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Damn, nothing has changed

And this is why the lesser evil is still evil.

Democrats serve the rich class. They're a red herring to make us believe that we are a democracy

My first thought also, and I strongly recommend Ken Burns' Vietnam War doco to those who haven't seen it - that's where I first learned of Nixon's unforgivable treason (about this particular topic... not to mention his other treasons).

And Trump has acted similarly in the past year.

GOP: Oops, all treason

I'm not young and there isn't a time in my life when the GOP wasn't somehow treasonous

Ollie North! Ollie North! He's a soldier! And a hero! And a novelist! And now he's on Fox Neeeeeews!

Deplorables doing deplorable things.

Two things can be true

I mean - not really. It was pretty bold at the time.

Now, yes. Because nothing was ever done about it and no accountability etc.

I think you mean Putin and Trump. Netanyahu isnt at war, they're committing genocide.

It is.

I wouldn't give Trump that much credit (yet), the damage done by Reagan was far greater (disregarding social/demographic, which I mostly blame the attention industry of). But we'll see how much damage he does this time, maybe he "trumps" Reagan...

When a large majority of media conglomerates being conservative, like the Sinclaire group, it makes sharing this news with Americans very difficult.

Throw in education restrictions to keep kids from learning about these events in school, you've got a steep uphill battle to raise awareness.

Did you say Afghanistan?

Luckily, your Democrat party is like "it is beneath us us to even notice such filth".

It's not very effective though.

Trump’s behavior is not “weird”; it’s standard American politics.

It's not. I remember all the presidents since Nixon. The stuff Treason Trump did is an order of magnitude worse than anything that came before.

Even knowing everything that has come before intimately doesn't make Trumps stuff make any sense. There is a reason all the professional historians, including the ones politically on his side, are up in arms about him and his plans. This is not "business as usual", he is as bad as literally everyone that has any idea about any of this stuff says he is.

He is way too easy to corrupt and sway. He has no idea what he is doing and trusts all the wrong people because they play him so easily. He's a "useful idiot", but useful to people who want to bring America down or just make more money for themselves. He still thinks all of his plans are his own ideas, or at least that he is doing them for his own reasons, but they are just tapping into his overblown self-confidence and ego.

The reason calling him "weird" actually worked is because he knows that word... schoolyard taunts bother him so much more than accurate assessments of the consequences of his actions. If he could follow along with that logic, he wouldn't be a problem in the first place. Deplorables doesn't get to him because he has no idea what that means and refuses to learn. He has an aversion to reading. Yes, that thing that is basically 90% of the presidents job.

see worse is, surprisingly for some, worse than bad and then, this is pretty advanced now, even worse is worse than worse. its trippy.

It's a theocracy, I'm not sure why you would expect it to care that much. But also, the theory is that part of the deal was for weapons to be deliered to Iran. Iran's military had been weakened badly in the revolution, Iraq was right next door with a very large military, the new Iranian government had called for the Iraqi one to be overthrown, and the two had existing border tensions that would go on become a full scale war in less than a year. Seeking weapons to re-arm when ypu expect a fight with a strong neighbour is pretty rational if you ignore the morality of all of it.

Not really. That's generally just something anyone should expect. After all the United States China Russia etc etc etc etc have all done the same. It's why allowing a concentration of power. Or in cases like China and Russia demanding a concentration of Power are such bad things. Power corrupts.

The country that kills girls for not wearing a head covering? That's the one you're expecting to take care of it's people?

No, it's not

But I know that trying to explain it like you were 3 would be too hard for someone posting from .ml