They’re the same choice.
How the hell would anyone on this site know the answer? Hypothetical questions like this are useless
But what color of bicycle would he ride?
Ask Russia
Trump has and continues to do more damage to this country than Bin Laden ever could.
That’s tough. Policies like Citizen United were a direct result of 9/11 and contributed to hidden and foreign money, and more corruption in our elections which may have aided in Trump’s victory but has definitely benefitted the GOP takeover in Congress.
On the flip side the damage Trump has done to the US has been incalculable. I don’t know if we’ll know the “correct” answer to this for another 15+ years. If significant positive change were to come from this, it wouldn’t nullify Trump’s actions, but it would certainly look different years later. I don’t see it happening, but until it doesn’t, there’s still a chance. There were no wins that came from 9/11.
More and more i see trump for what he really is. Hes a bag man. Sure, its lucrative but still contrived. The GOP manipulates him by constantly pushing their agenda on him knowing he will just blindly seek power. Sure he gets fed a bone everytime but he takes all the heat, all the blame, and the GOP can enact their wet dream policy knowing they can walk away from MAGA any day. Its really the lesson Bush taught them. Bush was slaughtered in the media but once he was gone so was all the culpability.
Trump is hand fed. Its almost admirable how devoted the GOP is to implement their agenda that no personal sacrifice from any one person in the party is too much. Too bad, they are evil. Thats the only way this strategy can work.
I think the terror thing.
Because doing that terrorist attack is what got the US bogged into many wars which lead people to be fed up with the way the US is being run by traditional US presidents which ultimately led them to elect Trump (at least for first term).
This is what happened., just not bin laden personally.
trump ended up killing and terrorizing way more people with grave national damage that sent multiple messages across the world than 9-11 did.
Trump’s incompetency and moral/intellectual failings were why so many enemy countries worked so hard and succeeded in installing Trump the first, and especially the second time.
911 was terrible but I never worried about america folding.
Under trump im seriously questioning every day how long this country will survive.
911 was terrible but I never worried about america folding.
the goal of Osama bin Laden was to get the US into such a fucking quagmire that it would collapse by running out of money.
Sometimes I think he succeeded.
Oh he absolutely succeeded. 9/11 wasn’t just an attack, it was a plan. Bin Laden detailed it in his videos, he knew exactly how the US government would react. Everything has unfolded according to his plan. Better, even. The ascension of Trump was even part of that plan. Bin Laden may be in hell, but he’s smiling.
it’ll survive, the US is very malleable, but the world order is rapidly shifting so that other world powers and policies that are much more hatmful than US policy are ascending or have surpassed the United States that the US cannot halt or change anymore, especially without allies that it’s withdrawn from or attacked.
Sure, the lands not going anywhere but the country I knew is all but gone.
Honestly, maybe you didn’t know the country that well.
Domestic rights have been eroded steadily for decades, and the United States makes and has always made some truly awful foreign policy decisions, and it’s not like the US was founded as a paragon of virtue in the first place.
The collapse of the US has rapidly accelerated along its own course with trump’s two terms and there’s less chance to redeem themselves with how rapidly he’s tearing everything apart.
It’s a lot harder to change track when you’re screaming down the rails.
Decades? 20 years is decades. 30 years is decades. I dont know america 20-30 years ago?
I was referring much further back in terms of the steady removal and erosion of domestic US civil rights, but if you don’t recognize the united states anymore from 20 years ago, then it sounds like you didn’t know the country that well 20-30 years ago. there are some very strong parallels occurring between then and now - oil wars, civil rights erosion, election interference, a whole recycle, although the pace has increased under trump
Almost 17 years ago, Iowa became the first state to legalize gay marriage. 14 years ago the first states legalize weed. There has been slow but growing acceptance of minorities and large parts of the US since at least the 90s.
I’m not going to sit here and pretend the US has been all sunshine and rainbows, but it hasn’t always been on a crash course. Reagan was a big turning point for US politics that has certainly degraded the overall political landscape of the US since. It’s undeniable that it’s been a hard downhill for about 10 years now, but we had relative domestic peace for many years before that.
I dont think you were paying much attention. So… theres that.
