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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt's not just Trump's crazy that's so hard to take
...it's the insult to the intelligence of a four-year old.
The real issue with the level of immaturity Trump displays in each and every utterance or statement is that he's playing the American people for fools. He's making fools out of us all with the juvenile defenses he serves up for his and his White House's misconduct.
It's undeniably pathological in the way that Trump's dissembling completely disregards truths and understandings about the way most of us recognize truthfulness in ourselves and each other, and blunders forward without the shame or recompense that even some of the most vile among us are resigned to.
Get the man a doctor. I'm all for it. Meanwhile, we're all victim to his deliberate, epic pouting over everything - relentless until he gets his way. That's what his doting parents, his republican Congress and Senate are obligingly making certain happens. Their interests are his interests, and the reverse.
Trump has America serving as the infantile megalomaniac's nanny; cleaning up his messes; spoon-feeding him as his disgusting political clan in Congress squeezes us again and again for tribute to their petty king. They know they have a crazy man behind the gates of the White House and they're fleecing everything they can get their hands on and get Trump to sign for, all in return for as little as a song of praise for his purloined majesty.
...and here we are, the fools.
Not to despair. As Pudd'nhead Wilson said, "Let us be thankful for the fools; but for them the rest of us could not succeed."
unblock
(52,317 posts)if the media properly portrayed him as a chronic liar and exaggerator who says horribly divisive things in order to push a white supremacist fascist agenda, and also portrayed anyone who defended him as endorsing those same horrible views, then i think we could all stomach the situation.
what's really infuriating is not that he does all this crap so much as the fact that the media lets him get away with it.
bigtree
(86,005 posts)...and hopefully amplify our voices.
They never cease to fail in that.
tanyev
(42,609 posts)I didn't know so many elected Republicans and party leaders would have absolutely no problem with it.
Yonnie3
(17,480 posts)If I believed in the devil. I do believe in good and evil in people. You can call it a soul.
They seem to have no souls, perhaps Putin, the Koch brothers and the NRA have them saved in storage.
dlk
(11,575 posts)bigtree
(86,005 posts)...between crazy and ignorant.
Ignorant seems to be winning out. Does the crazy drive the ignorant, or the ignorant drive the crazy?
MFM008
(19,818 posts)He is owed respect simply by position alone.
A position that was given to him by Russia.
He is Russian revenge by attempting to force
the rest of us bow
To a chaos magician.
bigtree
(86,005 posts)...realizing just how successful their virtual coup has been.
Virtually no limit to the dividends.
Giddy.