He lied, boasted, bullied and demeaned

[struggle4progress]

Tom Peck
2 hours ago

... I still haven’t got a clue where to start.

Would it be the attack on Senator John McCain over his vote on healthcare reform, even as McCain is at home dealing with brain cancer?

Would it be the poetry recital, casting immigrants as snakes that will only turn on the "tender" people who care for them?

Would it be the calling out of the apparent cowardice of the police officer in Florida who, armed only with a handgun, did not enter Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School to exchange fire with the man a semi automatic weapon, in the middle of a murderous rampage? ...

... The thousands of workaday Americans in a convention hall in Maryland ... still want to "lock her up." They still want to "build the wall." America has never seen this like before ...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-cpac-maryland-mccain-parkland-shooting-north-korea-sanction-a8226266.html

[struggle4progress]

1. I find it extraordinarily nasty to retitle Al Wilson's song "The Snake" as "Immigrants"

I hear the song as a caution to women to avoid abusive men -- and this White House has seemed to be filled with those

[dchill]

4. The irony is not lost.

[rickford66]

7. Am I the only one who sees the snake as Trump ?

I see it as more Trump projection.

[lapfog_1]

2. "America has never seen this like before ..."

https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/542499/marshall-curry-nazi-rally-madison-square-garden-1939/

Sure we have... it just was less popular in 1939 than it is today and we didn't elect a functioning Nazi as POTUS.

[Sherman A1]

3. Precisely

America has a long tradition of being less than “charming “. It is just much easier in today’s instant information environment to find out how obnoxious some folks tend to be.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. We've been living in Pleasantville forever, but just haven't realized it until recently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleasantville_(film)

[ancianita]

6. Read "White Trash, The 400-Year Untold History of Class In America" by Nancy Isenberg.

Yes, America's always been like this. Its rich "winners" have written the founding story and rewritten every bit of the "manifest destiny" process ever since. That history now got a high visibility figurehead. It takes a snake ...