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7/06/2018
Our Deeply Perverse President Won't Shut the Fuck Up
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Trump's tone at his rallies has gotten increasingly deranged, increasingly threatening, and increasingly unhinged (yes, that is possible). Last night, he started his usual riff on one of his obsessions, the "truth" of Senator Elizabeth Warren's racial heritage (which is really of a piece with his refusal to accept that Barack Obama was born in Hawaii). Deriding her as "Pocahontas" - he doesn't even use her name anymore and his slavering hordes love it which makes him do it even more because leadership or something - he then created an entire scenario of facing Warren in a debate.
He literally acted it out as he said, "I'm gonna get one of those little kits. And in the middle of the debate, when she proclaims that she's from Indian heritage...We will take that little kit and say but we have to do it gently, because we're in the #MeToo generation, so we have to be very gentle. And we will very gently take that kit, and we will slowly toss it, hoping it doesn't hit her and injure her arm, even though it only weighs probably two ounces."
So, let's see, in one small segment of a 70-minute "speech" (if by "speech," you mean, "blabbering from an old man who finally has an audience to cheer on his incoherent brain farts and misanthropy" ), Trump was not just racist, but he was sexist, rapey, rape-mocking, and bullying. What a puddle of weak shit our president is.
In a single tweet in response, Warren reamed out Trump, reminding him that there are far, far more important things going on than his ability to get the yokels all het up.
Essentially, we don't have a president. How many bullshit rallies has he done in the last week? No, that's not a goddamn president. That's a mascot. We have a Philly Phanatic out there, getting the crowd pumped up, to distract from the vile, awful things done by the vile, awful people who work for this vile, awful man.
dalton99a
(81,068 posts)olegramps
(8,200 posts)I have often wondered about those kids that had been raised on diet of hatred and what ever happened to them. Did they ever come to the realization of just how un-American and un-Christian they had been brainwashed to become? I wish someone could track them down. It may be a real eye-opener.
mopinko
(69,806 posts)showed where what's left of his brain is.
they were not a gesture of "tossing".
Demovictory9
(32,323 posts)lostnfound
(16,138 posts)Im relieved.
duforsure
(11,882 posts)In order for his propaganda to work on his victims he's recruited.
Botany
(70,291 posts).... and Trump's coxing of the crowd for that vile un american response is chilling.
Please, don't tell me that we need to make nice to those people. Fuck 'em they
are scum.
CrispyQ
(36,226 posts)His numbers would go through the roof if he did. The HRC/Obama hatred defines them. You don't play nice with people like this.
Every day is more frightening. A few days ago I read an article that said you don't need a majority to take a country into authoritarianism, you only need about 40% die hard followers. Yesterday there was an article stating that his approval numbers have been the most consistent of recent presidents. Guess where his consistent number is? We are on a precipice & could topple either way.
Botany
(70,291 posts)Nothing could have been more racist than Trump's birther crap and those mouth breathers
liked that because having a n****r as POTUS was just too much for them.
Truth be told Trump is playing those dumb asses like a fiddle but at the end of day he would
not be caught dead socializing w/them.
BTW Trump kept a copy of Hitler's speeches by his bed according to his first wife.
alterfurz
(2,467 posts)When asked what she had learned from the Holocaust, Susan Sontag noted how "10% of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10% is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80% can be moved in either direction."
Dear America: you are waking up, as Germany once did, to the awareness that ⅓ of your people would kill another ⅓, while ⅓ watches. -- @WernerTwertzog
VOX
(22,976 posts)P E R F E C T
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Oh sure, Trump was by turns incoherent, racist, sexist, and all the rest, but is it being civil to call him a mascot? Are you looking to get a scolding from Frank Bruni or something? If you're not careful, the Washington Post editorial board will rule you unserious. You'll be in big trouble then, Mister! Big. Trouble.
babylonsister
(170,963 posts)Progressive dog
(6,862 posts)The ferret is not political leadership.
IMO, the anti-civility defenders are also defending the most uncivil President ever.
roamer65
(36,739 posts)Now we know why he did.
FakeNoose
(32,351 posts)They're both talking about the same crazy assholes. Our fellow Americans.
Bettie
(15,998 posts)why "Civility" won't work with these people.
They are incapable of civility. They believe good manners are a weakness, that kindness must be attacked.
We can not win against them by being kind or polite.
They are not decent people.
babylonsister
(170,963 posts)I will never get used to them or over them. The level of hate astounded me.
Now I'm developing a level of hate of my own.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)LiberalBrooke
(527 posts)I never imagined that this level of hate would become acceptable. Living in a multi racial family, I am fully aware that individuals are racist, but their responses had been tempered by polite society. I also firmly believed that racial divide would decrease with time as more families became racially diverse as mine in. How naive I was.
sellitman
(11,596 posts)Reminds me of what unpopular dictators do to prop themselves up when needed.
Sickening.
olegramps
(8,200 posts)Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)Last edited Fri Jul 6, 2018, 06:15 PM - Edit history (1)
The mocking faces, the hand gestures, the loud voice, the insults are Dump's on-stage routine, but only he and his raptured base think he's funny.
Seriously, watch him with Dangerfield in mind...the comparison is uncanny.
Not to denigrate Dangerfield - that's his comedy and it has its place. Dump is pResident (God...it still hurts to type that!) and certainly is no comedian.
NOTE because my post is being quite misunderstood: I am NOT referring to the philosophy or beliefs of Rodney Dangerfield. My post relates ONLY to the method of his physical delivery of his act. It has nothing to do with content. Thank you.
EricJohnson
(90 posts)and Donald is a boasting bully.
Duppers
(28,094 posts)TRump hasn't a microgram of humility in his whole person.
EricJohnson
(90 posts)Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)Watching his boisterous, red-faced, animated, eye rolling, incredulous. "amiright" facial expression style is, IMO, very similar to Dangerfield's on-stage presence. Puh-leese, I KNOW Dump isn't self-deprecating.
stuffmatters
(2,574 posts)TNLib
(1,819 posts)He really doesn't understand how to be a president he's just an insane bully firing up a bunch of mentally challenged loons.
calimary
(80,699 posts)I often think they deserve much worse. I'll start with "Good Germans."
marieo1
(1,402 posts)Thanks, Rude Pundit!! DJT makes me vomit!! Oh, my gosh, how I hate that man!!
hibbing
(10,076 posts)gademocrat7
(10,623 posts)Every damn rally is a sham. Rude Pundit is dead on balls accurate. We have no president.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,535 posts)I love the Rude Pundit!!!
Pepsidog
(6,252 posts)ck4829
(34,977 posts)Sophia4
(3,515 posts)Warming up a crowd. He can't even keep staff long enough to carry out a real agenda.
And the agenda he has chosen is hare-brained. It reflects his adoration of the crowd in front of him, the escaping moment of fame, not forming a more perfect union or improving the lives of ordinary Americans.
Let's face it. Somehow Trump, a president with a chaotic brain, is "governing" as only chaos can. It must be awful to be working in the White House right now, never knowing what stunt the "leader" will pull next.
This is dangerous.
Trump delights in dividing, not uniting us. Ridiculing people he doesn't take to, not soothing differences.
Seems he is the opposite of Obama who had this spiritually superior ability to put rancor and hate behind him and unite the country pretty well.
Trump is the ultimate rabble-rouser, a good warm-up act, but not the main show.
Our job is to make sure that we win in November and set America on the way to unity, strength and good government.
renate
(13,776 posts)I never thought of that before, but he really is just a warmup act for the hate fest that his cult members live every day.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)First he publicly fantasized about running against Clinton.
Now he publicly fantasizes about running against Warren. (She said a year ago that she won't run, because it's too much stress.)
How come he doesn't fantasize about running against Ted Lieu? Or Joe Biden?
The answer is obvious: Because he wants to dominate a woman.
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)Last edited Fri Jul 6, 2018, 05:17 PM - Edit history (1)
While he spouts that he LOVES women, his misogyny tells the real tale. Women pols to him are nothing more than a pesky nuisance to be endured, not to be taken seriously, because that's how Dump categorizes women. They're to be objectified, not respected or taken seriously. How dare they challenge him? They are not worthy. Gawd...how I hate this dolt.
Just a note: Ted Lieu isn't an option as a candidate for president as he is not a natural born US citizen, rather a naturalized citizen born in Taiwan.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,483 posts)of creating footage for right-wing media and stirring up chaos with the public.
Faux News and the Sinclaire stations will take edited footage from this rally and turn it into what amounts to FREE campaign ads but presented as news.
It's a really bigly flim-flam scam.......
ladym55
(2,577 posts)I'm not sure what we should call the vile sack of garbage that is Donny J. He spews incoherent hatred, racism, mysogyny ... you name it. He is all you can eat buffet of the very worst of people.
I am terrified because he is becoming less coherent with each passing day.
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smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)He is evil to the core and intent on destroying this country and its people. We all know how frustrated you feel, but glad you found us so that you know you aren't alone!
Welcome to DU!
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smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)satisfaction. We have to act, put pressure on our people in congress and get out the vote for November. We need to take back our government first and then get rid of this evil monster in the White House. You are right! We will make a difference!
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Ohioboy
(3,222 posts)Is it the taxpayers, or is some private entity funding these constant clown shows? There are certainly costs involved with transporting this idiot around to his rallies. I'm guessing the taxpayers. If that is so, can't we as taxpayers demand our money be spent on better things than Trump rallies?
colorado_ufo
(5,717 posts)she should have told him, ' I'll take your bet! First, put that million dollars in cash in a pile, then put the DNA kit on top. I want to see cash, because you have actually been proven to be a skinflint who cheats people that he owes money to!"
And when he criticizes the "Me-too Movement," Elizabeth should say that he is part of the "Him-too Movement," because at least six women have come forward and to say, "Him, too!"
backtoblue
(11,323 posts)MeToo, you fucking bastard!
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)How long are we supposed to put up with his insanity? He is embarrassing us to the world and becoming more and more frightening; his followers even more so. It's as if "Idiocracy" were remade into a total horror movie. No, this is NOT a normal situation. I'm sure Elton John would agree.
PCIntern
(25,347 posts)Denigrate my Philly Phanatic!! Hes a beloved figure here!!