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    I’ve always wondered in those gray, dystopian movies with smog filled skies, smoke stacks, military forces, and people behind fences: how could they let it get that far?

    I never even considered how quickly it could happen.

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        The rest of the world has been watching you walk blindly down this path for three or four decades. We warned you, repeatedly, and received shitty, belligerent flag-waving in response.

        Nobody literate outside the US is at all surprised by where you have found yourself (though we are a little shocked by how easily the decent people among you are rolling over and taking it). Trump is perhaps not the LEAST of your problems, but he’s not the cause, either.

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      Theee things: He’s absolutely stupid. He’s a self-centered narcissist. He’s immune to consequences.

      The confluence of the two and the power he has lets him do a lot of self-serving…well, everything. From money to bullying to whatever.

      And his position protects him from any consequences. Which lets him keep doing everything he’s been doing.

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        What is incredible is that he has been doing and saying heinous shit his whole life and his history of business failure was always still cast as success for some reason.

        Like he has been raping people his whole life, and he probably personally threw that baby in lake Michigan, things that are punishable by life in prison or the death penalty in some places. Yet he evaded everything.

        Even in the era he was doing this, the coked up 80s, lots of people went to jail for fraud and crap and the shit he was doing. The fact that such a high profile person like him evaded it still is just incredible.

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            And that is. How he got on the apprentice is because when they were looking for successful CEOs to star in the show they couldn’t find them. Because CEOs that are good at their jobs are generally too busy running their companies to be on some dumb reality show. Trump? He basically had an open schedule. All his time was devoted to the show. He didn’t have much else going on at the time.

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      His ego and his pocketbook are all that matters. Arguably all that ever has. Any time you think “he did what?” consider who is paying him or stroking his ego. That’s all it is.

      New ballroom? Ego. Stripping environmental protection? Pocketbook. Invade Venezuela? Pocketbook. Ice Gestapo? Ego. He doesn’t care anything for America. He cares for the slice that lets him line his pockets and feel like a big strong boy. There is no heart, there is no morals, it’s him, his ego, and the wallet he sits on.

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    I just moved to New Zealand at the beginning of the year. The thing I was most struck by immediately after landing was how good the air smells outside. And I was at the Auckland Airport!

    That and the quality of the eggs immediately radicalized me. They’ve taken so much from us.

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      For me its how large and healthy random animals look in other countries outside America. Like even the squirrels and birds in America look like they are struggling in comparison.

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        you should see the size of the rabbits in my backyard here in suburban Ottawa

        the foxes, however, are cute and small as always

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        Wow, that’s something I haven’t thought to look at. I did notice that I haven’t seen an unhappy dog in the couple of weeks I’ve been here. I’ve seen a lot of dogs, and some shy ones, but not really any anxious or angry dogs. That hit me out of the blue a couple days ago.

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      I hate you with every ounce of my being for not taking me with you. Good move and good luck.

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    The purpose of a bill is what it does. This weakens environmental regulations and protections for humans. Allowing companies to pollute and pay their executives more. It was always the goal.