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In reply to the discussion: How the hell is this all OK? How the hell can this be happening? [View all]Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)56. That's a great analogy, but Anthony really did have God powers
Trump is an aged, fat, imbecilic white guy. He has the power that the media and Congress assign to him. He used to have the power that the Constitution grants him, but both he and Congress have shown us that the Constitution really doesn't matter anymore.
I am realizing more and more that our Government was really always based on a "gentleman's agreement". That agreement completely fell apart when non-gentlemen took hold of the reigns.
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How the hell is this all OK? How the hell can this be happening? [View all]
NRaleighLiberal
Mar 2017
OP
Did you ask this question when Jesse Ventura was elected Governor of Minnesota?
brooklynite
Mar 2017
#2
Ventura was not a man child who invented his own reality for the fuck of it as he
Guy Whitey Corngood
Mar 2017
#41
There is no Comparison Between Ventura and Trump. Ventura would not have gotten elected
JI7
Mar 2017
#46
...not to mention that he is doing all of this destruction after losing the popular vote by millions
Tanuki
Mar 2017
#3
it took russian hacking, comey for him to "win" and he lost the popular vote by millions
JI7
Mar 2017
#49
Yeah, the gop keeps getting worse until they bottomed out @trump.. it wouldn't have happened
Cha
Mar 2017
#44
Physicists say there are parallel universes. How did I end up in THIS one?
Binkie The Clown
Mar 2017
#9
I know what you mean. I grew up to the "House Unamerican Activities committee"...
dmosh42
Mar 2017
#10
YES! There are Putin/Russian connections everywhere in this trump administration and Ryan...
brush
Mar 2017
#15
I have felt this nation sliding towards a 2nd Civil War for the last 35 years...
Moostache
Mar 2017
#36
very bad dystopian novels are meant as cautionary tales, not how to do it instructions
uppityperson
Mar 2017
#38