Honestly feel horrible for Zelensky.
Imagine having to sit there and be shouted down to by two men so obviously and utterly corrupt that they consider helping your country fight off tyranny to be a favour, as though that isn't what the Western world should be doing by default.
as though that isn't what the Western world should be doing by default.
Vaguely gestures at what the West has been doing since WWII. The only thing Trump is doing differently here is that the people he's bullying are white.
I’m very concerned about how many people mistake Trump’s attempts at appeasement as “peace”. People are actually buying that Zelensky “doesn’t want peace”.
What can be done to change this narrative to the people who don’t get it?
I don't think appeasement is the right word, as that would imply Trump is actually trying to help Ukraine rather than trying to slowly create a narrative to justify abandoning Ukraine to Russia.
The worst part is I would bet Zelensky is keenly aware of what Trump is up to, but knows any attempt to distance from Trump would only make it easier for Trump to justify abandoning his people to the wolves.
The wholly fucked up thing is that yes I did forget that is why he was impeached the first time. He's committed so many crimes how the fuck could I keep track though?
I remember he did this. Couldn't tell you for certain if this was why he was impeached in part because there's so much shit as you say, but mostly because apparently impeachement means absolutely nothing.
Hey now, the SCROTUS said the president shouldn't be held responsible for crimes he commits during his presidency! You should totally forget and ignore those non-crimes he committed 2016-2020!
Remember when the Republicans refused to take the Jan 6 impeachment seriously because he was not going to be in office by the time they completed the investigation, and they said that it would be a matter for the courts, and then the SCOTUS said that Presidents are immune to prosecution and the only recourse is impeachment?
Trump can be impeached again for everything and anything he did between then and now, including while he was out of office. He can be impeached for inciting the Jan 6 terrorist attacks, he can be impeached for his election interference in several states, he can be impeached for sharing state secrets and documents at Mar a Lago with foreign agents, and he can be impeached for just about any of the executive actions he's taken since being reelected.
Yeah, because that would set a precedent for holding people accountable. Even those who internally oppose Trump don’t want to relinquish their free pass on illegal and unethical activities.
Especially with his second term, with how astronomically hard they worked to sanewash everything he said and did. because they'd rather sell out the country and their integrity, than dare risk losing access.
The Lügenpresse are no longer the enemy of the state... They are the tool of the state.
It's not the "lead" in the reporting though, media is as complicit in the attention-span blackout we're all experiencing. There are not-bad people in this very post who think this is entirely misinformation because media isn't leading their charge with this context.
Every headline and every major political story is focusing on what Trump is saying and doing, not the historical context of what our national relationships have been like and what Trump's history is.
I know we hate this, but our population is eroded. We have like, fucking microplastics in everyone's brains that are making people not think with words anymore. Everyone is just scrolling and working and slowly boiling to death as the pan heats up. If mainstream news sources actually did their job and showed us what was happening with intentionality and a focus on trying to FORCE people to pay attention, we wouldn't have gotten anywhere close to this mess.
But the media is complicit. They profit from chaos and they LOOOOOVE donny, he is their cash-cow and they will mourn when he finally passes away, or bursts into a cloud of bats or however people like him die.
I feel like it would be like mentioning Monica Lewinski when talking about Bill Clinton - everyone knows, everyone is sick of hearing about it - no matter how relevant it is.