Comments by "Triple 9" (@Betta66) on "Trump Withdraws the US from the UN's Arms Trade Treaty" video.

  1. Even the one that means potentially sending arms to war criminals? Because that's what the treating was aiming to prevent.
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  2.  @barahng  Should we really need an extranational political body to tell us not to sell weapons to war criminals and other human rights abusers? If we do, that's on us, not them.
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  3. Well then, that just makes it worse, doesn't it? He's too incompetent to even be good at being a dictator.
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  4. The treaty has nothing to do with sovereignty, but the sale of weapons to human rights abusers.
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  5.  @harrymills2770  He was sued by the Justice Department for housing discrimination in the 70s. I find the claim that Trump respects the law hard to believe.
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  6.  @abelcainsbrother  Isn't it just a bit childish to assume rich people in this country ever face consequences for their actions? After all, "when you're a star, they let you do it."
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  7.  @Blujonny11  For someone who's so clearly not a white nationalist, Trump seems to be very popular with white nationalists.
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  8.  @joelluedtke8680  Didn't Trump boast about the relationship between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia? Not to mention Saudi Arabia’s purchases of U.S. military equipment? “Saudi Arabia is a very wealthy nation and they are going to give the United States some of that wealth hopefully, in the form of jobs, in the form of the purchase of the finest military equipment in the world." Yeah, bad example.
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  9.  @derpyc.hoovesIV  That's exactly my point. He pitched himself as a political outsider, but again, he's no better than anyone else in Washington.
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  10.  @septicsauce322  I wasn't talking to you. I was imagining myself saying that directly to the United Nations.
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  11. He said, celebrating the fact that Trump is withdrawing from a treaty that forbids sale of weapons to human rights abusers and war criminals even though literally no voters asked him to.
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  12.  @asdf1991asdf  [Citation needed]
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  13. The treaty has fuck all the do with the Second Amendment. It's a means of restricting the flow of weapons to human rights abusers.
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  14.  @septicsauce322  Dammit, United Nations, you're not helping your case
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  15. Why is he signing executive orders at campaign rallies? I mean, let's not kid ourselves. That's what this was. There's absolutely no reason why withdrawing from a treaty shunned by a group of countries that includes Russia, North Korea, and Syria would be considered "good." The treaty aimed to restrict the flow of weapons to human rights abusers and conflict zones. So the NRA applauded him for allowing the arms industry to potentially supply weapons to war criminals. Which is literally what the U.S. did in Iran-Contra. And you have the fucking gall to say this is a good thing? Piss off.
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  16.  @barahng  Then why didn't Trump list "Withdraw from the U.N." as a campaign promise?
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  17.  @abelcainsbrother  Trump and his businesses have been involved in over 3,000 lawsuits and you're telling me there isn't anything of note in any of them?
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  18.  Louis Frost  When Don Lemon said all white men were dangerous, Styx and his subscribers called him a racist. How would this be different? Being a bad tenant doesn't have anything to do with race. If a black guy is a bad tenant, that doesn't mean all black guys are. It just means that one specific black guy is a bad tenant.
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  19. ​ @asdf1991asdf  I'd like to think the UN's problems can't be fixed by withdrawing from it. If your car blows a tire, you don't fix it by scrapping the whole damn car.
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  20.  @asdf1991asdf  It'd be one thing if Trump had any type of plan for international relations after withdrawing from the UN. But if he does, I haven't heard it. And besides, didn't Trump spend his entire campaign saying how America needs to be respected by the rest of the world? Don't you think improving the UN would do that?
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  21.  @asdf1991asdf  I'd believe you when you say Trump doesn't reveal his cards all at once if I didn't think he was terrible at cards.
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  22.  @lyndabrown3402  Yeah, and I'm a world champion bowler because I played it in high school (and haven't since). Trump said during the 2016 campaign that there were no chess grandmasters in the United States. At the time, there were 90. Garry Kasparov said of Trump's lie, "Proud to see Trump knows as little about chess as everything else. Team USA just won gold at the chess Olympiad!" So if Trump is so good at chess and respects it so much, why would he feel the need to lie about it?
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  23.  nafia morris  Wow, way to dispel the notion that Trump is antisemitic. You can claim he isn't all you want, but even if he wasn't antisemitic, he seems to be extremely popular with people who are. Except for the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter, but only because he thought Trump wasn't antisemitic enough. Piss off.
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  24.  nafia morris  I'm not going to answer any of your questions because if you're older than 4 and you ask why antisemitism is bad without a hint of irony, then you clearly aren't going to have your mind changed.
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  25.  nafia morris  Someone who says "both Jews and Arabs both actively seek to usurp our countries natural demographics by promoting diversity" without irony doesn't get to lecture me on treating people like individuals.
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  26.  nafia morris  Firstly, you're being a hypocrite. "I don't treat all people of other ideologies as groups. All other ideologies treat people as groups. I'm just treating them by their own standards because I completely missed the point of Mark 12:31." But more importantly, the Founders were unambiguously clear about the country not being founded on Christian ideals. This from Thomas Jefferson in an April 11, 1823, letter to John Adams: "The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter... But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away with all this artificial scaffolding." Oh, and there's the fact that the First Amendment says "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." Seriously, I found that letter after ten seconds of research and I would think that someone who thinks of themselves as a patriot (as I suspect you do) would know the First Amendment by heart. How do you suck at facts this much?
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  27.  crzy J  That's the best insult you have? Come on, man, at least pretend you own a dictionary.
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  28. Cory Huskey Wasn’t a big part of Trump’s appeal that he was a political outsider? Don’t you think that gets massively undercut by him being just as shady and unethical as anyone else in Washington? Or do you not care because Trump ran as a Republican, so pesky things like standards don’t matter to you? Actually, don’t respond. I know the answer is yes. You’d want Trump skinned alive for that lawsuit if he ran as a Democrat.
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  29.  @wolfereignowns1154  Remember the 2008 recession? You know how many Wall Street executives were arrested for that? Zero. But sure, it's childish and stupid to think rich people never face consequences.
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  30.  @crhuskey  Most of my claims are only baseless if you don't take two seconds to research them yourself. Look up the 2005 lawsuit with Cordish Cos. and tell me I'm crazy for thinking he shouldn't be trusted. And even if you did (which I know you won't), what he did years ago should matter if you've applied to any job that required a background check. Any other employer would notice at Trump's thousands of lawsuits for fraud and unethical behavior. And even if that didn't keep him from getting rejected outright, it would at the very least be brought up in the interview. Meanwhile, you just shrug your shoulders and go "Meh," because apparently you have extremely low to nonexistent standards for the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
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  31.  @joelluedtke8680  Between two-thirds and three-fourths of the firepower unleashed against ISIS hit before Trump was elected. The terrorist group’s hold on territory had started to crumble a year before then. While Trump ordered some changes in the military operation, those didn’t transform the strategy so much as continue the one he inherited from Obama. So to say Obama secretly supported ISIS (an organization he clearly did a terrible job of supporting) is misleading at best and a flat out lie at worst. Also, it's telling that you don't look at Trump ending military drills in North Korea while Kim Jong Un continues to develop weapons and think that doesn't count as supporting a declared enemy.
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  32.  @luckerooni7628  I'm not suggesting we need to do everything by the United Nations' rules. I'm saying there's a reason Brexit is such a clusterfuck and it would be wise of us not to repeat that mistake, lest the withdrawal lead to any unintended consequences. For example, the United States is one of the world's foremost economic superpowers, right? If we left the UN, don't you think some other country would want to take our spot, so to speak? Also, assuming cuts are necessary if we leave the U.N., the first will likely be made to programs in which the U.S. invested a lot of time, effort and money. It's kind of like when someone breaks up with you and you throw out all their stuff. Representation of American interests would falter abroad and the perception that the U.S. failed to heed global concerns would grow. Now, if Trump ran on a platform of making America respected throughout the world (as he did), would this be an effective way to do it? No. No, it would not.
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  33.  @MrGrosBonnet  If I'm a globalist, then you're Amy Schumer. At no point have I suggested we need to defer completely to the United Nations. What I am saying is that establishing stable international relationships is important, and Trump is fucking it up royally. Take Australia. The United States is Australia’s fourth largest export market, its second largest source of imports, and its largest investor. Meanwhile, Australia is the United States' fifth largest investor. According to surveys, 60% of Australians hold unfavorable view of the US as a result of President Donald Trump. Only 29% of Australians have confidence in Trump, compared to the 87% who had confidence Obama. A record low 55% of Australians believe the US could act responsibly in the world, compared to 83% in 2011. 70% of Australians don't think Trump could act responsibly. I'm not saying we need to base our whole foreign policy around what Australians think, but there's audio of former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull mocking Trump's reputation as a serial liar. Wasn't Trump's campaign centered around the idea that America will be respected by the rest of the world? Even if we don't have the United Nations, it won't make us any more respected if the president already pissed off our allies. But getting back to the "globalist" point, congratulations on being a hypocrite who thinks making baseless assumptions are only okay when you do it. I've been to Canada, studied abroad in Guatemala, and visited Israel three times. So thank you for your service, but maybe for future reference, you could ask how much travelling I've done instead of making an ass of yourself.
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  34.  @abelcainsbrother  It's a baseless conspiracy theory that Trump has been sued for fraud and unethical behavior over four decades? Wow, you must really love having your head up Trump's ass.
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  35.  @tylerulfmann4586  Do you think money shouldn't be spent on enforcing traffic laws because car crashes still happen? If not, what makes this any different?
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  36.  @tylerulfmann4586  Let's say "unable to prevent genocide" is Trump's reasoning for wanting to withdraw from the United Nations. Don't you think it would make more sense for him to suggest changes to make them better at preventing genocide instead of withdrawing from them entirely? If a gun is jammed, you don't fix it by throwing it away.
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  37.  @tylerulfmann4586  If Trump thinks the world needs to respect America more, wouldn't fixing the UN do that far better than leaving it?
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  38.  @userrend  What happened to "drain the swamp," though? Surely, Trump would think himself capable of fixing it if the idea were presented to him.
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  39.  @SonoftheAllfather  Are you seriously being a massive douche bag on purpose?
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  40.  @SonoftheAllfather  You're an unfunny shit stain on political discourse and you will never be anything more than that. Go fuck yourself.
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  41.  @SonoftheAllfather  If you don't want liberals calling you a Nazi, then maybe shut the fuck up and don't call liberals words you don't understand, you fucking overcompensator.
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  42.  @SonoftheAllfather  If you feel the need to unironically use "homo" as an insult, then congratulations, you have the humor and emotional maturity of Fred Durst. Go fuck yourself.
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  43.  @SonoftheAllfather  You haven't earned the ability to say you proved anything. Well, all except one. Apparently, Trump is magical because every toilet he shits in gains sentience and starts commenting on Styx's videos. Go fuck yourself, dickhead.
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  44.  @SonoftheAllfather  You think this is a fucking joke? Fuck you and the quasi-sentient flaming bag of shit you call a president.
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  45.  @SonoftheAllfather  Fuck off.
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  46.  @SonoftheAllfather  You're an awful excuse for an informed citizen. Fuck you.
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  47.  @SonoftheAllfather  Is this how you are with everyone? You just make libelous assumptions and then assume you'll be right no matter what the other person says because you can't hear them from deep inside Trump's ass? If so, go fuck yourself for a change.
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  48. Son of the Allfather You’re not my therapist. What makes you think I need your opinion?
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  49. You're bitching about Executive Orders? The thing every president uses? So if we're complaining about presidents using them, Obama had the lowest per-year average of Executive Orders signed (35) in 120 years. Trump signed 42 executive orders in 200 days.
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  50.  @evancoveney6268  Examples?
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  51.  John John  The key word there being "believe"
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  52.  @evancoveney6268  It's one thing to undo everything Obama did, as Trump clearly has been working on. It would be another matter entirely if Trump had any intent to replace them with anything better, which he doesn't. Except for 13524. From what I've gathered, he hasn't repealed that yet.
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  53.  @evancoveney6268  Are you conservatives or anarchists?
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  54.  @Mr_Triscuit  Research isn't believing everything James O'Keefe says up front either, but what the hell do I know?
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