That’s for sure. And somehow what’s so wrong is our national security agencies, judiciary, media and courts were impotent. I think it reflects our societal mental illness brought on by a movement that created caustic capitalism and inequality.
Our people are wrong. We have millions of people dedicated to attacking their own and the national interest. In the era of Hybrid War this demo is more than a liability it’s a threat. It’s not going away with Trump either. Russia AND China are playing our ignorant malevolent nation like a violin.
And sadly he prevails with ever increasing and permanent damage to America and the world and with the concurrence of the former GOP party aka Trump party and the evil creators of Project 2025 and the super rich.
Since Trump was elected in 2016 I have been telling people that NATO, or at least a NATO that relies upon USA weapons and support, was dead. And plenty of otherwise competent people still don't get it. Sucks to be Cassandra.
If you look at him as a Russian asset that has been working the US with Putin as his handler for 30+ years, then it all starts to make sense. From the people like Flynn and Manafort, the Russian property purchasers in NYC and Florida, the loans he's received, and articles and statements he's made.
Does this mean that the rightful US citizenry’s mental predisposition that Russia was an enemy of American ideals based on fact and experience was greatly usurped over time with the constant lies and deception that have permeated society over the last several years with little or no media pushback?
Whatever’s going on here, the more troubling truth for the US’s ‘allies’ is that the American people have voted for this policy platform. Twice. That they would again has to be a planning assumption for friends and enemies alike.
🇨🇵Well said, Anne. Trump's alliance with Russia very simply and has long served his ultimate purpose: to quickly make nation states disappear so that large (American) companies can dominate the world without hindrance. It's a fairly simple argument and accessible to Trump's dictatorial will.
It’s only obvious to those outside the cult. Disinformation & misinformation have been slowly baked into the identity of every MAGA cultist over the past several years (decades?) so thoroughly that the Bill of Rights and the Constitution’s 3 Articles are all at the discretion of their wannabe führer
If the country wasn’t so corrupt in the first place he wouldn’t ever have been allowed to run though? Didn’t Putin just show everyone what America really is? A corrupt, easily-bought nation obsessed with money and materialistic things. I’m sure many countries are, but USA wins the gold here.
This needed to happen for there to be any realisation by the people that there is a societal issue. Nobody likes their flaws being pointed out, but sometimes you have to fail completely in order to know what to fix.
At least that’s my silver-lining take on this. I just hope that the masses are able to wake up from the spell they’re under. The indoctrination was so well executed; the liberal west failed miserably in recognising and responding to the threat. We have to learn quick and adapt to survive.
Obvious to you, obvious to me, yet there are people among us seemingly caught unawares, and worse yet, a whole cult that refuses to see. Republican elected officials are complicit, and Dems don’t seem to know what’s going on right under their noses for decades.
It's early. Wait until the feel the full brunt of his policies. He hates them. He's robbing them blind. They haven't felt it yet. They will. He's making the impact unavoidable.
Let's face it America. This is not going to self-correct. This is what the Republican Party and all it's supporters have become and they won't change.
The damage is permanent.
It just seems so odd watching helplessly as the US, once the bastion of freedom and democracy, fall into autocracy and isolation. The fact that so much of the world has depended on the US for protection of their own freedoms makes this descend all the more frightening.
Since Reagon took office, the Republicans have been very successful in vilinizing Democrats with the elite crap. Dems have been struggling with messaging for years.
& yet to this day, many MAGATs believe “Russia Russia Russia” was a hoax….
What’s scary is just how effective propaganda has proven to be (& here I thought Manchurian Candidate was dystopian sci-fi, but unlike in the film, the assassin didn’t wake up at the last minute & shoot the RU stooge).
Obvious. And he’s president? The craziness of this moment has gone on too long and with no end in sight. Being a Mexico/US dual national makes me so glad for my presidenta.
Putin and or musk isPAYIG THEM ALL
Because there won't be anymore FAIR elections
Why can't people see that!!
That's whywe hve to topple ALL OF THEM NOW !!!
Well, what should be done now? Doesn’t help to cut the head of this beast; a new head will grow up soon. One has to weaken his legs. Republican Party should be split into two groups. A new Republican wing should begin to grow, weakening Trumps legs.
This is treason, from Nixon to Trump, the GOP is a bunch of liars, hate mongers, and power hungry scumbags. Not by accident, but by DNA. Their voters feed it with selfishness and hate. Trump gave Putin everything he wanted. He and his cronies serve Russia.
Sane people should only wage war in the mind of the male rube.... Putin is popular and so is Trump. It's not about "it being obvious for so long" to us, bc look where that got us.
Since it is not obvious to the uninformed, they are easily duped into handing over their blood, treasure & future.
For those trapped and feeling lost in our online, atomized and individualized Western culture, we should reinvent Western culture, an identity to cling onto, preferably nationalistic maybe even racial and religious. Bc if we don't do it,
Fortunately most of the “west” (Canada and Europe) has stepped up its game and begun forming alliances against Russia. They’ve seen Russia’s poor performance in Ukraine and realize they don’t have the power (nuclear weapons aside) they wanted us to believe they had.
Nuclear weapons are an issue and would obviously be devastating. But prevailing winds blow west to east so they’d be spitting nuclear havoc into the wind. I’d expect a power grab within Russia before we got to that point.
I'm progressively more convinced that he is somehow owned by the Russians. There is no other clear reason why he consistently acts against America and for the Kremlin. And we are all just watching and shrugging about it.
We knew this when he first ran. Hillary Clinton called him “Putin’s puppet” and somehow enough people believed his barely literate response. “ I’m not the puppet. You’re the puppet. You’re the puppet “.
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Well said.
There were far too many dead canaries in the mine to ignore.
And, I'm a worried Canadian. What the F honestly explains what he's up to with my country?
The damage is permanent.
Big lies
Truly malignant people
A “world” (culture, society) significantly different from the one they currently occupy.
It’s both our nature and our weakness
I wish the MAGA folks the Republicans in the House and Senate could understand this.
The reply was to address the question of WHY folks don’t vote, not whether they should.
Maga capitalized on our lack of enthusiasm, but now they've woken the beast with pj2025.
We have popular policies, but need energy. That's changing.
When Republicans started calling the Democratic party the Democrat party
We stood by said nothing at the insult, and there's nothing more that an Ignorant bully loves more than when the victim doesn't push back hard
What’s scary is just how effective propaganda has proven to be (& here I thought Manchurian Candidate was dystopian sci-fi, but unlike in the film, the assassin didn’t wake up at the last minute & shoot the RU stooge).
Because there won't be anymore FAIR elections
Why can't people see that!!
That's whywe hve to topple ALL OF THEM NOW !!!
But many don't get it even now... 🤔
Since it is not obvious to the uninformed, they are easily duped into handing over their blood, treasure & future.
someone will......