Asked whether a potential meeting would take place in the US or in a different place, Trump replied, “I don’t know. I haven’t really heard too much about it.” He continued, “I didn’t suggest it [a meeting], but some people have suggested it.”
“If it happened, it would be happening. I’d be respectful.” White House correspondent Peter Doocy, co-anchor of The Sunday Briefing for Fox News, then asked the president, “Do you think because Epic Fury killed his dad and his wife and his kid that he has hard feelings?”
Trump said, “Well, I would say I’m not his favorite person, but with that being said, he’s probably a professional. In some circles he has a very good reputation, actually.”
I’m working as hard as I can to undermine him, but I’m a disabled photographer five thousand kilometers away. What, exactly, am I supposed to do to fix this, that I’m not already doing? I’m too weak to use a gun, I’m shit at rallying forces, and besides, America is far too distributed to amass people at a single point. Even if I did somehow summon up the motor skills to outwit the Secret Service and be the best assassin in the world, I’d have to be okay with losing my wife and my friends, as I’m executed basically on the spot. I can’t lose that. Trump will die before I do, and it will likely be by his own ragged mind.
Goddamm I need to get this phrase hotkeyed on my keyboard with how often I need to say it to people online who don’t know how spread out the US is.
Our 5 largest cities have a nighttime pop of 1:20 of the total population. In Germany that figure is over 1:10 and in France and UK it’s more like 1:5.
The largest city in the US is NYC with a nighttime population of 2.5% of the total US population, that same figure for France is 3.1%, in Germany, almost 1:20 Germans live in Berlin alone and in the UK 135:1,000 live in just London.
The US has a very small urban population for its size. This isn’t to mention that the two largest cities are separated by a 2,000 mile desert and border two different oceans. The only way to congregate most Americans is through the Herculean task of mobilizing the suburbs, which has had some success (No Kings Day is the largest nonviolent protest in history), but is still much harder than rallying in more urbanocentric European countries.
Then you good.
Each according to thier ability.
The thing that drives the world nuts is when people in the US are like “not my responsibility”.
Where are you from?
Crazy, considering the person who spurred on this whole thread was blanket assuming that everyone in the country is allowing this to happen.
How’d you manage to miss that?
We’re different people and I was offering another more understanding voice to the mix. You may notice my bar was actually just “anything more than just saying not my problem” which I actually thought was pretty generous and is wildly telling that even that was triggering to you.
What do you want? Me to do the sign of the cross and give a blanket absolution to all Americans on behalf of the rest of the world?
“Go, my children, your country may ravage the world I absolve you”. In the name of the father the son nato UN and all humanity. I offer this to all citizens of the USA, Russia, and Israel as they decimate civilians in illegal wars. Would be kinda shitty of me to not hand it out to them too, right? I mean… what can they do about it? Not really THIER problem, right? We’re all being a little judgemental by suggesting Russia get out of Ukraine or Israel out of Gaza, right? Let em in eurovision. Let em in the Olympics.
Not sure who I am to give it but if im giving that cool guy a break, I may as well give you one too, despite you being a total cunt. Not sure why you care (REALLY wish you’d introspect on that though, is it possible the uncomfort that makes you wanna lash out is that you know at some level you, as an american, are uniquely positioned to save the world like hollywood told you your whole life was your birthright, and instead you’re on the internet mad at foreigners pointing out your country is mudering civilians? That discord must be HARD).
By clearly demonstrating a lack of understanding. Great, I won’t bother reading the rest of this.
This is a common circle for people like us to run around in.
Yes, there are many individuals who are doing a lot, punching far above their weight class.
My point is when I boycott American products, advocate for the US to be punished politically and economically, when I spread the message loud and clear where I am that “America is the enemy”, that necessitates putting YOU in the crosshairs of my actions.
Do I love that? No, we’re on the same team. Is that going to stop me? Absolutely not.
The best analogy I can think of is sports. I’m gonna hate your hockey team because they’re our rival, they play dirty on the ice, etc. One of your players might feed the hungry and use their money to build orphanages, but that doesn’t change the fact that I’ll be cheering for your team to fail.
Maybe there’s nothing else you can possibly do. Truly. Life’s not fair. But you and I both know that the average American citizen is doing basically nothing. That’s the “person” I’m talking to when I post things like this. I can’t individually judge 350 million people, so I have to address your average. Your average sucks.
I am prepared to die in this country.
I do not deserve to die in this country, I don’t choose to live here.
But because I am transgender, my federal government explicitly wants me dead.
And the populations of other countries do not care for my survival, because I was born on an overseas American military base, and then brought here as a child, means I am a citizen of this evil empire.
And I understand that even though I myself am not evil, I am a member of an evil empire, and my government and large portions of the outside world want me injured or dead in some way.
But I am scrappy and I have a heart full of love and beauty.
And I outlived Charlie Kirk.