Trump Is Destroying Everything He Touches
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Trump plans to break up the EU by ‘pulling four MAGA allies’ out of the bloc, report claims
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Donald Trump, Security Threat
The call is coming from inside the White House
By Paul Krugman | Dec 12, 2025
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/donald-trump-security-threat
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
Because of Tariffs, easily and quickly applied, our National Security has been greatly enhanced, and we have become the financially strongest Country, by far, anywhere in the World. Only dark and sinister forces would want to see that end!!!
Dec 09, 2025, 3:45 AM
To update Samuel Johnson, these days national security is the last refuge of a scoundrel. According to Donald Trump, anything he doesn’t like is a threat to national security. Question his clearly illegal tariffs? You’re a dark and sinister force trying to undermine America. When the New York Times reported on signs that age may be taking a toll on Trump’s stamina, he denounced the reporting as “seditious, maybe even treasonous.”
But some of America’s allies — and many of us here at home — are becoming increasingly open about saying that the real danger is coming from inside the White House: Trump himself has become the biggest security threat facing the U.S. and, indeed, all the world’s democracies.
On Wednesday a new report from Denmark’s military intelligence service contained the most explicit statement of the growing alarm. It pointed out that, under Donald Trump, America is no longer acting like a friendly partner:
The United States uses economic power, including threats of high tariffs, to enforce its will, and no longer rules out the use of military force, even against allies.
Without a doubt, Denmark’s concerns have been heightened by Trump’s repeated assertions that he wants to “get” Greenland, which is a Danish territory. In August the Danish government summoned the head of the U.S. embassy to protest about “covert influence operations” in Greenland undertaken by Americans with ties to Trump.
However, Denmark is certainly not alone in raising concerns and acting on them. Several of America’s closest traditional allies, including Canada and the UK, have reportedly acted to limit intelligence-sharing with the U.S. One cited concern is the risk of being complicit in unlawful acts or war crimes arising from the deadly strikes on boats in the Caribbean.
Sotto voce, it’s also clear that the Canadians and the Europeans are alarmed by the presence of Putin sympathizers and conspiracy theorists like Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence, in sensitive positions within the Trump administration. After hearing the leaked tape of Steve Witkoff’s fawning and borderline treasonous conversation with Yuri Ushakov, Putin’s foreign policy adviser – in which Witkoff coached him on how to manipulate Trump -- who would want to share sensitive information with this American president?
More broadly, in a world of growing geopolitical conflict, it has become increasingly clear whose side the Trump administration is on — the side of Trump’s personal interests, grudges and biases. Trump’s new National Security Strategy, released last week, made this dynamic clear. There was no condemnation of Russian aggression against Ukraine and hardly any mention of the US rivalry with China. Yet it lambasted Europe and openly supported right-wing extremist parties that are trying to undermine European democracy.
Trump’s proposed “peace plan” for Ukraine not only reads like a Russian wish list, but it also uses some odd phrasing and syntax suggesting that it was translated from a Russian original. Moreover, the Wall Street Journal reports that the plan includes a number of undisclosed appendices that would unlock frozen Russian assets and bring Russia’s economy “in from the cold,” effectively ending the sanctions Putin has faced since he invaded Ukraine.
As odious as Witkoff’s actions were, they revealed the truth of the matter: Trump’s foreign policy is not about securing the safety and well-being of the United States. It’s about playing to Trump’s ego, about appealing to his incessant psychodrama of domination and sycophancy. A
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The Curse of Trump 2.0
What does it say that the President doesn’t even feel he needs to hide his most profane and radical views anymore?
By Susan B. Glasser | December 11, 2025
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/the-curse
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In January of 2018, Donald Trump hosted a group of lawmakers in the Oval Office to discuss the possibility of a bipartisan immigration deal. But, when talking about plans to give protected status to immigrants from African countries and other nations, such as El Salvador and Haiti, he grew frustrated. “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” he demanded, adding that he’d prefer to have more people enter the U.S. from largely white, European nations such as Norway. The remarks, published soon after the meeting in the Washington Post, caused a sensation. Trump denied the reporting, and a couple of the Republican senators who were present said they did not recall him making the comments. “This was not the language used,” Trump tweeted. He called the account “made up by Dems.” When questions about the statements persisted, he told reporters, “I am not a racist. I’m the least racist person you have ever interviewed.”
Nearly eight years later, and more than an hour and twenty-five minutes into a speech at a rally in Pennsylvania this week, Trump finally admitted that he had, in fact, used the “shithole” language. He then set off on an extended riff about how the United States takes in too many immigrants from Somalia and other places that are “filthy, dirty, disgusting, ridden with crime.” Trump didn’t just acknowledge what he once denied; as the audience applauded, he lingered on his past remark as a fond memory.
For many, it was a gotcha moment—the President taking ownership, belatedly, for one of his most iconic lines. “The truth comes out,” Dick Durbin, the Democratic senator from Illinois, whose account of the meeting had been questioned by his G.O.P. colleagues, posted on social media. Others focussed less on the revelation that our chronically untruthful leader had failed to tell the truth about something, and more on the escalating hate speech about Somali immigrants in Minnesota that the President is now spewing forth on a regular basis. It was both of those things, of course, and also a perfect example of the contrast between Trump’s two terms. Trump is still Trump, but what a difference it is, nonetheless, to go from a President who felt it necessary to deny that he had said “shithole countries” to one who, eight years later, is celebrating the fact that he said it.
Trump 2.0 is all about this break with the stylistic norms, rules, and traditions that governed the Presidency in the past, and that, we must now understand, includes Trump 1.0. For years, he has complained that pretty much all of his predecessors in the White House were wrong about everything. The surprise of his second term, to the extent that there is one, is that Trump’s critique of America’s other Presidents is no longer just a repudiation of George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden; it now extends to Trump himself. Not to him personally, of course. Anyone who has watched even a minute of a Trump Cabinet meeting knows that our President is never wrong about anything. But, if Trump is unwilling to admit any errors of his own, he is more than happy to reject the policies of those who worked for him, even when it’s his big, bold signature scribbled with his trademark black Sharpie on the cover.
Eight years ago this month, Trump’s White House published its first national-security strategy, a document that extolled NATO’s enduring value as “one of our great advantages over our competitors,” and praised America’s allies as, in the words of one of the strategy’s principal authors, the then national-security adviser H. R. McMaster, “the best defense against today’s threats.” Its most famous passage declared a new era of “great power competition” and warned that China and Russia posed grave long-term dangers to the United States. I cannot count
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Quote:Lacking 1) self-discipline and 2) mental stability, Trumptards and Trump are trapped by their personal dramas. They blame their troubles on Democrats rather than on their malfunctioning minds because the effort required to achieve 2) mental stability is too much, especially because they lack 1) self-discipline.
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Democrats are cancer and Paul Krugman is an idiot.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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RIP American Tech Dominance
Lifting export controls on Nvidia’s second-best chip jeopardizes America’s AI advantage over China.
By Rogé Karma | December 12, 2025
https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/2025/12/trumps-china-ai-chips/6852
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Donald Trump launched his political career by insisting that free-trade deals had sacrificed the national interest in the pursuit of corporate profits. One wonders what that version of Trump would make of his most recently announced trade policy. On Monday, he declared on Truth Social that the United States would lift restrictions on selling highly advanced semiconductors to China. In doing so, the president has effectively chosen to cede the upper hand in developing a technology that could determine the outcome of the military and economic contest between the U.S. and its biggest geopolitical rival.
The U.S. is currently ahead in the AI race, and it owes that fact to one thing: its monopoly on advanced computer chips. Several experts told me that Chinese companies are even with or slightly ahead of their American counterparts when it comes to crucial AI inputs, including engineering talent, training data, and energy supply. But training a cutting-edge AI model requires an unfathomable number of calculations at incredible speed, a feat that only a few highly specialized chips can handle. Only one company, the U.S.-based Nvidia, is capable of producing them at scale.
This gives the U.S. not only an economic advantage over China, but a military one. Already, AI systems have revolutionized how armies gather intelligence on enemies, detect troop movements, coordinate drone strikes, conduct cyberattacks, and choose targets; they are currently being used to develop the next generation of autonomous weapons. “Over the next decade, basically everything the military and intelligence communities do is going to some extent be enabled by AI,” Gregory Allen, who worked on the Department of Defense’s AI strategy from 2019 to 2022, told me. This is why, in October 2022, the Biden administration decided to cut off the sale of the most advanced semiconductors to China. The aim of the policy, according to the head of the agency in charge of implementing it, was “to protect our national security and prevent sensitive technologies with military applications from being acquired by the People’s Republic of China’s military, intelligence, and security services.”
Rogé Karma: Something ominous is happening in the AI economy
The policy seems to have done its job. Chinese AI firms tend to explicitly cite export controls as one of the biggest obstacles to their growth. DeepSeek, the Chinese company that earlier this year introduced an AI model nearly as good as those made by the leading American firms, is the exception that proves the rule. At first, DeepSeek’s progress was taken as evidence that restricting China’s access to advanced chips was a failed project. However, the company turned out to have trained its model on thousands of second-tier Nvidia chips that it had acquired via a loophole that wasn’t closed until late 2023. DeepSeek’s AI model would have been even better if the company had had access to more and better Nvidia chips. “Money has never been the problem for us,” Liang Wenfeng, one of DeepSeek’s founders, told a Chinese media outlet last year. “Bans on shipments of advanced chips are the problem.”
At first, Trump seemed eager to tighten the Biden-era restrictions even further. In April, his administration banned the sale of Nvidia’s H20 chip, which the company had designed specifically to sell to China without violating the export ban. But in subsequent months the balance of power in the White House began to tilt toward advisers who were skeptical of export controls, notably Trump’s AI czar, the Silicon Valley investor David Sacks. Meanwhile, Trump began meeting regularly with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang—who, somewhat understandably, didn’t love that his company was being deprived of the Chinese market. In July, Trump reversed course and lifted restrictions on the
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Then shut the fuck up, Rogé Karma.
And then get a new name, faggot.
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