"Our government has a [flexible] policy not to capitulate to [the oligarch that owns my debt and may, possibly have some lewd photos] demands." - Trump quoting Patron Saint of Neoliberalism, Golden Idol of the GOP, Ronald Wilson Regan
I’ve been digging into the whole rape thing, correct me if I’m wrong but it looks a lot like a smear campaign than anything else, that is which to say, there is zero evidence he did this and yet the mainstream media has been instructed to go hard with it lately to perhaps persuade the public to vote against him… thoughts?
And when Putin asks Trump to accept the end of Ukraine and no longer accept the Ukrainian language as separate from Russian, he will immediately do some executive orders.
Remember when Trump said he would get rid of the ACA and they had a plan to replace it? But he never had a plan and eventually said "who knew healthcare was so complicated?" (Everybody knew it was complicated.) This is the exact same thing.
if trump was president in 1940 ww2 would have never happened. Also ww1 for 1914. and civil war for 1861. If trump was president before we would all live in solid gold houses and drive rocket cars with zero pollution
Edit: oh dammit. I now see someone else already made this joke. Ok, to make it up to you, I'll tell a different joke.
So a woman in her Chicago high rise apartment was beating a rug with a broom on her balcony. Suddenly a big burst of wind blew her over the railing.
Now she's falling from the 30th floor.
A man on the 25th floor sees this, catches her, and says "Wow, it must be my lucky day! A beautiful woman falls out of the sky and into my arms! Tell me young miss, do you suck dick?"
Outraged by this she screams "NO I DON'T SUCK DICK!!!"
So he drops her.
A man on the 20th floor sees her falling, and catches her. He says: Wow, it must be my lucky day! A beautiful woman falls out of the sky and into my arms! Tell me young miss, would you be willing to fuck me?"
Insulted by the idea she screams "NO I DON'T FUCK STRANGERS!!!"
So he drops her.
As she's falling, she realizes she's going to die, and in her final moments she prays. "Please god, just let ONE more person catch me! I promise to do any revolting thing they ask!"
And on the 15th floor, a woman catches her. Before her rescuer can say a word, the woman screams "I SUCK! I FUCK! I'LL DO ANYTHING YOU WANT!!!"
Revolted by this, the woman holding her says "Slut!"
Same plan he made in Syria and Afghanistan. Abandon US allies in the region, hand over all local assets to hostile forces and leak intel like damn spaghetti strainer.
I wouldn't be surprised if he ordered the DoD to hanf over all the intel we have about Ukraine to Russia and withdraw all other support and recon in the area.
The start of the Syrian civil war had nothing to do with anyone except the Syrian people being pissed off at living under the most restrictive police state in the Arab world. There were protests after a mass arrest and subsequent torture of 15 teenage boys who had spay-painted some anti-government graffiti on some walls around the city.
Assad cracked down on the protests hard, which led to people saying, "fuck this shit, time for a revolution".
Iran started helping Assad, and then the US started helping the rebels. And yeah it's a shit show now. But no, it would have kicked off without outside help.
The criticisms are universally about how he "ended" it. I have seen no one that was in favor of staying. Likewise, Trump gets criticism on betraying our allies because he knowingly and intentionally ratfucked the kurds, or have you totally forgotten about that?
I'm guessing Trump's plan to end the war is "Back Russia and help Putin crush Ukraine." Because (much like Trump's own sycophants) he doesn't realize that he'll the first under the bus when his master no longer needs him.
Like the far right in my country before the elections "We have the solution to fix the economy, vote for us" - without of course saying what they're going to do.
Unfortunately, majority of people believed them
Populism works, people like to vote for someone that says what they want to listen even if it's obvious that they're not going to do that
Generally their playbook is open, it just doesn't work. Their strategy is to let rich people do whatever they want and hoard as much wealth as they can, and that prosperity obviously will trickle down to everyone.
However when taxes are relatively higher on the rich and regulations do things like punish them for poisoning a water source, they spend their resources gaslighting the populace into thinking economy is just terrible and if your personal experience does not bear that out, well your just lucky and you'll be out on the streets in a few months unless you vote right.
This is really not that hard, its to negotiate peace with the main part being that Ukraine will never join nato. Its almost like we could have totally avoided hundreds of thousands of dead people if our foreign policy didnt suck so bad.
The entire military complex is milking the US taxpayer dollar from this war, if Trump were to stand in the way of the MIC and their income… given the presidential assassinations observed in recent history I would imagine that he would have multiple crosshairs on his forehead:.: it would take an incredible amount of patriotic duty to ignore that risk and pull funding anyway.
I, too, love when I get to prevent an entire country from invasion by an evil force, but only when I get to take credit for it. Someone else stealing my idea for peace is just as bad as someone else stealing a joke I said first, if not worse.
We had this conversation in 2016 about beating isis in 30 days. Turned out he lied about the plan. Besides if biden had to follow trumps plan that would mean that it was trumps plan right? It would be a better argument for trump to get into office. It would mean that biden has to do what trump says to get things done.
The truth is, Trump is lying about having a plan like in 2016. I didn't fall for it then. I won't fall for it now. If you're falling for it again, it's pathetic.
It's really telling that they care more about clout than actually doing the things that might make the world a little less shitty. Shameless fraudsters can't be bothered to do anything useful unless there's a material reward in it for them.