Staggeringly selfish

[Nevilledog]

[Sherman A1]

1. Yup

but to anyone paying attention, that was pretty obvious.

[Xipe Totec]

2. "If my cell phone needs a charge, I'll unplug your life support" selfish nt

[DENVERPOPS]

41. Perfect analogy XT........

And now, our nation is run by them........Ayn Rand addicts......

[madaboutharry]

3. History has shown us over and over

that there is an ugly side to human nature. Even though I already knew this, the terrible behavior of a certain percentage of Americans has shocked me and left me bereft, grieving for a better world that will never exist because too many people are awful.

[yuiyoshida]

12. I loved the Obama Era... there were difficulties but nothing like this,...

who would have though this country would be struck down by not only by this Covid 19 but now we have an Asshole President who will do nothing about it, even as it continues to spread and people continue to die. I hope he will be the very first President who ends up in Prison for crimes against this country, and the state of New York. This man must pay for the lives , he has allowed to die on his watch. It 's like we are being invaded and he doesn't care except for his own safety.

[madaboutharry]

17. Trump is an evil man.

It is not hyperbole to say that he is wicked. He is a Sadist who reaps pleasure from inflicting pain and watching people suffer.

This may sound over the top, but I think it is true.

[yuiyoshida]

19. ya'know maybe there should be a standard Test

a potential President might take to make sure we don't ever have someone like Trump run us off the deep end ever again.

[wnylib]

23. Evil personified. It's a term most often

used in a religious context, but as a superlative of "bad" it has a secular use and meaning, too.

[summer_in_TX]

24. One thing helps me hang on to hope about people.

I think this issue is one of the wedge issues Russian trolls have targeted to inflame and support, with the aid of the Russian wing of the FOX News channel, and Trump all stirring this up. I don't believe people would have gotten into this state of irrationality, anger, fear, and selfishness on their own.

Of course it's discouraging that they are able to be manipulated so much, but they've been molded over three decades into this malleable mass. But to me it's a little better to think that they may not be inherently so selfish.

[RVN VET71]

43. The ugly was there, has always been there

But Trump has encouraged it to come out into the light. Before Trump, I really think many of the buttholes we see on videos and here about on the news (and see in Congress and the Senate) would have been closet racists and bigots and thugs. Now they feel pride in their defects and are only to willing to get in your face about it.

Frightening, though. There are way more of them than I had ever suspected. Way more. America harbors millions of truly horrible, despicable, selfish, lowlife people. 10s of millions of them. People who will gladly vote again for a man who, along with his sons and daughter, has been restrained by court order from ever starting up a charity foundation again, ever, because of the fraud perpetrated by the DJT foundation which was used as a profit center for the family. Yeah, say Trumpians, nothing wrong with that, we like a man who knows how to grift and steal from the sick and infirm. And for a man who unleashes unidentified storm troopers on American citizens, beating, gassing, and shooting them without provocation and in complete disregard of the orders issued by state and local officials to stay out of their territory. Yeah, says the Trumpians again, nothing wrong with that, we like a man who isn't (ain't?) bothered by crappy laws when he wants to attack people he doesn't like -- did you see the way those protestor's ran in D.C. when he ordered his troops to attack without warning -- just like we did back in the day when the Navy attacked the Japanese at Pearl Harbor!

Yep, stupid, ugly, intransigent despicable people voting for their real role model and "chosen" leader.

[Kaleva]

4. That's a human trait.

[dchill]

16. An ADOLESCENT human trait.

Or, a Libertarian trait.
Republican?
Tea Party?

[Kaleva]

48. It's been a trait since humans first walked the Earth.

[bullwinkle428]

20. Why are there so many countries handling this so much better than the U.S.?

I'm assuming they're occupied by humans.

https://www.endcoronavirus.org/countries

[Kaleva]

49. and many of those countries have well documented histories of not giving a shit about others

[uponit7771]

5. Or misinformed by assholes who either are too punk to speak up to stupid or too stupid to know the

... truth.

[oasis]

6. Coved-19 will take the largest death toll on old, poor and minority folk.

In the minds of a certain segment of America, a small price to pay.

[ancianita]

13. Yes, but the infection numbers are going up for young people

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They're the ones taking their infections home to the older folks.

https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2020-06-22/some-states-report-rising-numbers-of-young-people-catching-coronavirus

The CDC forecasts that the number of new fatalities in the coming weeks will increase in Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Hawaii, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina and Utah.

Thanks, kids!

[oasis]

14. The affluent of American society insist on enjoying their romp

at the expense of everyone else.

[calimary]

22. Yeah. They're frequently found in the ardent "pro-life" crowd.

[magicarpet]

44. .... their preferred target audience.... by intent & design....

[TeamPooka]

7. Since Trump got elected I've discovered that I have neighbors I wouldn't stop to piss on

if they were on fire.
So some of that American selfishness is on me too
But at least I wear a mask.

[NameAlreadyTaken]

8. That's why Trump represents them so well...

...he's one of them. The staggeringly selfish people of the U.S. About 60 million of them.

[Karadeniz]

9. Ditto to every comment!

[milestogo]

10. Its not just Americans.

There are assholes all over the world, in every country, who refuse to wear masks.

[Wednesdays]

32. We're the country going out of it's way

to flaunting mask avoidance as public policy.

[Danmel]

11. We are a nation of assholes

At the beginning of this nightmare I thought my G-,d, he is just such an asshole, what did we do to deserve this? Then I realized just how many people are also assholes.
It's really depressing and disappointing to see how little we care for each other.

[Marcuse]

15. Deja poo. Same old shit.

Freedom from seat belts, bike helmets and traffic regulations. Freedom to smoke anywhere. Freedom to own people as property.

[NRaleighLiberal]

18. completely agree. It is one of our major faults. Humans version 2.0 need this eliminated.

that is if we as a species survive. I doubt it. personally.

[Blue_true]

31. European countries have controlled this virus, even as they have opened their

economies. EU leaders recently met face to face (or mask to mask). They have a level of societal discipline that we lack under Trump.

[MontanaMama]

21. 100% THIS.

There is an army of selfish assholes here in MT right now...up here escaping their whatever to come enjoy the wide open spaces. They don’t wear masks...they vocally disparage those that do and they thumb their noses at all of us while they are here. We are inundated. It is heartbreaking and insulting.

[Blue_true]

30. I have yet to hear someone say a peep to me about wearing a mask, or even look cross-eyed at me.

It helps that I am athletic with reasonably big arm muscles.

[NoMoreRepugs]

25. It's why they are called DEPLORABLES.

[ecstatic]

26. I'm so disappointed and disgusted

with what I've seen over the past 4 years.

[Blue_true]

28. The election of Trump forever changed how I view this country.

I thought that we were collectively better than that.

[Blue_true]

27. I believe there was a bit of racism involved in this also.

I believe that if this had been hitting Whites predominantly, the “freee-dummm” idiots would have had their asses masked up while in public long ago.

[StarryNite]

29. So very sadly true. :(

[JI7]

33. Not most of them. But mostly Bitter Trump supporters who are angry with their lives for whatever

reason and enjoy seeing other people suffer .

That's what it's all about .

[silverweb]

40. Agreed.

Just look at the difference in huge numbers of people protesting for BLM and social justice compared to the comparative few against them. What the deplorables lack in numbers, though, they make up for in volume, thuggery, and incitement to violence.

[zentrum]

34. It's true.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

35. Denial, complacency, individualism and narrow short-term vision.

From cradle-to-grave it's me, me, me and over a life span of around only 80 years. That selfishness is the modern version of our primitive instinct for self-preservation.

You'll only get their guns and Walmart credit card out of their cold, dead hands......

[PatrickforO]

36. No...this seems a bit of an overgeneralizion. Many are - these anti-maskers for sure.

The hoarders.

But not everybody. Not everybody.

[roamer65]

37. It's a nation of white spoiled brats.

The European Americans in this country are mostly spoiled brats who could use a good

[llashram]

38. this type of selfish?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/american-consumption-habits/

[hunter]

39. Yes, that too.

Most of us suffer jobs that are not making the world a better place, yet no politician, left or right, is saying we should eliminate the jobs that do the most damage to our planet's natural environment and our own human spirit.

I think we should be paying people to experiment with lifestyles that have a very low environmental footprint and measuring our success in terms of human happiness.

[llashram]

47. I do agree

I just tried to do my job as a service to the American people. No guns, no politics.

[Dustlawyer]

42. It is the RW media propaganda programming the cult.

Most of these people were not like this before they tuned in to Rush Limpballs and Fox. They have been programmed to think we have set out to destroy the country.

[Roc2020]

45. yes indeed. And the world sees as well

Selfish Individualism to the grave. Covid19 has exposed the U.S in a way that the country will not fully recover from regardless of who is President.

[SergeStorms]

46. But...my freedumb.

I wish someone would inform these children that there is no freedom that guarantees any right to do anything they want, anytime they want.