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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Mon Oct 10, 2016, 04:50 PM Oct 2016

Donald Trump is the GOP’s chemotherapy - By George F. Will

“Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose.”

— “Me and Bobby McGee,”
Janis Joplin

What did Donald Trump have left to lose Sunday night? His dignity? Please. His campaign’s theme? His Cleveland convention was a mini-Nuremberg rally for Republicans whose three-word recipe for making America great again was the shriek “Lock her up!” This presaged his Banana Republican vow to imprison his opponent.

The St. Louis festival of snarls was preceded by the release of a tape that merely provided redundant evidence of what Trump is like when he is being his boisterous self. Nevertheless, the tape sent various Republicans, who until then had discovered nothing to disqualify Trump from the presidency, into paroxysms of theatrical, tactical and synthetic dismay.

Again, the tape revealed nothing about this arrested-development adolescent that today’s righteously recoiling Republicans either did not already know or had no excuse for not knowing. Before the tape reminded the pathologically forgetful of Trump’s feral appetites and deranged sense of entitlement, the staid Economist magazine, holding the subject of Trump at arm’s-length like a soiled sock, reminded readers of this: “When Mr. Trump divorced the first of his three wives, Ivana, he let the New York tabloids know that one reason for the separation was that her breast implants felt all wrong.”

His sexual loutishness is a sufficient reason for defeating him, but it is far down a long list of sufficient reasons. But if it — rather than, say, his enthusiasm for torture even “if it doesn’t work,” or his ignorance of the nuclear triad — is required to prompt some Republicans to have second thoughts about him, so be it.

For example, Sen. Richard Burr, a North Carolinian seeking a third term, represents a kind of Republican judiciousness regarding Trump. Having heard the tape and seen Trump’s “apology” (Trump said, essentially: My naughty locker-room banter is better than Bill Clinton’s behavior), Burr solemnly said: “I am going to watch his level of contrition over the next few days to determine my level of support.” North Carolinians will watch with bated breath as Burr, measuring with a moral micrometer, carefully calibrates how to adjust his support to Trump’s unfolding repentance. Burr, who is chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, has not received this nugget of intelligence: Contrition is not in Trump’s repertoire. Why should it be? His appetites, like his factoids, are self-legitimizing.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/donald-trumps-vile-candidacy-is-chemotherapy-for-the-gop/2016/10/10/73e40f30-8f05-11e6-9c85-ac42097b8cc0_story.html?utm_term=.60d69289e2eb&wpisrc=nl_popns&wpmm=1
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Donald Trump is the GOP’s chemotherapy - By George F. Will (Original Post) DonViejo Oct 2016 OP
George Will... kwolf68 Oct 2016 #1
Chemotherapy can cure the cancer frazzled Oct 2016 #2
Argueably, Trump is the by product of years of GOP derangement syndrome Gothmog Oct 2016 #4
The teabaggers are the cancer... Johnyawl Oct 2016 #6
He is the symptom not the cause Cosmocat Oct 2016 #8
Trump is the produce of years of GOP derrangement Gothmog Oct 2016 #3
He's basically right, but doesn't know it jmowreader Oct 2016 #5
Trump 'let ... tabloids know .. her breast implants felt all wrong" Jarqui Oct 2016 #7
Pardon me George Will mercuryblues Oct 2016 #9

kwolf68

(7,365 posts)
1. George Will...
Mon Oct 10, 2016, 04:54 PM
Oct 2016

Trump is toast. This is a amazing to see so many prominent Republican people repudiate this man. I think their only choice IS TO do so, because they have to know what kind of human being he is. If they double down behind him they no longer have any credibility as a serious thinker.

Will will land on his feet I think when the Republics rebuild their party from the dead body parts of Klan members and rapists.

Gothmog

(145,253 posts)
4. Argueably, Trump is the by product of years of GOP derangement syndrome
Mon Oct 10, 2016, 05:22 PM
Oct 2016

Trump will not cure this derangement but a massive defeat might. For the GOP to come to it senses, Trump's loss as to be massive

Johnyawl

(3,205 posts)
6. The teabaggers are the cancer...
Mon Oct 10, 2016, 08:11 PM
Oct 2016

...the vile, hateful white supremacists, the alt right. Obviously Will is hoping that tRump will destroy them, or at least drive them into remission (back under the rocks they crawled out from under).

Cosmocat

(14,564 posts)
8. He is the symptom not the cause
Tue Oct 11, 2016, 06:31 AM
Oct 2016

The republican party is a flesh and brain eating zombie apocolypse. He just is an "alpha" zombie.

Gothmog

(145,253 posts)
3. Trump is the produce of years of GOP derrangement
Mon Oct 10, 2016, 05:21 PM
Oct 2016

I am not sure if a Trump defeat will bring the GOP to its senses.

jmowreader

(50,557 posts)
5. He's basically right, but doesn't know it
Mon Oct 10, 2016, 06:13 PM
Oct 2016

Chemotherapy works by killing you - your cells have to divide if you want to live; by stopping this process it turns you into a dead man walking. The idea is, because cancer cells are weaker than healthy ones they might not restart dividing when the drug wears off.

Trump is going to kill the GOP. Their only hope for remaining viable as a party once Trump has finished his reign of error is to weed out the extremist element - ship them off to the Constitution Party or the Libertarian Party where they belong - and reform as a voice for fiscal responsibility.

Jarqui

(10,125 posts)
7. Trump 'let ... tabloids know .. her breast implants felt all wrong"
Tue Oct 11, 2016, 06:06 AM
Oct 2016

The depths of low this pig can go is breathtaking. Just when you think you've heard it all ...

I think every woman voter in America should know what Trump did to his wife, Ivana, in those tabloids. No wonder that was a hefty divorce settlement.

There is no apology nor act of contrition that could overcome how I feel about this vile man.

mercuryblues

(14,532 posts)
9. Pardon me George Will
Tue Oct 11, 2016, 09:38 AM
Oct 2016

but you can go fuck yourself. You and you cronies created this fiasco and now you are offended.

You weren't offended when republicans were flying Dachau banners at a rally in DC
You weren't offended when republicans were saying n^^^ go back to Africa
You weren't offended when republicans were supporting armed "protest" at Malhuer refuge
You weren't offended when republicans were support the Bundy ranch armed protest
You weren't offended when republicans stripped away voting rights
You weren't offended when republicans stripped away a woman's right to medical care
You weren't offended when Joe Wilson said "you lie"
You weren't offended over the many lies republicans have been pushing about the Clintons over the years
You weren't offended over the innumerable list of thing republicans have done in the last 30 years

So yeah, a big hearty fuck you.

You kept quiet and now that their is a republican that does not use the coded language you are used to. Trump is telling it like it is. He has taken everything the republicans have been saying for decades and stripped away the prettied up words. He is the root of republicanism, not a weed.

You can deny this all you want. It won't change a damned thing. Be offended all you want. Just make sure you take a good long look in the mirror before spouting your platitudes.

The Democrats have been calling out the racism, xenophobia, sexism and so on. You denied it, called them thin skinned, over reacting, trying to score political points, etc. Trump isn't some anomaly. He is the natural conclusion of what republicans have sanctioned over the decades. No one else is to blame for him rising to the top but republican leadership and voters. You and they made him, you should be proud. He is the embodiment of everything republicans have said and done.

I can not say fuck you loud enough to you.

Instead of being offended, swaddle him in a warm blanket, hold him close to you. He is your baby, love him like a parent.


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