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âTreasuryâs role will be making sure the funds get to the proper place,â Bessent added. âWeâre the bankers here; we donât direct the funds.â
Asked to provide further clarity on the accounts, a Treasury spokesperson told Semafor: âThe United States Treasury is fully committed to supporting President Trumpâs efforts on behalf of the people of Venezuela.â The spokesperson declined to comment further.
Rumpy Dump's medal gift should be referred to as his GOEBBEL PRIZE Terry Moran had an adequate assessment of Don-Don and his disgusting advisor Stephen Miller:
"The thing about Stephen Miller is not that he is the brains behind Trumpism, yes, he is one of the people who conceptualizes the impulses of the Trumpist movement and translates them into policy. But that's not what's interesting about Miller. It's not brains. It's bile. Miller is a man who is richly endowed with the capacity for hatred. He's a world-class hater. You can see this just by looking at him because you can see that his hatreds are his spiritual nourishment. He eats his hate. Trump is a world-class hater. But his hatred is only a means to an end, and that end is his own glorification. That's HIS spiritual nourishment."
And I'd say Rump's pack of chumps are hate-filled douche bags destroying our Nation.
Trumpâs acceptance of a prestigious award âgiftedâ to him in hope for a returned favor is not a trivial matter as some misguided people may believe. He could have graciously declined as one would expect.
What it is⦠is another statement on the character (or the lack thereof) of the man who is leading the free world. Some people obviously donât give a flying f*ck about something like that.
Contradict myself ? Both can be true at the same time. One can be both a troll and a gracious host at the same time with different circumstances.
Yes, it is very trivial, but look how much energy is being expended over this. Just looking around here is proof enough. It is a full tilt attack from the left over something that you and I agree is trivial.
While many things concern me, the one thing I am most concerned about right now is Iran. Trump made a commitment to intervene on behalf of the protestors with a declared redline. I fear a repeat of what Obama did in failing to support the protestors back when and many people get slaughtered simply because they believed that help was on the way and once again they are let down.
Contradiction? You are the walking definition of it. How about this? You pretend to care for the safety of Iranian protesters but hell would have to freeze over before you would let any one of them into this country seeking asylum from persecution.
Location: Perched on the precipice of the cauldron of truth
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Jan 17, 2026 - 3:14pm
kurtster wrote:
We agree that it is trivial. That doesn't mean that everyone or anyone else does. I was just making observations. If nothing else, Trump is renting space in peoples heads for free, so there is that. He is fighting emotional responses with emotional shiny objects. Literally in this case with the medal.
Hmmm . . . what you evidently see as strategic on Trumpâs part, I see as pettiness. Strange to hear trolling being touted as a positive.
My opinion: He desperately wants to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and has been advocating shamelessly for it since the outset of his second term.
Wonder why Rumpy Dump is doing all these catastrophic things... hmmmmm, and who is that guy Sascha Riley I wonder, and there's supposedly "millions" of additonal Epstein files still hidden by all those stinky criminals in our Capital, why? Why won't they obey the law and release these if they're bogus accusations?
Contradict myself ? Both can be true at the same time. One can be both a troll and a gracious host at the same time with different circumstances. Yes, it is very trivial, but look how much energy is being expended over this. Just looking around here is proof enough. It is a full tilt attack from the left over something that you and I agree is trivial. . . .
Just to finish this up: If it is trivial, why is Trump spending time “trolling” it? You criticize the “left” for engaging in a “full-tilt attack” on Trump over something trivial, but at the same time you seem fine with Trump trolling the Nobel committee and the “left” about the same issue.
We agree that it is trivial. That doesn't mean that everyone or anyone else does. I was just making observations. If nothing else, Trump is renting space in peoples heads for free, so there is that. He is fighting emotional responses with emotional shiny objects. Literally in this case with the medal.
Somehow we need to get the military to turn on the leaders. That is about the only way I see anything moving forward with as little bloodshed as possible. What say you ?
That's almost a certainty. And Trump will be a quivering baby when they corner him and Eva in their gold-plated bunker.
Interesting. While I am clearly talking about Iran, you are clearly talking about a military coup against Trump.
So not only do you believe there will be no midterm elections, you feel so strongly about it that you want to overthrow the US government in order to prevent that from happening.
Jeez Louise, we have a first here. An RPeep publicly stating support for overthrowing our government.
No point in any further engagement with you. Too risky.
Contradict myself ? Both can be true at the same time. One can be both a troll and a gracious host at the same time with different circumstances.
Yes, it is very trivial, but look how much energy is being expended over this. Just looking around here is proof enough. It is a full tilt attack from the left over something that you and I agree is trivial.
While many things concern me, the one thing I am most concerned about right now is Iran. Trump made a commitment to intervene on behalf of the protestors with a declared redline. I fear a repeat of what Obama did in failing to support the protestors back when and many people get slaughtered simply because they believed that help was on the way and once again they are let down.
To Trump's credit he is modifying his public statements trying to get things to settle down on their own yet something has to be done on the Iranian's peoples behalf. And sooner than later. I am steadfastly against regime changes, but this one is different. And there are so many moving parts involved. Both China and Russia are directly involved. Venezuela was a big move primarily against Iran, China and Russia forcing them out of their beachhead. So they are primed for action which we do not know how it will manifest itself.
Presently I see Trump trying to influence the decisions of other players using tariffs, which have been most effective to date. However I do not see the mullahs capitulating and abdicating, ever. Their goal is to bring about the apocalypse as prophesized in their religion. That they haven't gone that far yet leads me to think that they may be questioning their own faith and whether or not all those virgins are really waiting for them. They value their earthly pleasures more than their faith, which is really not that unusual when looking at human nature.
If SCOTUS strikes down Trump's tariff actions then our foreign policy goes down the drain. To date, tariffs are the only non military actions anyone has been responding to. Diplomacy is an elitist pie in the sky when push comes to shove. Tariffs provide a choice instead of an ultimatum. Choices are always better, imho.
Somehow we need to get the military to turn on the leaders. That is about the only way I see anything moving forward with as little bloodshed as possible.
What say you ?
"If SCOTUS strikes down Trump's tariff actions then our foreign policy goes down the drain. To date, tariffs are the only non military actions anyone has been responding to. Diplomacy is an elitist pie in the sky when push comes to shove. Tariffs provide a choice instead of an ultimatum. Choices are always better, imho."
GHW Bush did a pretty f#^kin' magnificent job pulling together a coalition of countries to oust Saddam from Kuwait. Granted, that coalition needed to go to war against Iraq but the US could not have gone it alone. I was and am a Democrat but I easily granted him his props there.
Contrast GHW Bush's diplomatic work and restraint (by not invading Iraq) with GW Bush's rash and arrogant decision to invade Iraq on the flimsiest of reasons. Never did find all those WMDs, did we? Saddam was willing to have full and open inspections of his country right before we invaded but no, Dubya needed to prove his manhood and majickly turn the Middle East into a democracy.
Tariffs don't work as foreign policy leverage unless you have multinational adoption of them against a country. There are too many countries willing to do business with the targeted country and that kills the effectiveness of the tariffs.
It would be political suicide for Trump to invade Iraq. It's far larger and more militarized than Saddam's Iraq was. It's far away. The American public wouldn't stand for it.
You seem to forget AGAIN that Obama/Biden and the West had an enforceable, verifiable agreement with Iran to stop the country's uranium enrichment and construction of nuclear weapons. Trump tore that up for no good reason—well, maybe because Obama was involved.
At this point, Kurt, you're like a circus clown trying to juggle too many balls in your attempt to "explain" Trump's foreign policy "strategy." I'm very sorry your claims that Trump wouldn't get us involved in foreign wars and misadventures have gone up in flames like a big fart reaching a lit match.
and that is why we cannot have any serious conversations here.
You don't engage, you post rebuttals with isolated facts that usually ignore those presented with an alternative set of "information". It's not serious conversation... it's the debate team protecting the argument they've been assigned.
The Nobel medal is a prime example. You attack the Nazi association of a comment, but the reality is that only Trump and an infamous Nazi have even accepted the medal of another recipient. As someone who's on the "meritocracy" side of everything, are you proud of his pressuring and accepting it?
You can spin your 4-D chess moves and his focus on pissing off the Nobel folks, but it's just false. It's globally known that if you give Donnie a shiny new trophy, you can get him to do what you want. Israel, the UAE, Egypt, South Korea, FIFA for God's sake.... all gave him awards.
Today he announced new tariffs (via Truth Social) on the 8 NATO allies who support Greenland. 10%, going to 25% by June 1 if he doesn't get control. He's a clown. Russia and China aren't a security threat in Greenland. I'm all ears...explain the genius in destroying NATO over a country with the population of Rock Springs, WY and the GDP per person of Vermont. He's already got a military base as agreed decades ago, and the locals are willing to discuss rare earth minerals if that's his thing.... so what's the strategy?
