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Trump says he ‘doesn’t rule out’ using military force to control Greenland (www.theguardian.com)

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President has repeatedly expressed idea of expansion into autonomous territory within fellow Nato member Denmark

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[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

With such sharp partisan divides, the GOP having unified control and the rich having a vested interest in keeping this dead horse of an economy alive, that’s not a realistic option.

I guess what I meant was, how do even GOP critters stand for this? It's supposed to be the party of law and order, and they behave like servile little yes-men fascist enablers.

I've never had any great love of the Republican party, but even I admit that the staunchest traditional Republicans had 10 times more morals and principles than those MAGA asswipes and would have done something about their rogue fascist racehorse with the Democrat minority. The current crop of fake Republican magats is appalling. That's what's truly unbelievable.

[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 7 points 6 days ago

The important thing to bear in mind is these are RINOs. They're Nazis cosplaying as Republicans. The party of Goldwater headed for the exits long ago (source: my staunchly Republican father who now votes straight Democratic, as he -- in his 80s -- can't recognize what the GOP has become), and we're now left with "Hey, let's help IG Farben ... surely it'll trickle down."

[–] sonori@beehaw.org 2 points 6 days ago

This has been a long time coming, and most of the decent ones chose to resign rather than split the party. I remember for instance years ago when the far right really started winning elections in Idaho, a lot of the lifelong conservatives chose to resign in quiet protest rather than fight them or try and work with them.

It’s basicly the same thing you’re seeing in the federal government now, a lot of the people would rather resign than deal with him, and as such he gets to fill the roles with his loyalists without a fight.