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Goodheart

(5,318 posts)
Fri Jan 25, 2019, 10:02 PM Jan 2019

Maybe in the long run the trump regime will have been a good thing.

Like an innoculation of a dead virus that will protect us from even worse infections in the future.

What could be worse, you ask? How about a wannabe dictator but with actual smarts next time? Like a Stalin or a Hitler?

This current gang is evil, but let's face it... this gang can't shoot straight, and they won't be lasting much longer.

I sincerely hope that come 2020 our Democratic majority in both Houses and our Democratic President will take legislative measures that prevent the type of shit trump tried to pull and that bring to the light of public scrutiny all the shit he has tried to hide.

I haven't felt this good since the presidential election.


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Maybe in the long run the trump regime will have been a good thing. (Original Post) Goodheart Jan 2019 OP
Your optimism is a breath of fresh air, but the damage of stacking the courts continues. dameatball Jan 2019 #1
I agree. Mme. Defarge Jan 2019 #2
Did GW Bush (with Cheney in charge) save us from Trump? Thunderbeast Jan 2019 #3
I think people are paying much more attention now. nt UniteFightBack Jan 2019 #10
No way, no how. No good came out of the trump cabal. brush Jan 2019 #4
No handmade34 Jan 2019 #5
Like anything in life Downtown Hound Jan 2019 #6
No Solly Mack Jan 2019 #7
nope. shootin yerselfs in th'foot aint never no good thang struggle4progress Jan 2019 #8
NO. Tell that to the babies and children and parents Cha Jan 2019 #9

dameatball

(7,396 posts)
1. Your optimism is a breath of fresh air, but the damage of stacking the courts continues.
Fri Jan 25, 2019, 10:14 PM
Jan 2019

Not to belittle you because I assume you think we have a lot ahead of us. Me too!

Mme. Defarge

(8,026 posts)
2. I agree.
Fri Jan 25, 2019, 10:16 PM
Jan 2019

Also, if Hillary had been sworn in I have no doubt that the Republican congress would have impeached her on some “trumped” up charge, and may even have convicted her in the Republican senate. Then, the “transnational criminal enterprise” that has corrupted Trump and company would continue on unexamined.

Thunderbeast

(3,406 posts)
3. Did GW Bush (with Cheney in charge) save us from Trump?
Fri Jan 25, 2019, 10:21 PM
Jan 2019

War crimes rolled off of him like cheap beer!

I hate to say it, but as long as racists spin fear, they will win elections. It is basic brain biology. Fear of "the other" goes straight to the limbic brain.

Those messages of fear trigger survival actions, and fog rational thought....and they work every time.

brush

(53,764 posts)
4. No way, no how. No good came out of the trump cabal.
Fri Jan 25, 2019, 10:45 PM
Jan 2019

SCOTUS and the other repug-stocked courts are just one example of the stench of trump's admin.

Downtown Hound

(12,618 posts)
6. Like anything in life
Fri Jan 25, 2019, 10:57 PM
Jan 2019

If we learn from it and make positive changes, then no matter how bad it was, at least it wasn't all in vain.

Cha

(297,120 posts)
9. NO. Tell that to the babies and children and parents
Fri Jan 25, 2019, 11:06 PM
Jan 2019

whose kids were snatched out of their arms.

And all the other fucking bullshit that's hurt our people and planet.

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