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Solly Mack

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8. It couldn't end any other way. It was always going to be a
Thu Jun 11, 2020, 07:49 AM
Jun 2020

waste - for the country. Though I mean it in the lay waste kind of way.

Trump is destruction. His very nature. His character. His very being.

Trump has no guiding principles. He has no strong beliefs.

Other than Trump. Other than himself. He is his own and only reason for everything he does. What he can get out of it. How it benefits him.

Trump, his conservative support from high profile names, as well as his sycophantic followers are parts of a symbiotic whole. Through mutualism, each part benefits in some way, though the followers are more like the effluvium by-product of the other two.

Trump courts them but he would never allow them inside his home.

The conservative power brokers/rightwing religious money movers/thought shapers need their votes but they don't want them coming into their homes either.

Both Trump and the conservative power base feed the clamoring crowd their much craved sugar water of absolution. Absolving both the conservative collective and the individual of responsibility for economic and social deprivations by placing the blame on the other.

With appeals to prejudice and fear that keep people ignorant, that keeps them cheering their own oppression,
Trump and the Republican power structure perform a neverending sleight of hand - constant deceptions.

Convincing them that three and four jobs is patriotic and that America has the best health care in the world, even if they don't have access to it. The important thing is getting to chant "We're number 1" until that good feeling takes hold.

Deception after deception, chewing their supporters up until nothing is left of them but pavlovian responses.

This is what we are up against. Fellow citizens who have been conditioned to accept any brutality, any atrocity, to believe any absurdity as long as they get to feel good about themselves.








A Wasted Presidency [View all] babylonsister Jun 2020 OP
and because he was an unremitting asshole completely unsuited for leading this country LymphocyteLover Jun 2020 #1
Unfit from the beginning. kentuck Jun 2020 #2
I've No Sympathy For Present-Day Conservatives Vogon_Glory Jun 2020 #3
Think of the last 5. zipplewrath Jun 2020 #4
As one of this board's not-so-liberals, I'd disagree with you on Tricky Dick and Pater Bush Vogon_Glory Jun 2020 #10
"Let it die." Good idea, great really. jaxexpat Jun 2020 #11
It's a bad string zipplewrath Jun 2020 #16
I would argue that the crook and pater Bush weren't that bad Vogon_Glory Jun 2020 #17
The imperial presidency zipplewrath Jun 2020 #18
Actually he drove the country into the ground, and all it stands for, all previous actions bucolic_frolic Jun 2020 #5
Lies, insults, smears, crazy tweets, conspiracy theories, alienating allies, undermining democracy The Blue Flower Jun 2020 #6
He's a loser and the only thing he could ever run was his mouth BeyondGeography Jun 2020 #7
It couldn't end any other way. It was always going to be a Solly Mack Jun 2020 #8
Very well said canetoad Jun 2020 #25
Thank you. Solly Mack Jun 2020 #27
To begin with he wasn't elected he was INSTALLED with the help of a foreign power. usaf-vet Jun 2020 #9
There should be an asterisk behind his name forever more. liberalla Jun 2020 #13
I'd settled for a federal prison number for him including a set of sequential numbers for his kids. usaf-vet Jun 2020 #14
YES, 45 in Federal Prison would make me happy. And deny him tweeting privileges forever. liberalla Jun 2020 #15
Unprecedented dismantling of democracy, governmental institutions and stacking the courts with Evolve Dammit Jun 2020 #12
I read it all.. Grins Jun 2020 #19
I wish it was only "wasted"...It's been brutally damaging to our country...nt Wounded Bear Jun 2020 #20
Hillary's presidency is the one that was wasted. Maven Jun 2020 #21
It would not have been possible to have sent a more worthless piece of shit ooky Jun 2020 #22
I never knew there were people like him. babylonsister Jun 2020 #23
Me either. ooky Jun 2020 #24
Because he is a career criminal. dalton99a Jun 2020 #26
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