A few weeks ago, Jack brought up the topic of country allies. What were the strongest ones for the U.S. The UK? Australia? Then I decided, that in this current Trump environment, it's the countries that stand up against Trump.
It's not countries that have pretty much always hated the United States. Nor is it countries or people that hate Americans in general. It's the countries that sit there and give the general message of, the US was never as great as some Americans delusionally believe, but it was fairly decent. Unfortunately, now that's changed since that crazy guy has become president. We're not going to support him...for the sake of OUR country, for the sake of decent Americans, and for the sake of the rest of the world.
This is why the countries I'm loving most right now are the ones who voted yes in the resolution against Trump in the recent UN vote.
Technically it wasn't a vote against Trump, but it would have been really cool if it was.
What it really was is a vote against Trump's decision to label Jerusalem as Israel's capital instead of Tel Aviv.
I don't really have a problem with Trump wanting to move the US embassy to Jerusalem. If Israel is fine with this, does it matter where an embassy is? I guess it's traditional for embassies to be in the country's capital?
But declaring that Jerusalem is the capital. Even if Israel wants this, it's....
It's too...
Well, as other people have said. It's like kicking a hornet's nest.
It's like Trump is saying he doesn't care about how Palestinians feel. He doesn't care about peace in Israel. And I think that's also kind of a roundabout way of saying he doesn't really give a shit about Jews and/or Israeli's.
Trump just wants to make a dramatic gesture, and I think it's one whose purpose is more about pleasing evangelical Christians than it is about making things better for Jews.
As for the ally thing, I can't completely blame countries for not standing up against Trump. It's hard to do so when I hear things like Nikki Haley's disgusting, bully speech to the UN. She reminded countries that the US donates a lot of financial aid and that the US will remember who voted against them.
It's very sad if you have hold money over someone's head in order to get them to behave the way that you want.
Of course if a country is committing genocide or something as bad as that, it might not be so evil to use money to bully them. But to punish countries for disagreeing about the location of Israel's capital?
No. That's not at all okay. It is, though, what I'd expect from an administration led by a narcissistic man who has dementia.
In her speech, Haley repeatedly used the phrase, We will remember. She tried to act as if she was speaking for all Americans. Like we all want Israel's capital in Jerusalem. We all don't give a shit about Palestinians. We all love Trump. We all will hold a nasty grudge against countries who didn't support us in the vote.
It's bullshit.
But she's right.
I WILL remember.
I will remember that there are countries brave enough to stand up against the horrific Trump administration.
What would our world be like if we
knew for sure there
was life after death, and
we could easily talk to our
dearly-departed on the Internet?
The Dead are Online a novel by Dina Roberts