Trumpism is destroying the United States

[UCmeNdc]

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[UCmeNdc]

1. Just another example....

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[joetheman]

2. They weren't the only ones.

[uponit7771]

3. K&R, Cause no on is making them pay a sufficient price yet

[DENVERPOPS]

4. I am not trying to rain on anyone's parade but

It's March 2021. Tens of Millions of people across the United States have known this since March of 2017..........

[Maine Abu El Banat]

5. I would like to think of trumpism

As a fad not a movement. I hope I am right!

[Celerity]

6. a large part is about bringing on the race war

Donald Trump 'wants to start a race war' says his former adviser

https://www.indy100.com/news/trump-racist-tweets-omarosa-msnbc-interview-aoc-race-war-9014311

[Lonestarblue]

7. I think Biden and Democrats need to start talking about the kind of country we want.

Do you want your children and grandchildren to grow up in a country where they have opportunities for a good education and good jobs? Or do you want them to grow up consumed by hate and anger toward anyone who doesn’t look like them? Do you want them to be part of hate groups who are motivated to kill because of their hate and anger?

Do you want to nurture your grievances, real or imagined, or do you want to be a part of making this country strong again? Strong enough to hold on to our role as the world leader we have been for decades. Strong enough to research, innovate, and embrace the technology that helps keep us a world leader. Strong enough to take care of our citizens with good healthcare, good education, and good jobs. Strong enough to make the tough choices that make our country better like addressing climate change and enormous income inequality.

Trumpism and Republican policies are anger, hatred, and violence. Democratic policies are building for a better life. Which do you want for your children?

[ariadne0614]

10. +1

Well said, but you might want to delete the sentence fragment at the end of your second last paragraph.

[Lonestarblue]

11. Thanks! Not enough coffee yet for good proofreading!

[ariadne0614]

12. I know the feeling. Irish Breakfast tea is my antidote for morning brain fog. n/t

[OldBaldy1701E]

8. Greed and arrogance

Are destroying the United States. Trump is just a figurehead. I wish we would stop using the latest example to try and explain the entire problem. Trump and his ilk are just the most recent symptom. They are not the cause and they never were.

[Cosmocat]

9. Conservatism is destroying the United States

45 was the spawn of it, it lets the GOP/Republican party off the hook to assign blame on the jackass. He is a symptom, not the cause.

[Kid Berwyn]

13. For an education, Craig UNGER.

BOOK REVIEW: Craig Unger’s ‘American Kompromat’

'The guy is not a complicated cookie, his most important characteristics being low intellect coupled with hyperinflated vanity. This combination makes him a dream for an experienced recruiter.’

BY MICKEY FRIEDMAN
POSTED ON MARCH 4, 2021

American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery
Craig Unger
Copyright © 2021 Craig Unger
Penguin Random House LLC

The very best of mysteries are just that: intricate, puzzling conundrums often unknowable until the very end. If only real life were so neat and tidy. We’ve all been prisoners in a political mystery these last many years, and I for one was hoping for that final, liberating aha! When we discovered exactly what “kompromat” Vladimir Putin has on the former president, the leverage that explains Donald Trump’s unending willingness to compromise our security and collaborate. I was hoping Craig Unger had that final indisputable piece to our jigsaw puzzle. But alas …

Still, Unger tries his very best, taking us down mostly less traveled, all too often dark roads to accumulate some worthy clues. And, while there is still work to be done, he does explain how the KGB cultivated Donald Trump and, as promised, offers those related tales of sex, greed, power and treachery. For these reasons alone, “American Kompromat” is well worth your time.

Now, for some editorial reason I don’t quite understand, Unger puts this knock-your-socks-off summary at the very end of Chapter One: “My book will show how kompromat works by examining Jeffrey Epstein’s pedophile sex-trafficking operation, where he got his money from, his links to Israeli intelligence and to Robert Maxwell, Ghislaine Maxwell’s father, who worked so closely with the KGB. Similarly, it will look into how Russian intelligence penetrated Epstein’s operation and placed within it Russian nationals who infiltrated the highest level of Silicon Valley and America’s tech sector as part of Vladimir Putin’s assault on America.

“It will delve into Epstein’s fifteen-year friendship with Donald Trump, the women with whom they consorted, and how their friendship ended, Epstein’s ties to the super pimps whose modeling agencies supplied girls for Russian oligarchs — and kompromat for Russian intelligence.

“It will show how William Barr, during his first term as attorney general, under George H.W. Bush, opened the door, inadvertently perhaps, to Russian espionage activities in 1991. And it will show how nearly thirty years later, Barr and his associates in the new Catholic right, some of whom have ties to Opus Dei, came to play such a huge role in both the Department of Justice and the Supreme Court, and how Barr, as Trump’s attorney general, helped undermine the rule of law.”

Continues...

https://theberkshireedge.com/book-review-craig-ungers-american-kompromat/