Every day over the past two years, one has repeatedly woken up and turned on the news, only to have the first words be “US President Donald Trump ...”
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words → wake → news
You are immediately bracing in dread.
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You → brace → dread
What has he done now?
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he → do → What
What foundation of the house of post-WWII stability and relative peace has he kicked out this time?
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he → kick → stability
Often it becomes apparent in a couple of milliseconds that this has been done to either play to his domestic supporters, and/or his vain ego, and/or his nefarious and bizarre siding with Russia.
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this → become → Russia
Today he said that Ukraine needs a new president after buying oil from the aggressor, Russia (“‘Time for a new president’: Trump calls on Zelensky to go amid diesel stoush”, smh.com.au. October 11).
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Trump → say → smh.com.au
It is like we are in some episode of The Twilight Zone with Franklin Roosevelt saying that Winston Churchill should resign so that the UK can make peace with Nazi Germany.
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UK → say → Germany
My father dropped bombs on fascist supply lines in northern Italy during WWII, and his generation would be turning in their graves at how their sacrifices and lifetime efforts to ensure a lasting peace in the West (that we have all enjoyed) are being deliberately and methodically dismantled in the name of one man’s enormously inflated ego.
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we → drop → ego
We do need a change in president, but in the USA – and right now, before he precipitates World War III.
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he → need → III
Scratching my head here; isn’t Russia an ally of Iran, helping with its targeting of US assets in the Middle East?
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ally → scratch → East
Sue Walsh, Woollahra
Two articles sickened me: “Trump strikes diesel deal with Putin” and “New US sanctions aimed at crippling the ICC” (smh.com.au, October 11).
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Trump → sicken → ICC
The naked self-interest in President Trump’s newly established plutocracy was never more self-evident.
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interest → establish → plutocracy
Morality has been trampled in the interests of the dollar in both cases.
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Morality → trample → cases
First, Trump is enabling Putin to continue his aggression against Ukraine by buying Russian diesel, and second, Trump is thumbing his nose at the international community by seeking to weaken the power of the International Criminal Court.
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Trump → enable → Court
So much for democracy as the US changes its role as the leader of democratic nations into an enabler of dictatorships and a domestic agenda that swamps the lower classes with legislation that enables the rich to become richer.
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rich → change → legislation
Let’s hope that Australians see through Gina Rinehart’s manipulations of Pauline Hanson’s agenda to avoid the same happening here.
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Australians → let → happening
So relieved that our government is not supporting Trump in his latest idiotic endeavour to finance his friend Putin.
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government → support → friend
This major misstep should convince the world to disassociate from him.
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misstep → convince → him
Trump has evolved from incompetence to megalomania to evil.
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Trump → evolve → evil
Hopefully, the voting American public will finally recognise this.
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public → vote → this
We need a new leader of the US.
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We → need → US
The petty, childish and dangerous behaviour of the current holder of the office has outraged the world.
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behaviour → outrage → world
Sanctioning the International Criminal Court because he failed to gain the Nobel Peace Prize is one example.
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he → sanction → Prize
And the sickness of American society under this president is surely indicated by the touted decision to reintroduce public executions, an example of medieval barbarity (“Trump says decision on streaming killer’s execution still pending”, smh.com.au, October 11).
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decision → indicate → execution
A new president is badly needed.
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president → need → ?
Derrick Mason, Boorowa
I was horrified to read that the United States plans to livestream a firing squad execution (“US to livestream military execution”, October 10).
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US → horrify → execution
This sort of public display belongs to the darkest chapters of human history, when people were executed in town squares for crowds to watch.
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crowds → belong → squares
Are we really drifting back to the Stone Age?
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we → drift → Age
One cannot ignore the impact such a spectacle will have on young people and children who may see it on television or on social media.
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who → ignore → media
At a time when we are trying to teach them empathy, restraint and respect for human life, broadcasting a killing as if it were a form of public theatre sends exactly the opposite message.
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it → try → message
What troubles me even more is that this move seems to be designed to appeal to people such as Donald Trump, who enjoy dramatic TV spectacles.
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who → trouble → spectacles
But where is America heading if death itself becomes entertainment?
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death → head → ?
When ISIS streamed pre-recorded beheadings they were condemned as barbaric, yet here we are with the United States, the supposed leader of the free world, supposedly planning to stream a live execution.
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we → stream → execution
The method may be different, but I fail to see what this will achieve.
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this → fail → what
Streaming it live for the world to see is just as barbaric as an ISIS delayed stream.
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world → stream → stream
Atrocities committed in the Middle East do not deter the US or its allies from taking up arms, so if the Trump administration thinks this will make people think twice about becoming a terrorist, then it is sadly wrong.
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it → commit → terrorist
begins with the horrifically prescient: “They’re selling postcards of the hanging”.
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They → begin → hanging
Should I be surprised if the ever-transactional Donald Trump sees a buck to be made from the unspeakable savagery of the livestreamed execution by firing squad of Nidal Hasan?
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Trump → see → Hasan
John Campbell, South Golden Beach
The USA is going to livestream the execution, by firing squad, of a wheelchair bound, paraplegic man who wants to be a martyr.
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who → go → man
What could possibly go wrong?
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What → go → ?
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The Aporia
