• 1 year

      I feel like i repeat this to myself 20 times a day. I can’t stand this administration.

      • I know it’s just awful. If it was a tv show it would be seen as unrealistic but its actually happening.

    • RainbowHedgehog@lemm.eedeleted by creatorEnglish
      1 year

      Trump was trying to get China to attack to initiate martial law in 2021. He’s probably trying to start a war to initiate martial law now.

    • Well clearly we haven’t been efficient enough in starting conflicts with China. We need to find ways to hurt our trade with them even further

    • finitebanjo@lemmy.worlddeleted by creatorEnglish
      1 year

      My guess is to rile up his base into supporting his shenanigans while he makes himself forever-godking.

      He won’t actually fight China, or if he does he won’t do it seriously. Trump constantly swoons over Xi Jinping and works closely with Vladimir Putin which China has close ties with like threads in a tapestry. I simply do not believe Trump’s words.

    • Dictatorships don’t need such things, and Elon is the heir apparent to Trump…

      • 1 year

        I wonder what jd will do when Trump dies and elon takes over.

        • 1 year

          I wonder what Trump will do if Elon dies and he has to take over.

    • 1 year

      According to Musk’s Twitter account, he has a top secret clearance and apparently some sort of compartmentalized clearances.

      https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1890282404897534089

      I’ve had a top secret clearance for many years and have clearances that themselves are classified.

      That said, FAR too much information is made “classified”. If something is easily found online or patently obvious, it should NOT be classified. This impedes effective communication within the government.

      • 1 year

        Agreed, in my early 20’s I applied for a job with the TSA. After passing the interview I had to take a test to determine if I was fit for the job, before I could take the test I had to be cleared for confidential clearance. So even though I didn’t pass the test, and didn’t get the job, I had a low level government clearance and an NDA that kept me from disclosing what I saw.

        Funny enough that clearance did come in handy when I had to get an FBI background check to work at the airport doing line service, the guy who did the paperwork was shocked at how fast my paperwork was given the all clear.

    • 1 year

      It has likely changed since I last checked before his presidency, but he had a Top Secret Clearance with NO SCI.

      I knew he had admitted to actively using drugs a few times and I wondered how he held an active security clearance. What I could find was essentially: SpaceX was the best option for the US government to conduct satellite-based intelligence missions, as in launch satellites into orbit for the purpose of Space Force related surveillance.

      To that end they waived a lot of sketchy shit on Elon’s background to give him a TS so he could primarily attend and give briefings, but no SCI as he didn’t actually do any work requiring it.

      Source: I wish I could fucking find any now, but there’s a flood of thousands of article talking about his security clearance as a presidential advisor now.

    • 1 year

      He’s probably had a security clearance for a while now due to his involvement in space x

      • 1 year

        Not necessarily. Their are directors at my work that don’t have any clearances.

    • He has some level of clearance due to the work SpaceX is done but even there, he does not have access to some of SpaceX program because he could not get the right level of clearance

    • 1 year

      Why would president musk not have security clearance?

    • Musk is the CEO of the United Corporations of America and Trump is the Chairman of the board.

  • 1 year

    We have deranged psychopaths in charge of the US. We really are going to have WW3 soon aren’t we

    • Well attempting to annex Canada or Greenland automatically enacts Article 5 of NATO so 31 countries should in theory fight back. 29 of them would likely assist in their defense, and by defense I mean attacking the U.S. in ways that will economically starve the country until 10-15% of the voters realize this has all been idiocy and drag those responsible out of office and ban all responsible ever holding a public office again. Then we would have lost all trade allies and spend 100 years building back respect. Media will slowly start bringing their heinousness to light and slowly the vast majority will deny they were ever a part of it out of shame

      • 1 year

        attacking the U.S. in ways that will economically starve the country until 10-15% of the voters realize this has all been idiocy and drag those responsible out of office and ban all responsible ever holding a public office again.

        Wishful thinking.

        These bastards are spin masters that have conditioned their fandom to automatically assume all bad things are the fault of DeMoCraTeS, Woke-isms and foreigners. The mere thought that “their guy” could harm them is nearly impossible to comprehend. The people most responsible for such a disaster will thrive in the chaos they cause.

        This timeline fuck’n sucks.

        • Maybe, but not many people in the U.S. think attacking Canada or the U.K. something they wanted to do pre-trump. So hopefully they’ll be some sense. Every non-white person in the U.S. still hasn’t absorbed the information that Trump removed the restrictions on segregation for bathrooms/resteraunts/water fountains for all U.S. contractors. The amount of interracial families that should start picking up that the racism is real should hopefully start accelerating at some point. The question is if it will be to far gone at that point.

          • 1 year

            I agree with you.

            The question is if it will be to far gone at that point.

            I do think that the rest of the US is not that far gone. Even if the Trump fandom is a lost cause.

  • 1 year

    He’s not holding any cards right now. Trump made him a tough guy. He’s gambling with World War 3.

    Wait, sounds… Nah forget it.

  • I don’t understand the fuss, aren’t they just stored in some toilet in the white house?

  • “You’re gambling with World War Three!” yelled Trump to his guest, the president of Ukraine, without any sign of irony.

  • Did I miss the part where this piece of shit was vetted and granted security clearance? This is out of hand. Why does this man have access to literally anything that I don’t within my fucking government?

  • This is great. Now he’ll be able to use giving the plans to Xi as a bargaining chip for a couple more tesla factories in China.

  • Please stop referring it by it’s old name.

    It’s now United States of Dictatorship.

    Thanks.

    • SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.onedeleted by creatorEnglish
      1 year

      The States haven’t been united for a while now.

      The Nazi Reigime in Northern Mexico/Southern Canada is my convoluted suggestion.

        • 1 year

          Or Eastrussia. It’s a continuous territory if Canada is also included. Which could explain the desire for Canada as the 51th state.

      • 1 year

        Just call it Naziland

        Or “the uNaziland of America” if you want a hybrid reference

  • 1 year

    Lol my dad said trump was the best choice for avoiding ww3. Lmao even.