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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
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Trump isn't an isolationist, he's a revisionist, and the overall Trump administration's foreign policy is itself turning increasingly revisionist to match it.
Yes, my dad's acquaintance specifically said he and quite a lot of other people from the South there had been sent there because they were "troublemakers" (read: low income, hostile to authority, or perceived nonconformity) and had a decidedly negative view of the local police. Whatever their feelings on segregation the general mood was hostile to law enforcement's treatment of locals as well as a "pick on someone your own size" mentality.
There were no split loyalties, though, and everyone was 100% on the federal government's side.
I wish I'd been paying more attention when my dad told me about this but it didn't seem as relevant when I was eleven.
Edited by CharlesPhipps on Aug 5th 2018 at 1:22:38 AM
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.Umm...
Not if that person was a foreign national, trumpy. Keep trying though. (Adoptions, ha! More like a bunch of Desinformatizia to try to get them to remove Sanctions. They only offered the dirt when they didn't seem interested in that.)
Edited by megaeliz on Aug 5th 2018 at 5:01:19 AM
This would be explosive were not the fact his followers are indoctrinated stormtrooper wannabes and no one will prosecute him for it.
Trump has confessed to many crimes before.
Edited by CharlesPhipps on Aug 5th 2018 at 1:58:44 AM
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He's talking about his son Donald Trump Jr. and his meeting with a Russian representative back in 2016. Ignore this, I was responding to the post when it was just "Umm..." and the quote, thus assumed he was confused about what the hell Trump was talking about (specifically, why it seemed he was referring to himself in the third person).
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Edited by MarqFJA on Aug 5th 2018 at 12:00:57 PM
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.Yes, my point was that he talked a big game isolationism wise but he immediately failed to live up to it.
Now maybe a future Republican President who's less moronic will be a proper isolationist but at the moment the isolationist wing seems marginal if not outright powerless.
(I want to make clear that I don't support isolationism and a isolationist President would be just as if not worse for America as Trump when it comes to foreign policy).
Sadly you're probably right, still at-least if this increases the chances of Democrats getting elected then they can do something about it.
Edited by Fourthspartan56 on Aug 5th 2018 at 4:59:07 AM
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji YangWhat's hilarious to me is that he is literally using Leninist rhetoric here (not that he or his supporters who parrot the line know that).
Edited by megaeliz on Aug 5th 2018 at 7:03:46 AM
Stalin famously ordered Marx censored because he was annoyed at the "enemy of the people being those who use force and military power to coerce labor from the working classes."
Recently, I was reading an article about the State Department that they've basically started ignoring Trump's decrees and statements. They're just delivering a blanket, "US policy will continue as before." Trump never bothers to correct them and they go on as before.
I would think that would be an Onion article about any other president.
Edited by CharlesPhipps on Aug 5th 2018 at 4:35:11 AM
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.Here's the New Yorker article about how Trump keeps changing things and they get changed behind his back (or more precisely aren't changed).
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.Jobs boom favors Democratic counties, not Trump strongholds
Edited by LSBK on Aug 5th 2018 at 9:29:32 AM
But Rothfus has also been outspoken on the importance of tighter border security. A few weeks after the chamber meeting, he voted for a bill that, had it passed, would have imposed tougher border measures and likely curbed legal immigration.

I am not convinced that they have actual power, yes the pure interventionist neoconservative wing are more or less dead for now but Trump's isolationism seems more about trying to tear down international systems then actual isolationism.
Edited by Fourthspartan56 on Aug 5th 2018 at 1:27:11 PM
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang