{"id":371194,"date":"2018-07-28T15:31:19","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T14:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/did-god-send-us-donald-trump\/"},"modified":"2018-07-28T15:31:19","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T14:31:19","slug":"did-god-send-us-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/did-god-send-us-donald-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Did God Send Us Donald Trump?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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And I think about killing myself
And I love myself way more than I love you, so<\/p>\n

\u2014 Kanye West,\u00a0I Thought About Killing You<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

For the past two years, I have been wondering why Americans have been so ready, if not eager, to reengage the Cold War with Russia, despite Russia showing no desire to do so. A war between Russia and the United States, given the nuclear arsenals, political allegiances around the world, and the unhinged nature of our President, could destroy the entire species. And for what? Russia\u2019s alleged crime of election meddling, is negligible at best when in comparison to what America has done in Russia, or what rich Americans have done in America. Xenophobia, historical revisionism, and an embrace of fake news are all on the rise in the age of Trump, and are surely all factors for blaming Russia. But lying and bigotry, while practiced routinely, is often shameful, not something to get excited about.<\/p>\n

No, my new theory about why Americans want conflict with Russia is because we know in our heart of hearts that the world is ending soon because of climate change. Just as born-again Christians flock to Trump as they yearn for a Revelations-style apocalypse, liberals want a showdown with Russia. If the world is ending anyways, let\u2019s end it on our own terms seems to be the rationale. Other countries have reacted with a more rational response to the potential of the world ending\u2014namely doing something about it. The Republican Party…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Photo by Dur\u00e1n | CC BY 2.0 And I think about killing myselfAnd I love myself way more than I love you, so \u2014 Kanye West,\u00a0I Thought About Killing You For the past two years, I have been wondering why Americans have been so ready, if not eager, to reengage the Cold War with Russia, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-371194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}