We need to talk about Donald: the cursing & swearing thread

[Animavore]

Harsh, but the truth hurts.

Remaining Trump supporters aren’t doing themselves any favors
By Josh Moon
Alabama Political Reporter

A new Quinnipiac University poll this week put Donald Trump’s approval rating at 33 percent.

Which seems high.

Honestly, how is it possible that 33 percent of Americans, or American voters, have watched the absolute clown show that has taken place the last six months and thought, “Yep, that’s how the presidency should work”?

You know what, I don’t even care how it’s possible.

But since a good chunk of those 33 percent apparently reside within the borders of Alabama, I think I should pass along some information.

The rest of us think less of you.

Oh, I know that’s harsh, but I think it’s better that someone tell you straight out, so you can at least consider the truth.

And make no mistake about it, it is the truth. I’ve had this conversation with numerous people – and people of all political persuasions. Not just liberals or Democrats, but with normally-conservative Republicans. Because this has nothing to do with conservative v. liberal, or Democrat v. Republican politics.

We all feel the same way.

We think you diehard Trump supporters are easily fooled, probably racist (even if you’d spend an hour telling us about your best black friend) and you don’t grasp the complexities of real life problems like immigration, economics and terrorism.

Please, spare us the indignation over this. Because we know who you are.

You are the people who vote down Legislation that would aid yourselves just to make sure the blacks and Mexicans don’t get it.

You are the people who believe that terrorism might be solved by blocking people from countries that have never produced a terrorist who carried out an attack on this country.

You are the people who believed that Trump was going to build the biggest, most beautiful border wall ever and have Mexico pay for it. And even worse, you believed this idiotic fantasy would actually solve our immigration issues.

You are the people who believed a reality TV star when he said that he was going to solve healthcare and provide better coverage for everyone at lower prices, despite the fact he never even hinted at a plan for doing that. And you believed it because he said, “Trust me.” And because he was white and rich, and those guys never lie to you.

You are the people who continue to believe that there was no coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia, despite nearly every person associated with the campaign – including the ones named Trump – holding various and extensive meetings with Russian officials.

You are the people who somehow, even after six months of daily screw-ups, daily embarrassments, daily sellouts of you, daily leaks, daily firings, daily in-staff bickering and daily international snafus, have found a way to say that a president who hasn’t passed a single thing he said he would in his first six months is doing an approvable job.

And you’re embarrassing the hell out of the rest of us.

Your willingness to believe absurd things as long as they’re pitched from the right people and reinforce your political and social beliefs is, quite frankly, astounding.

But I understand how it happened. For nearly a decade now, most of you have lived inside this Obama hate-bubble, in which you were inundated daily with absurdly erroneous news stories about Obama, Nancy Pelosi, lib’ruhls and anyone positioned just left of the far-right line drawn for you.

Now, the flow of negative Obama news into the bubble has simply been replaced by positive Trump news. So, maybe, in this conservative bubble world, Trump has annihilated ISIS, fixed healthcare, won the drug war and is halfway finished with his big, beautiful wall. Maybe that explains the 33 percent.

But it’s time to grow up, kids.

Enough is enough. It’s time to take a hard look around and come to grips with some truth.

First and foremost: Donald Trump is a raving lunatic who shouldn’t be allowed to visit the White House, much less run the country from it.

Evidence: the man screwed up a Boy Scout speech in every way you can possibly screw up a Boy Scout speech. And before his speech, no one knew it was even possible to screw up a Boy Scout speech.

And that is just one of a mountain of monumental mistakes, gaffes, alleged treasonous crimes and sellouts.

It’s time to end this. It’s time for you to take off the silly red hat and scrape the dumb “Trump” bumper sticker off your car. It’s not cool. It’s not funny. It’s not rebellious.

And you’re treading dangerously close to the point where this phase of idiocy is what the rest of us will remember you for forever.

http://www.alreporter.com/2017/08/04/re ... nt-favors/

[Brian Peacock]

Michael Flynn to disclose advisory role linked to Cambridge Analytica

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... _clipboard

[Animavore]

[Brian Peacock]

So often he just says whatever vague notion floats across his forebrain, regardless of whether it's true or not - mostly it doesn't matter either way, just as long as what he says places him at the epicentre of his personal hero narrative. If he were a regular Joe we'd justly call him a dickhead, but because he's a president then calling him out on that shit invokes a scramble to recast criticism as an undue political prejudice.

However, the political prejudice lies in his supporters and his party excusing and facilitating his ongoing dickheadishness by not calling it out themselves, while they bleat on about how unfairly he's being treated when other people call him out and criticise.

I guess it boils down to whether you think your nominated authorities are (or should be) beyond criticism and/or whether you think that policing the criticism of others is a far more palatable prospect than actually dealing with it yourself.

[DRSB]

And all this horror just because Hillary gave some speeches to bankers!

[Tero]

And all this horror just because Hillary gave some speeches to bankers!

absolutely. Bankers and lawyers are evil. Obama was a lawyer, so was Bill.

Six months into the Trump era, foreign-policy officials from eight past Administrations told me they are aghast that the President is still so witless about the world. “He seems as clueless today as he was on January 20th,” Boot, who is now a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, said. Trump’s painful public gaffes, they warn, indicate that he’s not reading, retaining, or listening to his Presidential briefings. And the newbie excuse no longer flies.
“Trump has an appalling ignorance of the current world, of history, of previous American engagement, of what former Presidents thought and did,” Geoffrey Kemp, who worked at the Pentagon during the Ford Administration and at the National Security Council during the Reagan Administration, reflected. “He has an almost studious rejection of the type of in-depth knowledge that virtually all of his predecessors eventually gained or had views on....”

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk ... -the-world

[Tero]

A nugget of wisdom got lost in there. The depressed area people DO need to move. We all speak English here. We have jobs in my state in chicken processing. Just load the U haul and get the family out of W Virginia. The jobs have nothing to do with Trump or any president or even governor.

[Animavore]

It's all part of his clever act. He can't be stupid if he became President. That makes him more clever than you.

[Tero]

I think Ani was responding to the New Yorker. Sorry, I posted twice.

[tattuchu]

[DRSB]

It's all part of his clever act. He can't be stupid if he became President. That makes him more clever than you.

Catch 22 in reverse: if he is president, he cannot be stupid.

[Brian Peacock]

:chortle:

[pErvinalia]

It's all part of his clever act. He can't be stupid if he became President. That makes him more clever than you.

Catch 22 in reverse: if he is president, he cannot be stupid.

Being President in the US has nothing to do with being intelligent. It's got to do with how much money you have and how good your advertising is.

[Sean Hayden]

First and foremost: Donald Trump is a raving lunatic who shouldn’t be allowed to visit the White House, much less run the country from it.

The only somewhat reasonable thing said in that piece.

I hope it's just that you guys are angry, and not that you actually believe this shit.

[pErvinalia]

What piece are you talking about?