The Fight Against Fascists (I Can't Believe This Exists)

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(06-17-2021, 02:29 PM)Mickeypoo Wrote: The only reason we have supposed "damage" with our allies is because they were being held accountable and people don't like to be held accountable.  Does your wife come in and fix the "damage" you did to relations with your child because you held them accountable and now they think you are a big "orange" meanie pants?

Putting the slight hint of condescendence towards said allies aside, this needs some correction. The relationship is not damaged because Trump mentioned defense budgets or held us accountable. Obama basically did the same thing. It was damaged because Trump endorses dictators and MBS and Putin and embarrassed his own country in Helsinki, denies Putin's election meddling (he pulls this shit all over Europe too), falls in love with North Korea's brutal dictator, left the climate accord (accompanied by some real dumb assumptions about it and the other countries that signed it), left the Kurds hanging, tore up the Iran deal without cause, tried to blackmail Ukraine and toying with their defenses against Russia in the process, attacked core democratic values like freedom of the press, toyed with not signing NATO Article 5, offended other leaders on twitter, oh and of course he was apparently egomaniac and anti-democratic and pretty much everyone also considered him to be a huge buffoon.

And now, of course, your allies don't trust you any longer. And rightfully so, you tear up valid unbreached contracts after all, so why reach any kind of agreement with the USA in the first place. In the grand picture, this GOP of yours just would have to commit to Sam the Village Idiot as presidential candidate, and after three election cycles at most it would be president Sam the Village Idiot. Now sure, in reality they will replace a losing candidate, but they could only exchange one fascist through another fascist and within 12 years you're guaranteed to have a fascist president that might do anything. And that's mighty scary.