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TNNurse

(6,926 posts)
Fri Feb 2, 2018, 08:58 AM Feb 2018

I am 68.

I cannot find one positive thing to say about Donald Trump. He has no words, attitudes or plans with which I agree.

I expect him to kick a puppy on live TV any day now.

Soon because of him and his cult in the GOP, we will be changing the name of the country. We are no longer United.

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I am 68. (Original Post) TNNurse Feb 2018 OP
I am also 68 (at least for 3 more days) and I concur. Vinca Feb 2018 #1
I'm 71 and well remember Nixon and Reagan, both of whom some of us thought were... TreasonousBastard Feb 2018 #2
I am also 68....... BlueJac Feb 2018 #3
Well, I'm only 67! panader0 Feb 2018 #4
Im positive hes a piece of shit. However one overlooked upside to all this, assuming we can mahina Feb 2018 #5
Trash, pure trash. Of that, I am certain. SammyWinstonJack Feb 2018 #14
Im 64 and believe that there is no more pretense PCIntern Feb 2018 #6
I'm in a minority on this. Sharpshooter007 Feb 2018 #7
Trump is destroying government, TNNurse Feb 2018 #8
Sure Sharpshooter007 Feb 2018 #10
I rank Trump as the biggest tragedy since Vietnam. ooky Feb 2018 #15
I agree. For all the bluster chaos and vileness Voltaire2 Feb 2018 #17
im 67 and i think he metaphorically kicked a puppy samnsara Feb 2018 #9
I'm 58 treestar Feb 2018 #11
Im 61 Freddie Feb 2018 #12
There will likely never be single payer in our lifetime unfortunately Sharpshooter007 Feb 2018 #13
Buck up, Nurse! Don't give up the ship. Nitram Feb 2018 #16

Vinca

(50,273 posts)
1. I am also 68 (at least for 3 more days) and I concur.
Fri Feb 2, 2018, 09:03 AM
Feb 2018

You can usually find 1 lousy thing to like (think Dubya - he had adorable dogs). There's absolutely nothing about Trump to like or admire or think even slightly positive about.

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
2. I'm 71 and well remember Nixon and Reagan, both of whom some of us thought were...
Fri Feb 2, 2018, 09:13 AM
Feb 2018

the end of the world as we knew it.

And J. Edgar Hoover, who ran an FBI like nothing we've seen since. (thank God, or something)

VietNam, Watts, protestors penned up like animals...

None of them, though, were as dangerously off the rails as this guy. Not even Bush the Lesser was this crazy.

Wolff's book started out with the proposition that no one expected Trump to win, least of all Trump himself-- it was just a grand old time for all. Now that he won, though, he's stuck with the job and probably believes he's capable of doing it
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mahina

(17,659 posts)
5. Im positive hes a piece of shit. However one overlooked upside to all this, assuming we can
Fri Feb 2, 2018, 09:31 AM
Feb 2018

Distract (i)DJT from hitting any big red buttons, is that the US maybe needed to not be all big body all over the world, and stay the f out of other people’s business.

With the Yemen bombing news and the N. Korea fear, it’s in the background, but I’m guessing we’ll leave Medico alone, at least.

Cheers

PCIntern

(25,550 posts)
6. Im 64 and believe that there is no more pretense
Fri Feb 2, 2018, 09:34 AM
Feb 2018

That America is the land of the free and the home of the brave

We’ve deteriorated to the point that if it’s gonna snow three inches we go 24/7 on the tv and stock up on supplies for the pending Apocalypse. We allow fascists to dictate policy and their warped, hypocritical morality. We accept oppression and repression and allow that it’s normal for our votes to be uncounted, miscounted, or lost. We are on a road to a version of Stalinism about which Americans have no idea.

Even if we retake all the branches of government the evil seeds have been sown.

 

Sharpshooter007

(79 posts)
7. I'm in a minority on this.
Fri Feb 2, 2018, 09:39 AM
Feb 2018

But I don't rank Trump worse than Bush. Bush went to war under false pretenses, killing 5,000 US Troops, 100,000+ civilians.

Trump is the biggest piece of shit that has ever entered the whitehouse, but he hasn't had the neocon bug that Bush/Cheney had (at least not yet).

TNNurse

(6,926 posts)
8. Trump is destroying government,
Fri Feb 2, 2018, 09:48 AM
Feb 2018

he is poisoning the judiciary for years to come. He is damaging the environment, he is endangering the workforce, he is deteriorating education. Bush was awful. Trump will be responsible for destroying much more. Also, Trump has not gone to war, YET.

ooky

(8,923 posts)
15. I rank Trump as the biggest tragedy since Vietnam.
Fri Feb 2, 2018, 10:34 AM
Feb 2018

I expect more deaths from his policies before its all done.

Voltaire2

(13,039 posts)
17. I agree. For all the bluster chaos and vileness
Fri Feb 2, 2018, 10:18 PM
Feb 2018

Trump hasn’t actually done anything close to what bush jr did.

But he still has time.

samnsara

(17,622 posts)
9. im 67 and i think he metaphorically kicked a puppy
Fri Feb 2, 2018, 09:52 AM
Feb 2018

..when he talked about how nasty it is to have a dog in the house!!! I have FOUR dogs(80#) sleep with me! UNITE, (old) DOG LOVERS!

treestar

(82,383 posts)
11. I'm 58
Fri Feb 2, 2018, 10:15 AM
Feb 2018

And have never seen such a low level of behavior from the WH. Even the Nixon tapes hearing him cuss up a storm don't rank with it. Donald is like a high school mean girl.

Freddie

(9,266 posts)
12. Im 61
Fri Feb 2, 2018, 10:21 AM
Feb 2018

I’ve never felt so hopeless about the way things are headed. The deck is stacked against us - gerrymandering, the EC (gerrymandering on a national scale), voter suppression, the nature of the Senate which gives outsized power to rural states. The MAJORITY of citizens want Democratic policies like a higher minimum wage and some kind of guaranteed affordable healthcare (to name a few) but we’ll never get these things without an actual rebellion, and I don’t see that happening. Had a real glimmer of hope with the PA gerrymandering case but of course the Repugs will find a way to take it to SCOTUS and we all know what will happen there.
I’m old enough to look at retirement and I will actually get a pension, we’ll be OK as long as my husband’s health holds out so he can work til 65 for the insurance. I fear for my kids and grandkids.

 

Sharpshooter007

(79 posts)
13. There will likely never be single payer in our lifetime unfortunately
Fri Feb 2, 2018, 10:26 AM
Feb 2018

Democrats would need 60+ senators and huge majorities in the house to have a chance. Even then, there will always be a few corporate democrats who'll side with the GOP.

Change is hard, but so many people in this country just keeping on voting GOP no matter what happens. Its disheartening.

Nitram

(22,802 posts)
16. Buck up, Nurse! Don't give up the ship.
Fri Feb 2, 2018, 11:10 AM
Feb 2018

We will win this, indictment after indictment, once Mueller's painstakingly crafted case against Trump and his minions is complete.

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