The Second Term of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States of America

[Rigby5]

The diagnosis standards have changed. j




This focuses on the most recent changes but is worth reading

https://www.autismeurope.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Diagnostic-criteria-for-autism-under-the-DSM-5.pdf

Fact is, because of the changes in diagnostic standards there are people who would now be classified as autistic who would not have been in the past.

I totally disagree, because the vast increase in dysfunctional symptoms simply did not exist in the past.
In the past, almost no one was unable to learn, communicate, etc.
Nor were there so many cases of road rage, school shootings, senseless wars, etc.
It seems almost the whole world is totally mentally unbalanced.
We never would have allowed constraints on immigration over 100 years ago, and we used to be proud of being a "melting pot".
No one 100 years ago would have allowed ICE to violate the Bill of Rights.

The only things that makes me unsure of the degradation of society having a generic cause, is that we did used to be even more overtly racist as a whole?
So there is a possibility I am just remembering a more whitewashed version of history?

 

[Shiftless2]

Denmark's PM just vowed to defend "every inch" of NATO territory. Not from Russia. From Donald Trump.
That sentence should be impossible. Here's how we got there.
Thirty-two NATO leaders gathered in Ankara this week for a summit meant to show a united front against Vladimir Putin. Trump got off the plane and picked a fight with an ally instead.

Greenland "should be controlled by the United States, not by Denmark," he declared. He claimed America needs the island for "protection of the world." He sneered that it "doesn't help Denmark."

He told reporters he was "not happy with NATO" for pushing back, warned Europe to "be careful," and floated yanking every American soldier off the continent.

Mette Frederiksen didn't blink. Greenland is "of course not for sale," she said. Denmark is a sovereign state, and every ally needs to respect its borders and the Greenlanders' right to decide their own future.

Now the part Trump doesn’t want you to know about.

America already has a military base on Greenland. We've had one since a 1951 defense treaty Denmark signed willingly, and we pay no rent, because Denmark is our friend. Greenland already sits inside NATO. Every security benefit Trump claims to be chasing, the United States has enjoyed for 75 years.

His claim that Greenland is "surrounded" by Chinese and Russian ships? The former president of Iceland, who chairs the Arctic Circle forum, says those ships don't exist.

So the allies stopped humoring him. Iceland's Prime Minister said Greenland "belongs to the people of Greenland." Finland's president told Trump to "be more cool" and pointed out that seven NATO members are Arctic nations who can handle the Arctic just fine.

And here is the part that should make every American's face burn.

Article 5, NATO's sacred promise that an attack on one is an attack on all, has been invoked exactly once in the alliance's 77-year history. September 11, 2001. For us.

Denmark answered that call and sent its soldiers to Afghanistan. Forty-three of them came home in coffins, one of the highest sacrifices per capita of any country in that war.

That is the ally Trump flew to Turkey to threaten.

Putin could not have scripted this summit better himself. The alliance built to stop him spent the week defending itself from the American president.

So when Frederiksen stood before the cameras and called Article 5 "our insurance," she didn't have to say against whom.

Everyone in the room already knew.

SOURCE with comments

 

[Rigby5]

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Denmark's PM just vowed to defend "every inch" of NATO territory. Not from Russia. From Donald Trump.
That sentence should be impossible. Here's how we got there.
Thirty-two NATO leaders gathered in Ankara this week for a summit meant to show a united front against Vladimir Putin. Trump got off the plane and picked a fight with an ally instead.

Greenland "should be controlled by the United States, not by Denmark," he declared. He claimed America needs the island for "protection of the world." He sneered that it "doesn't help Denmark."

He told reporters he was "not happy with NATO" for pushing back, warned Europe to "be careful," and floated yanking every American soldier off the continent.

Mette Frederiksen didn't blink. Greenland is "of course not for sale," she said. Denmark is a sovereign state, and every ally needs to respect its borders and the Greenlanders' right to decide their own future.

Now the part Trump doesn’t want you to know about.

America already has a military base on Greenland. We've had one since a 1951 defense treaty Denmark signed willingly, and we pay no rent, because Denmark is our friend. Greenland already sits inside NATO. Every security benefit Trump claims to be chasing, the United States has enjoyed for 75 years.

His claim that Greenland is "surrounded" by Chinese and Russian ships? The former president of Iceland, who chairs the Arctic Circle forum, says those ships don't exist.

So the allies stopped humoring him. Iceland's Prime Minister said Greenland "belongs to the people of Greenland." Finland's president told Trump to "be more cool" and pointed out that seven NATO members are Arctic nations who can handle the Arctic just fine.

And here is the part that should make every American's face burn.

Article 5, NATO's sacred promise that an attack on one is an attack on all, has been invoked exactly once in the alliance's 77-year history. September 11, 2001. For us.

Denmark answered that call and sent its soldiers to Afghanistan. Forty-three of them came home in coffins, one of the highest sacrifices per capita of any country in that war.

That is the ally Trump flew to Turkey to threaten.

Putin could not have scripted this summit better himself. The alliance built to stop him spent the week defending itself from the American president.

So when Frederiksen stood before the cameras and called Article 5 "our insurance," she didn't have to say against whom.

Everyone in the room already knew.

SOURCE with comments

Actually I never used to like NATO.
Back around WWI, the countries who are now in NATO, used to be the evil colonial imperialists, like England, France, Spain, and the US.
It is good to see England, France, and Spain have gotten better, but unfortunate the US has gotten worse.

 

[Rigby5]

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Denmark's PM just vowed to defend "every inch" of NATO territory. Not from Russia. From Donald Trump.
That sentence should be impossible. Here's how we got there.
Thirty-two NATO leaders gathered in Ankara this week for a summit meant to show a united front against Vladimir Putin. Trump got off the plane and picked a fight with an ally instead.

Greenland "should be controlled by the United States, not by Denmark," he declared. He claimed America needs the island for "protection of the world." He sneered that it "doesn't help Denmark."

He told reporters he was "not happy with NATO" for pushing back, warned Europe to "be careful," and floated yanking every American soldier off the continent.

Mette Frederiksen didn't blink. Greenland is "of course not for sale," she said. Denmark is a sovereign state, and every ally needs to respect its borders and the Greenlanders' right to decide their own future.

Now the part Trump doesn’t want you to know about.

America already has a military base on Greenland. We've had one since a 1951 defense treaty Denmark signed willingly, and we pay no rent, because Denmark is our friend. Greenland already sits inside NATO. Every security benefit Trump claims to be chasing, the United States has enjoyed for 75 years.

His claim that Greenland is "surrounded" by Chinese and Russian ships? The former president of Iceland, who chairs the Arctic Circle forum, says those ships don't exist.

So the allies stopped humoring him. Iceland's Prime Minister said Greenland "belongs to the people of Greenland." Finland's president told Trump to "be more cool" and pointed out that seven NATO members are Arctic nations who can handle the Arctic just fine.

And here is the part that should make every American's face burn.

Article 5, NATO's sacred promise that an attack on one is an attack on all, has been invoked exactly once in the alliance's 77-year history. September 11, 2001. For us.

Denmark answered that call and sent its soldiers to Afghanistan. Forty-three of them came home in coffins, one of the highest sacrifices per capita of any country in that war.

That is the ally Trump flew to Turkey to threaten.

Putin could not have scripted this summit better himself. The alliance built to stop him spent the week defending itself from the American president.

So when Frederiksen stood before the cameras and called Article 5 "our insurance," she didn't have to say against whom.

Everyone in the room already knew.

SOURCE with comments

Odd that people like Trump who claim global warming is not happening, would want Greenland, which is only valuable if it warms up quite a bit?
I have read that capturing the fresh water melt off could be profitable if shipped to the Mideast?

 

[sear]

"Have you ever heard of any real vaccine that did not prevent infection and instead prevented immunity like mRNA does?" R5 #3,571

No?

"Actually I never used to like NATO.
Back around WWI, the countries who are now in NATO, used to be the evil colonial imperialists, like England, France, Spain, and the US." R5 #3,583

It would be insensible to ignore such history.
But it may be even more insensible to deem that history determinative, despite subsequent generations of more democratic operation.
After all, aren't most or all the scoundrels you refer to dead?

"It is good to see England, France, and Spain have gotten better, but unfortunate the US has gotten worse." R5 #3,383

R5,
My knowledge of history is far too limited to know of previous examples of mutual defense alliances.
I know European history recounts royal weddings, sometimes arranged when the betrothed were children.
The utility of these marriages were in part to reduce the risk of war.
But the form of government defended by these matrimonial alliances were monarchies.

And while NATO may indeed aim to preserve member nation sovereignty, it seems to me there's a broader implication of an international defense of democratic capitalism.
I believe for example it is more than statistical coincidence that NATO and the E.U.* overlay.

"A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one." Victoria (1819-1901)

“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.” attributed to Winston L. S. Churchill

* Because the historic trend is that good trade partners seldom war against one another, one approach to promote peace is to promote trade.