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joost5

(421 posts)
13. Seth Abramson's thread ...
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 04:39 PM
Oct 2019
1/ Please don't fool yourself: Trump permitted Russia to invade Europe because he had business he wanted to do in Russia. He'll allow the Turks to commit genocide against the Kurds because of the business he has in Turkey. Anyone who has researched his life and career knows this.





2/ Every single Trump scandal, both pre- and post-election, has the same outline: Donald Trump will commit crimes and cause irreparable harm to people's lives/reputations to advance his business and/or political interests. This is what he does, and he does it EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

3/ If Trump is angry at a country, look at whether that country is treating the Trump Organization in a way that makes Donald Trump happy. If Trump is kow-towing to a country, look at how much business he's doing in that country. It's maddening how goddamn transparent the man is.

4/ To put a finer point on it: there's no evidence, literally none, that Trump has ever cared about the life, reputation, or happiness of a single person besides himself and maybe a couple members of his family. Any claim Trump cares about anything else is based on ZERO evidence.

5/ We're taught by our parents to judge people not just by their words but their deeds, and apparently that applies to every single person every single one of us meets in our lives *except* Trump. With Trump, half America pretends the evidence of its eyes and ears is meaningless.

6/ Maybe it needs to be put even more clearly: Trump would hire a guy to drive a monster truck over your youngest child for 10 million dollars, and that's taking into account that the man is worth at *least* 30 million already (which is just 10 billion less than he claims he is).

7/ Believing in the goodness of Donald Trump is like believing in Bigfoot, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, chemtrails, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, or that Elvis is living in a mobile home in Tuscaloosa. You are a *child* if you buy into it; you are being *humiliated*.

Also relevant:

Russia is preparing a military offensive against Ukraine. Substantial Russian armed forces are staged around Homel in Belarus and around Voronezh and Rostov in Russia.

Putin told his asset Trump to cancel Open Skies, depriving the US of intelligence about #RussiaInvadedUkraine





Things are going to get uglier.

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Trump is being more CIA than the CIA. Baitball Blogger Oct 2019 #1
" Who will ever again trust us when we say "We've got your back"? riversedge Oct 2019 #2
I would be fine if he had only ruined HIS personal "reputation", such as it is. He has, Atticus Oct 2019 #3
This. BadgerMom Oct 2019 #9
Trump is repsonsible because the buck stops on the president's desk and he could stop it, but ... Odoreida Oct 2019 #4
The Kurds should have learned from history... regnaD kciN Oct 2019 #7
So much I have to learn. TidalWave46 Oct 2019 #5
I still recall the TIME cover with gassed Kurds.... ProudMNDemocrat Oct 2019 #6
This is a gimme for Erdogan, Assad and Putin. paleotn Oct 2019 #11
Paybacks are going to be a bitch... czarjak Oct 2019 #8
What if Jesus Christ was a Kurd? erlewyne Oct 2019 #10
Salah ad-Din or Saladin was a Kurd. paleotn Oct 2019 #12
Seth Abramson's thread ... joost5 Oct 2019 #13
Why is trump doing this? duforsure Oct 2019 #14
Atticus, understand this: no one here needs your explanations Hortensis Oct 2019 #15
I regret that you feel my posts are not worthwhile. I genuinely don't see how you Atticus Oct 2019 #16
Your posts can be worthwhile when your anger is properly directed. Hortensis Oct 2019 #18
I have delayed responding in order to reread and consider, but now I must ask: Atticus Oct 2019 #19
And the icing on Don's cake is the release of thousands of ISIS fighters. Vinca Oct 2019 #17
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