Interesting point of view. In the end this comes down to two things - the breakdown (no pun intended) of the US electorate and the extent to which Trump’s actions have an impact outside that electorate’s territory.
Sadly, if we believe in democracy then we’re going to have to face the issue of insanity (the speaker’s last assertion was that the religious right are “crazy”) and where we draw the line below which we remove someone’s right to vote. If, as claimed, the fraction of the electorate who will continue to support Trump despite his provable misbehaviour/stupidity, is large enough to keep him in office then I think the US is doomed here. They can’t realistically declare tens of percent of the electorate as crazy even if, in some objective sense, they are. They’ll just have to let them vote and then suffer the consequences of that. In due course, which might be generations, that craziness will be weeded out by the cold hard effects of socio-economic decline. Personally I’m not convinced about the electoral breakdown i.e. that there are enough crazies to keep Trump in office. But we’ll see.
The second point is the degree to which this matters to the rest of us. Will Trump actually start a large-scale nuclear war (I think not) ? Will he encourage CO2 levels to rise to the point where they poison the atmosphere very seriously (I fear he might, but if the US economy declines then that will act as a brake on that) ? Will he force other nations to adopt his policies/behaviour (I think not, because even if he wanted to I don’t think he could) ? Will he destabilise the world’s economy to everyone’s detriment (I don’t know enough about economics to feel my guess about this would be worth anything) ?
I do worry for my US-based relatives though. My brother is still a UK citizen. But he’s lived in the US for long enough, and earned enough while he’s been there, that he now believes he simply couldn’t afford to pay the tax bill he’d be faced with if he decided to return permanently to the UK. So he and his family are stuck there.
VB
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If only they’d have done the praying before the hurricane hit. Doh!
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nowt wrong with da yellow though.
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That separation of church and state is going well then.
Someone recently did a comparison of Obama and Drumpf speaking at the national prayer breakfast they have every year. Obama spoke on hope in Ephesians, Drumpf spoke about Drumpf.
And yet Drumpf is essentially the second coming and Obama is the antichrist…
Not much by way of subtlety, but certainly gets the message across…
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Why do you say that?
His hands are the same size as Kim’s, I thought they should be much smaller in reality.
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Whilst Kim is clearly nuts, his form of insanity is perhaps more understandable than Ready Brek Boy. N.Koreas greedy invasion of S. Korea pushed the ‘Bomb the Commie’ button in the Pentagon, this action and the ongoing consequences are in many ways American made:
…During the ‘Forgotten war’ U.S. planes dropped on the Korean peninsula more bombs — 635,000 tons — and napalm — 32,557 tons — than during the entire Pacific campaign against the Japanese during World War II…
Being raised by a ‘somewhat miffed’ generation resentment has remained like a cancer (implanted by the US). Intelligently the latest ‘growth spurt’ follows the banquet of threats proffered by the Orange mouth breather. He’s not even pretending to be a arbiter for peace. It’s a home made American shit pie.
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You can’t go about saying stuff like that!! We have been told by countless politicians from every hue that the North Koreans are pinko commie scum, Led by a complete madman. The implication we should get is that to be even remotely left is to be barmy. Further they are foreign which makes it even worse FFS.
The US needed to drop all that ordinance on them during the war, they needed a jolly good lesson and learn to know their place.
I strongly suggest you retract your comments lest anyone think you yourself are a pinko!!!
Pinko commie scum my arse. The country is run in as a feudal autocracy that is about as far from communism as you can get. The master-race propaganda fed to the DPK populace is fascist in the extreme. Other than that, carry on as you were.
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Ed Zachary. But they’re not presented as right wing not jobs. They’re presented as lefty Marxist commies. The suggestion being that this is what happens when you go down the liberal lefty route.
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nowt wrong with da yellow though.
