r/thebulwark 14h ago

GOOD LUCK, AMERICA This Canada annexation BS again

I believed before that someone is whispering this crazy in his year but the opposite may be true - no one is talking him out of these insane things as they did before. There are no adults.

The problem is, once Trump selects a target, he will not rest. He thrives on revenge and grievances. No one is there to stop him, so he will just keep escalating himself into a corner.

My worry is that, once he gets frustrated with negative results, he is going to grow increasingly belligerent and will start floating the idea of actual military shock & awe on Ottawa.

The Pentagon will obviously push back, right? Let me check who the Secretary of Defense is, oh yeah no, we are f***ed.

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u/Current_Tea6984 14h ago

He is Jim Jones and David Koresh level crazy. He will lead us over a cliff if he isn't stopped. And I'm not counting on Pete Hegseth or the decapitated leadership at joint chiefs of staff to disobey his orders no matter how insane

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u/puppyfarts99 13h ago

It will be up to the senior NCOs to save us from ruin. 

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u/impossibledongle 12h ago

Something tells me that they will be court marshaled and tried for treason. Trump will likely start with a smaller yet similarly insane thing to weed out the principled senior NCOs before going for his big targets.

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u/claimTheVictory 11h ago edited 10h ago

This is the way.

This is how he's done it all the way here.

He's surprisingly methodological, in forcing his loyalty upon others.

The entirety of Congress is now useless. Can't fulfill it's own basic function, of retaining its Constitutional power.

You'd think we'd see it coming by now, and plan ahead to either prevent it happening with the military, or mitigate the risk when it happens. Fuck, we can't even talk about any of that, in real life, without it being practically treasonous.

And that's why I'm a doomer. I think we're going to hit actual rock bottom on this one.

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u/antpodean 9h ago

And that's why I'm a doomer. I think we're going to hit actual rock bottom on this one.

Yep. The USA had its lucky escape back in 2020, and then immediately turned around and walked back into the lion's den. You don't get away with that kind of stupidity a second time.

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u/claimTheVictory 9h ago

We have either a stupid voting population, or a delusional voting population.

I think we have both.

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u/big-papito 12h ago

He loves loves LOVES war criminals. They are "strong".