Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board: Our endorsement for president in 2020

[demmiblue]

Our endorsement for president in 2020: Not Donald Trump | Editorial

Donald Trump is in Orlando to announce the kickoff of his re-election campaign.

We’re here to announce our endorsement for president in 2020, or, at least, who we’re not endorsing: Donald Trump.

Some readers will wonder how we could possibly eliminate a candidate so far before an election, and before knowing the identity of his opponent.

Because there’s no point pretending we would ever recommend that readers vote for Trump.

After 2½ years we’ve seen enough.

Enough of the chaos, the division, the schoolyard insults, the self-aggrandizement, the corruption, and especially the lies.

So many lies — from white lies to whoppers — told out of ignorance, laziness, recklessness, expediency or opportunity.

Trump’s capacity for lying isn’t the surprise here, though the frequency is.

It’s the tolerance so many Americans have for it.

There was a time when even a single lie — a phony college degree, a bogus work history — would doom a politician’s career.

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/opinion/editorials/os-op-sentinel-not-endorsing-donald-trump-2020-20190618-63ya7cyb5ngf3irllodwxnznui-story.html

[Dennis Donovan]

1. Perfect in content AND timing!!!

[onetexan]

27. K&R - everyone share this on your FB page if you have one. Spread it on other social media platforms

Well done & thank u Orlando Sentinel EB.

[olegramps]

35. The Republican Party is dragging a significant segment of their party into the sewer.

[struggle4progress]

2. "Millions and millions of Americans not lining up in Orlando! Stay tuned for updates!"

[MyOwnPeace]

4. Good one!!!!

[Sherman A1]

3. K&R

[llmart]

5. Love that headline!

n/t

[FakeNoose]

6. Literally ANYBODY but Chump

As Chump likes to say: "What do we have to lose?"

[Rhiannon12866]

43. +100!

[marble falls]

7. When a jackass loses Fla, well ... its time to at least consider exit strategy.

[Capperdan]

8. Another city that won't get paid

For his rally costs too.

[Habibi]

9. These cities need to start collecting up front.

Otherwise, no rally here, sorry.

[PatSeg]

10. Very short and to the point

"So many lies — from white lies to whoppers — told out of ignorance, laziness, recklessness, expediency or opportunity. "

They really summed up Trump perfectly.

[klook]

11. They're hoping for Romney or Kasich,

but saying Trump is a big No is good. And they’ve clearly explained just why he’s so objectionable on multiple fronts.

[Scarsdale]

12. Those are considered his "good

qualities" aren't they? The gop loves him.

[CatWoman]

13. LOL

[Botany]

14. Does this even matter?

Every single paper in America came out against Trump and yet he is in the White House
right now.

[CaptYossarian]

17. It's because

His trailer-trash deplorables don't/can't read. Those 120-lb. "dudes" with the stained wife beater shirts and MAGA caps among the southern belle Klanswomen that cheer behind Orange Julius don't care about newspapers. They know that even with a 10th grade education that non-whites are the reason for their failures.

People who can read should already know who to vote for.

[Botany]

21. Trump will get the inbred dumb fuck vote and we shouldn't spend 1 second on trying to get their ...

... votes but at the end of the day it was Russia and a dirty election that put him into power.

[voteearlyvoteoften]

15. Thank you Orlando Sentinel

I mean really thank you so much.

[Baitball Blogger]

16. God knows, they owe us.

[malaise]

18. Anyone but the king of Cons

Fabulous

[Paladin]

19. Bravo!

This will fester and enrage trump. We need a whole lot more of this from the media.

[Achilleaze]

20. The republican appetite for swallowing his* lies speaks volumes

* Dirty Donny, republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

[Hortensis]

22. Especially the atrocities. Infants are being kidnapped from parents and

put in institutions, toddlers, many children too young to understand. No more reason is needed than to understand that people who'd do and support that are capable of anything.

[infinite_wisdom]

23. I would add

His mishandling of Iran might well lead us to not only war but serious economic problems. Exiting out of the agreement Obama had brokered has forced some of our European friends to look for ways to get around using the US dollar so they can continue doing business with Iran. Turns out most nations don't like being bullied into being told who they can have trade deals with.

Trump has not only stacked the court system with extreme and sometimes unqualified or seemingly psychotic right wing judges, he has placed a small army of grossly unqualified people to lead Federal agencies. The damage being done here will not be easily repaired.

His inaction on climate change is going to make the situation even more difficult to deal with and will require even more drastic measures in the recent futures if we are to have any hope of mitigating the worst of the projected effects.

The short term thinking of the nationalist populist movement is going to lead to a very ugly reckoning at some point in the near future. Irresponsible behavior has consequences, most of us learn this in life the hard way. Now we are going to have to deal with a reckoning on a much larger scale. So many problems have been created I am not so sure we are going to be able to deal. I try to be optimistic but as of now I seriously wonder if there are enough rational and logical people in our country to turn the ship around.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

39. It breaks my heart to read this

Because it sounds pretty accurate.

[sop]

24. ABC is reporting Trump plans to introduce his family as "the new Kennedys" this evening

The imbecile still hasn't realized comparing himself to JFK, and Don Jr. to JFK Jr., is sort of creepy. If he insists on doing so, he should probably stay away from Dallas come next November, and tell his son not to fly his own plane.

I wonder which one is supposed to be Bobby Kennedy...Jared? He should stay out of hotel kitchens in California. And if Eric is supposed to be Teddy, please don't drive over any rickety bridges with young campaign workers. Jeez, what will Trump come up with next?

[infinite_wisdom]

26. There is no bottom

..its sickening.

Dragging his Slovenian prostitute onto the stage along with his warped sociopathic children and calling it Camelot II is an atrocity.

Seriously, Trump thinks he is as good looking as JFK was and Milania has the charm of Jackie. Be best....puhlleeze.

[Elwood P Dowd]

29. No worry about his son piloting his own airplane.

This is the only type of plane his spoiled brats ever learned to fly.......

[malaise]

25. This

Enough of the chaos, the division, the schoolyard insults, the self-aggrandizement, the corruption, and especially the lies.

So many lies — from white lies to whoppers — told out of ignorance, laziness, recklessness, expediency or opportunity.

Trump’s capacity for lying isn’t the surprise here, though the frequency is.

It’s the tolerance so many Americans have for it.

[myohmy2]

41. +1

...say no more, that says it all...

...I would like to thank the Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board for speaking the truth and taking such a strong position at this time...

...no doubt trump will pull some shenanigans from his nether regions prior to the election making it more difficult to switch horses while he muddies the waters...

...but I pray trump remains the aberration he is and does not become the new norm in our politics...

...if trumpism and trump clones are the wave of the future, then I'm resigning my membership as an active voter...

...let the ignorant rule the roost...

[Scurrilous]

28. K&R

[onetexan]

30. i agreed with everything except for the Obama diss and the "if Romney and Kasich were to run" bit

both Romney and Kasich have been complicitly silent while this lunatic and his enablers rage and destroy governmental institutions we have in place.

[LiberalLovinLug]

31. This should be not only in every newspaper but every radio and TV sttaion.

What they are saying is what everyone around the globe is hoping most Americans feel now. Even a lot of those that voted for him.

Its confusing, shocking, dumbfounding...that Trump even gets above 30% approval. This vile petty boor of a man. I think its clear that the main reason they still like him is he is the ultimate "libtard" troller. He's king of the land and no one can tell him not to speak. No longer is hate speech restricted to spewing it on YouTube and other messages threads in anonymity only to get their butts kicked by some liberal armed with those evil commie "facts", they now have their top Troll on the job. They wanted and got...the ultimate troll to do the only thing that is important to them, not jobs, not security, not decency, but ridiculing Democrats, and other liberals, and media personalities. A lot of that hunger was developed and nurtured on RW talk radio that dominates middle America.

And that is a sickness. So many voting against their best interests solely in order to have a real bully occupy the bully's pulpit. So they can get back at Democrats for all those years of criminal and corruption that the RW media have been graciously keeping them informed of over the last few decades.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

40. This is the only thing that explains the magats that *aren't* uneducated.

Thanks. I try to understand this particular person I know, because it dumbfounds me that someone educated could possibly support him. Obviously, there must be a lot I don’t know about her.

[Gothmog]

32. K&R

[lpbk2713]

33. It's pretty much obvious Trump is a useless asshole.

So no. We don't endorse him.

[TryLogic]

34. No brainer

"There was a time when even a single lie — a phony college degree, a bogus work history — would doom a politician’s career."

But today's Republicans are clearly Putin's party. I have never seen such corruption. Starting with McConnell.

[DFW]

36. Trump is Mitch McConnell's dream, and thus America's nightmare

There hasn't been a US Senator who has wrought more evil on our land since Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin.

MCarthy was finally called out in public for having no decency. He faded and died in disgrace.

McConnell and Trump revel in having no decency, and a third of the country cheers them on. How far we have fallen.

[TexasBushwhacker]

37. Did they endorse him in 2016? N/t

[lordsummerisle]

38. k&r n/t

[Rhiannon12866]

42. Pleased to be rec #200!