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GloriousGbola:
apparently he is also planning to invade mexico

understand that trump has the mind of an african dictator where might makes right

and the supreme court has effectively right given him presidential immunity

he is in control of congress

so he can literally do whatever he wants.

musk will spin it on twitter as some sort of just war and the far right will lap it up

remember george bush unilaterally invaded iraq and anyone who spoke against it was cancelled

it is going to be a very interesting 4 years

TRUMP: “With the stroke of my pen on day 1, we are going to STOP the Transgender lunacy…Under the Trump administration, it will be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders - Male and Female.”

Go Trump 💪💪💪That’s why we fought 🔥🔥🔥… pic.twitter.com/F7ND8J5kdN

— J. C. Okechukwu (@jcokechukwu) December 23, 2024

TRUMP: “With the stroke of my pen on day 1, we are going to STOP the Transgender lunacy…Under the Trump administration, it will be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders - Male and Female.”

Go Trump 💪💪💪That’s why we fought 🔥🔥🔥… pic.twitter.com/F7ND8J5kdN

— J. C. Okechukwu (@jcokechukwu) December 23, 2024

GloriousGbola:
apparently he is also planning to invade mexico

understand that trump has the mind of an african dictator where might makes right

and the supreme court has effectively right given him presidential immunity

he is in control of congress

so he can literally do whatever he wants.

musk will spin it on twitter as some sort of just war and the far right will lap it up

remember george bush unilaterally invaded iraq and anyone who spoke against it was cancelled

it is going to be a very interesting 4 years

LordAdam16:
Every POTUS is cursed to intervene somewhere.

Thankfully, this one plans to get busy in the Western Hemisphere.

Let them get a dose of the daily realities of other regions.

@izzou. Yes, Trump can take the canal.
I'm not sure he can keep it though.
Carter handed it over because it was becoming a hot potato.
Odds are he is using this as a bludgeon to get more favorable terms from the Panamanians.
But it's certainly a possibility that he could take it, then make the far harder task of maintaining control the problem of the next administrations. He only has four years.

On Mexico, someone has to take the blame for the 70,000/yr fentanyl fatalities.
They're at the limit with China. Can't do more than economic sanctions.
So the Cartels are on the menu.

Also, the Cartels are becoming really powerful in Southern US--parts of Arizona, Texas, New Mexico.
You'll never know. Many think there is a window to cut them to size that is slipping out of grasp.
If you really wanted to go after the cartels, ten years ago was better than five years ago. Two years ago was better than five years ago.
If an El Padrino comes on the scene, you'll essentially have a richer, more sophisticated, larger, and better-armed Hezbollah or Taliban right on the Southern Border without the Islamic undertones.

Lastly, most Trump's positions are not just musings of a geriatric off his rocker.
It may appear that way but there are powerful US interest groups feeding these into his ear and to-do list.
There are factions in the Pentagon and business community who want the Panama Canal.
Factions in HS, DEA, and DOJ want major military action against the cartels.

TMTG (his media company) bought Bakkt (a crypto trading firm) after his election.
His flip on crypto has capitalist, profit-driven motivations.
The US crypto bros want him to get the crypto-sceptics out of the way and help set the ball rolling for the crypto industry to become a future $10-15T industry. His family will get in on the action and the next generation Trumps will enjoy the windfall in the billions.

America is all about interests.
Both parties do it. The Dems have their clean energy/climate change, DEI/feminist/lgbtq+, think tank/civil society/welfare and several other complexes ranging in size. Trillion and billion dollar industries created from scratch. My support for Trump harkens back to first principles. There cannot be a singular dominant force. There must be balance.

-Lord

GloriousGbola:
simply put - you support trump because he will weaken the us hegemony
because for you - this is desirable
which is what so many of those right wingers cannot see

same way bush 2 reduced teh us influence - and now trump is here to finish the job

you also know that us will simply bleed money and men if they invade mexico
it happened with iraq
it happened with afganistan

also the us will never win the war on drugs because they are the users
no be trump jr and co who are coked out of their heads during rnc
every last one of them
the us eliminated the colombian cartels in the 90s
and that led to the mexicans who are far worse

if the us is serious about ending their war on drugs, then they will have to follow the same path with marijuana

LordAdam16:
, Clinton won election in 1992.
1992 to 2024 is 32 years. With the exception of Bush whose primary identity is that he's neocon and Trump's first term where he was hamstrung every step of the way, it's been 3 decades of the neoliberals dominating the planet. What is their scorecard?
I don't like what's on the scorecard. I know you and several others on this thread do. But I don't.
America is never static. She evolves. No dominant wing stays in control in perpetuity. Neoliberalism has had its time in the sun. It's time for a shuffling of the cards.
If the hegemon weakens because of a non-violent change in guards, so be it. But history makes a different suggestion. When America steps on a new rung on the ladder, it habitually gets stronger, not weaker. The demise of the federalists, whigs, social liberals did not "weaken" America. It's not like they're going away permanently. They've been repudiated but could very well come back strongly as early as 2028, optimistically with a refreshing take on things.

MAGA 2.0 is about controlling debt; improving efficiency; rewriting the regulatory dogma to solidify American leadership in next-gen technologies--AI, space, robotics, autonomous mobility, crypto, nuclear fusion...; improving health outcomes; reworking the immigration policy that favors the illegal, law-breaking variant; recalibrating American foreign militaristic posture; hitting reset on American economic relations with both foes and friends alike. The last two are long overdue as they've been driven by a set of axioms established in the cold war that is past its use by date.

If a CEO came to you as a Chairman of the Board with such a radical proposal, you'd give him a Tesla-esque performance-based compensation package and a "when do we start" quip.

This is an empire, or at least a segment of the empire, conducting orderly, organic spring housecleaning.
You, bless your heart, are being blinded by inertia.
I'm not.
China had its own spring cleaning with Deng Xiaoping. Russia had its with Putin.

In 2100, America will still be one of the top 3 economies. Its only competition are China and India. LOL.

The positive is that as America puts its wares in the washer, sensible countries in the Global South can use the opportunity to forge alliances, deepen cooperation, and help modulate a new global order with far more tangible benefits for the Global South than in the current regime.
Historically, momentous events of this nature occur only after expansive bloody wars with untold loss of lives, and we do have some wars going on in the background, but it could be so much worse.

This is one of those rare opportunities in history where there's potential for wins of some form for all players involved.
You make your own luck. America is not leaving anything to chance. Nor should anyone else.

On a renewed war on drugs. A military campaign is being discussed. An approval is a quite ways out.
It is clear that something has to be done. Particularly about the fentanyl deaths and cartel capture of a country on the US border.
There's a wide breadth of options on the table, including military options. I don't expect there to be a guns blazing Iraqi Desert Storm/Fall of Baghdad without some other levers being pulled. That'll be incredibly st*pid. It's not like the US has not take boneheaded actions before, but that's not the only option on the table. We should not pretend that it is.

-Lord

Roland17:
I have never understood why the lead bike men for Nigerian Presidents and Governors have to be stunt drivers. What exactly is the use of performing stunts during a motorcade for a President?

raumdeuter:
As it was in the beginning

iamoyindamola:
So shall it continue abi

raumdeuter:
Abi na

Wait Sodik how much be 1 average sized Xmas chicken and Revfrebuka how much be 1 round for Olosho joint

raumdeuter:
Abi na

Wait Sodik how much be 1 average sized Xmas chicken and Revfrebuka how much be 1 round for Olosho joint

I swear on my life, no matter how much you despise Nigerian Police, you can not hate them enough.

Look how they just wasted this young man's life in Ilorin ffs. Fuck you @PoliceNG pic.twitter.com/Bd8eFhyKAB

— 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐨 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐨 (@Abdulherphyz) December 22, 2024

raumdeuter:
Abi na

Wait Sodik how much be 1 average sized Xmas chicken and Revfrebuka how much be 1 round for Olosho joint

nihilistjnr:
Egbon dem don step up for Lagos o.

They have imported Chloe Bailey, Saweetie, and all manner of foreign talent now. Even home grown talent no cheap anymore. Unless you want to go for them risikatu, basirat and co

There is now a cost of nutting crisis in the land. Olosho inflation is a real thing. We need FG to intervene and bring the average price per nut down for the common man this yuletide season. It is unbecoming to manage rice and kote for Christmas and still have to step down with soapy.

raumdeuter:
Abi na

Wait Sodik how much be 1 average sized Xmas chicken and Revfrebuka how much be 1 round for Olosho joint

BlueRayDick:
Nigeria police Just wasted this young man's life in Ilorin

I swear on my life, no matter how much you despise Nigerian Police, you can not hate them enough.

Look how they just wasted this young man's life in Ilorin ffs. Fuck you @PoliceNG pic.twitter.com/Bd8eFhyKAB

— 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐨 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐨 (@Abdulherphyz) December 22, 2024

Later if Kemi talk say Nigeria policemen are robbers and murderers ; Adejobi PRO and some Nigerians that don't like the sound of truth will be forming holy anger

Just small matter of unpaid debt, police Don kill debtor on behalf of creditor 🤦‍♂️

iamoyindamola:
The person that reported the first case is in ibadan they decided to kpai the guy by torturing him

Ballzproblem2:
They just don't want to get their hands dirty,no moderate pesin from that religion.

Taguchi:
We definitely have one "moderate" on this thread

nihilistjnr:
Egbon dem don step up for Lagos o.

They have imported Chloe Bailey, Saweetie, and all manner of foreign talent now. Even home grown talent no cheap anymore. Unless you want to go for them risikatu, basirat and co

There is now a cost of nutting crisis in the land. Olosho inflation is a real thing. We need FG to intervene and bring the average price per nut down for the common man this yuletide season. It is unbecoming to manage rice and kote for Christmas and still have to step down with soapy.

Ballzproblem2:
IDK 🥴

Ihebu4chelsea:

Taguchi:
Well, during the Deborah saga, a particular "moderate" on this thread supported the gruesome execution of Deborah . only had " issues" with the absence of trial in a Sharia court before the murder.

BlueRayDick:
I heard how the police in Kwara state actually move mad. They said the police in Kwara state still operate like Pre-ENDSARS when they just pick up youth randomly & start profiling them.

Most students and non-students on social media have been complaining about the conduct of the police in Kwara state for months now.

I guess now that this has happened, the old people will lend their voice and call the police out once and for all.