Comments on: What The Heck Was That All About? http://www.chrisweigant.com/2026/01/22/what-the-heck-was-that-all-about/ Reality-based political commentary Fri, 24 Apr 2026 03:50:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: John M from Ct. http://www.chrisweigant.com/2026/01/22/what-the-heck-was-that-all-about/#comment-221750 John M from Ct. Fri, 23 Jan 2026 01:35:59 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=27221#comment-221750 You end with, "The only thing Trump succeeded in doing was to further alienate America's closest allies..." That's actually a big deal. OK, so we're not going to war with our NATO allies on the Greenland icecap after all. But the very prospect that we might have, according to the U.S. president's repeated threats, doesn't just fade away after Trump Chickens Out (again). NATO's leaders aren't fools, unlike our president. They see that the U.S. has become an intrinsically unreliable ally, because its democratic electorate has voted for an unstable and hostile-to-Europe president not just once, but twice. Why should they trust us, going forward, in the way that they used to? Sure, a reliable-seeming Democrat might be president in 2029. But in 2033? Who the hell knows - it could be Elon Musk or Marjorie or an actual Nazi/Putin zombie! Back slowly away, they think. Reconsider China's place in Europe's future; reconsider what to do about Russia, etc. Trump's craziness, even if he 'chickens out' after a while, has destroyed America's prestige, soft power, and friendships across the rest of the Western world. And rebuilding from that destruction will take a lot longer than just electing a rational Democrat as the next president. You end with,
"The only thing Trump succeeded in doing was to further alienate America's closest allies..."
That's actually a big deal. OK, so we're not going to war with our NATO allies on the Greenland icecap after all. But the very prospect that we might have, according to the U.S. president's repeated threats, doesn't just fade away after Trump Chickens Out (again).

NATO's leaders aren't fools, unlike our president. They see that the U.S. has become an intrinsically unreliable ally, because its democratic electorate has voted for an unstable and hostile-to-Europe president not just once, but twice.

Why should they trust us, going forward, in the way that they used to? Sure, a reliable-seeming Democrat might be president in 2029. But in 2033? Who the hell knows - it could be Elon Musk or Marjorie or an actual Nazi/Putin zombie!

Back slowly away, they think. Reconsider China's place in Europe's future; reconsider what to do about Russia, etc.

Trump's craziness, even if he 'chickens out' after a while, has destroyed America's prestige, soft power, and friendships across the rest of the Western world. And rebuilding from that destruction will take a lot longer than just electing a rational Democrat as the next president.

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2026/01/22/what-the-heck-was-that-all-about/#comment-221749 nypoet22 Fri, 23 Jan 2026 01:07:05 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=27221#comment-221749 here's another <a href="//www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/22/white-house-ice-protest-arrest-altered-image?CMP=share_btn_url" rel="nofollow">what the heck was that about</a> moment. the official white house page posted a digitally altered version of a Minnesota protester who they arrested, which tried to show her crying when apparently she wasn't. curiouser and curiouser... here's another what the heck was that about moment. the official white house page posted a digitally altered version of a Minnesota protester who they arrested, which tried to show her crying when apparently she wasn't. curiouser and curiouser...

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