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DumpTrump20202020

(109 posts)
Mon Mar 29, 2021, 10:08 AM Mar 2021

8:46

It's sad how sick I am of this country and the attitude we have against black/brown/poor people. And the way we bomb brown countries for decades with no resistance. In the 60s, the country blew up over one war. Now we're in multiple wars and I haven't seen an anti-war protest in a LONG time.

Injustice for one is injustice for all.... eventually. I wish people would stick out their necks for non-trendy justice.

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8:46 (Original Post) DumpTrump20202020 Mar 2021 OP
I know. The more you know, the more disappointed you become. Not a single one of us was born to Karadeniz Mar 2021 #1
This is important taxi Mar 2021 #2
Yep!!! Karadeniz Mar 2021 #3
The wars are relatively low-intensity, and there's no draft... First Speaker Mar 2021 #4

Karadeniz

(22,638 posts)
1. I know. The more you know, the more disappointed you become. Not a single one of us was born to
Mon Mar 29, 2021, 10:25 AM
Mar 2021

Change the world. But we can influence the area immediately around us. Family, friends. If you're doing your little part, be happy!

taxi

(1,896 posts)
2. This is important
Mon Mar 29, 2021, 10:50 AM
Mar 2021

I did an experiment yesterday. I failed miserably.

President Joe Biden’s Cabinet includes Vice President Kamala Harris and the heads of the 15 executive departments — the Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Labor, State, Transportation, Treasury, and Veterans Affairs, and the Attorney General. Additionally, the Cabinet includes the White House Chief of Staff, the US Ambassador to the United Nations, the Director of National Intelligence, and the US Trade Representative, as well as the heads of the Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Management and Budget, Council of Economic Advisers, Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Small Business Administration.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/cabinet/

Those are just positions. Every problem in the world goes through there somewhere. As President you are responsible and someone isn't going to like what you do. I started looking at some of the problems, wars, dictators, pandemics, climate, inequality, and the list never ends. It made me feel like I had to step back, I couldn't put myself through it. That's when I realized how weak Trump, McConnell, and the rest of the ilk are. They are as weak as I am. They can't do it either. About the best we can do is to help around us, I'm not tough enough for public office. Neither are any of them.

First Speaker

(4,858 posts)
4. The wars are relatively low-intensity, and there's no draft...
Mon Mar 29, 2021, 11:14 AM
Mar 2021

...so it's easy for people to forget they're actually happening. It's also been twenty years, believe it or not, since 9/11 and the beginning of our Mideast wars. We've just gotten used to it all...

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