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Okay, so I can't really get angry over a demented old man yelling at the clouds, it's what they do...
But exactly what is happening in USA since there's nobody telling him to shut the fuck up? Somebody wrote this on a piece of paper for him and put it in an envelope and send it through as diplomatic post between two nations. And NOBODY at any point whatsoever had the courage to tell him what is obvious to everyone else on the planet: That these are the dumbest words every written on a piece of paper in the entire history of mankind. Really?
What are they so afraid of?
You described it well. It's what happens to tyrants, and invariably brings their downfall. It's a process: they replace more and more annoying critical voices with yesmen and -women. It strengthens their power, until literally nobody dares to criticize them anymore. And suddenly there's no way to correct course back to normal, and it all turns into a farce.
We have other living examples for that, historical examples, even fairytales - and measures against it. Separation of powers, no more than two consecutive terms, and ultimately the democratic process itself - if those haven't been hollowed out for decades.
Part of me wants to believe its because they enjoy letting him make a dook of himself but I know better.
Edit: somehow, ‘fool’ got autocorrected to ‘dook’.
I have decided I like dook better.
A fool of a dook.
dookie
They are afraid their corporate donors will get mad. Who benefits from this chaos? Corporations. Corporations who are handed the new contracts for resource extraction.
Just about our entire government is captured by these corporate interests. Foreign policy to enrich these powers has always been uniparty in this country try as we might to lie and obfuscate that. No one wants to speak out against Trump and lose out on the gravy train they have coming in with their kickbacks from donors.
Maybe the Epstein files don't just have pedobloat in them. SCROTUS/GOP/Billionaires, etc...they are all covering for each other's kompromat.