Firstly, Greenland is part of Denmark, not Norway. Not the same thing.
Secondly, I might be wrong but I don’t think the Norwegian government gives the Nobel prizes, an organization based in Norway does
Thirdly, how deranged does someone have to be to threaten war over not getting a peace prize?
gestures broadly this deranged. It’s all excuses. Dictators don’t need reasons they just act.
Worlds biggest fucking baby. They seriously voted in a fucking baby as president of the USA…
I don’t know man, I currently got a baby and she seems rather reasonable in comparison. Sure she cries when she’s hungry but so far she has only hungered for milk and not a nobel peace price. I’ll let you know if things change.
And they knew him all too well. They saw his baby antics on television long before he started appearing on ballots.
Twice. TWICE.
I can believe once, the second one was almost certainly stolen. There is just too much evidence and litteral coffesions to think otherwise.
“I’m so fucking pissed that you didn’t give me the Nobel Peace Prize that I’m going to go to war with you to teach you a lesson.”
He doesn’t even realize that Norway and Denmark are different countries.
“Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize … I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America,” Trump’s message to Jonas Gahr Støre said. “The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland.”
The Norwegian government has no control over how the Nobel Committee awards its prizes. Greenland is a territory of Denmark, not Norway.
I don’t understand how this is “normal.”
Like, I can bring this up to Trump-liking family, genuinely smart people, and it’s just brushed off.
If Biden so much as stuttered in a speech, it was like a national emergency. What do you think would happen if he started mixing up EU countries and impulse texting them over “your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize?”
Congress would impeach any other president on the spot. Democrat or Republican.
Even accounting for Fox News, I just don’t understand how this gets a pass.
Are you familiar with the concept of limerence? It’s an intense infatuation with a person typically rooted in romantic interest. It occurs when you don’t really know a person, and you build an idealized version of them in your mind that likely doesn’t reflect reality. You attribute all sorts of positive traits to them and overlook all their negative traits. You effectively view them through “rose colored glasses”. This is how Trump’s followers look at him. They have this delusional view of him as this strong man here to save them from the mean old leftists. His efforts to seize and wield extraordinary power is viewed favorably, because he is their savior. Everything he does is either awesome or it’s just minimized and ignored. When he does horrible things, it’s just haters looking to knock him down, because he’s just giving the U.S. the tough medicine it needs. There is no way to reason with them, because you can’t reason someone out of something they didn’t reason themselves into in the first place. It’s an emotional thing, in the same way you might be smitten by an attractive woman and build her up in your mind into something that she isn’t. The only way to break the spell is when your fantasy runs into cold, hard reality. In this case, the cold, hard reality will be financial collapse of the U.S. (or worse).
you can’t reason someone out of something they didn’t reason themselves into
This is the crux. None of it is reasoned.
By what metric are those people “genuinely smart?”
Script theory does a good job of showing how being able to follow certain social scripts does not suggest that the person does not hold a strong delusion that is unchallenged by those scripts.
You can believe you can fly while not needing to contest that until it becomes an active choice you are forced to make. Some might back off from the belief when put to contest, because they are okay believing whatever feels good despite the dissonance they feel. Some might take action believing they can fly. Both exist comfortable in a shared social group of online “flying truthers.”
People are easily deluded, and usually those delusions cover vaguely bounded and varying social groups, where a single person and an LLM can confirm the person into a noticeable delusion that hasn’t been socialized into the surrounding social scripts.
This is also how you can get a genuinely smart person in math or something, which also holds confident deluded beliefs on some other context.
On the whole: Eco-niche specialization, misplaced confidence, and social affirmation, generally can lead to this.
The limpest of limp dick energy.
blinks the hell is up with this timeline.
Europe is going to go for the “nuclear option” of dumping US debt. Prepare for your dollar to suffer inflation, perhaps super inflation. Me? I’m going to WalMart today to buy some staples because I don’t think my dollar will buy nearly as much by the end of next week.
Nothing drastic, just an extra pack of TP, some OTC drugs and probably some dog food. I’m pretty set up for apocalyptic bullshit already. But fellow residents: get ready.
That might be the one thing that forces congress to act on Trump tbh. They could weather tariffs because it barely affected them. Dropping the bottom out of the dollar will affect them
The stupid, it hurts
How does Karoline Leavitt spin this one to reporters? Another joke? Or just attack the journalist for asking?
Even if it were a joke, some jokes aren’t appropriate for the leader of a country to make. Multiple countries are taking him seriously and gearing up to defend Greenland. If I called someone’s house repeatedly and threatened to rob them, I’d probably be arrested and the defence “it was just a joke” would do little good.
In 2016, America put a gun to its head
In 2024, America pulled the trigger
Markets are closed today to celebrate MLK Day. Tomorrow marks a ton of state legislation getting scheduled as well. Gonna suck.
MLK Day is a US holiday. It’s not celebrated anywhere outside the United States of America.
I know you’re replying to a photo of the S&P 500, but I’m equally confused about the statement since I’ve not seen any global market slump.
The S&P 500 is primarily US companies so a global sell off isn’t really going to affect it.
