Trump's new defense: "It's NOT illegal to be UNPATRIOTIC"

[kpete]

Trump tells Reuters he says no wrong in working w Putin to tip an American election
- that’s a warning to supporters of where this is headed

Link to tweet

https://egbertowillies.com/2017/07/13/david-frum-donald-trump-made-liars-gop/

[TBA]

1. This makes me want to scream (again)

The law sets a minimum standard of behavior. It's a fucking low bar. I want a president that conducts him or herself well above the law.

How stupid are we?

[Zoonart]

2. If this stands... we are finished.

[Cosmocat]

5. Coin flip

how it turns out.

[Cosmocat]

4. Pretty fucking

stupid, that is.

[Caliman73]

11. Frustrating

When emotions run high, we can be pretty "stupid" as you say. Literally, when emotions are activated in a strong way, the brain shuts down the areas of the brain where judgment and reason operate and it activates the autonomic response centers.

The limbic system is primitive and powerful. Think about a time when you may have driven home, and when you arrived you thought, "holy crap, how did I get here? I don't remember getting in my car". That is the limbic system.

Trump's supported are "activated" in that way right now. They are so emotional that they do not have the capacity for rational thought.

The rest of us, unfortunately are bound by rules of law. We have to follow due process even while the idiots in the White House are running amok. Some are also playing politics (Republican leaders) to slow down any processes because they are also trying to promote their agenda using Trump as cover.

"Stupidity" is definitely an element here, but there are a great many forces at work including, emotional arousal, apathy, and desperation. Throw in greed and antipathy toward the average citizen by the Republicans, and the usual slow process of law and you have a perfect storm of frustrating events.

[DK504]

3. No it's not illegal PINO, it is illegal to be a traitor.

[Purrfessor]

6. Republicans go crazy...

when someone commits what they call an unpatriotic act of burning the American flag. But the unpatriotic/treasonous act of colluding with Russia to throw the election their way is no big deal to them.

[gratuitous]

7. A story today in USA Today says most Trump supporters see nothing wrong here

Right now the framing seems to be about opposition research, and Trump supporters are eager to believe that's all it's about. Let's make sure we re-frame this story as disloyalty to the United States, and subversion of the election process.

Link to story:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/07/13/trump-country-russia-scandal/474789001/

[WinkyDink]

8. I've seen the "The Democrats worked with the Russians to trap Trump."

[left-of-center2012]

9. OK to conspire with our enemy?

[Ilsa]

10. Simple: we need to convince trump's dullard supporters that he's working with ISIL.

Maybe a bunch of them will go to Syria with casseroles for their new friends.

Or, maybe they'll finally figure it out.

[raven mad]

12. Scum. He's running scared, afraid of truth and proof.