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Greg Johnson and David Zsutty discuss Trump’s bizarre obsession with Greenland, geopolitics, and ICE enforcement in Minneapolis and elsewhere. You can now download or listen here.
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That was an enthralling discussion! I basically thought the same things about Greenland. It’s mainly about Trump’s ego and legacy. He wants something big named after him—notice how he reverted Denali to mount Mckinley in Alaska—that’s a clue to his impulses. If there does happen to be a 4d chess element to it, then it’s a distraction or something from Iran plots or perhaps merely to punish and humiliate Scandinavia for criticizing Israel(retaliation for the ICC warrant against Netanyahu). I believe that block has been the most outspoken with regard to gaza. However, I think way too much neuronal energy has been expended trying to interpret Trump’s motives by everyone.
The reason for the Greenland thing is simple, the President is an old man whose mind is slipping. There’s no 4 dimensional chess and there’s no plan to make some underground ice fortress to fight Russia and China from later.
I’m hoping to listen to this later but since its a misc episode I have an idea I’ve been playing with.
I’ve recently read the The Principles of Communism by Friederich Engels and I too felt inspired by Robert Owen. I think what the West needs is the concept of business type called municipal charter (or even county charter). Essentially it’s a business owned by a corporate municipality and to work at this business you have to be a legal resident of that region. The mayor does not run this business, this is delegated to a person for say a 10 year term. A municipal charter may not be eligible for IPO and must remain a private corporation. A corporate town can have any number of municipal charters but they cannot prohibit other companies from operations there. Municipal charters may only operate within the delimited borders of the region (so they can’t expand into other towns).
With something like this small towns can raise capital from crowdfunding, taxes, grants, and loans to start a business whose profits go directly to the town coffers. Some small scale manufacturing could begin this way in areas that other work has been outsourced.
Of course, they can sell their widgets and groceries outside of town borders, and maybe it shouldn’t go without saying that a municipal charter must be located within town borders.
But the corporate town buying a franchise could also count under this model.
Took me a while but I’ve realized that this is dumb
Good discussion.
While Greenland and Iran are distractions at best that we don’t need ─ and amounts to Trump threatening to derail himself ─ I don’t share the apocalyptic concerns of some.
Hot Air is nothing new.
Diplomacy is all about floating schemes from the absurd to the serious and riding the tiger and the fallout for all it’s worth. The important point is not the Zimmerman Telegram itself but how you play it.
And where 99.99 percent of the mass-media on Trump is unambiguously hostile, mendacious, and literally vile, trolling them back has some merit. That is just the way it is.
Knowing what to double-down on and when to do so has enormous dialectical value.
President Nixon is credited for the so-called Madman Theory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_theory
“The premise of Madman Theory is that the appearance of irrationality makes otherwise non-credible threats seem credible.”
This certainly applies to Donald Trump ─ although I am not sure if he is a particularly skilled practitioner of the tactic, compared to others who have already been mentioned, Richard Milhous Nixon, Teddy Roosevelt, Andy Jackson, etc.
As I see it, Trump needs to make examples out of Sanctuary Cities ─ and various petty commissars like Mayor Jacob Frey, Gov. Tim Walz, and AG Keith Ellison.
There is a tactical advantage right now because it is Wintertime and the “we beez overcomin’ an’ sh*t” types don’t riot when it is cold outside.
That means that the dialectic right now is not poor oppressed Negroes that scares cat-ladies and milquetoast Whites away, but one of “White Nationalists” vs. dumb White libtards.
Calling red MAGA cap-wearing White folks “Racist” when the police beez beating another Rodney King is one thing, but it plays differently when officials are unambiguously doing their jobs against vile Leftist agitators.
Most Americans think that Sanctuary Cities are wrong and that immigration law needs to be enforced. Calling salt-of-the-Earth folks “racist” without the right optical framework is not going to get them voting for a Kamala Harris or a Hillary Clinton.
The only way to lose this moral high ground right now is to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory and to argue that maybe the Communists do make good points ─ that maybe we need more Diversity, after all.
At what point will there not be “too many” White people?
I don’t doubt that this chess game can be lost handily if we let things get careless. It is not “sixty years of failure” at this point but well over a century. We are running out of second chances and past generations to blame.
Secondly, Trump needs to groom his successor, and this needs to be done right now.
I am not thrilled that J.D. Vance married a Pajeet, but if he is our only hope, and he can put his nose to the grindstone and earnestly fight for White Americans, and decisively beat the Democrats in the coming elections, then there is much mischief that I can overlook.
What I don’t have a lot of patience for is the idea that because Trump isn’t the Sun King (by far) that edgy podcasts about how bad “rightoids” are, somehow moves our agenda forward.
And this last point is slightly off-topic but since I’m on a rant anyway ─ I don’t have a lot of patience for how this is all the fault of the Boomers somehow. The youngest Boomers are now in their sixties. Whining about Boomers is some kind of mid-life crisis thing. Grow up.
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Madmen Theory doesn’t include wanting people to think you’re a buffoon.
Exactly.
Nonsense. Trump is a “buffoon” because he broaches White Nationalist talking points. Simple as that. That is why the Establishment media hates him and portrays him as it does.
This can often be maladroit on his part, but the Establishment media would infinitely prefer some kind of Never Trumper phenomenon to deal with instead.
Perhaps, a watery race-neutral John McCain or a Jeff Flake kind of response in a state that actually kicked off the modern immigration reform movement…
Trump, especially in his second term, has not been afraid to call a spade a spade. That took him over the top in 2016 and it worked again in 2024.
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His letter to the Norwegian President saying he’s less interested in peace because he didn’t get the Nobel Prize isn’t buffoonish to you?
Sure, but that is not all there is to it.
Hard to believe that anybody is even interested in the Nobel Peace Prize, maybe the biggest joke ever devised.
And far too many are simply placing too much importance on some “mean tweets.” Nobody ever thought that Donald “you’re fired” Trump was William Shakespeare.
The mass-media avoids repeating anything that Trump might say that doesn’t fit their plan ─ which means whatever they don’t want emphasized or discussed reasonably.
A core feature of TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) is hoping that bad-orange-man will just go away if ignored ─ like protection from ghosts by whistling past the graveyard.
Furthermore, there is a certain amount of hypocrisy involved.
Almost nothing that came out of the great Kamalamala’s mouth was anything other than vapid ─ but that kind of reassuringly-stupid seemed to bother almost nobody. Most Libtards just pretended to be suitably impressed and simply can’t be honest even with themselves. Very few Liberals are actually critical of Leftist B.S.
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Hi Greg and David,
Have either of you ever commented about more effective strategies to actually cause large-scale self-deportations?
Clearly, playing whack-a-mole through the ICE agent mallet is not going to actually remedy the issue on any significant scale. I recall Trump proposed blocking remittances to Mexico on his 2015 campaign website, but I think this could easy be circumnavigated in today’s era via cryptocurrency exchanges. If the federal government could actually punish illegal-hiring business owners in the agriculture, hospitality, and food-services industries with punitive liens or criminal charges, I think this would do wonders in making life in this country inimical to 95% of illegal residents.
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