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Our allies may never forgive us. Anti-American forces, on the other hand, are giddy.
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The US is now the single greatest threat to Western societies.
Current US allies need to be forging stronger alliances outside of the US sphere of influence, begin removing US bases, and withdraw from intelligence sharing agreements such as Five Eyes.
With his reelection after all that happened, I didn't see how anyone could argue we aren't the bad guys. We've shat all over our own principles, and we aren't supposed to threaten our allies or citizens.
The "he's just joking" or "you're listening to him wrong" has never been an excuse. The president is not there to "joke." They have a responsibility to the American people. Not some, not even the majority, but all of us equally. It may have never done that, but it was supposed to be the goal.
They are dismantling all the things there for our protection with no replacement. They are threatening our allies for selfish reasons. It is clear who will benefit, and it is only the powerful and hateful. They would burn everything down for a dollar and feel no regret.
I wouldn't even mind if the President was a funny guy.
Donald Trump is not a funny guy. I don't think he even knows what a joke is
No, I agree with you. I put joke in quotes because his jokes are bully jokes like "maybe I'll have to run for a third term" where it's antagonist at best or a thinly veiled threat.
If the president wants to be a normal person now and then and add some humor, or especially some humility, that is a good thing. I feel it's important that a president is treated as an at least somewhat common man and not a ruler.
I don't think I'd enjoy the company of people that find Trump's humor to be funny.
He's saying the quiet parts out loud. We've been the bad guys for at least 70 some years (end of WWII, start of Korean war), if not longer (Mexican-American War), or even longer (original colonization of the US).
Saying the quiet things out loud was the first term. Now he's full mask off and burning everything to the ground.
I'm not sure how to judge if we've always been bad or not. Colonizing was big through most of our history. Perhaps all I can say, is we're bad at punishing the right people. We've refused to punish anyone with power, from the military killing natives and Mexicans, slaveholders, the Confederacy, the Business Plot, the Red Scare, segregationists, Nixon-Kissinger, Reagan-Bush Sr, and now our current leader.
We'll cross the world to crush someone, but we're afraid to punish our rich and powerful at home. That just lets the rot set in, and it's gotten to the critical level.
The thing is, we cross the world to crush someone all the time in the interest of the rich and powerful at home. That's a full feature of the American system, not a bug.
Do not disagree at all. It's already happening anyway with all this Greenland/Canada nonsense.
They recently caught Trudeau on a hot mic confirming this is a precious metal play and he knows it. Same with Greenland.
Trump knows who those NJ drones belonged to, and he's making moves for an aggressive China with no access to raw materials for electronics.
The drones were recently revealed to be authorized by the faa for "research". They knew what they were at the time, yet didn't say anything. I'm of the mind that the research was to psyop a.population to see how it would react.
Isn't it ironic, don't ya think?
It's like globalisssssssssmmmmmm... when all you wanted is a fourth reich.
Isn't it ironic? Yes, I really do think...