No, he's not actively trying to destroy the US. His actions are meant to enrich himself. To a sociopath such as he the destruction of an entire nation is of no consequence as long as the money keeps coming to him.
The US is being destroyed by his apathy, not malice.
Democrats are too dumb to play back his words and remind people we're supposed to be in a golden age.
JFC, what more do you think the Democrats could do? There was nothing but "Orange Man will destroy this country" from them before the election if anyone would have fucking listened.
Forty-plus years of Fox News gaslighting, FUD, moral panics, and outright lies means that there is a large group of people who will consistently vote against their own interests in the name of "owning the libs". Constant drumbeat of "libruls bad" and thorough sanewashing of orange man and the GOP's policies made these people deaf to what the Democrats were saying. Maybe the pain they're feeling from getting screwed over can make them hear again.
He's been doing drastic shit for two years and it's not improved things for anyone except billionaires.
It all makes perfect sense when you understand one thing: he's doing it for himself. The billionaires just happen to benefit from those same policies too.
Suspected Iranian attackers targeted water and wastewater facilities across at least a dozen states in July
Code for, "we don't know who it was, but calling them a state actor will distract from our poor security."
They don't? The orange god emperor said it was MN Governor Walz that did it. He couldn't *possibly* be a lying sack of shit and completely wrong?!?
Americans should remove Trump instead of coming with excuses
There are a couple of processes that are for removing a POTUS, all of them require Congress' cooperation. Both House and Senate are controlled by the GOP, and they will do nothing. Should the Democrats win the House in the midterms they may impeach him again, but for the Senate to convict requires 2/3 of Senators (67) to vote to remove him. That would either require some GOP Senators to vote to convict, or for the extremely unlikely event that the Democrats manage to have that 2/3rd majority (Dems would need to win all the seats up for re-election this year). The 25th Amendment also has a process, but that would need to be started by VPOTUS Vance. Congress would also have to cooperate there.
Not going to happen. There is only one way the orange guy leaves office early.
Oh yeah btw, ICE has been capturing illegal immigrants that way by the thousands. You don't think they could do that to other "undesirables" when they run out of illegals?
They've been sweeping up legal immigrants as well as citizens who look "wrong". That time has already come.
You may wish to Have a Spacesuit, for you Will Travel.
and what's worse is that for the case of the US we chose this bullshit.
"We" didn't choose any of this; I voted for the orange guy's opponent. She wasn't my first choice, but virtually anyone would have been better than the current one.
And you must be a RWNJ to think that the standard response of a "lefty" would be violent crime. Project much?
Right-leaning hoi polloi imagined themselves stumbling upon such a goose as God's reward for hard work and moral rectitude. Left-leaning hoi polloi (and "intelligen"tsia) imagined a tophat-wearing capitalist hoarding for himself the goose that rightfully belonged to ThePeople(TM).
Uh-huh. And which imagining has actually come true? I'm ignoring the unnecessary left vs. right nonsense as the drivel it is. How's that "hard work and moral rectitude" working out for the common man? Are you claiming that we don't currently have capitalists hoarding said golden goose?
"Left vs. Right" is a distraction from the actual problem: Wealthy vs. Non-wealthy. The sooner the "hoi polloi" understand that the better off we will be.
There are a lot of kids in crisis, and the root cause is not entirely the adults they're growing up with.
Perhaps, but it most certainly is the largest cause. They either have helicopter parents who shield their little baby from the big bad world, or ones on the opposite side of the scale that don't give a shit about the kid, which forces the kid to have to deal with the big bad world before they have the maturity to handle it. Both result in a maladjusted adult child.
My own thesis is that these children have become adults, while remaining children. Stunted emotional growth.
This... If your child makes it to adulthood before learning how to be an adult, you have failed as a parent. Coddling them does them a disservice.
If they aren't given responsibilities when young they won't develop skills needed for being a productive member of society. Failing to make sure they learn the basics of math, reading, and other fundamentals for navigating the real world is one of the worst things you can do to a child.
Keeping them "shielded" is the same as keeping them ignorant, and nothing good comes of that.
In some other countries, this kind of behavior from the head of state would spark a wave of revolutionary sentiment.
In the U.S., everything goes through without much of a hitch. That's also alarming.
That is because the one entity that could put a stop to it (Congress) is declining to do anything about it due to the GOP's current control of it and their undying fealty to the orange god-emperor. If the Democrats take control after the midterms (which is looking very likely) that will change - bigly.
Oh dear, you have detected my sarcasm!
I am going to invoke Poe's Law here.
Trump is the most sociopathic president we've had. Nothing is going to get through the impenetrable wall of willful ignorance.
FTFY
The orange guy is not a socialist. He is at best a crony capitalist, and at worst a fascist.
a new generation of AI capable of behaving in unexpected ways.
This software wasn't wrtten; it was trained. It's a black box--no one can possibly know how it works. Of course it is capable of behaving in unexpected ways.
And here we are in a headlong rush to unleash these black boxes on the world. The utter insanity of this makes me weep for the future.
"Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges" is much nearer the truth. -- Alfred North Whitehead
