It’s a slope that increases without notice. Former President George W. Bush’s started a secret assassination by drone program, run by the CIA. These were overseas, extrajudicial murders of people of color who were never [...]
the u.s president calls for violence, the violence occurs, he crows about it, and uses the threat of further violence as a bully club in an attempt to silence dissent. in a word: terrorism.
this isnt the first time this sequence of events has occured.
the u.s president is a terrorist, by definition, with a history of such attacks carried out in his name, which he has always embraced.
and the media has never called it what it is.
so it isnt exactly a surprise.
edit: and to be clear, this is not exclusive to trump. the office of u.s president is that of a terrorist
By his explicit support of the Contras alone (really, the Contras were just a mercenary arm of the CIA, so "support" isn't strong enough), by the numbers Reagan was a bigger terrorist than Osama Bin Laden.
the u.s president calls for violence, the violence occurs, he crows about it, and uses the threat of further violence as a bully club in an attempt to silence dissent. in a word: terrorism.
this isnt the first time this sequence of events has occured.
the u.s president is a terrorist, by definition, with a history of such attacks carried out in his name, which he has always embraced.
and the media has never called it what it is.
so it isnt exactly a surprise.
edit: and to be clear, this is not exclusive to trump. the office of u.s president is that of a terrorist
By his explicit support of the Contras alone (really, the Contras were just a mercenary arm of the CIA, so "support" isn't strong enough), by the numbers Reagan was a bigger terrorist than Osama Bin Laden.