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lees1975

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Sat Jan 17, 2026, 11:52 PM Saturday

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

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.
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