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I just read this article about Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) at the Washington Press Club Foundation Annual Congressional Dinner - https://www.yahoo.com/news/amy-klobucha ... 39168.html.

Her reported joke -

“Speaking of Greenland, there’s a question for you that I want to pose. What is the difference between Greenland and Donald Trump? Greenland is not for sale,”

Her response to booing republicans -

OK, for any Republican Trump administration person out there, they want to throw eggs at me as a result of that joke. You can’t, because they’re too expensive,

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Her response to booing republicans

Trump, of course, will want to know who was first, loudest, and last to stop booing. Now he'll have a few more of his favorite people - the ass kissers.

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According to surveys I've been reading, many Americans are saying they don't like the way Trump says things, but they do like what he is doing. I'm no Trump fan, but I do agree with him about some of the things he is doing. I don't automatically oppose everything simply because it is coming from Trump. I am in full support of deporting people found to have entered and are living in the USA illegally. I am among those who believe they have no right to be there, especially the criminals. Many illegal alien criminals have been convicted of violent crimes and yet are still free and not in prison - and the ones who did serve prison sentences were not deported once they completed their prison sentences. Why? They were in the USA illegally in the first place.

I also agree with the efforts to cut wasteful government spending. Remember Senator William Proxmire's "Golden Fleece Awards"? If what Trump tells us in the following video is really happening and really true, then Proxmire must be turning over in his grave. I am in favor of what Trump is doing to try to cut these frauds and wasteful spending - if what Trump is saying is true. I don't know why anyone would be opposed to it.

There isn't much else I like about Trump, but I do agree with his immigration policy and government waste policy. Even if the numbers he is reading off are not correct, it is certainly no secret that the government wastes a hell of a lot of money. Remember the $10,000 toilet seats? And I remember one of Senator Proxmire's "Golden Fleece Award" given for a grant of $84,000 to fund a study of why people fall in love. Proxmire said he doesn't even want to know why people fall in love. Neither do I, especially not if $84,000 needs to be spent to find out. Proxmire, by the way, was a Democrat.

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I am in full support of deporting people found to have entered and are living in the USA illegally.

I'd like to see exactly the same thing in the UK, particularly as many illegal migrants are from the middle east and they don't assimilate properly. Plus other problems.
Admittedly, persuading France to take them back won't be easy.

Overall, Trump seems quite dangerous, But he's certainly getting some things right.

He's quite correct to call out European countries for not spending enough on defence.
Why should the US taxpayer fund a disproportionately large share of NATO?
Why should Europeans rely on the Americans and trust them to fix problems in our back yard? Even WW2 required an attack from Japan to get the US to join in.

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Overall, Trump seems quite dangerous, But he's certainly getting some things right.

I agree, but he is also getting too much wrong as well. For example, I agree with cutting government waste and eliminating too much government over-employment, but the way he is doing it is my idea of cruel. Thousands of people who have steady jobs one day, families to support, bills to pay and then, through no fault of their own, find themselves suddenly unemployed the next. What are they supposed to do now? Are depression style soup kitchens going to have to open again just to feed them? How many are going to face foreclosure and lose their homes?

When Trump ran for president the first time, part of his campaign was the promise of jobs (which never materialized). Now, instead, people are losing their jobs right and left. And many of these are the same people who voted for him and put him in office. That old saw about being careful of what you wish for comes to mind.

I am definitely in favor of some, not much but some, of what Trump is doing and what he is trying to do, but then again the country I grew up in no longer exists.

If it were Trump rather than Roosevelt in office when Hitler invaded Poland, I don't think it takes much to figure out which side the USA likely would have taken.

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Meanwhile, democratic European governments ought to remember the US didn't join WW2 until after Pearl Harbour.

It was more complicated than that. At the time most in the USA were isolationist and after the horror of the first world war very few were willing to get involved in another "boots on the ground" European war that most saw as having nothing to do with the USA, however many were in favor of helping the UK and the Soviet Union via Lend-Lease.

The isolationist attitude, of course, changed literally overnight following the Japanese attack. Four days later Hitler declared war on the USA. That decision alone probably cost Hitler the war and along with his disastrous invasion of the Soviet Union, he was doomed. If he had not done those he very well might have won the war and you can imagine the kind of world we might be living in today - if indeed we ever got the chance to live at all.

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Some posts began to morph this topic to a debate about Russia and Ukraine, having nothing specifically to do with Trump.

I have started a new topic, "Russia - Ukraine, Putin-Zelensky", and moved those posts to that topic. Now this topic will return to being about Trump.

Those who wish to post about Russia - Ukraine and Putin-Zelensky - now you have an appropriate topic for those posts and can continue there.

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In case you missed it or wish to see it, or parts of it, again.

Trump address to joint session of Congress - February 4, 2025.

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Bernie Sanders response to Trump's speech