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Marianna Montuori's avatar

Trump's 'America First' is actually 'Americans Alone'

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Goldfinger Is Toast's avatar

‘Chump Alone’ ( and loving it )

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Ana warner's avatar

Floating ideas (or insults) as “ jokes” is a classic narscisst ploy. Believe me, I grew up w this. When people object, they save face by saying it’s just a joke and that the person who calls them out is “ too sensitive “ or “ can’t take a joke “ or “ is being “ hysterical “. That deflects the blame off them and puts onto the other person. Narscissists have no sense of humor tho. Every insult, accusation or criticism is a projection. Those w power to stop him must recognize this and take him seriously and use his own words against him. If not, we will be in WW3 before we know it.

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ajay ess's avatar

yes....please try and get many people to communicate with their congressional reps about this...in strong definite words..... members of congress are good at long speeches - but little action.....

there must be more repugnican reps who can see what MTG finally allowed herself to 'see'? these few repugnicans should become 'independents' and side with the dems to take control back to congress, and censure trump on his dictatorial powers.

JUST KEEP THE PRESSURE ON THE REPS....PLEEEEEEZ

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Joan Wiersma's avatar

I have to agree with you. That's all true.

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Kenneth Gilbert's avatar

Good Job, Miles! Your narrative is entirely consistent with what we know of Trumpy's personality, mental capacity, and ethics. He is like the pirate captain who divides the loot: one for me, one for you. Two for me, one for you. Three for me, one (if you're lucky) for you, etc. He does not understand the concept of friendship because you have to BE a friend if you want to HAVE a friend. Anyone other than himself is ripe for exploitation, whether financial, sexual, racial, religious, geographic, medical, or linguistic. He views nations the same way. We will have no global friends because he rejects all of the tenets of friendship. My hope (voiced elsewhere) is that the Billionaire Business Bros. get rapidly and drastically sanctioned by our former allies to help them gain perspective and (perhaps over-optimistically) backbone. What we are seeing is another ignorant and dangerous attempt to distract impossibly stressed and busy people just trying to make it through to Friday's paycheck from his high crimes and misdemeanors of which the list is endless.

By the way, Puerto Rico suffered the highest per capita losses in Viet Nam compared to any other state or territory. Their people, and their culture command respect without demanding it, unlike others who demand respect, but never receive it, except in the most superficial manner.

☮️KG

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ajay ess's avatar

WRITE TO the dem leadership and your reps- OFTEN. THEY WON'T ACT UNLESS THEY HEAR THAT COMMAND FROM MANY MANY PEOPLE...

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Kenneth Gilbert's avatar

I write to my 2 VA senators and my rep almost daily. Sadly, there is almost always something new about which to be outraged.

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ajay ess's avatar

agree….but do they ever respond? do they say ‘yes i agree’, do they ever follow up at all….or do they just give bland thanks and then talk about how great they are?

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return to normalcy's avatar

I have a question.

The Military Code of Justice tells our military, I assume that means high ranking officials as well as the "grunts & swabbies", that it is their duty to NOT follow illegal orders. So, since the JAGs are gone who tells our military what is legal & what is not?

I guess I have a second question, which is when orders come down from trump & Hegseth to capture a leader under slim to non-existent legal norms can those in charge refuse to carry out those orders even though guidance from trump aligned JAGs will undoubtedly tell the military & intelligence officials planning the incursions that they are legal? We're leaving those decisions up to individuals to act on their gut feeling that they know it's wrong.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that isn't our military a captive of this regime? Won't they feel compelled to follow those orders since there will be no guidance whatsoever? And if they don't follow the orders they know all too well that there will be reprisals. Maybe the trump regime can get away with Columbia & Cuba, those two countries have been in our news for years with negative stories, Columbia for drugs, Cuba for communism. But what about Greenland, will the iron fist of trump really be able to convince our military that we must have Greenland?

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Ana warner's avatar

I’ve lost faith in our military. They’ve followed illegal order thus far w no resistance. They are captured and subservient to this regime now. Unfortunately they cannot be trusted to defend the people or the constitution.

Miles, where do u see this going?

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Goldfinger Is Toast's avatar

There’s no evidence “our” military has NOT bent the knee.

It’s now just an arm of BigOil, Inc.

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ajay ess's avatar

THE FACTS ARE ALREADY THERE....TRUMP'S FASCIST DICTATOR IRON FIST HAS ALREADY FORCED THE MILITARY INTO HIS POCKET.

the congressional dems say the same things...but but but the law or our constitution don't allow that...... THIS WHERE WE ARE AT...95% OF THE DEMS IN CONGRESS ARE COMPLETELY USELESS. pleeeeeez keep on email and 'letter-writing-their Dc offices telling them you have zero faith in them turning this around...... relying on the supreme court is no longer an option. waiting for the midterms is a pathetic and stupid non-strategy. trump can upend the midterms anytime he wants....and he willllll (why do you think he doesn't care about his 'polling' numbers.....

IT'S UP TO US TO ACTIVATE - RATHER THAN HYPERVENTILATE :)

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return to normalcy's avatar

Oh, I don't just call Democrats. I have Thune's & Johnson's phone numbers in my phone & just got off the phone leaving them scathing messages about what it going on. I especially let Johnson have it because at the beginning of his message it says, "you have reached the office of the Speaker of the House the Honorable Michael Johnson". when I call him I ALWAYS include that you are not honorable & you are not a Christian.

So I'm in the fight!

I also called all my reps here in California & left a message for Mark Kelly that I support him & to keep fighting.

And when I called my house member I told the nice young lady who recognizes my name since I call so often that the Epstein files must have something really bad about trump for him to invade another country & kidnap their leader. I don't care that Maduro is grotesque, he is the leader of his country, illegal, yes, but I wonder if trump tries to stay in 2029 will we allow another country to come in & kidnap him? If only!

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ajay ess's avatar

luvvvvit especially the mike johnson part :) I aks him what branch of christianity he follows and whether he’s ever read the Gospels - they are the most direct in teaching how mike should act and what mike should be saying….

thank you for your comment - and thanks for being a real american by hammering your reps…. we neeed millions more like you :)

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return to normalcy's avatar

Thank you for your comment. Be careful, you might make me think I'm actually making some small difference in what's going on! ; )

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Goldfinger Is Toast's avatar

“Iron” fist? Nahhh, he’s just fisting himself.

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Dawn's avatar

From a concerned civilian's point of view, I wish to add to what you know to well from your experience in the Trump 1.0 administration: (a) Trump always lies, (b) Trump's threats to use unlawful means to enrich himself or his corporate or personal supporters should always be taken seriously, (c) Trump hates our NATO alliance, and (d) Greenland is known to be rich in natural resources (ie rare earth minerals), and (e) the US already has a long-standing military base in Greenland for purposes of national security.

Given these facts and the false legal Trump/Hegseth recent pretext for invading Venezuela, we should believe that Trumps December 2025 comments of wanting Greenland for our "national security" purposes and "not for natural resources) is an outright LIE. (Just another pretext, just like the drug trafficking pretext used to invade Venezueka). As aptly recently stated by the Danish prime minister and yourself, if our illegitimate president orders a takeover of Greenland, worldwide chaos would ensue, thus possibly disabling the Article 5 if our NATO alliance. (Putin would love this given his hate for the NATO alliance and his own imperialistic goals to restore the former) Soviet Union.

In connecting the dots, two things can be true at once in the Trump regime's objectives:

▪︎ Dismantle NATO through a DONtrine Doctrine land grab of Greenland. (Did Kushner/Witkoff as Trump surrogates make a deal with the devil, Putin, as part of their post WW2 "sphere of influence" game of RISK?

▪︎ Siphon off the rare earth mineral rights to Trump regime family and friends in more quid pro quo "backroom deals", which are now done flagrantly due to his control of DoJ through corrupt sycophants.

This is not a conspiracy theory. It is all happening right now between our eyes. And, we the people should be pressuring our legislative branch to put the brakes on this lawless regime. Even people without a professionadictatorship. Security background can identify the undeniable patterns of Trump's treason and capitulation to other global dictators.

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ajay ess's avatar

thank you....great comment...WRITE TO THE USELESS DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP AND ALL YOUR CONGRESSIONAL REPS - OFTEN. THEY WON'T ACT UNLESS THEY HEAR THAT COMMAND FROM MANY MANY PEOPLE...

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Simon Turkel's avatar

Prophetic, chilling. Now is time for Congress to act. This is coming our way. We will be judged.

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ajay ess's avatar

WRITE TO THEM - OFTEN. THEY WON'T ACT UNLESS THEY HEAR THAT COMMAND FROM MANY MANY PEOPLE...

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MM Harris's avatar

Has miller actually explained WHY he feels the US has the "right" to take over Greenland?

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Robot Bender's avatar

Might makes right. They think they're entitled to take anything they want. Look at Trump's history.

I'm guessing that (big if) the Puerto Rico trade ever happened, the military bases would be kept, like Guantanamo in a sense. Knowing them, they'd just take the island back when convenient. After all, Puerto Rico is one of the linchpins that keeps the Caribbean an American lake. I grew up there and fear for my former home.

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MM Harris's avatar

I agree w/ your first sentence. I'd simply like any media to CHALLENGE this type of claim and do it relentlessly, because I think far too many in power toss this sort of thing out without any (or an acceptable) existing reason .. and continue doing it because they know they can get away with it. Later, if their concept is enacted and problematic they can say nobody pushed back or told them they couldn't do it... (Crossed fingers for your former home..)

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Goldfinger Is Toast's avatar

No explanation is coming.

All this drama is simply a quid pro quo between Putler and Shitler to DESTROY The US and the alliance in exchange for Putler forwarding Shitler money since banks stopped lending to “Frank Lloyd Wrong”. Remember, Don hasn’t been happy with The DoJ since it started digging into Fred’s “business practices” in 1973. Everything Chump has done since has been very personal to him.

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Christie's avatar

Trump used the slogan “America First” as part of one of his biggest cons…getting people to believe he cared anything about this country, or her people…ever! The insanity of what is happening now is terrifying, and I grew up during the “Cold War” and “under the mushroom cloud!” That there is any, ANY rationalization that Greenland should be part of the United States is beyond insane…if we’re speaking geographically, the only country with any geographic claim to that island is Canada, which is almost connected to it! I WILL STAND WITH GREENLAND & DENMARK!!

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John S's avatar

Some many weeks ago here on Substack, I think, I read of an EU "nuclear option." If the US were deemed irredeemable, the Europeans and Canadians would cash in their IOUs aka treasury bonds all at once. Seems we're headed that way. Question is, what does a cornered animal (Trump) then do?

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Goldfinger Is Toast's avatar

… and if they do it, blame The Shitlerites because THEY bloviated that Shitler had all the answers. So, they’ll get burned. Twice.

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Joan Wiersma's avatar

Thank you Miles. <3

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Kathy Hughes's avatar

It’s a disastrous idea.

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ajay ess's avatar

AND WHY THE F**K ARE FAT-ASS DEMOCRATS NOT YELLING AND SCREAMING?

Miles, it must be sooooooooo f**king frustrating to keep saying these things and the dems do NADA.... politicians have big mouths but self-serving hands.... i know sooooo many dems like to believe the dem politicians are totally focused on doing things for us...but they are just good at reading the room and saying the things that motivate us (healthcare/poverty/affordable childcare/a living wage etc... they will get elected on those things, then they can get into accumulating some REAL wealth while on the congressional gravytrain.

i have spent the time between christmas and now, emailing my reps as well as schumer and jeffries, and for all the rest i have printed letters and mailed them (yes with some cute stamps about manatees, and also skateboarding) to their DC office address (i also followed up the emails to my senate and house reps +schumer +jeffries with printed letters and mailed those).

i am sick and tired of very 'wordy' statements from their respective ivory towers...i mean patty murray uses the word 'charlatan' to describe them..... why not use words like 'putin-style-dictator trump, and putin-style-rubber-stamp-congress, and putin-style-billionaire-oligarchs?????? none of them can be too direct because they want to 'play nice and be old-fashioned/non-existent bi-partisan. bi partisanship is DEAD. we are living in a fascist america now.

i am also sending letters to bernie, aoc, jasmine, gavin and a few others who i believe will actually have the spine to stand up and say what needs to be said (i even wrote to mtg aksing her to be more bold and not fear the repulsive vengeance of the dictator).

greenland will happen for trump. he and putin have decided. a weak nato (or remnants thereof) will enable putin's empire to expand into europe. the 3 spheres of the earth split between trump-shit, putin-shit, and xi-shit is their goal...... venezuela is the start, more trump lies and made up shit about WMD and his now favorite term 'narco-terrorists' are going to spin a lot faster every day.... multiple distractions to the media and his dumb-as-a-brick white supremist base will keep relegating all the issues to the back-burner while a new issue is created.

we are in our own LIBERAL ECHO CHAMBER here.....so it is important that as many people as possible (very few people fall into the category of not-being-possible) communicate with their reps IN STRONG, DEFINITE TERMS)....

********this is what 78million trumpaholic/fake christian voters have enabled. this fact should be shoved down their throats everyday - until they choke....********

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Goldfinger Is Toast's avatar

They have been doing Something. But as usual, that base is fractured, always has been. Just as The QoP is fracturing now. Some act more overtly, others feebly.

I place 100% of the blame on The QoP, aka “The Pukes”. You know The Usual Suspects.

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Star Aasved's avatar

It’s clear that everything Trump does is for his benefit in some way, shape or form. With Greenland’s minerals, I’m quite certain the end game brings cash his way; one likely way is “donors” currying favor to obtain the minerals.

A question: If we ”take” Greenland, how long before its populace has a say via voting? Never in a presidential election?

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Peggy Legrande's avatar

Thanks, Miles. Your inside info is a valuable resource for all of us. It is ominously true that Trump’s jokes are always unfunny-all of his childish rants eventually reveal his next scheme to destroy our democracy. The outcry is always “He can’t do that!” followed by “He just did!” Our legislators express their outrage loudly and often, but they don’t do a damn thing about it. What ‘s it going to take to get them to grow a pair? I start each day with a knot in my stomach and my eyes like sandpaper. I am 75, and I remember Khrushchev banging his shoe on the table at the UN. The Cold War was a joke to so many people, but the reality was not funny. Fearing the demise of our democracy back then was nothing compared to now, with a histrionic dipshit in the White House and a Congress shamefully sitting silent as our values are flushed down the toilet. I am furious, but grateful for Defiance.org.

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ALOHA. On the COCONUT ONE MIDDLE FINGER WIRELESS.......Long war games been brewing by RUBIO......"CUBA".....""Being president of this country is entirely about character.”........We have serious problems to solve, and we need serious men to solve them. And whatever our particular problem is, ORANGE FACE. CRY BABY, PEDO PIG, TRUMP the KING OF BANKRUTER is not the least bit interested in solving it. .............The regime wants CUBA next.. Reason why attack Venezuela? STOP OIL GOING TO CUBA TO CHOKE them. RUBIO want to take CUBA. This is the first step in controlling the economy in CUBA.. They want their OIL conglomerate RICH FRIENDS running the country..... TRUMP is only interested in three things and three's things only: Making you afraid, telling you who's to blame for it and MONEY. Rather than govern, ORANGE FACE, CRY BABY PEDO PIG TACO The KING OF BANKRUPTCY Trump is blaming his critics for the problems he has created. He is blaming immigrants, minorities, and Democratic voters and politicians alike. He is blaming you and me. ..............And C.B.S.( C**k BALLs SUCKERS) is crickets..... ..........Don't forget the PEDO FILES TOO....Keep your eyes on the prize...

HAUOLI MAKAHIKI HOU to you and yours.... everybody lives matter.. May the new days bring all of you to live in peace and prosperity. ......Live long, proud and loud......... ...........ALOHA.,

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Larry Wegrzyn's avatar

Reflecting on the campaign for presidency - if we would have known any of what is happening - Trump would not have won. We are not a country that wants to use our military routinely to take others property and to break international laws. We are not hateful, greedy, or criminal. We do not believe that ICE should arrest all immigrants nor should we bomb any of the countries we have. Our richest have been greedy and are ruining the world. We are losing allies and will be nothing but another ugly Russia - with a poor standard of living for most and few freedoms. Our lawyers ,SCOTUS and Congress took oaths to protect and preserve the Constitution and democracy - but they have been bought.

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Joan Wiersma's avatar

STOP saying that he won. HE DID NOT WIN!! Musk and him CHEATED! WHY does everyone forget that!???

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Goldfinger Is Toast's avatar

While true there was cheating on behalf of the Red electorate, Chump DID win the popular vote by all measures.

No significant evidence has materialized that indicates he did not.

Did Musk make a difference? Again, no evidence. The machines are NOT connected to the iNet. That doesn’t mean there is no evidence, it means we haven’t discovered any of any consequence. Yes … I’ve seen the influencers saying he didn’t win. But they’re scattershot with no cohesion or unanimity. Musk absolutely broke election law multiple times, which begs The Question: Why haven’t authorities in those states where Musk paid off people gone after him? ( PA for one. )

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Goldfinger Is Toast's avatar

The Qult has dug in for YEARS and has always given Shitler more rope. Those people are completely programmed. GOOD LUCK debriefing them. There are comments online, probably by bots, that in regards to The Epstein Case, that “child rape may be a problem but there’s bigger problems in the world right now”. This, coming from the Red electorate, the same bunch who accused “Demoncrats” of abducting, raping, then cannibalizing kids. That group was Qanon. ( Theory there: A Russian-backed ruse to pre-emptively deflect crimes that SHITLER committed, anticipating that the Epstein shit would float back to the top of the 24/7/365 news cycle. Sure enough, two years later, it did. )

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