The Helsinki Summit, anyone care to defend the Traitor in Chief?

I don’t think 40% if the country are stupid racists. There’s a larger percentage then you think there is though. In an economy in decline (real purchasing power of individuals and disposable income), people are going to find ‘the other’ to blame. So although a majority aren’t stupid racists, they let the stupid racists go unchecked because they couldn’t be bothered. That is the biggest crime though. There was this great video real from the late 40’s early 50’s where they have a guy on a soap box spewing mildly racists stuff. The main character is feeling sympathetic until he starts talking to a foreigner next to him. This guy basically tells him, don’t fall for the ‘this group of people is the problem’ argument because it grows. Once they take care of that group they move on. Because the core problem that’s generating the friction isn’t solved; they’ve just removed a group. He says at the end there will be no one left to speak up for you when they come.. it was shockingly salient for today’s times. Wish I could find it.


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It's hard for me to actually judge because I've spent so little time there in the lat 17 years.

Another upcoming book about the Trump White House:
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/bob-woodward-apos-book-details-171342107.html

A few quotes:
"Perhaps the most disturbing element of the Post’s rendition of Woodward’s book is the alarm it portrays among top national security officials about Trump’s lack of grip over world affairs. After one high-stakes meeting in January of the National Security Council over the North Korean missile threat, Mattis was so exasperated he told associates that the president had the understanding of a 10-year-old schoolchild.

Then there is the outburst attributed to John Kelly. Having called Trump an idiot, he is then said by Woodward to have lamented: “I don’t know why any of us are here. This is the worst job I’ve ever had.”

It’s all a brilliant tactic to ‘shake-up’ the world order. We shouldn’t worry, he’s acting like a moron to drain the swamp. He’s testing all these people. Once he’d found all the good ones he will push forward with the greatest big policy you’ve ever heard of, solving all our problems.

Or, he’s just an absolute moron that got elected because politics is more about marketing then substance.


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Looks like events have caught up with our conversation, now that we know Trump's top aides have decided for themselves that he's too stupid to be President and have decided to take over everything themselves!  Trump orders an assassination of a foreign leader?  No problem, we'll just ignore it and he'll forget all about it tomorrow.

Mr Texas, are you gonna offer excuses for this as well?  You just got done assuring us of the professionalism of the White House staff, only to be told out of their own mouths that they simply do whatever strikes their fancy.  No accountability, no elections necessary, most like Jared can't even get a security clearance, but it's fine, we'll let them run the executive branch.  It turns out the white house staff is even worse than we could have imagined.

What do you say Mr Texas?