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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

today in "shit that happened while I was busy writing this shit" — Donny gave his speech at Davos. sounds like it was a shit-show.

here's an excerpt

"Without us, right now you'd all be speaking German and a little Japanese perhaps. After the war, we gave Greenland back to Denmark. How stupid were we to do that? But we did it. But how ungrateful are they now?"

oy gevalt.

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mcwttaycgs2q

Kay-El's avatar

Everything Trump says or does is a shit show. It’s hard to avoid all the crap.

DJ Headthrob's avatar

Just waiting for the incontinent old coot to drop a duce in Davos.

Bob Bowden's avatar

The betting markets need to offer a line on which will occur first, tRump drops a big one in public, or tRump drops the *other* big one - ON the public

Linda Weide's avatar

I was saying betting markets need to take bets on how long he will talk. He is going for the Joe Rogan record in some of his talks, otherwise known as babbles.

Wish Jeff would show Baby crying over Greenland meme again.

DJ Headthrob's avatar

The fact that the senile imbecile has the nuclear codes causes me no end of agita.

Linda Weide's avatar

I am not losing sleep over it. It is too far out of our control right now. He is more likely to stealth attack Greenland after saying, "nah, I won't do that." or a friend says stealth attack Iran is planned. My head is spinning enough from the speculation of either of these.

Here are 3 I just processed on the Greenland attack situation

William Spaniel

https://youtu.be/mQGMGnhC-NA?si=nrsHJWUkqFeZmYGr

Jay Kuo

https://open.substack.com/pub/statuskuo/p/greenland-what-im-watching-for?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

Jonathan Last of the Bulwark

https://open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark/p/trump-davos-world-economic-forum-rant?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

In none of these do the people of the US benefit. All of them spell out dire scenarios for US citizens. That is not counting that US citizens who live abroad, who are not dual citizens, are potentially going to be considered enemy aliens, and subject to expulsion, having their property taken, being rounded up and surveilled, etc...

Remember how Trump went into Venezuela and did not warn any US citizens living there ahead of time. Next thing they know they are told by the State Dept to get out stealthily because there are bands of Colectivos who are seeking to harm US citizens or anyone that they think helped the US to attack their country. So, it is not a good situation for those living in the US with bands of ICE attacking and in some cases killing US citizens and immigrants; and it is not a good time for US citizens living outside of the US in NATO allied countries. And, it is not a good time for Venezuelans who still have the same shitty ass government that they had, plus Trump stealing their oil and pocketing the money into his account in Qatar. And, it is not a good time for Greenlanders who are looking at being another set of brown skinned people whose land White Supremacist Trump invades.

Charles Austin's avatar

At least Rogan has being stoned as an excuse.😂

Linda Weide's avatar

Trump is stoned too. Stoned on kedamine, and who knows what else they had to pump into him to get him through a whole talk at DAVOS without nodding off. He is stoned on the secrets he shares with Epstein which are too horrid for us to know, and what I suspected was voiced out loud by a substacker that someone posted in a chat.

Jane's avatar

🤣🤣🤣

Bob Bowden's avatar

Someone needs to get one of those giant spring loaded paper clips over to Orange Shitler’s urologist, pronto

DuduLovesBubu's avatar

Methinks those giant spring loaded paper clips have been used on slave donnie's nipples by Master Vlad. With Master saying react to the pain slave, and I'll squeeze those clips so fucking hard you'll be screaming in pain. And now the whole world says, yes Master.

Linda Weide's avatar

You know after reading insinuations that Trump possibly participated in a snuff film with a 12 year old Latina named Maria while acting out vicious ICE on illegal fantasies, on Greg Olear's Substack, I cannot laugh about torture. It is bringing back the images I have from someone posting that in the comments yesterday.

Prima Sarcastica's avatar

I don't know that binder clips are spring loaded, but I do know you can make sculptures using them. Google it. NOT that I'm saying you SHOULD make sculptures out of them and mail them to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC 20500, but if you WANTED to....

Unity In Defiance's avatar

Projection, projection, projection. Ungrateful, miserable spiteful old Queen says what?

Betsy's avatar

"WITHOUT ME, THERE WOULDN'T EVEN BE A NATO!"

Chris Hierholzer's avatar

WITHOUT ME THERE WOULDN'T EVEN BE A POTATO!

rlritt's avatar
11hEdited

Best most beautiful two words Trump could ever say: "without me."

It gives me chills to think an America where that's true.

Veronica Speedwell's avatar

Don’t give him ideas. He’ll force OreIda to call them Trump Tots.

Irascible Ink's avatar

That's why we call 'em TATERS, Precious!

Irascible Ink's avatar

I do prefer those, in all honesty.

Lisa K. Obrien's avatar

Damn it, such a guilty pleasure. But they’re right up there on the Big Boycott list! Heinz - Or Ida 🤨

Irascible Ink's avatar

That's what leads the 🍆🥔🚢

Wendymae's avatar

Thanks that made me LOL for real.

HI2thDoc's avatar

He created NATO before he turned 3 years old!!! Like no one has ever seen before!

Irascible Ink's avatar

Big, strong NATO with tears in its vowels!

HI2thDoc's avatar

Betcha up until he was preznit he didn't even know what NATO was, or what the acronym stood for.

Wendy Mills's avatar

He still doesn't know what it stands for, guaranteed.

Bonnie Council's avatar

He doesn't care. All he knows is it's something he wants us to not be a part of. An explanation for which we've never received.

HI2thDoc's avatar

Prolly true! He's such a fucking creep it sounds plausible

Molly Blue Dawn's avatar

It's very difficult to be a 10. Maybe a 6, 7.

Donna M Hebdo's avatar

I bet he STILL DOESN'T!!

ynot1965's avatar

And he hasn’t aged since.

shee-rah's avatar

Still has the brain and vocabulary of a three-year old.

Jane's avatar

Without me there wouldn’t be a world!

Tess's avatar

It was definitely a shit show!

Joanne Rossmassler Fritz's avatar

We never had Greenland so we couldn’t give it back. He lies constantly and the press swallows it whole. No one said “What the fuck is wrong with you?” To my utter disappointment.

rlritt's avatar

Its not that he lies, its that he doesnt know any facts. He is incredibly stupid and uneducated. Im sure he passed every grade in school thru college because his father gave a huge donations to pass him. The teachers were probably only to happy to pass him on to some other poor sap.

Keith's avatar

and he constantly lies ... he is a closet bitch

big brave school yard bully that shits his pants! HA FUK'IN HA!

PlasticFish's avatar

He makes the noises he thinks will get people to go along with him.

Bonnie Council's avatar

He paid other students to do all his homework; read that somewhere years ago.

Grace Kennedy's avatar

Yes, plus he lies even when he doesn’t have to.

Richard's avatar

What a shame the electrical problem on Air Force One - wasn’t more ser-er uh what a shame that happened.

Kim Steeves's avatar

To bad it didn't happen over the north Atlantic....just saying.

Ellyn's avatar

I’m having a particularly stupid day & watched the entire Davos speech. I’m glad it’s winter in VT and there are no flying bugs in the house as I found myself unable to close my mouth. The fact that that many representatives of the world politely sat there silent for 90 minutes + and let him spew a firehose of the most batshit crazy LIES you will ever hear in one speech.

I may need psychedelics to get this trauma out of my brain, much less my soul…

When I turned off Mr tv, I sent a heartfelt plea to the universe to help the Europeans fire that Trade Bazooka straight up his ass. 🙏🏻🤞🙏🏻🤞🙏🏻

Yes, I KNOW we Americans are going to be the ones economically devastated, but it’s got to be better than letting the toddler god-king roam free.

HI2thDoc's avatar

Nice job teaching world history, U Penn.

Mary Hall's avatar

"Donald J. Trump is the dumbest GD student I ever had." -- Prof. Wm. T. Kelly, University of PA, Wharton.

rlritt's avatar

I doubt he attended one class.

HI2thDoc's avatar

Or paid someone else to

Mary Hall's avatar

IIRC, his niece Mary Trump said T💩p paid someone to take his SATs.

HI2thDoc's avatar

Yeah, I read her book. She even named him, some kid with a very common name. Shapiro, I think.

Maui Wahine's avatar

He also repeatedly referred to Iceland rather than Greenland. Repeatedly.

Bonnie Council's avatar

It's called dementia. One thing people who haven't lived with a relative with dementia don't seem to understand is how rapidly it progresses once the symptoms really become obvious. He is in full blown dementia now, and why we can't have him removed from office is beyond me. I almost don't want find out each day what happened overnight. There is no telling anymore with this man & all the "yes" people under him.

Stacy's avatar

Majority of Switzerland speaks German. He’s just so f’ing stupid.

insert_something_creative's avatar

And of course he's fucking wrong about Greenland too:

"Trump just told Davos: "after the war we gave Greenland back to Denmark."

America never had Greenland. It was governed — and defended — by the Danes and Greenlanders throughout WWII."

https://bsky.app/profile/justinling.ca/post/3mcwtpgnu4s2n

Keith's avatar

this falls into the trump cognitive test test!

but it does give one an opportunity to speak freely ...

FUK OFF PUNK!

Jackie's avatar

Any truth to the rumor he got a standing ovation?

Jenny Daly's avatar

Business Insider says the room was "eerily silent" through his long speech. It reported a lot of people leaving early and of those left, most were looking through their phones. It also said that at the end there was some polite clapping, many just got up and left, and about 1/3 of those still in the room gave a "polite" standing ovation.

Carney got a lot of positive press yesterday and a large loud and long standing ovation (which at the WEF is rare). It must have really pissed off Trump. He was even more demeaning to Carney than usual.

rlritt's avatar

It probably wasn't standing ovation, just people in a hurry to leave the room. From what I've read, my understanding is that Trump has terrible gastric problems

CreakyKnees's avatar

That's why he brought the large entourage with him from D.C. Half of the audience were his cabinet.

Ellyn's avatar

I don’t recall that- but I turned it off at the stupid question & really stupid answer part.

serenity's avatar

He also attacked Mark Carney for Carney's remarks and said that Canada was insufficiently grateful.

Ellyn's avatar

Apparently because “Canada wouldn’t survive without America”.

What a useless fucking prick.

Bonnie Council's avatar

Everyone is "insufficiently grateful" in his sick brain. Probably even all those girls Epstein introduced to him. They should be grateful for something, I'm sure.

Linda Weide's avatar

Saw the speech. Or most of it. Some of the time he was talking and I was reading my emails. So his face was covered. My colleagues and I used to do that when we had zoom meetings to block the face of our most misogynist colleague who felt women should do all the work and be quiet. Of course he married someone many, many years younger.

SeekingReason's avatar

🤦🏻🤦🏻😳😵‍💫😵‍💫

Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

yes, I know the headline makes it sound the Dane told Donny to fuck off *to his face.*

sorry to be clickbaity, but there was just no way to convey accuracy in the headline without making it long and clumsy

Unity In Defiance's avatar

Oh I think it is totally ok and accurate! You know Donnie Dumbfuck saw and heard what was said. Probably at least 4 ketchup bottles were thrown.

Unity In Defiance's avatar

Bahahahaha!! That’d be sticky britches indeed…

Joe Witkowski's avatar

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-21/berkshire-hathaway-to-sell-kraft-heinz-shares-after-split-plan

Kraft Heinz shares are shitting the bed. Everything Orange Hitler touches, including ketchup bottles, he handle fucks into a loser like himself.

Permian Extinction's avatar

The fuck off was good, but why can't someone bring their slingshot to Davos?

Sharon Hudnall's avatar

Maybe Macron is wearing a poison ring and planning to do it the French way at dinner Thursday.

Permian Extinction's avatar

Picture Mike Myers: Yeah Baby!

Claudia Classon's avatar

Ooo, that would be sneaky, bur probably "non". However, Macron was wearing reflective sunglasses when he spoke. They said it was because he had a burst blood vessel in his eye, but I think it was because he couldn't stop his eyes from rolling up constantly! 🙄

Keith's avatar

not enough long-time agonizing pain ... without remedies HA!

Irascible Ink's avatar

Ooooh, I like how you think.

Bob Kent's avatar

Please, oh please 🙏

SeekingReason's avatar

Permian That’s a nice way to put it. 😉😁

Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

Maybe spitballs thru a straw a la poison darts, he wouldn’t know who did it but keep doing it. Remember the fly and Pence ok then what do you remember about the speech.

Kay-El's avatar

Understood, but giving a Nazi your Fuck Off prize would be a shame.

Lairbo's avatar

Game recognizes game.

rlritt's avatar

Hey it takes one to know one. I much prefer not being allies with a NAZI.

AbigailJJ's avatar

Accurate in spirit of the letter, and that’s what matters. Thank you, Jeff.

Ann Anderson's avatar

That was a wimpy fuck off. If you're going to say it, especially at a podium, put some energy and conviction behind it.

Keith's avatar

doesn't world history kinda explain the WTF world?

everybody wants to play nice then innocents get murdered

and the sorry fuks all join hands sing kumbaya and mankind takes another step in reverse.

tigers kill their young for a reason ... just sayin

Christine Zepka's avatar

Mr. President, Fuck All The Way Off!

Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

I mean, lets be fair Jeff.

Denmark's telling Trump to fuck right off, eight European countries are staring down 10% tariffs (jumping to 25% by June) because they won't support this colonial wet dream, and NATO—the alliance that's kept Europe stable for 75 years—is watching its cornerstone crack under the weight of one man's ego. Meanwhile, thousands of Greenlanders march through Nuuk in the bitter cold, holding signs that read "Greenland is not for sale," while this bloated toddler tweets AI-generated images of himself planting flags on their homeland. The cruelty is the goddamn point.

https://thistleandmoss.com/p/this-week-is-half-over-still-sucking

Tess's avatar

Now only if the media would grow spines like the European leaders!

SethTriggs's avatar

Their Republican owners would like those Republican tax cuts thank you very much! Also those owners are on the same team as the pricktator.

SeekingReason's avatar

This will not happen while Fascists own the media. Fortunately, we have sources like these.

Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

This is why we write the daily digest every morning (20% this is what sucks, 80% positives that uplift -- hopefully), on https://thistleandmoss.com

rlritt's avatar

You mean our media owned by oligarchs. Why do you think Bezos bought the Washington Post.....to support Trump and fascism.

Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

Thats why independent media will be the source of truth. I am not beholden to anyone but you guys who read our stuff.

Keith's avatar

media growing up? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA and ha!

send in the geraldoes and blonde barbie bimbos, not for truth but

MORE FUKIN COMMERCIALS!

see? they win! AGAIN/STILL! no responsibilities and $$$$$$$$$$$ !

john augustine's avatar

all of this batshit babble is about Epstein and the Good murder that nobody is talking about

Iavor Lubomirov's avatar

“ I was quite the baseball player. you couldn’t believe it.“

How did you manage that with your bone spurs?

Paula Dean's avatar

I don't believe for one millisecond that his 'mommy' poured praise on little djt. I CAN imagine her pointing out the asylum and saying 'Listen you little shit, see that big scary building with the bars on the windows? That's your future home. I'd like to take you there right now, but I have bridge club right after you make an ass of yourself at baseball...if the coach will let you off the bench, because you can't keep your stupid mouth shut. Couldn't you get through one game without calling the umpire an idiot motherfucker?"

Lin Talbot-Koehl's avatar

"I'll take 'Things That Never Happened' for $1,000, Alex."

Sooz Hall's avatar

👏🏻‼️👏🏻❣️👏🏻

Charles Austin's avatar

😂😂😂Indeed!

David M Marko's avatar

He was the kid in right field with his glove on the wrong hand chasing butterflies.

rlritt's avatar

No no. His father paid the coach of all teams to make sure Donny was star even if he couldnt play.

Joe Witkowski's avatar

Swastika patches on his sleeves from daddy Nazi

Frank Nuts's avatar

I could see that Lin— little Donnie the serial butterfly killer … hey, you got to start somewhere

Brenda McDonald's avatar

Hey, that was ME! 😔 And I wasn’t chasing butterflies, I was ducking from the ball. 😬

Kathy H's avatar

A MUCH more plausible rendition, Paula Dean. And, it's damn well been enough being hostage to the damage of the poor little stupid rich kid.

Jane's avatar

👏👏👏

Susan Burgess's avatar

I believe you pretty much nailed it, Paula.

Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

Paula, that’s a bases loaded home run!

Mary Hall's avatar

It's helpful that T💩p's bone spurs are FAKE.

Joe Witkowski's avatar

He had a small bat. In his pants.

Michael Johnson's avatar

Yeah - would like some verification with that one. May or may not be true, that he could play little league, but cannot help but really doubt it. Opens mouth, lies.

Keith's avatar

maybe he is a catcher not a pitcher?

DuduLovesBubu's avatar

That tracks. Ask Bubba.

Jane's avatar

🤣🤣🤣

Lise Buranen's avatar

That's how he got them.

Kim Nesvig's avatar

But Donnie needs Greenland or is it Iceland (he can’t quite be sure) to build his golden dome! It will be the goldenest dome ever!

Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

big strong teary-eyed dome

Unity In Defiance's avatar

He only thinks 5 minutes ahead. With what he is doing, there will be no money for his Bond Villian dome—not that it would even work anyway, its just a wasteful and useless project to begin with, a money pit for contractors.

If others follow suit of the AkademikerPension, U.S. borrowing costs jump because America has to pay higher interest to attract buyers, and that ripples into higher mortgage/loan rates for everyone. If it snowballs, it’s not just a financial hit—it’s allies signaling “we don’t trust U.S. stability anymore,” which weakens the dollar and shakes the world’s faith in Treasuries as the default safe haven.

Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

More than dopey knows right there.

Irascible Ink's avatar

😂 goddammit Jeff, I'm eating here *cough choke gasp*

Joseph Luongo's avatar

He literally thinks there’s an actual dome made of gold in the sky. Like you can’t see the stealth bombers because they’re invisible.

Charles Austin's avatar

I hate to tell him, but Notre Dame beat him to it.😂

Jennifer's avatar

Ugh, this timeline. Shoot me now.

Did I say me? Oh I meant...someone else.

Betsy's avatar

I want to like this 4698 times

Betsy's avatar

one-million-eight-hundred-sixty-four-thousand-forty-seven times.

Cathy 98280's avatar

I see what you did there. 😁👍👍

Paula Dean's avatar

I must say "shoot me now" 23 times a day. Unfortunately, my cat can't manage it.

rlritt's avatar
10hEdited

I had cats. I believe that, from the way they eyed me, half the time they are thinking, "If only I had a loaded gun and opposable thumbs....."

Charles Austin's avatar

😂😂😂I know the feeling.(2cats😺)

George A. Polisner's avatar

Thank you Jeff.

And Anders Vistisen's speech being interrupted with a reminder that expletives are "against the rules" reminds me of a line in Apocalypse Now.

"We train young men to drop fire on people, but their commanders won't allow them to write 'fuck' on their airplanes because it's obscene!"

The corrupt deranged malignant narcissist pedophile Trump deserves a trip to The Hague, not civility. He is "dropping fire" in Venezuela, threatening Greenland, and his ICE thugs are killing, maiming, and kidnapping citizens and non-citizens in American cities.

Furthermore, Trump's Lee Zeldin and the EPA has recalculated the life of every American (whether you are wearing a red MAGA hat, a blue hat, or no hat whatsoever to be worth nothing.

So "Fuck off" to Trump, Vance, Kegsbreath, "Bribe me" Bondi, and Krusty Noem from Vistisen was completely appropriate -and I second it.

Oh, but congratulations to Elon Musk and Usha Vance on their announcement.

Dr J's Sanity Space's avatar

That last sentence & what it meant made my stomach turn!!

Martha Howell's avatar

What, you're leaving out Elon Musk and Katie Miller?

Ole Anderson's avatar

With a shout out to the Turkey baster used in the process.

Keith's avatar

unwritten rule when crossing the wire ... 'time to kill'

Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

Donny may have dodged the draft, but he survived a war with a binder clip. But I think the thing that really struck me was how he just dropped the clip and the papers on the floor after he was done talking about them. I was trying to figure out what was going through his addled brain. Was he thinking that it was some poor schmuck’s job to pick up after him, or was he incapable of figuring out how to place them on the podium?

John E Simpson's avatar

I'd pay for a Kickstarter which designed and produced a single giant gold-plated binder clip, embossed something like "Nobel Prize for Office-Supplies Victory," and presented to DT in a ceremony sponsored by The Onion.

HI2thDoc's avatar

I wager he doesn't know the Onion is parody. I wager he doesn't know what parody is.

John E Simpson's avatar

You'd probably win that bet -- not least, because he's never allowed to even glimpse parody or mockery in any form. (They learned that lesson from his previous term -- he spent way too much time obsessing over SNL's portrayals of his buffoonery, wardrobe, vocal mannerisms, etc.)

HI2thDoc's avatar

This type of egomaniac who cannot laugh at themselves like Steven Seagal are pathetic.

HI2thDoc's avatar

Seagal was the worst SNL host ever, but drumpf was a close second. I hope Lorne Michaels sees a pattern there

Lise Buranen's avatar

It's something to do with fairness or equality, isn't it?

Sooz Hall's avatar

It’s only fair if it’s praising ME! Get that traitor’s name and bury him in ketchup packets!!!!

Oh, and nobody is my equal.

Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

I think you need to create that meme before someone else does.

John E Simpson's avatar

(laughing) They have my permission, since it'll all end up being consumed by our AI overlords anyway! 🤣

Lise Buranen's avatar

(I'm sure there's a clip joint joke in here somewhere, but my brain is a bit logy this morning.)

Keith's avatar

and NO VD! he survived disco!

HI2thDoc's avatar

Mebbe mushrooms have a natural immunity to human sex bugs

Robin D's avatar

You fucking blithering, village idiot. Everyone in NY that drives on the LIE or Grand Central knows Creedmore. It was a huge mental hospital, yes, it's still there, and just waiting for its newest inmate... King Donnie Demented. Lock him up, shoot him full of thorazine (he already looks like has had a nice, big dose) and put him in a straight jacket.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creedmoor_Psychiatric_Center#

Sharon Hudnall's avatar

Why would he bring up Creedmore mental hospital in a public speech? He's showing us his nightmare. Trump's mind is like a broken screen door in Kansas banging in the wind before the tornado hits.

Ole Anderson's avatar

Beautiful description ! So vivid.

Robin D's avatar

100%. Projection.

Irascible Ink's avatar

Great analogy! 😂

Irascible Ink's avatar

Wouldn't that be the perfect chef's kiss of an ending to this shitty re-do of Team America.

Jane's avatar

👏👏👏

Sooz Hall's avatar

But how would Secret Service agents take care of him? Triple time pay? Special food so nobody poisons him?

Robin D's avatar

Hopefully, if we had a.Democratic President he would do EXACTLY what this lunatic did and remove HIS secret service protection like he did to so many others. If the Secret Service had any balls they would poison him themselves. I don't care about him or them. They have lost my respect for years. Many are as dirty as him and love him. Who cares about how he is taken care of? He has kids. Let them take care of him.

Sooz Hall's avatar

Ooohhh, I can envision *just* how Ivanka would take care of him… I’m thinking 60 grade sandpaper diapers and damp lemon-juice soaked pj’s on a big waterbed that’s 3/4 full of icy water and rotating back & forth, up and down, and sometimes just vibrates… feel free to embellish.

Robin D's avatar

You had me at 60 grade sandpiper diapers and lemon juice drenched pjs. Pure agony. 🤗 😂

Deirdre LaMotte's avatar

Let Gavin have the microphone as much as he wants. He is the only politician not

terrified of calling all this what is is: an embarrassing shit show staring the foulest

trash with cash ever to stain our nation.

Joe Witkowski's avatar

Septic filter cake with no filters in a blue suit. In his pants.

HI2thDoc's avatar

When will everyone learn

As our world continues to burn

And understand fully

When they cave to a bully

They get used and abused in return

Jane's avatar

👏👏👏

Steve in SoCal's avatar

The US Congress

And many more have outdone

Neville Chamberlain

John E Simpson's avatar

I noticed that the Davos organizers disinvited a representative from Iran because of the situation in Iran recently -- and I immediately wondered why they didn't disinvite DT too. Or hell, if they couldn't do so for some unfathomable reason, couldn't they at least have let him give his "press conference" in a small conference room with, like, bright lights and cardboard videocameras and so on, with a hired audience who would clap whenever the "APPLAUSE" sign lit up -- AND THE WHOLE THING WOULD NOT BE RECORDED FOR POSTERITY AND ENDLESSLY REPLAYED?

rlritt's avatar
10hEdited

In spite of how unlikable Trump is, there were probably oligarchs and fascists there who supported him. Bezos, Theal, Musk, Zuckerberg and others have repeatedly kissed his ass.

zuzu's avatar
8hEdited

There have been a LOT of Europeans and Canadians on Threads lately who are after Americans to Do Something about Trump and fix everything Right Now. But when you ask them what, they all say "general strike." Like that doesn't take planning and organization, especially in a country this large with pretty much zero labor and employment protections and federal agents who are willing to murder and disappear you. They love to tell us they know more about what's going on here than we do because their press is better, but then they're surprised to hear about things that people are doing on the ground.

In addition, when you tell them it would be really, really helpful if they got on *their* leaders to stop coddling Trump and to stop appeasing him and take a harder stance with him, even go so far as to wreck the American economy, they suddenly get mad and say it's not up to them to do our jobs for us. Even though they've been screaming about how much it affects them. I guess they either don't want to be uncomfortable, or they just see an opportunity to vent at a bunch of Americans and demand the monkeys dance for them.

They're also never happy when you point out that it took Europe well over 20 years and a whole-ass World War to remove its own fascists, so maybe they're not the ones to be giving out advice on how to stop fascism before it becomes entrenched. Just sayin'.

Harry Borgerhoff's avatar

Yea sure, a man who “took a bullet” is afraid of a big paperclip. Checks out.

Beth Daugherty's avatar

Although I understand why Newsom would criticize Europe in this moment, his criticism would be better directed at certain American corporations, media conglomerates, and universities. I also know it isn't as though he hasn't been critical earlier. But it might be helpful, while in Europe, to not criticize them for what almost everyone has done up to now! Plus, he could talk about how most Americans do not support Trump, and if Europe kicks his butt, we will gladly cheer them on. While Trump is burning bridges with Europe, the resistance shouldn't be burning them either.

John E Simpson's avatar

If I didn't live in the US, I might have a problem being told off for not cutting DT off at the knees... given that apparently no one HERE isn't gonna do it, either. So f*cking frustrating.

Paula Dean's avatar

I heard Gavin say that we can't effectively say no to tRump at home due to his corrupt lackies in the House and Supremely fuct Court. Did I hear incorrectly?

John E Simpson's avatar

No, you heard right -- he did say that. But like I said, in their shoes I'd have thought his -- or any other American's -- lecturing them at all ("Don't bow to DT! Stand strong, Europe!") was a bit rich. Exhortation good; finger wagging bad.

I dunno, I'm probably splitting hairs.

Steve in SoCal's avatar

There's plenty of criticism to go around

Karen Livolsi's avatar

Can’t change what is done. Can always change what is done next.

SeekingReason's avatar

Dear Foreign Leaders, we request your help to do what our corrupt republican congress and military refuse to do. Can you help us protect our former Constitution? Can you tell the truth at all times? We’d be forever grateful.

From: Sane U.S. citizens.

Unity In Defiance's avatar

Something good to note. The markets cannot be sane washed through the media. Money doesn't lie. And all of Donnie's dumbfuckery comes with reality based receipts.

The markets crashed yesterday from all his Fuckweit Fürhrer antics, saw some dropped by over 500 points.

The Danish Pension Fund is exiting securities by the end of this month. Money is going bye bye. And that means even Donnie in his fake gold plated tower and all his broligarchs are affected by that too. War costs money. And the rhetoric of destroying NATO starts the ball rolling without boots every stepping on the ground.

If EU and other countries take the same path as the Danish Pension Fund shit is going to get real very very fast. Money does make the world go round after all. And all the demented confabulation and truth social posts in the world cannot change THAT reality.

DuduLovesBubu's avatar

They need to liquidate right fucking now. Make it so fucking sudden it's the equivalent of dropping a nuke on the financial markets. Why fucking wait?