Honestly, at this point I’d be willing to bet that those officials who actually still give half a shit about national security don’t give Trump anything that isn’t essentially public information already. Or at the very least, largely harmless if it does become public. It’s not like Trump would know or care about the difference.

Remember that multiple sources have said that during his first term, the Presidential Daily Briefings were largely little more than fluff pieces with pretty pictures, easy to understand words, and random references to him just to keep his attention, much like trying to keep a 3 year old occupied with a coloring book and a handful of crayons.

$100 says Trump couldn’t find Palestine on a map.

To be fair, this is a problem that has always existed with our Constitution. The Constitution gave us a framework for government and rules to abide by, but its fatal flaw is that it said exactly nothing about what to do when someone breaks those laws. The entire document is basically little more than a glorified gentleman’s agreement. There’s nothing in the document that says what to do if those elected to support and defend the Constitution instead decide to take a shit on it.

If anything, we should consider ourselves lucky for a couple of things. One is the fact that it took 250 years for someone to realize that our Constitution has absolutely no teeth to it and the answer to the question of “What are you going to do about it?” is effectively “Nothing.” The other is that the first person to go down that path is an inept moron. Now granted, the man has still done permanent and irreparable harm to our country and our standing in the rest of the world. But imagine the damage the man would be able to do if he were competent. Imagine if Trump had the political savvy and intelligence of Mitch McConnell. We’d be in a fuck of a lot more trouble.

He’s not “trying to undo” it. He’s largely already undone it.

He has done permanent and irreversable damage to our relationships with our allies around the world. Countries like Denmark and Canada now have to look at us as potential adversaries as we repeatedly threaten to use military force to annex their territories.

He has obliterated our ability to maintain strong political and economic ties. Sure, with every administration comes tweaks to various foreign and economic policies, but American policies in general have been considered stable and reliable over the long term. Countries now believe, and have every right to believe, anything the US says only has a shelf life of 4 years before the next administration comes in and flips the table on a whim, and that anything Trump says only has a shelf life of until he has a conversation with someone else and randomly changes his mind. Businesses and governments can’t be expected to function under those conditions, and it is going to take us decades at best to show the rest of the world that Trump and MAGA were just short blips on the radar and that the US can once again be trusted in the long term. That’s assuming we ever get that trust back.

Even domestically, how many collective centuries of experience has been purged from federal government operations as a result of Trump’s mass firings? Even if these agencies were re-opened and fully re-staffed tomorrow, how long would it take them to wind things back up and get back up to full strength? If they’re re-instated after the Trump administration, how much damage would be caused in the interim, and how many years or even decades will it take to fix it? How much data that these agencies relied on has already been permanently lost?

How many years of scientific research has already been destroyed as time-sensitive experiments and studies get cancelled due to de-funding? Again, even if these institutions would be able to restart work tomorrow, how many experiments have already been invalidated in the interim? How many years are we now going to be behind in scientific research?

Same goes with vaccinations. Environmental damage. Race relations. The list goes on and on and on. What he has already destroyed in four months will likely take four decades to repair.

First it was slapping tariffs on penguins. Now we’ve entered the “War on Dolls” stage of the Trump administration.

I wish I was joking.

I hate this timeline.

Most likely was one of those people who “didn’t think Trump was serious about that”. Until he realized he was.

This reeks of Trump doing something for the media to focus on so they won’t focus on the actual shit he’s doing behind the scenes. Which means we should be looking for a bigger scandal.

Notice how all the “Genocide Joe” crowd suddenly became silent once they helped return Trump to power.

Still waiting to hear an explanation of how this was better for the people of Gaza than Harris.

But you know why I blame the “progressive” Democrats and “independents” more?

Everybody knew that the MAGA crowd was going to MAGA.
Everybody knew that the strategists were going to stick to the same old playbook.

And you know what else everybody knew?

Everybody knew that in this election, not voting for Harris was a de-facto vote for Trump. Everybody knew that whatever your position was on any given topic, Trump’s position was an exponentially worse option.
Everybody knew that even under the best of circumstances, this was going to come down to the wire.

These people knew it. They knew how important their vote was, and they stayed home anyway. And they still infect this very community with their constant excuses for blaming everybody else for their own choices because Kamala Harris wasn’t the perfect candidate.

“She wasn’t a supporter of Gaza.” First, let’s remember the fact that the Jewish voters in this country exponentially outnumber Palestinians multiple times over, and if she had spoke out against Israel and it cost her even 10% of the Jewish vote, she’d still have lost even more votes than she would have gained from Gaza supporters. And second, if the people of Gaza are supposed to be your primary concern, how is allowing a man who was openly campaigning on amping up the genocide, annexing the land, and turning it into beachfront property any better for them? Or the university students in this country who are now being deported for supporting them?

“She campaigned with Liz Cheney one time.” So fucking what? Liz Cheney wasn’t running for re-election. None of Liz Cheney’s policies were on any ballots. This was a woman who, much as I disagree with her on 99.99999999% of policy issues, still sacrificed her career to try to hold Trump to account. Conveniently, of all the dozens of Republicans who endorsed and even campaigned with Harris, she is the one everybody gets all up in arms about. Gee, I wonder what separates her from all of the Republican guys that also endorsed Harris? And even without that…everybody gets mad because Harris campaigned with someone who formerly supported Trump. But how in the name of holy fuck does it make sense to retaliate by allowing Trump to return to power? “I’m so fucking mad that a former Trump supporter endorsed her that I’m going to let Trump return to power! That’ll show 'em!”.

“She wasn’t far enough to the left on <whatever issue>”. Ok. Again, so fucking what? How does allowing our government to be controlled by a far-right trifecta that is campaigning on dismantling the very progressive programs you’re supposed to support help that in any way, shape, or form?

The lot of them decided that the remedy to not shooting themselves in the foot was to point the gun at their own head instead.

And I’ve said it before and I still believe it: The people who fall into this category I believe are closeted racists who either low-key support Trump’s immigration policies, didn’t want to vote for a black woman, or both, and are just using one of the above flimsy arguments to justify their choice rather than admit it.

You proud now MAGAts? Does this make you proud?

Yes. Yes it does. And there are plenty of them who want more of this.

And I don’t even blame the MAGA morons any more. I blame the “progressive” Democrats and so-called “independents” who decided to stay home in November and allow Trump to return to power because Kamala Harris had the audacity to commit sins like running for President while being a black woman, campaigning with Liz Cheney that one time, and not being left enough for their liking, so obviously the only reasonable thing to do was to let Trump return to power.

How’s that working out for y’all, you fucking chodes?

Can Trump deport suspected undocumented migrants without due process? “No. It’s not complicated. Anyone that tries to inject nuance into this simple question is not to be taken seriously.” Except he’s doing just that.

Can Trump completely ignore the rulings of the court system up to and including the Supreme Court? “No. It’s not complicated. Anyone that tries to inject nuance into this simple question is not to be taken seriously.” Except he’s doing just that.

Can Trump target specific people, companies, or organizations with punitive executive orders unless they bend to his will or do his bidding? “No. It’s not complicated. Anyone that tries to inject nuance into this simple question is not to be taken seriously.” Except he’s doing just that.

Can Trump withhold federal funding from universities and other organizations that don’t adopt Trump-friendly policies and give him direct control over their operations? “No. It’s not complicated. Anyone that tries to inject nuance into this simple question is not to be taken seriously.” Except he’s doing just that.

Can Trump threaten executive, legislative, or otherwise punitive action against news organizations and reporters who report on him unfavorably? “No. It’s not complicated. Anyone that tries to inject nuance into this simple question is not to be taken seriously.” Except he’s doing just that.

Can Trump unilaterally implement and rescind tariffs unilaterally, based on nothing but his personal whims? “No. It’s not complicated. Anyone that tries to inject nuance into this simple question is not to be taken seriously.” Except he’s doing just that.

I could go on and on, but I’m sure you get the idea by now.

Asking “can” he do something is irrelevant. The actual questions to ask are if there is anybody with the power and authority to stop him, do they have the ability to enforce it, and are they willing to use that power? If the answer to those questions are “no”, then the answer to whether or not Trump “can” do something is “He can, and he will, because fuck you that’s why.”

If there is nobody willing or able to enforce the law, those laws are mere suggestions that can be ignored when inconvenient.

Remember that Trump’s real purpose in continuously needling and threatening to annex Canada, Greenland, and Panama is so he’ll have something to regurgitate whenever he needs a distraction and wants the media to focus on something other than one of his many damaging scandals or authoritarian power grabs, or just when he feels the media isn’t focused on him and he feels a need to be the center of attention again.

Because there are enough of them to win elections.

EDIT: Downvotes don’t change reality, people. There are enough people who support these efforts to sway elections. It’s why Republicans refuse to stand up to Trump in the first place – standing up to him is political suicide in many of these areas. You can continue to not care about their opinions, but all that will do is leave you wondering why you keep losing to them.

If you want to combat this, you need to figure out what they believe and why they believe it. Then you need to figure out which ones are just party-line MAGA to the end and are unreachable, and which ones have concerns that can be addressed and negotiated on, and try to work on those. But continuing to not care about their opinions while trying to force an agenda that they already said in 2024 that they don’t want is a great way to ensure that you keep losing.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. If you’re trying to win an election, and 51% of the people you need to vote for you are concerned about monkeys flying out of your ass, you had better come up with a plan to address the flying monkey problem. You can try to appeal to logic and reason by saying that there are obviously no monkeys flying out of your ass, but you’ll be doing it during your concession speech.

He had no intention of being dignified. He does what he does because it gets him the attention he seeks. If he showed up dignified, he wouldn’t be the center of attention.

For the record, there are 195 recognized countries on the planet, including the US.

That means he’d have struck a deal with literally every country on earth, including countries like North Korea that we never had trade deals with in the first place, and six that don’t exist. Maybe he made a deal with those penguins?

This was not an accident. First, it gets him to stand out from the crowd, draw all the attention to himself, and make it all about him which is what he lives and breathes for. Second, it gets the media to focus on something other than him eliminating due process, having judges arrested, using the DOJ to attack perceived enemies, deporting US citizens, and completely ignoring court rulings while those who have the power to stop it sit back and either do nothing or actively support it.

As the song from Rush goes, if you choose not to decide you still have made a choice.

You chose to sit this out, knowing it was a de-facto vote for Trump. Take responsibility for your own choices instead of blaming others.

So again, your solution was to … elect a different senile pedo that was campaigning on funding and weaponizing a genocide?

You don’t stop shooting yourself in the foot by aiming the gun at your own head instead.

So the solution to a politician who is “condoning genocide” is to instead elect a person who was actively campaigning on genociding harder, seizing the land, and turning Gaza into beachfront property for the rich?

Democrats didn’t point a gun to your head and tell you to stay home. The Democrat nominee wasn’t God-tier-perfect, so you pulled a temper tantrum. If you opted to sit the election out, that was a decision you made. You made the active choice to help return the man you’re supposed to be dead set against back to office. Don’t go around blaming “Democrats” or anybody else for the choices you made.

These were your choices. Own them.

Maybe next time you’ll learn that you don’t stop yourself from shooting yourself in the foot by aiming the gun at your own head instead.