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I'm scared and worried

TheCatWoman

Quite frankly Donald Trump is terrifying me, he seems intent on wrecking the planet, bullying anyone and everyone, either through deportation or declaring that they must be either male or female, making it easier to sack federal staff, trade tariffs and he's a danger to world health by planing to withdraw from WHO and pausing funding for it.

I worry about whats next or who's next, will he start his military rampaging around the world annexing where he pleases in the name of America First and national security?

What will happen to the trans people, or those who genetically speaking dont' fit into binary genders?

He is really and genuinely scaring me to the point that I'm not sure I want to be around to see the results of his chaos.

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  • As an English expat living in the US, I vacillate between fear, rage and despair. Not just at him but at the millions of fellow American citizens who can look at him and think he's their guy. They actually chose him over Kamala Harris who, while not perfect, is leagues ahead in just about every metric. 

    Donald Trump is driven by simple self-interest and nothing more. That's it. There is nothing else to him. He has no real political convictions. He has no ideology or ethos. He ran for a second term for two reasons: to stay out of prison and to make money. Everything else is showmanship and misdirection. He doesn't give a toss about Greenland, or Panama, or trans people, or immigration. None of it. But he knows that generating outrage with one hand allows him to grift with the other while no one is looking. The trick is to pay attention to what he does and not what he says.

    He is almost certainly a Russian asset. He has a relationship with Putin that goes back decades, back when he was running the Miss Universe competition and rigged it so Putin's favorite would win. He was angling for a Trump tower in Moscow and still is. Now, with his new cryptocurrency scam, he can take bribes from anyone and they would be untraceable. 

    There really is no silver lining to his presidency other than this one thing: he is still better than the long line of extreme 'true believers' around him. His self-interest is still a better option than, say, J.D. Vance or Mike Johnson and their brand of fundamentalist Christian insanity. He is surrounded by people who would be even worse than he is. Hard as that may be to believe. 

    As MLK said, 'We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.'

    This too shall pass and hopefully we can rebuild.

  • in reply to Captain Grover

    Well said 

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