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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDo you know why Don the Con
thinks he's the smartest man in every room?
Because he hasn't been locked up yet despite decades of criminality.
He's not the only one to blame for this mess - he was given way too many passes.- and others are getting the same.
Vinca
(50,276 posts)he was given a pass time and time again. Maybe dad's loot got spread around a little?? This time he's got to pay the old fashioned way: in jail. I wish all candidates were asked whether, if elected, they would pardon Trump. No pardons, no pardons, no pardons.
malaise
(269,038 posts)Lawyers and politicians are part of the problem
LiberalArkie
(15,719 posts)malaise
(269,038 posts)Scumbags all
dflprincess
(28,079 posts)but I also wonder if, just as he didn't make the "A list" in Manhattan society, he didn't make the "A list" of Manhattan criminals. Crooked as he is, maybe he was just considered a small fish in a big sea of corruption and not worth going after...until now.
Grammy23
(5,810 posts)That baffles me to this day. He has gotten away with so much for so long. Someday maybe well know the whole sordid story of how he has not been put in prison but it sure makes me mad that he is in the White House and a surprisingly large number of people think he belongs there!! Aaarrrggghhhh!
malaise
(269,038 posts)The media had and continue to have a big role in facilitating and marketing this monster
BluesRunTheGame
(1,615 posts)...how many others have gotten away with as much and are still out running around.
Skittles
(153,169 posts)rich white male assholes
malaise
(269,038 posts)Skittles
(153,169 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,300 posts)Even when he's the only man in the room, he's still not the smartest.
mercuryblues
(14,532 posts)he hires dumb, weak, easily manipulated people. They will take the fall for him. If they are smarter than him, he digs up dirt or compromises them in some way and threatens them into submission. He is running the government the same way he ran his businesses. Looking for the most corrupt, easily manipulated person to run an agency. if they fail to adhere to his policies, they are fired and someone worse is brought in.
malaise
(269,038 posts)You nailed it except this time he does not have all the power
mercuryblues
(14,532 posts)Enough time to get all the republikkklans behind him. They are afraid of him exposing their dirty little secrets or corrupt to the bone.
He is trying to do the same with the Democrats. When he fails he has a very public meltdown. What he is doing/saying in public is nothing compared to what he is doing/saying in private.
I always say if a person is willing to act like that in public, imagine what they do in private.
When you are in your own home, you are relaxed. You know no one, but those closest to you hear and see what you do and they are not going to air their dirty laundry in public. It becomes your comfort zone. When challenged outside your home, a person will resort to a milder version of their comfort zone.
malaise
(269,038 posts)There are times I wonder if this is a dream - I still can't process how he stole the Presidency.
He is an uncouth monster in every sense of the words.
mercuryblues
(14,532 posts)Shall I save you a seat in the front row when trump realizes he is truly 100% fucked?
malaise
(269,038 posts)and Red Stripe beer
mercuryblues
(14,532 posts)great choice
malaise
(269,038 posts)We'd all have coronaries before he's kicked out
mercuryblues
(14,532 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,300 posts)knowing that 60 million people in my country are idiots. Almost makes me glad I'm as old as I am.
malaise
(269,038 posts)I'm going to my grave believing that votes were stolen in a variety of ways.
Now let me make it pellucidly clear - they may still be idiots
Like you I'm glad I'm old.
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,608 posts)Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)malaise
(269,038 posts)and then turn on them.
I'll never forget when he called Cohen a rat.
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)Initech
(100,080 posts)He surrounds himself with ass kissers and yes men who bow down to his every move.
malaise
(269,038 posts)Justice is coming
marieo1
(1,402 posts)I just don't get it!! If anyone else had done any of the things DJT has done they would be locked up immediately, DJT has figured out how to outsmart the system and get away with it and plus he has lots of enablers in the WH. I count on you Malaise to keep us informed and look forward to your comments. Thanks
keithbvadu2
(36,820 posts)malaise
(269,038 posts)That was a great thread
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,492 posts)Trump belongs to a malignant, narcissistic, elitist class born of privilege or who are psychopaths (or both) that have been so protected they think jail is only for us rubes below them. Thank goodness one falls from time to time, but far too few. They really don't give a damn about their fellow-man or the environment, with concern for only themselves and a few others in that class.
Unfortunately, most of the earth's people live their entire lives without even knowing that group of humans exist, although they suffer the consequences from upper-crust malfeasance every day.
Severe asset, income and racial inequality that exists world-wide must end or else it will destroy us all too soon....
malaise
(269,038 posts)Locrian
(4,522 posts)"flaws" in quotes because they are there on purpose to protect elitist class born of privilege.
And as long as people in power "agree" to play by the rules it appears like the system "works".
But it has holes in it....
TryLogic
(1,723 posts)Prisons have lots of inhabitants who thought they were too good to get caught. They kept going, doing more and more serious crimes until finally did get caught -- for serious crimes.
kentuck
(111,101 posts)But Trump pretends to be ignorant.