When I read words like these, I still think there’s a chance our top military leaders will refuse to obey some outrageously illegal order from the president. Perhaps something like this:
Trump: We’re annexing Canada as the 51st state, by military force if necessary.
Full General Dan Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: The f*** we are.
What Richard Gere says here seems to imply that the threat to the United States posed by Donald Trump has somehow been vanquished, but sadly, that’s not the case.
There are lots of reasons to expatriate. For example, some people want to live where their retirement dollars will go further.
Others simply refuse to be a part of the continuing onslaught of war crimes, the protection of child rapists, and the destruction of the environment. It’s easy to understand that folks hate living in a nation of greedy pigs and hateful morons.
If had no medical issues and no children, I’d be writing this from my new home in Iceland, or any of a number of other countries where sanity and rule of law prevail.
The place below is a 40-minute drive from Reykjavik, on the market for $468K. My wife and I would be long gone.
At left we see the words of the former U.S. Speaker of the House, providing the rationale for voting Republicans out of office, i.e. the soaring cost of living.
Personally, I’d go with the fact that Trump and his congressional supporters are psychotic criminals, ruining the United States and a great deal of the rest of the world.
Well, this violates the 10th and 14th Amendments of the United States Constitution.
But let’s be honest: our nation’s appreciation of our country’s founding document has largely been thrown by the wayside.
In reference to the question posed here, about one-third of American voters would nominate Donald Trump.
Knowing as little as I do about the likely sensibilities of the aliens, Trump’s the very last living Earthling I’d suggest for the task, given that essentially all he’s known for is cruelty, greed, and criminal corruption.
If there are alien species out there, we need to hope for better.
“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico‑Philosophicus
A reader notes: He has no plan — for anything, except making money and trying to hold onto power.
Correct, though I would add: staying out of prison.
Gene Roddenberry, creator of Star Trek, wanted his masterpiece to serve as a philosophic direction for humankind, teaching intellectual curiosity, tolerance, and compassion.
At left is what he thought about war and its role in civilization.
If he could see what Trump is doing in Iran right now, he’d be rolling over in his grave.
To be a Trump supporter in today’s world, you have to live in a dream world, where facts have long ceased to matter.
