When Trump Hits the Fanbase
When Trump Hits the FanbaseShit happens, right? And that's Trump's specialty, in spite of claiming that it was Biden that turned to shit everything he touched. In fact, if there is any proof that democracy in America has long ceased to work in any semblance, then it could be said in one word—Trump.By default now, anything that Trump crows out is a falsehood. For example, today he said he knew nothing about America and Israel's strike on Iran's natural gas fields. Of course, a two percent chance of Trump speaking the truth might happen, but that isn't comforting at all; it only shows that the government is being run by who-knows-who.And Iran said it would hit back at countries round about that are tools of American interests, bases, or Israel's. And Iran did. And so Trump said that, although he didn't authorize the attack, if Iran did anything else, he would destroy the gas fields. Under this kind of threat, Iran long understands that it will get hit anyway and so is not fazed by Trump's commands.And so what a humiliating chapter, maybe one of the last, can that possibly be true for American history, as how can a country survive long with such depth of bad faith, deception, and corruption? Mountains of debt, bad faith, and the country led along by the nose for outside interests. And what have all these wars in the Middle East and Arab 'springs' done for the citizens of America? Nothing good. The small elite in NY has captured an ever bigger slice of the national income, the middle class continues to disintegrate, and the rest are left to fend for themselves somehow. For someone who has been out of country and visits sometimes, I am shocked at how nothing has changed in any way since the 1970s, except for massive deindustrialization.And now again, America is at an extreme crisis point without seeming to own it. As Abraham Lincoln spoke, "...testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. " Yes, can America endure as it is now, a nation so conceived, without a foundation of culture, a mishmash of nations that has been both its strongest strength and strongest weakness? Parliamentarians in the European Parliament could not point on a map where the country of Iran was last week, and I'm afraid a vast majority of Americans might not know Lincoln's speech and maybe even who he is.
When Trump Hits the FanbaseShit happens, right? And that's Trump's specialty, in spite of claiming that it was Biden that turned to shit everything he touched. In fact, if there is any proof that democracy in America has long ceased to work in any semblance, then it could be said in one word—Trump.By default now, anything that Trump crows out is a falsehood. For example, today he said he knew nothing about America and Israel's strike on Iran's natural gas fields. Of course, a two percent chance of Trump speaking the truth might happen, but that isn't comforting at all; it only shows that the government is being run by who-knows-who.And Iran said it would hit back at countries round about that are tools of American interests, bases, or Israel's. And Iran did. And so Trump said that, although he didn't authorize the attack, if Iran did anything else, he would destroy the gas fields. Under this kind of threat, Iran long understands that it will get hit anyway and so is not fazed by Trump's commands.And so what a humiliating chapter, maybe one of the last, can that possibly be true for American history, as how can a country survive long with such depth of bad faith, deception, and corruption? Mountains of debt, bad faith, and the country led along by the nose for outside interests. And what have all these wars in the Middle East and Arab 'springs' done for the citizens of America? Nothing good. The small elite in NY has captured an ever bigger slice of the national income, the middle class continues to disintegrate, and the rest are left to fend for themselves somehow. For someone who has been out of country and visits sometimes, I am shocked at how nothing has changed in any way since the 1970s, except for massive deindustrialization.And now again, America is at an extreme crisis point without seeming to own it. As Abraham Lincoln spoke, "...testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. " Yes, can America endure as it is now, a nation so conceived, without a foundation of culture, a mishmash of nations that has been both its strongest strength and strongest weakness? Parliamentarians in the European Parliament could not point on a map where the country of Iran was last week, and I'm afraid a vast majority of Americans might not know Lincoln's speech and maybe even who he is.