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Its not just other people, anymore. Its just one guy.
Welcome to the Trump dictatorship
by Lucian K. Truscott IV
Another week of shaking our heads and wondering how much longer we can survive him. Yet again, Donald Trump overwhelmed practically everything with the force of his obscene personality, running his mouth and his thumbs even while he was failing to run the country in any sort of conventional sense. He doesnt actually do anything, but he dominates everything. Living in America today is like being trapped in a room with him no doors, no windows, no exits, only Trump and the sound of Trump and the hideous image of Trump, all day, every day, for day after day after day.
I was trying to think how to describe what it feels like to live in this country today when I came across a big profile of Neil Young published in this weekends New York Times Magazine. The author, David Samuels, was commiserating with Young about the state of music in the age of Spotify and Apple and the digitization of everything comprised of musical notes. Surveying a landscape into which he doesnt feel he fits anymore, Samuels described Young as stumped. Ive got great melodies, and the words are all profanities, Young said.
Exactly. Thats America in the age of Trump, why everyones Facebook posts are screams of frustration and anger stuffed with profanity. The sense of powerlessness is almost overwhelming. You dont feel like you can actually do anything. Everything is in stasis, stuck. Neil Young is right. Were stumped.
Our senses dictate how we experience the world our hearing and sight and touch and smell, even the ineffable stuff like intuition and belief. But when our senses are overwhelmed by someone like Trump, when our lives seem filled with a man who does nothing but endlessly tweet and lie and hate, it kills us inside. Trump is killing us.
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https://www.alternet.org/2019/08/welcome-to-the-trump-dictatorship/
So thats why we must get rid of him, ASAFP.
Blue Owl
(50,494 posts)n/t
Kid Berwyn
(14,953 posts)world wide wally
(21,754 posts)The shit he is pulling lately cannot appeal even to the basest of his "base".
Deregulating methane guesses. Basically sentencing children to death. I can't help but think this is some kind of a dastardly plan or, he has gone full in with the fucking devil.
Who the fuck is this going to make happy? It can't be a campaign strategy.
Has he completely gone insane? It is getting harder to cover it up by the minute if he has.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Or slapping his wrist. If we make it another year..we will be lucky. If we don't protect the election we are fucking screwed
Kid Berwyn
(14,953 posts)And hes actively destroying the environment,
giving Big Oil cough Saudi Arabia
cough Wall Street cough CIA cough
what they want.
Its not enough to bankrupt America.
Its not sufficient to break up NATO.
Its not enough to toss paper towels and now cut back FEMA to 4 million US citizens in their most desperate hour.
He is even unsatisfied by killing children slow and fast.
He wants to take us all with him.
Just like his role model in 1945.
bdamomma
(63,922 posts)could be the perpetrator in all of this too. POS in the shadows, maybe we should call him out.
Kid Berwyn
(14,953 posts)If my nephews ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out.
By DAVID S. GLOSSER
Politico, August 13, 2018
Dr. David S. Glosser is a retired neuropsychologist: formerly a member of the Neurology faculties of Boston University School of Medicine and Jefferson Medical College.
Let me tell you a story about Stephen Miller and chain migration.
It begins at the turn of the 20th century, in a dirt-floor shack in the village of Antopol, a shtetl of subsistence farmers in what is now Belarus. Beset by violent anti-Jewish pogroms and forced childhood conscription in the Czars army, the patriarch of the shack, Wolf-Leib Glosser, fled a village where his forebears had lived for centuries and took his chances in America.
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Most damning is the administration's evident intent to make policy that specifically disadvantages people based on their ethnicity, country of origin and religion. No matter what opinion is held about immigration, any government that specifically enacts law or policy on that basis must be recognized as a threat to all of us. Laws bereft of justice are the gateway to tyranny. Today others may be the target, but tomorrow it might just as easily be you or me. History will be the judge, but in the meantime the normalization of these policies is rapidly eroding the collective conscience of America. Immigration reform is a complex issue that will require compassion and wisdom to bring the nation to a just solution, but the politicians who have based their political and professional identity on ethnic demonization and exclusion cannot be trusted to do so. As free Americans, and descendants of immigrants and refugees, we have the obligation to exercise our conscience by voting for candidates who will stand up for our highest national values and not succumb to our lowest fears.
Source: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/08/13/stephen-miller-is-an-immigration-hypocrite-i-know-because-im-his-uncle-219351
I agree, Miller is the one pulling the strings on most of this outrageous immigration stuff. Trump just plays along because it sounds good to his warped mind. He's too stupid to come up with this krap himself. His thinking only goes as far as 'spiky walls', 'paint it black' and other silly picayune details. It's like he's selecting décor for one of his buildings.
I think the press gives him way too much credit for the evil machinations being done in his name. He's not that deep a thinker - if he even thinks at all, particularly if he is the early stages of dementia or Alzheimers. His is not an organized mind. He's still trying to make a 'deal' like he's done for the last 40+ years. That is literally all he knows. (Along with his other conceit, reveling in the perceived adoration of those that praise him. Can anything he's done not be seen any other way than one or more of these scenarios?)
Skittles
(153,193 posts)yes INDEED
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Weariness in his voice. There's a general sadness...that trump is free reigning it and we don't even at the bare minimum censure him.
Kid Berwyn
(14,953 posts)Whatever he sees, he destroys.
Whatever he touches, dies.
This unusual interest may be weaponized, if enough were held aloft before his face at debates or in massive crowds outside the White House.
Trump is a moron fixated by fabric swatches.
Trump, the billion-dollar loser I was his ghostwriter and saw it happen
Charles Leerhson
Yahoo.com, May 9, 2019
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I tend to see my time with him the first part of it, anyway, before things started going bad in a hurry as his King Midas period. I never said this to him; if I had, he probably would have thought I was suggesting he enter the muffler business. But there was a stretch of months when everything he touched turned into a deal. The banks seemed to accept the version of him depicted in his first book, The Art of the Deal, which we now know from his previous ghostwriter, Tony Schwartz, was entirely invented. They believed it over what they saw on his balance sheets or heard coming out of his mouth, and they never said no to his requests for more money. Often they came up with things he could say yes to before he could think of them himself. As a result, a failing real estate developer who had little idea of what he was doing and less interest in doing it once hed held the all-important press conference wound up owning three New Jersey hotel-casinos, the Plaza Hotel, the Eastern Airlines Shuttle and a 281-foot yacht.
A real go-getter, right? But Trumps portfolio did not jibe with what I saw each day which to a surprisingly large extent was him looking at fabric swatches. Indeed, flipping through fabric swatches seemed at times to be his main occupation. Some days he would do it for hours, then take me in what he always called his French military helicopter to Atlantic City where he looked at more fabric swatches or sometimes small samples of wood paneling. It was true that the carpets and drapes at his properties needed to be refreshed frequently, and the seats on the renamed Trump Shuttle required occasional reupholstering. But the main thing about fabric swatches was that they were within his comfort zone whereas, for example, the management of hotels and airlines clearly wasnt. One of his aides once told me that every room at the Plaza could be filled at the rack rate (list price) every night, and the revenue still wouldnt cover the monthly payment of the loan hed taken out to buy the place. In other words, hed made a ridiculous deal. Neither he nor the banks had done the math beforehand. Or perhaps Trump knew it because someone had told him, but didnt want to think about it. The one thing he is above-average at is compartmentalization.
Source:
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-the-billiondollar-loser-his-ghostwriter-recalls-the-king-midas-years-090000640.html
If the Senate GOP wont convict him, great. Well get them in November 2020.
Before then, the sight of a million swatches could send him catatonic.
Skittles
(153,193 posts)that picture
Demovictory9
(32,475 posts)Demovictory9
(32,475 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,953 posts) Japanese proverb
Roger Stone and Roy Cohn, for instance...
Our nations president is supposed to be the one person everyone knows and looks up to. In the present case, just knowing the guy and seeing what hes about is dangerous. All his personal characteristics and shortcomings seem to be rubbing off on even the good people of the United States of America. His sulfurous nature is serving to recast the nation in his evil image.