Trump says he’ll have the ‘honor of taking Cuba’ and can do ‘anything I want with it’
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Someone should tell Trump that Cuba is older than 16.
Cuban expats are a popular target for human trafficking. Come down to Houston or Miami and you'll find Cuban migrants all over the strip club scene.
How can you tell?
Live where they rent is cheap and find out.
Boom! Roasted!
Trump is an evil evil man, anybody who can't see that is a sociopath or worse.
Willful.
If a person is a willful sociopath, that person is a sociopath.
really, really stupid?
No, to detect obviously sociopathic behavior is a trait normal people have. Because our morals are partially either inherited or learned because we are social beings. So we instinctively have a sense of importance in protecting each other, especially wife children and the society we are part of.
This is NOT tied to high IQ, but normal social intelligence, if you are NOT a sociopath or something similar, and that trait also exist among apes.
So to not detect an obvious sociopath exhibiting sociopathic behavior routinely, a person literally has to be a sociopath or worse, because it requires to not have empathy, and to not have any moral standards, or general regard for the community or society we live in.
In USA however, people are strongly indoctrinated to disregard moral standards, so maybe I should have written you either need to be a sociopath or American.
Because in USA freedom is indoctrinated to be the highest value of all, and sociopathy is an expression of ultimate freedom. Sociopaths don't care about norms or rules or to hurt other people. In fact they are sadistic, because sadism give them a feeling of power. But because it's an expression of freedom, sociopathy is seen as a virtue among many Americans. Lack of moral standards and limitations, also enable a person to make money at great cost to other people, for instance workers earning a non livable wage. And money is seen as the highest achievement possible in USA, and since a lot of rich people are sociopaths or worse, that is seen as positive trait, that will allow you to achieve the most important goal in USA, which is to be rich.
Failing to see that in Trump, can only happen because a person doesn't comprehend the problems of his behavior emotionally despite maybe understanding them intellectually.
If you are a stupid sociopath, you will of course not comprehend the problems intellectually either.
So I meant my post quite literally, but with the possibility that it may be that Americans are brainwashed, to ignore the problem of antisocial behavior caused by what is technically called Dyssocial personality disorder, which I call sociopathy here, because it's close enough, and people know what it means.
Psychopath, Sociopath, or worst of all malignant narcissist which Trump is are all forms of dyssocial personality disorder.
People are brainwashed to trust authorities no matter what and to pick a side. The former president of USA was also an evil man yet many even here on lemmy couldn't see it.
False equivalence. Biden was not a sociopath. Big difference.
Not sure what the definition of a sociopath is but if you endorse and support a genocide you are evil evil.
Yes, that should b pretty simple one would think.
Rapist language.
I would have thought Cuba is too old for Trump
I learned about Cuba in school so this statement is accurate.
He's talking awfully big for a guy getting his ass kicked by a country with a depleted military.
The Americans and Israelis have massacred an extraordinarily large number of people, demolished billions in critical infrastructure, and plunged the country into a bleak future of warlordism, poverty, and famine.
It cannot be adequately expressed how nightmarish life will become in Iran in the next few months, without a globally organized relief campaign.
What they've accomplished militarily is impressive, but it hasn't come anywhere close to breaking the genocidal grip of the imperialist powers around their collective throats.
Military force kills people and breaks things. The US military is incredibly good at this. Wielding the power of destruction in a manner that produces positive outcomes is the job of politicians, and the Executive Branch happens to be incredibly bad at this.
Is this even possible?
Probably, but only in retrospect.
WW2
Business Collaboration with Nazi Germany
I would also refer you to the Lord Halifax, Documents And Materials Relating To The Eve Of The Second World War Vol. 1
The Nazi War machine only existed thanks to the Trans-Atlantic military industrial complex.
The only bombing that actually led to results was the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And only because if was so devastating, on a scale of cruelty never seen before.
Japan was already ready to surrender actually. The fire bombings had done the job.
True. Then I can't think of any examples where it might have worked in history.
So the bombing of tanks, factories, trains, and bridges did nothing?
I'd argue that it did less than what Russia did in WWII: invade with overwhelming superiority in men
So the war itself, absent the bombings had no power of destruction, killed no one?
Is that a positive outcome?
Yes, they could destroy the oligarchs and kleptocrats draining this planet of its life.
That's Tankie Talk.
Talking awfully big for a man threatening a country with arguably one of the best infiltrations of the US intelligence network since the USSR. I'm unsure how true it is since the Cold War, but time was when you couldn't go take a shit in the Pentagon without Castro knowing about it.
Only a couple a years ago the US ambassador to Bolivia was arrested for being a Cuban spy. I’m sure they’re still punching above their intelligence agency still punches above their weight. I’d be curious to know how they can actually leverage that strength if Trump really decides to go after Cuba.
.... ass kicked huh?
Yep, and literally begging our allies to save him.
Its great you believe that narrative
Yours is a very helpful comment. Thank you for replying and have a great day.
This man is a Tyrant. The comparisons to the Third Reich aren't just satire anymore; this is exactly what it is.
I deeply appreciate the small detailed Cuban flag on the Astronaut suit. Well done.
That's Ohio! It has always been Ohio! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQs7d8NgG9c
Always has been!
They were never satire. This is exactly who Trump told us he would be. It's who he tried to be during his first term but some of the checks and balances were still intact.
"You can't have any Cuba if you have not finished your Iran."
Can't*
How can you have any Cuba if you don't eat yer Iran?!
It's crazy how often he accidentally admits he's a sexual-assault enthusiast, like here.
How is this surprising from President Grab-Em-By-The-Pussy?
Trump seems to be speed-running the "overextend yourself militarily" part of the late stage in the collapse of empires.
The investment in Agent Krasnov is paying dividends
That a sleazy criminal crook like Trump got elected and that he gets away with doing what he does is 100% the fault of the American system, the American elites and the American people.
No amount of foreign interference would be able to even wobble this building if it wasn't already rotten from the inside down to its foundations.
Trump is a symptom, not a cause, and if it wasn't him, it would sooner or later be somebody else like him.
So please stop parroting the Neoliberal version of the "blame the foreigners" self-excusing nationalist propaganda that deflects from the 100% local people who are most to blame for what's happenning, the deserved punishment for their actions at the hands of the common citizens - this shit would never have happenned without decades of pillaging by insiders, subversion of the guardians of Democracy like Courts and the Press, widespread ridiculous amounts of Nationalism switching of people's critical thinking about their country and the purposeful stupidification of the populace.
Next to the sleazy greedy assholes and a culture normalizing and even applauding sleaze and greed in America, the impact of even the most influencial of foreign states - Israel - is tiny.
You're right, Trump is the symptom of decades of corruption, the natural result, and a perfect example of the USA. He is what we deserve.
He's not even smart. This is just getting started, we live in interesting times
The local people are to blame, but they've been influenced by decades of foreign-backed media/ propaganda and ideologues. Yes, some of it is due to the selfishness and greed of American culture - at every level - but the collapse is due to a confluence of multiple factors. And a non-trivial factor has been the influence of foreign propaganda and henchmen (it's not just Donald Trump that is beholden to Russia/ Israel).
Go check who owns most of the Press in America - it ain't foreigners.
Go check who owns most of the Social Media in America - it ain't foreigners.
The rot not only predates Social Media, but the very Social Media that accelerated it is American-owned.
I'm sorry but you're just being a useful idiot when you parrot the very deflection propaganda of the local power elites that I mentioned in my last post.
Agree that the problems predate social media. Also agree with your assessment of the courts and insider palm greasing. To the dumbing down of the populace: there has always been an undercurrent of conservative white people trying to maintain the county's wealth and power for themselves.
But this:
Was made infinitely worse by the media environment post-9/11. Since at least 2005, it has been apparent that there was an intentional effort to sell conflicting versions of events to the people so that they could not discern what was true. Yes, all of the American media at the time contributed to the garbage decision to go into Iraq. Initially though, the worst of the confusion of facts was largely driven by Rupert Murdoch-owned Fox News. All of the Internet has greatly exacerbated this since then, and it has been asymptotic post-2020.
Yes, American culture has (always?) been narcissistic and obnoxiously self-aggrandizing. But America had been a gigantic population of wealthy consumers for decades. So it draws all the avaristic psychopaths from around the world like moths to a flame. Are the local people to blame for the machinations of Rupert Murdoch, Peter Thiel, and Elon Musk? Saudi Arabian and Russian wealth underwrote Musk's acquisition of Twitter, even if you count him as one of "the local people". To the headless beast that is social media now, you have Russia contributing millions of dollars via Tenet Media in the 2024 campaign.
Obviously there are plenty of American bad actors in this stew of billionaire-owned manipulative media, but most of them act with an agenda that does not involve ripping the country apart.
What I'm talking about here is the massive social, political and economic trends of the life-cycle of an Empire.
So keep on Zooming Back your perspective.
Here is an historic graphic of Social Mobility in the US.
Here is the Gini Coeficient that measures inequality (the higher the more unequal), which actually understates the reality because it's not that great at reflecting internal inequality in the top quintile (i.e. things like how the top 1% are now way much richer than the top 10% than before).
So all the way back in the 1970s, America started changing from the "Land Of Opportunity" were "everybody has a chance" as shown by it's massive social mobility back then to the equivalent of a feudal system - a zero-merit environment where the rich are rich because their parents were rich and those born into poverty are unable to rise up from poverty - AND on top of that the richer were getting richer and the rest were getting poorer.
For most of the population that meant more povert and less opportunity hence less hope. From that you get more discontent.
So, how do the elites pillaging a society deal with such increase in discontent due to the activities of said elites?
Deceive the masses (for example: more and more lying in Politics, Press capture and subversion into a Propaganda machine and in present day psychological manipulation via Social Media), increase oppression (for example: ever more murderous policing, criminalization of "no victim" activities and harsher punishements) and in the case of a Democracy subvert the systems by which the citizens chose who will manage the nation (for example: political corruption, Gerrymandering, taking the vote away from felons - which typically hail from the poor - and, specifically in the barelly-Democratic US system, internal capture of the two parties in the duopoly of power that rules the country as illustrated by how the DNC gave the nomination to Hillary Clinton some years ago).
So the entire system was pillaged by local elites and then when the discontent caused by that pillaging grew, it was corrupted by those very same elites to redirect or suppress the consequences for those elites.
Foreign interference in present day America, is like maggots in a zombie - they're not what made it a zombie and there would be no maggots in it if had not already been turned into a zombie.
A problem with these graphs & your inferences is it's objectively unclear what to expect. What do they look like for other countries? What part of this is explained by other factors like unique historical advantages (eg, an industrial base untouched by war during the postwar boom) dissipating as other countries rebuild & catch up? Can we decouple these time-dependent factors to get an expected baseline performance apart from them?
With that social mobility graph, should we expect nearly all children to earn more than their parents every subsequent generation indefinitely? The remarkably similar graph provided by the source cited by yours shows birthyear of the child starting in 1940. Couldn't their parents earning substantially less, perhaps by living through the Great Depression, and the postwar boom significantly explain the high proportion earning more than their parents? And as GDP per capita growth rate declines, wouldn't we likewise expect a declining proportion of children to earn more than their parents? A base of reference would really help here.
As for the Gini coefficient, we see a 7% range from 35% to 42%. While this is an increase, it doesn't seem staggering & needs evidence to distinctly support your conclusion.
Some problems you mentioned were always present or worse when that Gini coefficient was lower: gerrymandering, obstructions to vote (felon disenfranchisement, intimidation, poll taxes & tests), discriminatory incarceration, 2-party system due to plurality voting, etc. They're not new developments systematically leading in the direction you claim.
It looks like you started with your conclusion & worked backwards to confirm it with evidence that is not as conclusive as you claim. An open-minded skeptic wouldn't be convinced.
Agreed! Russia can't even afford to sit at the table with the real players, they are "second string" at best.
Russia's economy is smaller than California's. Can they afford to influence a rep? Yes, as always. But our reps will take money from absolutely anyone, get in line Russia, you're right after Amazon and McDonald's and Walmart and Tesla and Blackstone and Blackrock and so on
"The honor of taking Cuba" sounds like an old man talking about a young girl he's about to rape.
Well he does have experience
Grabbing countries by the pussy.
The USA is a terrorist country.
filled with a terrorist population
yeah, sure, a third of them aren't terrorists
but the other third? either openly approve or don't care enough to even vote against it lol. the bare minimum
The US has had centuries of the conservative white majority consistently trying to suppress the vote of minorities and the youth. Hundreds of thousands of voters were purged from the voter rolls shortly before the 2024 elections, with a majority of those purged being minorities. Sauce: https://sdvoice.info/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won-here-are-the-numbers/
Many conservative states put fewer polling locations in poor communities. They block measures to make voting easier like same day registration and vote by mail.
Stop demonizing people that have been systematically disempowered. The Republicans in the Senate are about to shut down all other business in an attempt to strip married women of the right to vote.
Fuck off
Only Donald Trump can outdo Donald Trump at being a piece of shit.
He is reaching levels of shit nobody thought possible!
Mar A Lago is drone & missle range from Cuba. He should not be poking that bear.
Oh, pretty fucking please blow it up when he's there!
We need to uncover the corpses buried there first.
They'll rest in peace if there's retribution
Cuba, if you're listening...
🙏
Does Cuba even have the missiles and drones to do this? The Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces are equipped with mostly outdated and cobbled together technology.
I couldn’t find any long range strike capability in this [list of equipment](Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces). That doesn’t mean they don’t have any. A couple of containers filled with Shahed long range drones could be hiding in a warehouse. Serious ballistic missiles are less likely to exist. I couldn’t find any info on the Air Force owning cruise missiles for their jets.
Cuba could run a fierce defense and Guerilla war against an full invasion. They have the culture, experience, equipment, and organization for it. That is, if the will to fight is strong enough
didn't the military just blow up a leader of another country? i imagine it can't be to difficult with the right intelligence and military tech these days
And in doing so, showed that if you're capable and make up a reason, there is nothing wrong with it.
If USA can murder leaders around the world, so can Cuba.
Yeah, I agree, that's kind of what I was attempting to say
In the meantime, lets watch
I think there will be a large tourist line for that. Even Americans will want to partake. Haha
Put it behind a 10 dollar ticket and some good could be done with the billions of dollars.
you probably won't be able to afford the ticket..... if there is one thing i know about america's capitalist pigs, is that you will 100% be charged money at the gate to go and piss on his grave, and it will cost more than fifa tickets.
although, ironically.... i only ever had to pay to use the pissers in europe lol, this will be america's first pay toilet lol! ...and that is still a better legacy than her deserves
It's funny because I've had the exact same thoughts!!!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣
I can piss on it for you so you don't have to visit this shit. Besides my piss is extra acrid and dank.
Cuban CIA, could do the funniest thing and nobody would know because it would just look like he died of burger.
Nah, go traditional. Get him an exploding cigar.
I don't think he smokes. Split the difference, exploding burger.
I'm so glad I listened to all the posters who said voting for the Democrats was voting for GENOCIDE. Boy we sure dodged a bullet there didn't we!
I’m not sure why people like you feel so confident that some small segment of vocal lefties lost the democrats the election. They are such a small percentage of the actually voting population and strategic voting is just not how most people vote.
The reality is many democratic voters were simply not motivated to vote for an administration that was more interested in supporting a genocide than dealing with the riding cost of living. You can argue that’s stupid or irrational but that won’t affect how voters actually vote. You might as well be yelling at a brick wall. It won’t change anything.
The fact is that Biden, Kamala, and other high level members of the Democratic Party knew that supporting a genocide might cost them the election. They did it anyways. They cared more about Israel’s ability to bomb children than they cared about protecting the American people from a second Trump term. The blame lies entirely with them.
Because then they'd have to confront the fact that there was whole list of popular (with everyone, not just the left) issues that the democrats where turning their noses up at, not just Kamala's promise to keep Joe's genocide going.
But it is funny how the anti-genocide folks are the ones they're blaming the most for their defeat. No one is hissing at people who wanted single-payer health care for instance. Totally a real winning strategy and not just another smear job paid for by AIPAC.
Honestly, I think it comes down to a form of genocide apologia. I think most reasonable people might ask, “If Biden was willing to lie in order to help Israel carry out a genocide, why wouldn’t he or any of his associates lie in order to protect the corporate profits even if it meant American people would be murdered en masse?” At that point, voting for a democrat feels like choosing to get stabbed in the back so that you don’t get shot in the face. Sure, one might be better than the other but I don’t think anyone wants to be making that choice.
However, if you think your own life has a greater intrinsic value than the lives of people in Gaza you won’t see it the same way. Yeah maybe you would prefer if the Democrats didn’t help murder children abroad but that doesn’t mean they would do the same to you and your children.
Maybe it was the fact that Kamala was fake as hell, or maybe that the Democratic canvassers knocked on people's doors (including mine) two dozen times before the election, even though I told them every. single. time. that I was voting for her.
Or hell, maybe it's that she called Gen Z voters dumb after they clenched the 2022 midterms. Or maybe it's the fact that they didn't primary a candidate. They kept saying Biden was going to run again and then tried to use his popularity to force us to vote for her. I'm sorry, but that faded Obama magic doesn't transfer from one candidate to another, especially when Biden was so-so at best with almost no charisma. I was already pissed that we got the rug pull with Bernie for Biden in 2020. To not even get a fucking primary for 2024 has left me beyond bitter.
Still, I voted for her and Fetterman. I will not vote for a candidate I don't believe in again. At this point, I'm writing in a third-party name. If the establishment can't learn, then let them burn. Don't bother with whatever guilt trip of a response you might have. I'm sick of feckless leaders. I will always vote, but I won't hold my nose for the establishment anymore. Fascism is here, and the ratcheting fuckers of the Democratic Party are useless. It's just too bad. Trump is essentially burning the country to the ground, but the flames won't hit the support beams until they can blame the Democrats, and, like always, it will work. Politics piss me off so much.
Yeah, my only advice is stay close to your family, friends, and community if you can. It’s pretty clear to me that Democratic Party officials have no real interest in fighting fascism so it really doesn’t make sense to put any hope in them. Luckily you don’t really have to.
Fascists by their own inflexible nature will eventually force people to fight back in meaningful ways. Any kind of bonds you create with other people can become the basis upon which organized resistance thrives, whatever that may look like. Even though it’s not really organizing, sometimes I think acts as simple as baking cookies for your neighbors does more to prepare for the fight against fascism than voting for a Democrat does. lol
You could have fought facism by voting, like normal people do.
I’m not telling anyone not to vote but why do you think voting will stop fascists now? It never has in the past. Normal people had to fight and die to stop it.
Maybe if democrats treated fascism with the seriousness it deserves we would be okay. However, instead of jailing Trump and dismantling his movement, Biden decided to give unlimited support to a fascist government committing a genocide.
I hope you realize how disingenuous democrats are when they tell you to vote against Trump in 2028 as if the election hasn't been rigged by that point.
You really can't fight fash by voting for fash-lite which is what was offered in 2024.
Ah, but it's not just those who voted this way. It's more those who actively supported this idea and were pushing for people not to vote because of it. We'll never have certainty about how much of an impact it made on the actual vote but I think any reasonable person would concede by this point that the consequences of the result they were advocating for have been much, much worse than just picking the lesser evil even if you believe that lesser evil allowed an unrestrained Israel to conduct genocide. I do think the facts contradict that claim anyway since we've seen Israel's actions rise to a whole another level after Trump has truly let the Netanyahu government loose but even if that wasn't the case there's a lot more harm being done both domestically and abroad in addition to that all continuing.
It's also not just the presidential election by the way, in a world where the House had been under Democratic control we'd probably have seen Trump limited in meaningful ways over the past year.
Blah blah blah, enjoy life under Trump.
Most if not all of them were bots and right-wing trolls, operating with the objective of suppressing Democratic Party turnout. The remainder (if any) were just gullible.
talk to the dem leaders about their failure on that one. You would hope at least one of the parties would be against war crimes. Why werent the DNC? Rhetocial question: because they are irretrievably corrupt and cashed some AIPAC checks.
I think you'd best be mad at that corruption and not the voters put in an impossible spot because of it. Unless you are dishonest, a warmonger or zionist, in which case go on with your prattle.
Oh, I see. You're a secret Trump supporter. Good job gett8ng him elected.
yes, anyone who didnt do exactly as you wanted is a trump supporter. So smart.
These people are so mentally challenged it's not even funny. I bet they are still around, perhaps on .ml 😉
You didn't listen to those posters because if you did you'd know they were mad about a lot more than the genocide.
Yeah, what else was it? 😀 How would Kamala have been worse than this? I am genuinely interested 😀
You miss the point. You think Kamala being better than Trump is a gotcha that'll shame non-voters into eating the shit sandwich, but that's immature. Voters will never be rational and will always pick what feels right over what would lead to a better outcome. Being bitter about it helps no one, especially when it's a party's job to make decisions that appeal to voter preferences.
They made so many blunders leading up to the election that I knew who I would be responsible if we lost. As someone who has voted in every single regional and national election since I was eligible, I saw them do everything in their power to be unlikable enough to lose to evil incarnate. It was the last election that mattered, but you wouldn't think it based on how they ran the country and their campaigns.
They put capital above democracy, put nationalism over human rights, and they never plan to undo the damage done unless the owning class allows it. You blaming the people who lost most from the election only dooms the party to moving further away from liberalism. It's always the people who own the media, own stocks, and own politicians who are at fault. You've already forgotten who to blame, and for that you are a useful idiot.
You are eating your shit sandwich from the dumpster now instead of a plate in your home. Whatever you blame on the Dems in your lengthy text is foobar'd now to the point of being irreparable.
Guess your hands were tied and there was no way to avoid Trump 2... Not sure who is the idiot here.
I'm not surprised that a person using 😃 emojis didn't fully read what I wrote. Oh well, it's not like such comments are for you anyways ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Well Jessica, they all got Trump instead. Mission accomplished.
As someone who voted like I always do, I tried to warn everyone I could, and could literally be imprisoned and medically tortured if ICE decides to card me, I only wish the worst for neoliberal cheerleaders like you. You are more responsible for the mess than anyone on the left, and you will be responsible for America's failure to ever rebuild after Trump.
Technically speaking, we don't know what would have happened if Kamala was elected. But I agree with the general sentiment of the message.
Trump, despite being lowest rated president in the modern history is still overrated and overtrusted by people.
Only speaking as a Canadian, but I highly doubt you'd have a president openly threatening the sovereignty of foreign nations, completely alienating your closest allies for over a century forcing them to stop trade with you, and overall make you an international laughing stock.
Sure you might still have gotten a war, but it's everything else that is uniquely Trump.
Bold of you to admit you're a Trump voter
Is it? Everyone that abstained from voting for Kamala got Trump elected. That's how voting works.
It's always a vote for genocide, whether D or R or refusing to vote, the genocide keeps genociding.
USA is world's largest arms dealer (not hyperbole) regardless of who is in office. Vote for who you want, just for laughs. It doesn't matter.
Nope, your "nothing matters everyone is the same" bullshit is wrong. There are different levels of harm and the far right is objectively more harmful to more people.
Lmfao you Americans are funny. Non-americans are getting bombed regardless of what flavour of liberalism you guys choose.
We're talking Iran, Venezuela, Iran again, Cuba next, threats against Greenland and Canada within a few months. You really have to be clueless to pretend this is just the same thing that was happening the previous four years under Biden.
Didn't Obama do the same with Libya Syria and continued in Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan, among others? And Biden aided a genocide so not sure what you're on about.
So let's be clear: your only example of what was happening under Biden is the thing that Trump has turned up to eleven while also doing all the other things I listed.
I thought we were talking about how a vote for team blue or team red is a vote for genocide and war? The US' 200 ish year old history has always been based on war, stop trying to argue against it makes you look uneducated. No other country has carried out the level of meddling destruction and annihilation of entire populations that the US has carried out, either alone or by supplying its allies.
If you want to compare, at least 75 thousand Palestinians were killed in the first 16 months (so 15 months under biden, 1 under trump) but the excess mortality is way higher according to peer reviewed studies in medical journals as indirect deaths aren't counted in those numbers. Still, taking that 75k number, Biden surpasses the rate of killing than what trump has achieved through its operations and its allies.
So, no trump hasn't turned up things up to eleven. Trump has just burned bridges with some allies and couped a few countries, which is slightly more active than Biden, but nothing out of the ordinary.
Like Mulligrabs said, regardless of which side of the coin you choose, the US is sure to come and destroy everything you have (or supply someone to do it for them).
"Oh but he's upsetting allies" what the fuck does that matter? The world doesn't care that a few allies are upset when they're getting bombed by America.
The US is an empire and I sincerely hope it collapses.
How many of these did they start vs continue vs somehow happened in their term?
Let's just make some borscht full of conflicts the US was involved in and use that as whataboutims because who the fuck cares?
Is Trump more than aiding the genocide now? Questions over questions.
Wasn't he trying to make people forget about the Epstein files? Because jfc that isn't how you do it
Trump doesnt know truth even when it slaps his ignorant head
Honestly, I don’t think this is really meant as a cover up. The war crimes he’s committing are far more atrocious than anything he could have possibly done with Epstein. It would be like trying to distract from an assault by becoming a serial killer.
The reality is Iran and Cuba have been on the hit list of the American right wing for almost half a century. Trump is just such an arrogant narcissist that he thinks he’s uniquely capable of making those bloodthirsty dreams a reality. The idea that prior republican administrations didn’t go to war with Iran or Cuba because they knew the US wouldn’t win doesn’t event occur to him. The sycophants and yes men he’s surrounded himself with in his second term are also too cowardly to tell him.
Yeah, but unfortunately the severity of the political consequences for each does not correlate well with the severity of the offense, especially for the person living in the bubble of the US Presidency. Double especially a Republican one!
When it comes to their voters, a president like W or Trump is pretty much expected to generate a steady flow of corpses of dehumanized non-people on the other side of the world somewhere.
But release just one video of Trump raping a child, or one pic of Trump blowing Bubba, and that's literally a thousand times worse. There are so many millions of ignorant people who just go along with what they're taught and have reinforced through echo chambers. They are seasoned pros at making excuses for their cult leader and looking past faults. His crimes are him being a shrewd and smart businessman. His cheating and predatory behaviors are because he's a lion among men who drowns women in testosterone if he doesn't move along.
But a real pic of him with a dick in his mouth? Like, corroborated with sources by multiple journalists who release it at the same time? Imagine the number of supporters Trump has lost because of Gaza, Iran, and all military stuff combined over the past decade. He loses 10x that number within in the first day after the pic. It's a horrible thing to say, but it's true.
I honestly think he could get away with it if real and verifiable pictures of him abusing children were to be leaked. Most of the news media is controlled by people sympathetic to Trump and he’d wield the power of the state to go after anyone who doesn’t fall in line. As long as it doesn’t threaten capital, right wing judges aren’t going to rein him in. His sycophantic base would be eager to believe in narratives of it all being AI even if those claims were easy to disprove.
That said, the war he’s launched against Iran is beginning to have a major impact on the global economy. He only has so many tools to buffer the US from the consequences of that war. The sickening thing is, it’s much easier for Americans to have moral clarity on the horrors of imperial violence once it starts to negatively impact their standard of living.
Spoken like a true rapist.
The fact that the American military is going along with these stupid endeavours just show you how ignorant fucking Americans and the military are. Spineless, gutless cowards who can’t fight their way out of anything including trumps diaper.
Get fucked Americans. You. Fucking. All. Suck.
The American military is a den of animals and monsters. disgusting subhuman cowards; Bloodthirsty beasts.
Dehumanising people, calling them animals, subhuman, beasts, etc - using their own horrid, evil tactics basically - is not how you win me, or anybody decent, over.
They can be bad people doing bad things, but the moment you try to persuade us that they're not human, but are less than human (and it thus follows that doing bad things to them is more acceptable than doing bad things to actual human people), you immediately lose my support.
No thank you.
Nah they had their grace period. They're not a ethnic group or sexual orientation. They only thing that unites them as a group is their willingness to kill and die for the American empire and I'm fine with painting such people with broad brush.
Especially now that direct American involvement Israel's suicide wars is official. Fuck any non-combat service member who hasn't at least been filing the paperwork to get the fuck out ASAP. Anyone in a combat role, pilots, or anyone involved in bombs, missiles, or targeting who are willingly fighting in this war is a lost cause.
They will come back and happily do the same to us and so I will happily dehumanize them.
We can't win over decent people because decent people are already leftist, or at least anti trump. No one cares if we lose the support of some random asshole either too evil or too up their own ass to see the truth.
And these 'people' are made less than human by their own choices.
They act like inhuman beasts then that is what they are. Barbaric scum I hope PTSD or the neglect of their nazi empire takes them.
Well, at least he has lowered his expectations down from Canada and Greenland, but given how Iran is going, his threats are empty for now. There's a little bit of me that worries that Agent Krasnov might be doing this in cooperation with Russia.
If Trump's America invades Heard Island (the penguin island he imposed tariffs on) it might even get a win.
Then again, it would probably piss of Australia.
"A little bit.."
Only a little? Are you a little slow..
No rational explanation for the events of the past few months is good. You can look at the events as separate or string them together, you can wear an aluminium tin hat and make a conspiracy board of events but in all situations america, the west and the world lose.
When you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.
Grab'em by the Bay of Pigs.
Just grab 'em!
Will Cuba agree to that?
In the fifth year of WW3, the US is going to be saying the same damn thing. Gotta finished up your Iran before you get any Cuba, little Donny.
Venezuela is getting cold
You can't have your Canada until you finish your other wars of aggression, young man!
Maybe if they get spread thin enough, Greenland can launch a counter attack with their polar bears and moose. Come on Latin America, stir them up a bit more just by being there minding your own business speaking "foreign" and looking tanned. That'll do it.
Funniest thing ever, inuits covertly invading USA.
With moose
Meese. The plural for moose is (unfortunately not) meese.
Meese
pearl-cluthing intensifies
If nothing else, at least future history class will be fun.
“So what are you taking next semester?”
“Trump Studies”
“Oh, I’ve heard that’s so easy. Just remember when you’re writing a test that everything he did was wrong.”
It'll be the only multiple choice test where all of the right answers are the stupid options.
Ha ha!
It's funny because no one in a position of power will try and stop him and he will fucking kill us all for his vanity, or to escape narcissistic injury, or because he's bored...
Wait.. yeah, that's not funny. Can someone please take away grampas nuclear weapons and put him in a home/jail?
I never thought I'd see the day when even childish Saturday morning cartoon villainy became this real.
This is his dementia talking, or more specifically, his frontotemporal dementia, a major symptom of which is that his brain no longer has efffective impulse control He lacks inhibition, much like you see in drunk people, and he's just acting on whatever idiotic thought pops into his head or gets mentioned to him
Rapist gonna rape
Epstein files
The last time a US President tried to overthrow the Cuban government, bad things happened.
Naa bro, his head just did that.
Are you implying Cuba killed JFK?
I see no implication anywhere. Just stating a correlation, which as we all know is not causation.
People don't bring up correlations without suggesting there is some link.
Was it funny? Did you laugh? Then it doesn't matter!
Cuba got his secret service drunk enough for a horrific misfire?
Naval blockades are an act of war in international law (as much as that matters anymore). Cuba seems to be the first target of Trump expansionism in the Americas. It has the potential to be the annexation of Czechoslovakia of our time.
Hold him accountable or something, yall dont even have guard rails to protect american citizens and hold people in power accountable, america is literally a business trying to make the most profit possible. Citizens rights? Fuq that shit xd
Unfortunately, this 100% true, and most people don't truly realize it. In 1919, Dodge sued Ford, claiming that Henry Ford was operating his company under policies that benefitted him and his workers more than they benefitted the shareholders. The court found for Dodge, and ever since, corporations have been enslaved by their Stock Price, and all company policies have to increase the stock price, no matter what. If they don't put the shareholders first, the shareholders can sue the company.
That forces companies to abuse and under-pay employees, and make immoral corporate decisions because serving the Stock Price is literally the ultimate objective of every corporation. More than a good product, more than quality control, more than utility to the consumer, more than being a moral company who cares about their employees, the Stock Price is literally the only thing that matters, because that's the law. Ultimately, the only product that any public corporation cares about, is its Stock.
The thing that gets you sued is not doing what you say you're supposed to be doing. And that entirely depends on what it says in the corporate charter. A corporation is only obligated to maximize quarterly shareholder returns if they don't clearly state otherwise. And it's never been the stock price, it's been dividends (which drive the stock price). And you'll notice that quite a lot of software firms don't turn a profit for many years and pay no dividends. And yet they're not sued by shareholders, because they openly announced that that was what their strategy was.
This dude has to get got.
If he’s saying it, I’ll believe it. And I also think he sees this as a way to win the midterms with few Hispanic vote.
How about you finish your current war you sad old bag of hamburgers.
After Cuba he’s finished his wars right…..Right???
blockade is defined in the UN charter as an aggressive act of war. Any fallout from that would mean NATO has no duty to support the US.. in that conflict or any conflict continuing from it.
it’s in the definition of Agression Resolution (Re. 3314) and is considered an illegal act, and a war crime if it halts import of food and medicine.
Retaliating with commensurate and proportional force against a blockade is legally allowed by art. 51 of the UN Charter.
NATO has no duty to support the US anyway unless we're talking about an attack on the US which this isn't looking like any way you slice it.
Like turn it into Epstein island
Already has Guantanamo Bay.
Turning it into Trump Grand Golf Links Guantanamo.
Wasn't that his plan for Gaza? One trick pony much?
Same but with cubanos instead of hummus.
SIXTY YEARS of this Cuba crap, all without any benefit to us. Just out of spite
Why does everything he says make him sound like a predator? I know the answer but, seriously, I'm still asking.
How about go swimming off the beautiful Cuban coast, and get eaten by a school of sharks?
Sounds like something a true predator would say.
he can have gitmo. yeah...let's put him and all his criminal friends in gitmo.
Nah shut it down and give it to the Cubans. There are easier ways to deal with the Epstein class.
Por que no los dos? Put them in there and give it back to Cuba!
They have dealt with enough of our shit honestly.
Like most bad gifts, I think it largely depends how it's presented. While the mango fascist isn't literally a white elephant, he is a white supremacist republican, and that's pretty close. I would love to see what Cuba would do with them. In the case of many white elephant gifts, sometimes the best thing to do is hang them from a wall so you'll have a story to tell.
10g of lead aught to do it.
"Acute lead poisoning at supersonic velocities"
Epstein rhymes with guillotine
So what about Iran and or the Epstein files?
Elian Gonzales is now a Cuban legislator, it would be the second time the US taking him into custody made international news
What a sack of shit. Time to take this international shame of a clown behind the East Wing...
Who had bay of pigs 2 electric boogaloo on their 2026 bingo card?
Another “adversary” that previous administrations have known better than to attack.
Just dictator things.
Iran away to Cuba.
First finish with Iran, you Orange Ape
This is about shifting media attention away from Iran. When Miami gets shelled, then the Gulf becomes boring.
As long as we don't do anything about it he can indeed do whatever he wants
Bruh
HURRY CUBA, GET CHAINMAIL UNDERWEAR!!!
It makes sense for Trump to go after Cuba. I'm not saying it's right, just that it makes sense. When Cuba went communist, the American vacation market took a hit because it was one of the major vacation spots for rich Americans. Having a communist country in the U.S. backyard has been a thorn for the establishment forever. Trump sees it as a win-win as an ’80s real estate guy. He gets to punch a communist country and scoop up land deals from whoever he puts in charge.
It doesn't matter that Cuba has been under embargo since it went communist, or that it pretty much hasn't done anything aggressive to most of the world, including the U.S. All that matters is that it's in a weak economic and military state, and Trump can grab an easy win for his base who think "communism bad." And don't get me wrong here, I'm not defending Cuba. I just don't care. The biggest thing Cuba has done to the U.S. is give us a massive refugee influx.
and I don't count the Cuban Missle Crisis as relevant to this
TRUMP will have th honor of taking cuba at the behest of MARCO RUBIO.
He should start by overthrowing the US totalitarian regime.
Remember: Hitler was also "democratically elected".
US is a similar style of "democracy" to modern-day russia, in that despite there being elections, whoever ordinary people vote for they are still fucked and the oligarchs get all the money and power. It's just that the US political system achieves the same goals with a slightly more sophisticated machinery of "two parties" serving the same interests, which is enough to fool many people into believing they have a meaningful choice.
Not any longer. Things are rigged.
Yes, because America has an outstanding track record in making positive changes from meddeling in other countries affairs.
Stop thinking the US is some righteous bringer of all that is good. The US has only ever served its own purposes and fucked everything up in the process.
The Cuban people don't need to be fucking "cured", nor do they want it.
If the doctor said "I'll cure you" and proceeded to make an absolute fucking shamozzle of every attempt at helping people (Except maybe once??) then I would be pretty pissed at the doctor and prefer the doctor stay away in their own corner.
In case that analogy is lost on some, I'll refer you to the illustrious leader invader zim
Zim: I put the fires out.
Almighty Tallest Red: You made them worse!
Zim: Worse... or better?
//Answer - it was definitely worse.
What did Cuba do to you?
Why?
No, why do we need to overthrow the government of Cuba in the first place? Surely that's where the casualties would be coming from.
Again I ask: what has Cuba done to you? Or really, literally, anyone else on the planet? Leave them the fuck alone.
Have you considered asking if the Cubans living in Cuba want that? What has been consistently bad for Cubans, for like 60 years now, is the unjustifiable embargo that's still ongoing.
And despite said embargo, Cuba has been doing alright. They have done nothing to deserve any kind of foreign intervention by anyone.
The new one will be worse. No fatwa against nukes...
I'll make Cuba a deal. You let Trump have the entire island, he can move there and all his goons turn it into Epstein Island 2.0, then all the Cubans can move to Florida and we just let you have that entire state as a sorry for fucking you over for so long. To not confuse anyone Puerto Rico will be the 50th state and anyone in Florida who doesn't like what happened can go with Trump or move to Puerto Rico, full expenses paid.
A statement like this makes you sound as sociopathic as Trump. Fuck everything about this. No quarter for pedophiles.
There is no world in which Cuban would ever want to live under the American government. That's literally the entire point of this whole thing.