Trump's AMERICA : 2018 (& world reaction )
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The Coming Collapse
It is impossible for any doomed population to grasp how fragile the decayed financial, social and political system is on the eve of implosion.
The Trump administration did not rise, prima facie, like Venus on a half shell from the sea. Donald Trump is the result of a long process of political, cultural and social decay. He is a product of our failed democracy. The longer we perpetuate the fiction that we live in a functioning democracy, that Trump and the political mutations around him are somehow an aberrant deviation that can be vanquished in the next election, the more we will hurtle toward tyranny. The problem is not Trump. It is a political system, dominated by corporate power and the mandarins of the two major political parties, in which we don’t count. We will wrest back political control by dismantling the corporate state, and this means massive and sustained civil disobedience, like that demonstrated by teachers around the country this year. If we do not stand up we will enter a new dark age.
The Democratic Party, which helped build our system of inverted totalitarianism, is once again held up by many on the left as the savior. Yet the party steadfastly refuses to address the social inequality that led to the election of Trump and the insurgency by Bernie Sanders. It is deaf, dumb and blind to the very real economic suffering that plagues over half the country. It will not fight to pay workers a living wage. It will not defy the pharmaceutical and insurance industries to provide Medicare for all. It will not curb the voracious appetite of the military that is disemboweling the country and promoting the prosecution of futile and costly foreign wars. It will not restore our lost civil liberties, including the right to privacy, freedom from government surveillance, and due process. It will not get corporate and dark money out of politics. It will not demilitarize our police and reform a prison system that has 25 percent of the world’s prisoners although the United States has only 5 percent of the world’s population. It plays to the margins, especially in election seasons, refusing to address substantive political and social problems and instead focusing on narrow cultural issues like gay rights, abortion and gun control in our peculiar species of anti-politics.
More: http://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/05/21/coming-collapse
Interesting......but you must ha joined the Danbones conspiracy club!
Here's an interesting story about the effects of you lot on Canadian culture:
Trump And The American Far Right Stoke Hate in Canada
The Coming Collapse
It is impossible for any doomed population to grasp how fragile the decayed financial, social and political system is on the eve of implosion.
The Trump administration did not rise, prima facie, like Venus on a half shell from the sea. Donald Trump is the result of a long process of political, cultural and social decay. He is a product of our failed democracy. The longer we perpetuate the fiction that we live in a functioning democracy, that Trump and the political mutations around him are somehow an aberrant deviation that can be vanquished in the next election, the more we will hurtle toward tyranny. The problem is not Trump. It is a political system, dominated by corporate power and the mandarins of the two major political parties, in which we don’t count. We will wrest back political control by dismantling the corporate state, and this means massive and sustained civil disobedience, like that demonstrated by teachers around the country this year. If we do not stand up we will enter a new dark age.
The Democratic Party, which helped build our system of inverted totalitarianism, is once again held up by many on the left as the savior. Yet the party steadfastly refuses to address the social inequality that led to the election of Trump and the insurgency by Bernie Sanders. It is deaf, dumb and blind to the very real economic suffering that plagues over half the country. It will not fight to pay workers a living wage. It will not defy the pharmaceutical and insurance industries to provide Medicare for all. It will not curb the voracious appetite of the military that is disemboweling the country and promoting the prosecution of futile and costly foreign wars. It will not restore our lost civil liberties, including the right to privacy, freedom from government surveillance, and due process. It will not get corporate and dark money out of politics. It will not demilitarize our police and reform a prison system that has 25 percent of the world’s prisoners although the United States has only 5 percent of the world’s population. It plays to the margins, especially in election seasons, refusing to address substantive political and social problems and instead focusing on narrow cultural issues like gay rights, abortion and gun control in our peculiar species of anti-politics.
More: http://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/05/21/coming-collapse
Good article. And it is right on the money. The US has dropped in the ranking of democracies and it will continue to drop until its badly broken political system is fixed. Unfortunately, US politics has been so badly corrupted that it may not be possible to introduce meaningful reform.
20 most democratic countries in the world…do you live there?
https://www.angloinfo.com/blogs/glo...tic-countries-in-the-world-do-you-live-there/
Remember when the USA used to be at the top?
Families fleeing violence, rape, torture from MS 13 in Central America arrive at the border seeking asylum, only to have the children forcibly removed from parents, children separated and fostered out while parents remain jailed indefinitly under DOJs new fascist laws. What does this kind of thing do to a child? " You are a criminal by virtue of being born?! These are crimes,against humanity being perpetrated under US law. Who will stand for justice?
What Separating Migrant Families at the Border Actually Looks Like
Trump's inhumane border policy is tearing families apart and traumatizing children.
Earlier this month, when Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced plans to prosecute “100 percent” of migrants illegally crossing the Mexican border, it became official US policy to routinely separate children from their parents. Already, hundreds of children have been ripped from their families: 658 kids in the first 13 days of the program alone, Customs and Border Protection disclosed in a Senate subcommittee hearing Wednesday. This policy—which advocates say in practice mainly targets women and youths seeking asylum from the violence-ridden countries of Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador—is intended to punish the adults by criminally prosecuting them for entering the country, thereby deterring others from making the journey north. But it does incalculable damage to the children at an already traumatic moment in their lives, often stripping them from their mothers when their mothers are all they have.
More: http://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4...nt-families-at-the-border-actually-looks-like
What Separating Migrant Families at the Border Actually Looks Like
Trump's inhumane border policy is tearing families apart and traumatizing children.
Earlier this month, when Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced plans to prosecute “100 percent” of migrants illegally crossing the Mexican border, it became official US policy to routinely separate children from their parents. Already, hundreds of children have been ripped from their families: 658 kids in the first 13 days of the program alone, Customs and Border Protection disclosed in a Senate subcommittee hearing Wednesday. This policy—which advocates say in practice mainly targets women and youths seeking asylum from the violence-ridden countries of Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador—is intended to punish the adults by criminally prosecuting them for entering the country, thereby deterring others from making the journey north. But it does incalculable damage to the children at an already traumatic moment in their lives, often stripping them from their mothers when their mothers are all they have.
More: http://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4...nt-families-at-the-border-actually-looks-like
Sorry, Walter......it is NOT "crap"
CNS are not "acting " on it.....but there is an increasingly negative attitude to the US since Trumpianism affected it.
and it is not just CDA..... Quite frankly I can't think of any country that sees the USA in a positive or friendly light at the moment. Trump has only exacerbated the situation.
The problem/ issue is that the Trumpians are not even willing to examine the situation .........or they no longer can.It is as if they have been sucked into the vortex .......
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Have folks seen that brief clip of Trump where he calls the media THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE??
He is shredding the constitution forin the name of his own personal biases and mental disorder.........making the country into something totally foreign from what it was designed to be at the onset . Mind you....it has always been at war with itself.......it is just more pronounced now.
If The USA was a person........it would be diagnosed as t mentally disordered/ ill.
Trump sold the US population a gigantic LIE............ with his MAGA.pitch...... .then tried to buy them with tax cuts.....so they would support him..........while he went about being an incoherent Tyrant.
Wally is crap. Wally thinking is crap. Wally's politics are crap. The man is a walking crap machine. But his ignorance is highly entertaining.
Well it would seem he doesn’t have your vote .
Well what does that say about you ?Wally is crap. Wally thinking is crap. Wally's politics are crap. The man is a walking crap machine. But his ignorance is highly entertaining.
Wally is crap. Wally thinking is crap. Wally's politics are crap. The man is a walking crap machine. But his ignorance is highly entertaining.
Walter is like Trump. Whatever he says you can pretty much count on the opposite being true.
IT’S GETTING MESSY
Trump Aides Brutally Turn on Each Other in War on Leaks
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump...-war-on-leaks?via=newsletter&source=DDMorning
Trump Aides Brutally Turn on Each Other in War on Leaks
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump...-war-on-leaks?via=newsletter&source=DDMorning
Report: Trump Wants to Push German Cars Out of U.S. Market
https://www.thedailybeast.com/report-trump-wants-to-push-luxury-german-cars-out-of-us
https://www.thedailybeast.com/report-trump-wants-to-push-luxury-german-cars-out-of-us
Who could have guessed......
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Freedom: is being you without anybody's permission. Your obsession with my memes should be freaking out your therapist.
Your stupidity is nothing to be obsessed about...
Ignorance can be removed by the acquisition of knowledge, while a stupid person is intrinsically so, and therefore difficult to reform.
Ignorance can be removed by the acquisition of knowledge, while a stupid person is intrinsically so, and therefore difficult to reform.
Thanks for proving my point and keep posting your stupid fakebook memes
In a more literal sense, a Facebook meme is a picture, dressed up with a humorous caption, a pithy observation or an endless blur of barely comprehensible statistics that’s supposed to provide bold, insightful commentary on the news of the day.
Why is this important? Because the more sluggish specimens among us embrace, absorb and repeat these cyber gems, ad nauseam. Especially the fine folks in the “I’ll-Swallow-Anything-That-Reaffirms-My-Existing-Views” camp. Any meme, no matter how stunningly idiotic, seems to resonate with the people predisposed to agree with it.
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