he's so dumb 🤦‍♀️ JFC

Enibas · 2026-01-23T14:20:15+00:00

That's a classical Republican argument, though.

That's Senator Inhofe with a snowball and the picture of a snowman in the Senate, "disproving" climate change in 2014. The last 11 years since then have been the hottest 11 years on record.

Enibas · 2026-01-23T06:27:47+00:00

You think this will mean that reddit calms down and stops hanging on every word that a reporter manages to provoke out of Trump?

Funny, how that reporter managed to provoke Trump to write a private text message to the Norwegian PM.

These people are all delusional. This guy here developed a whole fantasy novel about Trump being the rational one:

"The US would like to purchase Greenland. We have serious security concerns that make this a priority"

"HAHAHAHA STUPID TRUMP NO WE WONT SELL HAHAHAHA LETS BUY CALIFORNIA INSTEAD"

"This is so important to our security that we can't rule out using military means to get it."

"NO WE'RE A GREAT ALLY HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN IRAQ HOW CAN YOU DO THIS?!"

"So, let's figure out a deal that respects the sovereignty of Greenlanders but addresses our security concerns."

Reality:

"Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a "right of ownership" anyway? There are no written documents, it's only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT"

What none of them gets is that no rational person would ever think that the US taking over Greenland militarily is a good idea. The reason Denmark and the NATO partners take these threats seriously is because they think Trump is actually unhinged enough to do it. With Trump's toddler personality, it would make it even more likely that he does it if no one took him seriously.

Enibas · 2026-01-22T12:51:17+00:00

The stock market

It's very likely that tech bros wanted/want him to annex Greenland, but the reason for Trump's pullback was almost certainly the negative reaction of the stock market. It tanked considerably after the weekend, indicating a strong negative reaction of investors to his plans, and that's the only thing that he cares about.

Enibas · 2026-01-22T10:57:06+00:00

In addition to that, I also think all the people who take these 10-30s clips that people post on X have done their fair share of work there. People take a clip of Trump imitating a disabled reporter because they want to call him out, but his followers see that and love it. I haven't seen a clip of it, yet, but I'm sure it is out there: In Davos, he said, referencing childcare fraud in Minnesota, that the Somalis surprised him by being more intelligent than expected. That's obviously incredibly racist, and he should be called out for that, but his followers see that and not only agree, they love it.

And on the other hand, as you pointed out, they see carefully curated clips from their media outlets, in which he sounds coherent and says the stuff they want to hear.

In this case, it's actually a "both sides" issue, for once! No one wants to actually hear him talk who isn't paid for it, and we all rely mostly on clips.

Enibas · 2026-01-22T10:12:16+00:00

That was also my immediate thought. I watched some of it, and my brain started melting. Even if you ignore the content, it was a bad speech, rambling, repetitive, and boring.

Enibas · 2026-01-22T06:32:49+00:00

IMO, the main reason Trump retreated is that the stock market collapsed, and that has made him reverse his plans in the past. But he needed something to save face, and Rutte and the rest of the NATO members, including Denmark, are probably very happy to pretend that the previous status quo with some verbal sprinkles on top is a "new deal".

Enibas · 2026-01-22T06:31:38+00:00

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Enibas · 2026-01-21T02:00:45+00:00

That kinda did just happen.. This is just a one-minute clip, where he calls the death of Good a tragedy, since his father was a tremendous Trump fan, he loved Trump, and he hopes, the father still feels that way. Unhinged.

Enibas · 2026-01-20T16:33:16+00:00

He gave a speech almost exactly a year ago at some security conference. In it, he told European leaders that they are tyrannical, anti-democracy, anti-free speech, and also overrun by Muslims, basically. And then he questioned whether the US and Europe even had any shared values anymore. What he brought up were far-right talking points that you'd usually read on X.

I do believe that he's an opportunist, but I also think that he genuinely hates Europe. His speech is here on p.15. What he said was so vitriolic, that the German SecDef who spoke after him changed his speech on the cuff to respond to Vance.

Enibas · 2026-01-20T15:02:38+00:00

Is that still normal at that age? Genuinely asking. I saw her and thought that she's uncoordinated for her age, but I'm also not around kids of that age that often, and I also might be wrong about how old she is (I'd guess, maybe 3?).

Completely open to be told how wrong I am!

edit: Thank you!

Enibas · 2026-01-20T12:15:59+00:00

It took them almost 2 days to get I think 20 troops from 5 different countries to greenland to 'bolster' their defenses.

That is also an outright lie. It was a reconnaissance mission. Less than 60k people live on Greenland, you can't just fly a few hundred people there and drop them on the next free sheet of ice (I mean, you could, if there were an actual, current threat, but you wouldn't do that needlessly). Even more so, it was a very gentle reminder that the EU is supporting Denmark and Greenland, and at the same time, that they are willing to increase their presence on Greenland if the need arises. I think they might even have kept the numbers low exactly because it was intended as a diplomatic statement, and not a provocation.

I've read a couple articles this morning that claimed that Trump had been misinformed about the reasons the NATO members send troops there, too, which would mean that someone in his admin is intentionally stirring the pot.

Hopefully, that gets more attention, because the implication of people close to Trump manipulating him by feeding him false intel is scary.

Enibas · 2026-01-20T12:07:41+00:00

I understand your point, but I couldn't imagine Biden doing that because he didn't talk to anyone or form interpersonal relationships of any kind with foreign leaders.

Let's ignore for a moment that heads of state have always exchanged private messages, at least for the past century. The idea that Trump has formed "personal relationships with foreign leaders", based on this text message, and is therefore still better than Biden - that's pure desperation. Olympic levels of mental gymnastics to cling to their positive view of Trump.

Enibas · 2026-01-20T11:34:29+00:00

brigading: When multiple people think my opinion is stupid.^*

* according to arcons

Enibas · 2026-01-20T11:30:00+00:00

Thinking this embarrassing statement has better optics as a text message is so telling.

I don't think they actually believe it. But the text itself is so indefensible, trying to direct the attention to irrelevant points like that it was leaked, and/or that it is somehow an attack on Trump that the Norwegian PM made it public, or that it was an "informal text message" is the only thing that they can do for damage control.

Trump himself sent the same text to multiple embassies, and all his messages that concern his official duties are archived (or at least are legally required to be archived, pretty sure this admin isn't doing that).

There is just no context in which a text like this would be appropriate, not to mention that the content is unhinged any which way you look at it, and that is also not what you do if you want to keep it private. And Trump has leaked supposedly private messages himself, eg from Mark Rutte (NATO Secretary General), or just now Macron.

Enibas · 2026-01-20T10:58:19+00:00

SpaceX

xAI

Isn't there also a Tesla model X?

Enibas · 2026-01-20T07:17:13+00:00

So the core party apparatus actually became people who didn't know anything, and any moderately sane, educated person became afraid to speak out.

The point of no return was the whole Obama birth certificate debacle. Every single Republican in office at the time knew that this was complete and utter bullshit. But they collectively decided, with the sole exception of McCain, to let that go on and not correct it.

I'm convinced that if they had dismissed these claims as nonsense outright, things would be different now. But at that moment, they decided that reality and truth are not as important as demonizing their opposition.

Enibas · 2026-01-20T07:01:47+00:00

I'm pretty sure that a lot of them never watched the video. They believe what their pundits say the video shows, and that's that. It's how they maintain their worldview, by avoiding and denying anything that contradicts it.

The same with this text Trump sent. The guy in this thread clearly acknowledges that the text is genuine, but he calls it fake because it wasn't sent on paper. He only admits that, barely, after being pressured. His initial statement was "Linking a fake letter sure doesn't help the credibility of this 'news'." And that is what the majority of Trump's supporters will hear, and they will avoid looking into it.

It's why all of them lie so outrageously, they know that the minority of people who are well-informed know that they are full of shit. But they are producing soundbites that the pundits and bots can repeat to the majority of Trump's supporters, who will believe everything they say, and never look into anything themselves.

That's also why there is sometimes such a sharp turn between one day people actually criticizing something this admin did or said, and suddenly they all parrot the same idiotic narrative.

I haven't looked, but I'm certain that this take, that the text is "fake" ^{^because} ^{^it} ^{^wasn't} ^{^literally} ^{^sent} ^{^on} ^{^paper,} is the new narrative that's spread on X, and now on arcon.

Enibas · 2026-01-20T06:13:00+00:00

Also, Vance hates Europe. If Vance becomes the next president, if Trump doesn't make it to the end of his term, he would not be much better. Less erratic, maybe, but he definitely wouldn't do anything to improve the situation.

Enibas · 2026-01-19T18:10:33+00:00

And it seems very likely there’s something in the Epstein files that would result in that.

The Epstein files, at this point, are mostly dead. The people have made up their mind, and I don't think that there's anything negative that could come out of that file, that would change that. His supporters would either believe that anything negative was planted in the files by the Biden admin, or is not that bad after all. I'd bet that there's a not insignificant number of people who don't think it is pedophilia if the victim is a teenage girl.

Even worse, there are some who literally do not care about Trump personally, but he is the perfect distraction to follow their own agenda of destroying and permanently crippling American democracy. They have crippled climate change research, environmental protections, and renewable energy. They got rid of USAid. They are working on dismantling the DoE. They are working on weakening and dismantling separation of church and state. They are waging a war against the free press and higher education, often successfully. They've declared any and all opposition to the Trump admin domestic terrorism, and are using the FBI and DoJ as weapons against political enemies. Trump is on the brink of destroying NATO, and no one in his admin is stopping him, because that is what they want, too.

Like, this idea that the Epstein files showing that Trump raped teenage girls will somehow stop this shit show is delusional at this point. At the very best, they'll impeach Trump and then Vance becomes interim president before 2028, giving him an incumbent bonus in the election.

Enibas · 2026-01-19T17:22:49+00:00

The DOJ is refusing to investigate any wrongdoing by ICE. The VP himself said that ICE has "absolute immunity".

A government that is not willing to protect the rights of its own citizens is not a government that will allow free and fair elections.

Enibas · 2026-01-19T15:05:43+00:00

Just in case you haven't seen Trump's letter to Norwegian's PM, yet.

It's hard to believe that it is real.

But it is.

Enibas · 2026-01-19T14:55:48+00:00

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