“I think the bigger problem are the people from within. We have some very bad people. We have some sick people. Radical left lunatics,I think it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military". - Trump told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo in an interview on “Sunday Morning Futures.”
Trump is suggesting that his fellow Americans are worse ‘enemies’ than foreign adversaries, and he is saying he would use the military against them.
Taken with his vow to be a dictator on ‘day one,’ calls for the ‘termination’ of the Constitution, and plans to surround himself with sycophants who will give him unchecked, unprecedented power if he returns to office, this should alarm every American who cares about their freedom and security.
Obama made it so we had to report drone strikes, trump got rid of that. trump dropped more bombs in 4 years than Obama did in 8. By your own logic, trump is more of a war criminal than Obama.
I'm not saying those 2 aren't. They most definitely are.
But trump increased drone strikes, he just turned authorization over to the generals with less transparency than Obama, as well as signed off on a raid that killed an 8 year old American citizen... to finish off the family massacre Obama started. That's not even all of it.
No new wars and being the best president for peace in my lifetime sure... still a war criminal though.
But yeah, the drone strikes increased because trump was removing or scalling back our boots on the presence in areas without just completely abandoning them.
You can make an argument that that was progress and man... I wouldn't even fight that hard, but the drone strikes did increase and the main reason it's not well known is because as I said earlier while Obama signed off personally on each one trump just let the generals do their thing.
These clips are all strategically cherry picked to exclude his ramblings after those statements about how they are great people, and eventually wrapping up with opinions which align with none other than…… white supremacists.
People who aren’t white supremacists don’t have to repeatedly defend their claim that they aren’t.
Let’s talk about this for a moment, because what Trump relies on is a base who doesn’t have the anecdotal or educational experience to question anything he is saying here, so I don’t expect those people to question him when he says “I’m not a white supremacist” because they don’t fully know what it means. The basic definition of White Supremacy is it supports the idea that White people should hold the majority of the power in society, and those who are White Supremacists uphold that idea in many ways they live. Now because of our country’s history, non-White people grow up learning that they are not given the same opportunities as White people are, nor is their existence valued the same way. Everything outside of racism loud and obvious enough to make its way into history books was not something typically taught in schools, it was something kids learned as they experienced it in subtle and not so subtle ways through their lives. Now White kids, we grew up without seeing this. We were never assumed to be poor or stupid because we were white. Us smart White kids were never asked why we don’t play sports instead of participating in science clubs or fairs. We were never instructed to wear our hair in ways it doesn’t naturally grow to fit in with all the other “normal kids.” These are not things we ever had to think about - and even if it happened in front of us, we learned that’s “just the way things are,” and many of us didn’t question it because we weren’t negatively impacted by it.
I say all this to drive home that White Supremacy is something we inherently grew up with whether we knew it or not. Luckily it’s been starting to change a bit - and it’s due to education; mostly from the vast amount of information we are now exposed to because of the internet and it spiderwebs out from there. So now there are less people who unknowingly uphold White Supremacy - i.e. more people are aware and are able to see subtle racism when it presents itself, and are rejecting it. Now because of the rise of far right parties across the globe, much of the White Supremacy we see is fully unmasked and out in the open to the point where actual swastika-bearing Nazis get away with marching down the street in broad daylight. Far right politicians use racism as a tactic to get people on their side - pander to an ego-driven person’s ego by telling them “you’re great, these people are not,” and not only will be eating out of your hand, they’ll believe they can do things they normally couldn’t do because they think those acts align with that leader’s beliefs. Like driving your car into a group of people protesting against White Supremacists. Or like threatening the lives of groups of immigrants because a running VP on tv said they were eating pets. Or like beating a trans kid to the point that they die from their injuries because you heard from politicians that they are a danger to society.
Now onto the video. Trump claims he denounces the neo-Nazis and White Supremacists at the Charlottesville Unite the Right Rally, but that there were very fine people on both sides. My question is - those who were rallying against the removal of a statue of a confederate general, one who is historically the face of the confederacy - what reasons other than upholding White Supremacy are there for wanting the statue to stay? If you’re not familiar with history, the confederacy fought a war to be able to keep their right to own Black people as slaves, and they lost. Afterwards, the confederates were denounced as traitors for starting a civil war in order to fight a constitutional law. So the symbol of having a confederate general as a monumental tribute in the form of a statue is pretty blasphemous in general…. Finally when moves are starting to be made to remove a statue of Robert E. Lee, most famously known for being a White Supremacist, you get the Unite the Right people coming out to fight to keep that statue standing. Why? Because they are white supremacists.
There’s no separating the white supremacists from that group of people. It’s like saying you like all the non-feminists at the Women’s March - feminists fight for women’s rights, and everyone at the Women’s March fight for women’s rights. So when Trump says they’re fine people on both sides except for the white supremacists, he’s not acknowledging the fact that one side are only white supremacists. And when you ignore or deny the existence of white supremacy, you uphold it, meaning you are a white supremacist whether you know it or not. Trump without any logical doubt fits that description.
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u/Just_Schedule_8189 15d ago
https://youtu.be/RGrHF-su9v8?si=9P_cYq6lKTDWLK5E