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I feel that Trump is doing more harm than good for our country?

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What worries me even more than Trump is that so many people look at him as what President of the United States should be. He may be gone in a few years, but all these people will be looking for something similar and there will be more hateful, bullying candidates stepping up to fill his shoes for them.
BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F
@robingoodfellow This has a lot of truth to it. Remember when Trump was first elected and every news outlet in America was lambasting him, and then he carried out that airstrike in Syria and suddenly they started giving him credit? Fareed Zakaria (I think I spelled his name wrong) went on air and said he's "finally acting presidential" because he made the decision to drop bombs on another country. Brian Williams covered live footage of the takeoff and commented on "the beauty of our weapons." This is what we've come to expect from our elected leaders now. That the true sign of them properly exercising their authority is to do something that will get people in other nations killed.
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@BlueMetalChick Fareed Zakaria is the worst.
@BlueMetalChick ...and history records these are the attitudes that arise when a country begins to go bad....
BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F
@SW-User People like him because every now and then he makes a solid point about those idiots at Berkeley who tip over mailboxes. Which is about the only thing he's ever had a correct opinion of.
BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F
@robingoodfellow My grandma has repeated the same phrase since she was my age in the 1950's. "The truest sign of an empire in decline is when war is waged not for expansion but rather because it's only way the oligarchs can continue to support themselves."

When you fight wars because it's the last remaining method of making money, you know the empire is in its death throes.
@robingoodfellow That’s an even scarier thought, isn’t it ? He’s effectively lowered the bar so that this behavior and incompetence will now be [b]acceptable[/b]. 😳
@bijouxbroussard You could not have summed it up any better.
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Trump has given his followers the reassurance that it is okay to be a bully and have beliefs in extreme ideologies when running as a candidate, so no doubt in the future we will see more like him that are even worse.
BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F
@robingoodfellow She was born in 1938 so her childhood was overshadowed by the Second World War. And in her late teen years she married into a mob family after working as a dice girl on underground gambling tables, and organized crime is like a microcosm of a corrupt government.
Loretta78 · 46-50, F
@SW-User This is so scary. Very, very scary. 😥
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@Loretta78 It is indeed and is going to get worse for people who have colored skin like me :/
Loretta78 · 46-50, F
@SW-User Although I don't have colored skin I can imagine how you must feel because my son has colored skin.
I am so very sorry for you. 😐
BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F
@Loretta78 Adoption? Or mixed race?
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@Loretta78 I just pray that it gets better and all these nasty bigots disappear as I want us all to get along and to be happy. I want everyone to live in a perfect world filled with desserts and chocolate.
Loretta78 · 46-50, F
@BlueMetalChick Mixed race. I was married with an African.
jackjjackson · 61-69, M
Fareed is the worst what? @SW-User
Loretta78 · 46-50, F
@SW-User I will support you with my prayers. That's all I can do. 😐
BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F
@Loretta78 Interracial genetics is an interesting area of study. I just wish I was better at it. Biology has always been my weakest science.
@SW-User Hate crimes have increased exponentially, because the president has made it clear that he is at least tolerant of those attititudes, if not approving of them.
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@jackjjackson I am afraid I don't know what you're talking about.
BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F
@SW-User He means he's confused as to what you were saying Fareed Zakaria is bad at. Like, he's the worst commentator, or the worst pundit, etc.
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@bijouxbroussard Exactly, ugh I hate this type of intolerance us good folks are having to put up for no reason, all because the orange buffoon deems us inferior.
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@BlueMetalChick Oh, I'd say he's by far the worst journalist in general.
BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F
@SW-User There's people worse than him but most of them are contained to radio stations or podcasts or social media platforms, Ben Shapiro for example, or Tomi Lahren.
jackjjackson · 61-69, M
In general the far extremists seem to be the least well informed. . @BlueMetalChick