The Cost of a Second Term: More Death and Destruction
Trump doesn't care about human lives. He never has
The people of the United States elected the person they thought was less likely to get them into a war.
They elected the man who said he was the ‘President of Peace’ and insisted he’d put America first. He was lying. We always knew he was — he’s been threatening other countries constantly for years, but for some reason enough people believed all of his bullshit prosperity promises that they gave him the reins of power again.
And here we are.
How’s it working out, MAGA folks? Are you at peace? Are your grocery prices going down? Has inflation been fixed? Is manufacturing coming back to the U.S.? Are jobs coming back as he brutalizes immigrants and citizens in the streets? Do you feel safer?
Are you winning?
The United States is on the fast lane to complete collapse. Its long-standing alliances are breaking down, its economy is in shambles, and the people are in the middle of a cold civil war that is on the verge of turning hot.
And now their President is forcing an illegal regime-change war, without Congressional approval, to try and hold on to power in the face of potential revolution and a third impeachment and criminal charges.
Not that the first two impeachments or his 34-count felony conviction accomplished anything except make him feel a little butthurt.
That’s the thing about impeachments; they don’t bring any consequences in and of themselves. They just open the door for prosecution and removal from office, which are separate processes. Impeachments only remove Presidential immunity.
Impeachment is a mark of shame, but if that’s where it ends, then there’s no point.
And as for his felony convictions… well, what’s the point of convicting someone if you also refuse to lay a sentence? The judge basically said that Trump was guilty, but he wouldn’t be punished for any of it.
Once again, the rich asshole escaped all accountability for his actions.
But my concern isn’t Trump in and of himself, which is the point I really need to nail home for a lot of people. I’ve been accused of having ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ before, usually by the people who make defending Trump their entire personality and reason for living.
I don’t hate Trump for no reason. Here at World-Weary, we’re concerned with human rights, democracy and social justice.
And from that perspective, everything Trump does is a freakin’ nightmare.
Trump’s actions do not only impact the United States. The blood soaking his hands is imported from all over the world.
That’s his chief export these days; human suffering at a monumental scale.
I don’t need to rehash all of our previous discussions and rants about how his policies impact the global population. We’ve talked about USAID, for example, and his constant threats and warmongering with NATO.
Suffice to say, his bombing raids and the literal kidnapping of a foreign country’s leader haven’t made him — or the U.S. — very popular.
And now he’s creating a war with Iran, alongside Netanyahu, which has already caused the brutal deaths of dozens of children in an elementary school.
They bombed it. In the morning, when kids were just settling in to class.
These girls were dropped off at school, then their parents had to come straight back to collect their corpses from the rubble of the building where they were supposed to be safe.
Every parent’s worst nightmare.
I watched footage of the school in the aftermath of the bombing. Listening to the wails and screams of the families collecting outside was gut-wrenching. Every human being knows what grief sounds like; that tearing, animal sound that almost seems to shred the body on the way out… it chills the blood.
Those little girls didn’t start this war. Trump and Netanyahu did. And they’ve already gotten some of their own soldiers killed in the frantic retaliation from Iran.
How long will it go on? Who knows?
How many deaths will there be? Can’t say.
What I do know is that none of it was necessary. Iran was literally in negotiations with the U.S. and coming to a deal when the Trump administration and Israel’s government decided to bomb them for no good reason.
They can’t even get their story straight as to why they did it. It’s insane.
The so-called President of Peace hasn’t given anybody a moment of peace since he was sworn back into office, and for the life of me I can’t fathom how anyone ever imagined he would.
He’s not fit for the office he holds. He ought to be in prison, both for the crimes he has already been convicted of, and the crimes we all know he’s done. I don’t even know if he’ll ever be held accountable — chances are good he’ll die before they even bother to investigate or indict him for them.
The justice system rarely ever applies to people like him. That’s how you know the United States isn’t a true democracy.
Even if it used to be, it definitely isn’t now.
I once likened Trump to a tornado; the storm tearing the country apart and leaving wreckage in his wake. I said you won’t know how bad he can be until the storm reaches your front door.
Here we are. Now we know. I’m very sad to be proven right.
Solidarity wins.
Just be very glad you live in Canada. With all of its faults, it still a lot better than living in the U.S. now, and it's going to get so much worse very, very soon.