(March 23, 2025 at 12:58 am)AFTT47 Wrote:

(March 23, 2025 at 12:00 am)arewethereyet Wrote: Is it bad that I wake up every day hoping to see a BIGLY obituary?

Not IMHO. Of course, I'm biased. Every time I click on NBCNews, I have this fantasy that I'll see this huge headline proclaiming Trump was found dead in his presidential pig stye in the Whitehouse and that an industrial disinfectant contractor is cleaning out the space in the hope that the Whitehouse as a whole need not be burned down in the interest of public health.

Maybe that's bad but I don't give a fuck. I loath the human equivalent of Jabba the Hut and make no apology for it.

(March 19, 2025 at 2:57 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Could this be the next step in the US withdrawing from NATO?

Trump Admin Weighing Relinquishing NATO Command

Quote:For nearly 75 years, it has been a distinctly American responsibility to have a four-star U.S. general oversee all NATO military operations in Europe — a command that began with then-World War II hero and future president Dwight D. Eisenhower. 

But the Trump administration, according to two defense officials familiar with the planning and a Pentagon briefing reviewed by NBC News, is considering changing that. 

Boru

Quote:Sparked in large measure by concerns that the U.S. is aligning itself closer to Russia, receding from its traditional ties with NATO and the stability of U.S. weapons exports, the European Union has created a new initiative to increase defense spending and drastically boost local arms production. The move to 'buy local' could effectively freeze the U.S. out of billions of dollars in potential arms sales.

Rankled by U.S. President Donald Trump's imposing tariffs and repeatedly saying that Canada should become the 51st state, Ottawa is deep into talks about joining this initiative.

The goals of the new "European Defense Readiness 2030" plan were laid out Wednesday in a white paper issued by the alliance. The initiative calls for increasing defense spending, simplifying regulations and streamlining industrial programs. It seeks the creation of an 800 billion Euro ($872 billion) pool of money to boost European arms production. That includes a suggested 1.5% of GDP increase in defense budgets anticipated to raise 650 billion Euros (about $709 billion) and 150 billion Euros ($163 billion) for the new Security Action for Europe (SAFE) loan program "to help countries invest in key defense areas like missile defense, drones, and cyber security," according to the EU.

Quote:President Donald Trump spent part of his Sunday railing against a portrait of himself that’s been hanging in the Colorado State Capitol for nearly six years. 
“Nobody likes a bad picture or painting of themselves, but the one in Colorado, in the State Capitol, put up by the Governor, along with all other Presidents, was purposefully distorted to a level that even I, perhaps, have never seen before,” he griped on his Truth Social website.
Trump said a portrait of President Barack Obama created by the same artist, Sarah Boardman, “looks wonderful.”
But the president slammed the image of himself as “truly the worst.” 

(March 27, 2025 at 9:13 am)arewethereyet Wrote: So, Trump was on another middle of the night tirade on social media.  Does this idjit ever sleep?  What is in that Diet Coke?

(March 27, 2025 at 9:10 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Mar-A-Lago is the new place where everybody knows you're tossing salads and scrambled eggs.

Quote:Canada not mentioned in U.S. threat assessment’s summary of fentanyl crisis

Quote:Tulsi Gabbard is sure to anger Trump with major admission about Canada's fentanyl trafficking

Quote:Trump Is About to Be Pissed at Tulsi Gabbard’s Canada Admission