It also won’t occur to him that just because something happened in a different country, doesn’t mean we have to accept it here. We have a Constitution, that’s the rule book, not some nation on the other side of the world.

It boggles my mind that there are still Americans who cling to legalism as some kind of saviour, even after all the months of proof that it is absolutely no barrier to the fascists doing exactly what they want.

Ironically enough that was also the exact moment when the terrorists won the War on Terror.

Of course. It is a classic.

Yeah, as long as wormhead is in charge it is all of them.

Yeah, the media has been absolutely hopeless about this. Sanewashing and legitimising these two criminals, and treating this as if it was something actually legit.

No it isn’t. These “negotiations” are completely irrelevant, and are just two criminals colluding. They should both be arrested on the spot.

And also Trump is a Russian asset.

Your comment presupposes that there will be some kind of back to normal in 50 years, which is unfortunately not going to be the case. Climate change accelerates, economic and political crisisl follows, and these kinds of populist movements are going to thrive in that kind of environment.

Climate change will not have stopped in 50 years, on the contrary.

Racism and other kinds of bigotry mostly.

Blatant election tampering erodes confidence in democracy? Who could have seen that development?

Trump isn’t doing this alone. He can only do this with the blessing of the Republicans and their oligarch masters. And they are all making unimaginable fortunes from doing it, which seems to me to be more of an incentive for them doing it.

And I highly doubt they even realise it. They are fucking idiots after all.

Put it in the pile of big deals.

There was a very very small window that America wasn’t a joke, and it ended like 80 years ago.

What was so fantastic about the US 80 years ago?

I don’t know what any of that that means, but I was paraphrasing Sartre:

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”

By “anti-Semites” Sartre is of course referring to the Nazis and their sympathisers (it was written in 1944).

If not for double standards, Republicans would have no standards at all.

The hypocrisy is baked into their ideology. They don’t need to be consistent, it is all about “winning” to them. Words mean nothing, except as a method to “win”.

Ah, the infamous two weeks deadline. The same two weeks he would eradicate ISIS, fix American healthcare, create peace in the Middle East etc. etc.

Which means in two weeks he will never mention it again and act like he never said it.

No they aren’t. The Trump voterbase has already moved on, which is the only chunk of the population they care about. The media and the rest of the population can talk about Epstein all they want, it doesn’t matter in the slightest to them.

And a position in his administration.

An American who doesn’t understand the concept of per capita. That is certainly new. /s