What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[viper37]

Musk and Trump just stole 80M$ in Congressionnal-approved FEMA funds from a NY City bank account, money already disbursed for shelter and services that is missing.

[viper37]

Faith related EO dominated the agenda so far, with 21 of these:
https://www.axios.com/2025/02/11/trumps-executive-orders-memos

[grumbler]

"I'm here today to directly and unambiguously express that stark strategic realities prevent the United States from being the primary guarantor of security in Europe."

US Secretary of Defense, February 12, 2025.

That's... not good. It is very, very, very not good. 

Not only that, but when he renamed Fort Liberty (as shitty name, to be sure) back to Fort Bragg, he was careful to note that it wasn't named for the Confederate general, but another guy with the same name.

I hope he isn't stupid enough to believe that we are that stupid.

[Richard Hakluyt]

What? Like Fred Bragg the Dallas car salesman 

[The Minsky Moment]

The better move would be to say it is named after Braxton Bragg, as an insult to the CSA.

Now we are likely to end up with Ft. Nathan Redwood Forest, Ft. Benedict Ahnald, and Ft. Alois Hitler

[grumbler]

What? Like Fred Bragg the Dallas car salesman 

Pretty much.  A WW2 soldier so well-known he has his own Wikipedia page... created yesterday.

[Admiral Yi]

I do not see them as bad faith questions.

You see Europe as freeriding on defense.  Your own definition does not meet reality.

Some countries are spending more than the US.  The US is reducing its military expenses while others are increasing it, that's closing the gap in my mind.

You maintain base in Europe as projection in power because a stable world is better for US commerce.  US does not have friends, it has interests.  Not my words.

Each time a rival gets stronger, the US lose.

If you want one or two question, again, was the US richer in 1931 or 1961?
For one more, if you were a time traveler, would you prefer to live in 1931 Georgia or 1961 New York and why?

Hats off to Poland.  That doesn't change the fact that the majority of European countries are paying less than 2% of GDP, a number they have promised to meet over and over and over again.

Your 1931/1961 question demonstrates you don't understand the concept of free riding. The fact that the US gets some benefit from NATO does not mean other countries are not free riding.  Free riding is about splitting the bill, not whether the food tastes good.