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I have to hand it to you Republicans. I can only assume that you actually searched for the worst possible pResident you could find and congratulations, you hit the jackpot!
Your pResident cant read, cant spell, cant put together a single sentence without fucking it up. He cant open his mouth without lying; he cant attend international meetings without acting like a two-year-old buffoon whose petulance is only surpassed by his complete ignorance.
He doesnt bother with daily briefings, and refuses to take advice from anyone other than the ass-kissers who are as stupid and ill-informed as he is.
He has insulted our friends, distanced us from our traditional global allies, and has done everything he can to put self-satisfied smiles on the faces of people like Putin and Kim Jong-Il.
He is so obviously colluding with the Russians, and denying it at this point is beyond laughable. He and his cohorts have lied about every single contact with Russian operatives, and have only admitted to them after being confronted with incontrovertible proof that those contacts happened.
He is a self-proclaimed pussy-grabber, a racist and a bigot. He publicly mocks the disabled, encourages violence, and promotes disunity among Americans.
He has persistently promoted the idea that the government agencies that protect and uphold our democracy including the FBI, the CIA, and the entire judicial system - are corrupt. He has labelled dedicated journalists as enemies of the people, and the free press as fake news.
He has championed tax-cuts for the wealthy, plunged the country into unprecedented debt, and his Republican enablers are now planning to gut Medicare, Medicaid, and social security in order to pay back the debt that they themselves created a debt to be borne by the poor and middle-class whose promised massive tax cuts turned out to be pennies.
He has appointed the most inept, inexperienced people imaginable to cabinet positions, many of them so blatantly corrupt, they are under investigation or indictment, or have already pled guilty to federal crimes.
He lies constantly often about things that are trivial and of absolutely no importance. He accuses people like Obama and Hillary of crimes, and actually calls for their imprisonment without even a scrap of evidence that they have done the things he accuses them of.
On the world stage, he arrives late - and apparently pissed-off - for international gatherings, and doesnt even bother pretending that hes the least bit interested in what is being discussed or, more to the point, that he even understands the topics of conversation.
His abject stupidity is the butt of every joke here and abroad, and is the subject of scathing political cartoons the world over.
His incompetence and ignorance have now moved into the status of legendary, and his bizarre behaviour is such that respected psychologists and psychiatrists have warned the citizenry that his frequent tantrums and meltdowns are demonstrative of severe mental defect.
He takes credit for things he never accomplished, and refuses to take any responsibility for his own failures. Instead, he blames others for his own blatantly obvious fuck-ups
As if all of the above wasnt stomach-churning enough, he is now imprisoning children from babies, to toddlers, to teenagers who are being held in facilities that even congressmen are not allowed to visit in order to ensure their welfare and safe treatment, which begs the question of what is so abhorrent, it needs to be hidden from elected representatives.
So congratulations, GOP! You have managed to put a sadistic, lying, totally corrupt idiot in the Oval Office and that would be the same Oval Office he used to pass highly classified information into the hands of our nations enemies.
Your pResident has disgraced the office of the presidency, has led to our country being seen as devoid of the compassion, competence, and sense of justice that once made us the leader of the free world, and has rendered us as nation whose word cannot be trusted.
In the midst of all of this, we have seen you Republicans cower, get on your knees, and virtually fellate this obnoxious boor in public.
But by all means, keep telling your constituents that you are the party of Christian morals as your pResident fights lawsuits brought by the women he has sexually molested. Keep telling your party members that you are the party of family values as your pResident tears babies away from their parents. Keep telling the country that you are the party of law and order as your pResident defies the Constitution and declares that he has the power to pardon himself for crimes against the nation if he chooses to do so.
Trump is the antithesis of everything your party has claimed to be. And now you own it, you own it all the hypocrisy, the stupidity, the flaunting of the law, the pain and suffering the poorest among us are now dealing with, the destruction of the American Dream that citizens and immigrants alike once aspired to achieve.
This is ON YOU, Republicans and you will never be able to undo the damage you are responsible for.
That being said, good luck in the November midterms, now that you have given the Democrats and decent Americans, regardless of political affiliation more than enough ammunition to bury you.
As we used to say back on the block in NYC, youre dead and everyone you bring is dead. To put it in terms even the brain-dead can understand, the Republican party is now the party of caging innocent children like animals a term you own pResident uses and the party that has openly abandoned every principle it once claimed to exemplify.
The GOP has traditionally fucked the hard-working middle class and now they are proudly fucking those who foolishly believed that our country is a beacon of hope and freedom.
Your pResident is a self-serving idiot, and your defence of his policies will be your undoing and I applaud your political suicide, as do millions of people who have now recognized your hypocrisy, your lack of morals, and your pretence of being decent human beings.
Let me tell you that there is nothing as satisfying as witnessing your enemy put a knife to his own throat, and watching their blood spattering all over the political landscape.
And make no mistake that is exactly what we are witnessing now.
You stood behind your pResident as he put children in cages and we will hold you accountable for your treason and your crimes against humanity in the same way Nazi collaborators were held accountable for theirs.
Count on it.
Gothmog
(145,321 posts)COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)I often sit in mute admiration of your uncanny ability to succinctly dissect the psychiatrically-challenged man child who unfortunately temporarily holds the office of President but with your latest effort I find it impossible to see how anyone could improve on this essay. It truly says it all. Thank you for all your great work.
sheshe2
(83,791 posts)This
and this
NanceGreggs
(27,815 posts)It's just another "distraction" from real issues - like babies being held in cages.
I guess you don't think I do. Never mind.
NanceGreggs
(27,815 posts)Sorry, not understanding your post at all.
sheshe2
(83,791 posts)That what I posted is just a distraction? It is who she is and it should be made known loud and clear that she is one heartless ***** She does not and I sure as hell do.
It's just another "distraction" from real issues - like babies being held in cages.
NanceGreggs
(27,815 posts)I was being honest with you. I really don't give a fuck what Melania says or does, and never have.
If what she says/does is important to you, that's fine. That doesn't mean it has to be important to me.
sheshe2
(83,791 posts)Where did I ever say that I hold any importance to what a clueless flotus has to say? I made fun of her. The flotus ain't floating my boat. She is an immigrant herself and worked here illegally for several years before she got her green card. I think Donnie should deport her and give us back the children. Do you want to sign on to that? Free the children.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)sheshe was asking a rhetorical question by asking "what does the coat really says" and then answers her questions with her photo selections.
NanceGreggs then answers the already answered question, with "Honestly I don't give a fuck" which is her understanding of what Melania was saying but sheshe understands it as an answer to her, which it isn't.
bdamomma
(63,875 posts)up his ass.
Leith
(7,809 posts)It seems that my emotions are following yours - going from alarm to despair to anxiety to turning away in confusion.
Now we're mad as hell.
We lost count of the number of times we said that something was the last straw, but this is really it. The only reason that there are no trains full of prisoners is that there are so few trains any more. If rethugs think that we're pissed off now, they will run off in fear when the first stories of children disappearing and dying hit the news.
I can't remember exactly where I heard it (it could have been NPR on the car radio earlier today), but an interview guest said that people are being disappeared in the US like they were in South America in the 1970s and 1980s. It was jarring because it was so true.
We are almost to the point of treating rethugs like they have been treating us for decades. The poor lil snowflakes won't know what to do.
Lars39
(26,109 posts)are being used now
Leith
(7,809 posts)Holy fuck.
struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)NanceGreggs
(27,815 posts)I'm merely pointing out how pointless RW talking points have become.
struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)We won't win by talking to ourselves, and we won't win by talking to our die-hard opponents
You and I know the wingnut talking points are nonsense; and our diehard opponents will never admit any such thing
In the middle, there are folk who don't take either view -- people who "somewhat approve" of The Don, or who don't know what to think, or who "somewhat disapprove" -- and we can win by talking to those waffling hearts, but they won't sit still to listen to us for long
Many of them haven't paid close attention or haven't been able to think carefully about the issues
Those folk need clean crisp soundbites that capture issues memorably and don't sound as if they might be motivated by mere rancor
NanceGreggs
(27,815 posts)I really do.
The problem here is that after the blatant lies, the obvious corruption, and the cruelty demonstrated by Republicans - especially since Trump took office - anyone who is still sitting on the fence is a god-damned idiot.
How much time to "think carefully about the issues" is required by anyone with a functioning brain?
Even putting Trump aside for the moment, many voters have, election after election, voted for Republicans who are extremely vocal about their desire to gut things like Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security - things that impact them directly - and yet they vote for them anyway. Then they sit slack-jawed when the people they've voted for do exactly that.
The "massive tax cut" that was promised to the middle-class in this last election wound up being a windfall for the wealthy, while the middle-class got crumbs - and a debt they are expected to pay off. And yet people will vote for them again and again.
These people are, for all intents and purposes, brain-dead. They aren't even swayed by their own experiences of being lied to and shafted.
And now we have babies in Kiddie Koncentration Kamps - and anyone who is still ambivalent in the face of that horror is unreachable. Anyone who is seeing this and is still saying, "Well, gee, I dunno," is beyond being convinced of anything.
If knowing that children are being taken from their parents and warehoused in cages isn't a convincing enough "clear, crisp soundbyte", I can't imagine what would be.
If I'm attempting to convince anyone of anything, I would hope to convince non-voters - those who say "my vote doesn't matter", or "both parties are the same" - to take a good look at what's going in, get off their asses and VOTE. Given the present circumstances, voting Democrat or Republican is no longer the issue - voting against child torturers is.
This IS "pick a side" time. Anyone sitting on the sidelines muttering about how they really can't choose between a party that imprisons toddlers and a party that is outraged at the very idea of doing so is a worthless human being. And I can't be bothered with worthless people who are too fucking stupid to recognize pure evil when it's staring them right in the face.
struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)and we want to put our side in motion. And if the rest go down in the flood, it's their own fault
Gothmog
(145,321 posts)I love Nance's thread
dalton99a
(81,515 posts)AlexSFCA
(6,139 posts)I envy your optimism though.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)world wide wally
(21,744 posts)to everyone.
It's not a fucking game, idiots
hunter
(38,317 posts).
Buns_of_Fire
(17,181 posts)Just slap a bill number at the top and toss this in the hopper as is.
ck4829
(35,077 posts)First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...he could well be followed by someone worse next time. Impossible? Did we think anyone could be worse than Dubya? How about someone who has all of Trump's toxic instincts, but slicker, someone who can at least pretend not to be insane? Or, how about a quiet, uncharismatic stone fanatic--like Pence? Or even someone just plain lower on the evolutionary scale--don't laugh, don't laugh--a Bannon? A Bachman? An outright racist Nazi, who doesn't even give the occasional lip service even Trump does to democracy? This can't happen? Anything can happen in this country. Our national immune system has been destroyed. It doesn't have to happen--but it damned well can.
bdamomma
(63,875 posts)many times
Fuck you Repigs, you own this one.