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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhen I look at trump I see this.
A child, a fool, a fraud, a liar, someone who is mentally ill, a very greedy person. Someone who spends every second of his life trying to make himself look better then he is. He is completely nuts when it comes to self image. He is very stupid in many ways. He is UN-American in many ways. He is completely unqualified to be president. What could possible go wrong?
All of the above is self evident. A child could recognize it. Yet, we have millions of americans who are blind to all of this. That scares me more than Trump himself. Infamous words from trump voters. I wanted something different.
History does repeat itself. Maybe not exactly in the same way, but in a way that rhymes. Throughout history humans have in mass destroyed themselves. They fall victim to fear. They follow what sounds good. They listen to people who are fooling them. People who have an agenda.
I do not know how badly this will all end. But if you pay attention to history you will understand it could be very destructive.
Moostache
(9,897 posts)If you are on or near the Korean Peninsula, it probably looks like this:
Upwards of 25,000,000 dead in Seoul South Korea alone...and the fucking Orange Shit-Gibbon does NOT care...
If you are poor and losing insurance, it will look like this:
The dead will pile up around us as they are kicked out of Medicaid paid nursing beds...joined on the streets by MILLIONS of unemployed CNAs and Med Techs that will lose jobs as a result of lost funding and shrinking census across the industry...
If you just live on Earth, it WILL look like this:
Bend over and kiss our collective ass goodbye...
lunatica
(53,410 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,856 posts)he can't do much harm without a lot of help. And he's getting a lot of help from his cabinet members and the spineless, craven GOP Senate and House. Hitler couldn't have been Hitler without help. One megalomaniacal nutball all by himself is just some harmless loon ranting on a street corner; a megalomaniacal nutball in a position of power will always have hangers-on who want a share of that power. Some of them are true believers; others are just cynics who want status and influence. Either way, the fact that there are people who must clearly understand that Trump is mentally incapable of handling the presidency but are right there with him is even more scary than Trump by himself.
Hitler had Goebbels, Göring, Eichmann, Mengele, Himmler and many others (and no, this is not a violation of Godwin's law; the comparison is legitimate). Stalin had Beria, Molotov, Malenkov and many others. Nixon had Haldeman, Erlichman and G. Gordon Liddy, to name a few. Bush the Dumber had Cheney and Rumsfeld. Bad leaders will always have bad associates. Trump, of course, has Bannon, Miller, his creepy son-in-law, and and an entire Cabinet of corrupt and/or incompetent sycophants, not to mention most of the GOP Congress and Fox News.
I don't know how to fight that.
shockey80
(4,379 posts)He cannot be a president like I cannot be a doctor. This is so fucking bizarre. I hated bush with all my heart but I did recognize him as president, A very bad president. Trump does not qualify at all as a president. It's a complete joke.
shockey80
(4,379 posts)When people figure it out it's to late. People like Trump don't know how evil they are.
jaxind
(1,074 posts)Add a bully and that he's a vindictive person to the list of tRUMP's characteristics that you mentioned