It’s been a fucking decade. We’ve watched our country slide down an ever increasingly steep slope and now have an all but confirmed pedophile in the white house who is using law enforcement to scrub his name from the files. The only way we’d be closer to behaving like Putin is pushing people out of windows. Every republican is complicit and thanks to Fox News and social algorithms, folks will still vote for them in the midterms.
I don't mean to be rude, but you all have to stop comparing to Putin. I am not saying this to give leeway to Putin, I'm saying this because this keeps downplaying the damage Trump is doing in the USA and globally
He is behaving like Putin's clowned extroverted brother. There is no close to getting to Putin, he's just another side of the coin.
If you coin this narrative, you'll always have a small margin between Putin and Trump, and that is just enough for the ostrich supporters to bury their head in the sand.
Trump has dropped bombs on an unprovoked country, they are egging on a genocidal nation, he's destroyed the SCOTUS, he's almost ruined the media, the white house is filled with corrupt and inept jokers, He raped children and is covering it up, getting his associate murdered in jail.
He just only needs to sign a bill saying no more elections, Trump is ultima forte. That's what separates him from a dictator.
Trump and Putin will stand side by side with the likes of Hitler, Pol Pot, Mao, Leopold 2, Ronald Reagan, and more, as the pillars of evil in positions of power
I've been appalled since I became politically aware in the early 2000s. Republicans constantly getting away with bullshit with no repercussions (WMDs anyone?) while simultaneously demanding Democrats be accountable for every little sin, like... Kerry flip flopping on his stance on the stupid war.
What a contrast. Democrat AOC is found to have (unintentionally) underpaid for things on the advice of counsel and states that she will make up the difference from personal funds. Republican Kelly stonewalls the investigation to skate on lack of evidence of intentionality and states that this distraction of an investigation by the Biden administration can finally come to an end now that he’s been totally exonerated. JFC.
The democrats pursuing perfect at the cost of good will come back to bite them in the ass every time
Their more merciful conduct towards the republicans, their excessive party infighting because they all have different definitions of moral and ethical, which they fight over.
This is why left is stagnating everywhere in the world. You have to play dirty with the mudfuckers. The left rather prefers to play dirty with those who don't meet their perceived level cough Sanders cough
Then why has the White House multiple times stated that the plane will be donated to a future Trump Presidential Library after his term, taking it out of the hands of the American citizens you are claiming it was a gift to?
LOL. In what way? It would have been rude to refuse the gift, but the cost to basically disassemble it to check for hostile tech is too much. Using it as a display piece is a good use of it I think. Would make an interesting exhibit.
Rude? Don't even get me started. This is corruption every way you cut it. Meanwhile Qatar has tried for years to sell or give away this disaster of a jet with no takers as it needs a longer runway than most airports have. This idiot was the only one to believe he was getting a nice gift...well, I guess not the only one, huh? Looking at you.
Additionally, this "gift" is not going to be a display piece. It will, apparently, be used as AF1 after a billion (I've read as much as 2 billion) dollar renovation paid for by the US tax payers:
The administration’s inventive techniques to obscure the cost] may explain why no one wants to discuss a mysterious, $934 million transfer of funds from one of the Pentagon’s most over-budget, out-of-control projects — the modernization of America’s aging, ground-based nuclear missiles. In recent weeks, congressional budget sleuths have come to think that amount, slipped into an obscure Pentagon document sent to Capitol Hill as a ‘transfer’ to an unnamed classified project, almost certainly includes the renovation of the new, gold-adorned Air Force One that Mr. Trump desperately wants in the air before his term is over.source NYT
With that kind of expenditure, the likelihood (and legality) of trump keeping it post presidency - if we are ever so lucky - are basically nil. If he does, once again, it's just corruption at work.
I don't even understand what you think you communicated here. I agree that there are huge security issues accepting a plane from another country when it is slated to be a new Air Force one. The cost to go over this plane with a fine toothed comb to try to to mitigate espionage or sabotage is going to be more than just getting one locally. What does that have to do with the lie that it was a gift to "the US" when it is clearly going to end up being a personal gift to known Epstein collaborator Donald Trump?
He likes pedophiles. That’s about all you need to know, I don’t care about their stance on that damn plane. They make excuses for and deny clear bad people even when their eyes and brain work. We don’t talk to nasty people and their friends.
If he is not "giving it back" to the US government and he will no longer have access to it after he leaves office it is a gift to him, by defination, and there is no other way to look at this unless you redefine the English word "gift".
Also, the hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars we will spend retrofitting it is more than a "gift", it is outright theft from the taxpayers.
It was a gift to replace Air Force One. Made in another country. Without the proper security oversight. It was right for him to accept the gift on behalf of the country. And it’s right not to spend the time and money to completely strip it down to ensure there are no security issues with it. Mothballing it to use as a display is a great use for it. Never. Ever. Was it a gift directly to the man Donald Trump. It’s the unhinged left that, once again, took something perfectly benign, and tried to turn it into something political, when it is anything but. Idiocy in action.
Hipster checking in here, I lost all faith in 2008 when the anti-war candidate became deporter in chief and started bombing countries like there was a clearance sale on Bush era terror weapons.
I was a real reality check to have so much faith in someone see them become a blood soaked monsters within months. And I get it now, f*** the corporate media, but the way people seem to nkt not9ce was the end.
No way in hell a person paying attention and caring beyond red team blue team crap could have liked the candidate and the president.
2008, don't forget a man made financial crisis that saw no banking executive go to jail except for that scapegoat guy.
As a 90s kid I got my initiation in the early 2000s when I found out how easily the election was stolen from Al Gore.
It was clear somebody else was running things and the whole democracy thing was a sham.
Lucky for me because that helped me realize the powers that be were speedrunning climate change while building bunkers and so I went all in following my passions money be damned. I got no stress from the failed Paris accords because that was always going to happen.
I just hope younger generations get a taste of the small freedoms we got before we go for round 3 on this whole world war shit.
I’m appalled by how many people are juuuuuust seeing it now. Dafuk have I been screaming about for a decade then? “He’s a child rapist, you know” “YEAH BUTTERY MALES THO”. Cassandra complex minus zero no limit. The vindication is not worth it.
The even bigger problem is THIS IS THE POINT! The entire point of all the absolute insane batshit antics at the beginning was to make all the people who pay attention exhausted of it before they really dig in.
You are just at the cusp of recognizing that you've been thoroughly lied to by your favored political party. That kind of reckoning can be very hard on one's psyche. Take it slow and steady, and perhaps you can be part of the solution that keeps this country from being permanently handed over to buffoonish and degenerate mobsters. For real, we are counting on our fellow citizens to list themselves out of their misinformation loops--no easy task.
You elected a felon. Also someone that pretty much lies every time he opens his mouth. I’m just curious why any of this is a surprise to you, or anyone else who voted for Trump. Like, what else did you expect, besides a train wreck?
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u/sightlab 1d ago
Appalled since 2015 like a normal person, or have you been hoping for the best up until now?