Most who voted for him are going to be quite surprised when it sucks for them too.

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Read foundations of geopolitics by alexsandr dugin. This was all laid out years ago. In black and white.

Brexit was a Russian op.

Trump is a (part) Russian op.

Ending NATO is a Russian op

Aligning with Iran is.

The only good thing is they want to destabilize China.

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It’s not gonna suck lol

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well, no, brexit only fucked over great britain, re-electing trump fucked over the entire planet, ukraine and taiwan specifically, but the entire free world is going to suffer from american disengagement. whole lot more people going to be speaking russian in the next two years. for the folks who think america only fucked themselves, lol, thereastormacomin meme springs to mind, and i for one, apologize in advance for what we’ve done

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taiwan

fuck… didn’t even consider that till now…

Even with Trump, the US military complex will just NOT let TSMC to be taken away from them.

But as soon as foundries are done and producing on US soil… then ya… pray for Taiwan, because US won’t have a good reason to risk direct conflict with China over that island.

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Dearborn, Michigan, after its population drops by 30%: “Thanks for removing the bad hombres”

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“Ƿ did it Pætcrik! Ƿ ſeıvd Pælistuın!”

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We did it Patrick! We saved Palestine!"

Uı’m lu̇kı Uı’m tuıd t NYS Eırėbz æ n Micigen Eırėbz.

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I’m lucky I’m tied to NYC Arabs and not Michigan Arabs.

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Electing Trump the first time was the equivalent of Brexit.

Electing him twice is the equivalent of setting your own home on fire, walking back inside while the house is still burning and taking a nap, hoping that the flames will only destroy your neighbour’s house.

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Too many friends and distant family, from marginalized communities telling me “They don’t mean me, I am a legal American citizen”

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My dad is an asshole. He’s controlling. He wants everything his way. He wants you to be dependant on him. He’ll accomplish this by sabotaging you, and any life progress you’ve made.

He had a seizure. He fell down, and he banged his head on a table at a laundromat.

He was in the hospital for 2 months. He had a heart attack 3 weeks after the seizure, and required double bypass surgury. He would have been released 3 days later, until he had the heart attack. So his total time in the hospital was 2 months instead of 3 weeks.

I was there. Every day he was in the hospital. I was there. He complained about how terrible the hospital food was. I brought him freah fruit straight from the market. I cooked him a daily meal. I approved everything wish his doctors.

He doesn’t remember that. He has no memory of his hospital stay. When he came out of the hospital, we BEGGED him to stay with his mother for a few weeks. He had lost use of one of his eyes. He had no balance. And his mom lived in a building made for the elderly. My aunt at the time semi lived there, taking care of my grandma. So to take care of him too would be no problem. Plus, there was no stairs. He could barely move two feet without wobbling.

But he demanded to go home. He yelled at me for trying to help him. He wouldn’t let my aunt into his house to cook him meals. He wouldn’t let me in to help with cleaning and laundry. He pushed us all out. I reminded him that we’ve been helping him for months. He argued that we hadn’t. I told him “I’ve visited you every day before work. I’ve brought you meals. I’ve brought you a rotating set of clean clothes. Why do you think you had a laundry basket in your hospital room?”

And his response…“Well who asked you to do THAT?”

That was the moment that really hurt. The moment when all you want to do is help, but you’re being insulted for your efforts. To know none of it was appriciated. And that no further efforts would be appriciated.

My point in response to what you said is, sometimes we want to help those in our life, but they’ll insist they know best. Even when their mental capacity is diminished. Even though it hurts, sometimes all you can do is wash your hands of the situation.

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