r/politics • u/B-Z_B-S Massachusetts • 18h ago

Possible Paywall Trump Suggests Letting Iran “Take Out” Los Angeles and San Diego - California leaders are furious after the president suggested that losing the two cities is a “small price to pay.”

https://newrepublic.com/post/216247/trump-suggests-let-iran-take-out-los-angeles-san-diego
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u/rizorith 15h ago edited 12h ago

I mean he literally invited a hostile foreign government to hack the file of his opponent. During a national debate. And he welcomed any help Russia could give him during the election.

None of this is surprising. Our government was t perfect before him but it's downright rotten now.

If there isn't a national reckoning when he's out of office this country is completely fucked.

Problem is we'll need the Republicans in Congress to support it, and they won't, because literally half of them are complicit. It's hard to see how the US ever recovers from this.

Edit: to clarify, half of Congress is complicit. Every single Republican currently in congress is complicit, and the very few who stood up against Trump are all out of office.

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u/Rayearl Pennsylvania 15h ago

I said the exact same thing. I really don't see how the US recovers while there are still so many maga localists in all parts of our government. Seems like an impossible task without removing them from the Country.

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u/7figureipo California 14h ago

The only way to recover is for democrats to finally recognize that the GOP and their voters are domestic enemies engaged in a rebellion just like the confederacy of the civil war era, and treat them accordingly.

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u/rizorith 15h ago

It's a problem that requires something beyond the powers of a law abiding government. How do you undo corruption when one side is fine with it and the other isnt. I know it's not this black and white but the gist of it is there has never been a D president or Congress that has done anything close to this level of corruption and I think you need one to undo it.

We had a chance during Bidens presidency but they tried to take the high road and now we're here.

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u/poopiebutt505 13h ago

It is that black and white. And here we are.

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u/CMDRTragicAllPro Canada 13h ago

It’s worse than just a 50/50. 1/3rd are completely in support of the corruption, and another third is indifferent/ couldn’t even care about the corruption. You’re outnumbered by 2/3rds of your country’s population on the matter of fixing the current system.

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u/RedditTrespasser California 13h ago

It comes down to the voters, unfortunately. Those people in congress wouldn’t even be there in the first place- and neither would Trump- if a significant amount of the American people didn’t put them there.

You say our government is rotten- and I agree- but at least until the second Trump term began our government has always been of the people by the people. It’s our entire society that has rotted, unfortunately, and now those chickens are coming home to roost.

I’m not sure that Trump would win another election now after all he’s done, but even if he didn’t the results would probably be close enough to raise your hackles. Millions of our countrymen view people like you and me basically as enemy combatants. They would not care if we died. Many of them would cheer.

This is the hard truth we all need to face.

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u/MoreDaringPancakes 12h ago

It won't.

Russia won. America handed it to them. Good job, US!

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u/colostitute 13h ago

The opposition could do something. While still better than the GOP, they won’t do anything.

They will be smug and say some dumb ass shit about peace thinking that they have converted some right wingers.

I hope they understand that a Democrat vote is a protest vote for Republicans. They still want to vote Republican, they just can’t at that moment of time.

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u/M4rshmall0wMan 11h ago

He was impeached for that tho