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It's almost impossible to believe he exists. It's as if we took everything that was bad about America, scraped it up off the floor, wrapped it all up in an old hot dog skin, and then taught it to make noises with its face.
I mean in its own way it's a miracle. Sure, it's the most tragic kind of miracle and it may very well cause the death of the American experiment. But still, if you step back and behold it with cosmic indifference you cannot help but be almost awestruck.
It's like the inverse feeling of standing at the rim of the Grand Canyon. In both cases you're struck numb. "How can this thing be‽ It is incalculable." But rather than a soaring sense of awe, you feel an equally powerful well of dark gravity, your soul being eaten by despair.
--Anthony Citrano, former VP at Verizon, CEO of Acquicent
Trumpism = the fixation of the media on Trump.
Well done. I agree.
Quote: @greediron said:
Trumpism = the fixation of the media on Trump.
Well done. I agree.
Trumpism = the brainwashed cult of deplorables who rush to defend his every action and words, no matter how despicable and against their own former set of morals it is
It's like he tries to avoid attention and they just seek him out. Trump is not the issue it's what he has enabled, he gives a class of victim permission to act out.
I'm on the Jo Jorgensen train but if Trump gets re-elected, which he very well may. The state of MN will not have to buy road salt for the next decade of winters from all the tears that will flow.
Quote: @MaroonBells said:
It's almost impossible to believe he exists. It's as if we took everything that was bad about America, scraped it up off the floor, wrapped it all up in an old hot dog skin, and then taught it to make noises with its face.
I mean in its own way it's a miracle. Sure, it's the most tragic kind of miracle and it may very well cause the death of the American experiment. But still, if you step back and behold it with cosmic indifference you cannot help but be almost awestruck.
It's like the inverse feeling of standing at the rim of the Grand Canyon. In both cases you're struck numb. "How can this thing be‽ It is incalculable." But rather than a soaring sense of awe, you feel an equally powerful well of dark gravity, your soul being eaten by despair.
--Anthony Citrano, former VP at Verizon, CEO of Acquicent
OMG I literally laughed out loud at this. Then, I almost, *almost* cried thinking about the fact that this country actually elected this guy. This isn't some Trump derangement syndrome. Look at his quotes from the new Woodward book. What kind of a leader takes this approach to a deadly virus?
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/09/911109247/trump-admitted-to-playing-down-the-coronaviruss-severity-per-new-book
"This is deadly stuff," the president told Woodward in a Feb. 7 conversation, according to the book, which is called Rage. "You just breathe the air and that's how it's passed. And so that's a very tricky one. That's a very delicate one. It's also more deadly than even your strenuous flu."
But at the time, Trump was publicly saying that the virus was less of a concern.
On Feb. 10, he told supporters in New Hampshire: "Looks like by April, you know, in theory, when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away." Later that month, Trump tweeted that the virus was "very much under control in the USA."
And in March, he compared the novel coronavirus to the seasonal flu, saying in a Fox News interview, "We've never closed down the country for the flu."
[SNIP]
About a month after the February conversation, Trump admitted to Woodward that he had been playing down the virus's severity.
"I wanted to always play it down," Trump told Woodward on March 19. "I still like playing it down, because I don't want to create a panic."
One study has estimated that if the United States had implemented social distancing measures just a week earlier in March, some 36,000 lives could have been saved.
Trump told reporters on Wednesday that being publicly positive about the virus was a sign of good leadership.
And now today, his bimbo press secretary and fellow Republicans came out and said “But Trump didn’t downplay it ...”
Uh, he did, repeatedly. On Twitter, on live TV, take your pick.
The GOP is fucking bonkers right now. They can’t make up their minds which lie to defend and it’s clear they have no intention of ever being truthful again .... I mean when your base is this fucking gullible to still support them at this point, what purpose will the truth ever serve them again?
At this point there is no lie they can’t tell that their supporters won’t believe or defend.
Remember 5 years ago when GOP supporters lost their mind because Obama once claimed “If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor” and they went apeshit over that talking point when some had to *gasp* change their doctors? The horrors, what a liar!
Yet now look at the shit they swallow and don’t even bat an eyelash about ...
Do you think they know they are being conned and too proud to admit it, or are they just that fucking out of touch from reality??
Either way it’s past scary in this country...
Read this today from a psychologist who specializes in PTSD:
“ Then there is the other side, with Fox News and other right-wing news media which Trump's followers listen to. That side is proceeding with, "This is how we have to defend our position." That is when we see cult psychology, a shared psychosis where the members have to radically defend their positions because the alternative is admitting that they were wrong. It is as if American society has lost the ability to admit wrong and apologize where whole groups of partisans and Trumpists can't simply say, "Look, I read the situation wrong and I made a mistake."
I have said exactly this for 3 years.
Quote: @AGRforever said:
I'm on the Jo Jorgensen train but if Trump gets re-elected, which he very well may. The state of MN will not have to buy road salt for the next decade of winters from all the tears that will flow.
The state of MN?! The state of the world. We're the laughing stock of the world for electing him. We do it twice? God help us.
Quote: @MaroonBells said:
@ AGRforever said:
I'm on the Jo Jorgensen train but if Trump gets re-elected, which he very well may. The state of MN will not have to buy road salt for the next decade of winters from all the tears that will flow.
The state of MN?! The state of the world. We're the laughing stock of the world for electing him. We do it twice? God help us.
Yet he is making peace in the MiddleEast. Yes or no?
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