Trump 2.0: MAGAA

[BDKJMU]

[UNI88]

From the book of faces ...

MAGA Men Are Submissive: Here Is Why

MAGA men are submissive. They have to be submissive in order to be MAGA. If we leave behind the theatrics of the alpha patriot male and their need to impose dominance over others, we are left with a person who is desperate to please, belong, and to be told how to feel and how to think.

This submissiveness is clearest in how easily their convictions shift. In 2024, these were the same men consumed with anger over gas prices and the rising cost of living. Now that same economic pressure is met with embarrassing compliance.

The voices that once demanded an end to war as a matter of principle now excuse military escalation. Their beliefs are not anchored in the Christian values they claim to uphold. They simply reflect whatever they are told to believe in that moment. Hardship does not bother them as long as it is imposed by the man to whom they have willingly submitted.

These men are willing to accept a declining quality of life as long as they are not the ones at the very bottom. As long as there are people beneath them to blame, whether immigrants, women, or other vulnerable groups, they can still feel a sense of status and security.

The mindset of MAGA is: “We are willing to live miserably as long as someone else has it worse.” Treating the suffering of others as a kind of psychological reward for their obedience.

The greatest deception in this dynamic is the belief that loyalty guarantees safety. These men watch the movement go after “the others” and convince themselves they have secured a place among the protected. But any culture built on submission and the constant need for enemies will eventually turn inward. The circle of “us” only keeps getting smaller.

The tragedy of the MAGA man is not only that he has surrendered his voice, but that he mistakes his submission for power, when in reality he is only waiting for the master to choose him next.

Great job explaining the double standard/hypocrisy.

[UNI88]

From the Book of Faces on NATO ...

Let me explain something to the MAGA crowd, because clearly someone needs to.

They seem to think NATO is cosmic room service. You pick up the phone, say “hello, we’re having a bit of a war here,” and thirty-one countries march to your rescue. A continental Uber for military adventures.

That is not how it works.
Article 5 is a mutual DEFENSE clause. The clue is in the word mutual. And it has been triggered exactly once in NATO’s entire history. After September 11. When the U.S. was attacked. Not Europe. The United States.

Every NATO member showed up. They went to Afghanistan. They fought. They bled. They died. In the United State's war. On behalf of the United States.

Now imagine they hadn’t.

• Over 1,100 allied soldiers died in Afghanistan. British, Canadian, German, French, Danish, Polish., Romanian, Australian, Swedish, Italians, Frech, Spanish and more. And yes, even Ukrainian soldiers, who had no NATO obligation whatsoever. Gone. Without them, those are U.S. names on those graves. Sons from Ohio. Fathers from Georgia. Kids from Nebraska who never came home.
• Then there is the money. NATO allies spent over $100 billion dollars on a war that started on U.S. soil. Without that, Washington pays every cent. On top of the 2 to 3 trillion the war already cost.
• And without allied bases across Europe and Central Asia, the U.S. supply lines collapse entirely. Without British forces in Helmand and Canadians in Kandahar, the Taliban reconstitutes in three years instead of ten. The gaps get filled one way. More American deployments. More American coffins arriving at Dover.

Afghanistan was bloody. But NATO took the hit. Without them, every single one of those casualties would have only an American name.
Trump called allies like these losers. Suckers.

If you are a certain kind of broken person, that probably makes sense to you. But for the rest of us, what those soldiers did has a different name.
Honor. The bond between men who have been in the same dirt, under the same fire. Between Brits and Americans, Frenchmen and Norwegians, Canadians and Danes, Australians, Romanians, the Dutch, New Zealanders, Finnish and Spanish. Not a diplomatic relationship. A blood bond. Brotherhood forged in places most people will never see and cannot imagine.

In that culture, you do not mock a fallen ally. You do not sneer at the dead. It is the lowest thing a human being can do. Trump did it to a standing ovation.

If you are a MAGA supporter traveling to NATO countries, understand this. There are no friendly pats on the back waiting for you. No one will buy you a beer. The governments who share your worldview sit in Minsk, Moscow and Pyongyang. Brutal dictatorships where journalists disappear, elections are theatre and dissent is a medical condition treated in basements. Not London. Not Paris. Not Rome, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Berlin or Ottawa.

You have abandoned the open societies, the free press, the rule of law, the places where people actually want to live. You traded the best of civilization for a very small, very dark room. Frankly, it serves you right.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

trump should have built a coalition in advance. It was foolish to act unilaterally and then expect blind support.

[kalm]

From the Book of Faces on NATO ...

Let me explain something to the MAGA crowd, because clearly someone needs to.

They seem to think NATO is cosmic room service. You pick up the phone, say “hello, we’re having a bit of a war here,” and thirty-one countries march to your rescue. A continental Uber for military adventures.

That is not how it works.
Article 5 is a mutual DEFENSE clause. The clue is in the word mutual. And it has been triggered exactly once in NATO’s entire history. After September 11. When the U.S. was attacked. Not Europe. The United States.

Every NATO member showed up. They went to Afghanistan. They fought. They bled. They died. In the United State's war. On behalf of the United States.

Now imagine they hadn’t.

• Over 1,100 allied soldiers died in Afghanistan. British, Canadian, German, French, Danish, Polish., Romanian, Australian, Swedish, Italians, Frech, Spanish and more. And yes, even Ukrainian soldiers, who had no NATO obligation whatsoever. Gone. Without them, those are U.S. names on those graves. Sons from Ohio. Fathers from Georgia. Kids from Nebraska who never came home.
• Then there is the money. NATO allies spent over $100 billion dollars on a war that started on U.S. soil. Without that, Washington pays every cent. On top of the 2 to 3 trillion the war already cost.
• And without allied bases across Europe and Central Asia, the U.S. supply lines collapse entirely. Without British forces in Helmand and Canadians in Kandahar, the Taliban reconstitutes in three years instead of ten. The gaps get filled one way. More American deployments. More American coffins arriving at Dover.

Afghanistan was bloody. But NATO took the hit. Without them, every single one of those casualties would have only an American name.
Trump called allies like these losers. Suckers.

If you are a certain kind of broken person, that probably makes sense to you. But for the rest of us, what those soldiers did has a different name.
Honor. The bond between men who have been in the same dirt, under the same fire. Between Brits and Americans, Frenchmen and Norwegians, Canadians and Danes, Australians, Romanians, the Dutch, New Zealanders, Finnish and Spanish. Not a diplomatic relationship. A blood bond. Brotherhood forged in places most people will never see and cannot imagine.

In that culture, you do not mock a fallen ally. You do not sneer at the dead. It is the lowest thing a human being can do. Trump did it to a standing ovation.

If you are a MAGA supporter traveling to NATO countries, understand this. There are no friendly pats on the back waiting for you. No one will buy you a beer. The governments who share your worldview sit in Minsk, Moscow and Pyongyang. Brutal dictatorships where journalists disappear, elections are theatre and dissent is a medical condition treated in basements. Not London. Not Paris. Not Rome, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Berlin or Ottawa.

You have abandoned the open societies, the free press, the rule of law, the places where people actually want to live. You traded the best of civilization for a very small, very dark room. Frankly, it serves you right.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

trump should have built a coalition in advance. It was foolish to act unilaterally and then expect blind support.

It’s disheartening that so many Americans much less our current government need to have this explained.

[UNI88]

Based on the White House's proposed 2027 budgt, lil' marco should make that suggestion to trump.

[kalm]

An image of why MAGA is so misinformed.

[BDKJMU]

An image of why MAGA is so misinformed.

Now do one for Blueskie. It will show that the left is even more misinformed.

[kalm]

An image of why MAGA is so misinformed.

Now do one for Blueskie. It will show that the left is even more misinformed.

I don’t know anyone who has a blue sky account or even just lurks there. It’s insignificant to Twitter’s reach where most left leaning to full blown lefties still post.

It’s about as irrelevant as your post.

[BDKJMU]

Now do one for Blueskie. It will show that the left is even more misinformed.

I don’t know anyone who has a blue sky account or even just lurks there. It’s insignificant to Twitter’s reach where most left leaning to full blown lefties still post.

It’s about as irrelevant as your post.

Good. The left had a complete lock on Big Tech/Big Social Media, and were censoring the crap out of the right, until 2022 when Elon bought Twitter. So X is right leaning, the rest of Big Social Media is left leaning. Basically like FNC vs all the other networks.

[Caribbean Hen]

Now do one for Blueskie. It will show that the left is even more misinformed.

I don’t know anyone who has a blue sky account or even just lurks there. It’s insignificant to Twitter’s reach where most left leaning to full blown lefties still post.

It’s about as irrelevant as your post.

Try putting your phone down and go for a walk for 15 minutes and whatever you do get off Twitter

Nobody cares about your useless heroes

[kalm]

I don’t know anyone who has a blue sky account or even just lurks there. It’s insignificant to Twitter’s reach where most left leaning to full blown lefties still post.

It’s about as irrelevant as your post.

Try putting your phone down and go for a walk for 15 minutes and whatever you do get off Twitter

Nobody cares about your useless heroes

You care enough to post a reply. I’m touched.

[kalm]

Fascists are bad but hey…Orban is JD’s kind of fascist!

[Caribbean Hen]

Try putting your phone down and go for a walk for 15 minutes and whatever you do get off Twitter

Nobody cares about your useless heroes

You care enough to post a reply. I’m touched.

about you? well a little bit

but good grief Iago
post something from your own weasely heart

[kalm]

You care enough to post a reply. I’m touched.

about you? well a little bit

but good grief Iago
post something from your own weasely heart

I noticed the alfalfa starting to come on during my evening walk with the dogs.

[Caribbean Hen]

about you? well a little bit

but good grief Iago
post something from your own weasely heart

I noticed the alfalfa starting to come on during my evening walk with the dogs.

Nice! some fresh air will do you a world of good

Hopefully you left your phone in the house

[BDKJMU]

Good riddance.

[UNI88]

Good riddance.

The highlight of trump's first term so far!

Hallelulah. Praise be to God.

[kalm]

This does not sound good…at all.

Who benefits?

[UNI88]

This does not sound good…at all.

Who benefits?

Resource extractors.

We want more money now! Fvck the future! We'll be dead by then anyway, who cares what kind of country (or planet) we leave behind! God wills it or God will fix it or something ...

[kalm]

This does not sound good…at all.

Who benefits?

Resource extractors.

We want more money now! Fvck the future! We'll be dead by then anyway, who cares what kind of country (or planet) we leave behind! God wills it or God will fix it or something ...

193 million acres that require management for the general public (who are the rightful owners) as well as regulated resource extraction and research. Greedy, ignorant, twats.

[kalm]

The true enemy within.

(SG: Klippenstein doesn’t even have a journalism degree!)

President Trump's budget request to Congress contains the largest counterterrorism spending increase in years — and buried inside it is a new FBI-led center dedicated to “proactively” hunting Americans the government classifies as so-called domestic terrorists.

The new center and funding boost represent the implementation of Trump’s National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7), the sweeping federal order I’ve been covering since it was signed last September.

Though public opposition to ICE succeeded at forcing the administration to back down in Minnesota — even firing both Kristi Noem and Gregory Bovino — the FBI is doubling down its domestic terrorism obsession.

Now, Trump’s budget request reveals, the FBI runs a dedicated “NSPM-7 Joint Mission Center”; with personnel from 10 federal agencies, it is busy “proactively” identifying domestic terrorists motivated by any of the following beliefs:

https://open.substack.com/pub/kenklippe ... medium=ios

[UNI88]

The true enemy within.

(SG: Klippenstein doesn’t even have a journalism degree!)

President Trump's budget request to Congress contains the largest counterterrorism spending increase in years — and buried inside it is a new FBI-led center dedicated to “proactively” hunting Americans the government classifies as so-called domestic terrorists.

The new center and funding boost represent the implementation of Trump’s National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7), the sweeping federal order I’ve been covering since it was signed last September.

Though public opposition to ICE succeeded at forcing the administration to back down in Minnesota — even firing both Kristi Noem and Gregory Bovino — the FBI is doubling down its domestic terrorism obsession.

Now, Trump’s budget request reveals, the FBI runs a dedicated “NSPM-7 Joint Mission Center”; with personnel from 10 federal agencies, it is busy “proactively” identifying domestic terrorists motivated by any of the following beliefs:

https://open.substack.com/pub/kenklippe ... medium=ios

One more step toward an authoritarian (dare I say fascist and send the MAQA yahoos whining and scurrying for safe spaces) rule.

Will they target domestic terrorists like the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, Mom's for Liberty, etc?

Or peaceful protesters exercising their Constitutional rights like the immigration protesters? Blowing whistles, honking horns, monitoring and reporting on government activity is so subversive ...

[kalm]

The true enemy within.

(SG: Klippenstein doesn’t even have a journalism degree!)



https://open.substack.com/pub/kenklippe ... medium=ios

One more step toward an authoritarian (dare I say fascist and send the MAQA yahoos whining and scurrying for safe spaces) rule.

Will they target domestic terrorists like the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, Mom's for Liberty, etc?

Or peaceful protesters exercising their Constitutional rights like the immigration protesters? Blowing whistles, honking horns, monitoring and reporting on government activity is so subversive ...

Imagine living in that much fear.

[BDKJMU]

[UNI88]

Core inflation?

Trump Blow as Gas Prices Send Inflation Soaring Over War

The Consumer Price Index for March showed prices were up 3.3 percent from a year ago, as the inflation rate shot up to 0.9 percent last month, up from 0.3 percent in February.

The acceleration of price increases in March was the biggest one-month jump in costs since June 2022, despite the president’s insistence that he’s solved inflation.