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red dog 1

(27,872 posts)
Sat Apr 29, 2017, 07:28 PM Apr 2017

"We live in a nightmare" - How Trump turned America upside down in 100 days

Raw Story
April 29, 2017


"Don't you want God to show up and say he's kidding?" Louis C.K. asked Stephen Colbert on
The Late Show a couple of weeks back.

Of course we do...Instead, during these past 100 days, God seems to have doubled down on the prank.

Although optimists predicted that once he faced the reality of governing, Donald Trump would be thwarted and even tamed into a more conventional politician, and although the media scoff at Trump's claims of unprecedented presidential accomplishment, for once, Trump may be right when he boasts with his customary mangling of English "I don't think that there is a presidential period of time in the first 100 days where anyone has done nearly what we've been able to do."

While Trump's legislative achievements have been lass than meager, he has nevertheless succeeded in doing something profoundly consequential.

Call it the Great Inversion.
In just 100 days, he has turned America and the world upside down, so much we may never be able to right ourselves again.

More:
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/04/we-live-in-a-nightmare-how-trump-turned-america-upside-down-in-100-days/

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"We live in a nightmare" - How Trump turned America upside down in 100 days (Original Post) red dog 1 Apr 2017 OP
We KNEW this would MFM008 Apr 2017 #1
trump has actually accomplished this in his first 100 days.... Locrian Apr 2017 #2
+1 2naSalit Apr 2017 #3

Locrian

(4,522 posts)
2. trump has actually accomplished this in his first 100 days....
Sat Apr 29, 2017, 08:24 PM
Apr 2017

“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”

The curtain may not be all the way up yet, but they're pulling it, that's for sure.

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