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Tommy_Carcetti

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Thu Sep 15, 2016, 09:43 AM Sep 2016

He's just so.....horrible. At times, I'm just at a loss for words because he's just so horrible. [View all]

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I find myself wanting to expand my thoughts upon the latest Donald Trump scandal or controversy and yet I keep on coming back to the simple fact that Donald Trump is an extraordinarily awful, terrible, horrible human being with no redeeming qualities or values whatsoever.

His horribleness is completely off the charts. He's ugly, both inside and out. While he may not be a complete imbecile, he's not smart--in fact, he purposefully doesn't aspire to be smart. He only aspires to be smarter than the people he's knows he's conning. So in that sense, he's lazy to boot. His life is built around greed, around vanity, around self-glorification. He's accomplished very little of the things that he's bragged to have accomplished. Most of his business adventures have ended in complete failure, and yet he's fashioned himself as a great success. He's petty and vindictive towards anyone who might look at him sideways. He'll show zero remorse for taking advantage of others for his own gain in the most crass and classless ways. The only charity he shows is charity towards himself, very literally. When he speaks, it's only to draw attention to himself and away from others.

What he's done over the past year has be for one thing and one thing only: Himself. He seeks to be the guardian of over 300 million people and a country who at least proclaims to be founded on lofty ideals such as freedom and democracy. But throughout that all, the only thing he's ever cared about is himself. He doesn't care about you. He doesn't care about anyone or anything, unless it has to do with him.

His appeal to the public is that of trashy reality television. It's that of virus infected internet clickbait advertising. It's that of calorie laden tasteless junk food that doesn't even rise to the level of a delicious guilty pleasure, and only leaves you feeling sick inside. It's that dizzying, flashing, neon lights that promise a great show and without fail always disappoint.

And yet, people have inevitably gotten suckered in. They like it. Somehow in the Bizarroland like atmosphere, the ugliness, the vapidness, the utter lack of class or decorum is considered a good thing. His opponent is intelligent, qualified, measured and competent individual, highly capable of standing head to head with the rest of the world's leaders and representing our interests in a proper fashion. She isn't perfect. She isn't without her flaws or shortcomings. If elected, inevitably she will on occasion let us down, just like the 43 men who held the office before her inevitably let us down from time to time. In other words, she's human. But when she takes the debate stage in less than two weeks, she will be the only real human on the stage. Standing at the other podium will be the human embodiment of a loud, intentional, prolonged and unrepentant fart, followed by a smirk and a giggle.

Don't get me wrong. He's not the first horrible person to enter politics and he won't be the last (assuming our country and world can survive intact if--God forbid--he is ever elected). For example, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney were also horrible people. But the caricatures they invoked--a chuckling cowboy and Darth Vader, respectively--at least were interesting to ponder and expound upon, and dissect their dysfunctions. But with Donald Trump, you just want to avoid him. You want to steer as far away from him as possible. At this point, we've run out of movie villains or animals with which to compare him. He's now much, much worse. He's like green, sickly, slimy, noxious, oozing gunk collecting in the most unwelcome of places. He's the simmering, acidic gassy aftertaste in your mouth right after you've just thrown up.

He's just so horrible.

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Jabba the Hut. raging moderate Sep 2016 #1
Jabba Jr. was at least kind of cute. Tommy_Carcetti Sep 2016 #3
Jabba and Trump have the same self tanner..... LakeArenal Sep 2016 #47
I was thinking more like "Pizza The Hut". Crowman1979 Sep 2016 #60
Trump bothers me, but not as much as how many people who support him. no_hypocrisy Sep 2016 #2
To me, it's a chicken vs. egg dillemma. Tommy_Carcetti Sep 2016 #6
+1000 heaven05 Sep 2016 #39
Perfect!. NT WiffenPoof Sep 2016 #56
They are not all 'desperate' bloom Sep 2016 #61
I know several very well off types like that as well NewJeffCT Sep 2016 #67
I know exactly how you feel! calimary Sep 2016 #63
The only reason I ever talk to Trump supporters online is to mock them. BlueStater Sep 2016 #65
You have summed it up perfectly. nruthie Sep 2016 #4
*They* are horrible. dawg Sep 2016 #5
Watch this video and perhaps pass the link on BSdetect Sep 2016 #7
Great rundown. Tommy_Carcetti Sep 2016 #10
Agree completely, and one other thing....... Jade Fox Sep 2016 #8
The USFL back in the 1980s. Tommy_Carcetti Sep 2016 #11
There are probably a thousand stories (literally)..... Jade Fox Sep 2016 #68
King of Chaos is right... sarae Sep 2016 #12
King of Chaos - completely agree Justice Sep 2016 #13
that is part of his mercuryblues Sep 2016 #16
"While everyone is cleaning up his mess, he has moved on, creating another mess".... Jade Fox Sep 2016 #17
It reminds me mercuryblues Sep 2016 #66
Well said. sarae Sep 2016 #9
It's just like a waking nightmare. nt Tommy_Carcetti Sep 2016 #15
He's the Indominus Rex of GOP candidates Rocknrule Sep 2016 #14
Pretty much. nt Tommy_Carcetti Sep 2016 #18
I agree. Cracklin Charlie Sep 2016 #19
I am like that, too. leftyladyfrommo Sep 2016 #20
Damn skippy! nt MrScorpio Sep 2016 #21
How horrible is he? Saviolo Sep 2016 #22
Yep. I refer to him as political pornography--no redeeming social value whatsoever. catbyte Sep 2016 #23
OMG are you in my head? rivegauche Sep 2016 #24
Like I said, it's a waking nightmare. nt Tommy_Carcetti Sep 2016 #26
+1 narnian60 Sep 2016 #57
Some might say "deplorable." nolabear Sep 2016 #25
and yet the FUCKING GOP still supports him and he could win Fast Walker 52 Sep 2016 #27
There are a lot of horrible people in the world; what's truly horrible The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2016 #28
It's the curve RandySF Sep 2016 #29
Millions of people will vote for him oberliner Sep 2016 #30
K&R, Great post! smirkymonkey Sep 2016 #31
I used to cringe when people said " If so and so gets elected, I am moving abroad" GusBob Sep 2016 #32
He is such an attention whore, BillyBobBrilliant Sep 2016 #33
k and r..nt Stuart G Sep 2016 #34
extreme? ,maybe tapermaker Sep 2016 #35
And he's doing just what he did in the primaries, moving up the charts quickly and boldly. Kablooie Sep 2016 #36
Sadly I have to agree with you. Great post. demgrrrll Sep 2016 #51
Its kind of funny that I had the exact same thought last night: world wide wally Sep 2016 #37
Exactly. Tommy_Carcetti Sep 2016 #44
He would be the asshole you can't stand being around under any circumstances world wide wally Sep 2016 #48
He'd be the guy you'd dread having to sit next to on a long airplane flight. nt Tommy_Carcetti Sep 2016 #49
Suicide would be a better option if you got stuck in an elevator with him world wide wally Sep 2016 #50
If I could cut the cable I would. nt JanMichael Sep 2016 #62
He would be your worst landlord. . annabanana Sep 2016 #59
I agree 100% heaven05 Sep 2016 #38
He's the worst. Nobody is more horrible than he is! Initech Sep 2016 #40
He is a textbook example of Narcissistic Personality Disorder. trotsky Sep 2016 #41
I would add Malignant to your Nacrissistic Personality Disorder lunatica Sep 2016 #45
He's a three decker sauerkraut and toadstool sandwich Wednesdays Sep 2016 #42
Very well said. Megahurtz Sep 2016 #43
My husband is a psychiatrist/psychoanalyst of 40 some years in practice. mnhtnbb Sep 2016 #46
The media are trying their damndest to make this asshole a king... VOX Sep 2016 #52
At the very least, they've managed to make him into a viable candidate. Tommy_Carcetti Sep 2016 #53
300 pound Beetlejuice tavernier Sep 2016 #54
Horribility - I think you just invented a new word for Republican politics! raven mad Sep 2016 #55
"He only aspires to be smarter than the people he's knows he's conning"...brilliant line. nt chowder66 Sep 2016 #58
He Is Vulgarity Personified Leith Sep 2016 #64
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