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What, in your mind, changed? To an outsider, the only real difference is that the mask is off now.
We were generally pretty smart about what we were doing. Even Iraq, I think the idea was to overthrow a brutal dictator (we all agree he was, right?) and liberate a country in the middle east that would be friendly and allow us to be less dependent on Israel and the Saudis.
I protested against that war, but it was certainly a hell of a lot smarter than threatening Greenland or Mexico.
Despite all the memes, compared to the average person, W was reasonably smart. Maybe not on the scale of presidents. And evil or not, the people in his cabinet were pretty smart. Dick Cheney might have been evil, but he wasn't a fucking idiot.
We've had our issues and we've had our strengths, but we've never been this fucking dumb on a federal level. We're literally taking advice from Putin.
This is the first time we've had a president who doesn't realize that he's in the same boat as the rest of us. Might have a better cabin on that boat, but if he sinks it... and Putin is whispering in his ear that it'd be fun to sink the boat.
Jesus christ, lol. No man, you massacred millions of middle easterners, before that you genocided Korea, and did ethnic cleansing in Vietnam. Let's not forget Cambodia, Laos, Libya, Syria, and Yemen. Currently Lebanon and Iran. Gaza. Millions of innocent dead civilians. Tens of millions. Fuck your fascist state and the propaganda you rode in on.