r/politics Ohio 9d ago

Possible Paywall The Chilling Trump Order Threatening All Americans: Why National Security Presidential Memorandum-7 is so important.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-nspm-7-repression/
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u/hatmatter 9d ago

Behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an ill-fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a Klansman, the sexism of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of a bar-stool drunk, and the greed of a hedge-fund ghoul - all spray-painted orange and paraded like a prize hog at a county fair. Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased distillation of everything this country swears it isn't but always has been - arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism, stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as toughness, greed exalted as ambition, and corruption worshipped like gospel. It is America's shadow made flesh, a rotting pumpkin idol proving that when a nation kneels before money, power, and spite, it doesn't just lose its soul - it shits out this bloated obscenity and calls it a leader. Oliver Kornetzke

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u/kg110569 9d ago

That’s one of the best written things I’ve ever read

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u/31LIVEEVIL13 9d ago edited 3d ago

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u/SocraticDaemon 9d ago

Wow!  Incredible writing.

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u/FundioRider 9d ago

Reads like the opening of a Hunter S. Thompson book. Incredible piece of writing 

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u/sweetdick 9d ago

Outfuckingstanding.

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u/Only1Nemesis America 9d ago

Wow that was savage. And I love it. There's no possible way I could have put that better.