Yeah that’s basically what every morning is like for the past year
And yet most usonians seem to be frozen to inaction, such are the levels of embarrassment…
I chose to be born here
No accounting for taste
Is there a specific reason this time, orrr…
Just a normal Monday
It was actually a holiday Monday
Oh, it’s America we work on holidays now. The lord protector insists that idleness is evil
you would never know it at my workplace
Man, that date stamp could be pretty much any day in the last decade.
Since 1789
I think I’m out of the loop, which of the thousands of possible things is he referring to?
I am pretty sure Scalzi’s trigger this morning is the letter to Norway, but it feels like a permanent and blanket statement for this administration.
Holy shit, that doesn’t read as bad president, that reads as mentally ill.
Also when I mentioned trump’s letter to my mom, she confusedly asked “he can write?”
I think it’s a spectrum, not Autism, though. Some combination of greed, con, geriatric, uneducated, and dementia.
letter to Norway
Holeee fuck
Oh jeeesus
Does he know that the Norway doesn’t control the Nobel board?
Also Fuck Trump and this stupid letter. What has he done for NATO except extortion and existential crises? It used to be an effective tool until he got involved.
Does he know
No. Just a blanket no.
Trump is a cult leader; it doesn’t really matter whether what he says makes any logical sense or not. It only matters that his brainwashed followers like, believe, and/or get behind whatever ridiculous thing he’s planning to do next
He wants to punish us for not being corrupt enough. Hope this is a clear sign for everyone here to deinvest away from anything US, as that is the only language the orange dumbbell speaks.
Its actually incredible how Trump can continuously behave like this, while governments all over the world still bend the knee to him.
Looking at the rest of the news this morning, I really don’t think “bending the knee” describe what world leaders are doing at all. For example, Canada just re-started relations with China and is increasingly looking like they might buy a fleet of Gripens instead of F-35s, and the EU signed a free trade agreement with MERCOSUR. Everyone is drifting away from the US. They are just doing so quietly, after all, the US is still the world’s biggest economic and military force.
This.
The manbaby is not smart enough to understand politics. He just understands force. By not doing anything “by force”, he just keeps being a manbaby while the world drifts away from him without him even realizing.
What’s going to happen here is that one day, the turd will start another tantrum and, instead of saying “yes, sir, you are right, now let’s keep being friends”, the same people will just look away the same way a parent ignores a kid throwing a tantrum over a snack they did not get.
Yeah i know they have been quietly working in the background to replace the US, but its too slow and they so far arent seriously considering the methods that would truly hurt the US regime. As long as they dont directly target the tech sector and remove this insane vulnerability at the core of our society, government and infrastructure, we will always be lagging behind. The EU cant be independent while we depend on Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Apple, Meta, Twitter, AMD, Nvidia, Intel, Cisco, IBM, etc. All those companies are ticking time bombs that could at any point disable large parts of our public and private infrastructure if they were ordered to do so by Trump.
It’s a delicate process. For Canada, the 2 economies are historically very very entangled. Divesting has started, but if you do it too fast or too openly, you will trigger strong reactions from the US. If you go to a head front economic battle with the US, you would create a lot of pain in Canada itself, that the conservatives will lever to gain power (and very probably be much more submissive to the US…).
So yes: do it quietly but surely, don’t make waves, don’t appear to be antagonist.
I think his handlers are starting to think there’s a real opportunity to dissolve NATO, or at least get the US to leave/kicked out. Think how liberating that could be for…certain people. How hard it would be for the US MIC to lose all of those exports.
Because of money, at least partly?
whining to norway about not getting a swedish prize is 100% on brand for trump. fucking moron.
Nah the nobel peace prize is from a norwegian committee. The others are indeed swedish
Edit: It’s still stupid because it’s not the norwegian government that awards the prize
lol tfw i’m as dumb as trump
Nah, you’re not dumb, you just didn’t know!
Here’s some history for you: When the Nobel Prize was created, Norway was in a union with Sweden. Seeing as Norway didn’t have any direct diplomatic relations, they were chosen to handle the diplomatically sensitive Peace Prize while the Swedes handled the rest.
Nah Trump definitely had at least one person tell him that he was wrong and the told them to shut the fuck up and did it anyway
I’m too lazy to Google letter to Norway, can you explain it with a meme?
Still have it in my clipboard…
“Dear Jonas,” the president wrote to Norway’s prime minister, Jonas Gahr Støre. “Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a ‘right of ownership’ anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT.”
This seriously makes me speechless. Just speechless… I, I don’t have words to describe this orange turds stupidity. Or mental illness. It’s out of this reality.
America right now
It truly is a case of the Mondays.
What a deeply embarrassing platform to post this message to. Fuck X #Fedi is the way. It is known.
Bluesky, homie.
Baffling that so many people upvoted a comment that is, at best, a non-sequitur – at worst, snarling at the author for using a platform while being wrong about the platform used – simply because the comment is mad at the correct thing.
Meanwhile, the comment correcting the misinformation and accurately labeling the source of the post is sitting at middling 12 to 6.
They just haven’t hit their evil arc yet.
Blue sky just verified ICEs account
I didn’t say that Bluesky is good. I am just correcting the assumption that it was an Xitter post.
I’m almost exclusively on Mastodon.
It’s an official US institution. What were they supposed to do? Don’t verify it? Ban the account? Should they also ban other US official accounts? How about accounts belonging to other authoritarian countries, like Iran, Israel, China or Russia?
Yeah…kinda?
I understand this position, but it’s not the only one. And it’s really hard to draw a line between “good guys” and “bad guys”. That’s why many centralised platforms like Bluesky don’t try to be a safe spaces and allow everybody. You can block them personally if you want. In Mastodon local servers play a higher role. But you cannot banish all fascists out of the platform. They create their own instance and nobody could do anything with it. P. S. i don’t use both Bluesky and Masto—for me both are doomscrolling hell
A modest improvement
Thats really everyday tbh
Might as well just repost this every day with the date changed.
Could set up one of those single page websites, something like ShouldUSCitizensBeEmbarassedToday . com and it always says Yes
That’s like every day whose name ends with y
Great Scalzi is not maga, can I continue to read his books or is there some other skeletons?
He has been very active in BlueSky since its early closed beta days. From what I can tell, he seems to be a descent guy.
Richard Kadrey is another author on Bluesky that seems very much against MAGA bullshit.
he seems to be a descent guy
We’re not talking about videogames here!
Just based on his books I’d be really surprised if he was MAGA. He’s got a lot of fun sci-fi ideas, but he also spends a lot of time championing virtues like ingenuity, empathy, and honesty.
That and the asteroid on asteroid action. That is a person who likely isn’t puritanical about sex.
Kaiju preservation society is written start to finish without gendering the protagonist and is full of queer people, so…
But he’s a human-first alien-second xenophobe, according to his scifi series about alien races trying to take down Earth.
(I’m kidding, I’m kidding, but I honestly saw him as a Stephen King type, and glad to know he’s not)
I was also thinking that if Scalzi can write the Interdependency series that contains gender neutral titles (Emperox) and several of the characters is gay/bi, he can’t be maga.
Hey, I say that just about everyday.
What a coincidence.
That’s my secret… I’m always embarrassed.
sooo what happened? orrr is the joke that every day is a had day to ve an american?
Search “trump letter to norway”.
