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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Fri Mar 2, 2018, 11:13 AM Mar 2018

Getting REALLY sick of the "Something is wrong with Trump and it's a cause for concern" stories

They are all over Raw Story today. Scarborough and Deutsch talking about how they've known him for years but they have "never seen him like this."

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/morning-joe-panel-agrees-presidency-has-twisted-trump-and-theyre-truly-terrified-of-whats-next/

"Longtime allies" worried about his "erratic behavior.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/something-wrong-even-longtime-trump-allies-starting-freak-erratic-behavior/

This shit didn't just happen, it's not the result of his having a "bad day." This is Trump every frigging day. And no one is doing anything about it. We have Articles of Impeachment and the 25th Amendment ready and waiting if the Republicans grow a spine, or if Democrats take the House and Senate in November.

But the "thoughts and prayers" for Trump's mental health are nothing more than a Republican circle jerk.

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Getting REALLY sick of the "Something is wrong with Trump and it's a cause for concern" stories (Original Post) Miles Archer Mar 2018 OP
the blood pressure rise they incite is going to kill off their audience... hlthe2b Mar 2018 #1
trump has been a bloviating raving lunatic for years....just look at the central park five spanone Mar 2018 #2
Bloviating. Great word! C Moon Mar 2018 #22
And still Trump says they are GUILTY! GWC58 Mar 2018 #33
Trump isnt that complicated ismnotwasm Mar 2018 #3
Yes, he just got louder PatSeg Mar 2018 #10
compounded by many years on some sort of amphetimines. nt yonder Mar 2018 #36
And decreasing mental faculties PatSeg Mar 2018 #38
The hand-wringing has gone on way too long. Eyeball_Kid Mar 2018 #4
Bullshitters gonna bullshit... Wounded Bear Mar 2018 #5
Exactly right!! dameatball Mar 2018 #37
CYA C_U_L8R Mar 2018 #6
They're Like Rick Moranis in Head Office ProfessorGAC Mar 2018 #7
That was a very funny scene from what I remember to be a very Upthevibe Mar 2018 #14
The Whole Movie Is A Hoot. . . ProfessorGAC Mar 2018 #21
Hey I got 35 people on HOLD!!!!! lunasun Mar 2018 #31
And My Mercedes Is Leaking More Oil Than. . . ProfessorGAC Mar 2018 #41
Loved that movie!! Caliman73 Mar 2018 #16
Very Dark Satire ProfessorGAC Mar 2018 #20
Definitely Caliman73 Mar 2018 #27
I Hope Your Happy Now! ProfessorGAC Mar 2018 #43
The Great Reset. Orsino Mar 2018 #8
Trump has always been a world-class asshole, an incorrigible liar, and a low-life scam artist. dalton99a Mar 2018 #9
How in the hell did this idiot win in 2016? quartz007 Mar 2018 #29
He didnt. Volaris Mar 2018 #34
If he is flying around in AF-1 quartz007 Mar 2018 #40
Allow me to amend the original statement, then? Volaris Mar 2018 #44
Well GWC58 Mar 2018 #35
How is this news? Generic Brad Mar 2018 #11
Time draws near to dump Trump. gordianot Mar 2018 #12
This is simply Soxfan58 Mar 2018 #13
it's the group think of cowards... Javaman Mar 2018 #15
Here is a hint: He's fucking crazy AND tweeking world wide wally Mar 2018 #17
Who in the Cabinet is going to invoke the 25th amendment CanonRay Mar 2018 #18
For fucks sake the guy is a con artist,a liar and a deciever nothing else njhoneybadger Mar 2018 #19
I have known the guy was dumb and screwy askyagerz Mar 2018 #23
Trump is there to provide a distraction so the yuiyoshida Mar 2018 #24
Very well said, especially solara Mar 2018 #25
Agree. Love that line. hueymahl Mar 2018 #26
i get really tired of the media barbtries Mar 2018 #28
Sounds to me like they're creating a narrative. Girard442 Mar 2018 #30
Please note that even if the Democrats take the house...they do not have the votes to convict the Demsrule86 Mar 2018 #32
I remember posting during the primaries that dems need to stop talking about trump rainin Mar 2018 #39
it is cause for impeachment, trail, conviction, and removal, with many charges soon filed Exotica Mar 2018 #42
Again, this line of rhetoric will be tRump's get out of jail free card Wednesdays Mar 2018 #45

hlthe2b

(102,294 posts)
1. the blood pressure rise they incite is going to kill off their audience...
Fri Mar 2, 2018, 11:15 AM
Mar 2018

Admittedly, were it not for my precious doggy girl and 4-8 miles walking/day, I'd be among them.

spanone

(135,844 posts)
2. trump has been a bloviating raving lunatic for years....just look at the central park five
Fri Mar 2, 2018, 11:18 AM
Mar 2018

he would have killed all five of those innocent men....KILLED THEM..AND STILL INSISTS HE WAS RIGHT

GWC58

(2,678 posts)
33. And still Trump says they are GUILTY!
Fri Mar 2, 2018, 01:47 PM
Mar 2018

That they should’ve been executed, or still rotting in a New York prison. And the settlement? Oh boy, was be angry about that! But, no, he’s not a racist! Sorry I have to on that one.

PatSeg

(47,501 posts)
10. Yes, he just got louder
Fri Mar 2, 2018, 12:32 PM
Mar 2018

and more theatrical. Videos of Trump when he was younger, show a more soft spoken man, who could speak in complete sentences, but he was still a self-absorbed asshole. The theatrics might have been a result of his many years on television.

Eyeball_Kid

(7,432 posts)
4. The hand-wringing has gone on way too long.
Fri Mar 2, 2018, 11:23 AM
Mar 2018

"We're worried, we're worried, we're worried." Well, no shit. Your worries don't get anything done. We're all worried, and we EXPECT Congressional leaders to act. But there's no action. Ever. So... "We're worried." Meanwhile, Trumpy's amphetamine-addled brain (with an hourly bath in caffeine from Diet Cokes) makes a mess of everything, and it gets worse by the day while Congressional GOPers finger their buttholes for hemorrhoids.

Wounded Bear

(58,670 posts)
5. Bullshitters gonna bullshit...
Fri Mar 2, 2018, 11:25 AM
Mar 2018

Trump may have "changed" and it is definitely for the worse.

The fact is, though, he has always been the Jumbo-sized asshole he's been since he rode down that escalator.

dameatball

(7,398 posts)
37. Exactly right!!
Fri Mar 2, 2018, 01:53 PM
Mar 2018

I have a buddy from Brooklyn that says he is the stereotypical New York blowhard. I first saw him on some talk show many years ago, way before Apprentice. He was an arrogant ass even in those days.

C_U_L8R

(45,003 posts)
6. CYA
Fri Mar 2, 2018, 11:29 AM
Mar 2018

Insiders are just covering their butts with the media by leaking so they can say "I told you so" when the whole calamity comes falling down

ProfessorGAC

(65,076 posts)
7. They're Like Rick Moranis in Head Office
Fri Mar 2, 2018, 11:32 AM
Mar 2018

On the phone with every executive, phone line after phone line, saying "Not my fault! Not my fault! Not my fault! Not my fault!"

ProfessorGAC

(65,076 posts)
20. Very Dark Satire
Fri Mar 2, 2018, 01:13 PM
Mar 2018

He dies, Danny Davito dies, the guy with cancer has people already scouting out his parking place, Eddie Albert actually stops chewing thinking about having an employee shot. . . .

That movie is great.

Caliman73

(11,738 posts)
27. Definitely
Fri Mar 2, 2018, 01:31 PM
Mar 2018

The part where Eddie Albert "takes the time to connect with the common man" by picking a customer who is behind in their phone service payment to disconnect.

It was a statement about the immense power of corporations in the high power 1980's, but it is just as salient today.

ProfessorGAC

(65,076 posts)
43. I Hope Your Happy Now!
Fri Mar 2, 2018, 03:09 PM
Mar 2018

I have to go home and watch that movie tonight now! I've got the DVD! So, nyah!

Generic Brad

(14,275 posts)
11. How is this news?
Fri Mar 2, 2018, 12:36 PM
Mar 2018

Something has always been wrong and a cause for concern with Trump. It's not like this is a recent development.

gordianot

(15,242 posts)
12. Time draws near to dump Trump.
Fri Mar 2, 2018, 12:39 PM
Mar 2018

Who in their right mind would want to work for or with him? He is poison and the few pundits that still support him are either bat shit crazy, perverts or traitors.

Javaman

(62,530 posts)
15. it's the group think of cowards...
Fri Mar 2, 2018, 12:46 PM
Mar 2018

they all know something is wrong but no one wants to be the one in the spot light that calls out the problem.

CanonRay

(14,104 posts)
18. Who in the Cabinet is going to invoke the 25th amendment
Fri Mar 2, 2018, 12:53 PM
Mar 2018

fucking Ben Carson? Pruitt? They're as nuts as he is.

askyagerz

(776 posts)
23. I have known the guy was dumb and screwy
Fri Mar 2, 2018, 01:15 PM
Mar 2018

Since I first saw him ranting in the 80s. I was a little kid and understood what he was all about.
It's not a secret. If he wouldn't be spouting the hate the assholes want to hear then no one would be giving him the time of day.

solara

(3,836 posts)
25. Very well said, especially
Fri Mar 2, 2018, 01:28 PM
Mar 2018

" the "thoughts and prayers" for Trump's mental health are nothing more than a Republican circle jerk."

The entire first year of PINO trump's so-called "administration" has mostly been a circle jerk, however, donald, the onanistic master, doesn't really need to have anyone else around to accomplish the same thing.

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barbtries

(28,799 posts)
28. i get really tired of the media
Fri Mar 2, 2018, 01:33 PM
Mar 2018

"Why do you think he's doing this? so unpresidential" blah blah blah

he's a sick man. i recognized this watching him go down the fucking escalator. he cannot change, he will not change, and he has not changed.

i think this willful blindness to the fact is a symptom of an illness gripping the nation.

Girard442

(6,077 posts)
30. Sounds to me like they're creating a narrative.
Fri Mar 2, 2018, 01:43 PM
Mar 2018
Trump was a genius and a visionary and that's why we all supported him. Then something went horribly wrong and we had to invoke the 25th Amendment.

We all know that's rankest bullshit, and they know it too, but they're hoping they can sell it to the rubes and keep their jobs.

Demsrule86

(68,586 posts)
32. Please note that even if the Democrats take the house...they do not have the votes to convict the
Fri Mar 2, 2018, 01:46 PM
Mar 2018

President in the Senate without GOP cooperation.

rainin

(3,011 posts)
39. I remember posting during the primaries that dems need to stop talking about trump
Fri Mar 2, 2018, 02:07 PM
Mar 2018

and start calling out republicans who enable him. Before the general, we could have targeted the republican candidates who told the truth about how dangerous he was and then pledged loyalty to trump. We could have targeted every member of the MSM who were making everything equal. Clinton and trump are not equal. Anyone with a brain knows that.

The problem is that the MSM know that they can be very hard on democratic candidates without consequence. If they challenge a republican they will get death threats. They know this!!! That's why the coverage is soooooo unequal!

We have to be as focused as the deplorables are. Pressure works. Focus on Republicans to stop enabling him and focus on the MSM to stop treating him like he is normal. Take a page from the Parkland kids.

Wednesdays

(17,380 posts)
45. Again, this line of rhetoric will be tRump's get out of jail free card
Fri Mar 2, 2018, 07:50 PM
Mar 2018

Once the spin is established that Rump has been "not himself" and "something has been seriously wrong with him," the sympathy factor will kick in and he won't see a day in even the cushiest cell in Club Fed. 'Cause, who's gonna prosecute a doddering old fool?

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