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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis today from a die hard right winger-
He said " I voted for Trump. I thought he would be the one to get the job done. With all his tweets recently I now see he is a few cards short of a full deck" .
This is a guy I have never seen say one word against his party.
caroldansen
(725 posts)SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)his and the teabaggers in Congress rotten agendas. That would be just what they deserve.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)mnhtnbb
(31,401 posts)he'd do anything else.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)His paid puppet Trump is carrying out that plan to perfection I must say.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Supposed to have a lardier ass.
FuzzyRabbit
(1,969 posts)Alice11111
(5,730 posts)Then, pretty much nailed it. 😢😭
stopbush
(24,396 posts)They thought he had something in common with them. He did. Hatred.
Idiots.
montana_hazeleyes
(3,424 posts)I agree with you so much.
KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)affects you and your immediate family directly.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Would have been interested to see what happened if the OP replied, "get the job done, how so?"
They all talk in code when in public.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,809 posts)which a majority of voters actually did.
KatyMan
(4,208 posts)no sympathy at all.
Hayduke Bomgarte
(1,965 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)And list a few things he might have missed during his sojourn in fantasyland.
NOW, he sees he's a few cards short of a full deck?! What the hell took him so long??! He couldn't see that during the campaign??!!
OnDoutside
(19,965 posts)meow2u3
(24,768 posts)however misguided it may have been.
Ilsa
(61,697 posts)All along, over the decades, he has shown us who he is. He has:
Cheated contractors
Cheated on his wives
Discriminated againt POC in housing
Cheated on his taxes
Mocked disabled people
Taken credit for acts of charity he never supported
Shown irrational anger and vitriol towards anyone who tells the truth about him
Lies, pathologically, daily
Associated with mobsters
Made fun of veterans and Gold Star families
Talked about women as being only sex objects for his pleasure
Etc etc
How could they have missed these prime examples of who he is?
LuckyLib
(6,819 posts)Left a wake of lawsuits wherever he went. Threatened to sue anyone who challenged him -- businesses, subcontractors, towns, bankers.
It never took much digging to get this information, especially in the era of the internet. Idiots who thought he would "get the job done" weren't paying attention, don't read, and are of the "kick ass and take names" clan.
Warpy
(111,323 posts)They weren't. He probably thought he was that TV personality. He isn't.
Face it, a lot of voters are low information voters and broadcast "news" is part of the problem. It's infotainment and 60% trash.
spanone
(135,858 posts)Turn CO Blue
(4,221 posts)More like a "basket of gullibles" in my view.
PunkinPi
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LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)They haven't evolved and their parents were too busy making babies to teach them anything. Wouldn't have mattered anyway the parents were sub human as well.
lostnfound
(16,189 posts)Kimchijeon
(1,606 posts)They may not want to but it's hard to deny the reality of it.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)and he can't afford the premiums and lets it lapse. Then, he'll be really really sorry. Asshole. Stupid asshole.
Scoopster
(423 posts)WHY DIDNT YOU SEE THIS BEFORE THE ELECTION DAMNIT IT WAS ALL OUT IN THE OPEN ALREADY?!?!?!
I have no sympathy for people who are this ignorant.
progressoid
(49,992 posts)He can rationalize it by saying that Donny isn't really a Republican. Then his view of his party will still be pure.
Raster
(20,998 posts)...the entire nation gets to suffer because of your "Hillary Hate," and the Congressional Rethuglicans TOXIC AGENDA.
So, fuck you very much.
lame54
(35,313 posts)luvMIdog
(2,533 posts)Exilednight
(9,359 posts)one family member who supported Trump (this was about the new TrumpCare) stated that she knows of no conservatives that are happy with it. I then pointed out that conservatives wrote it and that Trump campaigned on it. It shut them up pretty quick.
dchill
(38,516 posts)it was "Romneycare."
SHRED
(28,136 posts)What an idiot.
flying-skeleton
(698 posts)I said, "FUCK YOU" asshole for unleashing the Whitehouse ShitGibbon upon us !!
Bengus81
(6,932 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts)...seem to mind the racism or anti-muslim policies or the fact that the white supremacist Bannon is his point man. It's only the instability that gives him pause? Wow.
If they dose up 45 with some valium or whatever, so he tweets less, it sounds like your friend would be fine with him again.
Still progress is progress.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)would change his behavior at 70?
DownriverDem
(6,231 posts)How do the 3rd party & principle/purity voters feel? They are to blame for trump too. We were all warned by Bernie, Warren, Obama and HRC. I will never understand why folks thought it would be good to vote 3rd party or principle/purity. BTW folks: There is no such thing as purity when it comes to political parties, voting and candidates.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,428 posts)other than Cenk and his "Justice Democrats" looking to primary Democrats they don't like. Wonder how many of them are still freaking out over Hillary's e-mails, Clinton Foundation, and her Goldman Sachs speeches in light of Pence's e-mails, Russian influence in the election, Trump's massive conflicts of interests and pays-to-play, stocking his (mis-)Administration with Goldman Sachs personnel, and repeated Mar-A-Lago getaways.
I hope they enjoy the next 4 or (god forbid) 8 years of American History that they helped bring about because of their "purity" and "principles".
creoledna
(40 posts)TeamPooka
(24,242 posts)world wide wally
(21,751 posts)Dem2
(8,168 posts)On several sites that have heavy RW presence.
I should go back there and see if said seeds have grown. Everything I have said with respect to Russia and his mental state has proven to be true.
calimary
(81,423 posts)It's one thing to SAY your eyes are starting to open, but I'd bet a lot of these folks can be lulled back into the world of MAGA-Mess with a few crumbs thrown at them.
It's VERY hard to admit one is wrong. It's even harder to admit that one is wrong because one has been HAD.
No one wants to admit they've been had. At the end of a fork, when it comes to this world-class CONman. It's hard to admit that, much less face it internally without being willing to admit it openly. That is HARD! And it's embarrassing, and it's a confession that you swallowed a bill o' goods that's really a pile of shit, but you bought it cuz it sounded soooooooooooo good.
I'd want to see how this attitude holds up, or if it's as easily dispelled as I suspect it might be. I don't have much faith in folks like this. I don't think many of them can be added to the "won't get fooled again" crowd. If they've been steeped in years of hate radio, Pox Noise propaganda, dishonest salesmanship, and the "free market! free market!" song-'n'-dance, the mindless "USA! USA! USA!" goonery, the sloganeering and bumpersticker politics, that's a LOT of years of ruthless calculating work to fight. That's a TON of counter-programming that's needed. I've watched too many folks like this allow themselves to swallow the bullshit and then be danced down the garden path all the way out to where the sewer is. Some of them are unreachable by now.
I hope this individual isn't.
Sometimes it takes a LOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNG time to wake up. Miracles do happen, though.
keepthemhonestO
(252 posts)I had one myself!
Leith
(7,813 posts)orange boy was vulgar, stupid, loudmouthed, and obnoxious in every way one can be obnoxious long before election day. There is no excuse plausible enough for them to have voted for the shitgibbon when there was a sane, intelligent, capable, and competent leader also running.
Tuff shit. That die hard reich winger did this to all of us and deserves his portion of the shame.
C Moon
(12,221 posts)Skittles
(153,174 posts)anyone paying attention could see Trump has been off his rocker for some time
ailsagirl
(22,898 posts)I don't think he ever had a full deck
catbyte
(34,425 posts)going to do. He's dismantling our multi-racial, democratic republic one horrific EO & bill at a time. He is polluting our soil, air, and water. He is stripping LGBTQ citizens of as many rights as he can. He is stripping women of their health care choices. He has given Wall Street the keys to the economic casino & will be free to gamble away our money. He is making minorities second class citizens. The mentally ill will be able to buy firearms. So, what's he bitching about, really?
Doreen
(11,686 posts)slowly figure out they were stupid to vote for him.
riverwalker
(8,694 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,721 posts)At least, anyone over the age of 9.
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)So whatever nonsense he just tried to spin on you is all the more contemptuous.
3catwoman3
(24,026 posts)The only cards IN his deck are the 4 JOKERS!
IronLionZion
(45,503 posts)and voted for him anyway. It's not about Trump. They think they are shaking up the establishment, whatever that means to them. And for a lot of them it was to spite the types of people they don't like for whatever reasons.
They know it drives us liberals crazy that such a miserable asshole could beat a supremely qualified woman and defied expectations. A lot also voted against what they perceive to be changes in their world that they don't like, regardless of the cause.
it's a vote against political correctness, diversity, feminism, people getting too uppity and forgetting their place, immigration, education, urbanism, environmentalism, lawlessness, etc.
Sigh. It's great that more Trump voters are realizing that he's an idiot. But we need Trump to crack. We can break him. He needs to lose his mind publicly and horribly so that they have to remove him from office.
Beartracks
(12,821 posts)But Trump's failure will probably not convince the majority of Republicans that the GOP itself or today's conservative movement is the problem.
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IronLionZion
(45,503 posts)like very right wing and extremist. Yet somehow they managed to win more and take both houses of congress. They are embracing tea party and racism/sexism as official policy now.
In 2006 and 2008 Democrats controlled both houses of congress
Beartracks
(12,821 posts)... a "real" Republican, if he fails.
Like they said about GW Bush after he exploded the deficit.
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nocalflea
(1,387 posts)what the hell happened to David Horowitz ? Dude had a brain , once upon a time.
Everyone at one time or another has made excuses to absolve someone of something we know they did was wrong We have all let our admiration or ideology get the better of us - ( defending Obama for doing something we didn't agree with for example ) but , we all ( I assume ), felt a tiny knot of discomfort in doing so.That's pride .So I admire the friend for admitting his dissatisfaction. But how the hell do sane , rational people lose all objectivity ? It's not like these people have been locked in a room & been mistreated. They haven't gone through a forcible brainwashing. Scares the hell out of me.
hatrack
(59,592 posts)And this guy, somehow, couldn't?
Fuck him and his vote and his "getting the job done" and his myopic, narcoleptic inability to FUCKING PAY ATTENTION.
Cha
(297,503 posts)his way into oblivion.
Tweeting on his own petard..
cstanleytech
(26,315 posts)of Repugnants that would have still voted for Trump regardless and those who just don't vote are just as bad as the choice was vote for Trump who was well known as a habitual cheat and liar or vote for Hillary.
JHB
(37,161 posts)No one could have anticipated....
yuiyoshida
(41,835 posts)They have eyes but can not see... they have brains, and never use them. Yeah.. pretty much.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)once the next Democratic candidate is smeared by Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Cambridge Analytica, etc, he'll still vote to re-elect Trump because the Democrat to be named later is just too darn scary.
I encountered a lot of those back in 2004 - Republicans that in early 2004 said that Bush was terrible and that they would never vote for him, but then confessed on the day after the election that they held their noses & voted Bush because Kerry was just too scary for them. I even remember one co-worker that was on the phone a lot for his job that would answer his phone with "Vote for Kerry" and he still ended up voting Bush.
Perseus
(4,341 posts)I have a hard time understanding how anyone could not have figured out that Trump has been missing more than a few cards from day one.
Without any effort he demonstrated, years ago when he started the birther thing and lied about having a couple of investigators in Hawaii, that he is a liar, a con artist and on top of that, he is missing the whole deck of cards...
If that person voted for Trump then he didn't pay attention and now the consequences...I don't have sympathy for someone who doesn't do a little bit of research before they vote, it really doesn't take that long to find out who is who before you give them your support.
the worst part is that republicans never learn, he will vote for the next republican candidate because "that one" will make america great again.
To not realize that the majority (90% +) of the republican party is corrupt and doesn't care about the country, that their patriotism doesn't go beyond the little flag on their lapel, is just that, pure self-inflicted ignorance.