Trump Disgraces America Every Day

[RickeyM]

Originally Posted by Chicks

Politico reported that the military leaders thought the idea was an obvious move, but Trump shocked them with a series of tweets saying “These Monumental and very Powerful Bases have become part of a Great American Heritage, and a… history of Winning, Victory, and Freedom. The United States of America trained and deployed our HEROES on these Hallowed Grounds, and won two World Wars. Therefore, my Administration will not even consider the renaming of these Magnificent and Fabled Military Installations… Our history as the Greatest Nation in the World will not be tampered with. Respect our Military!”

Ain't that something? A five time draft dodger standing up for "these Magnificent and Fabled Military Installations. It's amazing that he's conflating the removal of monuments to the (failed) Confederacy with dishonoring the United States military. The very same military that put down the insurgency that was the Confederacy. Amazing to me but not to his base that has a dearth of critical thinkers.

[RickeyM]

Originally Posted by Chicks

Why the Polls Are Alarming for Donny

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-c...r-donald-trump

The biggest problem for Donald tRump's re-election campaign? Donald tRump.

[Chicks]

Pentagon’s top general apologizes for appearing alongside Donny in Lafayette Square

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...ayette-square/

Washing his hands of Donny and Billy's pathetic political stunt.

[Chicks]

'Slap in the face to black people': Donny faces backlash over rally on Juneteenth
Critics called the president racist for planning a campaign event on the date marking slavery's end and doing it in Tulsa, where African Americans were murdered in 1921.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...eenth-n1229891

Without a doubt planned on this day at this location with this history in mind, to please his virulently racist base.

[Chicks]

US faces allegations of human rights abuses over treatment of protesters

https://thehill.com/policy/internati...-of-protesters

It's taken Donny less than four years to destroy all the human rights credibility this nation once enjoyed.

[Chicks]

Donny might not have reached bottom
By Jennifer Rubin

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...eached-bottom/

It is increasingly clear to most Americans that we have a severe, widespread racial problem, and equally clear is that Trump does not get it. If they do not view him as an out-an-out racist, more Americans view him as unsympathetic to an emotionally gripping demand for racial justice. Americans who want to think of themselves as fair, decent and inclusive cannot embrace the protesters without realizing Trump is neither fair, decent nor inclusive. Trump rose to power fanning the flames of white nationalism. There would be divine justice if he were banished from power by the multiracial coalition demanding we confront racial injustice.

Ms. Rubin has long been my go-to conservative pundit. She pulls no punches.

[Chicks]

Donny explains his favorite Bible stories

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...-bible-stories

Hilarious.

[Chicks]

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British Writer Pens The Best Description Of Trump I’ve Read

(For entertainment value: witty, British rant!)

“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?” Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response:

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.
• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.

[Chicks]

Donny dares the coronavirus

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump...193331570.html

Trump is resuming his campaign rallies, with one glaring asterisk: To attend, Trump supporters have to sign a waiver saying they won’t hold the Trump campaign or the rally organizers legally liable if they get the virus while attending.

Got that? Please risk exposure to the coronavirus by jamming yourself into my rally with thousands of others, but don’t blame me if you get sick. It’s a microcosm of Trump’s cult-leader approach to the presidency. Follow me blindly, but don’t hold me accountable if something goes wrong.

Pretty much sums up the Cult of Donny.