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jodymarie aimee

(3,975 posts) Wed Sep 20, 2017, 12:11 PM Sep 2017

REDFORD: If one-on-one with Trump, what would you want to say to him? Quit. For our benefit.

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If you found yourself one-on-one with Trump, what would you want to say to him most urgently?

“Quit. For our benefit.” Politics right now is in a very dark place, and I think the only place for me is to do what I do—make films, create art, watch it as it evolves. Right now it’s like Humpty Dumpty sitting on a wall, and a great fall is happening. The behavior seems to be really dumb.

That’s another thing that’s depressing: certain attitudes in Congress. They assume that you’re dumb; they can take advantage of you being dumb. I find that offensive. It insults our intelligence. They’re playing us for dumb and they’re being dumb in doing it. For me, that’s one of the reasons the pendulum is against the wall. But I believe that’s gonna change. I think those people, the McConnells, are not helping us at all. They’re taking us backward in time.

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REDFORD: If one-on-one with Trump, what would you want to say to him? Quit. For our benefit. (Original Post) jodymarie aimee Sep 2017 OP

What most Americans dont know or forgot is most of the current crop of the GOP Eliot Rosewater Sep 2017 #1

He's nicer than I am. The word "quit" would not have been my choice. Solly Mack Sep 2017 #2

He was too kind. smirkymonkey Sep 2017 #3

Three words: liberaltrucker Sep 2017 #4

"Resign . . . for your OWN benefit." HughBeaumont Sep 2017 #5

Eliot Rosewater

(31,121 posts)

1. What most Americans dont know or forgot is most of the current crop of the GOP

Reply to jodymarie aimee (Original post)

Wed Sep 20, 2017, 12:15 PM

Sep 2017

or many if not most, are teaparty/freedumb caucus folks who simply are uneducated, dumb, mean, etc.

If they are not from that group originally they switch over because of the power, and then have to be dumb to fit in.

They dont know anything about government, politics, diplomacy or the world and are proud that they dont.

Solly Mack

(90,787 posts)

2. He's nicer than I am. The word "quit" would not have been my choice.

Reply to jodymarie aimee (Original post)

Wed Sep 20, 2017, 12:18 PM

Sep 2017

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)

3. He was too kind.

Reply to jodymarie aimee (Original post)

Wed Sep 20, 2017, 12:21 PM

Sep 2017

Also, he mistakenly thinks that Trump will ever do anything for anyone else's benefit. I like Redford and think he is a very nice man, but I would have liked to have seen a little more fire.

liberaltrucker

(9,130 posts)

4. Three words:

Reply to jodymarie aimee (Original post)

Wed Sep 20, 2017, 02:01 PM

Sep 2017

"Fuck you, asshole". If only......**sigh**

HughBeaumont

(24,461 posts)

5. "Resign . . . for your OWN benefit."

Reply to jodymarie aimee (Original post)

Wed Sep 20, 2017, 02:06 PM

Sep 2017

That's where everyone gets it wrong.

Schtroumpf will never cede power if someone else stands to benefit.

You got to play to the person he cares about the most - himself.

"Do you really want to be the guy who presided over and caused mass climate ruin, a near-treasonous electoral scandal, impending economic disaster . . . a new Cold War?"

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