President Sh*thole craps on NATO/op ed

[Brian37]

The only thing that's going to wake his followers up is the reality of his disastrous consequences finally hitting them where it hurts the most.

He needs to step down, or get impeached. But if not, the best that we can hope for is that he doesn't drag us into a global nuclear war, is that all the middle of America realizes they got conned. I do not think however, even if he makes it to 2020 he will be able to repeat a swing state repeat. 

It is insane that our head of state is literally shitting on the memory of the victims of WW2 and the soldiers that died to prevent Europe from becoming the next North Korea.

[Joods]

He won't step down and he won't get impeached. Too many republicans think he's doing a grand job. Evidently it hasn't really hit home for them, yet.

[Brian37]

He won't step down and he won't get impeached. Too many republicans think he's doing a grand job. Evidently it hasn't really hit home for them, yet.

I really would not count Mueller out in all this. It would not surprise me one bit if a huge chunk of dirt came out that not even the GOP could ignore. But it is pretty fucking embarrassing that congress has been reduced to going behind his back saying, "Don't listen to him(meaning the public attack on Germany and NATO) we still got your back Europe".

[ReptilianPeon]

I'm no fan of Angela Merkel but Donald's comments about Germany do strike me as weird and unnecessary. Donald seems to dislike strong women, so there's that. Though he's really uneducated and just generally moronic - never doing any research on topics - so it's probably not all sexism.

In terms of NATO, the defence contractors must be licking their lips with glee right about now, at the thought of the president wanting to try and force countries to spend more on their respective armed forces. So there's that angle of it. He may simply be trying to please some of his donors - just like any other president in his position would be if they accept bribes from cooperations.

Still, NATO needs to be crapped on as it has outlasted its usefulness as it's not the 1950s anymore (as much as Donald Trump would like to to think it is). Europe needs to become sovereign again and stop relying on USA for so much (especially defence). I always feel insulted when a country with legalised bribery of politicians and such a terrible way of electing its politicians is described as being "leader of the free world". Get out of here!

Millions of Europeans were fed up of the USA long before the Trump Administration. Why are Americans only waking up now? Clearly previous administrations were more subtle in how they treated the Europeans but there was still pressure to join in on pointless conflicts the USA wanted to start simply because they were a member of NATO. My grandparents live within walking distance of US nuclear weapons - I do not feel safe! I want US military bases out of my country and millions of Europeans feel the same way (e.g. Jeremy Corbyn has talked about the UK leaving NATO). It's so pretentious of people claim that it is only now that Donald Trump is president that people grow weary of the USA.

[Brian37]

I'm no fan of Angela Merkel but Donald's comments about Germany do strike me as weird and unnecessary. Donald seems to dislike strong women, so there's that. Though he's really uneducated and just generally moronic - never doing any research on topics - so it's probably not all sexism.

In terms of NATO, the defence contractors must be licking their lips with glee right about now, at the thought of the president wanting to try and force countries to spend more on their respective armed forces. So there's that angle of it. He may simply be trying to please some of his donors - just like any other president in his position would be if they accept bribes from cooperations.

Still, NATO needs to be crapped on as it has outlasted its usefulness as it's not the 1950s anymore (as much as Donald Trump would like to to think it is). Europe needs to become sovereign again and stop relying on USA for so much (especially defence). I always feel insulted when a country with legalised bribery of politicians and such a terrible way of electing its politicians is described as being "leader of the free world". Get out of here!

Millions of Europeans were fed up of the USA long before the Trump Administration. Why are Americans only waking up now? Clearly previous administrations were more subtle in how they treated the Europeans but there was still pressure to join in on pointless conflicts the USA wanted to start simply because they were a member of NATO. My grandparents live within walking distance of US nuclear weapons - I do not feel safe! I want US military bases out of my country and millions of Europeans feel the same way (e.g. Jeremy Corbyn has talked about the UK leaving NATO). It's so pretentious of people claim that it is only now that Donald Trump is president that people grow weary of the USA.

Weird? Just "weird"? 

No, flat out dangerous.

[ReptilianPeon]

So that was all you took away from my post?

[Brian37]

So that was all you took away from my post?

"Weird" is not how I would describe his behavior.

[Minimalist]

"Fucked-up?"

[Brian37]

"Fucked-up?"

Closer, but not complete, "Fucked up and dangerous" is way beyond "weird".

[ReptilianPeon]

Perhaps. And I'm now back from listening to the entire NATO summit press conference. I needed a good laugh and I got one. Donald Trump repeated the words "I'm a stable genius" in response to a question and I burst out laughing. Did anyone else catch wind of that part?