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doc03

(35,378 posts)
Fri Jan 20, 2017, 02:03 PM Jan 2017

How did we just swear a President in that paid off

a $25 million fraud claim a few days ago, has a sexual assault case pending, is being investigated for collusion with Russia
to win the election and at the minute he was sworn in he is in violation of the law for his hotel on federal land?
Am I in some kind of alternate universe or something?

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joshcryer

(62,276 posts)
6. Archaic democratic processes.
Fri Jan 20, 2017, 02:08 PM
Jan 2017

He'll be impeached in due course. I'd be shocked if he serves out his term. Just not likely.

unitedwethrive

(1,997 posts)
7. Carefully sowed division lead to over half of those in powers unwilling to care
Fri Jan 20, 2017, 02:09 PM
Jan 2017

how they achieved power.

manicraven

(901 posts)
8. What gets me, too, is the alternate reality of his supporters...
Fri Jan 20, 2017, 02:14 PM
Jan 2017

They make statements about how "honest" he is, how "generous," how he "tells it like it is," etc. It's not as if the lies are infrequent and just little "white lies"--the guy lies pathologically and it's super easy to catch him doing it or just making up fake "news," but the Deplorables see the opposite in this atrocious conman. It's just amazing and hard to understand the mass delusion.

Vogon_Glory

(9,132 posts)
9. Welcome to the dystopic alternate universe
Fri Jan 20, 2017, 02:20 PM
Jan 2017

The universe where millions of American voters let propaganda and their prejudices override both their inner light of reason and good common sense.

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