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Cyrano

(15,041 posts)
Mon Apr 1, 2019, 01:18 PM Apr 2019

We are all being held hostage by a madman

He's doing his merry little "victory" dance to the lies that AG Barr is spinning.

And it has has made him crazier than he was before the Mueller report.

He's all set to close the borders, wipe out Obamacare, cut off money to South American countries that need those funds to fight their own homegrown terrorism, and who knows what else he's planning to do on his own? (Is he going to lock up Hillary all by himself?)

The reason he's getting away with this is because the entire Republican Party is aiding and abetting him. And this is his protection. It also makes them a criminal organization: An extension of the Trump crime family.

We are the majority. Yet we are getting fucked every single day this creature is in the White House. He's playing to a minority of haters/bigots/pricks and there isn't one goddamn thing we can do about it except vote.

Ahh, the vote. That vote is 19 months away, and if he loses, add a couple of months to that before a new president is sworn in.

Look at the damage this fiend had done in two and a half years. And imagine the damage he can do in the next 21 months.

We're playing by the Constitution. We're playing by the laws of the land. The orange beast isn't. So are we going to sit around and let ourselves and all of America continue to be fucked? It seems so. There's no popular uprising in sight. There's no cavalry on the horizon. There's nothing at all to save us from this horror.

How will the future judge us? Sheep? Law-abiding automatons? I don't know. But what I do know is that the laws of our society are no longer in play. Yet, we continue to play by them. We've got to be among the stupidest shits in the history of the world.

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We are all being held hostage by a madman (Original Post) Cyrano Apr 2019 OP
Stupid does not even begin to define us. Polly Hennessey Apr 2019 #1
That's what makes it so scary. lunatica Apr 2019 #2
He's waging war on this country. UTUSN Apr 2019 #3
And we're fighting back through courts where he's appointed the judges Cyrano Apr 2019 #4
I agree, if there were any foreseeable way jimlup Apr 2019 #5
In my lifetime, I can't recall there being another president who has seized control Totally Tunsie Apr 2019 #6

Polly Hennessey

(6,799 posts)
1. Stupid does not even begin to define us.
Mon Apr 1, 2019, 01:31 PM
Apr 2019

Just wait until another madman comes along. One that is intelligent, clever, charming, and manipulative. We will sit on the sidelines trying to explain to one another, “how did this ever happen.” We are the majority and it is happening right before our wondering and bedazzled eyes.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
2. That's what makes it so scary.
Mon Apr 1, 2019, 01:47 PM
Apr 2019

But I will say that history will say we started fighting him right away, but that he was empowered and abetted and supported by the Republican Party. History will probably also say the Republican Party was full of corrupt politicians who blocked every attempt to govern legally.

Cyrano

(15,041 posts)
4. And we're fighting back through courts where he's appointed the judges
Mon Apr 1, 2019, 01:58 PM
Apr 2019

Jeez, aren't we the sly ones. Maybe we can all get together and pummel him with cream puffs?

jimlup

(7,968 posts)
5. I agree, if there were any foreseeable way
Mon Apr 1, 2019, 02:06 PM
Apr 2019

to ride ourselves of that Orange clown we'd have to try it.

Right now, I think within our own minds we should realize that he is but the pussy head of a deep infection that pervades the Republican party. The infection may indeed kill us and the Republicans will never realize why. It is ugly!

Totally Tunsie

(10,885 posts)
6. In my lifetime, I can't recall there being another president who has seized control
Mon Apr 1, 2019, 03:18 PM
Apr 2019

and manipulated the system to suit his own needs and beliefs as this monster has. Where are the checks and balances on this madman? He is running rampant with his cruel and crazy ideas, and there seems to be no way to stop him. He has become even more emboldened by the Barr report and there is serious danger ahead if he isn't restrained. I fear for our country.

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