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yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
1. The frustrating thing is...
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 01:17 PM
Jan 2018

his lack of self-awareness and the disconnect he possesses regarding truth, fact and reality.

There is something innately wrong with this moronic buffoon.

The most tragic and saddening aspect of this? We all knew it years ago.

cilla4progress

(24,736 posts)
3. Exactly
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 01:32 PM
Jan 2018

I honestly believe it’s internal wiring that makes a Ron Johnson or Trey Gowdy or
my evangelical sister-in-law trust and buy the shit trump is selling, when those of us on the left see right through it.

Conversely, we all see and understand the truth of Barack and Michelle Obama - while others hurl heinous untrue slurs and insults at them.

Yes, some are cynical and self-serving, but there also seems to be something intrinsic that makes folks adhere to one side or the other. And you will never change their minds.

erronis

(15,303 posts)
18. Let's hope they identify this mis-wiring. But what then?
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 04:10 PM
Jan 2018

As an ethical (moral?) society we don't feel that we should terminate the lives of those that can't "think", don't have a conscious.

Would it perhaps be more ethical to build a nice home for this variety of individuals? We could build a really nice huge lot with all the amenities. Since most of them really hate most of us, we could put up a nice pretty wall to keep us from pestering them with questions.

Since most of them are already southerners, perhaps an area around Texas would be sufficient? I'm sure that they won't suffer from climate change or lack of aquifer water because they are "conservatives". The fracking earthquakes will be like music to them.

And I bet the Mexicans would gladly build that wall between Texas (remember the Alamo!) and their hard-working people.

procon

(15,805 posts)
4. All those other world leaders must see Trump for what he is, a ridiculous clown,
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 01:37 PM
Jan 2018

a dangerous one, but he's still a world renown buffoon. He's been babbling "fake news" for so long it's like his theme song. Even when proven wrong, time after time, when the facts are undeniable and the evidence is incriminating, he's stuck in la-la land and gibbering "fake news" like a man who should locked away in a mental institution, or Club Fed.

cilla4progress

(24,736 posts)
5. But these elites like him now
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 01:41 PM
Jan 2018

For the tax cut.

According to Larry Summers just now in Andrea Mitchell, the fundamentals right now are not indicating conditions that will benefit working people here in the long term - despite the stock market bubble. That’s why I’ve moved some of my retirement savings out of higher risk investments. Also I’m about 5 years from retirement.

 

Gabi Hayes

(28,795 posts)
7. The only thing the bubbling Dow indicates is that the income inequality gap is red shifting, a la
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 01:48 PM
Jan 2018

the ever increasing acceleration of the cosmic bubble

We’ll all be eating dirt, if they have their way

cilla4progress

(24,736 posts)
10. My bet is
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 01:55 PM
Jan 2018

McGahn while trump and henchmen and women are out of the country. Maybe to humiliate or at least undercut him overseas?

More likely as reported because he is getting ready to try and fire him again.

 

BoneyardDem

(1,202 posts)
11. I heard that videos of the over 4M strong Women's march was viewed and commented on
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 01:58 PM
Jan 2018

Don's popularity, or lack thereof, is on full display.

ffr

(22,670 posts)
13. I can imagine he thinks all this attention, good or bad, is good for his ratings.
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 03:37 PM
Jan 2018

I'm sure one of his swamp dwelling conservative lap dogs will be spinning it that way too.

gibraltar72

(7,506 posts)
14. We are being humiliated
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 03:49 PM
Jan 2018

not Trump. He is not self aware enough to be humiliated. In his mind anyone who doesn't agree with him is not worth bothering with.

erronis

(15,303 posts)
19. I think you are touching on the reality. Unfortunately.
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 04:14 PM
Jan 2018

Maybe when the repuglicans start to realize that they are being humiliated also, maybe they'll start to wake up from their $lumber.

Doubt it. Under-the-influence.

 

Tipperary

(6,930 posts)
17. Sadly, I do not believe for one minute that he was humiliated.
Fri Jan 26, 2018, 04:05 PM
Jan 2018

Even Jim Acosta said he was surprised at the warm welcome the asshole received. Rich people love rich people. Assrump thinks he knocked it out of the park.

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