Literally two of the same arguments used to get the US mired in Iraq and Afghanistan, but even if this instance includes no cash payouts, that doesn’t mean it isn’t a cost to US taxpayers made in neglect of our own people. Further, hundreds of billions in cash have been spent on the war in Ukraine and our US-sponsored genocide in Palestine.

Forgive me if I’m not willing to digest them this time around. This nonsense and the neglect of our people here are why my eighty-year old parents are driving for DoorDash.

Totally, man.

There’s absolutely zero meaning to making that salute and invoking that iconography in a public setting.

/s

He’s not getting arrested for ‘wrongthink’.

He was arrested for being a terrorist.

Good.

It was a mistake letting Nazis and others practice their terrorist views in public. Freedom of expression is not and never should be an absolute right.

This comment demonstrates that you, inexplicably, don’t see our unprecedented and planetwide warmongering as part of said ‘capitalist wealth hoarding’.

That is an interesting position.

Thank you for your comment.

This is, to me, the severe irony of Trump as a president. All of the good things he does seem to be for the wrong reasons, and pulling back on our foreign aid will be one of them.

Personally, I never supported the US becoming involved in Ukraine. If we lived in a time when Americans weren’t struggling to pay for groceries or forced to ration life-saving meds, I might feel differently, but right now, we shouldn’t be sending a single cent to any foreign wars. We should be laser-focused on our own people’s suffering until the standard of living in this country resembles the first-world country we’re supposed to be.

You’re not wrong.

The difference is their brain-damaged guy behaved as he always does, where Biden clearly did not.

I’m not judging you. (And I should have made that more clear. I apologize.)

I’m judging the sentiment, and until Democrats learn to actually speak to workers, they’re going to lose elections.

If you’re working 2-3 jobs and upwards of 100 hours a week, none of it will matter to you. All you know is you have to struggle to live and no one we elect will change it.

And this sense of superiority and refusal to understand or empathize is why hundreds of millions don’t listen to you.

That’s a good question, I think.

I know most people don’t, but I consume a few foreign news sources myself. It helps to lend a broader perspective on US governance, and with the US press running cover for fascists, it’s an increasingly valuable way to learn more about US events.

I mean, that we know of.

Clinton was fairly brilliant in branding his wars as ‘peacekeeping actions’ and Obama rebranded civilians as ‘enemy combatants’, so while yes it may be unofficial, we’re still essentially at war everywhere.

I keep hoping someone will slip a nuke or two to Palestine so that whole business can be stopped, but I don’t think it’ll ever happen.

Fair point.

No matter who we elected we were getting a useful idiot for the rich, but that’s partisanship for you.

Yeah, our Kurdish allies learned the hard way not to depend on US support during Trump’s first term, and honestly, I’d love it if he pulls our country out of more wars, even if he does it for the wrong reasons. I’ve never supported the US being the policemen of the world.

As much as I hate to hear about war spending increasing planet-wide, it’s definitely dawning on our allies that depending on the US for protection and support is no longer a tenable position. It might turn out to be a good thing that more countries develop a modern military apparatus, though, particularly as there are several Putin-type heads of state in the world.

Their platform was weak.

They ran an old man with brain damage for most of the campaign.

His replacement spent two months of campaign time telling poverty wage workers to be joyful and didn’t even put a platform on their website until a few weeks before the election. Watching that felt very tone deaf and condescending.

The other meme they repeated was how weird Trump and Vance are, as if they didn’t already objectively know the voters don’t care about that.

They didn’t run a good campaign.

People stayed home.

Abstaining is a vote unto itself, and partisans of both flavors are wont to ignore that voting doesn’t materially affect the lives of the poor and middle class. No matter who they elect things get worse, so when faced with the choice of missing a badly-needed day’s pay and voting, they choose to get paid.

Waking up to a quiet, clean house every day, with no children.

No.

It’s over. Trump is never going to be held accountable for any of it. In a few years he’ll die peacefully in his bed like Kissinger did.

I wouldn’t be surprised.