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MrScorpio

(73,631 posts)
Wed Oct 4, 2017, 06:40 AM Oct 2017

I really have no idea how this country will withstand a prez who behaves like a toddler...

Who displays satisfaction with himself every time he fills his own diaper. And consider that this is coming from a man who has lived a seven decades long life of privilege. He's been praised his entire life for being mediocre. He doesn't understand the meaning of adversity and cannot relate well to the lives of people unlike himself. He chooses to lie and promote himself as an agent of chaos.

He's pretty much the worst person ever to get elected President... With or without Russian interference.

Trump's ignorance and laziness, his pathologically regressed emotional maturity and his utter lack of impulse control, not to mention his complete inability and unwillingness to have any sympathy for others speaks volumes about his unfitness to serve as Chief Executive.

How do you cope with a president who only regards whatever that's happening in the both the world and the nation in terms of how it makes HIM look, how HE's affected by it, what HIS personal interests are above all others? He's nothing more than a giant, tangerine-hued sponge for excessive praise. And when he doesn't receive excessive praise, even for the work of other people, he's offended. He sees all criticism of himself as a personal affront and a trigger for vicious retaliation. His sheer lack of focus is mind-boggling. Let's not forget that he speaks in behalf of the Federal Government and its vast scope of responsibility. He's way more than a distraction, he's an existential threat to our republic... Remember our republic, Republicans?

His singular campaign to have others praise him speaks to two unavoidable points:

One - His own degree of insecurity is completely and utterly insatiable.

Two - The campaign to exalt Trump yields an unacceptable drain and diversion of too many of our valuable national priorities.

How will anyone expect to get anything done at all, if all we're doing kissing his bloated ass? Remember, he can do no wrong. He never makes mistakes. Regardless of every reason why it's inadvisable, we need to give him a chance. He clearly is a white supremacist and has promoted racism, both personal and institutional at every turn.

This entire political and social nightmare that we're undergoing right now with Trump at the helm is a litmus test... One that's we've failed so far. He should have never been considered a legitimate candidate for public office, he should have never received the nomination of a major party and he should have never been elected to the highest office of the most powerful country on the planet.

He represents our collective national failure, one that we're refusing to correct, in spite of all the stakes.

Right now, I'm questioning our potential to survive this entire slow moving train wreck. For the first time in recent memory, we've lost our ability to save ourselves, to prosper and to work for a better future for all. It's all being drained away from us, into that massive, bottomless, gaping maw known as Donald J. Trump.

May your deity of choice, if any, help us all.

FDT.






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I really have no idea how this country will withstand a prez who behaves like a toddler... (Original Post) MrScorpio Oct 2017 OP
You are giving toddlers a bad name. At least they are cute and can be lovable at times. haveahart Oct 2017 #1
Great post...spot on HipChick Oct 2017 #2
A collective national failure. mountain grammy Oct 2017 #3
Personally, I don't think the US will survive. Or if we do manage to sinkingfeeling Oct 2017 #4
Putin has neutralized us all bdamomma Oct 2017 #5

sinkingfeeling

(51,469 posts)
4. Personally, I don't think the US will survive. Or if we do manage to
Wed Oct 4, 2017, 09:06 AM
Oct 2017

get through his term, America will be just a shadow of its former self. It's position of global leadership if every area except military dominance will be gone.

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