Lone Candle
Champion of Truth
In Ecuador, mayors and judges live in constant fear and have to always have constant security. Drug gangs regularly assassinate government officials.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tbvxApJtVg
Simply calling what happened in Poland’s higher court a coup ignores that both sides for more than a decade have been disputing fundamental processes of the court, and that came to a head a few days ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0wf7WbqLQY
Trump administration is demanding that voters be prevented from voting based on shaky and untransparent evidence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfNCEMMvTSM
If after the election and after coalition negotiations, Netanyahu is still in charge, we will continue to get acceptance of West Bank settler violence and an ethnic cleansing of parts or all of Gaza. If Netanyahu’s opponents are in charge, they will still reject the possibility of a two-state solution, but will limit settler violence and work to implement Trump’s Gaza peace plan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLcy-xp8fDQ
Trump’s aggressive rhetoric, threats of territorial conquest and ending countries’ existence, and trade wars, against allies, has led to US allies organizing more of their economies around the US, which weakens the US and makes Americans poorer. Trump’s actions have also limited his influence on allies. These actions put Trump’s misguided ideas first, and America last.
When you bully and act aggressively, other countries may not retaliate in the moment, but they do work to weaken you and become more robust to your attacks.
Such Trump aggression has increased China’s power, prestige, and popularity, while lowering those of the US. The CCP is an evil dictatorship, but at least they are predictable, unlike erratic Trump.
Democracies around the world have been weakened because foreigners trying to maintain democracy in their country relied on the US for pushback against the breaking of democratic rules.
https://youtu.be/pDZ7BaZDoe8?is=rp1FOg6E1iwamqCW
Elon Musk is massively spending in Texas to try to defend Republicans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBEORIlVmsQ
The damage to the US military in Iran is higher than the Defense Department is saying.
A public execution is what tyrannical regimes do to instill fear into their people. While this will be in the military justice system, by the US government killing someone, and intentionally showing it to the world, they are saying that they can come for you too, this is what will happen to you if you defy us. It’s a way to say violence against our enemies is okay, and if you challenge the regime, you will die. It gives a public nod to the acceptability of violence. Taking steps in the direction of tyranny is bad. If an execution is warranted, let’s do it in private, then calmly report the results of justice, not give a gory public display of state violence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9rauNIaa2k
Under Trump, US foreign policy involves helping the businesses of Trump and his friends rather than just a focus on what’s best for the United States and its people as a whole. This allows countries to indirectly bribe Trump to change the foreign policy of the United States.
US democracy is declining, and democracies often slowly shift into something that is not really democracy, rather than suddenly becoming autocratic in one dramatic moment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XkJRVTS4Dw
Trump repeatedly screams fraud when there is an election outcome he doesn’t like, even in elections he wasn’t running in. And of course, without even close to decent evidence…
2016 Republican Primaries, 2016 US presidential election, 2018 US midterms, 2020 US presidential election, 2022 US midterms…
He even claims it in elections he won to claim “in reality” he won bigger!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Qe-tx1SGt0
Trump’s: attack on the Fed’s independence, forcing respected economic experts to push a bullshit political line, and generally incompetent economic comments and policies…are bad for the rule of law, the economy, and people in general. But, one factor that will determine how bad this is, is whether, after Trump, we see further degradation of the rule of law and more bad economic policies, or whether it gets better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g526waT8CjA