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Trump's America Now Leads the World--in Suicidal Stupidity
American exceptionalism is the general idea that the United States is different from other countries, endowed with special traits, better, superior. It goes backwell, actually, people debate how far it goes back.
But theres no debating when it ends. It ends this month, in May 2020, under Donald Trump, who in prematurely sending people back to work (and to gyms) so they can die needlessly is destroying not just thousands of human lives but also any idea of America as a special place. That shining city on a hill business? Done....
We are an object of international contempt and rage, and maybe at best pity from those dwindling few who still admire what we once were. But that America is dead. Under Trump, the only exceptionalism that exists is that among the nations of the world we are the most exceptionally fucking stupid...
I know Trump fantasizes about Mt. Rushmore (seriously, he does). Someday, I hope to God that America gives him the memorial he deserves, which will be made of bat guano and sited on the countrys worst rat-infested toxic dump in some remote corner, and etched into the tower of shit will be the imperishable words: Will some people be badly affected? Yes.
So there you have it. The president of the United States in essence endorsing the reduction of the surplus population, to borrow the Dickensian phrase that one suspects might be coming back into vogue, and how sick is that? And dying with all those surplus people will be any notion of the United States of America as a nation the world should admire or envy in any way, destroyed by a narcissistic moron named Donald John Trump and all his cowardly enablers who actually knew better but let the most durable republic in the history of the world die.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/with-coronavirus-response-trumps-america-now-leads-the-worldin-suicidal-stupidity?via=newsletter&source=BI-mid-week-digestBut theres no debating when it ends. It ends this month, in May 2020, under Donald Trump, who in prematurely sending people back to work (and to gyms) so they can die needlessly is destroying not just thousands of human lives but also any idea of America as a special place. That shining city on a hill business? Done....
We are an object of international contempt and rage, and maybe at best pity from those dwindling few who still admire what we once were. But that America is dead. Under Trump, the only exceptionalism that exists is that among the nations of the world we are the most exceptionally fucking stupid...
I know Trump fantasizes about Mt. Rushmore (seriously, he does). Someday, I hope to God that America gives him the memorial he deserves, which will be made of bat guano and sited on the countrys worst rat-infested toxic dump in some remote corner, and etched into the tower of shit will be the imperishable words: Will some people be badly affected? Yes.
So there you have it. The president of the United States in essence endorsing the reduction of the surplus population, to borrow the Dickensian phrase that one suspects might be coming back into vogue, and how sick is that? And dying with all those surplus people will be any notion of the United States of America as a nation the world should admire or envy in any way, destroyed by a narcissistic moron named Donald John Trump and all his cowardly enablers who actually knew better but let the most durable republic in the history of the world die.
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Trump's America Now Leads the World--in Suicidal Stupidity (Original Post)
The Velveteen Ocelot
May 2020
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Iliyah
(25,111 posts)1. Well our federal government was . . .
suppose to be world class and that asshole in the WH is suppose to be the leader of the free world, but alas all have failed miserably. Less than 40% (if that high) are "Jim Jones" fatal cult coupled with a republican party who is now the evangelist elites which includes the head of the DOJ and other pertinent positions in cabinet, military and congress.
They are insane.
I believe at least 60% or so are still American Exceptionalism.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)2. The Most Serene Republic of Venice lasted for 900 years.
Ours is not the most durable republic in the worlds history ... not yet ... but ours is the most powerful and is the greatest global empire that the world has ever seen.
A punk like Trump can hurt us, sure, but he can not ruin us.
-Laelth