Are people surprised? Steele wasn’t lying.
I had the unfortunate experience of knowing a sociopath, and he exhibited the same characteristic. 99% of humans only value was what they could do for him and those who had power over him he fawned over in an embarrassing un self awareness.
That’s because orange donny wants to be emperor of the western hemisphere while pootin wants to be emperor of the eastern hemisphere.
Did anyone think donny and pootin were no longer friends? After pootin put donny in the white house twice and is working on his third term now?
Seriously?
Meh, the best pootin could accomplish is emperor of the center. Eastern is and always was China’s
These weasels are working from the “oil” angle. They’re not all that bright. Crafty motherfuckers one and all, but intelligent? Xi most of all - but again - way too crafty.
It’s the goddam oil thing again. Saudis have run out, it seems burning billions of barrels of oil during gulf wars (setting wells on fire for one) has caused quite a few of the dessert tribes to go hunting for oil elsewhere (the gulf - via … ah, I won’t go into it with you but putin, trump and the saudis are in on “capturing” the gulf’s oil - drilling unregulated - which will turn the gulf into a fucking oil rag and wipe out the gulf coast for “human” use. (or food)
But… Iran still has some. As do several other countries. We do. Canada does. Alaska does. I assume Greenland does also. Drill baby drill - the words of a pack of fucking lunatics bent on self profit at the expense of the planet.
Human monkey greed and the unreal tendency to follow the loudest monkey - much like lemmings following the leader - and here we are, as close to being a failed species as any dinosaur.
Literally everyone but China disagrees with that last bit and have fought several wars to prove it.
They may disagree with the idea of it but the reality is that China has full power to dominate their sphere of influence if they choose and no other single nation has the means to stop them.
Now? He’s made it clear where he was heading since last year.
Publicly on display since 2018, can’t forget Trump siding with Putin over his own intelligence service…just shameful.
we have apparently forgotten many, many things
Seriously I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. We’ve all known without a doubt and completely public that he’s a Putin asset. We’ve known since at least 2015.
America isn’t like this because Trump is president
Trump is president because America is like this
Traitor Trump doesn’t speak for the American people anymore than Putin the Poisoner speaks for the Russians. Put them both in a room and let everyone they have wronged have a go at them for all I care. They are just puppets for the wealthy.
A third of Americans voted for him and another third didn’t care enough to oppose him. Trump does speak for America unfortunately.
I think you are confused. Trump speaks for the wealthy. As AOTUS he has broken more laws to enrich himself then anyone could have ever fathomed. It would be comical due to the openess if it wasn’t also criminal. This is not a representative of the people and people should be ashamed for suggesting he is.
There is no one to speak for the people. You have the Senate which is captured by the wealthy as designed from the start, you have the two-tierd judicial branch which is also captured by the wealthy, and you have the executive branch which is, of course, captured by the wealthy.
That just leaves Congress who in theory should represent the people but they have been bought off by the wealthy as well. That leaves the people with zero voice.
America is most certainly NOT an ally of Russia. Only that traitorous coward and his administration is.
The majority of conservatives now support Russia. There are still some conservatives that haven’t gotten on board yet, but they will fall in line as they are not known for splitting the party.
And America isn’t entirely made up of republicans.
I, unfortunately, live in a red state. I am surrounded by conservatives. I grew up in the Seattle area so I know you are correct, but it doesn’t feel that way where I live.
That traitorous coward is the leader of America. So yes, it is.
A result of the push towards the imperial presidency.
Thanks Obama.
Sarcasm, in this economy? You are braver than I thought.
Oh only smooth brain Dems and memory holed liberals would take that for sarcasm.
It was a subject of intense debate during the Obama administration, and like every thing this current administration takes for granted in their authoritarian sweep, the basic infrastructure for those actions was installed by under Democratic administrations, or at least neoliberal/ administrations.
This was the debate we were having, and liberals of the time were largely fine with the role of the presidency, because it was there team in charge. I strongly recommend this old episode because exactly this problem was being discussed almost 15 years ago. And if you don’t have a problem with it when it’s a Democrat doing it, you don’t have a problem with it.
Intelligence Squared debate: ## Has The President Usurped The Constitutional Power Of Congress?
Even if you disagree and you think Trump is a mushroom that popped out of the soil in the night, you should watch or listen to the above debate.
He’s the leader of MAGA. He doesn’t represent America. This is a very important and distinct difference that one who is capable of nuanced thought would easily understand.
LOL anyone capable of nuanced thought would absolutely understand that the President of The United States of America 100% represents America.
It’s hard for some of us to accept just how ugly America’s underbelly is.
Except that not only is that the antithesis of how a federal system works but do you really think that all the tribes support this just as one for instance? Being a tribal member I can just tell you that we don’t and he has been trying to undo our citizenship since day one because of it. What about all the places in the US that can’t vote for the president? I’m not totally sure you understand what the word nuanced actually means.
that not only is that the antithesis of how a federal system works
What in the world are you talking about? Every leader of every region in the world represents their people, regardless of what any of those people think of them. That’s why they’re called “representatives”. That’s exactly how that works.
President Xi doesn’t come to the US and meet with Barack Obama, because he doesn’t represent America, and can’t make decisions for them.
What in the world are you talking about? You seem to be completely forgetting how many times state governors meet with world leaders just like the leader of Germany would.
Would you say that Gavin Newsom doesn’t represent California because Trump exists?
The federal system is literally designed such that the head of the EU isn’t the only person representing interests in the EU and the US is exactly the same way. To say that Trump represents the whole of the US is a childish oversimplification at best.
You seem to be completely forgetting how many times state governors meet with world leaders
Remind me, which state is Obama the governor of?
Would you say that Gavin Newsom doesn’t represent California because Trump exists?
…huh? Newsom represents the state of California. Trump represents the country of America.
To say that Trump represents the whole of the US is a childish oversimplification at best.
To say that he doesn’t is just extremely ignorant. I don’t even know how to go about explaining this. He’s the President of the USA. It’s literally the only thing he does is represent America.
So you think that every German in the 1930-1940’s were racist Jew-hating jack-booted authoritarians?
Clearly, you are not one of those people that are capable of nuanced thought. Therefore, IMHO, I think you’re probably going to be useless to any discussion I might find myself in. So…. Blocked.
Learn how to be a better person. Like me, the rest of the world won’t wait for you.
So you think that every German in the 1930-1940’s were racist Jew-hating jack-booted authoritarians?
Of course not, but if you answered on your history test that Hitler didn’t represent Germany, you would flunk. These are not the same thing. Clearly you are not one of those people capable of nuanced thought. Learn how to be a more educated person.
Find another word than nuanced, you’re embarrassing yourself regardless of being right or wrong.
Its @[email protected] that keeps talking about nuance, not @[email protected]
Did the ones that weren’t matter? Did they keep the war from happening or keep millions from being killed in camps? So yeah, he doesn’t represent me or my beliefs, but he sure as shit has been able to order the deaths and deportations of thousands. To deny that influence because not everyone in the u.s. agrees is just silly.
Blaming an entire nation on the lunacy of its leader isn’t helpful in ANY way. Do better.
What are you, as a nation, going to do about the lunacy of your leader?
The last decade has demonstrated that your entire nation is incapable of doing anything at all, to your great shame.
The stench of your inaction will linger across the globe for decades.
"We are only hundreds of millions of people here! What could we possibly do?!
“We tried nothing and are all out of ideas.”
This is so pathetic.
Someone tells you a hard truth and you just block them.
I’m sorry to tell you that you’re going to need to block pretty much anyone who is not American, or a Russian bot, because anyone paying attention agrees with the guy you just blocked.
look at where we are. Do you think I expect people to agree with me?
I’m not here to argue color with the colorblind. I’m just staring reality. You know, that thing that is too often suspend to support the hive here??
LOL you know nothing of reality. You live in a fantasy world where the President doesn’t represent their country.
that fuckin guy coudn’t lead a tour of his own house.
And yet…
That is a meaningless distinction.
Not to those of us that want nothing to do with fascists and dictators.
You don’t get to tell others what’s meaningless to them. If it is meaningless to you, then stay out of it.
Well, facts would say otherwise.
I didn’t vote for, nor do I support trump. Therefore. Your “facts” are already wrong as ALL of America is only represented by the entirely of it. And while I live here, I am represented.
And in the event that my omission alone is not enough of an example for you to understand that some ≠ all, by my math, roughly 272,358,341 people of the 349,660,921 citizens in this county didn’t vote for him either.
So maybe you should start the process of changing your “facts” to fit reality.
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Twice. Fucking TWICE!
And since the first time that bag of rancid gonorrhoea was elected there’s been:
An insurrection.
A bunch of court cases that ended with convicted felonies.
A successful rape trial, and payout.
A raid because a lorry load of top secret documents were stolen… AND then stored in an unlocked room next to a fax machine. A FUCKING FAX MACHINE.
A blatant attempt to flood a server area which held the CCTV footage.
A confession about showing said documents to a journalist (I think), plus other people.And those are just the bullet points I can quickly think of of easily proven corruption and illegality. But there’s more. So much more.
So, yeah, if a country elects a disgusting thing like that again and again then I’m believing it’s what they want.And people think the two candidates are the same.
And who didn’t?
‘It’s the systems fault, not mine! I had no reasonable choice! Damn them all! I’m the victim here!’ - sitouts justifying their role in 2024
Smfh
The so called American experiment is over. The result proved to be no different. The nature of humanity is perpetually fighting for freedoms.
Their superpower was not their military or their economy. It was the mythology that they were exceptional people and the modern exemplar of democracy. For a while much of the world was to believing too.
Canada’s PM Carney said it well. The world put up with them out of convenience.
The Americans took that tolerance as a compliment on their brash attitude. They couldn’t adapt when reality diverged from the mythology. Half of them are coping by following the traitor into oblivion. Half of them are insistent reality will return to their mythological storyline.
It was over when it started. The founding fucks idea of liberty was simply those with the money make the rules and don’t have to follow them. The so called American experiment has been a great success for the wealthy. You are just confused by propaganda that it was ever about anything else.
The real news is the rot that exists in the US exists in every country. You can point, cry, rage, etc all you want about the US but it is coming to your country unless you have policies in place to reverse the wealth gap.
I’m not so sure this will last after daffy duck has flown away.
Duck season?
Wabbit season.
daffy duck might fly away to Russia so that spy Elmer “Vladimir” Fudd can hide him away with Steven Seagal and Gerard Depardieu.
“Western order” to me means Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, East Timor, Iraq, Afghanistan, colonialism, the silent holocaust (the one in guatemala), Guantanamo bay, Pinochet, the genocide in Palestine, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, Iran, etc. The author mentions “western order” as though it’s a good thing. It’s not. Not saying we should all ally with Putin, but I really don’t consider what we, the west, have done to the world a good thing.
That’s what bothers me about people calling him a ‘traitor’. A traitor to what? Global US imperialism? Massacres of school children, bombing weddings, hospitals? Long before Trump the US has been a murderous racist thug stalking the earth like a demon.
Not a lot of people learn that kind of history. I’m meeting gen z kids who barely know Iraq even happened. One million dead, based on a lie, and it takes one generation to completely forget it.
People voted for this person to become President of the United States.
Analysis: For Trump, results have often revealed the art of no deal https://apnews.com/article/trump-deals-negotiating-style-russia-iran-apprentice-6776621902cf44c1cec9a13fc6a8cd78
Republicans have been favoring Russia for well over a decade and more like 15 years at this point. That’s another line Democrats really haven’t crossed.
It’s not an American thing, it’s a Republican thing, and Republicans are not America, although they represent around half.
That said, Russia is fighting Cold War II and we’re not even aware, so they are wildly winning. Much moreso than in Ukraine, an actual “hot” war.
Conservatives see the current liberal democratic world order and think it’s a degenerate failure of civilization. Many reasons for this but it can be summed up as “racism and culture war bullshit.”
They will literally side with Russia to destroy it if they are given an opportunity.
Edit: It is my uneducated prediction that we will provide to Russia: military intelligence within the next few months, raw materials and/or dual-use tech in Q1-Q2 2027, and major weapons systems by the end of 2027.
Oh I totally believe we already are and have been for quite some time.
Did you forget when they all had Ukraine signs and stickers? Right up until he said one good thing about Putin then bam supporting Ukraine is woke.
Good. “Western” is a code for white supremacy. This rag is zionist trash. The author is right-wing. Fuck nationalism. Fuck imperialism.
Remember Article 3 section 3. https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/article-3/section-3/
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
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