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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(117,314 posts) Thu Dec 26, 2024, 03:03 PM Dec 26

This is What Obeying in Advance Looks Like

Monday night, CNN ran the ridiculous headline: “Trump considers US expansion.” As if that wasn’t bad enough, the subtitle was: “If he's serious, a territorial expansion into Panama, Greenland, and Canada would rival the Louisiana Purchase.”

None of this is serious—especially not Trump. Canada isn’t becoming our 51st state. Greenland is not for sale. And the Panama Canal isn’t going to be taken back from Panama. Period.

It’s not just CNN. The NY Times said: “Trump’s Wish to Control Greenland and Panama Canal: Not a Joke This Time.” AP, Reuters, Forbes, NBC, and so many others posted stories that made it seem like it was actually a possibility.

Give me a break. All this does is weaken America on the world stage, and it shows Trump to be the clueless, petty bully he is.

https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/this-is-what-obeying-in-advance-looks

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This is What Obeying in Advance Looks Like (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 26 OP

I consider Claudia Sheinbaum the most important leader in North America today. delisen Dec 26 #1

Mexico still has a widespread corruption problem. Elessar Zappa Dec 28 #7

I agree tha the corruption problem is still severe but no longer worse than ours. delisen Dec 28 #8

The MSM is normalizing the return of Empire Building,... magicarpet Dec 26 #2

Sane-washing 2.0 Evolve Dammit Dec 26 #3

I think all of our media is turning in to: ReRe Dec 26 #4

It's so freaking disgusting to see the media comply with his madness LymphocyteLover Dec 26 #5

They've been doing it since he left the White House. lees1975 Dec 27 #6

delisen

(6,658 posts)

1. I consider Claudia Sheinbaum the most important leader in North America today.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Thu Dec 26, 2024, 03:18 PM

Dec 26

Mexico is advancing and we are declining. Our press would be wise to start reporting more about other countries. It would give these news outlets a more balanced perspective.

The NYT seems to be operating in the shadow of Trump and MAGA.

Elessar Zappa

(16,224 posts)

7. Mexico still has a widespread corruption problem.

Reply to delisen (Reply #1)

Sat Dec 28, 2024, 02:54 PM

Dec 28

The rule of law in the country is very weak as the police, prosecutors and judges are often corrupt or just trying to get by in a corrupt system. They have a ways to go before they pass us.

delisen

(6,658 posts)

8. I agree tha the corruption problem is still severe but no longer worse than ours.

Reply to Elessar Zappa (Reply #7)

Sat Dec 28, 2024, 03:58 PM

Dec 28

Our Supreme Court is immensely corrupt as is our election funding for just two examples. A third is the corrupt influence of organized religion. A fourth is is corruption of money laundering in banking and real estate.

We have not faced our understood the depth of our corruption and we are just at the beginning of acknowledging. How it has transformed our society for the worse since the 1990s.

magicarpet

(17,254 posts)

2. The MSM is normalizing the return of Empire Building,...

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Thu Dec 26, 2024, 03:19 PM

Dec 26

... at the point of a bayonet and the firing of guns. Djt is just repeating history,.. how can anyone fault that ?
Besides Putie is doing it with Ukraine. Why can't the U.S. follow suit ?

Plunder, capture, and pilfer - the AmeriKKKan way.

Evolve Dammit

(19,418 posts)

3. Sane-washing 2.0

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Thu Dec 26, 2024, 05:59 PM

Dec 26

ReRe

(10,969 posts)

4. I think all of our media is turning in to:

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Thu Dec 26, 2024, 06:14 PM

Dec 26

P-r-a-v-d-a.

LymphocyteLover

(7,073 posts)

5. It's so freaking disgusting to see the media comply with his madness

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Thu Dec 26, 2024, 08:28 PM

Dec 26

lees1975

(6,180 posts)

6. They've been doing it since he left the White House.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Fri Dec 27, 2024, 10:10 PM

Dec 27

Every day, some news story about Trump made its rounds of the manstream media. I wish I had counted, in one evening of watching MSNBC, the number of times the name "Donald Trump" was mentioned.

They helped him win it in 2016, when he should have been laughed out as a ridiculous, know-nothing, insane megalomaniac. But they wouldn't tell the truth. Money runs this country and the billionaires have been constantly planning how to buy the government they hate so much. Now, they've got it.

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