What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[Razgovory]

We should make annexation of Greenland contingent on making Puerto Rico and D.C. states.

[Admiral Yi]

wut?

@Legbiter

[Legbiter]

Thought we did a somber farewell?

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

We should make annexation of Greenland contingent on making Puerto Rico and D.C. states.

If I was Puerto Rican I'd be really in favor of independence right now.

[Syt]

https://apnews.com/article/disney-fcc-trump-woke-dei-1aad33c3c2fa9db2143f578037ac4fad

Trump's FCC commissioner opens investigation into Walt Disney Co. and ABC for diversity policies

President Donald Trump's FCC commissioner said Friday he's opening an investigation into the Walt Disney Co. and its ABC television network to see whether they are "promoting invidious forms of DEI discrimination."

FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr announced the probe in a letter to Disney CEO Robert Iger on Friday. The company said it was reviewing the letter and looking forward to answering the commission's questions.

The new administration has taken an aggressive posture toward the media on several fronts. Just this week, there were court hearings on the shutdown of Voice of America and the president's dispute with The Associated Press over how the news agency refers to the Gulf of Mexico, which Trump has ordered renamed the Gulf of America.

Carr has pushed the Federal Communications Commission into an activist role since Trump appointed him as its leader. For example, the FCC currently has open investigations into ABC, CBS and NBC News.

"For decades, Disney focused on churning out box office and programming successes," Carr wrote to Iger. "But then something changed. Disney has now become embroiled in rounds of controversy surrounding its DEI policies."

He said that while he has seen reports that Disney has rolled back some of its practices, "significant concerns remain."

Last month, Axios reported that Disney had made some policy changes, including eliminating a website designed to highlight personalities and stories from underrepresented communities.

Disney also softened messages that appeared before showings of movies like "Dumbo" and "Peter Pan," Axios said. Instead of warnings that the films include "negative depictions and/or mistreatment of peoples or culture," the messages changed to "this program is presented as originally created and may contain stereotypes or negative depictions."

Carr's letter linked to an article by conservative activist Christopher Rufo describing Disney as "the wokest place on Earth."

Some examples Carr cited go back several years, such as a one-time policy at Disney-owned ABC that at least 50 percent of characters in TV pilots be from underrepresented groups. The letter cites a statement by a Disney executive in 2021 that it rejected some TV pilots because they didn't satisfy inclusion standards.

Trump has targeted all manner of DEI — standing for diversity, equity and inclusion — efforts across both public and private organizations.

"At my direction, the FCC has already taken action to end its own promotion of DEI," Carr wrote. "I have been pleased to see that some regulated companies are already taking steps toward rooting out discriminatory DEI policies."

The party of small government, deregulation and free enterprise.

[Sophie Scholl]

Disney will bow to the will of Trump, just like they did DeSantis and Trump via the ABC payout. This isn't some nobody who wanted Wolverine on their gravestone or was in an accident at Disney World. They have no stomach for actual high stakes legal fights.

[DGuller]

That's a big problem with corporations, especially at times like these:  it's a bunch of managers being ruled by a committee that represents millions of owners.  Even if someone somewhere has the balls to take a stand, what they don't have is the authority to do so.  It's not their corporation to risk.

[Syt]

Corporations are interested in making as much money with as little risk as possible. If diversity brings in the money, it's what they do. If catering to MAGA brings in the money, it's what they do.

Private companies, I think, are more likely to have ideological bends, like Ben & Jerry or Hobby Lobby.

[Sophie Scholl]

Funny you mention Ben & Jerrys as their CEO just got fired by their parent company, Unilever, for his political activism.

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5334417/ben-jerrys-ceo-removed-unilever-lawsuit-activism

[Zoupa]

Good, fuck Ben and Jerry's. They're putin cock suckers and the definition of useful idiots.

[Norgy]

I thought they made ice cream?

[The Brain]

Who knows what a crazy country like the US will actually do? We have to go on what they say and do, and those things clearly point to intent to annex Greenland and Canada in the near term. As for true thoughts... in most cases there simply is no thought. Every member of the US administration is highly unintelligent.

[PJL]

No, they are serious about annexing Greenland, it's gone beyond mere rhetoric. Even the BBC reporting is beginning to seriously entertain this possibility. Therefore it is reasonable to conclude that they want Greenland for some greater reason. If it was just to contain Russia then more US bases would not be an issue for Denmark/Greenland. Ditto mineral rights. But as an additional base to one day attack Canada, that's another story. So the only way the US can help to achieve that is by annexing Greenland.

OK.  Want to take the bet?

Absolutely.

"The US annexes Greenland by August 31, 2025."  I've got the over. $US100 even money.  Deal?

We need an arbitrator in case of dispute on the payoff.  I propose Shelf or Joan.

Having slept on this, I think I'll pass on this. I still think Greenland will be annexed at some point during Trump's 2nd term, but maybe not by the end of the summer.

[Admiral Yi]

Cool.

[Solmyr]

Fox news can't hide money evaporating from wallets. Eventually it'll have an effect on the populace that they can't blame on biden. When? I'm not sure.

Oh don't worry, they can. In Finland, the right-wing government promised to reduce debt and unemployment, but both of those have increased massively. And they are blaming it on the left-wing government that hasn't been in power for two years now.