What your reaction betrays is your and the average American's inability to have a conversation with people you don't agree with. If the US is that hopeless that you can't even muster the effort to engage fellow citizens you're better of moving to Mexico. — Benkei
And yet, you're fine with Trump doing exactly that with regard to Biden.It appears all you’ve done is assumed motives, without evidence. — NOS4A2
Sorry, I personally find it morally abhorrent to work with a nascent Nazi party. — Maw
As I'm sure you're well aware, I can and have had multiple conversations with people I've disagreed with, on this very forum and elsewhere, on political topics such as immigration, abortion, wealth inequality, healthcare etc., but that's ultimately irrelevant when faced with the fact that a political party has tied itself, Gordian-like, to morally untenable positions regarding immigration, healthcare, abortion, and attitudes towards the rich and the poor. There is is no "common ground" no "middle position" to adjudicate with people who are content to have their immigrant neighbors ripped from their families and sent to strange countries to die, have children separated, likely indefinitely, from their parents and placed in inhumane conditions. There is no "middle ground" to be found with people who believe that abortion should be banned or severely restricted, or that it is morally acceptable that people can go bankrupt from healthcare or simply die because of an inability to pay for it. And it's certainly not acceptable to cordially engage with a fellow citizen who is part of a party that has a 91% approval rating for a man that, it has recently been discovered, inquired if the US could "shoot migrants in the legs" to deter them from entering the states.
Of course, the GOP has engaging in power politics for decades - increasingly so in the last ten years - and yet it's always the Left or liberals that are admonished for not reaching across the aisle, as if that's a winning strategy in these increasingly polarize ideological times. Sorry, I personally find it morally abhorrent to work with a nascent Nazi party. — Maw
I've found it terrifying how much trump reminds me of Hitler. — uncanni
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The treatment of science by the Trump administration has hit a “crisis point” where research findings are manipulated for political gain, special interests are given improper influence and scientists are targeted for ideological reasons, a nonpartisan taskforce of former government officials has warned.
Safeguards meant to ensure that government research is objective and fully available to the public have been “steadily weakening” under recent administrations and are now at a nadir under Trump, according to a report released on Thursday by the National Task Force on Rule of Law and Democracy.
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Nice. You've reduced the identity of about half of the population to a few social stances and declared you'll never talk to them. How's that working out for you? — Benkei
... stop pathologizing Trump... — StreetlightX
Trump is a perfectly normal American person. — StreetlightX
Rather than getting into the question of what is normal in its various senses I think it is more productive to focus on what is, as a minimum, acceptable behavior for the president.
The character of a person should be given much consideration when deciding who would be a suitable president. When expediency is prized and character ignored we end up with someone like Trump. When public spiritedness is regarded as a quaint notion that plays no part in political realities we end up with someone who is avaricious, self-serving, and vindictive, we end up — Fooloso4
'Character' is another distraction made for dupes. Consider instead giving a shit about — StreetlightX
Consider instead the roughly 85 various policy rollbacks on environmental protections undertaken by his administration so far, including the clean water protections just under a month ago. Consider instead the appointment of the roughly 150 lifetime tenure judges that will transform the US judiciary in unfathomable ways. Or consider the relaxation of the Johnston amendments that enabled Churches to play far bigger roles in political life than they could before. Or the relaxation of the Dodd-Frank regulations put in place to stop another financial crisis. Or the concentration camps. And a thousand other things. By comparison, I couldn't give a fuck about Trump's character, and neither should anyone else. — StreetlightX
It is his character that determines what he does. — Fooloso4
And yet, you're fine with Trump doing exactly that with regard to Biden.
Regarding Trump's offenses, we also have the whistleblower report, which provides the damning context. This is certainly not proof, but it is more than adequate cause to investigate further.
Don't care about any of this, at all, in the slightest. 'Character' is another distraction made for dupes. — StreetlightX
Trump is a perfectly normal American person.
To snobs, he is an embarrassment to the world. When he spoke at the UN a while back and those present let out a laugh, we were told “the world is laughing at Trump”, as if the political elite in the UN general assembly, some of whom are tinpot dictators, represented the world. It was routine snobbery. — NOS4A2
Character? My God no wonder the world is burning. — StreetlightX
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