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I sure hope it’s something serious, thoughts and prayers. 🙏

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Not really, it was a mix of knee jerk reactions and political opportunity and a lot of cowardice, because they were afraid to back up Al Franken.

the US Declaration of Independence in 1776?

You are only proving my point, this was from when USA was created as a democracy.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal

Except for slaves and women, so no that is not a declaration of respect for human rights as we understand them today. But it was a start.

But even if the meaning was good, USA no-longer respect the values of democracy. Many other democracies do.

Fuck Gillibrand for demanding him to go, based on a Republican orchestrated scheme against Al Franken!
She was the main reason he never got a fair chance.

They were not a thing like they are today, where most democracies strive to observe human rights.
For instance it wouldn’t make much sense for a government to claim to be for human rights while they extort colonies.
And human rights have always been a thing only respected by democracies. But nowhere as much as in EU where it is a requirement.

Those examples are straw-men, because before WW2 human rights were not a thing. In the stone age people hit each other with clubs doesn’t prove anything.

There are degrees of disrespect, and I would argue that every single EU country has higher respect, also because to be in EU it is a requirement to observe human rights.
Disrespecting the rights of people even if they aren’t of your own nationality, is contrary to democratic values.
You may be thinking China and Russia are just as bad or maybe even worse, but that isn’t the pattern you should be looking at, you should compare with other democracies, and especially countries that have better democracy than USA.

USA has absolutely zero respect for the rights of people in or from other countries.
This was also evident in how Obama explained the “balance” of US surveillance.
It is also evident in how USA spies on allied top politicians. The might makes right mentality in USA is disgusting.

Maybe we should just ban Christian marriage as a superstitious ritual.

What? Americans voted for him to move USA backwards, and he is moving USA backwards!
They got what they asked for.

That’s like claiming he can’t be a male chauvinist because he is married to a woman.
Trump is both.

Being right wing supporting wall street and the 1% more than the general population is not moderate.
USA has 2 right wing parties, where one is extreme and the other only less extreme.
By European standards the real moderates are the left democrats like Bernie and AOC etc.

It’s not illegal if there are no consequences.

Freedom of speech baby, to bad USA doesn’t have it.

accused Donald Trump of tearing apart the transatlantic alliance with Europe

This is not merely an accusation, it’s a statement of fact.

So where are all the comments about daily mail not being trustworthy now?
Why isn’t this downvoted to oblivion when a story about false accusation of rape was? With comments all over the place on how daily mail is untrustworthy and had an agenda!
Is this part of that agenda too? Because that seems a bit weird IMO.

I hope this is more than just the pendulum swinging like it always does.

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But White house spreading darkness across USA and the world.