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[Daehawk]

[waitingtoconnect]

He just needs to get elected. Then he can wash the penalties away

THERE ARE NO PENALTIES. It is so.

The constitution is not the law. He is the law!

[Daehawk]

[Moliere]

Hadn't seen this one before

[Moliere]

Similar joke the next episode.

[Isgrimnur]

[Moliere]

Civilians in Syria, Ukraine, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, et al.

[Kraken]

Civilians in Syria, Ukraine, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, et al.

Huh. I was thinking of mass shooting victims in the US.

[Blackhawk]

And that's how you prove a point.

[Kraken]

Yup.

[Jaymann]

This just in, Alexander was woke!

[Pyperkub]

Heh.

https://mastodon.social/deck/@iamcanehd ... 7786284891

[hepcat]

priceless

[Punisher]

Anyone have a lunk to the full video?
I really want to hear their reactions.

[YellowKing]

Well Trump is correct in that if he was President we wouldn't have the "Ukrainian situation." You can't have a Ukrainian situation if there's no more Ukraine! Stable genius!

[Moliere]

They are all war criminals. Democrats. Republicans. All of them have blood on their hands.

[LordMortis]

To hear the news every day, I thought all of the universities were letting the pro Palestine groups do whatever they want in the name antisemitism and genocide a la river to the sea.

[Smoove_B]

This is pretty insane - even for TFG

Trump: One of the presidents of a big country stood up and said, Well, sir, if we don't pay and were attacked by Russia, will you protect us? I said.. No I would not protect you. In fact, I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want.

Once again, the idea that he's a presumptive candidate is simultaneously depressing and frightening. America is not well.

[hepcat]

He’s the wet dream of every dictator who’s ever lived.

[GreenGoo]

What possible leader of a NATO country would ask that fucking question?

He literally can't stop making shit up.

Note how he phrases it as he himself protecting or not protecting. He can't die soon enough.

[waitingtoconnect]

What possible leader of a NATO country would ask that fucking question?

He literally can't stop making shit up.

Note how he phrases it as he himself protecting or not protecting. He can't die soon enough.

I’d agree it’s a lie because usually he’d name the person who said it had they actually done it.

This has been a consistent complaint of many presidents though albeit none had used trumps language.

https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/ ... rack-obama

Be interesting to see where a nato without the Us would go. Without European bases Us force projection into the Middle East would fail.
What would happen to Diego Garcia and Ramstein?

In theory Britain, France and Germany should be able to see off Russia themselves provided they can work together.

[Isgrimnur]

We all know how agreeable the French are for common defense.

[waitingtoconnect]

We all know how agreeable the French are for common defense.

As long as everyone works as a team and does things their way it’s fine.

[waitingtoconnect]

https://www.msn.com/en-in/sports/nfl/al ... r-BB1i8aRc

Case closed. I’m going to watch real sports that’s not rigged now like WWE.

[Isgrimnur]

[GreenGoo]

I’d agree it’s a lie because usually he’d name the person who said it had they actually done it.

This has been a consistent complaint of many presidents though albeit none had used trumps language.

First, you know it's a lie because drumpf said it.

Second, no leader of a NATO country would talk in terms of "protecting them" as if they are helpless and begging to be rescued.

Third, the lie is not that NATO members aren't spending their required % of GDP on their military, it's that anyone begged Drumpf personally for his protection.

You say no one used drumpf's language and that's obviously true because not only is his language wrong, the tone and meaning behind his words are laughable.

Yes, America is a large and necessary member of NATO. You spend 40% of the entire world's military budget by yourself after all. No one denies that the US is a crucial member. What Drumpf is lying about is that any leader, even behind closed doors, talks about being protected by the US, or worse, drumpf personally.

"Will you honor your treaty obligations in the event of Russian aggression?" is not the same as "will you protect us from Russia?".

That's the lie.

Lastly, NATO requires members to spend a percentage of their GDP on their OWN defense. Not pay it to the US as if it's protection money. That members are not spending enough on their defense is a valid complaint, but no one is getting screwed, and NATO members contribute regularly to NATO military operations (of which there is no defined "dollar value" that must be part of every operation).

The US receives the exact same amount of dollars whether NATO members meet their NATO obligations on defense spending or not. Zero. Using this for political purposes is misleading at best, dishonest at worst. And since it's drumpf, assume the worst.

[Jaymann]

Leave it to Orange Florida Man to make it sound like a mob boss demanding protection money.

[GreenGoo]

Second, no leader of a NATO country would talk in terms of "protecting them" as if they are helpless and begging to be rescued.

Wait, this is incorrect. Drumpf would.

[Kraken]

That members are not spending enough on their defense is a valid complaint,

I don't think so. Pretty sure I read that all members except Finland are now spending at least 2% of GDP and many are over that. They started reluctantly raising their budgets in response to trump's bombast and really stepped up their games when Putin invaded Ukraine. Finland will be in compliance by 2026.

[Alefroth]

Go to town, Issie.

[waitingtoconnect]

I’d agree it’s a lie because usually he’d name the person who said it had they actually done it.

This has been a consistent complaint of many presidents though albeit none had used trumps language.

First, you know it's a lie because drumpf said it.

Second, no leader of a NATO country would talk in terms of "protecting them" as if they are helpless and begging to be rescued.

Third, the lie is not that NATO members aren't spending their required % of GDP on their military, it's that anyone begged Drumpf personally for his protection.

You say no one used drumpf's language and that's obviously true because not only is his language wrong, the tone and meaning behind his words are laughable.

Yes, America is a large and necessary member of NATO. You spend 40% of the entire world's military budget by yourself after all. No one denies that the US is a crucial member. What Drumpf is lying about is that any leader, even behind closed doors, talks about being protected by the US, or worse, drumpf personally.

"Will you honor your treaty obligations in the event of Russian aggression?" is not the same as "will you protect us from Russia?".

That's the lie.

Lastly, NATO requires members to spend a percentage of their GDP on their OWN defense. Not pay it to the US as if it's protection money. That members are not spending enough on their defense is a valid complaint, but no one is getting screwed, and NATO members contribute regularly to NATO military operations (of which there is no defined "dollar value" that must be part of every operation).

The US receives the exact same amount of dollars whether NATO members meet their NATO obligations on defense spending or not. Zero. Using this for political purposes is misleading at best, dishonest at worst. And since it's drumpf, assume the worst.

Yes - much of the 800 billion spent on defence by the Us does not go on defense for nato but other operations while most budget by small nations goes to their own defense.

And the only NATO member ever attacked on the history of the alliance was the US and thus all nato members sent troops to Afghanistan something those nations didn’t have to cos the US wasn’t paying the bills to send those troops were they?

Yes Denmark “only” sent 2000 troops as the magats like to point out but how many per capita did a small Us state send? The Canadian Armed Forces had the highest per-capita casualty rate among coalition members. I can’t recall their pm saying America only gets help if it buys more of our stuff.

And as others have pointed out it’s a bit rich of the orange one to complain people aren’t paying their bills (and they aren’t even bills).

[Isgrimnur]

https://www.nato.int/nato_static_fl2014 ... 023-en.pdf

[waitingtoconnect]

I think it’s clear most European nations need to spend more on their own defence. Even if the Us was not there. As the head British general said the other day we are in our generations 1937 moment and we need to consider building the army to be prepared for when Ukraine falls.

Personally trump is a fool though. We have so much surplus stuff we could give like old Bradley’s etc to help build up those forces but it needs to be about friendship not about being a mob boss.

[Holman]

It doesn't hurt that Russia is busy spending *its* military budget on scrap metal and fertilizer in Ukraine.

[waitingtoconnect]

If you just close your eyes he goes away and stops reminding you of your defence obligations. And once he does Biden turns up and starts calling you Helmut.

[Pyperkub]

Heh.

[waitingtoconnect]

I can’t see dark Brandon in the first column therefore this cartoon has no credibility and is clearly a false news mass media stunt.

At least it’s good to see the mass media aren’t onto us yet and didn’t use octopus overlords but rather lizard overlords.

[Punisher]

At least it’s good to see the mass media aren’t onto us yet and didn’t use octopus overlords but rather lizard overlords.

That's because are smarter than and know how to hide better.

[Moliere]

It's funny how the Right has to criticize Obama for stupid things like a tan suit or whether he had a U.S. flag on his lapel and the Left has to pretend that these are the only things Obama can be criticized for, because to acknowledge things like the murder of hundreds of civilians, including Americans, via drone bombs or the overthrow of governments would indict just about every President since the removal of Queen Lili'uokalani*.
(*Overthrow by Stephen Kinzer)



Fact check: the price is not worth it.

[GreenGoo]

Sure, but then it's not the president you're criticizing, it's the policy. Because as you say, it's America that's the problem, not the individual president.

And if you think this board didn't criticize Obama, then I don't know what to tell you.