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Why is Trump able to do whatever the fuck he wants?
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This will get buried but he isn't. What he is doing is everything he can to appear that way. Think about it. He carefully picked a country whose leader no one would cry over if he kidnapped him. It was a quick strike with a few helicopters. The rest is just posturing. This is a shell of a man desperate for people to stop laughing at him. In a wider sense Republicans can't seem to get people to love them so they can only get their rocks off by trying to scare the most amount of people possible. Let's get back to getting those Epstein files released and not being distracted.
I am sorry but I can't understand this. What he has done is a blatant act of war. This is not against you, @Novamdomum it's a reaction to the fact that I am seeing a LOT of governments worldwide taking this position that Maduro is a dictator, so Trump did a good (or at least not too bad) thing. But that's not a great argument.
First of all, Trump is not even close to being one of those superheroes acting selflessly for the good of humankind. If I read that there are a couple of gangs on my street fighting and killing each other, my first thought is not, 'Ha, good, they are shooting other bad guys.' It’s, 'Shit, I’m in the middle of a fucking gang war in my neighborhood!'.
If it turns out that one of the gangs is led by my unsuspectable neighbor and friend, I'm not going to be reassured at all. In fact I'm going to think that I trusted this guy with a spare key to my house for emergency and panic even more. Let alone if said neighbor and (former) friend starts openly saying he will actually need to annex my porch for his own security reasons.
And I'm not afraid of Trump because he's projecting power, but because he's exerting it through the most powerful weapons in the world at his own whim and everyone seems to be like meh, he's just acting up to distract us from the fact that he's a pedophile by.... becoming a war criminal? This is like a street thug trying to distract the judge by slitting his own lawyer's throat during his trial.
You're acting like the kidnapping of a foreign leader is the first illegal thing that he's done