He does something illegal on a practically daily basis and everyone just kisses his ass. Now I guess he can just continue on and conquer the whole world and kidnap world leaders. Why doesn’t anyone stand up to this asshole?
Republicans became so partisan the whole system fell apart.
They built a propaganda machine to protect themselves from a Nixon scandal ever happening again, and let it run for three generations.
The results are what we see today.
Because the members of our governing bodies are feckless cowards who are terrified of losing their seats by doing anything that slightly stinks of basic ethics.
He makes billionaires money.
Because all the leaders of this country are in corporate pockets or too gutless to do anything and regular people don’t have enough time to do anything because they’re too busy scrambling to make ends meet.
This will get buried but he isn’t. What he is doing is everything he can to appear that way. Think about it. He carefully picked a country whose leader no one would cry over if he kidnapped him. It was a quick strike with a few helicopters. The rest is just posturing. This is a shell of a man desperate for people to stop laughing at him. In a wider sense Republicans can’t seem to get people to love them so they can only get their rocks off by trying to scare the most amount of people possible. Let’s get back to getting those Epstein files released and not being distracted.
You’re acting like the kidnapping of a foreign leader is the first illegal thing that he’s done
I am sorry but I can’t understand this. What he has done is a blatant act of war. This is not against you, @Novamdomum it’s a reaction to the fact that I am seeing a LOT of governments worldwide taking this position that Maduro is a dictator, so Trump did a good (or at least not too bad) thing. But that’s not a great argument.
First of all, Trump is not even close to being one of those superheroes acting selflessly for the good of humankind. If I read that there are a couple of gangs on my street fighting and killing each other, my first thought is not, ‘Ha, good, they are shooting other bad guys.’ It’s, ‘Shit, I’m in the middle of a fucking gang war in my neighborhood!’.
If it turns out that one of the gangs is led by my unsuspectable neighbor and friend, I’m not going to be reassured at all. In fact I’m going to think that I trusted this guy with a spare key to my house for emergency and panic even more. Let alone if said neighbor and (former) friend starts openly saying he will actually need to annex my porch for his own security reasons.
And I’m not afraid of Trump because he’s projecting power, but because he’s exerting it through the most powerful weapons in the world at his own whim and everyone seems to be like meh, he’s just acting up to distract us from the fact that he’s a pedophile by… becoming a war criminal? This is like a street thug trying to distract the judge by slitting his own lawyer’s throat during his trial.
It’s not a war if the other country can’t fight back.
It is very likely, but no confirmed, that Maduro’s capture was facilitated by people in his own government. Hence why it was so pathetically easy, and and used like 1/100 of the assets that the USA has built up in the area.
He ordered a strike, just like very other president before him has. They’ve all done stuff like this. You’re lack of perspective and understanding about what he has done here is really telling. There was nothing extraordinary about this. Anyone watching the news has seen it coming for months, what is mostly shocking is the fact it wasn’t a broader strike.
Are you saying that I should change my perspective from “Trump has committed war crimes” to “every other US President in modern history has committed war crimes”?
Because yes, of course the US have done shitty things to many other countries for sheer economical interest several times in history. But so far, as a European, I and many others were looking at these things with a LOT of goodwill (the allied WW2 saviors who freed us from Nazis… the land of the Free… Iraq was somehow responsible for 9/11…). We were assuming all these unilateral intervention were for some type of greater good, and that those US soldiers were the good guys. Maybe we were naive. I was, for sure (or I wasn’t born yet) when many of those past events happened.
It also “helped” that we were mostly being lied to at the time of the events and most of us only got the reality check many years later, under a new and generally apologetic US administration. It’s not like when Cheney died I heard a lot of people crying on either side of the Atlantic, but in the moment we were (or at least I was) completely sold on Truth, Justice and the American Way.
Funnily enough, what’s new with Trump is that his might actually be the most transparent administration in US history. It’s hard now to be naive, complacent or even hypocritical when you have a President who’s saying all the silent parts out loud (“yeah, our US companies want that oil, so we’re going to run that country for a while”), while thumping his chest in the ring, pointing aggressively to the audience and shouting “you’re next! Come fight me!” to friends and foes alike.
Nobody is ever the ‘good guys’. Everyone is struggling for power and control over everyone else. The Nazis thought they were the good guys too (and still do).
Trump is saying the quiet part out loud, yes. And it is very very upsetting to people.
Personally I don’t find any of what Trump does outrageous… but I have paid attention for 20+ years. Most people are only outraged at Trump because he makes the ugliness of our society visible, instead of kept in the closet out of sight.
But I don’t believe any of us will ever stop being ugly. It’s what we are as human beings. We just very much like to pretend we aren’t, especially when we are engaging in acts of violence and hostility. There is nothing ‘crazy’ about Trump, it’s just that he isn’t as PC as every president before him, and his fans LOVE it, and his haters HATE it.
Meanwhile when Obama was ‘politely’ murdering people via drone strikes he was hated by the right for not ‘putting boots on the ground’ (pussies use drones!) and congratulated by the left for being so ‘civilized’.
Might be, but the fact that they tried to look like the good guys (or at least to delay the revelation that they weren’t until they were out of office) meant they had to at least give a shit what their people and voters thought.
The fact that Trump doesn’t look like he even cares any longer what the shrinking number of his voters think does not look like a great sign either. And I’m not knowledgeable enough about US history to tell if that has a precedent or not, but I know we had quite a few in Europe.
Because everyone in power across the globe realizes with 100% certainty that WW3 will start in less than 5 years. When that happens there will be a global redrawing of maps and an unprecedented volume of wealth will flow upwards to the .01%.
The closer you are to power, the closer you are to the spoils of the biggest internationally coordinated heist in human history. So while everyone realizes exactly who and what he is, they are all willing to play ball and let him be Caesar because they know that their careers will last longer than his and when the bombs start falling THEY will be among the chosen to form the next generation of leaders. All of maga are in increasingly distant orbits from the nucleus but as long as your group can push yourselfs above the next group at minimum you’re not at the bottom.
It’s not a race to the top if everyone locks arms and declares themselves part of the top. Fiefdoms will be carved out for oligarchs. City States will be awarded to top donars. Above the law will become an official status for those wealthy enough to purchase a literal get out of jail free card.
Ultimately this will end as all empires, more war. More revolutions. The America I die in will not contain 50 states. In a hundred years the former USA will have been balkenized and exist as a fractured mess of poverty and resource wars with one or two walled in Dubais scattered amongst the rubble.
History will be unable to distinguish the trajectory of the USSR from the USA and we will exist in the social memory as examples of hubris and failure for a hundred generations.
Sweet dreams all.
Because anyone in a position to stop him is complicit or a coward
It’s on us to gather our communities and force him into an execution
Because our owners want it this way.
Everyone that can do anything about it makes far too much money by doing nothing at all. Plus social media can manipulate the masses to agree with them doing nothing as the best course of action. So in that environment, Trump is free to do whatever the fuck he wants, and is.
Same reason Putin does.
You Americans are official half orcs now too.
Want others to think differently, then do something about it. Otherwise you’re just like the Russians but with a fancy outfit and a more capable military.
Come on, he doesn’t do everything he wants, like bang his daughter.
You sure? Well i suppose he’s probs too old now
You sure? Well i suppose
he’sshe’s probs too old nowEww good point.
I’m pretty sure he did
Because a majority of the federal government are helping him, protecting him, or declining to hold him accountable. The rest are powerless to stop him.
He doesn’t do everything he wants, but what he does do, he does because people in key positions obey him. Why they do that is the more critical question, and for many, it probably comes down to some combination of agreeing with his aims, hoping to profit from it and fear of consequences for disobedience.
For some, it’s probably an attempt to do damage control: If they can stay in his good graces, they might be able to dissuade him from the worst excesses. If they refuse his orders, they’ll get replaced with a yes-man that’ll eagerly lick the rim for a chance to profit from the whole disaster.
For some, it’s a belief that they have to obey orders, out of naivety, complacency or a misplaced sense of duty: If Congress has conferred on him the right to give orders. Whether the orders are legal or not is for the court to figure out, so until the court intervenes or Congress strips his right to give orders, the orders are legitimate and I’m obligated to cary them out.
To stand up against illegal orders takes a lot of guts, and for most people it will be a fairly simple matter of “Do I put my life and livelihood on the line? Would I even achieve anything?” The people who would have to defy him are those high up in positions of power, so as long as those people continue to convert his demented demands into orders, the rest will fall in line.
Because we are a failed society.
Because nobody stops him?
Because it’s what Putin wants him to do?
Because nobody stops him?
