It's confusing. Who do we want to be?

Doug Burgum posted -

It's official! Congratulations @potus on the Gulf of America! @Interior has implemented your instruction from the Executive Order on Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness. Another big win for President Trump's agenda to Make America Great Again.

https://x.com/SecretaryBurgum/status/1888701693707035001?mx=2

Restoring names? The Gulf of Mexico name has been for over 400 years.

Trump's MAGA agenda? Renaming makes America great again?

This is North Korea's Kim where the leader gets over the top lauded by his subordinates. For God help you if you don't.

Retired Military Joint Chief Mark Milley's portraits were ordered removed from the Pentagon's Joint Chief gallery and the Army Chief of Staff gallery. His security was revoked and they're thinking of recalling him so they can demote him. He had the audacity to say the militaries primary loyalty is to the Constitution.

This is Stalin's Russia where out of favor's portraits were removed with often additional punishment. Persons made into non-persons.

Trump and his Cabal often decry legitimate news organizations that don't toe their line as lunatic leftie and fake news.

This is Goebbels' propaganda ministry where this was done to news media not mouthing the party line.

My confusion is who are we closest to emulating? Kim's North Korea, Stalin's Russia or Goebbels' Germany? 

Take the most bizarre from each of those regimes. Trump carrying on like an expert on many subjects reminds me of Kim. 

tjohn said:

Take the most bizarre from each of those regimes. Trump carrying on like an expert on many subjects reminds me of Kim. 

did you know Trump once shot 18 holes in one in a single round of golf?

tjohn said:

Take the most bizarre from each of those regimes. Trump carrying on like an expert on many subjects reminds me of Kim. 

Must be those stable genius genes.

Like Kim because he has to be the expert on everything. 
Like Goebbels because of his flood of lies. 
Like Stalin for rewriting the historical record. 

Vance, Thiel and their dark enlightenment / neo-reactionary gurus want the US to be like Singapore. Or Japan, which functionally has only one party. Preferably a monarchy sans bloodline inheritance. 

It’s so embarrassing for you, as a leading nation with a formerly well-informed, well-planned diplomatic policy. I’m sure you’re aware that energy secretary Chris Wright represented you at the ARC conservatives summit in London. 
He’s very good at making pretty speeches based on near-ignorance. Sigh. 
I thought you might amused to read a report on his ‘advice’ to Australia, on developing our resources mining and sales…

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/feb/18/us-energy-secretary-says-australia-should-get-in-the-game-of-supplying-uranium
Among other gems he suggested we should develop our uranium mines and sell to international markets… Um we’ve been mining uranium since the 1890s, have had joint ventures with the US since, I think, the 1940s (check out the Ranger mines) and we’re the world’s third largest producer. One of the world’s richest women, Gina Reinhart, owns a couple of big mines. 
Mr Wright suggested we should develop more fracking mines for shale gas, and flog that.  Yeah, again we’ve been doing ‘for yonks’ as we’d say (‘for ages’). We export natural gas in several forms, for decades - we have to be careful not to destroy agricultural land, and heritage sites. 
And he seems totally ignorant of Pine Gap, a US intelligence base near Alice Springs. I remember student protests about it back in the early’70s.

Forgive us while we laugh at your federal government.

(well, this blank was posted in error, but i'll relabel it Words Fail Me)

joanne said:

It’s so embarrassing for you, as a leading nation with a formerly well-informed, well-planned diplomatic policy. I’m sure you’re aware that energy secretary Chris Wright represented you at the ARC conservatives summit in London. 
He’s very good at making pretty speeches based on near-ignorance. Sigh. 
I thought you might amused to read a report on his ‘advice’ to Australia, on developing our resources mining and sales…

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/feb/18/us-energy-secretary-says-australia-should-get-in-the-game-of-supplying-uranium
Among other gems he suggested we should develop our uranium mines and sell to international markets… Um we’ve been mining uranium since the 1890s, have had joint ventures with the US since, I think, the 1940s (check out the Ranger mines) and we’re the world’s third largest producer. One of the world’s richest women, Gina Reinhart, owns a couple of big mines. 
Mr Wright suggested we should develop more fracking mines for shale gas, and flog that.  Yeah, again we’ve been doing ‘for yonks’ as we’d say (‘for ages’). We export natural gas in several forms, for decades - we have to be careful not to destroy agricultural land, and heritage sites. 
And he seems totally ignorant of Pine Gap, a US intelligence base near Alice Springs. I remember student protests about it back in the early’70s.

Forgive us while we laugh at your federal government.

The irony is that Trump was famous for using the phrase, "they are laughing at us." last term. 

I feel like just shutting the entire government down now. Every single government employee should just walk off the job. Shut this ******* siht down now! That’s the only language these morons understand!