To be fair, the # of assaults on ICE has likely skyrocketed since they began their campaign of masked abductions, assaults, and worse.

The number of assaults by masked ice agents has likely gone up by a higher %

It started with the shirtless pics on horseback and since then, I’ve had trouble focusing on other state actors

Sorry I didn’t realize it was my fault.

The decline of American Hegemony helps China as much as Russia, sure. It likely helps them more as they’re better positioned to take advantage of it. But his Rhetoric towards Russia has warmed up a lot, whereas China not so much.

He asked Russia to hack his opponent, and they did.

He took the word of Putin over his own intelligence.

He’s said he wouldn’t support NATO allies if attacked by Russia if they had contributed enough.

Paul Manafort was his campaign manager.

And the action in Venezuela could be seen as a net positive for Russia. It makes them seem like hypocrites for complaining about Russia attacking Ukraine when they don’t respect sovereignty either. It suggests that maybe the super powers can do as they like in their own backyard, like Russia attacking Ukraine, or China planning to attack Taiwan.

So it doesn’t seem crazy to me. I don’t think it’s a driving factor anymore, as being a rapist isn’t the deal breaker we thought it was, but its possible they had something on him and that it affected policy.

I think it’s crazier to suggest that Trump hasn’t dramatically shifted policy, and its just a continuation of the same general direction as always. In some ways Trump has gone ‘mask off’ while continuing on the same as always, but just taking off the mask is a big change in itself. But beyond that, yes, policy has clearly changed and the US has shifted away from Nato im ways that scare western Europe and are celebrated in Russia. So Trump has stopped pretending the US is acting on behalf of justice when it uses its military to advance it’s interests, but has also changed those interests in significant ways.

And no it’s not like these changes arent being implemented by and supported by Americans in power ($). Some are driven by hate, most of it is just about money though as the billionaires arent rich enough yet. Putin isn’t pulling the strings on Trump, but it seems naive to dismiss it entirely. The hate that enables them is homegrown American hate, but its again naive to suggest Russia wouldn’t try to steer the US into a downward spiral by supporting politicians more aligned with their interests, just as it would be to dismiss the CIA meddling in other countries to support politicians aligned with them.

But am I am sorry for bringing facism to the US. It was not my intention and im pretty disappointed to hear that I did. Sorry guys

I think the Russian asset angle makes sense. The hate Trump has tapped into is All-American, but a lot of his actions seem to advance Russian interests at the expense of traditional American interests

I tried to uninstall a game but was blocked because I didn’t remember my ubisoft launcher password. Wtf, its my PC get the fuck out

Sure, but I think a healthy portion of them see the cruelty and celebrate it

You have to lower your glasses on your nose and look straight into the blurry camera to sell it effectively too

They’re still testing the waters and pushing around to see what they can get away with. The midterms will be another testing ground and they’ll pull something, but it’s mostly to test the waters for 2028. Trump will be replaced by a combination of ai and those Tesla robots where Stephen Miller is driving it behind a curtain like the wizard of Oz

It’s calculated projection to enable them to interfere in elections (more than J6, etc.). They weaponize the DOJ for the stuff they’re about to do, so they can claim they’re bring pursecuted politically if they’re held accountable.

Here they are doing it retroactively too though, and based on how things are going he’ll find 12,000 uncounted votes

He repeats things people have said recently. Walz must have said you need to dee-eskalate a few times on the call

I think its a thing where the default is to combine names instead of the wife assuming the husband’s name. Not sure if its true but a French person told me so I’ve been running with that. Seems like a dangerous game where last names grow in size exponentially. Then one day they have to reset to one name, but everyone gets to pick their own name again.

I think its means like a whole bunch of water all at once depending on context