(October 14, 2018 at 9:14 am)AtlasS33 Wrote:(October 14, 2018 at 8:28 am)Brian37 Wrote: Journalism in the west is the cornerstone of checks on power. Long before this horrific event, we have seen other journalists murdered, like the two Japanese journalists murdered by Isis. But we have had for a couple years now a sitting president who has vilified journalists and that sends a very dangerous message to oppressive theocracies and dictatorships.
But no, Trump is not just "irresponsible", he is flat out dangerous. We had a politician assault a journalist already, and the worst part is our right wing don't care and the fucker still ran an won because of Trump's vile rhetoric is spreading among lower party members all the way down to the local level.
It is very disappointing to see Saudi Arabia cheat a global military campaign after assassinating a journalist like the one ISIS saw; it seems that if ISIS had enough money it would had cheated the campaign against it. The world's credability has a price as it seems; and if this proves anything to me, it proves that Saudi Arabia can't pay anymore.
I agree with you that Trump is dangerous, but isn't his whole populous wing is? If we get rid of Trump (and I'm saying "we" because as it seems he is a threat not just to Americans); thousands -if not millions- of populous look-a-likes will jump in to fill his space.
The democratic parties must begin hitting hard on the drums of war, and it begins by adopting cases like Kashoggi's case, and focus too on the fuck ups in the foreign policy that gave Trump and the Sauds a good umbrella to hid behind.
It is up to our intel, if the orange turd would let it's do it's job, which the fucker probably wont considering he bragged about making lots of personal money off doing business with the Saudis. There still is a dispute between Saudi Arabia and Turkey as to who did what, but still. It fucking stinks and the fact that 45 has been vilifying the press and admits to making money with that oppressive theocracy, would not shock me in the least that they looked at his behavior here and thought it was ok because he was vilifying journalists here..
