remzem
11mo ago
Nah, its his second term and he came back with a bigger win than he had in 2016. Can't point to Trump as being some erroneous figure that mind controlled millions of Americans into voting for him. Even in 2016 this was copium from the establishment, the polling data showed that he was more in tune with the voting base than the old guard neocons. Isolationist populism is here to stay.
If anything Trump is popular enough with his base that the more he pushes the more the Overton window will shift and the more things like torching NATO or militarily taking Greenland become acceptable. I mean we have conservative talk show hosts that are fairly main stream now noticing how odd it is that no other country is expected to be multicultural and to not have a dominant ethnicity or culture. That would've been unthinkable on a major platform 10 years ago. Its the kind of thing citizens had to whisper about anonymously in dark corners of the internet.
remzem
1yr ago
Private entity, whose board of directors is appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. Except for the Secretary of Defense, Secretary of State and President of the National Defense University who are ex officio members. Very private industry. Definitely not another CIA front trying to keep its regime change operations hidden away from public oversight.
Probably for the best that the stuff in museums just gets locked up in some Indiana Jones esque storage somewhere given the current religious hysteria among that class of people. Otherwise they might end up throwing it all back in the dirt like in Australia https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-19/mungo-reburial/105014182
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