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bellmartin

(218 posts)
Thu Oct 5, 2017, 04:54 PM Oct 2017

How is it even possible that the worst person I know of is POTUS?

What are the odds?

Not the worst famous person, or the worst possible person for the job...

Trump is the worst person I know of, period.

And he has this position. It cannot possibly end well.

Have there been worse people in history? The odds certainly say there must have been, and many have committed worse individual acts than he's managed thus far.

I almost wonder, though, if anyone in a position of real power has ever had such a conglomeration of terrible traits. Some of the usual suspects may have just had a few of those traits to great excess, overpowering their sense of humor or the fact that they loved dogs.

Of course, you can't make this stuff up. It would, in fact, probably make for bad fiction. I wish we could see it from the vantage point of a future age when history can put it into a more proper context. Or, for that matter, that we could all see it from a distance as it recedes into the past.

That will happen at some point, right?

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How is it even possible that the worst person I know of is POTUS? (Original Post) bellmartin Oct 2017 OP
People who orchestrated the deaths of others like Hitler were worse, but Eliot Rosewater Oct 2017 #1
There have been some vile get the red out Oct 2017 #2
Roman Emperor's Caligula and Nero also had no redeeming qualities marylandblue Oct 2017 #3
Yes, Caligula did come to my mind... bellmartin Oct 2017 #4
+1, I was looking at PBS Vietnam and the S Nam leadership was full of assholes too uponit7771 Oct 2017 #5
Boy isn't that the truth. Bradshaw3 Oct 2017 #6

Eliot Rosewater

(31,134 posts)
1. People who orchestrated the deaths of others like Hitler were worse, but
Thu Oct 5, 2017, 04:57 PM
Oct 2017

in the category of people in general, who did not do that (yet), he is the worst person who ever lived.

And yet I dont blame him anymore than I blame a rabid dog who does what it does because it cant help itself, I blame the 50 million who support him.

get the red out

(13,468 posts)
2. There have been some vile
Thu Oct 5, 2017, 04:57 PM
Oct 2017

murderous, hideous kings and dictators, but they generally weren't as stupid as Trump. So he does exel bad trait diversity.

bellmartin

(218 posts)
4. Yes, Caligula did come to my mind...
Thu Oct 5, 2017, 05:06 PM
Oct 2017

...but didn't the troops enjoy "Little Boots" when he was a boy before his rise to power?

I can't imagine any group who wasn't paid to do so would ever want to spend time with Trump, including in his youth.

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