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Jan 3, 2020Liked by John Stoehr

Trump is pure projection. He's very likely terrified of the idea that there could be other people out there who are as desperate and immoral as he is, because he knows they'd be capable of anything.

Unfortunately, at this point, I think it's pretty clear that the worse the impeachment evidence gets, and the worse his reelection prospects get, the worse Trump is going to behave. The only solace I can take, at all, is that I didn't vote for him and I do not support his actions. If the Republican politicians and voters had anything other than pure self-interest as a motivation, they would remove him from office immediately.

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Jan 3, 2020Liked by John Stoehr

Trump is incapable of thinking more than 5min into the future.

When he cancelled the JCPOA (the 2015 Nuclear deal) and imposed draconian economic sanctions on Iran, what did he think would happen? Is it surprising that in reply, Iran would commit various attacks (eg Saudi oil drone attack, oil tanker attack, taking out a US surveillance drone, etc).

When you corner a rat, the rat will strike out in unpredictable, irrational ways. Duh!

Until the recent tit-for-tat, there were civilian demonstrations in both Tehran and Baghdad against their governments. But now with the Soleimani assassination, those same civilians have redirected their anger from their leaders to the USA.

One simple question: When the Soleimani assassination was proposed, did anyone in the administration simply ask, “And, then what happens?” Of course, this is question you would expect the commander-in-chief to ask.

So, when someone asks, “couldn’t we have waited for the election to remove Trump?” Answer: We are now dealing with the consequences of having not removed him last year.

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Jan 4, 2020Liked by John Stoehr

Agree with every word you wrote. Ask everyone to remember that there are military families, like my own two sons who are both on active duty, who will now live in unimaginable fear -again- for the Republican Party's despicable deception.

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