It is time for Europe to double down. To double its investments in armaments. To seize that $250 Bil of frozen Russian assets and to spend it with Ukraine, for Ukraine.
I just texted my family that if you voted for and support Trump then I consider you a traitor to the United States of America. I took an oath when I entered the USN and I damn sure meant it. I stand with Ukraine 🇺🇦
Airforce and that Oath is something that I have and will carry with me for the rest of my life. I stand with Ukraine and the people of the United States fighting against a wannabe dictator.
I wish more military felt this way. My dad retired from the af reserve as a chief msgt at age 60. He believes everything word the magat leader and fox news says.
I’m 61, ask him if he believes the world is safer with America bowing down to a murderous dictator. Allowing authoritarianism to spread throughout Europe. And is he ok with selling out our allies and destroying the rule of law.
I love McFaul. The Russians wanted Trump (in his first term) to send him back to Russia for "Questioning."
The next stop would have been the roof or a window.
He doesn't use the VA, so cuts there don't hurt him. He has the retirement insurance so I know it's different. I also have 2 relatives, 1 national guard and her husband active duty army that are pro magat. I only speak with my kids now who we brought up correctly.
He sees nothing wrong with what trump did. I haven't spoken to him in over a month and refuse to initiate a conversation. To me, he's gone now. I spent the entire 1st term with him and my mom praising the magat. For my peace of mind, I can't do it again. He will only believe if it hurts his pension
Before his vascular dementia got worse, my dad (Navy Veteran), 80, would egg-on the tRump supporters in his assisted living community, for fun!! He used to get a good laugh.
shock over yesterday’s White House events is valid—such moments can shake our core. The perceived damage is not good. If you want to act, join https://ildu.com.ua/ or send your child Without action how are you any better than Trump? Good job fighting family members though. #TransRights #SlavaUkraini
I’ve lost friendships over him and I’m sure many others have as well. This man has done damage to this country on so many levels. Much of which will take generations to repair.
Trump didn't realize that Zelensky represented Ukraine while he represented the US government. This is really not the behavior that a world's most powerful country should do.
Trump is as childish as a child. No matter what Zelensky argued with him, he couldn't kick him out (even if it was just superficial courtesy). This is simply the broadmindedness a president should have.
Other than MAGA & the oligarchs nobody respects him. He is a laughingstock to the world. Putin doesn't actually respect him but he will use him in any way he can
American will never be trusted or respected again. The events of yesterday was more than MAGA TV it showed the world who Trump & Vance are
Sadly there is a common thread for all his supporters. They latch on to "man in nice suit knows better" and it is taught to them as children (guess where 😮💨). Challenging information in those spaces is not welcome, so they don't.
I had the exact same experience. I am now an atheist, but attend with my wife and kids because they like going. One of the members of my church posted the following on Facebook “I won’t be happy with liberals until my boot is on their neck” I couldn’t stand faking around these hateful people.
He is not deserving of any respect, he's low down & classless, or he would not have disrespected the Office of the Presidency, America, his allies, nor Pres. Zalensky.
The embicile has no idea of the damage he has done to our beloved Republic, which we may never recover from.
I can’t understand how anyone, with at least a grammar school education, could possibly respect this human trash bag. He’s been 100% out for himself all his life. His psychopathy leaves him without empathy, love or any other human emotion. His intellectual curiosity is nil and it shows.
Besides having a family member who supports that dude I cannot for the life of understand folks who have friends who are MAGAS. I have started to distance myself from those type of people as well. I can't stand the we don't talk politics thing.
I lost my best friend of 30 years because of this piece of dogshit, and we can't even fight back. We just have to sit here and take it? Blue states need to declare a civil war. Are we waiting to be shot first? WTF is wrong with us?
Me either! I can't trust them I can't ever forgive them. I can't force myself to see them any other way, then cruel and hateful! The way I used to think about the people of the United States as a whole is ruined forever!
TRUMP IS NOT MY PRESIDENT. TRUMP IS NOT A PRESIDENT. TRUMP IS A TRAITOR. TRUMP IS A DISGRACE. TRUMP IS A WANNABE. TRUMP THINKS HE IS A LEADER. TRUMP IS NOT A LEADER. TRUMP IS SIMPLY A MALIGNANT NARCISSIST. TRUMP SURROUNDS HIMSELF WITH PEOPLE WILLING TO LET HIM TELL LIES. TRUMP SURROUNDS HIMSELF 🧵
WITH PEOPLE WHO MANIPULATE HIM BY LYING TO HIM. TRUMP SURROUNDS HIMSELF WITH PEOPLE WHO BOW TO KISS THE RING AND TELL HIM HOW WONDERFUL HE IS, WHAT A GREAT LEADER HE IS, HOW NO PRESIDENT IN HISTORY HAS EVER ACCOMPLISHED ALL THAT HE HAS ACCOMPLISHED. TRUMP SURROUNDS HIMSELF WITH LIARS WHO BEND HIM 🧵
TO THEIR WILL BY TELLING HIM THAT NO ONE CAN DO ANYTHING BETTER THAN HE DOES IT. TRUMP IS A PUPPET. TRUMP IS A COWARD. TRUMP IS A BULLY. TRUMP IS NO PRESIDENT AND HE IS NO LEADER. ONE THING TRUMP IS…. TRUMP IS A JOKE. HE IS THE PUNCHLINE TO A VERY VERY DANGEROUS JOKE IN A BIGLY WAY.
My in-laws love him. They are 88 and 90 years old. My wife gives them rides, runs errands, and helps them around the house out of guilt/duty/obligation. She is livid. She can’t sleep if she knows she will see them the next day.
I wouldn't. My mom lives with us. She used to praise him. Then she got her head out of her ass. We cut off a lot of family. I don't care. Blood or not, I refuse to follow just start with a rapist.
I empathize with both of you. My FIL is MAGA and my husband and I have tried to present facts to him however he stands firm. Before he comes to visit I have sleeplessness and anxiety. We can't abandon him, he's a Widow. You can simultaneously love someone and not like them at the same time.
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A president who cares more about his own glorification. Trump is attention-seeking and demands flattery and gratitude for helping others, as if it’s his own personal money he’s giving out and not America’s. He’s vain, pathetic - a threat to American interests. Putin is winning due to Trump’s actions
From the outset, the meeting was not a negotiation - it was an ambush. Trump and Vance did not approach the discussion as allies working toward a common goal, but as political figures looking to undermine Ukraine’s position.
Me either. I know some of them. One of them died during Covid cause he didn’t want to believe he should stay home. Another won’t parent her children, she uses child led parenting, no vaccines, home schools, loves MAGA. Another hates welfare for women & kids, though she needs it. Bizarre people.
Yep💔 The church I grew up in had a Kerygma relationship with a church in Zimbabwe. Father Chad gave a sermon about when to block after “turning the other cheek”. I’m done turning my other cheek for people who willfully support this malignant shell of a human.🙅🏻♀️🙅🏻♀️
No one respects him. They just pretend because they are Lilly-livered scared of him and MAGA trash don’t know how to respect anything, they just liked what he promised them. All of this too shall pass. Eventually.
Some time ago, I said I’d respect any president—even Trump—if I were in their presence. After yesterday’s Oval Office Russian propaganda shitshow, I’m officially walking that statement back.
It’s now clear, this is a president and administration intent on hurting people. Ask those you know if they regret their vote. If they say no, cut them off.
I heard suggested, ‘if people who voted for him could even admit they were tricked’ we could face them. Imagine the challenge of apologizing after brainwashing. Mercy, for humanity, is getting harder to conjure up daily, but will be key in upholding democracy, each time we find tolerance to turn it.
I haven't spoken to my mother in 5 years because she likes Donald Trump. I honestly can not respect the intelligence of anyone who defends this piece of shit or thinks that he's ever done anything good.
I agree, if you can swallow this, you can literally verify yourself as a zombie, Wake up! Smell the stench of Russian takeover of the united states of America!!!
It's a sad division, & leaves unanswered undefined questions about perception & values.
Is it mostly from listening to different media? Did one point that that media supported draw them in, to ever more radicalized thinking? Is that it? They are radicalized?
Everyone who isn’t already aware needs to look up accelerationism, Yarvinism and the Dark Enlightenment ASAP. Spread the word. This is far, far worse than petty incompetence, cash-grabbing and Nazi fetishes.
I'm at this same place. It's caused rifts in my family, with friends, and has impacted my church ministry. But this is WAY beyond being reluctant to "hurt feelings." I'm telling folks that this is the truth and while it may hurt? That's their decision. But I'm done with being quiet about this.
I have never seen trump behave in any way that remotely elicits anything from me but disgust, let alone respect! He's a hateful empty shell of a human being with absolutely no redeeming qualities. NONE.
Anyone who supports Trump and today’s GOP has no standards for decent human behavior. I don’t respect these people and I don’t want them in my life, regardless of who they are and what they may have once meant to me.
I'm losing family but I'm at the stage of my life that I really don't care. If you can vote for someone who thinks taking basic rights away from my youngest child then I want nothing to do with you. They are a brilliant and hard working person who identifies as non binary. I am in my pissed mom era!
Because it's about values. Trumpism is a direct attack on our values, so anyone who supports Trump does obviously not share our most fundamental values.
I grew up in the Bronx in the 70's/80's in a politically active family. He was considered a fucking buffoon. It was always a show, and he was a pathetic caricature of a successful business man.
Nowadays, when people wear MAGA gear, it shows me, without any shadow of a doubt, who is absolute trash.
It is hard to respect anyone who likes him. Or who voted for, or supports him in any way. Why? What values? Are they true values and is there anything of value in the core of anyone who tries to explain or define him?
Love, idolize and respect are absolutely different. There are people I don't love or even like. But I respect and trust them, because of their commitment to others, their values, and what they do. They can be obnoxious, difficult but still should be respected.
I believe it’s millions with unaddressed childhood trauma, who use poor coping mechanisms, leading to sociopathy. If you feel alone and unsupported, you can go down some very dark rabbit holes.
i do agree that it has a lot to do with avoidance of one's own spiritual work needed (not referencing religion but spirit) ....
"superiority" is an illusion practiced by those who don't do their own soul work ...
I will never respect them.
I will never want reconciliation with them.
I will never want them to wash their guilt away.
I will never trust them.
I will never
there's isn't "free speech"
there's has always been an attack on my country, and I've known this for far too long to ever let them rest.
Not many do, other than those brainwashed by right wing media. I guarantee you that even people in his cabinet don’t respect him but are just looking to cash-in or advance their careers.
So true. Can't really even speak to them or acknowledge them. I try to give them the benefit of the doubt that they "didn't know any better," but how the fuck could anyone with a brain and a moral compass NOT have known better? At so many levels MAGAts are hypocrites. FAFO
Terrorism is the use of violence (j6th) or threats of violence (Reposting it'll be our 1776 if we lose) to achieve political, religious, or ideological goals
I especially despise those that claimed they prayed to help them decide. If they needed to pray on it, they knew it was wrong and they weren’t praying for guidance, they were praying for permission to do something they knew was wrong. Their god may forgive them, but I never will.
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The next stop would have been the roof or a window.
MAGA Fascism is a far-right Christian ldeology.
American will never be trusted or respected again. The events of yesterday was more than MAGA TV it showed the world who Trump & Vance are
The embicile has no idea of the damage he has done to our beloved Republic, which we may never recover from.
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Whether Incarcerated or not.
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I’m accepting of anyone that is admitting they were wrong, but I’m not hearing that.
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Is it mostly from listening to different media? Did one point that that media supported draw them in, to ever more radicalized thinking? Is that it? They are radicalized?
No respect for that piece of shit mother fucker👊🏻✊🏼
They have seen disaster after disaster and yet still support him.
After what he did to Zelensky and Ukraine 🇺🇦 yesterday I am done with anyone who still supports him.
Nowadays, when people wear MAGA gear, it shows me, without any shadow of a doubt, who is absolute trash.
"superiority" is an illusion practiced by those who don't do their own soul work ...
I will never want reconciliation with them.
I will never want them to wash their guilt away.
I will never trust them.
I will never
there's isn't "free speech"
there's has always been an attack on my country, and I've known this for far too long to ever let them rest.
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