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Topic History of: Trump's executive orders
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Green Man |
I thought they hated America Jo, it's just the U.S. taxpayers they money love? |
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Jo |
From BBC rolling coverage, 14:27:
If Gazans come we will die, Jordanian labourer says
Maher Azazi, 60, was moved from Jabalia in the Gaza Strip to Gaza camp, in Jordan, as a toddler - 57 years later he is still living at the camp set up as an "emergency" settlement for Palestinians in 1968.
Some of the fiercest opponents of moving Gazans to Jordan are the Gazans who moved here before, BBC's Lucy Williamson writes.
Despite the devastation there, Azazi says Gazans today have learned the lessons of previous generations and most "would rather jump into the sea than leave".
"Donald Trump is an arrogant narcissist," he tells the BBC. "He has a mentality from the Middle Ages, the mentality of a tradesman."
We also heard from Hassan, a Jordanian labourer who says Jordan used to thrive, but after the wars in Syria, and now Gaza, "things got worse... because we're a country that helps and takes people in".
"I have no money, no food," he says. "If Gazans come, we will die."
www.bbc.com/news/live/c2056vkpkrgt |
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JK2006 |
I admit I know nothing about Executive Orders or the US process Hedda but they are saying the increased steel tariffs go up to 25% from 10% on the 12th of next month.
I find things like this not only boring but occupying thought space I have no room for. But it's inevitable that a new President will change direction and seems odd to deny him that right even if we disagree with it. |
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Wyot |
hedda wrote:
[quote]JK2006 wrote:
Hannah Arendt's books on the "banality of evil" should be required reading when it's happening before your eyes.
Spot on Hedda and they are great reads. Or should I say I hope you are NOT spot on and that what is happening will not follow that trajectory (I know it can be argued it already has but I am not quite over the line yet). However, I am far from convinced by any Trump apologist - on here - or anywhere. |
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Rich |
The banality of evil indeed Hedda. People rarely look like "monsters" as described in the media. Look at Pol Pot!
Whenever I have seen films depicting the holocaust and the day to day crimes against humanity committed by people who murdered hundreds or thousands so casually with their own hands during that period, I think about how their lives would have been without that war and Nazism and the horrors, and that these deeply evil people manning concentration camps and shooting, starving, hanging vast numbers of innocent people, set aside from the gassing itself, that these same people without that situation would in all likelihood have lived mundane law abiding suburban lives across Germany. It's quite frightening when you realise this and the darkness that was unleashed in a previously civilised advanced European nation in the modern 20th century era.
I do not believe Trump or America has any parallels whatsoever though and those using the fascist, nazi or Hitler word at Trump should be mocked for stupid hysterics and overplaying their hand quite wildly. |
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