Dan Rather: "Once again I ask, what of his many enablers?"

[kpete]

Here is Dan Rather’s July 9, 2017 Facebook post:

Farce may make for a fun night at the theater. But farce in the governance of your country is terrifying.

Yet that is where we are once again this morning. The President of the United States has hit is Twitter account with yet more incoherence and dangerous misunderstandings of reality. He suggests that we form "an impenetrable Cyber Security unit" with Russia? He seems to buy the assurances from Vladimir Putin, a trained KGB agent, that the Russians didn't meddle in the election?

As the former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara tweeted with tongue firmly in cheek, "When pursuing a corrupt politician, mobster or murderer on strong FBI evidence, if he "vehemently denied it," we just dropped it usually."

In a recent post I referred to Mr. Trump as the "leader of the free world," long a phrase for journalists seeking a synonym for president. Many of you questioned the validity of this convention in the comments section. After the latest G20 Summit, where the world once again took the measure of our President and saw no leadership or sense of understanding of the burdens of freedom, I can see understand the argument for retiring the phrase.

But the reality remains that the United States is still a very important nation on the world stage and the President has tremendous powers. The fact that he is wielding them with such recklessness makes the situation all the more perilous. Once again I ask, what of his many enablers? When will they see what the rest of the world is seeing and say enough is enough?

https://www.facebook.com/theDanRather/posts/10158978279500716

[Zoonart]

1. Thank you, Dan.

The entire GOP is enabling him to ruin this country's standing in the world.
The PARTY must be held accountable too.

[JHB]

2. Let's also note that the Free World in that phrase is also what Republicans condemn as...

..."European Socialism", as if the EU were the Warsaw Pact.

[PearliePoo2]

3. Enablers...here's looking at YOU, Ryan and McConnell!

Filthy, fucking rat-bastards.
You're letting a lying, treasonous idiot destroy this Country. That makes YOU complicit in this National disaster.

[Guilded Lilly]

4. You see, only Part of the problem is the hideous enablers...

Another part is that respectable people of integrity are...well, respectable and have integrity. The question "What will it take for the enablers to change?" is almost a moot point. When slovenly hate and disingenuous agendas battle positivity and intelligence, they always have the upper hand BECAUSE they know their opponents will HAVE integrity. BECAUSE they know their opponents will take the higher path. They will use that "guilt enabling" advantage and fling it in the face of decency, every time.

And thus they can get away with murder...and treason and racism and bigotry and misogyny and RUSSIA for fuck sake.

They we never say enough is enough as long as it serves their vileness so successfully.

[Locrian]

6. add to that ...

That there is a huge industry that makes a ton of money off the shit show.
They gleefully will sponge up any of the shit from these con men and spew it back without a care in the world.

All the while thinking they are sophisticated and smart for making money while being the worst kind of cheap, lazy, unethical, pieces of what they spew.

[Guilded Lilly]

7. Ao added...excellent addition!

[mdbl]

5. Everyone needs to call their congressman and senators to tell them to quit enabling this

http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/

http://www.senate.gov/states/