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Trump is the most damaging traitor in American history.
Trump sucks but Benedict Arnold sucked so much his name became synonymous with traitor.
Give it time.
The Revolution managed to succeed anyway. We're still not sure our democracy (flawed as it is) can survive Trump.
Benedict Arnold got in a position to be traitor by being a war hero. Even as a traitor , he followed his conscience.
Trump got in his position by being a real estate grifter, playing shell games with New York City real estate, hiding income to take multiple properties through bankruptcy while having a positive income, not paying contractors and employees, etc. Out of vanity he paid to host his own “reality” show then somehow stumbled into connecting with half the population through outrage and misdirection who nevertheless elected him president. Somehow this narcissistic incompetent bombastic sleazy salesman commanded enough popular support for the Republican Party to worship at his feet, be afraid to contradict his words. Somehow this treasonous buffoon spouts sexist garbage worse than what got Clinton impeached but that’s ok, supports our Cold War enemy and current yet people are ok with it, reduces government services while enriching himself and his family, incites an attempt to circumvent the election but people still want to choose him, actually says he will act as a dictator yet there’s still support, damaged the ability of our government to function but that’s cool, started trade wars out of spite or impulse yet no one objects, then there’s the matter of hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths by contradicting his own public health advisors on how to handle an epidemic
So eventually I can expect there to be a kickass way to cook eggs named after Trump?
If you serve me something trump-style, I will assume it is overpriced, poorly made, and possibly not even food.
The irony is that 'trump' used to mean overcoming, or offering something better than the previous offer. Originated from the word 'triumph'. The common term was 'trump card', but it's also a verb. In all cases, it was a positive idea.
Now I can't even bring myself to use it during card games.
In the UK, 'trump' means fart.
And that you didn't pay whoever made them.
So McDonalds.
And made by someone that isn't going to get paid.
Don't forget the side of hair
Nah, it's gonna be Steak Trump, which is just any steak with McDonald's ketchup on it.
Nah it would be one of the souls of the thousands of unsold sneakers with ketchup on it.
Cube steak.
I took to calling a well done steak with ketchup "Presidential".
Well done steak is understandable for older folks raised in a tiny town. My mom eats it well done because they didn't even have fridges. Better make sure it's well cooked so you don't get sick. Some people cook it beyond well done where it's getting into charcoal territory, that plus ketchup is what I call ala trump.
This doesn't describe me but I prefer my steaks well done. The thing is, it's harder to do a well done steak right than most other levels of done-ness because there's less leeway (basically there's a wide spread where something is medium rare, but a fine line between well done and shoe leather). Usually the trick is to stop cooking it shortly before you think it's actually done and then let it rest covered to finish from the residual heat.
The ketchup thing is just gross though. Mix a bit of red wine, worcestershire, soy sauce, garlic, onion and store-bought steak sauce and cook it a bit to let the wine reduce, let everything mix and thicken it a bit.
Trump Eggs : rotten to the yolk.
(And small. Very small.)
If by 'kickass' you mean 'shirred in shit', yeah.
think of it this way. noone outside America knows who that is.
everyone knows who Trump is
modern day media has a big impact on that, also you being part of that history.
Imagining: the British have a statue to Benedict Arnold with the inscription "loyal" on it that they throw a towel over every time American tourists walk by while innocently whistling
Im not sure he's going to be alone in that category much longer
Wasn't he actually very patriotic? He just hated the French that bad.
The guys who won the Revolution for us?
Sounds like his "patriotism" was British.
Trump has done worse damage.
Says the person not currently haunted by the spirit of Benedict Arnold's leg.
So far
Benedict Donald sounds right
Sure, he was a traitor for a period, and did some pretty horrible things during that time (such as the invasion of Quebec) but he did end up restoring his original loyalties eventually.
Go read about Benedict Arnold. He was actually kind of a hero iirc that fucked up.
He lost almost all his battles, picked a fight with every fellow officer around him, and committed treason because they wouldn't let him openly be a war profiteer, everyone else having the good sense to hide their corruption. His naked ambition, greed, and open jealousy are simple historical fact.
There's a fair enough point that losing battles and winning the war is just how the Revolution was, so he might well deserve more credit for military competence than his record implies, but Arnold did more than "make a mistake" by trying to sell West Point to the British.
Also, just fyi:
After defecting to the British he burned the city of New London to the ground and executed the garrison of Fort Grinswold after they surrendered.
Not even remotely. Without massive help from the Republican party, he would have gotten nothing accomplished. Despite being the second coming of Reagan. Even Reagan was far worse than Trump. The collective efforts of the Bush family over the last 100 years dwarf and are also part of Reagan's legacy.
Don't get me wrong. Trump is awful. The Republican party is the problem however. They could stop him at a moment's notice and kick him out. But they refuse to simply because their monster got away from them. And he's currently got control.
So, we have a two party system because FPTP voting always collapses into one given enough time. But there's no requirement that those two parties be "Democrats" and "Republicans", especially not as you know them now.
The GOP is worried that Trump's cult is large enough that if they tried to boot him out directly that it would cause a massive party split of the sort that leads to a decade or so having three parties (and Democrats winning a lot because the right wing vote is split) until either the GOP or MAGA comes out on top and absorbs the other - and they aren't sure MAGA wouldn't win that in the end.
It's better for the GOP long term if they let him tucker himself out or ideally get criminally convicted of things that make him ineligible under 14A Sec 3 in the hopes they can fold much of the cult back into their numbers but keep them politically active. If he gets barred under 14A Sec 3 then the GOP can get cultists to vote for them under claims that they'll fix that, and then just not bother to.
That's cynical thinking and it's untrue. He can do a lot of damage in the interim. It would be worse than 20 to 30 years in the wilderness. Especially seeing as a Democratic party isn't a solid cohesive group itself. It's already a coalition party. And if there were less pressure to force a lot of us together, we'd split into other parties ourselves and pursue goals that actually align with our beliefs. For a lot of people including myself. Democrats simply represent a slower, slightly more humane slide into fascism.
We're literally staring down the barrel at the end of democracy. As they try to play chicken with the lead addled losers they've engineered. Thinking to themselves "hey, maybe if we keep our heads down and keep enabling them we can be in charge of whatever is left someday" That shit isn't rational, or reasonable. Especially considering how many Democrats would sorely love to work with them again if they just kicked the greasy toad to the side of the road.
You’ve put the cart before the horse. It’s trump who controls the republicans. It’s the republicans who need him, not the other way around. It’s he who has co-opted them. And, no, Reagan, evil though he was, did not damage the Republic like Trump has. Bush, the insipid fool that he was, hasn’t attempted to bring down the Republic. Trump very nearly succeeded in doing that. In destroying America. And he very well might still achieve it.
Nope. Literally it isn't. They could kick him to the curb at any point. If he's controlling them, why did he do largely what they wanted in office. Yes they throw red meat to the morons too. But make no mistake as to who's in control. It's still the same wealthy people who were before.
All Trump has done is give the permission to openly be themselves. They're still the same crazies they were before he got in office.