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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
September 1, 2025 at 8:19 am
Why would anyone risk visiting the USA when the slightest excuse seems to land you in a foreign jail?
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
September 1, 2025 at 11:16 am
AND....visiting a country where Covid and other emergent infectious diseases will be very prevalent.
I can foresee in the near future that any American visiting a foreign country will have to quarantine before being admitted...
Let's be truthful, the Trump regime is legally a plague on the earth...
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
September 1, 2025 at 12:41 pm
In the past I have visited the USA 4 times and enjoyed every visit, but I do not see me ever visiting again, I think it will take decades to recover from Trump and at my age I think another visit is unlikely.
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
September 1, 2025 at 6:15 pm
Us older members may see the full spectrum, from when we landed people on the moon and were universally seen as the greatest nation on Earth to a time when we are pariahs, the world's rejects.
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
September 1, 2025 at 7:37 pm
(September 1, 2025 at 6:15 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: Us older members may see the full spectrum, from when we landed people on the moon and were universally seen as the greatest nation on Earth to a time when we are pariahs, the world's rejects.
I don't know about "universally" but we certainly believed it, and we had a few good reasons to think so whether true or not. Nonetheless, we've fallen so far from even that, it's disgusting.
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
September 2, 2025 at 12:56 am
Here's hoping...
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
September 2, 2025 at 1:59 am
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(September 1, 2025 at 6:15 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: Us older members may see the full spectrum, from when we landed people on the moon and were universally seen as the greatest nation on Earth to a time when we are pariahs, the world's rejects.
Living in Iran in the 70s, we Americans were accorded a mixed bag. On a personal level, much respect and laughter over cultural iconography, but there was considerable, and palpable, anger over the Mossadegh overthrow and before that the deposition of Reza I.
Yes ... we have fallen in international respect in the last ten years, because our leadership has failed us. But I suspect many nations, aside from Iran, did not view us as the "greatest nation", but rather as an imposition. Chileans, Guatemalans, and plenty of Caribbean folk saw us in the light.
Neil Armstrong and Hollywood movies aside, I think the world's opinion of America has always been mixed. I think it was mostly us who saw ourselves as the "greatest nation".
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
September 2, 2025 at 7:27 am
So are we not making Canada the 51st state? What about Greenland?
The guy talks such nonsense that it gets overwritten twice a day. The mouth breathers can't keep up.
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
September 2, 2025 at 10:03 pm
Quote:Specifically, law enforcement agencies were instructed to “[s]ubstitute ‘protection’ for ‘security’” and “detect, monitor, and report” for “surveillance.” RFA Email Thread. “If the requested activity cannot be converted to a ‘protection’ term,” the email stated, “then we cannot perform it.”
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/...76.0_1.pdf
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
September 3, 2025 at 1:03 am
(September 2, 2025 at 10:03 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Quote:Specifically, law enforcement agencies were instructed to “[s]ubstitute ‘protection’ for ‘security’” and “detect, monitor, and report” for “surveillance.” RFA Email Thread. “If the requested activity cannot be converted to a ‘protection’ term,” the email stated, “then we cannot perform it.”
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/...76.0_1.pdf
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