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babylonsister

(171,072 posts)
Fri May 25, 2018, 06:46 PM May 2018

Pierce: This President* Doesn't Get to Say These Disgusting Things in Our Name


This President* Doesn’t Get to Say These Disgusting Things in Our Name
Trump's Oval Office comedy routine does not speak for the rest of us.
By Charles P. Pierce
May 25, 2018


Yes, he is an angry, racist bag of sins. Yes, too much of his staff is made up of racist bags of sin. Yes, too many of his supporters are angry, racist bags of sin. Yes, too many of the people in his political party are perfectly fine with angry, racist bags of sin. The evidence is now too ridiculous to ignore. From The Washington Post:

The night before Trump delivered his first speech to Congress in February 2017, he huddled with senior adviser Jared Kushner and Miller in the Oval Office to talk immigration. The president reluctantly agreed with suggestions he strike a gentler tone on immigration in the speech. Trump reminded them the crowds loved his rhetoric on immigrants along the campaign trail. Acting as if he was at a rally, he then read aloud a few made up Hispanic names and described potential crimes they could have committed, like rape or murder. Then, he said, the crowds would roar when the criminals were thrown out of the country — as they did when he highlighted crimes by illegal immigrants at his rallies, according to a person present for the exchange and another briefed on it later. Miller and Kushner laughed.


Of course, they did. Because they belong in the reptile house.

Kelly grew so angry during the June meeting because he thought the president was uninformed, and he later told associates that it was a staffing problem and a reason he was willing to become the next chief of staff. “The president deserves better,” a White House official said, describing Kelly’s reaction. As Trump harangued Nielsen for more than 30 minutes in front of the Cabinet this month, other aides grimaced and fidgeted. Nothing she said seemed to calm the president, according to people familiar with the meeting. “We’re closed!” Trump yelled at one point, referring to the border.


He doesn’t get to say that for the rest of us. He doesn’t get to say that for all of us. He doesn’t get to trash decades of the country’s commitment to the world just because it gets him applause from the nervous goobers who flock to his rallies. We are not closed. He does not speak for the nation. And he never should.

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https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a20917762/trump-hispanic-names-crimes-racist/
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Pierce: This President* Doesn't Get to Say These Disgusting Things in Our Name (Original Post) babylonsister May 2018 OP
I am not smiling any more. Chickensoup May 2018 #1
Yeah, making fun of him, and joking doesn't help me feel better anymore. MariaCSR May 2018 #2
Here's what you can do: bring the truth to the GOP base EndGOPPropaganda May 2018 #8
Please tell THEM as well RandomAccess May 2018 #4
Chicken Soup! Beautiful, true, and inspiring statement: DemocracyMouse May 2018 #5
KnR Hekate May 2018 #3
This message was self-deleted by its author BadgerMom May 2018 #6
Until Someone STOPS Him, Muslim from Mexico May 2018 #7
I take exception. cab67 May 2018 #9
And reptiles, as with other animals, only do what they need to do. BobTheSubgenius May 2018 #11
If your rhetoric on immigration has gone too far for Stephen Miller, BobTheSubgenius May 2018 #10
He showed us who he was mcar May 2018 #12

Chickensoup

(650 posts)
1. I am not smiling any more.
Fri May 25, 2018, 07:28 PM
May 2018

Yes friends trump succeeded in wiping
the smile off my face. His lies crossed
all boundaries . His corruption is
in the open and in the day light .
He puts his interest above that of the country. His praise of himself is
Sinfully lunatic. He demeans the
office he occupy and Americas place
in the world.
Democratic leaders the time has come
to rise up from under the table and
start pounding the table. This is your
time under the sun and for the sake of our wonderful country.

 

MariaCSR

(642 posts)
2. Yeah, making fun of him, and joking doesn't help me feel better anymore.
Fri May 25, 2018, 07:33 PM
May 2018

He's dangerous. And the longer he goes un-confronted, the more dangerous he will become.

Seriously, I'm scared. For myself, but also for the country.

EndGOPPropaganda

(1,117 posts)
8. Here's what you can do: bring the truth to the GOP base
Fri May 25, 2018, 09:05 PM
May 2018

Many Trump supporters are propagandized by the Republican propaganda media - Fox, Limbaugh, Sinclair.
Reaching them is a way to weaken the president, until we can vote in 2018.

Good sources of progressive messaging apparel:

https://maddogpac.com/


https://www.turnoutpac.org/ (This is my favorite!)


https://weprotectthetruth.com/

 

RandomAccess

(5,210 posts)
4. Please tell THEM as well
Fri May 25, 2018, 08:00 PM
May 2018

Not just us:

Call 24/7: 202-224-3121
Free Faxes (can incl up to 3 pages attached) to Senators: https://faxzero.com/fax_senate.php
Free Faxes (ditto) to Congress: https://faxzero.com/fax_congress.php
TEXT your faxes: Text RESIST to 50409
Write your MoC - DEMOCRACY.IO https://democracy.io/#/

DemocracyMouse

(2,275 posts)
5. Chicken Soup! Beautiful, true, and inspiring statement:
Fri May 25, 2018, 08:05 PM
May 2018
"Democratic leaders the time has come
to rise up from under the table and
start pounding the table. This is your
time under the sun and for the sake of our wonderful country."


I like the idea of getting out from under the table – and letting our true, unabashed, progressive flag fly. Build it (the progressive vision) and they will come. We are slipping behind Europe (Ireland just voted pro-choice by a landslide) and must PUSH for freedom, equality and sanity!

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cab67

(2,993 posts)
9. I take exception.
Fri May 25, 2018, 09:39 PM
May 2018

Reptiles are noble creatures. That they are less encumbered by the nuances of morality does not make them lesser beings, in my view. Their thought processes may be simpler, but they are not nonexistent. Trump is unworthy of comparison with them.

BobTheSubgenius

(11,564 posts)
11. And reptiles, as with other animals, only do what they need to do.
Fri May 25, 2018, 09:52 PM
May 2018

They provide for their own needs of nutrition and reasonable self-protection. They don't engage in subterfuge, or unnecessary aggression as self-aggrandizement.

Really, reptiles are noble beasts, by comparison. One valid comparison is cold-bloodedness. Some creatures are born cold-blooded, some achieve cold-bloodedness, and some have cold-bloodedness thrust upon them. With the specimen in the White House, it is a case of all three.

With thanks and apologies to Joseph Heller.

BobTheSubgenius

(11,564 posts)
10. If your rhetoric on immigration has gone too far for Stephen Miller,
Fri May 25, 2018, 09:47 PM
May 2018

you are well and truly beyond the paie.

I don't know if this is common knowledge, and thus kind of boring, but here goes anyway. I realized as I was typing it, the word "pale" is very apt here. It was a term from the time of the British colonization of Ireland. "The pale" was the physical space bounded by a fence of stakes either around their stronghold in which they could easily project the same armed force as within the walls of it, or was the defensive wall itself in less-fortified locations. Their literal sphere of influence.

mcar

(42,334 posts)
12. He showed us who he was
Fri May 25, 2018, 09:52 PM
May 2018

He's gathered a group of like minded haters around him.

Everyone who voted for this or who enabled it are complicit.

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