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This President* Doesnt 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:
Of course, they did. Because they belong in the reptile house.
He doesnt get to say that for the rest of us. He doesnt get to say that for all of us. He doesnt get to trash decades of the countrys 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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Chickensoup
(650 posts)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)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)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.
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DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)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!
Hekate
(90,714 posts)Response to babylonsister (Original post)
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Muslim from Mexico
(14 posts)he does, sickening as that is.
cab67
(2,993 posts)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)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)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)He's gathered a group of like minded haters around him.
Everyone who voted for this or who enabled it are complicit.