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luvMIdog

(2,533 posts)
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 01:05 PM Mar 2017

This today from a die hard right winger-

He said " I voted for Trump. I thought he would be the one to get the job done. With all his tweets recently I now see he is a few cards short of a full deck" .

This is a guy I have never seen say one word against his party.

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This today from a die hard right winger- (Original Post) luvMIdog Mar 2017 OP
More and more people are feeling that way everyday. They are sorry they voted for trump. caroldansen Mar 2017 #1
I'm pissed they voted for tRump. In a perfect world, they would be the only ones to suffer from SammyWinstonJack Mar 2017 #12
I am seeing some come out and admit it. They are still slightly deluded. nt Blue_true Mar 2017 #51
He is getting the job done--destroying the country--people were conned BIGLY to think mnhtnbb Mar 2017 #2
Putin's plan is to make America ineffective and weak workinclasszero Mar 2017 #23
I like the gif. Just one thing though... BlancheSplanchnik Mar 2017 #29
And tinier hands FuzzyRabbit Mar 2017 #53
and Bannon pullimg some of the strings Alice11111 Mar 2017 #63
They thought he'd only destroy it for others, not them. stopbush Mar 2017 #37
Absolutely stopbush! montana_hazeleyes Mar 2017 #59
Classic definition of white privilege: something is only a problem when it KingCharlemagne Mar 2017 #67
Nailed it. "Get the job done" means get rid of Those people. BlancheSplanchnik Mar 2017 #71
Yeah, well, too bad he didn't figure that out before the election The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2017 #3
Zero fucks given to people like that. KatyMan Mar 2017 #4
Amen! Hayduke Bomgarte Mar 2017 #66
Tell him, "Welcome back to reality" gratuitous Mar 2017 #5
NOW jaxind Mar 2017 #6
Blind hatred of Hillary, I would think. Sad! OnDoutside Mar 2017 #7
Either that, or a thirst for change meow2u3 Mar 2017 #70
That's my question as well. Ilsa Mar 2017 #30
Don't forget: Learned at the feet of the great sleaze-master, Roy Cohn. LuckyLib Mar 2017 #57
Like most voters, he probably thought the evening news was informing him Warpy Mar 2017 #52
so he pissed his vote away....too bad spanone Mar 2017 #8
Trump voters are missing that key skill of maturity-- the ability to smell bullshit from 1000 yards. Turn CO Blue Mar 2017 #9
yep...the "other basket"... PunkinPi Mar 2017 #19
I think they actively seek bullshit and wallow in it like a dog. LOL Lib Mar 2017 #28
Great phrase nt lostnfound Mar 2017 #47
Yeah even some of the hardcore ones have to admit it Kimchijeon Mar 2017 #10
I hope his insurance premiums rise 10-fold vlyons Mar 2017 #11
jfc.. Scoopster Mar 2017 #13
Well, he'll have an easy out. progressoid Mar 2017 #14
Yeah, that's putting it mildly, asshole... Raster Mar 2017 #15
your "friend" sucks lame54 Mar 2017 #16
he's not my friend. I didn't say he was. He's just a guy on a forum I read sometimes luvMIdog Mar 2017 #17
I reposted a tweet I saw here the other day on my FB page and Exilednight Mar 2017 #18
And before the ACA was "Obamacare..." dchill Mar 2017 #40
He couldn't tell this before the election? SHRED Mar 2017 #20
Tell him .... flying-skeleton Mar 2017 #21
LOADS of them here.... Bengus81 Mar 2017 #22
Still doesn't... zentrum Mar 2017 #24
just more jokers Angry Dragon Mar 2017 #25
Knowing Trump's history, why would this person think that Trump guillaumeb Mar 2017 #26
Just wondering DownriverDem Mar 2017 #27
I haven't heard much from them lately Proud Liberal Dem Mar 2017 #31
Doesn't mean a thing until he votes again. creoledna Mar 2017 #32
It's the "recent tweeting"? He didn't notice it before? What a moron. nt TeamPooka Mar 2017 #33
I'm sorry he's so stupid world wide wally Mar 2017 #34
I planted this seed right after the election Dem2 Mar 2017 #35
I suspect the REAL test will come when they step back into the voting booth. calimary Mar 2017 #36
yep keepthemhonestO Mar 2017 #38
Too Little, Too Late Leith Mar 2017 #39
And why they couldn't see that BEFORE they voted, is a great mystery. C Moon Mar 2017 #41
amazing Skittles Mar 2017 #42
More than a few... ailsagirl Mar 2017 #43
Yeah, well, too fucking bad. YOU OWN HIM. Actually, he's doing everything he said he was catbyte Mar 2017 #44
Slowly so very slowly they are starting to Doreen Mar 2017 #45
Sad thing is, they'd vote for him again tomorrow n/t riverwalker Mar 2017 #46
By next week, it may be well nigh impossible to find anyone who will still admit to supporting dt lindysalsagal Mar 2017 #48
I am deaf to every single word uttered by a so-called die hard right winger Mr. Ected Mar 2017 #49
Trumplethinskin is more than a few cards short of a full deck. 3catwoman3 Mar 2017 #50
A lot Republicans know he's a shithead, dumb ass, worthless buffoon IronLionZion Mar 2017 #54
Ultimately, we need rightwing ideology and priorities to be repudiated. Beartracks Mar 2017 #56
The GOP has gotten more right wing in the last 10 years IronLionZion Mar 2017 #62
Yeah. They'll just say that Trump wasn't.... Beartracks Mar 2017 #72
I wish someone could explain to me, nocalflea Mar 2017 #55
Well, that's nice - but how come I could spot the steaming flaming bullshit 1.5 years ago? hatrack Mar 2017 #58
What just desserts that would be.. trump tweeting Cha Mar 2017 #60
But would he have still voted for him over Hillary? After all there are alot cstanleytech Mar 2017 #61
No doubt he's reeling from his discovery that water is wet. JHB Mar 2017 #64
How is it we knew this all along and they didn't?? yuiyoshida Mar 2017 #65
Don't worry, though NewJeffCT Mar 2017 #68
No sympathy Perseus Mar 2017 #69

SammyWinstonJack

(44,130 posts)
12. I'm pissed they voted for tRump. In a perfect world, they would be the only ones to suffer from
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 01:32 PM
Mar 2017

his and the teabaggers in Congress rotten agendas. That would be just what they deserve.

mnhtnbb

(31,396 posts)
2. He is getting the job done--destroying the country--people were conned BIGLY to think
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 01:10 PM
Mar 2017

he'd do anything else.

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
23. Putin's plan is to make America ineffective and weak
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 03:03 PM
Mar 2017

His paid puppet Trump is carrying out that plan to perfection I must say.

stopbush

(24,396 posts)
37. They thought he'd only destroy it for others, not them.
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 03:35 PM
Mar 2017

They thought he had something in common with them. He did. Hatred.

Idiots.

 

KingCharlemagne

(7,908 posts)
67. Classic definition of white privilege: something is only a problem when it
Thu Mar 9, 2017, 10:03 AM
Mar 2017

affects you and your immediate family directly.

BlancheSplanchnik

(20,219 posts)
71. Nailed it. "Get the job done" means get rid of Those people.
Thu Mar 9, 2017, 12:02 PM
Mar 2017

Would have been interested to see what happened if the OP replied, "get the job done, how so?"

They all talk in code when in public.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
5. Tell him, "Welcome back to reality"
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 01:15 PM
Mar 2017

And list a few things he might have missed during his sojourn in fantasyland.

jaxind

(1,074 posts)
6. NOW
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 01:18 PM
Mar 2017

NOW, he sees he's a few cards short of a full deck?! What the hell took him so long??! He couldn't see that during the campaign??!!

Ilsa

(61,695 posts)
30. That's my question as well.
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 03:26 PM
Mar 2017

All along, over the decades, he has shown us who he is. He has:
Cheated contractors
Cheated on his wives
Discriminated againt POC in housing
Cheated on his taxes
Mocked disabled people
Taken credit for acts of charity he never supported
Shown irrational anger and vitriol towards anyone who tells the truth about him
Lies, pathologically, daily
Associated with mobsters
Made fun of veterans and Gold Star families
Talked about women as being only sex objects for his pleasure
Etc etc

How could they have missed these prime examples of who he is?

LuckyLib

(6,819 posts)
57. Don't forget: Learned at the feet of the great sleaze-master, Roy Cohn.
Thu Mar 9, 2017, 01:19 AM
Mar 2017

Left a wake of lawsuits wherever he went. Threatened to sue anyone who challenged him -- businesses, subcontractors, towns, bankers.

It never took much digging to get this information, especially in the era of the internet. Idiots who thought he would "get the job done" weren't paying attention, don't read, and are of the "kick ass and take names" clan.

Warpy

(111,291 posts)
52. Like most voters, he probably thought the evening news was informing him
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 10:45 PM
Mar 2017

They weren't. He probably thought he was that TV personality. He isn't.

Face it, a lot of voters are low information voters and broadcast "news" is part of the problem. It's infotainment and 60% trash.

Turn CO Blue

(4,221 posts)
9. Trump voters are missing that key skill of maturity-- the ability to smell bullshit from 1000 yards.
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 01:22 PM
Mar 2017


More like a "basket of gullibles" in my view.

LOL Lib

(1,462 posts)
28. I think they actively seek bullshit and wallow in it like a dog.
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 03:19 PM
Mar 2017

They haven't evolved and their parents were too busy making babies to teach them anything. Wouldn't have mattered anyway the parents were sub human as well.

Kimchijeon

(1,606 posts)
10. Yeah even some of the hardcore ones have to admit it
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 01:26 PM
Mar 2017

They may not want to but it's hard to deny the reality of it.

vlyons

(10,252 posts)
11. I hope his insurance premiums rise 10-fold
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 01:27 PM
Mar 2017

and he can't afford the premiums and lets it lapse. Then, he'll be really really sorry. Asshole. Stupid asshole.

Scoopster

(423 posts)
13. jfc..
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 01:33 PM
Mar 2017

WHY DIDNT YOU SEE THIS BEFORE THE ELECTION DAMNIT IT WAS ALL OUT IN THE OPEN ALREADY?!?!?!

I have no sympathy for people who are this ignorant.

progressoid

(49,992 posts)
14. Well, he'll have an easy out.
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 01:49 PM
Mar 2017

He can rationalize it by saying that Donny isn't really a Republican. Then his view of his party will still be pure.

Raster

(20,998 posts)
15. Yeah, that's putting it mildly, asshole...
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 02:01 PM
Mar 2017

...the entire nation gets to suffer because of your "Hillary Hate," and the Congressional Rethuglicans TOXIC AGENDA.

So, fuck you very much.

Exilednight

(9,359 posts)
18. I reposted a tweet I saw here the other day on my FB page and
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 02:23 PM
Mar 2017

one family member who supported Trump (this was about the new TrumpCare) stated that she knows of no conservatives that are happy with it. I then pointed out that conservatives wrote it and that Trump campaigned on it. It shut them up pretty quick.

zentrum

(9,865 posts)
24. Still doesn't...
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 03:12 PM
Mar 2017

...seem to mind the racism or anti-muslim policies or the fact that the white supremacist Bannon is his point man. It's only the instability that gives him pause? Wow.

If they dose up 45 with some valium or whatever, so he tweets less, it sounds like your friend would be fine with him again.

Still progress is progress.

DownriverDem

(6,229 posts)
27. Just wondering
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 03:15 PM
Mar 2017

How do the 3rd party & principle/purity voters feel? They are to blame for trump too. We were all warned by Bernie, Warren, Obama and HRC. I will never understand why folks thought it would be good to vote 3rd party or principle/purity. BTW folks: There is no such thing as purity when it comes to political parties, voting and candidates.

Proud Liberal Dem

(24,416 posts)
31. I haven't heard much from them lately
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 03:26 PM
Mar 2017

other than Cenk and his "Justice Democrats" looking to primary Democrats they don't like. Wonder how many of them are still freaking out over Hillary's e-mails, Clinton Foundation, and her Goldman Sachs speeches in light of Pence's e-mails, Russian influence in the election, Trump's massive conflicts of interests and pays-to-play, stocking his (mis-)Administration with Goldman Sachs personnel, and repeated Mar-A-Lago getaways.

I hope they enjoy the next 4 or (god forbid) 8 years of American History that they helped bring about because of their "purity" and "principles".

Dem2

(8,168 posts)
35. I planted this seed right after the election
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 03:32 PM
Mar 2017

On several sites that have heavy RW presence.

I should go back there and see if said seeds have grown. Everything I have said with respect to Russia and his mental state has proven to be true.

calimary

(81,350 posts)
36. I suspect the REAL test will come when they step back into the voting booth.
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 03:32 PM
Mar 2017

It's one thing to SAY your eyes are starting to open, but I'd bet a lot of these folks can be lulled back into the world of MAGA-Mess with a few crumbs thrown at them.

It's VERY hard to admit one is wrong. It's even harder to admit that one is wrong because one has been HAD.

No one wants to admit they've been had. At the end of a fork, when it comes to this world-class CONman. It's hard to admit that, much less face it internally without being willing to admit it openly. That is HARD! And it's embarrassing, and it's a confession that you swallowed a bill o' goods that's really a pile of shit, but you bought it cuz it sounded soooooooooooo good.

I'd want to see how this attitude holds up, or if it's as easily dispelled as I suspect it might be. I don't have much faith in folks like this. I don't think many of them can be added to the "won't get fooled again" crowd. If they've been steeped in years of hate radio, Pox Noise propaganda, dishonest salesmanship, and the "free market! free market!" song-'n'-dance, the mindless "USA! USA! USA!" goonery, the sloganeering and bumpersticker politics, that's a LOT of years of ruthless calculating work to fight. That's a TON of counter-programming that's needed. I've watched too many folks like this allow themselves to swallow the bullshit and then be danced down the garden path all the way out to where the sewer is. Some of them are unreachable by now.

I hope this individual isn't.

Sometimes it takes a LOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNG time to wake up. Miracles do happen, though.

Leith

(7,813 posts)
39. Too Little, Too Late
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 03:41 PM
Mar 2017

orange boy was vulgar, stupid, loudmouthed, and obnoxious in every way one can be obnoxious long before election day. There is no excuse plausible enough for them to have voted for the shitgibbon when there was a sane, intelligent, capable, and competent leader also running.

Tuff shit. That die hard reich winger did this to all of us and deserves his portion of the shame.

catbyte

(34,412 posts)
44. Yeah, well, too fucking bad. YOU OWN HIM. Actually, he's doing everything he said he was
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 03:50 PM
Mar 2017

going to do. He's dismantling our multi-racial, democratic republic one horrific EO & bill at a time. He is polluting our soil, air, and water. He is stripping LGBTQ citizens of as many rights as he can. He is stripping women of their health care choices. He has given Wall Street the keys to the economic casino & will be free to gamble away our money. He is making minorities second class citizens. The mentally ill will be able to buy firearms. So, what's he bitching about, really?

lindysalsagal

(20,695 posts)
48. By next week, it may be well nigh impossible to find anyone who will still admit to supporting dt
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 07:47 PM
Mar 2017

At least, anyone over the age of 9.

Mr. Ected

(9,670 posts)
49. I am deaf to every single word uttered by a so-called die hard right winger
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 08:41 PM
Mar 2017

So whatever nonsense he just tried to spin on you is all the more contemptuous.

3catwoman3

(24,013 posts)
50. Trumplethinskin is more than a few cards short of a full deck.
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 10:37 PM
Mar 2017

The only cards IN his deck are the 4 JOKERS!

IronLionZion

(45,466 posts)
54. A lot Republicans know he's a shithead, dumb ass, worthless buffoon
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 11:55 PM
Mar 2017

and voted for him anyway. It's not about Trump. They think they are shaking up the establishment, whatever that means to them. And for a lot of them it was to spite the types of people they don't like for whatever reasons.

They know it drives us liberals crazy that such a miserable asshole could beat a supremely qualified woman and defied expectations. A lot also voted against what they perceive to be changes in their world that they don't like, regardless of the cause.

it's a vote against political correctness, diversity, feminism, people getting too uppity and forgetting their place, immigration, education, urbanism, environmentalism, lawlessness, etc.

Sigh. It's great that more Trump voters are realizing that he's an idiot. But we need Trump to crack. We can break him. He needs to lose his mind publicly and horribly so that they have to remove him from office.

Beartracks

(12,816 posts)
56. Ultimately, we need rightwing ideology and priorities to be repudiated.
Thu Mar 9, 2017, 12:43 AM
Mar 2017

But Trump's failure will probably not convince the majority of Republicans that the GOP itself or today's conservative movement is the problem.

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IronLionZion

(45,466 posts)
62. The GOP has gotten more right wing in the last 10 years
Thu Mar 9, 2017, 07:47 AM
Mar 2017

like very right wing and extremist. Yet somehow they managed to win more and take both houses of congress. They are embracing tea party and racism/sexism as official policy now.

In 2006 and 2008 Democrats controlled both houses of congress

Beartracks

(12,816 posts)
72. Yeah. They'll just say that Trump wasn't....
Thu Mar 9, 2017, 01:55 PM
Mar 2017

... a "real" Republican, if he fails.

Like they said about GW Bush after he exploded the deficit.

================

nocalflea

(1,387 posts)
55. I wish someone could explain to me,
Thu Mar 9, 2017, 12:39 AM
Mar 2017

what the hell happened to David Horowitz ? Dude had a brain , once upon a time.
Everyone at one time or another has made excuses to absolve someone of something we know they did was wrong We have all let our admiration or ideology get the better of us - ( defending Obama for doing something we didn't agree with for example ) but , we all ( I assume ), felt a tiny knot of discomfort in doing so.That's pride .So I admire the friend for admitting his dissatisfaction. But how the hell do sane , rational people lose all objectivity ? It's not like these people have been locked in a room & been mistreated. They haven't gone through a forcible brainwashing. Scares the hell out of me.

hatrack

(59,587 posts)
58. Well, that's nice - but how come I could spot the steaming flaming bullshit 1.5 years ago?
Thu Mar 9, 2017, 01:21 AM
Mar 2017

And this guy, somehow, couldn't?

Fuck him and his vote and his "getting the job done" and his myopic, narcoleptic inability to FUCKING PAY ATTENTION.

Cha

(297,366 posts)
60. What just desserts that would be.. trump tweeting
Thu Mar 9, 2017, 02:02 AM
Mar 2017

his way into oblivion.

Tweeting on his own petard..

cstanleytech

(26,300 posts)
61. But would he have still voted for him over Hillary? After all there are alot
Thu Mar 9, 2017, 05:26 AM
Mar 2017

of Repugnants that would have still voted for Trump regardless and those who just don't vote are just as bad as the choice was vote for Trump who was well known as a habitual cheat and liar or vote for Hillary.

yuiyoshida

(41,833 posts)
65. How is it we knew this all along and they didn't??
Thu Mar 9, 2017, 08:50 AM
Mar 2017

They have eyes but can not see... they have brains, and never use them. Yeah.. pretty much.

NewJeffCT

(56,828 posts)
68. Don't worry, though
Thu Mar 9, 2017, 10:44 AM
Mar 2017

once the next Democratic candidate is smeared by Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Cambridge Analytica, etc, he'll still vote to re-elect Trump because the Democrat to be named later is just too darn scary.

I encountered a lot of those back in 2004 - Republicans that in early 2004 said that Bush was terrible and that they would never vote for him, but then confessed on the day after the election that they held their noses & voted Bush because Kerry was just too scary for them. I even remember one co-worker that was on the phone a lot for his job that would answer his phone with "Vote for Kerry" and he still ended up voting Bush.

 

Perseus

(4,341 posts)
69. No sympathy
Thu Mar 9, 2017, 10:48 AM
Mar 2017

I have a hard time understanding how anyone could not have figured out that Trump has been missing more than a few cards from day one.

Without any effort he demonstrated, years ago when he started the birther thing and lied about having a couple of investigators in Hawaii, that he is a liar, a con artist and on top of that, he is missing the whole deck of cards...

If that person voted for Trump then he didn't pay attention and now the consequences...I don't have sympathy for someone who doesn't do a little bit of research before they vote, it really doesn't take that long to find out who is who before you give them your support.

the worst part is that republicans never learn, he will vote for the next republican candidate because "that one" will make america great again.

To not realize that the majority (90% +) of the republican party is corrupt and doesn't care about the country, that their patriotism doesn't go beyond the little flag on their lapel, is just that, pure self-inflicted ignorance.

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