Duterte and Trump

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_beastie
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Duterte and Trump

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I think the basic facts of the case are clear. Trump, in his recent phone call to Duterte, praised Duterte's drug war effusively.

You can read the transcript here:

https://theintercept.com/2017/05/23/rea ... o-duterte/

Additionally, the basic facts of Duterte's drug war are also clear. He's sanctioned the extra-judicial slaughter of thousands, including street children.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Drug_War

Given Trump's approval of Duterte's actions, I think there are three possible conclusions.

1. Trump is too stupid to understand or retain information he had been given regarding Duterte's outrageous human rights violations.

2. Trump's assistants are too incompetent to have informed him about Duterte, and he was too uninterested or lazy to find it out on his own. In other words, he's willfully ignorant.

3. Trump really is an evil authoritarian who honestly doesn't give one crap about anyone's human rights other than his own (and likely his family's)

Any other possible conclusions?
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Re: Duterte and Trump

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It's #3.

The flow of the leaked conversation is hilarious. What you didn't mention was his effusive praise was unsolicited and immediate.

Trump: Hello? Great job on the mass killings. Here's some state nuclear secrets.
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Re: Duterte and Trump

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Sort of like Trump praising Benito Mussolini for making the Italian trains run on time, when those taking the Naples Express knew differently. The true motivation for this praise was that Trump wanted a favorable tax break to build the Trump Pompei International Golf Course and Casino. The plans fell through when geologists told Trump they could not divert any eruptions of Mount Vesuvius to Scotland.
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Re: Duterte and Trump

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Duterte's probably thinking, Trump likes me? That can't be good for my reputation.
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I wonder why subgenius is so silent concerning this latest outpouring and intelligence from his fuhrer to one of the very precious few righteous leaders in the world left.......
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Re: Duterte and Trump

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And now Duterte "jokes" about letting his men rape.

And Donald sounds like he wants to give him a big sloppy french kiss (as well as nuclear secrets, thanks for pointing that out as well, EA)
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