like that. I was hoping comments like that were limited to green and lb.
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Good for Trump.
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Another Bonus Quote of the Day
“Dear President Trump, listen very carefully. Greenland have been part of the Danish kingdom for 800 years. It’s an integrated part of our country. It is not for sale. Let me put it in words
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“Dear President Trump, listen very carefully. Greenland have been part of the Danish kingdom for 800 years. It’s an integrated part of our country. It is not for sale. Let me put it in words you might understand. Mr. Trump, fuck off.”
— Danish MP Anders Vistisen, addressing the European Parliament.
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Trump pushes Hill GOP on recess appointments, debt limit
A White House meeting on the president’s first full day back in office emphasized unity.“
President Donald Trump prodded congressional leaders to consider recess appointments for his top nominees and expressed interest in trading California wildfire aid for a debt limit increase in a White House meeting Tuesday — resurfacing two controversial proposals floated during the returning president’s transition.
The discussions, which were described by two people granted anonymity to describe the private talks, also touched on his proposal to exempt at least some tip income from federal taxes and his efforts more generally to extend tax cuts.
… Trump described wanting to use wildfire aid as a bargaining chip in comments to reporters shortly after the meeting: “They’re going to need a lot of money, and generally speaking I think you will find that a lot of Democrats are going to be asking for help. So I think maybe that makes it more one-sided. I think we’re going to do very well.”
Meanwhile, inside the meeting, Trump emphasized the need for Republicans to stick together as a party: “The one thing the Democrats have going for them is they stick together,” one of the people familiar with the meeting said, paraphrasing Trump’s message. “No grandstanding — just stick together and deliver and we will win.” …”
They’ll vote “R” for whatever reason going forward.
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So it’s pubs doing that? Or 1 pub? Because of all the things you guys bitch about pubs on here I don’t recall wanting to expand the empire or conquering other nations being in the top 100. But because trump made his comments and one dumbass gets on the news you, in full bloom TDS, make up some bullshit about pubs wanting to take other countries because you know whatever shit you throw against the wall will stick here. So, in summary, you are just mindlessly spouting bullshit.
What do Americans think of Trump's plans to acquire Greenland? Half say it's a bad idea.
A new USA TODAY/Suffolk University found a little more than half of Americans don't support Donald Trump's proposal to acquire Greenland.
www.usatoday.com
My opinion - if trump can acquire Greenland peacefully, in good faith, and with the majority support of those living there then I say hell yes. Do you disagree with that? If yes and it happened would you credit trump with that move?
100% disagree with that. First, Denmark is a core ally - we can achieve strategically whatever we need to achieve under the current NATO umbrella - the only reason we are interested in Greenland is national ego. Second, US participation in a free-for-all in which national borders are disregarded is a significant disruption to the global stability that we haven't seen in a nuclear age. God help us manage the nuclear proliferation issues over the next 50 years when most of East Asia and the Middle East become nuclear powers.
The cost of war is significantly higher than in Metternich's day. Moving on Greenland will be a strategic debacle. The nitwittedness of those who want to blow up the post-WW2 international order is breathtaking.
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Staggering bad faith when that one Republican is President and the leader of the party.
Or are you pretending this Representative came up with his himself in a vacuum?
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Define “moving” on Greenland.
The only downside I see is it could potentially push Russia and China toward more aggression but they are already trying to expand. Acquiring Greenland peacefully ( purchasing) is not remotely the same as taking it.
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Staggeringly bad argument to say just because the potus says something that means the party agrees. Clearly per the article the majority of the party disagrees with him.
Clearly from the article that's unlikely to be true. Practically everybody who thinks Trump should pursue this would also have to be in the group that thinks it's good but unrealistic for that to be correct. Staggeringly bad argument on your part when your own source bites you in the ass. From your article.
But among Republicans, just 23% said Trump should pursue the policy, while around half – 48% – said it was good but unrealistic .
Your ability to see downside is remarkably short-sighted. This isn't a game of Risk, you fucking dumbass.
1. Denmark has an 800 year history with Greenland. It is not looking to sell, and would only sell it if a larger country effectively forced it to. I doubt that Denmark and the rest of NATO would view this process as "peaceful." We would lose ground with our most important US allies.
2 You underestimate how countries view the importance of international borders. The UK went to war over the Falklands; NATO went to war over Kuwait.
3. You are putting the entire post-WW2 international order at risk for little strategic benefit.