http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017...enate-run.html
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Apparently this country's leadership isn't quite stupid enough yet?
Or the MAGA crowd just wants to further accelerate America's demise and China's future hegemon status by a few years?
While I would support Kid Rock over Debbie Stabenow in a heartbeat, I am quite excited about Robert Young's candidacy.
Just what we need, another know-nothing self-aggrandizing idiot from the entertainment industry in a decision-making leadership position. You'd think someone would have learned a lesson already from the rolling disaster that is our blithering idiot-in-chief [[now, with treason!).
Kid should stick to bad countrified pseudo-white-trash rap/rock [[or whatever he calls that stuff he records), paying for [[very nice) historical museum displays, and pitching his crappy "Made in Detroit" [[sic) stuff.
Kid Rock and Ted Nugent for MI Senate seats. Really, is it any dumber than an idiot loudmouth reality show host for President?
Why not, we aren't quite Mississippi-level yet. This should accelerate the Idiocracy process by a few years.
But is he Kremlin-approved?
This is one of things where I contemplate, that despite it's vast natural beauty, what did Michigan do to deserve such awful people and awful occurrences in our history to make us become what we are today?
It's a promotion from his record company for his next album. Nothing to see here; move along, folks.
Please do not cite Fox News as a reputable source, because it is not whatsoever. I hope that this is all a promotion for something he's selling or doing.
I do not care for Kid Rock's music nor do I think he is qualified to be a Senator. My enthusiastic support is for Robert Young.
But one very delightful side effect to Kid Rock's campaign is now, and will be going forward, watching the lefties come completely unglued and degenerate into hysteric lunacy as they did, and still are doing, over President Trump.
We're going to pop some popcorn and sit back and watch the spectacle from the left until the primary when Kid Rock will be defeated and hopefully Robert Young will prevail. Then the hysteria will shift toward him.
Don't we have enough disillusional idiots , in politics? Kid Rock would fit right in though.
Hell no ! No f'ing way !
I'm all in for Eminem.
He's more famous and wealthier than kid rock. Those are the only requirements now right?
If you want to see entertainment career to political career excellence, look no further than Sen. Al Franken.
He doubled down on being serious in office, unlike our Glorious Supreme Leader that we have now.
The dumbing down of the GOP knows no bounds it seems. I'm glad I left the party many years ago.
https://www.detroityes.com/mb/images/icons/icon1.pngWhat's sad is that I think he would win.
Stabenow has been so "meh" as a Senator and has been pretty handed that seat for the past 10+ years. No one I know has any enthusiasm about her, nor can they immediately think of ways she's made Michigan better or successfully influenced discussion on policy.
It could be said that Arnold Schwarnegger and even Ronald Regan were a radical choice. At least Kid Rock has been politically active for years and obviously proven to be a decent businessman. Oh, and he loves Detroit
Reagan and Schwarzenegger were both educated individuals who had a history of political involvement. Kid Rock is basically a dumb, bigoted redneck.
That said, I think he could actually win. Voters really are that stupid. Many wear ignorance as a badge of honor. And voting for Kid Rock certainly isn't more ridiculous than voting for a lying, grifter reality show host as President.
There are Salesmen and than there are businessmen.
The two professions are not interchangeable.
Very successful salesmen are still just salesmen. They may call themselves businessmen but that doesn't make them one.
After last November I would think more people would know the difference but I could be wrong on that.
The GOP could also run this Trump-loving gem of an elected official from Kalkaska, who endorses the genocide of 1.6 billion people. Sort of mainstream thinking for Trumpers I guess. I am sure he considers himself a good Christian.
http://www.freep.com/story/news/loca...ial/472180001/
Have you seen the Senate hearings where that big giant head called Senator Al Franken made a fool of himself? What monumental credentials did he have before he ran? Rock could certainly do no worse, and even a 7th grader could do better. I say, go for it, Rock!
Lots of lunatics liked Obama, too. Anyone in the public eye will attest that you have no control over who your fans are. Hitler was a big Richard Strauss man and the maestro couldn't stand the man. Literally ran away every time the dictator showed up to kiss his ring. Just because some whack-a-doo likes Trump, you can't paint the President with that same brush. An intellectually dishonest attempt on your part, DOTWC.
I've posted it before and I'll post it again, "politics" in the last 20 years have taken on a "sports" mentality, both for the players and the fans. The last Presidential election in this country was a travesty, from both sides. No one cares about competence or issues, they just put on their jerseys and cheer for their team. If their team loses, they break out their neighbors windows. Welcome to the wonderful world of tabloid media.
. People who advocate mass genocide are not "whack-a-doos" - they are evil and dangerous. And the occupant of the White House actively and intentionally spurs this hatred on for his own narcissistic purposes, consequences be damned. Your false equivalency of "lots of lunatics liked Obama" is "sad", to quote our eloquent president. It fails bigly.
President Truman went from being a garment maker to Vice President,when Roosevelt passed and he took office he had no clue how to run a country.
But he did it right in the middle of a world war,it had been said he had a total of 3 conversations with President Roosevelt while he was in office and was not even aware of the nuclear project.
The country has a history of presidents that had little expirence before taking office,it is what they accomplish while in office that detirmines what a great leader is and not what happened before thier post.
100% Correct.
Politics absolutely does have a "sports mentality" now.
If you agree with a single point that one side makes than you are accused of being a full on supporter by the other and therefore agree with everything in their fucked up world of "if there for it than were against it".
It's crazy insane. These idiots couldn't blow out a match if it was going to burn the country down if it required bipartisan support.
Ah, the projection from the Trump cult is very telling. Shouldn't you be writing in Russian?
The problem with politics is apparently a non-politican. Someone retired from public office, who will never run for public office again. It isn't the horrible actual President and his disgusting, sycophant, anti-American enablers.
You think Kid Rock could "do no worse" in politics than a Harvard-educated lifetime political wonk? LOL! The cult in full effect!
The homeless dude on the corner could probably perform better surgery than the Beaumont head of surgery too! As long as he isn't a "libtard"!
You probably think Harvard is a negative on a resume. Better to have a dumb, racist redneck waving the Confederate flag.
I didn't vote for Trump. And LOL at you insinuating that I like Trump.
The Koch-funded DLC has come full circle and is not only close to destroying the Democratic Party, but is also 100% responsible for creating Trump.
http://fortune.com/2016/06/03/imf-ne...alism-failing/
Couldn't disagree more. I've not met the man, but have worked closely with people who were personally involved with business dealings w/ Mr. Ritchie. They don't share your insulting opinion of him. Mr. Ritchie seems to be well-liked and respected.
Couldn't agree more.
Jack Lessenberry recently wrote a very cryptic [[albeit accurate) article in the Metro Times related to this subject, and why the Democrats have been [[and continue to get) wiped out...
https://www.metrotimes.com/detroit/w...nt?oid=4372599
If Kid Rock wants to be a successful politician, he can, he just has to put the work in and take the job and its responsibilities seriously.
As far as I can tell that is not something he is interested in doing.
I do think this whole thing is Kid Rock A) having a laugh and B) publicity in advance of a new album.
I did, and don't for a second think Franken made a fool of himself. Did you see him question Judge Neil Gorsuch?
Sen Franken [[D-Minn) Questions Gorsuch on Fired Truck Driver
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c46624...d-truck-driver
Kid Rock is not my candidate for Senate, but I am not a believer that one needs "special training" or academic credentials or brilliant resume to do well in public office. Character and brains [[not to be confused with education) are the key factors. The best resume ever to be elected president was James Buchanon, and that didn't turn out to be a great success. Jimmy Carter is a brilliant man, a nuclear physicist. Doesn't mean he had any idea whatsoever how to deal with Russians, Iranians, inflation or members of his own party. Citizens from any walk of life can make for a good legislator. Or a terrible one. Most of the members of Congress for the last half century have been well educated, experienced politicians. Everyone love Congress? Michigan's best member of Congress in the last quarter century, if you ask me, was Candace Miller, the former housewife with no college education. She puts in the work and gets the job done. Kid Rock might be amazing or terrible, but he is neither because of his experience or education. Hiding behind resumes and credentials one can easily find incompetence, corruption or malpractice.
Or, hiding behind a "Hahhvard" education. Derision of Harvard as an institution of learning goes back to the American Revolution and beyond. John Adams was notorious for boasting about his alma mater at nearly every opportunity, to the amusement of many of the founders, particularly William and Mary educated Thomas Jefferson.
It is getting harder to find the confederate flag waving types with university degrees.
Need to cast a wider net including more rich kid runaways who dropped out of high school to sell drugs to get that covered.
Fame and racially offensive actions/statements are just to hard to take a pass on for some people these days.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-0...an-senate-race
"A recent poll from Delphi Analytica showed that Robert “Kid Rock” Ritchie was preferred by voters, when compared to incumbent Democratic Senator Debbie Stabenow."
Character, and especially brains, are highly correlated with educational attainment. I understand its trendy and vaguely populist to say otherwise, but it's true. Harvard grads really are smarter than community college grads, and perform better on basically any measure [[income, health, longevity, etc.)
Causation? No. But certainly correlated. Which is, in part, why a candidate like Kid Rock is, at face value, absurd. No education, experience or apparent qualifications.
First, lumping brains and character together is a giant stretch.
Second, correlations needs not be perfect. A +1.0 correlation doesn't. Brains might be correlated with education, but not perfectly. Maybe just a little, or a lot. But......
Third, correlation [[less than 1.0) tells you nothing about the difference between any two individuals. Its only about the groups.
Does Rich Wagoner [[GM) have more 'character' than Harry Truman? Truman did go to college, but he left after one year. Blankfein went to Harvard.
Does Steve Jobs have more 'brains' than Bill Gates? Close call unless you're a Mac-head. One of them only briefly attended college. One graduated from Harvard.
Correlation cannot be used to judge individuals. Its called prejudice.
His campaign website is just a bunch of shirts for sale, many with the word "motherfucker" or references to oral sex emblazoned on them, so...
As for Candace Miller, it's just a tad bit incorrect to say she was "just a housewife" before being elected to Congress considering she had two decades in politics at that point, having served as a township board member and then township supervisor for Harrison Township, Macomb County Treasurer, and 8 years as Michigan Secretary of State. So yeah, two decades of experience in politics, but she was a political novice?
Hey, maybe White Boy Rick Wershe can run for Governor too. His campaign slogan can be "White Boy Rick for Governor...Because nothing matters anymore."
If he were White Boy Joe it would work fine. Nobody named Rick should be running for office in Michigan or Flint right now.
But I think a lot matters today. Its just not the same 'stuff'. I too prefer leaders of great moral character. I voted for Trump not because of his bad table manners, but because of it. Well not because of it. But in spite of it.
We tried the sophisticates. The oh-so-clean and slick politicians who say absolutely nothing. Entire speeches full of words devoid of meaning. Who after being elected didn't' turn into leaders, but just kept pandering to special interest groups like trade unions, or radical environmentalists, or anti-abortion radicals. A lot matters. Just different things.
Sheryl Crow weighs in. Came up with some great lyrics.
BTW, would MI voters recognize him by his mother-given name [[which is the way it would appear on the ballot). It won't be "Kid Rock" unless he legally changes his name.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/29/entert...rnd/index.html
This is the best Stabenow can do, at a time when she has at least a moderate chance of losing her seat. Even do-nothing Conyers [[who has the safest seat in the entire country) was bold enough to push for a Medicare-For-All bill...
No wonder we're even seriously discussing a successful Senate run by a confederate flag-waving Rock star...
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/new...sal/104417678/
Here's an interesting thread to look back on re: name change for politics.https://www.detroityes.com/mb/showth...84-Joel-Loving
1) Kid Rock is "running" as a publicity stunt to sell merchandise and stay relevant by keeping his name in the news. Stabenow's seat is safe because the Michigan GOP has no one of significance to challenger her OTHER than a Confederate flag-waving former drug dealer.
2) Giving people the option to buy-in to Medicare at 55 is a good idea and a step in the right direction. There's nothing wrong with incremental change.
Exactly.
When people are desperate for change, they'll take *any* type of change.
True. That seemed to work out very well for Rep. Jon Ossoff, President Hillary Clinton and the Supermajority the Democrats have had in Congress since 2008, didn't it...Quote:
There's nothing wrong with incremental change.
...Oh wait...!?
[[sigh) Oh, no.. I hope Mr. Ritchie's pal Marshall Mathers can talk some sense into him and tell him not to be bothered running for office when there's more money in selling outlaw-hillbilly-rocker shtick to the rubes...
Who's "desperate?" What is this, the Great Depression? Are you trying to argue that things are so apocalyptically bad in Michigan right now that we have no choice but to "nuke the system" by electing someone like Kid Rock to the Senate?
What does that red herring have to do with anything? If we're going to toss that kind of crap out, how's that Obamacare repeal coming along? Swimmingly? "We're going to repeal it on Day One, it's the first thing we're going to do..." I'm sure that Mexican-funded wall is going to go up any day now too.
This does seem to be true.
I would spin this a little bit, however. I don't think it was just any change. The public has some specific ideas.
The 'Democratic party fake news' idea that alliterative income inequality is our biggest social problem bit them in the butt. For example, the broad public now mistakenly thinks that free trade harms them. [[Although I'll grant that the gains of trade are not evenly distributed.) The political center of the country also craves respect from the left. Gay marriage has achieved respect in most people, but transgender bathroom rights is too much, too soon.
My point isn't about those political ideas. They don't agree with Trump on everything, or even very much. But they believe that Trump [[and Sanders too) are sincere. And that they have principles.
Schwartenegger, Franken brought that sincerity. Kid Rock could also be perceived as sincere. He might do well.
The demand for sincerity is a political change that is needed and productive. [[If San Francisco doesn't get nuked first.)
I hate to stereotype and group all people together, but the rhetoric from the right after Obama was elected is too hard to ignore... people wanting to get rid of the black guy seemed to be a very large motivating factor.
I share more conservative principles than I do liberal ones, and I will admit, the right is no longer "conservative" in the historic use of the term [[economy, government), as evidenced by electing Trump.
As someone who has never cared for Trump, even when I was a child I saw him as a living parody... I am still annoyed with the fact that this is a person which no HR at any company would have hired, yet is our President?
And even if you could accept that this man was qualified to be President, he was supposed to be a man of the people? He is supposed to be anti-elite? How? Why? What makes him not a NY elite compared to anyone else? His vocabulary [[or lack there of)?
The policies that are being supported by him are no different that recent ones [[deregulation, Obamacare, taxes) driven by Ryan/McConnell in the past... what made Trump stand out against any of the others running?
In my opinion [[which I understand carries no value or influence) was that Trump grabbed onto the Frankenstein's Monster that the Right build during the Obama years [[and to a lesser extent the Clinton years)... he race baited and used people's xenophobia more than any other candidate had in recent memory. He was blatently racist, said multiple and frequeant racist things... on top of the sexist things as well... and those people ate it up, we can keep telling ourselves that it was the economy that did this... but it was racism.
Not everyone who voted for Trump is a racist. Some I believe voted along party lines, other bought the anti-Clinton media strategy, some were very angry that rural opportunities are drying up... but to ignore the racist rhetoric and to ignore his past discretions while highlighting those of others, it is inexcusable.
Remember Martha Reeves? Her political ambition was part time, her singing career, her full time. Why would Kid Rock be any different?
I don't think there is any chance whatsoever that Kid Rock is running for the US Senate. He is merely doing one or both of the following: venting his real anger at the political system; seeking headlines in advance of a new album and tour dates. The Republican nominee will be Robert Young, and he will be a tough foe for Stabenow.
Robert James Ritchie = Kid Rock, has the leader of a GOP Super PAC backing his potential bid in 2018.
Senator Kid Rock 2018
President Geoffrey Fieger 2020
https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/cele...run/ar-AApTgil
Fieger’s commercials – which are standard tv time viewing – have somewhat changed. Yesterday, his commercial took on a more political tone. He wasn’t selling his law firm, but rather an ideology.
I'm glad things are all sunshine and puppies in your head, but the reality is a significant portion of the country, at least economically, is hurting really badly today.
Michigan specifically is a basket case, no ifs /ands / buts about it. Just to name a few things, you have the largest school district in the state in which the kids are forced to attend mold-infested schools on a daily basis, an entire mid-sized city drinking poisoned water, basic infrastructure such as roadways and drainage lines that haven't been repaired and upgraded in [[some cases) several decades and numerous people who are stuck working in low wage / temp jobs after their stable / good-paying jobs were wiped out during Autopocalypse.
Nationwide, you have income inequality levels that haven't been seen since the Great Depression, a record number of people who must depend on some form of government assistance to make ends meet, health care and education costs that have reached unprecedented levels, etc.
These things obviously weren't improving with the status quo and their idea of "incrementalism" or third way politics, thus you had / have candidates such as Bernie Sanders, Kid Rock and Donald Trump who rose to power because they were not only sincere in their rhetoric, but also vowed to push for revolutionary that no other candidate did.
And to remind you, the reason so many [[including these so-called "old evil racist white supremacists) voted for a Junior African-American Senator with a Muslim name from an extremely liberal city / state over a career politician who was married to a once popular US President is because, again, he promised to push for significant change at a time when despair filled the air throughout the country [[just like in the recent 2016 election).
And the reality too is you must share this country and the leadership appointed to run it with these people who are hurting really badly. And they're not just the "old evil racist white supremacists" as many Democrats like to claim, but people of all races and ages.
Nothing about my comment was a red herring. Again, incrementalism obviously isn't enough for people when they're hurting really badly and yearning for change, as the recent elections have all proven [[and will continue to prove).Quote:
What does that red herring have to do with anything?
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If we're going to toss that kind of crap out, how's that Obamacare repeal coming along? Swimmingly? "We're going to repeal it on Day One, it's the first thing we're going to do...
You tell me. The repeal of Obamacare would have been a disaster [[although I *personally* would benefit from a repeal, granted I'm not a selfish person), but let's not bullshit around. Obamacare [[which is a right-wing health care bill straight out of the Heritage Foundation) is a clusterfuck and there's no reason why we shouldn't at least have a public option *for all*, if not Single-Payer health care *for all*. The fact that so many people would rather go for broke to have the ACA repealed, not knowing the fallout from a repeal, proves how awful it is.
And for the record, I did not vote for Donald Trump and think he's despicable. At the same time, I also feel this "resist Trump" crap that the Democrats are peddling as well as the McCarthyism they're engaging in with pushing this unproven narrative about Russia is just as unproductive, as meanwhile they're wiped out at every single level of government because they've given people absolutely no reason to vote for them.
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I'm sure that Mexican-funded wall is going to go up any day now too.
^^^This is the perfect example of a red herring.
Are you suggesting a nation doesn't have the right to control immigration inside its borders? I certainly don't think a border wall is the way to go about it [[I gave plenty of reasonable suggestions in another thread on this forum), but that said, your comment is still extremely absurd about the subject.
... which might seem hard to believe for some, given the recent "recovery."
Just yesterday I stumbled upon the following graph in my files. It shows a shocking but clear pattern. Click it for a brief article on the subject, with a brief video.
You don't even have to do that. Look around town. Drive outside the 'Zone' and you can see it first hand. The 'recovery' is very limited in scope as to who benefits.
Al Franken has a degree in political science from Harvard, where he graduated cum laude. Kid Rock sold drugs out of a car wash. Although both men were/are "entertainers", I'm not entirely sure it's accurate to compare them.
As for Kid Rock's "sincerity", what leads you to believe he is in any way sincere? Look at his campaign website. Can you find a single stance on any issue of any significance on there? Does he talk about ANY issues at all? Is there any information on there from which you can base any decision whatsoever? Nope. It's just a bunch of t-shirts for sale.
That's not sincere, that's the exact opposite of sincere. He cares so much about running for Senate that his website is just a bunch of merchandise for you to buy. Issues, who cares about issues, I want one of those super classy "00 Fucks Given" Lions-style jerseys he has for sale. Hey, maybe when he wins, he can wear one of his "Ki_ Rock: The 'D' is missing because it's in every hater's mouth" t-shirts on the Senate floor. Just class the joint up a bit with how sincere he is.
Behind some red herrings there are important principles some 'others' hold. Discarding the thoughts of 'the other' leaves you poorer.
To the left, everything looks like racism. To the right, everything looks like illegal immigration. Why these are true is worth debate, not dismissal, IMO.
Yes, you're right. Not comparable. One of them is a a profitable venture, the other esoteric.
If there's a single thing that the Republicans and Democrats don't get that Trump and Sanders get... it is the we have discarded the Marquis of Queensbury rules.
The left has wanted to include 'feelings' into public policy. They have succeeded. The public mostly now is looking for someone who expresses solidarity of 'feelings', not policy. Fewer people want to hear about Hillary's policy positions, and more want to hear about who the middle-class in America 'feel'.
That Trump's policies in, for example, trade will harm the middle-class don't matter. He expresses the right feelings.
Yes, petty drug dealing is so much more "profitable" than a Harvard degree. And obviously we judge political fitness by profit margin in dangerous illegal activities; that makes a hell of a lot of sense...
And by "we" you mean the Deplorables. Neo-Nazis, conspiracy theorists, the stupid and angry. The 90% of the planet that is "everyone else" still has some minimal degree of ethics, logic, decorum and decency.
Wasn't all of this youth-culture politician stuff already tried with "hip-hop Mayor" Kwame Kilpatrick?
Maybe being President willl actually improve Trump as a person. Whether he likes it or not, he will have to think about all Americans, not just the bottom line profit of his own private enterprise... or at least that's the theory.
Here's another perspective again, from the World's Poorest President:
http://www.antinewsnetwork.com/world...ites-politics/
Don't be daft. Have you been living in a bunker the past week?
Trump called the Neo-Nazi marchers "some very fine people" and refused to even condemn the Neo-Nazi terrorist who murdered an innocent person. He said there was "blame on both sides".
Yeah, kinda like the Holocaust or 9-11. Blame both sides. Sounds reasonable. Blame the Neo-Nazi murdering terrorist and the woman getting murdered. They're both equally at fault...
I think Trump was elected partly because people simply did not want yet another politician or 'career politician'. Maybe that's why America chose him.
And if people were unhappy with the state of the nation after eight years of Obama, I never once heard Hillary say or explain how she was going to be any different or an improvement on him. [[Just more of the same?)
Not taking sides, just making observations.
Don't forget to mention that the White supremacists LOVED Trump's statement. Loved it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/15/u...s.html?mcubz=0
Literally everyone else denounced Trump's statement, including prominent members of his own political party. The only kudos he got were from racists and Nazis. That's telling.Quote:
“Thank you President Trump for your honesty & courage to tell the truth,” David Duke, a former Ku Klux Klan leader, wrote in a Twitter post shortly after Mr. Trump spoke.
Richard B. Spencer, a white nationalist leader who participated in the weekend’s demonstrations and vowed to flood Charlottesville with similar protests in the coming weeks, was equally encouraged. “Trump’s statement was fair and down to earth,” Mr. Spencer tweeted.
Wow, an actual defense of slinging crack. There you have it folks. As soon as a conservative does it, it's somehow OK. You actually implied that dealing drugs is better than getting a degree from Harvard.
What's it like to have absolutely no values or principles whatsoever?
This video also plays with Kid Rock's Senate run:
President Donald Trump Is Actually Good, Mark Zuckerberg Is Actually Not - SOME NEWS.
Any fair-minded person would completely agree with your observation. Unfortunately, the Democrats haven't had a fair mind since at least 1992.
And it's not so much a "career politician" that people didn't want, but rather someone that will continue the status quo.
Bernie Sanders is a "career politician" in the technical sense, but he holds arguably the most anti-establishment views of any Washington politician, and has consistently held these views his entire career [[thus, in other words, people knew he was sincere). Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton would give you a different line depending on which color pants suit she wore that day.
The Orangutan got votes because it preached hate to a body of disenfranchised bigots that wanted to hear hate.
I was all for an outsider, non career candidate who could be open minded and effective. Not a loudmouthed buffoon from a reality show that can't even get through a single day without embarrassing the country with his clown show antics.
Never knew enough about Bernie to be sure either way, but he wasn't Billary and that was enough for me. Then the primaries got manipulated and the Ds ended up with the least electable candidate in history.
The US ended up with two complete losers to choose from, the very worst of the worst from all of the viable candidates. I would have been more comfortable with O'Malley vs. Kasich. I think that would have made for a better choice for all.
Much of the left does blame the west for 9/11. We are occupying their lands. We supported a dictator in Iran. We support Israel in their oppression of the noble Palestinian people.
If we'd just leave the mid-east and the 'stans' alone, all would be great.
I also am amazed that there's a presumption that Trump is making the Koreas more dangerous by being more aggressive and less diplomatic. Blaming the US for Korean dangers. I kinda thing the little man over there deserves just a little blame for building up a nuclear arsenal, as well as crimes against about 250,000 of his people who are in forced labor camps. But there's much more criticism of Trump than of the little one over there. Sometimes you need to blame both sides.