Trump says the USA will takeover Gaza
-
@Renauda said in Trump says the USA will takeover Gaza:
@blondie's right and I don’t envy your task ahead. I have every confidence though you and your cohorts like Aqua and TG will know what not to do to make life better for all.
Not sure. I'm on cruise control in my personal life, working, young kids, trying to enjoy time with them every chance I get while working hard to hopefully retire as early as possible. I don't really have an impact on elections or policies (although I still vote).
I'm between Gen X and Millennial, I think younger Millennials than me (like JD Vance) will eventually shape the future, and most folks (or at least) are just trying to hold their breath over the next 4 years until a mature adult can enter the room again to lead the country. I'm happy for the conservative agenda to be somewhat at the helm (every society slowly devolves into a liberal free for all bastion until it collapses, so I'm happy to slow that descent as much as possible), but the petulance and retribution is quite annoying.
I suppose each generation has stress tests... the late 60s were remarkably concerning, especially 1968, but the country survived. Although one could argue the cultural shift from traditional values to independent hippieville was both inevitable but also responsible for many of the ills we see today.
-
@89th said in Trump says the USA will takeover Gaza:
The equality of the 3 branches of government is certainly undergoing a stress test it hasn't seen in a very long time. I'm mostly concerned with the retribution and disloyal retaliation game, uncleared resources accessing clearance-required systems, teenagers modifying source code at the US Department of Treasury, installing servers in OPM, violating the records retention act, among other comments (DEI caused the DC plane crash, and the USA is going to bulldoze Gaza to build a beautiful city), and actions being made during this opening "executive blitzkrieg" we are watching. At least there will be plenty of historical content to be written about for years, it's quite a time. You know secretly the news media loves it, and secretly the silicon valley folks are cringing, except maybe Elon.
FAFO.
The Biden Administration gave the Constitution a good screwing and nobody said nuthin'. They opened the door, with everything from institutionalized DIE theology to wave of the hand loan foregiveness and an abdication of a government's responsibility to safeguard its own borders.
They helped elect Trump to a powerful executive office and Trump has shown he's learned a few things while out of office. First, he's going to push the limits of executive authority. He's going to staff his cabinet with tough, loyal people and he's going to kick as many Biden loyalists to the curb as he can. Right now, he's negotiating his trade deals funneling his real estate developer personna. And right or wrong, there's no denying he has a vision of where he wants the country to go, besides the murky hell of the Biden years.
I think he believes he has around 22 months to do 90% of what he wants to accomplish in his term, unless his policies are very successful.
But consider the Silver Lining... The branches are co-equal, but Congress hasn't pulled its weight in years. Too many rules and funky interpretations of law by faceless bureaucrats in the alphabet agencies. Time for Congress to step up and do their job.
-
Not exactly sure "FAFO" is the most appropriate quality in a leader for our kids to see in the Presidency. And just because someone was doing their job doesn't make them "a Biden loyalist". Overall your post is pretty accurate, but there's a way to be just as effective while also being humble and compassionate.
-
-
@89th said in Trump says the USA will takeover Gaza:
Not exactly sure "FAFO" is the most appropriate quality in a leader for our kids to see in the Presidency. And just because someone was doing their job doesn't make them "a Biden loyalist". Overall your post is pretty accurate, but there's a way to be just as effective while also being humble and compassionate.
Whether you like them or not, effective pols have a mean streak when it's needed. It's how they exercise power.
I absolutely despise Nancy Pelosi, but she was very good at being speaker, because she has a vindictive bitch streak a mile wide.
Politics ain't beanbag.
-
@Horace said in Trump says the USA will takeover Gaza:
Fafo would definitely apply if the west tried to make Gaza a vacation destination resort. I mean, I know it could work with that land, but all the suicide bombers would put a damper on tourism.
Not if all the would be suicide bombers and their sympathizers are concentrated in designer Strength through Joy gated communities located in inaccessible and remote areas far away from the exclusive Trumpyland World Paradise Resort on the Med.
‘a-blowe yow and be-kele yow wel, and comyth up all with your ease’ ~ attributed to Henry V
-
-
Suzy Wiles facial expression speaks volumes:
-
@Horace said in Trump says the USA will takeover Gaza:
@Renauda Can't cage ideas. There's plenty of crazies who can pass for non-crazy, and plenty of white westerners who would cheer them on.
No doubt and I’m sure there will be designer gated communities developed for them so they can share their views in an undisturbed setting of bucolic tranquility.
-
-
Seen from my car today driving through Tel Aviv today
-
If you take the chatter out, it's a Trumpian statement. Throw something out there outrageous and watch everything scatter.
It gets people thinking and talking.
“Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”
Warning: I post things that interest me. Read and comment at your own discretion.
-
-
@Jolly said in Trump says the USA will takeover Gaza:
If you take the chatter out, it's a Trumpian statement. Throw something out there outrageous and watch everything scatter.
It gets people thinking and talking.
Indeed, throwing gasoline on existing fires tends to do just that.
-
@89th said in Trump says the USA will takeover Gaza:
Next Trump will ponder, "Why don't they just make the plane out of the same material they use for the black box?"
Steven Wright for President?
-
OK.
Would somebody lay out a solution to the problem?
“Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”
Warning: I post things that interest me. Read and comment at your own discretion.
-
-
In a world without backlash from those with luxury beliefs, I.e. the world as it always was before the modern west and its diseased cultures became prevalent, Trump's idea is fine. But it's unworkable today, and the terrorism would render a vacation resort completely unworkable. (Not to mention the process by which a vacation resort could ever be built. Over the dead bodies of the current inhabitants?) Or that's what I think.
