Destroying the International Criminal Court is not in America’s interests

Which is exactly why Trump, as Putin’s personal bitch, will do it.

You sound like you have a promising future as a GOP speech-writer! Assuming they still need speech-writers after the electorate is dumbed down further. At this point, just making monkey screeches for an hour might be enough to get the appropriate Pavlovian reaction from the GOP’s base.

The Dems were responsible for running a bad campaign. 2/3s of the American electorate were responsible for approving of, or not caring about, fascism. These fascists are now doing fascist things, which is, believe it or not, the fascists’ fault.

Didn’t say liberals were ‘the left’. Just said that letting fascists win and putting the blame on the liberals, as every other problem in America apparently lays upon, is absurd.

At that point you’re not far from actual tankie positions.

Letting fascists win and still finding a way to put the REAL blame on the LIBS.

Just absolutely astounding.

Isn’t that a while away yet?

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again - not a single redeeming quality in any of Trump’s picks.

Don’t worry, Trump will soon be subsidizing his master with servile adoration.

Yeah, this seems like a strange connection to make. “He was in charge of the mint, and the mint used gold, and a lot of gold at that time came from Brazil, which used SLAVERY to mine it!”

Like, yes, this is true, but it’s a connection to slavery only insofar as every major economic actor at the time was connected to slavery in some way.

Glad to see all the genocide sympathizers are out here in force, playing apologist for Russia.

I mean, it doesn’t matter what Trump says initially. Like how the Muslim-ban definitely wasn’t a Muslim-ban once it was challenged. The lawyers will shift the argument while Trump continues using the rhetoric.

More likely is that they’ll go through a lawyer to be worded in such a way as suggests ambiguity of legality insofar as the responsibility of the US military to follow the orders is concerned.

I’m only saying that being demoralized by this whole shitshow is an entirely reasonable reaction, especially from minority groups.

Yes, abandoning minorities is definitely what I suggested, good going, top-tier literacy. /s

My argument here is that the US military is absolutely going to cooperate.

So I would add DNC messaging and campaign strategy to your list of four things above.

No, the DNC fucked up bad, but their failure still proves point number 1 - if the DNC being fuckups is enough for a voter to vote for or allow fascism, they don’t give a fuck about minorities.

Most voters demonstrably don’t care about that.

Yeah, so

Most of America simply does not give a shit about what happens to minorities.

Thanks for agreeing with me.

1.5% in an election by a well-spoken (relatively) young and intelligent experienced government official, running against a psychotic retiree-age fascist with apparent dementia, a room-temperature IQ, with a history of sex scandals and rape (as confirmed by the courts, no less) while running as the candidate for Christianity and moral purity, running in stark opposition to both the free market and the welfare state, openly despising women, ethnic, religious, and gender minorities, advocating for genocide, bootlicking our national enemies, and corruption… all with a prior four-year term with all of that on display, so we all could be certain it wasn’t ‘just rhetoric’.

There are only a few realistic conclusions one can potentially draw from that.

1. Most of America simply does not give a shit about what happens to minorities.

2. Most of America wants bad fucking things to happen to minorities.

3. America was so freaked out at the prospect of a mixed-race woman becoming president they decided what happens to minorities was less important than stopping that.

4. Any combination of the above.

There’s not a lot of room for “Well, I get that they wanted a 2.5% lower tax rate on the rich…” This was an election against outright fascism. And most voters said “Yeah, let’s go with that.”

The US military is aggressively apolitical. They’re not going to refuse orders from the CiC without those orders being blatantly and explicitly illegal.