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I know he's a buffoon, and yet I'm still amazed that this is the President of the United States of America. This is the writing style of an 8 year old!
That is the writing style of someone that doesn't know how anything works. Let alone understands any of it.
He knows enough that he is in power and he can do and say what he wants. His entire lifespan has taught him that reality will change to accomodate his wishes. and he is not wrong. So he doesn't have to know how anything works, it will work in his favour if he says so.
Terry Pratchett - Equal Rites
Dead on. What's this from?
The felicia day web series The Guild
Wil Wheaton is playing a villainous character who is paraphrasing Ayn Rand.
WHEEEAAAAATOOOOONNNNNN!!!!!!!
But someday his luck will run out! (just for one day God, please? Oh yeah there’s no God, drats)
"Wahhh, you didn't give me the Nobel Peace Prize, so now I'm making thinly veiled threats to invade our mutual ally. Also, look I got a FIFA peace prize and I stole a medal from the Nobel laureate."
Except he probably doesn't know the word laureate...
And there literally are documents recording Denmark's rights to Greenland. But by trump's logic of "Only cause boats landed there a few hundred years ago," I guess the US doesn't have rights to the land it's on?
Also, trump has done nothing for NATO except weaken it. Other NATO countries are gearing up their commitments in spite of him, not because of him.
Why? when did he knew? Same way goes for the way he speaks and what he says, lies that does not correspond to reality or truth.
Seems like he missed the basics principles (again). Even if the Norwegian government would, they could not do it. It's not up to them ...... "Nobel Prizes are assigned by various committees depending on the category"
Well, if these committees were in the USA, the government (i.e. Trump) could and would decide who gets the Nobel Prizes.
As is customary in autocratic banana republics.
The Nobel committee does have politicians on the peace part. Which is a big mistake, as they've made a string of awful decisions. The entire committee has no credibility in the reality based community, thinking Obama, an institutionalist, would deserve it. Then aiby ahmed, su kyi, now a zionist at the tail end of a two year long final solution for their ghetto, lashing out at all of their neighbors under false pretexts with their overwhelming military advantage. That also advocated for a us backed coup of her own country.
A coup that happened already, the military made a deal clearly, they let the helicopters through, the US wouldn't have tried that mission if they had not gave up intel and agreed to stand down. The army is the de facto ruler, will oversee the now puppet civilian government signing over assets and concessions and after resistance forms to wholesale oil drilling for foreign interests sees attacks on oil infrastructure and what have you, the army will get into atrocities, and if history is any guide establish paramilitaries to do the dirty work they don't want to do directly, like run death squads through villages to collectively punish them, paid for by black market drug and weapon sales.
I mention this, because that is the legacy of this nobel prize, that is what will result from the coup she advocated. The nobel committee is beyond a joke, might as well have given it to the president at this point.
He assumes ~~kings~~ presidents can do whatever they want, just like him.
And Greenland is not owned by Norway, so what does he expect Norway to do? Issue him a "Super Special Big Boy Trophy"?
Asbuser "look what you made me do" energy. If he had been given it (he's already been given 2 non-participation trophies) it would have been "this can't be a war because I have a Peace Prize. This is necessary for peace."
This alone should cause an immediate invocation of the 25th amendment. It's not the writing of an 8 year old, it's the writing of a dementia patient.
This reads like a transcription of an argument I would have on a contry RP server on Discord. And I wouldn't be winning.
I have zero doubts that the president of Norway would write a more coherent letter in English
I think the average Norwegian 8 year old could
No peace prize, so I don't want to do peace anymore!
I thought this message was a troll. How wrong I was.
Trump is a troll.
Not really. Trolls tend to play stupid in order to pull your leg and/or enrage you, most often for a laugh.
Trump means it. He is just an incredibly stupid and equally spoiled manchild.
My thoughts exactly.
He already has 2 peace prices why does he need another?