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malaise

(269,157 posts)
Fri Mar 20, 2020, 06:13 AM Mar 2020

It took Don the Con, mother's boy and ReTHUGs less than one term to turn the US into a

Third World Country. That MAGA shit was like his entire scam - racist branding and PR while the kakistocracy loots the country.

Health workers can't even find equipment to work safely - fuck this shit. Meanwhile their Senators dump stocks while lying to people about coronavirus.
Even Mica notices that the lights are out at the White House. We'll need more prisons than hospitals to clean up this fucking mess.

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It took Don the Con, mother's boy and ReTHUGs less than one term to turn the US into a (Original Post) malaise Mar 2020 OP
I think we need to put them in mercuryblues Mar 2020 #1
There are no words for these criminals malaise Mar 2020 #2
There will be more mercuryblues Mar 2020 #3
Indeed malaise Mar 2020 #5
Just wait until the bailouts start flowing not fooled Mar 2020 #35
Maybe this before prison.... trusty elf Mar 2020 #22
Spitballs... N_E_1 for Tennis Mar 2020 #24
NO. Alcatraz is Indian Land. Haggis for Breakfast Mar 2020 #39
Not less than one term. They've been working at it for 40 years JHB Mar 2020 #4
True - in reality this is the logical consequence malaise Mar 2020 #6
I DON'T GET IT....He invoked the Defense Production Act.... spanone Mar 2020 #7
That was PR - reality TV - I loved when he said he passed it malaise Mar 2020 #8
May he pass a kidney stone the size of California spanone Mar 2020 #9
And live so he can end up in prison malaise Mar 2020 #10
this morning they were talking about how this virus will hit trump country hard spanone Mar 2020 #11
Raining here now malaise Mar 2020 #12
Raining here too! Woke to thunder... spanone Mar 2020 #14
Same here malaise Mar 2020 #15
Yes I did see that. It was frightening. spanone Mar 2020 #17
When they start dying... Trueblue Texan Mar 2020 #29
The winner in all of this is the deep state malaise Mar 2020 #13
Meacham is now talking about not letting them postpone elections. spanone Mar 2020 #21
Naomi Klein's. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. We need to be vigilant. usaf-vet Mar 2020 #34
Actually, may he have one of the stag horn variety... 3catwoman3 Mar 2020 #33
I hope that kidney stone has ANTLERS Skittles Mar 2020 #37
He got it but doesn't know how to use it C_U_L8R Mar 2020 #30
Not prisons atreides1 Mar 2020 #16
Every. Time. kentuck Mar 2020 #18
The sad truth is that they sell their bullshit effectively malaise Mar 2020 #20
And now it's rolling thru Trumpland. rickyhall Mar 2020 #19
I am watching with interest malaise Mar 2020 #23
It took about fifty years. Most people weren't paying attention for the first thirty ms liberty Mar 2020 #25
You're right but he pressed the gas on this Reagan/Thatcher model malaise Mar 2020 #26
Yes he did, didn't he. It's his gift, his stable geniusness, if you will ms liberty Mar 2020 #27
Never forget malaise Mar 2020 #28
K&R HAB911 Mar 2020 #31
Depravity gone amok Joinfortmill Mar 2020 #32
And we found out that there's nothing we can do to stop them FiveGoodMen Mar 2020 #36
"Everything Trump Touches Dies" Elwood P Dowd Mar 2020 #38
You're diplomatic. What you describe here represents worse than Third World countries. ancianita Mar 2020 #40
To be fair, there were already parts of this nation misanthrope Mar 2020 #41
We all knew that was true on election night 2016 ... jimlup Mar 2020 #42
I want the Grotesque Orange Pustule working in hospitals without ventilators, masks or gloves. Hermit-The-Prog Mar 2020 #43
Work? He'd sit there and do nothing! Lock him up. Mar 2020 #44
It started with Raygun and ALEC, the Con is the fruit of what was sown and burrowowl Mar 2020 #45
I remember when he "won" in 2016, forever burned in my brain. But far worse... Hekate Mar 2020 #46

mercuryblues

(14,537 posts)
1. I think we need to put them in
Fri Mar 20, 2020, 06:22 AM
Mar 2020

Alcatraz double the admission and let visitors throw spitballs at them, for the rest of their lives. Every single one of them.

malaise

(269,157 posts)
2. There are no words for these criminals
Fri Mar 20, 2020, 06:39 AM
Mar 2020

Good to see the ReTHUG dump stocks posse being discussed on TV this morning

mercuryblues

(14,537 posts)
3. There will be more
Fri Mar 20, 2020, 06:43 AM
Mar 2020

pigs at the trough, revealed.

GOP needs to be hammered with this in the next election.

not fooled

(5,801 posts)
35. Just wait until the bailouts start flowing
Fri Mar 20, 2020, 10:57 AM
Mar 2020

there will be corruption on an epic scale. We ain't seen nothin' yet.

Massive looting going to red don's donors and cronies.

trusty elf

(7,399 posts)
22. Maybe this before prison....
Fri Mar 20, 2020, 07:37 AM
Mar 2020

I would add an elevated platform in front for people to walk up and relieve themselves on him.



N_E_1 for Tennis

(9,772 posts)
24. Spitballs...
Fri Mar 20, 2020, 07:50 AM
Mar 2020

If you want...I’m going for the premium package...little more but worth it...flaming balls of monkey feces.

JHB

(37,161 posts)
4. Not less than one term. They've been working at it for 40 years
Fri Mar 20, 2020, 06:46 AM
Mar 2020

This is the end result of the vaunted "Reagan Revolution". Forty years of doggedly pursuing a ideological agenda, with plenty of help maintaining staying power thanks to billionaire dollars.

They've been vandalizing the house from within, hampering repairs, and encouraging half the house to vandalize too.

Trump is the end stage, where too many supports have been weakened to not buckle under a new load.

Don't give Trump credit he doesn't deserve (he does that himself, thank you). A lot of people have worked a long time to get us where we are today, and I don't mean the Russians.

malaise

(269,157 posts)
6. True - in reality this is the logical consequence
Fri Mar 20, 2020, 06:52 AM
Mar 2020

of neo-liberal health care across the fucking planet. Reagan and Thatcher and their goons fucked up this planet.

spanone

(135,859 posts)
7. I DON'T GET IT....He invoked the Defense Production Act....
Fri Mar 20, 2020, 06:55 AM
Mar 2020

BUT HE'S NOT USING IT. WHY THE FUCK NOT?

malaise

(269,157 posts)
10. And live so he can end up in prison
Fri Mar 20, 2020, 06:59 AM
Mar 2020

I hope we're all alive to watch his MAGats turn on him and that will be any day now.
When they're all confined to their homes, it's going to get real ugly.

spanone

(135,859 posts)
11. this morning they were talking about how this virus will hit trump country hard
Fri Mar 20, 2020, 07:04 AM
Mar 2020

LET IT FUCKING RAIN.

malaise

(269,157 posts)
12. Raining here now
Fri Mar 20, 2020, 07:05 AM
Mar 2020

so no walk this morning.
Good to see Morning Joe Scum calling out all the lies after their crap about leadership earlier this week.

malaise

(269,157 posts)
15. Same here
Fri Mar 20, 2020, 07:13 AM
Mar 2020

Did you just hear Meacham? Ah well we told them.
Do you think your family is safe with this man in charge?
Hope someone plays the ull clip - WOW!

Trueblue Texan

(2,440 posts)
29. When they start dying...
Fri Mar 20, 2020, 08:31 AM
Mar 2020

I doubt having to stay at home will impress them--a whole lot of them already do that. They like to keep out any evidence that conflicts with the worldview of Faux news. But when they start dying, that's another story. Tragedy always makes you question, why? Surely with the help of Faux news they'll blame democrats but that will only take them so far when they see plenty of democrats dying too

It's a sad state the world has come to. But darkness before dawn.

spanone

(135,859 posts)
21. Meacham is now talking about not letting them postpone elections.
Fri Mar 20, 2020, 07:30 AM
Mar 2020

He says trump has joked about staying in office and 'it's a joke till it's not' SCARY FUCKING SHIT.

usaf-vet

(6,195 posts)
34. Naomi Klein's. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. We need to be vigilant.
Fri Mar 20, 2020, 09:15 AM
Mar 2020

It is exactly this kind of event that the Trumps in this world look for to make drastic changes that will go unnoticed during the "pandemic event".

Changes like lowering the payroll taxes, "to help people who need more money in their pockets NOW" .

BUT those same dollars are what funds Social Security and Medicare in our senior years. So if they lower it NOW will they restore it back to the pre-pandemic level? That answer is probably NO. So the repugs get what they have always wanted cutting SS and Medicare.

Watch this video PLEASE! And then remain vigilant and watch what they try and change.

3catwoman3

(24,029 posts)
33. Actually, may he have one of the stag horn variety...
Fri Mar 20, 2020, 08:55 AM
Mar 2020

...that won’t pass because they look like deer antlers and can’t move thru the tubules and cause agonizing pain.

C_U_L8R

(45,017 posts)
30. He got it but doesn't know how to use it
Fri Mar 20, 2020, 08:31 AM
Mar 2020

Which is what Stormie also said about the lil orange mushroom man

atreides1

(16,091 posts)
16. Not prisons
Fri Mar 20, 2020, 07:18 AM
Mar 2020

Cemeteries...at this point in time, I don't want any of those meat sacks to get anything less then what those that died have gotten...

No cages, boxes...

malaise

(269,157 posts)
20. The sad truth is that they sell their bullshit effectively
Fri Mar 20, 2020, 07:30 AM
Mar 2020

how the hell did people ever believe they are the party of responsibility and patriotism etc.,

ms liberty

(8,591 posts)
25. It took about fifty years. Most people weren't paying attention for the first thirty
Fri Mar 20, 2020, 08:22 AM
Mar 2020

And now here we are.

HAB911

(8,911 posts)
31. K&R
Fri Mar 20, 2020, 08:39 AM
Mar 2020

hope you don't mind me paraphrasing this on another platform, with attribution. Succinctly stated as usual! thank you

FiveGoodMen

(20,018 posts)
36. And we found out that there's nothing we can do to stop them
Fri Mar 20, 2020, 12:06 PM
Mar 2020

(Yes, I know, vote. But between elections, crimes should still be punished)

ancianita

(36,130 posts)
40. You're diplomatic. What you describe here represents worse than Third World countries.
Fri Mar 20, 2020, 10:53 PM
Mar 2020

I'll use the lying grifter's own words: shit hole country.

We knew a long time ago that "everything he touches dies."

Now we see it in all its voluntary manslaughter literalness.

I've never wished suffering on anyone, but in his case I make an exception.

May he suffer greatly and lose EVERYTHING. Including himself.

misanthrope

(7,421 posts)
41. To be fair, there were already parts of this nation
Fri Mar 20, 2020, 10:59 PM
Mar 2020

that were like a Third World country. The rural south and Appalachia, for starters.

jimlup

(7,968 posts)
42. We all knew that was true on election night 2016 ...
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 12:04 AM
Mar 2020

not complaining just pointing out that we already knew this was coming.

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,400 posts)
43. I want the Grotesque Orange Pustule working in hospitals without ventilators, masks or gloves.
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 12:09 AM
Mar 2020

Keep the cameras rolling from start to finish.

Hekate

(90,773 posts)
46. I remember when he "won" in 2016, forever burned in my brain. But far worse...
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 03:27 AM
Mar 2020

...was what happened after he was sworn in. I watched this country lose itself to actual facism, and all I could do was say, "I always knew it was possible -- but who knew it could happen so fast? "

It turned out that all the groundwork had been done in the preceding 30 years, so when this monster was put in the WH, it was like dominoes falling.

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