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I see you either haven't read any of the posts here, or didn't watch the video.

@BTGBullseye
The topics I've seen people worry the most over when talking about the next four years since the election are LGBT+ rights, global warming, corporate power and democratic backsliding. Only the first of those is mentioned in any detail by the woman in the insufferable gloatfest of a video you posted, and it’s just to make clear that she’s fully on board and happy about transgender Americans being discriminated against and deprived of access to medical care (which makes the I hope one day you will join us sentiment expressed at the end sound laughably hollow; maybe I’ll consider joining you when you stop treating me like a criminal for wanting to use a public bathroom). Well, I guess there’s also some vague jabbering about protecting the common man from the corrupt corporate elites, and if a mere glance at the number of corporate lobbyists and captains of industry in Trump’s first cabinet wasn't enough to dispel that myth, then I’m sure she still believes it now even after the richest man on earth literally bought himself a government position, the freeze on all federal funding, the attempted reversal of civil rights legislation, the crackdown on workers rights and legal barriers on corporate power, the quid pro quo with big tech companies, the crypto scams etc.

 

There’s a couple of points made here that were already demonstrably bullshit by the time this video was made, from her lies about abortion (people getting arrested for miscarrying or treating patients who miscarry is a staple of any country with draconian abortion laws, and Americans have in fact been prosecuted due to miscarriages, if not for the miscarriage itself being “suspicious” then on charges like child abuse or mishandling of a corpse. Also lawmakers in red states are in fact trying to make it possible to sue people for getting an abortion in a different state) to RFK Jr. joining Trump in order to better protect Americans against big pharma (RFK Jr. made an offer to both parties to suspend his campaign in exchange for a cabinet position and Trump was the one who followed up on it because they are both unprincipled pieces of narcissistic shit, but hey, now that he’s in there I’m sure he’ll at least take on big pharma and make sure Americans can afford medicine again… oh wait), but the thing that I personally find the most baffling is her point about America projecting its power and no longer supposedly being on the brink of war. Looking past the utterly absurd and grotesque threats of military force and annexation that the “candidate of peace” has since his election dished out against other countries that aren’t remotely a threat to the US, Trump is an absolute fucking pushover on the international stage. As we speak, Ukraine is embroiled in a horrendous fight for survival against an imperialistic and genocidal foe while Biden’s administration only supplied them with the bare minimum to stay afloat: the perfect time if there ever was one for a hard-ass Republican president to step in, arm America’s democratic European ally to the teeth and show those Russkies who’s boss. What have Trump and his cohorts done instead? Posit that Biden has done too much for Ukraine and make that a partisan issue, and indicate that they’ll force Ukraine to the negotiating table to give up half of its land and kneecap its army and still not allow them into NATO afterwards. What message does that send? Best case scenario, a people fighting against foreign invasion and oppression has been completely abandoned by the land of the free, home of the brave; worst case scenario, every dictator around the world with delusions of grandeur will now feel emboldened to put their own irredentist dreams into practice knowing America will not step in. The world is so much more dangerous and bellicose now that Trump is in power and it legitimately scares me to live in it.

 

tl;dr Your video did not convince me that the president is not the embodiment of everything that could possibly be rotten and corrupt about a human being, sorry

Mira

Mira

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I see you either haven't read any of the posts here, or didn't watch the video.

@BTGBullseye
The topics I've seen people worry the most over when talking about the next four years since the election are LGBT+ rights, global warming, corporate power and democratic backsliding. Only the first of those is mentioned in any detail by the woman in the insufferable gloatfest of a video you posted, and it’s just to make clear that she’s fully on board and happy about transgender Americans being discriminated against and deprived of access to medical care (which makes the I hope one day you will join us sentiment expressed at the end sound laughably hollow; maybe I’ll consider joining you when you stop treating me like a criminal for wanting to use a public bathroom). Well, I guess there’s also some vague jabbering about protecting the common man from the corrupt corporate elites, and if a mere glance at the number of corporate lobbyists and captains of industry in Trump’s first cabinet wasn't enough to dispel that myth, then I’m sure she still believes it now even after the richest man on earth literally bought himself a government position, the freeze on all federal funding, the attempted reversal of civil rights legislation, the crackdown on workers rights and legal barriers on corporate power, the quid pro quo with big tech companies, the crypto scams etc.

 

There’s a couple of points made here that were already demonstrably bullshit by the time this video was made, from her lies about abortion (people getting arrested for miscarrying or treating patients who miscarry is a staple of any country with draconian abortion laws, and Americans have in fact been prosecuted due to miscarriages, if not for the miscarriage itself being “suspicious” then on charges like child abuse or mishandling of a corpse. Also lawmakers in red states are in fact trying to make it possible to sue people for getting an abortion in a different state) to RFK Jr. joining Trump in order to better protect Americans against big pharma (RFK Jr. made an offer to both parties to suspend his campaign in exchange for a cabinet position and Trump was the one who followed up on it because they are both unprincipled pieces of narcissistic shit, but hey, now that he’s in there I’m sure he’ll at least take on big pharma and make sure Americans can afford medicine again… oh wait), but the thing that I personally find the most baffling is her point about America projecting its power and no longer supposedly being on the brink of war. Looking past the utterly absurd and grotesque threats of military force and annexation that the “candidate of peace” has since his election dished out against other countries that aren’t remotely a threat to the US, Trump is an absolute fucking pushover on the international stage. As we speak, Ukraine is embroiled in a brutish fight for survival against an imperialistic and genocidal foe while Biden’s administration only supplied them with the bare minimum to stay afloat: the perfect time if there ever was one for a hard-ass Republican president to step in, arm America’s democratic European ally to the teeth and show those Russkies who’s boss. What have Trump and his cohorts done instead? Posit that Biden has done too much for Ukraine and make that a partisan issue, and indicate that they’ll force Ukraine to the negotiating table to give up half of its land and kneecap its army and still not allow them into NATO afterwards. What message does that send? Best case scenario, a people fighting against foreign invasion and oppression has been completely abandoned by the land of the free, home of the brave; worst case scenario, every dictator around the world with delusions of grandeur will now feel emboldened to put their own irredentist dreams into practice knowing America will not step in. The world is so much more dangerous and bellicose now that Trump is in power and it legitimately scares me to live in it.

 

tl;dr Your video did not convince me that the president is not the embodiment of everything that could possibly be rotten and corrupt about a human being, sorry

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