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Totally agree. But we have to face the facts. The current “leaders” are immature and reckless. They don’t care. They would kick their own child across the room for crying. They would beat their wife for screwing up dinner. They would shoot their dog for barking. They are the worst of the worst.

What you said Adam is so true and I don’t think people stop to think about that! The fact that Trump and hegseth have no soul or integrity or morals makes it sadder cause other countries are losing faith and moral judgement in us

Thank you. Exactly what I have been saying - even back when Bush/Cheney supported interrogation tactics considered by many as torture. These orders given to our military by our leaders does damage the hearts, minds and souls. I am crying just watching this video.

TRump has never held the high ground. Pathological lying sociopaths or best case scenario malignant narcissist are not exactly people of high standing and morals...

Mate, don't they teach you your own history in Disneyland? 🤔Harry S. Truman, 'gave away', USA soul to the devil, that vassal state controls & owns it now...😂🤣 The only time in history the USA hasn't been doing its non-stop pure evil a.k.a. American exceptionalism, was during the great depression! 😏

Iraq cemented the world's distrust of the US, then there's been one war, one government overthrow, after another. Topped off with funding a genocide of an oppressed, penned in, unarmed population murdering babies and children. Distrust and disgust!

The day that Americans elected that orange buffoon, damaged America’s soul and it will take some doing to repair it. No one around the world will ever see America the same again. They will never look up to America the same again. They will look down. For they know they are now better.

America's "soul" has been dead since the first for profit prison opened. Your nations always been a backwards hell hole whose propaganda sold a lie poor people from around the world drank like ice tea on a hot day.

I would go even further. It continues to damage this country. Aside from those that are perpetually clueless about current affairs, the seeming absence of outrage or the lack of demand for answers is exposing a gaping hole of morality from a supposedly “Christian nation”.

I think that damage was already done before that as if this was a war against drugs and human trafficking, then Trump should’ve went for the Mexican cartels…. Not a sovereign nation that provides less than 10% of cocaine mainly to Europe. And to mention that Venezuela has oil that trump wants

The US was losing the high ground when that torture prison in Iraq happened. The high ground was well and truly gone when Trump got elected and the US was at rock bottom in January 6, 2021. Wherever it is now, the rest of the world will not trust America for decades to come

You know history. You know that America, like many nations has some very dark moments in its past. But this is the country that liberated Dachau. My father served in that war. America welcomed Vietnamese boat people and now we are blowing up unknown people in the open sea? Is this really America?

It's one thing to assume a boat maybe harboring drugs or traffickers, But its another to just attack them instead of: Boarding, Investigate. And if in fact something is truly found, Criminally charge and potentially imprison. Hey, I guess that's what happens when Trump is a secret KGB agent.

Losing the high ground? You haven't had the high ground since Biden spent billions of your money on murdering an unarmed, penned in population, including babies and kids. It's only got worse since then.

They also acted holier than thou when Assange, exposed them murdering media in Iraq same when they got busted torturing prisoners in Abu Ghraib as Lindy England stood with her big smile, laughing murdering sheep with baseball bats, throwing puppies over a cliff, desecrating & urinating on bodies. 👇

2/2 Almost 90 million Americans just couldn't be bothered to make the effort. How's that working for you thus far? Many (especially MAGA) tell me to stay in my own lane. It IS my lane. That moron you elected has the ability to wipe us all off the face of the Earth. Get your collective shit together.

1/2 No. You've lost it. Personally, I blame all Americans, not just MAGA. As a foreigner I read multiple posts from a wide range of sources/opinions. There were just enough MAGA to gift Trump a 2nd term. You didn't learn the 1st time? Almost 90 million Americans couldn't be bothered to vote.

Every time I see a Trump supporter, family member or not, I see all the disgusting things in them that Trump is. I do not want to talk to or even be in the same room with them. It makes me want to take a shower and wash the filth and stink off my body just from being around them!

We're not losing the high ground. It was completely lost after the 2024 election & a vindictive felon turned our government against its own people by weaponizing the DoJ & FBI for personal retribution. Then kidnapping & disappearing citizens. This is another disgrace on the longest list of disgraces

They want us to believe: ~We fired a missile at a piece of fiberglass the size of a table, but we didn't intend to kill the 2 people clinging to it ~The survivors might somehow to SAIL that wreckage to America ~They waved to signal a ship SO FAR off that its not visible on observation video

Losing? Love you Adam, but I think we lost it in Jan of this year. I could argue we lost it in Nov '24 when 77m Americans voted for this shit-show, but I'm sure even a few of those folks are having voters remorse. Every day this #TrumpRegime violates our Constitution. Every damn day

Who’s gonna tell him? Trump is bragging about giving Tina Peters a “full pardon” — for Colorado state crimes he has zero legal authority to pardon. He’s literally out here promising magic powers he doesn’t have. A wannabe dictator who doesn’t even understand the job.

It starts us down a slippery slope. At the bottom are people we used to call criminals - VC, ISIL, Taliban, etc. The excuses don't even make sense. Who were they calling? More drug boats (which will be sunk). Venezuelan CG? Tow Boat US? C'mon man, we are not that stupid.

The high ground? I don’t remember that place. From where I was looking, that was still high above, well beyond overcoming our sins for slavery, and for the genocide of this land’s indigenous peoples. We weren’t even close. Worse, we backslid an enormous distance when W. made us all torturers.

That video belongs at the top of your "Best of Adam Kinzinger" file. Raphael Warnock's speech at a Center for American Progress yesterday struck a similar chord. My contribution: bsky.app/profile/theo...

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"The news media does not have to act as the judge and jury of evil, but to report accurately, the news media sometimes has to accuse powerful people of doing evil." The Outpost by Frank Wrinn (on Substack) open.substack.com/pub/theoutpo...

Yeah, you’re climbing back up but where the fuck were you a few years ago? You were my representative and I would’ve voted for you again even though I won’t ever vote for a gop traitor again. I have to ask. Where are you now besides getting paid on TV & whatever waste of time this is?

That ship sailed decades ago, before the US tampered with the governments of foreign nations, started wars that killed millions and funded a genocide that murdered tens of thousands of men, women, children and babies. What "high ground?" I doubt the US ever had it.

Yeah! What high ground? This American exceptionalism is a key part of the problem. It's one nation in a world of hundreds of nations. A nation with a history of global military aggression and human rights abuse? High ground???

I don’t disagree about U.S. harms. I’m wary of “no high ground” framing—because it erases what saves lives. Some estimates suggest USAID cuts alone have already cost ~600k lives. Now extrapolate that across famine prevention, disaster relief, PEPFAR (HIV/AIDS).

100$% agree about the hypocrisy of the morality of the GOP & the PTSD the troops will suffer from following illegal orders. These boat strikes will come back to haunt us. They put American lives in greater danger by creating more terrorists that can justify their views that the US is their enemy.

If we were serious about stopping drugs we’d stop and arrest them and prove that drug trafficking is happening. Instead, we pardon a guy who sent 400 tons plus other stuff to the US Trump is corrupt…and criminally insane.

High ground?The fact that you were a Republican even after the torture memo & the invasion & occupation of Iraq - a country like Vietnam & Venezuela that had not attacked us - indicates you didn't care much about this stuff back then. Glad you woke up tho.

We lost it months ago when we aligned with Putin In less than a year this cabal of incredibly myopic evil and incompetent stooges has reduced the US to a nuclear armed banana republic, anathema to any potential allies or serious investors.

We lost our soul in Vietnam, Adam. And we haven't regained it over the past 60 years. Weve only lost bits more of it over the years. We are currently a soul-less nation. We can never regain it as long as Trump is still alive. His eternal sacrifice shall be our collective salvation.

Exactly! I’m appalled, embarrassed, and emotionally wounded by these ongoing murders. Then, I saw film of our military rappelling from helicopters onto a ship. I had a moment of pride, thinking the Coast Guard was rescuing someone at sea — only to discover we were PIRATING A SHIP!?! 😳🤦‍♀️ #ashamed 😢

I can not agree with you more . Acts of War Crimes makes us out to be the bullies , even if we were in the right initially . Hegseth has no idea what he's doing , let alone what damage he has done to tarnish the image of what America stands for . To set things right , he must be prosecuted .

I think what we are losing is our good self image. The soullessness has been around for a while 😭 Iran-Contra was not particularly in line with the image we have of ourselves as a country. Maybe this administration is simply forcing the people to face America's dark side.

I think the high ground was lost with WMD’s lie. Republicans have been squandering our nations moral standing for decades. Voting repeatedly for policies that keep American workers poor & sick and children hungry in the “richest country in history” so rich folks get tax breaks is also fucked up.