It also won’t occur to him that just because something happened in a different country, doesn’t mean we have to accept it here. We have a Constitution, that’s the rule book, not some nation on the other side of the world.

It boggles my mind that there are still Americans who cling to legalism as some kind of saviour, even after all the months of proof that it is absolutely no barrier to the fascists doing exactly what they want.

Flat-earthers are just religious nutjobs. They don’t really believe any of the pseudoscience in it, they believe it because it conforms with what their holy book says.

Yeah, but that feeling of superiority solely because of who gave birth to you and not for anything you have personally done…

Yeah, as long as wormhead is in charge it is all of them.

Unfortunately they got a fair amount of bootlicking sycophants to protect them.

Yeah, the media has been absolutely hopeless about this. Sanewashing and legitimising these two criminals, and treating this as if it was something actually legit.

No it isn’t. These “negotiations” are completely irrelevant, and are just two criminals colluding. They should both be arrested on the spot.

And also Trump is a Russian asset.

Blatant election tampering erodes confidence in democracy? Who could have seen that development?

Yeah. The thing is that it is a distraction from the Epstein files. But it is also distraction from all of his previous crimes, because that is how he has always functioned. He is a barrage of shitshows to distract from any individual shitshow. That was his previous adminstration as well. So even without the existence of the Epstein files, he would still be doing all this shit, it is just what he does. He normalises his crimes and his fascism by constantly doing new crimes and fascism.

And yes, the military deployment in the capital is pretty ominous to put it mildly.

Every Western democracy votes for representatives, direct democracy isn’t really a thing (except for partially in Switzerland). But many countries actually manages to represent the voters with their representatives, the US system definitely doesn’t.

We only saw the part of the appeasement process which was meant to be public. We have no way of knowing what is included in the non-public part.

Trump isn’t doing this alone. He can only do this with the blessing of the Republicans and their oligarch masters. And they are all making unimaginable fortunes from doing it, which seems to me to be more of an incentive for them doing it.

And I highly doubt they even realise it. They are fucking idiots after all.

Put it in the pile of big deals.

There was a very very small window that America wasn’t a joke, and it ended like 80 years ago.

What was so fantastic about the US 80 years ago?

I don’t know what any of that that means, but I was paraphrasing Sartre:

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”

By “anti-Semites” Sartre is of course referring to the Nazis and their sympathisers (it was written in 1944).

If not for double standards, Republicans would have no standards at all.

The hypocrisy is baked into their ideology. They don’t need to be consistent, it is all about “winning” to them. Words mean nothing, except as a method to “win”.

An extra bonus for him is when foreign leaders brownnose him on camera, that tickles his pathological narcissism. But yeah, the grifting is his main purpose by far.

No they aren’t. The Trump voterbase has already moved on, which is the only chunk of the population they care about. The media and the rest of the population can talk about Epstein all they want, it doesn’t matter in the slightest to them.