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workinclasszero

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Thu Jul 12, 2018, 10:59 AM Jul 2018

Donald Trump's global chaos tour: As he runs wild in Brussels, GOP senators start to back away

After threatening to blow up NATO and declaring victory, Trump is off to London to meet the “Baby Trump” blimp
HEATHER DIGBY PARTON JULY 12, 2018 12:15PM (UTC)

In anticipation of Donald Trump's Global Chaos Tour a couple of days ago I told everyone to get ready, because it was going to be wild. Upon his arrival in Brussels for the annual NATO meeting, the president opened the show with a fusillade of insults toward America's allies, a grand display of ignorance on every key issue and a total disregard for history, diplomacy or the national security of the United States.

And then it got really crazy.

He started off at a morning breakfast photo-op on Wednesday with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and members of their staffs. Trump proceeded to whine, complain and caterwaul once again about how the NATO countries aren't contributing enough money to what he still portrays as some common NATO piggy bank and implied that they owe the U.S. for overdue payments, which is simply daft. But he made big news when he claimed that Germany is "totally controlled by Russia," which he apparently believes means that Chancellor Angela Merkel is Vladimir Putin's puppet.

This NATO debacle was just the opening act of the Global Chaos Tour. Now he's off to London, where he'll meet the queen, encounter large protests and be followed around by a gigantic "Baby Trump" blimp. That should be highly entertaining. It's when Vladimir Putin joins him on stage for the big finale in Helsinki that we'll see the real pyrotechnics.


https://www.salon.com/2018/07/12/donald-trumps-global-chaos-tour-as-he-runs-wild-in-brussels-gop-senators-start-to-back-away/
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Donald Trump's global chaos tour: As he runs wild in Brussels, GOP senators start to back away (Original Post) workinclasszero Jul 2018 OP
Really??! SMH at this headline... Nevermypresident Jul 2018 #1

Nevermypresident

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1. Really??! SMH at this headline...
Thu Jul 12, 2018, 02:07 PM
Jul 2018

"GOP Senators start to back away". LOL Useless non-binding resolutions that have no teeth.

Traitor-in-Chief doesn't give a flying s_it.

I can't believe there are still some Democrats that really believe resistance with "civility" is our best bet. Sit-in protests in DC should be happening. I have friends in Scotland and England that continually ask me where is the "resistance"? It's not visible to them (with the exception of the poor immigrants being ripped from their parents). It certainly isn't the only strategy, but should be part of a multi-prong attack.

I long ago accepted that rethugs aren't going to save us much less stop trump. I am and have been working in my community hoping for the Blue Wave. But I can do more than 1 thing at a time.

What is your back-up strategy if the Blue Wave doesn't happen? Does anyone here really think a rethug majority congress will impeach trump?

(BTW, I remember the constant Vietnam protests close to the White House got under Nixon's skin so bad.) How many more American lives would have been destroyed if those protests didn't happen?

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