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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount"---Chinese proverb.
Trump is not a tiger, folks. You can just get down and walk away like you did when the mechanical "horsey ride" at the mall ended.
The pony required quarters to function. Trump requires blind adoration.
The horsey didn't follow you home and attack you when you stopped "feeding" him. Neither will the Trumpy tiger.
Just walk away.
gab13by13
(21,348 posts)spot on.
Maeve
(42,282 posts)The Meijer store had "penny ponies" so that was where we went when the kids were with us (4 cents versus $1)
Another term for the Drump would be "paper tiger" but I like your analogy
panader0
(25,816 posts)Fits the trumpers very well.
Paper towel
Harker
(14,018 posts)There's a modern proverb for you from upstate New York.
OxQQme
(2,550 posts)Mopar151
(9,983 posts)Joe Rogan - When he's right, he's right!
2Gingersnaps
(1,000 posts)Aristus
(66,377 posts)Who smiled as she rode on a tiger
She went out for a ride
And came back inside
With the smile on the face of the tiger.
marble falls
(57,093 posts)... ride.
Martin Eden
(12,867 posts)As long as a high percentage of R voters adore TFG as their Dear Leader, dismounting can be political suicide in the next primary.
Like it or not, the R Party is saddled with the most disgraceful POtuS ever to befoul our national politics.
If decency and good sense prevail in the American electorate TFG will be an albatross around the neck of the R Party, dragging them down to ruin.
Most deservedly so.
KS Toronado
(17,241 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)Hundreds of Republicans, RepubliCons, RepubliQons, and RepubliQanons are implicated in the Insurrection and rigging the elections by gerrymandering and dirty tricks. This is beyond the nearly 700 non-organizers already charged with Capitol offences.
There are so many so deep into crimes, minor crimes in most cases, but career ending crimes.
And tRump has a lot of компромат on them, I expect.
This is how coverups occur and Big Lies get rolled: people are in so deep that their best bet is actually to keep covering it up and denying it, in the hopes it will go away.
This is the tiger they are riding.
Thunderbeast
(3,411 posts)Rubles laundered through campaigns and shell corporations are funding the whole criminal enterprise. I hope that the DOJ uses RICO laws to bring it down.