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Old 07-19-2020, 08:57 AM   #14
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Already started. Trump sent Storm Troopers into Portland to attack peaceful George Floyd demonstrators. In black unmarked vehicles. Without any identification. Whose authority is unknown even to Oregon State and Local law enforcement.

There was always little difference between the psychology of Trump and other famous, notorious despots. Trump always harms and destroys anyone only to advance himself. His supporters even say why. They want to wreck shit. What they mean is they even want war with China and to continue harm to all American allies. Trump is even throwing the Afghan Government under the bus (much like Henry Kissinger did to the S Vietnamese government) by trying to negotiate a similar surrender in Afghanistan.

From The Economist of 18 Jul 2020 - an obvious example of who Trump is:
Quote:
Though a fan of Confederate monuments, Donald Trump could not have taken down Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, a living memorial to the rebel South and the president’s first attorney-general, more ruthlessly. This week the Republican veteran named after two Confederate heroes (Jefferson Davis and General P.G.T. Beauregard) suffered his first electoral defeat, in a primary for the Alabama Senate seat he occupied for 20 years. When he last defended it, in 2014, Mr Sessions won an uncontested race with 97% of the vote. But against a Trump-backed rival—a former college-football coach and political debutant, Tommy Tuberville, who seemed unsure of most issues—he was trounced.

Even after so many illustrations of the president’s grip on Republican voters, it was astonishing to see Mr Sessions’s career-long claim on Alabaman affections blown away in this fashion. It was equally remarkable, even after so many displays of Mr Trump’s vindictiveness, to see him end his former aide’s career so cruelly. No Republican played a bigger part in Mr Trump’s rise than Mr Sessions. No one did more to try to make Trumpism meaningful. ...

If Mr Sessions were a slightly more sympathetic figure, his downfall would be tragic. Instead it mainly points to Mr Trump’s abandonment of much of the populist platform he was ostensibly elected on. While he persists with protectionism—an important exception—he has not restored manufacturing jobs, built infrastructure including a border wall, or changed America’s immigration regime in any way that a Democratic administration could not change back. He has no heavy-hitters working on those issues. Mr Miller, a writer of dystopian speeches, is the last Bannonite standing. Mr Sessions’s latest successor, William Barr, though not opposed to tough policing and border policies, spends more of his time protecting the president and his criminal cronies, in precisely the way Mr Sessions refused to.

No regard for Beauregard
A few prominent conservative populists are still struggling to make Trumpism mean something more than presidential whim—led by the Fox News presenter Tucker Carlson and a handful of senators, including Josh Hawley and Marco Rubio. But none, for obvious reasons, is eager to enter the administration, which makes them much less influential than Mr Sessions and Mr Bannon were. The result, less than four months from the election, is that Mr Trump appears to have no policy agenda of any kind for a second term. Trumpism, as Mr Sessions must now suspect, as he slopes back to his church and grandchildren, appears to mean little more than Mr Trump. Actually, he must have suspected that all along.
Could they be any more blunt? Only those easily brainwashed did not see that even four years ago. Trump's 30 second attention was clearly defined by his closest advisers.

Air craft carriers USS Theodore Roosevelt, USS Nimitz and USS Ronald Reagan have been deployed to China to increase war tensions now that more Americans are finally admitting how corrupt Trump has been his entire life.
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