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INTERNATIONAL EDITORIALS  COLLECTION 262
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AGENT ORANGE No. 45: PLAGUE OF THE MAGATS

THE TRUMP LEGACY XIV
THE DIVIDED STATES OF AMERICA

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The GISH GALLOP.
It's a rhetorical technique in which someone throws out a fast string of lies, non-sequiturs, and specious arguments, so many that it is impossible to fact-check or rebut them in the amount of time it took to say them. Trying to figure out how to respond makes the opponent look confused, because they don't know where to start grappling with the flood that has just hit them.
It is a form of gaslighting
“It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honour, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.”
~ Joseph Heller, Catch-22
David Uretsky ~ March, 5, 2024
I was born here in the United States, I’ve been a US citizen all 52+ years I’ve lived, and I’m an Eisenhower Republican, and even was a member of the “Young Republicans” during high school and helped on campaigns for local Republicans, especially our Mayor, Congressman and County Executive. In other words, I’m not a liberal. I’m a moderate who is slightly conservative.

I’ve known Donald Trump, personally, for 38 years. Not just “met” him. I’ve spent time with him, spoken to him, listened to him, have known his first two wives, both of whom were rather nice, though Ivana was a bit more formal than Marla. Marla was a sweetheart, very warm and friendly. I’ve known Ivanka, Donald Jr, and Eric as well. All 3 children were dumb as stumps, and Ivanka was, well, quite plain, and all 3 were selfish.

As far as Donald, he was an idiot. Dumb like his children, very uncouth, narcissistic, self-centered, egotistical, egomaniacal, self-interested, boastful, prideful, had horrible breath, and lost several arguments about everything from history, civics, the Constitution, business and simple math to a TEENAGER (me), was very openly racist and anti-Semitic when surrounded by nothing but other white people (and people he never knew were Jewish), rude, crass, belligerent if he didn’t get his way, a fusspot as my grandmother used to call him, and in general a very poor excuse for a human being.

By the time Ivanka was a preteen (I am 10 yrs older than her), Donald Trump openly leered at her when he thought no one was looking, and would often sit her on his lap, caress her back and other things a boy/man typically only does with a girl/woman he is intimate with.

Donald Trump is a piece of garbage, should be nowhere near politics, has delusions of adequacy, and I wouldn’t let him go anywhere near my granddaughter, stepdaughter, or anyone else’s wife, daughter or granddaughter because he is a sick bastard and pedophile.


Question in Quora: Donald Trump claimed that, during his UK visit, there was ‘automatic chemistry’ with Queen Elizabeth and that the Queen had never had a ‘better time’. What do you think?
Reply: Part of my job brings me into frequent contact with Royal aides and occasionally with members of the family itself. For example, I have chatted and joked with the Princess Royal, I have met the then Prince Charles and Prince William as well as a whole host of “minor Royals”.

I can tell you that it is universally held that the Queen absolutely detested Donald trump. She was very much a conservative British woman (note the small ‘c’) who held good manners and protocol above all things and being “manhandled” as Trump did was not the done thing and an anathema to her. She hated everything he stood for, his right wing views, his loudness and his bragging seemed to her to be all that was wrong with the US encapsulated into one person.

This does not come across in her public “face” because she was a sheer professional as is her son.

~ Tara Martel
Is Trump the closest thing America has had to Hitler?
1. His vice president, Mike Pence: “The American people deserve to know that President Trump asked me to put him over my oath to the Constitution. … Anyone who puts himself over the Constitution should never be president of the United States.”
2. His second attorney general, Bill Barr: “Someone who engaged in that kind of bullying about a process that is fundamental to our system and to our self-government shouldn’t be anywhere near the Oval Office.”
3. His first secretary of defense, James Mattis: “Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people – does not even pretend to try. Instead he tries to divide us.”
4. His second secretary of defense, Mark Esper: “I think he’s unfit for office. … He puts himself before country. His actions are all about him and not about the country. And then, of course, I believe he has integrity and character issues as well.”
5. His second chief of staff, John Kelly: “A person that has nothing but contempt for our democratic institutions, our Constitution, and the rule of law. There is nothing more that can be said. God help us.”
6. His former acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, “I quit because I think he failed at being the president when we needed him to be that.”
7. One of his many former communications directors, Anthony Scaramucci: “He is the domestic terrorist of the 21st century.”
8. His first secretary of the Navy, Richard Spencer: "The president has very little understanding of what it means to be in the military, to fight ethically or to be governed by a uniform set of rules and practices.”
9. His first homeland security adviser, Tom Bossert: “The President undermined American democracy baselessly for months. As a result, he’s culpable for this siege, and an utter disgrace.”

QUORA: What is your honest opinion on Trump?
Cathy Cooper:
In the ‘80’s, I thought he was a classless, self-promoting buffoon who wrote the ‘Art of the Deal’, which some people (not me) thought made him a business success.

I paid little attention to him from 1990 until 2004, when he first appeared as the Judge on ‘The Apprentice’ T.V. show. I did not watch the show because the trailers for the show proved to me that he got a charge out of being mean and rude to the contestants. Not my kind of human being.

Then I watched the White House Correspondence Dinner in 2011 when Barack Obama referred to Trump, taking some hilarious jabs at his ridiculous ‘birtherism’ movement. Trump was sitting in the audience, and I saw him freeze, his jaw was jutting out in hostility and anger as the attendees all had a great laugh at his expense. His false theories about Obama’s birth were not only put to bed that night, but Trump was humiliated for posing them in the first place= he looked the fool.

For a number of years, I heard the odd report about his shocking failures in business, including going bankrupt as a casino-owner, his rip-off university, Trump steaks, the charity he raided etc. I was more convinced than ever that he was more conman than business guru.

I was not surprised when he announced that he was running for the Presidency, although I was shocked that he won. But as he bumbled his way through the pandemic, an economic crisis, natural disasters, and alienated most of America’s NATO allies, I became aware that he was a danger to the U.S. and to my country (Canada) and others.

Now here we are in 2024, and I view Trump as an existential threat to the peaceful world order which the U.S, through the creation of NATO, has enjoyed ever since World War II. He tried to take over the U.S through lawless conspiracies and violence, contemplated using the Armed Forces to help in his attempted coup, and now he is running for the Presidency once again.

He is being very clear about his intentions. If Donald J. Trump is re-elected, he will end democracy, reverse many rights that the American public now enjoy, pull out of NATO, allow bully-like countries like Russia and China to invade other countries and take what they want. He will lower taxes for the rich and increase them for everyone else, while reducing the budgets for any social aides from FEMA to Medicare. He will raid the piggy bank of the RNC, and of his donors to pay for his legal fees, and he will pardon himself and other criminals, all while he eliminates various rights- to abortion, to voters who are colored, to free speech. He will lock up his political opponents and enemies- maybe even order them executed. He will politicize every aspect of the federal government and have all departments working for him, not “we the people”. He will look the other way when China takes over Tiawan, or Russia takes over Poland. He may even decide to take over Canada to expropriate our water, mineral and lumber resources. He is only getting started.

Most hideously- he won’t leave at the end of his second term.

Ref: Quora: I'm a US citizen. What is it like to live in a country that doesn't have the same level of freedom as the United States does? Are you aware of the disparity between your country and the USA?

I would hate to give up my freedoms to live in America.
Here are some of the freedoms I have, that Americans don’t share. I could go on. Nothing would induce me to move to the USA.

RESPONSES:
I'm an American citizen, and I have to applaud your restraint in answering this ridiculously offensive question. I also feel like apologizing, and I hope that you know not all Americans are so arrogant as this person appears to be. They are clearly someone who has spent ZERO time outside of the United States, so they have no business presuming that they know what freedoms other people have. It's highly doubtful they even fully understand their own freedoms and the inherent limits upon them.

My brother moved to the US and asked me if I wanted to move also. I just said there was nothing the US had that interested me. I am sure there are nice places to visit, but Europe also has nice places to visit, but I remain happy living here in Canada.

Lucky, I wish we could have moved out of the USA with our kids in tow when we were younger. I’ve traveled fairly extensively worldwide for work, so it’s not like I don’t know about other countries. The comments here are spot on, we are a country now without a conscious, run by big money oil and corporations and supported by the most corrupt administration in history. More and more we are being dictated by religious fanatics and there is no such thing as separation of church and state anymore. This was a hot topic with the framers of the Constitution, we are now doomed to repeating what led the framers feared about it, but the good news is the incoming generation are saying no to religion because of the hypocrisy by the church and many political hacks currently in office. They preach more about hate than anything else.

The televangelists are everything about greed and lies, no wonder those who aren’t ignorant or easily led around by a ring in their noses are skeptical about anything the church and our past lying President Trump says. There aren’t enough negative words to describe him, from being mentally deranged to being the head of a crime family. I can’t believe he is our President and clearly he wouldn’t be without the massive assistance he received from his handler Putin. Of course, the cyber attack was as serious as anything short of an all out war, but Trump quickly put an end to any investigations of it. His efforts to obstruct the Special Council’s investigation was so glaring, Trump’s constant drum beating and tweets lambasting the media as the enemy of the people and fake news accusations daily was clearly designed to constantly repeat the same lies knowing eventually a sizable segment of the population will believe it. Just throw red meat in with the mix by demonizing immigrants, especially Mexicans as criminals and identifying himself as a white nationalist and strike a chord with racist America. Just take a look at the people who attend his red state political rallies, that tells you who his followers. They are being scammed and conned as only Trump can do. He wouldn’t sit down or have anything to do with them, he only hangs out with the wealthy, those he could use his office as a means to network and build his wealth. That is the only thing in the world that he cares about, he is one sick individual.

He is the most dangerous individual in America at this time. He is hated worldwide, except those countries that are run by dictators.



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