Traitor Watch - The 45 & 47 Thread

Axaday

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So I reviewed the list of top Colombian imports and it is funnier than I thought. Fruits and Vegetables as I said. Coffee as others said. But the biggest is petroleum, both crude and refined products.

So. To summarize. Colombia wants its deportees to come in a civilian flight and without restraints. This is not acceptable to Trump instead, we will:
1) Keep people we intended to deport
2) Raise gas prices
3) Raise grocery prices
4) Make it harder for Colombians to stay in Colombia
 

Ungnome

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Sounds like Trump is already working on bringing down costs to me....
 

Axaday

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Sounds like Trump is already working on bringing down costs to me....
Maybe it is always darkest before the dawn? Uh....I can't remember how fast he said he would get grocery prices down. He said he would stop the Ukraine War in 1 day and a lot of people are wishing that day would dawn.
 

Axaday

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So I reviewed the list of top Colombian imports and it is funnier than I thought. Fruits and Vegetables as I said. Coffee as others said. But the biggest is petroleum, both crude and refined products.

So. To summarize. Colombia wants its deportees to come in a civilian flight and without restraints. This is not acceptable to Trump instead, we will:
1) Keep people we intended to deport
2) Raise gas prices
3) Raise grocery prices
4) Make it harder for Colombians to stay in Colombia
Trump says Colombia backed down and will now be treated however he decides to treat them.

Edit - Maybe he is running a different strategy that I had imagined and he's trying to make Colombians associate the USA with disgust. So no matter how bad things are in Colombia, the USA is the last place they'd want to go.
 

wonko the sane?

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Colombia didn't back down, and is in fact running an investigation into how their nationals were treated by the deportation.
 

Rhinox

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I dunno, I would assume a store. I don't drink the jive.
I'm sorry, but this made me laugh out loud. Thank you, I needed that this morning.

Yeah, for some reason Trumpettes are declaring a 'victory over Columbia' and I have yet to see anywhere where Columbia backed down or accepted military flights or anything.
and the immediate and punitive tariffs should scare the hell out of anyone. This is yet another good reason why the US government should never be run as a business. This kind of strong arming is just bad policy and practice.
 

The Mighty Mollusk

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Trump is a bully. Strongarming and lying are the only tactics he knows. And it's okay for a business that he can just pump and dump for a quick cash-out when the grift runs it's course, but trying to pull it on sovereign nations that have no real reason to take his crap is going to hurt a lot of people. Of course, he's never had to face real consequences in his life, so he doesn't care.
 

Rhinox

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Trump is a bully. Strongarming and lying are the only tactics he knows. And it's okay for a business that he can just pump and dump for a quick cash-out when the grift runs it's course, but trying to pull it on sovereign nations that have no real reason to take his crap is going to hurt a lot of people. Of course, he's never had to face real consequences in his life, so he doesn't care.
And that's just it. Consequences are coming. Not for him, but for the rest of the country.
Apparently Denmark told him, literally "Go hug yourself, Mr. Trump". The video is out there, btw. Panama has told him to kick rocks. Canada is laughing at him and making sure he knows it. And now Columbia.

After riding the biggest ego high of his life, Trump is now being told to piss off on the world stage in front of everyone. I know he's burning up over it. And there is no one in this administration to temper his childish tantrums.
He is going to lash out. Sooner rather than later. He has to, his ego demands it. He has to do something dramatic so he looks like the 'strong guy'.
 

wonko the sane?

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The sooner he lashes out, the sooner the world at large and democrats in specific has ammo to continue to attack him with. Not that there's a shortage of ammo: but if trump ***** up badly enough, he'll turn even republican senate votes and possible create conditions for YET ANOTHER impeachment.

At this point: it's just trolling trump into acting up until he creates the conditions to remove him, either in a political manner, or in a body bag. Getting that angry given his health and mental condition: he'll have a stroke or aneurysm or something and it'll probably kill him.
 

Rhinox

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I've made my peace with him never being impeached. I mean, they're literally trying to change the Constitution so he can stay on as 'dear leader' for another term.
He led a ******* insurrection yet less than a week later every republican suddenly came down with amnesia.
At this point, I'm putting my hope in big macs doing what the american voting public couldn't.
 

wonko the sane?

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His cult is already starting to take shots at him, literally. He is pissing them off, and if he keeps it up: the violent, short tempered people who idolize resorting to violence will resort to violence.
 

CoffeeHorse

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He led a ******* insurrection yet less than a week later every republican suddenly came down with amnesia.

Less than a week is a bit of an overstatement.

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NovaSaber

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Edit - Maybe he is running a different strategy that I had imagined and he's trying to make Colombians associate the USA with disgust. So no matter how bad things are in Colombia, the USA is the last place they'd want to go.
Your mistake is assuming he has a strategy at all.

He decides things in like ten seconds, then commits years of effort to doing them because he refuses to ever admit that even his dumbest, least-thought-out decisions were wrong.
 


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