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Coventina

(27,120 posts)
Tue Mar 21, 2017, 07:26 PM Mar 2017

Reasons why I will NEVER, EVER forgive Trump voters.

All these things were done BEFORE the election, so don't try to tell me that Trump voters didn't know EXACTLY what they were voting for:

Calling Mexicans rapists
Shaming women for having menstrual cycles
Saying John McCain is not a hero for surviving torture
Signing up a white nationalist as a delegate
Saying he is against the First Amendment
Refusing to condemn the KKK
Mocking a disabled reporter
Praising Saddam Hussein
Praising Vladimir Putin
Re-tweeting white nationalists
Tweeting that most murders of white people are done by African Americans
Mocking women's personal appearance
Sexualizing his daughter
Lying about American Muslims celebrating on 9/11
"Two Corinthians"
Talking about his penis during a national debate
Saying a judge was partial due to his ethnic heritage
Supporting the Obama "birther" lies
Threatening to end the free press
Defrauding students of "Trump University"
Not releasing his taxes
Saying pumping breast milk is "disgusting"
Asking Russia to hack the United States

Of course there is so much more, but this hits the high (low) lights for me.

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Reasons why I will NEVER, EVER forgive Trump voters. (Original Post) Coventina Mar 2017 OP
Thank you Covenutine. That needed to be said still_one Mar 2017 #1
The way forward is in spite of these people. Unlike them, I dont want Eliot Rosewater Mar 2017 #2
I could make an exception for Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan... 3catwoman3 Mar 2017 #27
Totally with you gopiscrap Mar 2017 #3
And lest we forget, to add insult to injury, these people are probably the same procon Mar 2017 #4
Very true. dalton99a Mar 2017 #22
Right on. Kath2 Mar 2017 #5
Despite your long list, liquid diamond Mar 2017 #6
A few of 'em were just naive & stoooopid. Don't keep up with politics. Honeycombe8 Mar 2017 #9
And THEIR obstinance, stupidity and smugness Golden Raisin Mar 2017 #7
I get angry just reading your list. I had to stop. Honeycombe8 Mar 2017 #8
What's your punishment for them? IronLionZion Mar 2017 #10
My punishment? I won't tolerate them in my personal life. Coventina Mar 2017 #11
Burn them out of your life. AngryAmish Mar 2017 #13
Their lives are their best punishment The Big Ragu Mar 2017 #42
Trump's voters are victims too, they just don't know it yet IronLionZion Mar 2017 #44
In the words of Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks bronxiteforever Mar 2017 #12
Great response mainstreetonce Mar 2017 #15
I can't forgive drump voters for... LakeArenal Mar 2017 #14
All good reasons as well. Coventina Mar 2017 #20
R#45 & k for, *excellent*! n/t UTUSN Mar 2017 #16
My dear wife put it this way: Mister Ed Mar 2017 #17
Yep. Exactly. Coventina Mar 2017 #19
+1000 dchill Mar 2017 #21
Cannot un-know or... 3catwoman3 Mar 2017 #28
as I told one of the few people I know who expressed liking for him, "until this moment, I had niyad Mar 2017 #43
Agree +100 nt iluvtennis Mar 2017 #18
And, on a lighter note, ordering well done, rib eye steaks. GoneOffShore Mar 2017 #23
Whew! I'm Glad I Wasn't the Only One Leith Mar 2017 #24
Mine: Calling climate change a hoax NickB79 Mar 2017 #25
Trump voters aren't the reason trump is in the Whitehouse... beachbum bob Mar 2017 #26
Are you kidding me right now? "Trump voters aren't the reason Trump is in the Whitehouse?" Coventina Mar 2017 #34
BS--voter suppression and hacking, anyone? the person who got THREE MILION MORE VOTES lost niyad Mar 2017 #41
I'd add mnmoderatedem Mar 2017 #29
ITA! True_Blue Mar 2017 #30
Good list of reminders Kimchijeon Mar 2017 #31
I want to be permanently shut out of political power too. YoungDemCA Mar 2017 #32
You go on with your bad self and make nice with those brutes. Coventina Mar 2017 #36
Trump joined in the birther crap in early 2011... VOX Mar 2017 #33
Most of them voted for him because they liked he said those things and agreed with it JI7 Mar 2017 #35
Exactly. N/T Coventina Mar 2017 #38
The Trump people I know fescuerescue Mar 2017 #37
They Did Mostly Expose Themselves colsohlibgal Mar 2017 #39
ciriticizing a gold star family. . . being a SELF-ADMITTED SEXUAL PERVERT AND PReDATOR. niyad Mar 2017 #40

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)
2. The way forward is in spite of these people. Unlike them, I dont want
Tue Mar 21, 2017, 07:28 PM
Mar 2017

them dead as they do me.

They purposely advocate for rich people because rich people authorize their racism.

It all comes down to that. They really do hate brown and gay people and non christians.

Not at all complicated.

procon

(15,805 posts)
4. And lest we forget, to add insult to injury, these people are probably the same
Tue Mar 21, 2017, 07:49 PM
Mar 2017

ignoramuses who also voted for Bush. Lessons learned? Nah... not so much.

 

liquid diamond

(1,917 posts)
6. Despite your long list,
Tue Mar 21, 2017, 08:16 PM
Mar 2017

we STILL have posters here advising us to reach out to these cousin fucking hicks. Unreal.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
9. A few of 'em were just naive & stoooopid. Don't keep up with politics.
Tue Mar 21, 2017, 08:43 PM
Mar 2017

I hold them to their responsibility. But they are a little different than the ones that I think KNEW Trump was unfit for office, but they decided that it was more important to them that they get their pony, and the rest of the citizens be dammed.

Golden Raisin

(4,609 posts)
7. And THEIR obstinance, stupidity and smugness
Tue Mar 21, 2017, 08:34 PM
Mar 2017

is destroying this country and causing ALL of us to suffer the very dire consequences.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
8. I get angry just reading your list. I had to stop.
Tue Mar 21, 2017, 08:41 PM
Mar 2017

Really. I get so angry and sick, thinking of all the YUGE red flags about this bozo who was so obviously unfit for the office of President.

Coventina

(27,120 posts)
11. My punishment? I won't tolerate them in my personal life.
Tue Mar 21, 2017, 08:53 PM
Mar 2017

I also happen to believe in karma. What they sent out will return to them.

bronxiteforever

(9,287 posts)
12. In the words of Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks
Tue Mar 21, 2017, 08:54 PM
Mar 2017

Forgive, sounds good
Forget, I'm not sure I could
They say time heals everything
But I'm still waiting

I'm not ready to make nice
I'm not ready to back down
I'm still mad as hell, and I don't have time
To go 'round and 'round and 'round

LakeArenal

(28,819 posts)
14. I can't forgive drump voters for...
Tue Mar 21, 2017, 09:00 PM
Mar 2017

Their treatment of Hillary Clinton.
Their continual demand for their religion be part of the political process.
Their continual demand for their religion be part of the scientific process.
Their continual demand for their religion be part of the educational process.
The determination to arm every white citizen in the country.
The shut down and criminalization of protestors.

Coventina

(27,120 posts)
20. All good reasons as well.
Tue Mar 21, 2017, 09:54 PM
Mar 2017

It just boggles the mind that we're supposed to feel sorry for these brutes.

Mister Ed

(5,935 posts)
17. My dear wife put it this way:
Tue Mar 21, 2017, 09:43 PM
Mar 2017

She said that each of the friends or family members who supported Trump had, in doing do, revealed things about themselves that she had never suspected. Ugly things that she had not known were there.

Now, she says, she will never be able to un-know or un-see what was revealed.

3catwoman3

(24,003 posts)
28. Cannot un-know or...
Tue Mar 21, 2017, 10:45 PM
Mar 2017

...un-see. Precisely.

Knowing that some of the office staff at the pediatric office where I work voted for Trump has changed how I regard them. I wish it were not so, but it is.

niyad

(113,323 posts)
43. as I told one of the few people I know who expressed liking for him, "until this moment, I had
Wed Mar 22, 2017, 01:31 PM
Mar 2017

mistaken you for a reasonably intelligent and actual human being. clearly, I was wrong." have had no interaction with that person since.

Leith

(7,809 posts)
24. Whew! I'm Glad I Wasn't the Only One
Tue Mar 21, 2017, 10:12 PM
Mar 2017

45 supporters revel in their vileness. They want to hate. They want to insult, deride, be ignorant, and be just as vulgar as their demigod. I never suffered such assholes before, I won't start now.

NickB79

(19,246 posts)
25. Mine: Calling climate change a hoax
Tue Mar 21, 2017, 10:35 PM
Mar 2017

We're now past the point at which we can stop catastrophic damage. The fuse is lit, and no one can put it out now.

In the 40-50 years I have left on this planet, I fully expect to see civilization start to come apart at the seams, and hundreds of millions to die from this. And the 2016 election was the last chance we had.

Now I have to raise my 6 yr old daughter knowing that she will see horror, hardship and dispair in her lifetime that we typically only see in dystopian sci-fi movies today. And every day I have to think what skills I can learn and teach her that will help her survive the clusterfuck that is coming.

God, I kinda hope she doesn't have kids of her own

 

beachbum bob

(10,437 posts)
26. Trump voters aren't the reason trump is in the Whitehouse...
Tue Mar 21, 2017, 10:41 PM
Mar 2017

The voters who wouldn't vote or voted 3rd party because they couldn't accept the lesser of 2 evils are 100 percent responsible for trump...They did what they did knowing true evil would occupy the Whitehouse. They are the ones .....

niyad

(113,323 posts)
41. BS--voter suppression and hacking, anyone? the person who got THREE MILION MORE VOTES lost
Wed Mar 22, 2017, 01:29 PM
Mar 2017

because of an antiquated system that is a vestige of slave-holding? any of this ring a bell?

mnmoderatedem

(3,728 posts)
29. I'd add
Tue Mar 21, 2017, 10:51 PM
Mar 2017

accepting an honorary Purple Heart despite getting five Vietnam deferments, one of which was for a fake ouchie on his foot that never prevented him from skiing and playing golf. Then shrugging his shoulders and exclaiming "that was easy".

That should outrage the military right, right? Oh wait, Trump, it's OK.

True_Blue

(3,063 posts)
30. ITA!
Tue Mar 21, 2017, 11:03 PM
Mar 2017

They don't care if other people suffer and/or die as long as they think they stand to benefit from it somehow. I think some of them are beginning to realize that they're going to have to suffer and/or die right along with the rest of us.

VOX

(22,976 posts)
33. Trump joined in the birther crap in early 2011...
Tue Mar 21, 2017, 11:40 PM
Mar 2017

If you voted for Trump in 2016, you had to be okay with 5 1/2 years of "birtherism." So, caveat emptor, mthrfkrs

fescuerescue

(4,448 posts)
37. The Trump people I know
Tue Mar 21, 2017, 11:53 PM
Mar 2017

Don't even want to be forgiven.

They havent even bothered to realize their crimes yet.

colsohlibgal

(5,275 posts)
39. They Did Mostly Expose Themselves
Wed Mar 22, 2017, 06:46 AM
Mar 2017

A lot of them are glued to Faux News so they got a filtered brand of news.

I have two pretty good friends who voted for Chitolini and neither knew about some of his most odious behavior and both I suspect just go along with their husbands and were brainwashed from childhood. Both are as nice as can be, it is just hard to grasp.

But then there are the far right White Nationalists types, they can go to Hell....if there really is such a thing.

niyad

(113,323 posts)
40. ciriticizing a gold star family. . . being a SELF-ADMITTED SEXUAL PERVERT AND PReDATOR.
Wed Mar 22, 2017, 01:26 PM
Mar 2017

encouraging violence against anyone who disagrees with him and his supporters. normalizing hatred. and the list goes on. . . . and on.

like you, I will NEVER forgive them. they did, in fact, know what they were doing, and did it proudly and happily.

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