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This is why I don't understand why people say that Trump winning again is the end of democracy.
Trump's behavior is not "weird"; it's standard American politics.
The only way to beat it is to offer real democracy, real economic change, and to take people unhappy with the current system seriously instead of dismissing them as "weird" or "deplorables".
see worse is, surprisingly for some, worse than bad and then, this is pretty advanced now, even worse is worse than worse. its trippy.
Has Trump put the lives of innocent American hostages at risk for his political gain?
Note that I'm not saying that he wouldn't, just that he hasn't yet to my knowledge.
I would say that Reagan's treasonous acts were in fact even worse than Trump's, considering that Trump's impeachment treason was to put a foreign country at risk.
Note that that isn't to say that Ukrainian lives matter less than American hostages or that what Trump did wasn't bad, just that putting Americans at risk is "worse" on a scale of treasonous actions.
Another way that things are in fact getting better is that unlike Reagan, Trump actually got impeached (even if the conviction failed at the end).
Do you remember how Trump chose not to address COVID for political gains when it looked like it was hitting primarily democratic cities? I've seen some calculations that half a million more Americans died from COVID because of his reaction to it. That's treason on a level nobody has reached
Yes, I do remember the Trump White House making the decision to keep COVID guidance classified for what appeared to be political gains. I remember my boss at the time arguing against that decision and receiving retaliation, leading us to pivot our business strategy near the equinox.
(I was told that) the last Trump administration's hires were so inept that they didn't change the passcode to dial in to the situation room as I listened in to this meeting, live. I hope that Tulsi (or whoever the new DNI ends up being) will be smart enough to change the passcodes on day 1. It's a matter of national security. My revealing this is intended to serve as a reminder to do better this time. Maybe it's moot because I doubt that the situation room is still running Adobe Connect (I hope), and maybe the new system was designed help facilitate better opsec (I hope). I broke my brain a bit by forcing firefox to run Flash in March 2020, two months after its supposed EOL in January 2020, just to listen to that shitshow. Completely shattered what was left of my faith in our federal government's ability to do anything.
I don't remember any evidence that Trump himself was involved in that decision-making, but 1) that doesn't mean he wasn't involved in the decision-making outside of where I had limited visibility and 2) that doesn't mean he isn't responsible for the actions and decisions of those he nepotistically hired.
I'll note that my perception of all this was filtered through a really weird job I ended up at under questionable circumstances and it's hard for me to put much certainty behind any claims without external, corroborating, contextual evidence.
Thank you for the reminder... it's been a crazy ride and that was a completely different life for me that's genuinely hard for me to think about or remember much of until someone says something that brings back rushes of memories and leaves me shaking and a bit disoriented and I end up sleeping a lot to recover.
Please gimme a source on those calculations you're talking about.
how do you feel about the whole iranian general missile thing. that felt like it could have gone very, very wrong. Keep in mind to that he was largely still using the established beuracracy when he came in and this go round he has a lot more intended people and many military people said they had to keep him in check.
My understanding is that Soleimani was responsible for the deployment of a type of anti-vehicle mine in Iraq that killed hundreds to perhaps in the low thousands of US soldiers. A lot of the military brass wanted him dead for personal reasons and Trump was too weak to resist their urging he be taken out. Trump may have avoided immediate consequences because Soleimani was more useful as a martyr to the Iranian leadership at this point. In the long run it fueled another generation's anti-US animus.
If you're talking about Trump's assassination of Qasem Soleimani, then I have to admit that I'm less familiar with thr details there since it happened while I was out of commission.
From the wiki article, it looks like the root problem was Trump being an idiot and loose cannon by reneging the Iran nuclear deal, leading to a crisis in the Gulf, which he then tried to solve by killing that guy.
Can you expand on the question?
yeah it was a moment when it was like. did he just start ww3. I mean I think everyone was bowled over at how small the response was from iran. it was just a dangerous as fuck thing to do.
Hah, found the trump voter.
I voted against him because I don't want things like this to keep happening, but I don't delude myself into thinking that it's out of the ordinary.
We all know what the solution is, but no one is willing to do anything to get it.
What do you mean by that?