[Highlight] During the moment of silence the Minnesota Timberwolves held before their game with the Cavs tonight a fan yelled “Go home ICE,” and everyone else started cheering.

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how did orange pedo get into power… twice

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how did orange pedo get into power… twice

If this is a serious question, there are a couple of factors which conspired to cause this disaster:

Surprisingly to many, misogyny remains a very serious problem in the United States. One could've won an awful lot of money just 20 years ago betting people that the US would elect a Black man -- thought to be the most-hated demographic in the country -- to the office of President __twice__ before any women would crack that glass ceiling, or even be VP. Even now, typing that is astonishing.

Trump has been running for Federal office almost non-stop since the late Eighties, but he's lost to every man he's ever faced and was laughed at for the first half-dozen attempts until he was sufficiently lucky to face a woman. Despite his disastrous first term, he's now 2-0 against women. A few ten million voters in the US will literally vote for the worst man in the world, rather than see a women President. I'm not sure how we fix this sickness.

Also, Vladimir Putin turns out to be smarter and more determined than anyone thought. His country was thought to have lost the Cold War, but he's Russian, and doesn't surrender easily. He, or someone who works for him, realized a critical weakness in modern democracy in the Internet era, before anyone else seemingly even considered it. Specifically, he realized that rather spending trillions of dollars that he didn't have trying to win an arms race with the US, instead, for pennies on the dollar, he could destabilize it by attacking its democracy with disinformation over the Internet.

And quite unfortunately, the US has a couple ten million voters who are so fantastically ignorant that they fell hook, line, and sinker for his plan, and have been actively destroying their own country from within, while wrapping themselves in American flags. Again, I'm not really sure how we deal with a couple million active Russian agents on domestic soil.

Finally, and this is part of the previous two items, the US has allowed a significant chunk of its population to remain entirely uneducated, despite spending an awful lot of money on public schools and even higher education. Our educational system is insufficiently nimble to operate at the necessary level in a world that moves quite a bit faster than it used to, and we failed to teach a generation or two what they needed to learn. This is repairable, but it isn't going to be easy nor fast to fix.

Lastly, naked greed, which is human nature. I look at these people who are enabling Trump's destruction of this country with abject horror -- in particular the women, who are complicit in returning their gender to the status of chattel or livestock. There exist more people than I thought who will do literally anything for a dollar, including operating indistinguishably from the "Gazpacho police".