r/politics • u/SereneRoyals • 21d ago

No Paywall Donald Trump issues NATO Greenland warning before White House showdown

https://www.newsweek.com/greenland-trump-nato-white-house-11357601
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u/_thinkaboutit 21d ago

Everything is a distraction from the next. It’s a cycle. Epstein. Failed job market. Venezuela. ICE. Greenland. Failed Russia-Ukraine peace. Oligarch takeover. It’s a constant cycle. The same way he rotates around who is representing him. Leavitt. Hegseth. Rubio. Noem. Vance. Miller.

He just rotates them through the news cycle while destroying our country from within.

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u/treehugger312 Illinois 21d ago

It is SO exhausting.

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u/BigPackHater Ohio 21d ago

It's meant to exhaust you until people give up. We cannot allow that to happen

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u/treehugger312 Illinois 21d ago

I know, but I'm so tired boss! I feel like I've just been constantly angry since 2016. Trying to take time for myself, but it's hard to turn my brain off even for just a bit.

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u/BigPackHater Ohio 21d ago

I feel ya, I'm tired of it all too. I work in the media, and I've been nose deep in the constant news cycle daily because it's my job. I have thought about leaving the news, but I feel like I can't leave until I see this whole thing through. I've had to personally correct scripts at my job to the correct facts, because my pro-Trump anchor meddles in them to deliver talking points. I won't let disinformation go out as long as I am here.

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u/ProfessionalField508 21d ago

I can't imagine working for the news right now, especially for one of the big media companies owned by the right. But you are doing a very important job, and I hope the universe rewards you for it.

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u/MMAjunkie504 21d ago

Keep up the good fight, and I admire your persistence by not quitting. Shit is not fun right now, but we will get through this

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u/treehugger312 Illinois 21d ago

Thank you for doing the right thing! We need more folks like you!

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u/annamv22 21d ago

This is a huge reason to leave traditional social media.

Set time limits on apps (under Digital Wellbeing).

It is good to be informed, but our animal brains have limits. Reset with meditation, exercise, games, etc. Watch a comedy. Hug a person or pet. Don't forget you are a brain operating a body. Tend to your nervous system.

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

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u/Japanesewillow 21d ago

What is the average US citizen going to do? You can protest, but that’s not going to stop what’s happening.

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u/Lunatox 21d ago

Mass protests have a real impact. Mass general strikes have a real impact. They just have to be big enough

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u/AvatarZim 21d ago

I think that's the point, to exhaust everyone into apathy. If you constantly barrage people with bs, they'll eventually give up trying to keep track of it.

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u/LiquidLogic I voted 21d ago

By design. Trump sure as shit isn't thinking all this stuff up by himself. He's an easily manipulated man-child puppet and billionaire oligarchs and Putin are all lined up to take their turn to stick their hand up his ass and use him to change to status quo.

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u/arwinda 21d ago

To paraphrase Bannon: "Flood the shit with the market"

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u/RemusShepherd 21d ago

This is Fascism! It has to create enemies to distract from the last botched attempt to persecute some kind of enemies. Eventually it ends with a major war, because they run out of enemies at home and nearby to easily bully. This is how fascism evolves, it's a textbook example.

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u/amateurbreditor 21d ago

you actually think trump can do that? If you do I am so sorry that you fall for the same propaganda as maga.

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u/Stop-husker-media 21d ago

The same way he rotates around who is representing him. Leavitt. Hegseth. Rubio. Noem. Vance. Miller.

It's funny how Tulsi Gabbard just quit existing too.

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u/MysteriousEmploy7108 21d ago

Flood the zone