Not only is Trump a racist, misogynist, and idiot, but he just f@#king rude!
Has there been any president in America history who has talked to a Black, female journalist in the way Trump did, and has remained in office and supported by his party?
I will save for another rant the disgrace of his vanity projects overwhelming healthy benefits.
Today, I just want to understand how he can get away with such prejudice and misogyny.
How members of his party do not push open the door of his White House office and drag him off to jail, or someplace where his stink won’t infect the entire group?
Why can’t Republicans admit that Trump cares not for people of this country? Why have they allowed their membership to continue to support, excuse, and accept his grotesqueness?
You have pinpointed what has fueled my anger and disappointment over these past two years; that the complicity and corruption of Congress and the Supreme Court have consistently rocked both our democratic norms and laws to sleep every day and night of this administration. It is their lullaby that has enabled the Trump administration to lie softly in the arms of authoritarianism, safe in the notion that they are above every decent and true thing that our Constitution expects and demands of us.
One question from a reporter and Trump springs from his self-satisfied somnolence….”What?” He crisply thinks…”Someone DARES to question my trajectory of power, of beauty, of omniscience?” He then blurts out what he always does. He lowers the hammer on them. Boom! Take this!..boom…take THAT! I’LL teach you to question my escape from reality! And so it goes, each time reality tries to assert itself. It’s difficult to make a point that does not comport with his worldview and/or his ambitions.
The only way to combat this is to, exactly as you have said, Steven, renew and repair the systems that have frayed beyond recognition. We will have to win and fight for what we hope will be the winning results of this election, but I fear that winning will not be enough. In fact, I have resigned myself to that fact and realize that we must look beyond the results to find a way to make them viable. He’s going to throw the book at this vote. Let’s hope and pray that the millions of hearts and minds behind a majority vote to unseat Republicans who do not uphold our democracy will not be invisible. If they’re going to try to push all of us off the democratic cliff in November, so be it, but we as the ‘just majority’ must hold hands and jump together.
Since there IS strength in numbers, I suppose we should issue an engraved invitation to all Republicans to join our flyover away from authoritarianism toward some poinpointed destination where we all can thrive!
The fact we have to talk about people worshiping a statue of Trump shows the depth to which our country has sunk. This is dictator-level narcissism never before seen in a president. Couple this with the destruction of the White House and the rest of D.C. on his whims and we are no longer a country the world respects. For example, who can respect a country that celebrates its 250th birthday with a cage fight on the White House lawn.
As noted, this is only possible with the unabashed support of Republican legislators who are too cowardly to fulfill their oath to the Constitution and not to Trump. I'm old enough to have watched when Republicans had the guts and love for the country to tell Nixon to resign. Today's Republicans only want to get re-elected and are afraid of Trump's tweets.
Voting all of them out is the only hope to save our country.
We don’t have rulers in this country. We have representatives.
“We are our choices.” - Jean-Paul Sartre
We need to make better choices.
Not only is Trump a racist, misogynist, and idiot, but he just f@#king rude!
Has there been any president in America history who has talked to a Black, female journalist in the way Trump did, and has remained in office and supported by his party?
I will save for another rant the disgrace of his vanity projects overwhelming healthy benefits.
Today, I just want to understand how he can get away with such prejudice and misogyny.
How members of his party do not push open the door of his White House office and drag him off to jail, or someplace where his stink won’t infect the entire group?
Why can’t Republicans admit that Trump cares not for people of this country? Why have they allowed their membership to continue to support, excuse, and accept his grotesqueness?
Shameful cowards. Every last one of them.
Choose wisely 😌
You have pinpointed what has fueled my anger and disappointment over these past two years; that the complicity and corruption of Congress and the Supreme Court have consistently rocked both our democratic norms and laws to sleep every day and night of this administration. It is their lullaby that has enabled the Trump administration to lie softly in the arms of authoritarianism, safe in the notion that they are above every decent and true thing that our Constitution expects and demands of us.
One question from a reporter and Trump springs from his self-satisfied somnolence….”What?” He crisply thinks…”Someone DARES to question my trajectory of power, of beauty, of omniscience?” He then blurts out what he always does. He lowers the hammer on them. Boom! Take this!..boom…take THAT! I’LL teach you to question my escape from reality! And so it goes, each time reality tries to assert itself. It’s difficult to make a point that does not comport with his worldview and/or his ambitions.
The only way to combat this is to, exactly as you have said, Steven, renew and repair the systems that have frayed beyond recognition. We will have to win and fight for what we hope will be the winning results of this election, but I fear that winning will not be enough. In fact, I have resigned myself to that fact and realize that we must look beyond the results to find a way to make them viable. He’s going to throw the book at this vote. Let’s hope and pray that the millions of hearts and minds behind a majority vote to unseat Republicans who do not uphold our democracy will not be invisible. If they’re going to try to push all of us off the democratic cliff in November, so be it, but we as the ‘just majority’ must hold hands and jump together.
That’s the spirit, Ellen.
Since there IS strength in numbers, I suppose we should issue an engraved invitation to all Republicans to join our flyover away from authoritarianism toward some poinpointed destination where we all can thrive!
The fact we have to talk about people worshiping a statue of Trump shows the depth to which our country has sunk. This is dictator-level narcissism never before seen in a president. Couple this with the destruction of the White House and the rest of D.C. on his whims and we are no longer a country the world respects. For example, who can respect a country that celebrates its 250th birthday with a cage fight on the White House lawn.
As noted, this is only possible with the unabashed support of Republican legislators who are too cowardly to fulfill their oath to the Constitution and not to Trump. I'm old enough to have watched when Republicans had the guts and love for the country to tell Nixon to resign. Today's Republicans only want to get re-elected and are afraid of Trump's tweets.
Voting all of them out is the only hope to save our country.