Donald Trump

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He was brought in as the anti-politician

This is where I get lost. Somehow morons were convinced that electing somebody who had no idea about how government worked or even how the world works was a good idea. Nobody who is sick goes to a landscaper to get better because they're an "anti-doctor". How in the fuck could any reasonable person believe that childish insults and racism would fix any of our problems?
 
This is where I get lost. Somehow morons were convinced that electing somebody who had no idea about how government worked or even how the world works was a good idea. Nobody who is sick goes to a landscaper to get better because they're an "anti-doctor". How in the fuck could any reasonable person believe that childish insults and racism would fix any of our problems?

Maybe because they believed that Donald Trump wasn't a cartoon character in a Disney movie nor a caricature as presented by the media, and probably is a vaguely intelligent person who shares many of their beliefs about American Exceptionalism?

Or maybe they're all just thick racists?

I mean, massively oversimplifying complex people and situations into dehumanising stereotypes in order to shape a pre-conceived political agenda mainly based around reinforcing people's own sense of superiority has never hurt anyone right?

Oh wait.
 
Maybe because they believed that Donald Trump wasn't a cartoon character in a Disney movie nor a caricature as presented by the media, and probably is a vaguely intelligent person who shares many of their beliefs about American Exceptionalism?

Or maybe they're all just thick racists?

I mean, massively oversimplifying complex people and situations into dehumanising stereotypes in order to shape a pre-conceived political agenda mainly based around reinforcing people's own sense of superiority has never hurt anyone right?

Oh wait.
Ffs. Godwins law
 
Maybe because they believed that Donald Trump wasn't a cartoon character in a Disney movie nor a caricature as presented by the media, and probably is a vaguely intelligent person who shares many of their beliefs about American Exceptionalism?

Or maybe they're all just thick racists?

I mean, massively oversimplifying complex people and situations into dehumanising stereotypes in order to shape a pre-conceived political agenda mainly based around reinforcing people's own sense of superiority has never hurt anyone right?

Oh wait.
I might believe this if he hadn't been in the media spotlight for fucking decades. He's bragged about how not getting an STD was his Vietnam, peddled crappy wines and steaks, conned people out of their life savings and ran multiple casinos into the ground. He's done all of this while cheating on his wives and bragging about how he doesn't respect women and spouting racist bullshit. Maybe if he'd only been a cartoon character for a year you might have thought it was all a big media hit job but he's been a fucking dickhead since the 80s.
 
I might believe this if he hadn't been in the media spotlight for fucking decades. He's bragged about how not getting an STD was his Vietnam, peddled crappy wines and steaks, conned people out of their life savings and ran multiple casinos into the ground. He's done all of this while cheating on his wives and bragging about how he doesn't respect women and spouting racist bullshit. Maybe if he'd only been a cartoon character for a year you might have thought it was all a big media hit job but he's been a fucking dickhead since the 80s.

. . . is the correct answer. I'm sorry -- there aren't any excuses for voters not doing their homework. Unless maybe they did, and couldn't bring themselves to vote for Hillary Clinton, which I think also played a role. Also, I think he got some votes BECAUSE he's a cartoon character in a Disney movie -- how much more anti-Establishment can you get?
 
His win was very much to do with most of the Western worlds dissatisfaction with career politicians and the status quo.

He saw it, fed on it and won because of it.

That aside he is a complete and utter fucking shambles!
 
It's exactly that, just a laugh. I've absolutely no fucking idea why any normal, sane person would get angry, or worked up about someone who has no fucking impact on their lives.
What a fucking idiotic statement.

Firstly you assume that no one should give a fuck as to the plight of others. He’s made healthcare unaffordable to millions. One may as well never comment or give opinion on any matter outside the country you reside in. Mugabe? Fuck it, it’s his country, no point getting wound up about it. “He’s invaded Poland has he? Not my problem.”

Second, the most powerful man in the world is someone that can influence a great deal that affects not just his forsaken citizens but the rest of the world as well. He’s pulled out of the Paris treaty on climate change endangering the future of everyone’s kids and grand kids. He’s taken apart at the seams the EPA. He’s in the pocket of the NRA and he’s a narcissistic **** which isn’t of itself an issue that affects me, but it does when he’s picking a Twitter fight with another lunatic who does have access to nuclear weapons and a thin skin.

To say “it’s a bit of a laugh” and ignore every major failing because “you kind of like him” just enables every other fucker to see you as someone who is obviously a fucking moron.
 
Religious and moral crusaders, both!

Such a fucking joke, but Hannity and Bannon tell him to just say it didn’t happen...prove it, and it is virtually impossible to prove at this point, especially if you call everyone else involved a liar and opportunist!

This guy was removed from office TWICE as a judge for....wait for it....not following SUPREME COURT ORDERS and breaking the law, yet here we are.

The Lunatics have the keys to the Kingdom, let alone the Asylum, and those of us watching aghast are powerless to stop them, as all three branches of the US power structure act in concert to allow this freak show to continue unabated.

This is what weak politicians, “led” by a charismatic bully of a snake oil salesman, look like when he controsl the world’s largest economy and the firepower to destroy the earth many times over. One Republican, Bob Corker, is seeking to stop at least his ability to push the red button without some more safeguards, but I can’t see how that ever sees daylight.

Meanwhile, the Republicans just voted to give a lifetime appointment to the Federal Judgeship of Alabama to a 36 yr old (with personal history with a few well heeled folks) who practiced law for only 3 yrs, never actually went to trial, and who tweets about “Hillary Rotten Clinton,” who he believes should be in jail! On the Committee, ALL Dems voted “No,” based on the UNANIMOUS decision of the American Bar Association’s decision declaring him unfit to serve as a Judge...the first time in history that has happened...while ALL Reps voted “Yes,” providing us the lowest ever bar recorded for a LIFETIME APPOINTMENT to the Federal Bench! Now, it is upto a few Reps in the Senate to vote against him or else he becomes a Judge for life!

Fucking insanity defined!

Then again, given Sessions is now AG, and Moore will soon be in the Senate, I’m running out of ways to say UFB!
It’s all a laugh though eh.
 
I might believe this if he hadn't been in the media spotlight for fucking decades. He's bragged about how not getting an STD was his Vietnam, peddled crappy wines and steaks, conned people out of their life savings and ran multiple casinos into the ground. He's done all of this while cheating on his wives and bragging about how he doesn't respect women and spouting racist bullshit. Maybe if he'd only been a cartoon character for a year you might have thought it was all a big media hit job but he's been a fucking dickhead since the 80s.
What a fucking idiotic statement.

Firstly you assume that no one should give a fuck as to the plight of others. He’s made healthcare unaffordable to millions. One may as well never comment or give opinion on any matter outside the country you reside in. Mugabe? Fuck it, it’s his country, no point getting wound up about it. “He’s invaded Poland has he? Not my problem.”

Second, the most powerful man in the world is someone that can influence a great deal that affects not just his forsaken citizens but the rest of the world as well. He’s pulled out of the Paris treaty on climate change endangering the future of everyone’s kids and grand kids. He’s taken apart at the seams the EPA. He’s in the pocket of the NRA and he’s a narcissistic **** which isn’t of itself an issue that affects me, but it does when he’s picking a Twitter fight with another lunatic who does have access to nuclear weapons and a thin skin.

To say “it’s a bit of a laugh” and ignore every major failing because “you kind of like him” just enables every other fucker to see you as someone who is obviously a fucking moron.
Well said x 2
 
His win was very much to do with most of the Western worlds dissatisfaction with career politicians and the status quo.

He saw it, fed on it and won because of it.

That aside he is a complete and utter fucking shambles!

The Western world has been dissatisfied with career politicians forever. That's nothing new. The Western world relative to much of the 20th century is at peace, and the economies of most nations in it are growing, the latest economic crisis being 5-10 years in the rear view. It's something different than that I think.

I'd suggest it's income inequality, the awareness of which has been laid bare by technology, technology which also has provided an equal voice for those prosperity has passed by, which Trump (and maybe Russia) exploited. That gulf between haves and have-nots has always been there, but was deepened by the fall of the Berlin Wall and the opening up of China to the West has evolved into a vast new market for goods and a vast new cache of labor and capital to supply them, labor and capital that is competitive with that which the lower- and middle-class West used to provide.

The anger of being passed over by the world -- by technology, by other peoples, by a new consensus on what a proper "value system" or belief set should be -- has to create incredible anger and resentment among those who feel part of that group.
 
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