Well, I guess Canada has no choice then, right? And we Europeans need to sell Greenland. And Panama has to give back the channel. I guess he is in his “art of the deal” mode of starting high so we all grovel to limit the damage. Can’t we as the last free countries not band together against these fascists?

I think that’s indeed one of the big issues with people like that. They surround themselves with yes-men and then start to believe what those yes-men say. And obviously forget that they themselves made it pretty deadly to be a “no-man”.

Trump: “I will, yeah. He liked me.” Trump probably takes that as a compliment.

Money buys power.

I predict the WaPo will turn into the upcoming American Reich’s Pravda: the truth and nothing but the truth that the Trumpistas want you to see.

I’m pretty sure you are right. It will get worse gradually. Other papers will not dare to criticize the government out of fear to get harassed or shut down. I’m also pretty sure that all the enemies of Trump will be accused of one thing or another. And with AI it’s easy to create nice pics for the front page. “Nancy Pelosi eats babies” or something slightly less ridiculous.

“Apparent”. I would not know what else this means? “Give you my heart” with the palm downwards? This isn’t an accident and has nothing to do with any “autism”. This is the green light for groups like the Proud boys. It’s the modern Sturmabteilung, meant to protect gatherings and disrupt any protests and intimidate opposition.

I agree that Russia is a danger. But it’s also obvious to me that Europe can’t rely on the US any longer. There’s no other option than to increase our defence, but we should not remain dependent on US weapons in the long run. We must build our own weapons (Trump only wants to increase NATO budgets to get Europe to buy more American weapons, he leans way too much to Putin). Not only that, but we most definitely also need an “IT army” that tracks foreign intervention on social media and prevents hacking. We should make sure we err on the safe side, regardless of a GDP percentage. It’s very sad that this is needed to survive and I hope that one day, we can do without and spent our money on scientific research and improving wealth. It’s time for Europe to stand up and lead the free world now!

They certainly used the NSDAP propaganda leaflet. Elections are not about facts, but about generating feelings and giving the masses the idea that only you can and will solve all their problems. There was lots of projecting as well. I just hope this doesn’t cause too much damage to the US and the world. What you got now is a corrupt bunch of criminal oligarchs in charge with largely unchecked power. Elon frightens me more than Trump though. Trump can be played by stroking his ego (like the new secretary general of NATO realises he must do to keep NATO alive). Elon is higher on his new power than he ever was on keto. I think he and the heritage foundation just used Trump as a Trojan horse, with Trump being the populist piper. Imagine what you can do with $450 billion? Who’s going to stop you?

“for providing so-called “harmful” materials to minors.”

I wonder who decides what is harmful and what not?

I really doubt it’s for the “protection of children”.

Brave and correct thing to do. Amazing situation for such an iconic news paper. Down the drain it went. I hope true journalists like you will band together and keep informing the public of what’s going on. I do realize that the situation you will have to work in will be harsh from now on.

Europe is building up its military, most of them well beyond the NATO limit by now, a few, like Poland, even beyond the USA. If it will be enough when shit hits the fan? I’m afraid not yet, but likely can put up at least something of a fight.

If Putin wins, all hell breaks loose. There can only be peace if Ukraine gets hard guarantees, preferable NATO member. If not, Putin will make peace for now, restore his military and just give it another go. Europe must be able to defend itself as we can’t count on Trump and the US from now on. Both him and Elon seem to have a strong connection to Putin. We also should not be depending any longer on US made weapons.

Still, Maga’s will not believe this anyway. Anf fact checking is something from the past. Not sure what Trump wants to achieve with telling such crap? Play the big man again, I guess?

The worst thing: Trump did all that and it didn’t matter one bit to the cult. What’s more important is Kamala’s laugh and that all democrats want to change children’s sexual orientation if they don’t abort them all together right before birth. I never expected the level of insanity humanity could reach. I always thought “it can’t get worse”, but then it got worse.

I don’t get why they even bother? Just fabricate it with AI? None of the cult will ever believe it’s fake anyway.

Trump wants Greenland, Canada, the Panama channel, wants the windmills gone from the North sea and lots and lots of attention. And over half of all Americans voted for that guy.

It’s an interesting viewpoint, certainly not improbable. There is a strong connection between Elon, Trump and Putin though. It could be that Elon and Putin made some deal and that they both play Trump. That Elon used Trump is clear to me, Elon is the dominating one there. That leaves us with the Putin/Elon relation.