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Zoonart

(11,873 posts) Sat Feb 15, 2020, 10:55 AM Feb 2020

So sick of this bullshit. Pretty certain Rump never heard of Emerson.

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“Ralph Waldo Emerson seemed to foresee the lesson of the Senate Impeachment Trial of President Trump. ‘When you strike at the King, Emerson famously said, “you must kill him.’ Mr. Trump’s foes struck at him but did not take him down. A triumphant Mr.Trump emerges from the.....

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.....biggest test of his presidency emboldened, ready to claim exoneration, and take his case of grievance, persecution and resentment to the campaign trail.” Peter Baker @nytimes The Greatest Witch Hunt In American History!

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8:04 AM - Feb 15, 2020

Also.... who is tweeting this shit? Guaranteed Rump could not quote Emerson if you drove bamboo shoots under his fingernails.
The fact that he runs his shit show on twitter, and the citizens of this nation do not even know who is doing the tweeting at any given time, means we are being trolled by the office of the President. How long?
*sorry can't post from Twitter

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So sick of this bullshit. Pretty certain Rump never heard of Emerson. (Original Post) Zoonart Feb 2020 OP

Would get run off from DU if I said what I want to say :( patricia92243 Feb 2020 #1

You are so right to be so sick of it. BKDem Feb 2020 #2

Here's my problem... Zoonart Feb 2020 #8

It's a deliberate campaign of psychological abuse being executed on Twitter and Facebook... BKDem Feb 2020 #15

I suspect most of the tweets during working hours are non-Trump... Wounded Bear Feb 2020 #3

I don't think he is mercuryblues Feb 2020 #4

Trump should thank whatever he prays to for speechwriters. lpbk2713 Feb 2020 #5

The fact that the President of the United States Polly Hennessey Feb 2020 #6

Not a joke. Zoonart Feb 2020 #9

Trump wouldn't know Emerson if he bit him in the ass. smirkymonkey Feb 2020 #7

"Yeah, isn't he that guy that was with Lake and Palmer back in the '70's?" Maeve Feb 2020 #10

Possible Ivanka, though she. is an idiot cipher too. Zoonart Feb 2020 #12

Trump Proudly Quotes NY Times Article That Called Him 'Stained in History' demmiblue Feb 2020 #11

Sure... I've seen this quote used many times during the impeachment fight. Zoonart Feb 2020 #13

Dan Scavino, his social media director. demmiblue Feb 2020 #14

Emerson also said... handmade34 Feb 2020 #16

PERFECT! Zoonart Feb 2020 #17

patricia92243

(12,597 posts)

1. Would get run off from DU if I said what I want to say :(

Reply to Zoonart (Original post)

Sat Feb 15, 2020, 11:06 AM

Feb 2020

BKDem

(1,733 posts)

2. You are so right to be so sick of it.

Reply to Zoonart (Original post)

Sat Feb 15, 2020, 11:08 AM

Feb 2020

Hannah Arendt wrote of the banality of evil. Trump embodies the comic idiocy of evil -- hilarious, but evil.

Unhappily, he apparently also embodies some supernatural, undying persistence of evil. For his constant fury and hamberders, he should be dead by now.

We should be so lucky.

Zoonart

(11,873 posts)

8. Here's my problem...

Reply to BKDem (Reply #2)

Sat Feb 15, 2020, 11:16 AM

Feb 2020

I am tired of being psychologically abused by my "*resident".
Twitter should ban him form posting. We should not allow our "leader" to communicate policy and/or perfidy via tweet.
We deserve to know who is driving this vehicle and it is often NOT Rump.
Where is the outrage that causes citizens too demand action from this social media platform?

BKDem

(1,733 posts)

15. It's a deliberate campaign of psychological abuse being executed on Twitter and Facebook...

Reply to Zoonart (Reply #8)

Sat Feb 15, 2020, 11:28 AM

Feb 2020

...by unelected zealots like Stephen Miller and Brad Parscale. It's among the worst, most damaging things this horrifying administration is doing, and it's untroubling to seemingly all of this country's elected Republicans. We can demand that our reps do something, but they've already shown us they won't.

Wounded Bear

(58,673 posts)

3. I suspect most of the tweets during working hours are non-Trump...

Reply to Zoonart (Original post)

Sat Feb 15, 2020, 11:09 AM

Feb 2020

It's those 3am on the shitter tweets that are the real deal.

mercuryblues

(14,536 posts)

4. I don't think he is

Reply to Zoonart (Original post)

Sat Feb 15, 2020, 11:11 AM

Feb 2020

composing tweets himself as much anymore. Spelling and no caps is the giveaway.

lpbk2713

(42,761 posts)

5. Trump should thank whatever he prays to for speechwriters.

Reply to Zoonart (Original post)

Sat Feb 15, 2020, 11:11 AM

Feb 2020

Maybe he would have to pray in Russian.

Polly Hennessey

(6,799 posts)

6. The fact that the President of the United States

Reply to Zoonart (Original post)

Sat Feb 15, 2020, 11:11 AM

Feb 2020

Tweets is unreal to me. That this is the form of communication from the leader of our country is boggling. Even more boggling is that we respond. “When you strike at the King....”. Is the dipshit that delusional? Certainly, this is a joke. Please, a joke, please.

Zoonart

(11,873 posts)

9. Not a joke.

Reply to Polly Hennessey (Reply #6)

Sat Feb 15, 2020, 11:17 AM

Feb 2020

Trolling from the leader of the free world.

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)

7. Trump wouldn't know Emerson if he bit him in the ass.

Reply to Zoonart (Original post)

Sat Feb 15, 2020, 11:14 AM

Feb 2020

Emerson was the anti-Trump. There is nothing to indicate that Trump would have ever gravitated toward Emerson and his philosophy. That sounds like something that Ivanka pulled out of her pseudo-intellectual ass.

Maeve

(42,283 posts)

10. "Yeah, isn't he that guy that was with Lake and Palmer back in the '70's?"

Reply to smirkymonkey (Reply #7)

Sat Feb 15, 2020, 11:18 AM

Feb 2020

That would be more tRump's speed

Zoonart

(11,873 posts)

12. Possible Ivanka, though she. is an idiot cipher too.

Reply to smirkymonkey (Reply #7)

Sat Feb 15, 2020, 11:19 AM

Feb 2020

Problem is we don't know who it was do we? Yet whomever it is, is using the IDENTITY of the President. THAT IS FRIGHTENING!

demmiblue

(36,865 posts)

11. Trump Proudly Quotes NY Times Article That Called Him 'Stained in History'

Reply to Zoonart (Original post)

Sat Feb 15, 2020, 11:18 AM

Feb 2020

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That quote came from a February 1 “news analysis” article entitled “While Stained in History, Trump Will Emerge From Trial Triumphant and Unshackled,” which looked ahead to Trump’s then-impending acquittal. Baker wrote:

Ralph Waldo Emerson seemed to foresee the lesson of the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump. “When you strike at a king,” Emerson famously said, “you must kill him.”

Mr. Trump’s foes struck at him but did not take him down.

With the end of the impeachment trial now in sight and acquittal assured, a triumphant Mr. Trump emerges from the biggest test of his presidency emboldened, ready to claim exoneration and take his case of grievance, persecution and resentment to the campaign trail.

The president’s Democratic adversaries rolled out the biggest constitutional weapon they had and failed to defeat him, or even to force a full trial with witnesses testifying to the allegations against him. Now Mr. Trump, who has said that the Constitution “allows me to do whatever I want” and pushed so many boundaries that curtailed past presidents, has little reason to fear the legislative branch nor any inclination to reach out in conciliation.

https://www.mediaite.com/news/trump-proudly-quotes-ny-times-article-that-called-him-stained-in-history/

Zoonart

(11,873 posts)

13. Sure... I've seen this quote used many times during the impeachment fight.

Reply to demmiblue (Reply #11)

Sat Feb 15, 2020, 11:23 AM

Feb 2020

Do you really think Rump remembers a literary quote published in the NYT a couple of weeks ago? And even if he did... could put the sentences together and spell it and attribute it correctly?
I doubt he can remember what he had for breakfast. Point is... who IS tweeting under his identity?