Add getting the Trump bucks during the initial COVID waves and I don’t know what else to say than he’s materially the best president weve had in my life.
I mean it really shows how useless and evil the Democrats are more than anything. It’s fucking wild
(Obviously it’s not over yet, not getting ahead of myself, but this is the most progress we’ve seen by a long shot)
edit: folks it should be obvious i dont think he is doing this as a good thing or that it’s not going to be a double edged sword. i’m just saying look at biden and compare.
Trump took $100 million in donations from Miriam Adelson (I think the single largest donation he received) allegedly to allow Israel to annex the West Bank. Her people denied she demanded that but she is also an ultra-Zionist and billionaires aren’t known for just handing out no-strings-attached campaign funds.
During his first term Netanyahu and Trump were best buds. The “peace plan” he came up with his son in law was just a wish list of all the things Netanyahu wanted without ever giving the Palestinians a state.
Color me skeptical that Trump is playing hardball with Netanyahu. For that to make sense you’d have to buy the line that Trump is a genuine anti-war dove. I think it is far more likely to be a combination of 1.) this is the inevitable end to all this, Israel simply cannot sustain it as they are not any closer to their goals while the economy is still shit and their military is continuing to get hit hard by the Resistance in Gaza; and 2.) there is some quid pro quo deal going on with Trump and Netanyahu, maybe an agreement to support West Bank annexation, maybe a massive increase in financial and military support, etc.
Color me skeptical that Trump is playing hardball with Netanyahu. For that to make sense you’d have to buy the line that Trump is a genuine anti-war dove.
I think it can make sense without him being a dove. Trump isn’t anti-war, but he probably finds Netanyahu to be very annoying (it seems most people do) and doesn’t like him. Netanyahu pissed him off at the end of his last term by congratulating Biden. If the new reports are to be believed then Trump seems to still have a personal dislike or at least disregard for Netanyahu. Trump doesn’t want this war to be happening while he’s in charge because it can be used to criticize him from both the Zionist side as well as the humanitarian side. It’s a lose-lose from his perspective, and also the guy in charge of the war is a tedious annoying “traitor”.
I strongly disagree. The good he did was more inevitable than planned, and he emboldened the witch hunt of vulnerable people in the US and the fast growth of fascist movements internationally. While seeing the US shoot itself in the foot is great, seeing the most vulnerable people being hit the hardest makes me feel bad.
this (correct) post smoked some liberal tendencies out of the brush for sure
Trump is the definition of failing upwards. It’s interesting to think what his legacy might be, because I don’t know at this point.
There’s something slightly different from simple “failing upwards” going on here. It’s the combination of wealth and complete lack of introspection or uncertainty or nuance.
Americans are particularly receptive to someone who fully embodies all their values, of being rich and inhumane and unapologetic and even proudly ignorant. For someone to exhibit all of these to a full extent, they need to be brought up in a kind of contemptuous, misanthropic opulence that perfectly conditions them to never entertain any critique of themselves. Then they must be some combination of capable and lucky in order to succeed and not be weeded out. These criteria combined amount to one in millions, and the result is the perfect sociopath.
So he didn’t exactly fail upwards, he ended up just as wealthy as he started. He did manage to convert wealth and notoriety into power though.
