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(I was such an arrogant jerk in my early twenties)

Because the party has become over the last few decades a conglomerate of selfish, deceitful, personally ambitious con men who do not give a rat's ass about the well-being of their constituents.

They can die for want of affordable medical care, that's just fine. They can be shot by police, and their children can be murdered in school by insane people with automatic weapons, that's all the rough evidence of liberty.

We probably shouldn't have hamstrung their military the way we did. They weren't about to go all Tojo anytime soon (or late) after their crushing defeat and they could have been there with the UK in helping us around the world.

Helping you rape and pillage, not a chance. Yankeeland is much too greedy to share.

President Trump on Thursday sought to turn down the temperature on the fierce dispute between the U.S. and Russia over Syria's chemical weapons attack.

"Things will work out fine between the U.S.A. and Russia. At the right time everyone will come to their senses & there will be lasting peace!" the president tweeted.
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 13, 2017

Trump's tweet comes after he signaled a more aggressive approach toward Moscow, Syrian leader Bashar Assad's main ally, after the chemical attack - backing away from his campaign promise to forge better ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

During a press conference Wednesday, Trump refrained from criticizing Putin directly but declared that the U.S.-Russia relationship "may be at an all-time low" after the U.S. air strikes on a Syrian airfield where the gas attack is believed to have originated.

Trump also lauded China from abstaining from a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning what the U.S. and its allies said was Assad's decision to use chemical weapons on his own citizens.

The comments came on the same day the president reversed his position on Chinese currency manipulation.

But on Thursday, Trump sought to put on a tough face toward Beijing on the issue of North Korea's nuclear program.

"I have great confidence that China will properly deal with North Korea. If they are unable to do so, the U.S., with its allies, will! U.S.A." he tweeted.
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 13, 2017

Trump told the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday he offered China better trade terms if they would confront Pyongyang over his nuclear ambitions.
But he also said he came away from his meeting last week with Chinese President Xi Jinping with a different view of how much influence he has over his neighbors, especially after Xi explained the history of their two countries.

"After listening for 10 minutes, I realized it's not so easy," Trump said "I felt pretty strongly that they had a tremendous power over North Korea. ... But it's not what you would think."

I would guess this had a lot to do with how Germany was able to get around their restrictions post WWI and they didn't want a repeat with Japan.

America has this addiction to cowardice.

GW deniers for instance are scared little cowards, afraid of the truth, and no country has more of them than the US...

And all the cyber spying

and all this Muslim banning

that's born out of visceral, primal fear of the "other".

Even Trump's election is a symptom of fear: the fear of falling backward, of not being "great" (aka white) anymore. You guys have become a permanently scared nation.

Booh!