• Zombiepirate@lemmy.world
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        Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest, with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years. At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer. If it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide.

        -Abraham Lincoln, Lyceum address

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    Exactly which realistic expectations about trump are unmet?

    For those of us who have bern paying attention this is very much what we said would happen.

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    Lol. What Kamala may have done vs what trump said he would do, and what his previous term indicated hr definitely would’ve done. The us chose unwisely. This timeline sucks.

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    Isn’t his plan to upset the current world order? What’s not working exactly?

    I know nations have been banding together to figure out how to operate without the support of the US, but that alone seems to me like it’s working.

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    That conspiracy that Trump was recruited by the Soviets as an agent in the 1980s is sounding less and less of a conspiracy every day.

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      Because it isn’t a conspiracy theory. It isn’t even that complicated. He’s an extreme narcissist (born with a gold spoon up his ass). They make him feel good, and he’ll do anything to keep getting the ego stroke.

      They loan him money, bail him out, stroke his ego, and he’ll happily burn the country to the ground. And when it is said and done, he’ll be incapable of understanding his part in it.