Looks like Trump is going after the hegemony, and it's the 1940's all over again.

[lees1975]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2026/01/trump-is-going-after-hegemony-just-like.html

Here's what we have to ask ourselves at this point. How stupid has this country become? How ignorant are we, and how many Americans have absolutely no idea whatsoever what attacking or attempting to take over Greenland would mean? How many ignorant and stupid people do we have, that all of this rherotic spills out of the mouths of the Trump administration and it doesn't appear that Americans even know where Greenland is or why Trump wants it or why it would be totally unpatriotic and anti-American to be aggressive in demanding it come under our jurisdiction?

Somewhere, in our Constitution, the limits on Presidential authority exist for someone somewhere to tell Trump "NO!" and then countermand any orders to militarily occupy Greenland. The limits on Presidential authority have been there since this demagogue took office, but no one, especially among his oposition, seems to know what can be done, or they are too interested in feathering their own nests to do it.

The United States is now a predator among smaller, weaker nations, much smaller and much weaker, in a quest to gain the hegemony, which is Trump's life purpose, grab and grift for money. He's dragging our country, and its values, into the abyss of his own demented mind and disfunctional ego. And while we march, and protest, and complain, he keeps getting away with it and we keep letting him. We are now a threat to a world that we helped rebuild and turn toward our values following World War 2, simply because no one will do anything about the man who claimed he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and no one would do anything about it.

God help us.

[vapor2]

1. Well said!!

[Bread and Circuses]

2. This ⬇️

….in a quest to gain the hegemony, which is Trump's life purpose, grab and grift for money. He's dragging our country, and its values, into the abyss of his own demented mind and disfunctional ….

[pat_k]

3. The mentality of a rapist

“I hope he’s kept away from young women, because that’s the mentality of a rapist. You can’t defend yourself, so I’m going to take you. That’s basically what he’s saying.”
-- Danish MP Rasmus Jarlov

(Response to Nosferatu's assertion that: "... Denmark is a tiny country with a tiny economy and a tiny military. ... To control a territory, you have to be able to defend a territory ..." )

From: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/danish-politician-accuses-stephen-miller-201736975.html

[lees1975]

4. Too late. He already worked with his buddy Epstein to make that work for him.

But that's a great analogy.

The United States is in NATO, with Denmark. So it would be illegal to force them to become part of the United States. Do we have anyone in the military with the kind of courage and integrity exhibited by Senator Mark Kelly, who would simply refuse to follow illegal orders to occupy?

I hope so. Otherwise, our military becomes a worthless waste of the trillions we spend on it.

[JMCKUSICK]

5. The only true limits on a president, in hindsight,

Is their own party.
This whole country is waiting....
*drums fingers

[tanyev]

6. I was cheering along with every word of this until I hit the phrase

“but no one, especially among his opposition, seems to know what can be done”.

If this author who writes so well on historical context and current problems has tactics that the minority party in both houses can use right now to limit Trump, then I wish they would have spelled them out.

The REAL problem is that Republicans have the majority in both houses and a lot of state governments and most of them think a Trump dictatorship is a splendid idea. Pretending otherwise is naive or disingenuous.

[lees1975]

7. Look at the tactics the Republicans have employed to stop Democrats when they were in the majority.

The Democrats in the senate, old guard like Durbin, Schumer, wouldn't break the filibuster to pack the supreme court when it was a necessity for stoopping this. So maybe it's just because the Democrats don't want to force things when they can, which is still weakness and nest-feathering.

Yes, they do have the majority in both houses, but instead of applying the pressure, and using the public pressure that is mounting, they just whine that they're not the party in power. And then go out to a fundraising banquet.

We had the opportunity, when the government shut down, to hold the filibuster and do some real damage. Now, we are probably going to lose the ACA because we didn't.