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[leedswolf]

The Grift, the Flood, and the Raid

Trump’s trade chaos tanks markets, ICE storms L.A., Texas drowns while the EPA is gagged, and the spectacle rolls on

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[sycophantia]

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I'm going to take a wild punt that Trump has zero knowledge of Liberia's history.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

You can guarantee he doesn't know who George Weah is.

Pity he isn't still president.

 

[Wellen Wolf]

On a much lesser scale the same concept applies to Gabon which also received ´repatriated ex-slaves´ often with no historical connection to the Gabon area.

The new Gabonese president is reported as follows:

“We are not poor countries. We are rich countries when it comes to raw materials. But we need partners to support us and help us develop those resources,” said Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, president of Gabon. “You are welcome to come and invest. Otherwise, other countries might come instead of you.”

Having briefly worked there just a few years ago, I can add that the following countries have been ´investing´ in Gabon especially under the corrupt former dictator: France (controlling most things eg air links to Paris for manufactured produce and a great deal of food), but it´s on the way out), India (palm oil plantations and air and seaport development), Russia and China (national football stadium). The USA has interfered but not very much - Trump wants access to oil, of course!).

 

[Dire Wolf]

I'm going to take a wild punt that Trump has zero knowledge of Liberia's history.

He doesn't have any knowledge of American history, so knowing about Liberia is well above his intellectual capacity.

 

[Alan]

He doesn't have any knowledge of American history, so knowing about Liberia is well above his intellectual capacity.

He knows the most Bourgeois version of American history, I’d say. Everywhere and everyone is just another resource to be strip-mined.

 

[EdgeOfTheAlps]

He knows the most Bourgeois version of American history, I’d say. Everywhere and everyone is just another resource to be strip-mined.

He knows nothing about anything, not even that.

 

[Dire Wolf]

He knows the most Bourgeois version of American history, I’d say. Everywhere and everyone is just another resource to be strip-mined.

I mean, he didn't even know the difference between the War of Independence and the Civil War. That's as basic history as you can get. Pretty sure it's taught in what we call Primary school (Elementary school?) He's dumber than a bunch of rocks.

 

[Alan]

Nobody here calls it the War of Independence.

Should go without saying that I’m not accusing him of being intelligent, per se. I’m saying he has the perspective of any silver-spooned American. That he’s not aware enough to examine that perspective at all is where his particular brand of Bourgeois bullshit runs headlong into imbecility.

 

[Dennisons Wrong Foot]

Nobody here calls it the War of Independence.

I do. But nobody understands me.

 

[Dire Wolf]

Nobody here calls it the War of Independence.

Revolutionary War?

 

[The Saturday Boy]

Revolutionary War?

Surely it’s called the Make America Great War.

 

[Alan]

Revolutionary War?

Just poking really, but yeah, that’s the title we use.

 

[Dire Wolf]

Just poking really, but yeah, that’s the title we use.

Maybe another revolution is gonna have to come to get rid of the orange dictator.

 

[Alan]

Maybe another revolution is gonna have to come to get rid of the orange dictator.

If only. I don’t think there’s anything close to enough leftists (real leftists) for a unified revolution. I expect it would devolve into various sects which the government would ensure spend more time fighting each other than the actual Bourgeoisie.

 

[sycophantia]

If only. I don’t think there’s anything close to enough leftists (real leftists) for a unified revolution. I expect it would devolve into various sects which the government would ensure spend more time fighting each other than the actual Bourgeoisie.

Not sure it needs leftists, just people with the original spirit of the early Americans, stuff he's done since he started this term seems very un American to me.

 

[Alan]

Not sure it needs leftists, just people with the original spirit of the early Americans, stuff he's done since he started this term seems very un American to me.

Careful… a lot of early American history makes Trump’s shit look like a pillow fight.

On being “un-American”, I generally agree with you, though what is and isn’t “American” is open to interpretation. To Trump’s core (thankfully shrinking by the week), America stopped being American with Little Rock. I wish that was a joke, but no, you can trace a lot of the current conservative/libertarian toxicity back to the Federal government ending segregation.

Oh, Little Rock, Arkansas may not be a known place over there; it was the first city to end segregation in public schools. The “Little Rock Nine”, those first Black students were called. The Arkansas National Guard had to give them a sort of honor guard to make sure they got into the school building safely. That was just 60 years ago; there are still plenty of bigots alive now who were paying attention then.

 

[leedswolf]

The Show Must Go On: Trump’s Texas Flood Tour

How a tragedy that swept away children became another stage for self-congratulation, grievance politics, and photo ops psychopathy, televised.

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[Wellen Wolf]

Trumpstein disgrace gets completely ridiculous.