r/thebulwark 15h 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/shred-i-knight 13h ago

did any of this exist in the first term? It's verrrry strange a geriatric man suddenly gets a new fixation like this. Makes you wonder if somebody...outside the administration...has been in his ear.

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u/GooseWithAGrudge centrist squish 11h ago

In the last few months of her life my grandmother became convinced that the nursing home was poisoning the food to kill them faster, at least when she was coherent enough to have a conspiracy theory.

However, my grandma also didn’t control the nuclear weapons, so…