There is no upside to electing Trump, either domestically or abroad. He's obviously dedicated to autocracy over democracy given his talk of perpetual presidential immunity and dismantling checks and balances. Regarding international relations: I'm convinced dictators like Putin and Kim Jong Un (North Korea) love him because he's so easy to play like a fiddle. Just appeal to his ego and he's yours.
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Trumps ideas are not his own. He is parroting putin., kim and who knows who else. They love trump because he owes them more money than he could ever pay back (assuming he paid his debts).
Pay attention and you can tell when he is talking from his own meth addled brain or when he has a script to stick to.
If trump gets elected, this country is over (as we know it) we just won't know it yet. If trump wins, the maggats will find a way to keep him or his vp in office regardless of who wins the next election. If he wins again, it is the first step towards us having our very own dictator and nothing short of a civil war will remedy it.
Trumps ideas are not his own. He is parroting putin., kim and who knows who else.
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Oprah Winfrey!
You think the orange mussolini is parroting Oprah?
Do they really like him though? Or do they just find him a useful idiot while also agreeing with everyone else that he’s a delusional asshole?
It's hard to tell for sure, but Kim Jong Un's letters to Donald Trump read like something out of a Hallmark romance movie.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Putin despised, and feared, his most personally conspicuous and politically dangerous opponent, and for over a decade had been tightening the noose around Navalny’s neck.
Donald Trump recently reiterated that if he wins a second presidential term, he will either abandon NATO or relegate it to an alliance of relative unimportance.
Given what the former president attempted the last time – from the end of November 2020 until Jan. 6, 2021, he escalated his efforts to overturn the presidential election, asking the governor of Georgia to call a special legislative session; veritably begging state officials to “find” votes; and shamelessly pressuring Vice President Mike Pence to reject electors — we can count on his doing as much or more to upend unfavorable electoral results.
The West, for example, did nothing as he bombed Chechnya’s capital city, Grozny, to smithereens in 2000, and nothing again as he imposed his will, militarily, on the independent state of Georgia in 2008.
If the United States fails to provide strong support to Ukraine during the third year of its war against Russia, and if the American people don’t vote decisively against Trump winning a second presidential term, it will all but guarantee a rather bleak future.
Barbara Kellerman is a fellow at the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School, where she was previously founding executive director.
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