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KaHOOnah

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For one, American soft power is at its nadir. We are a country that holds


dear its ideals of freedom and respect for plurality; Trump has cozied up to authoritarians who engage in extra-judicial state murders of people who voice political dissent: See Erdogan, Putin, and Duterte.

Trump has steadfastly refused to do anything to help sure up the American electoral process after we've identified that foreign actors attempted to compromise the system. Perhaps because he understands that these malefactors will help him.

Trump reneged on the Paris climate accord, ceding leadership on a real problem, whether Hannity will admit it or not, to the rest of the world. This harms the US. Literally everyone else signed on...Syria left us as the only holdout.

Trump reneged on the TPP and gave China free reign to orchestrate its own trade deal in the Pacific Rim without the US even sitting at the fucking table. This unambiguously harms the US by ceding leadership in the region to China. A fucking gift.

Trump has introduced doubt into the strongest military alliance in history. NATO is the bulwark of stability in the post-WW2 order, and its foundations are shaky. Our allies have no fucking clue what the President would do if Article 5 of NATO were enacted. And neither do I. Especially if Russian invades one of the Baltic states. Who the hell knows what would happen?

I won't even talk about the racist bullshit that oozes from this administration on a weekly basis. We've become inured to it now. But a bunch of fucking Nazis descended on Charlottesville and he issued 3 public statements before his tepid rebuke of the Nazis. NAZIS.

There are myriad other things he's done that are borderline ludicrous:
--repealing regulations that prevent coal company from dumping slurry into rivers (seriously, not a joke),
--flood building standards even after we've seen some of the most disastrous floods in our history
--limiting mercury emissions from power plants

The list goes on and on, but he has one idea central to his governance philosophy: If Obama or Bush liked it, it's bad

(In response to this post by Tuckahokie)

Posted: 01/12/2018 at 4:39PM



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  Lol -- psychobilly 01/12/2018 7:25PM
  Sure, I do. Why don't you tell us about it? -- KaHOOnah 01/12/2018 4:47PM
  Pol is a tiny subset of a large board... -- hoothat 01/12/2018 6:00PM
  Should have read longer -- hoothat 01/12/2018 6:29PM
  Nice copy and paste. -- hoothat 01/12/2018 6:16PM
  ? you clearly don't understand that term. -- hoothat 01/12/2018 6:25PM
  Gee, thanks for "keeping us from looking ignorant." -- VAGentleman05 01/12/2018 11:15PM
  Fit in? -- hoothat 01/13/2018 01:13AM
  Its all good. ** -- hoothat 01/12/2018 6:30PM
  It won't happen again. -- KaHOOnah 01/12/2018 6:32PM
  I have actually responded to you as such... ** -- hoothat 01/12/2018 6:31PM
  I may have misinterpreted what you said then. -- WahooRQ 01/12/2018 6:37PM
  Youre good. you guys dont upset me -- hoothat 01/12/2018 6:49PM
  He is more of a dick. -- hoothat 01/12/2018 7:26PM
  Team America joke -- hoothat 01/12/2018 8:34PM
  I am a dick, but across that line, YOU DO NOT... ** -- KaHOOnah 01/12/2018 7:20PM
  Bah. i have heard much worse. you guys are fine. -- hoothat 01/12/2018 7:25PM
  Donald has a good word for places like that. ** -- Chuck Taylor 01/12/2018 5:01PM
  I click the site -- VaTechie 01/12/2018 5:00PM
  Lol ** -- hoothat 01/12/2018 6:01PM
  It's where "a lot of good people" hang out. ** -- HowieT3 01/12/2018 4:51PM
  Fine people ** -- hooyorkcity 01/12/2018 5:54PM
  Really starting to embrace that one, eh? ** -- wahoo138 01/12/2018 4:08PM
  Not all of the GOP are Deplorables -- Beerman 01/12/2018 3:50PM
  Put me in that column -- TomKazanski 01/12/2018 4:32PM
  Shut up you stupid tool. -- hooyorkcity 01/12/2018 6:15PM
  Calling people rednecks.... -- hoothat 01/13/2018 01:36AM
  Triggered^^^^ ** -- TomKazanski 01/12/2018 6:22PM
  Redneck who thinks he matters^^^^ ** -- hooyorkcity 01/12/2018 6:30PM
  ALL necks matter. ** -- WahooRQ 01/12/2018 6:38PM
  He's a vile, stupid human. ** -- KaHOOnah 01/12/2018 6:19PM
  I dunno, KH, that probably goes a bit too far. -- WahooRQ 01/13/2018 10:25AM
  She didn’t make a mistake it’s how she feels -- TomKazanski 01/12/2018 6:56PM
  Lost her the election IMO. Well, that, and -- southdenverhoo 01/12/2018 5:11PM
  More to my point on the GOP blind partisanship... -- KaHOOnah 01/12/2018 4:20PM
  Or the labor participation rate. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 01/12/2018 4:29PM
  That too. -- Shenhoo 01/12/2018 4:33PM
  You really don't have to be partisan to get it -- wahoo138 01/12/2018 4:09PM
  The offer always stands, champ. ** -- KaHOOnah 01/12/2018 5:06PM

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