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FirebrandRoaring  ·  2314 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: U.S. State Department has been gutted, with no end in sight

Thank you for listing all of that. I had no idea.

Maybe it's the vividity of the image, but Trump still seems like a much worse president. "Mexico sends its rapists, and some... I assume are good people". At least Bush had a righteous guise for his Middle East agenda. (not saying he was right or good because of that: his shit smells marginally better than the other guy's, but it's still shit)





johnnyFive  ·  2314 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Trump is basically Bush 2.0: he's the culmination of the psychotic one-upsmanship that has been the GOP strategy for a couple of decades. The problem when you rely on riling people up to get elected is that you have to keep upping your game, and continue to make people angrier than they were last time around.

Come the 2016 presidential election, the outrage fission reaction got away from them.