Thank You Mr. Trump!

Over the weekend, Republican Steve Schmidt, who ran John McCain's 2008 campaign for president, was interviewed on MSNBC.
In response to a very general question regarding the Trump Presidency, Mr. Schmidt spoke for two solid minutes and gave the most insightful and brutally honest response of what the Trump Presidency has done to our great country.
“Donald Trump has been the worst president this country has ever had. And, I don't say that hyperbolically. He is. But he is a consequential president. And, he has brought this country in three short years to a place of weakness that is simply unimaginable if you were pondering where we are today from the day where Barack Obama left office. And, there were a lot of us on that day who were deeply skeptical and very worried about what a Trump presidency would be. But this is a moment of unparalleled national humiliation, of weakness.”
"When you listen to the President, these are the musings of an imbecile. An idiot. And I don't use those words to name call. I use them because they are the precise words of the English language to describe his behavior. His comportment. His actions. We've never seen a level of incompetence, a level of ineptitude so staggering on a daily basis by anybody in the history of the country whose ever been charged with substantial responsibilities.”
"It's just astonishing that this man is president of the United States. The man, the con man, from New York City. Many bankruptcies, failed businesses, a reality show, that branded him as something that he never was. A successful businessman. Well, he's the President of the United States now, and the man who said he would make the country great again. And he's brought death, suffering, and economic collapse on truly an epic scale."
"And, let's be clear. This isn't happening in every country around the world. This place. Our place. Our home. Our country. The United States. We are the epicenter. We are the place where you're the most likely to die from this disease. We're the ones with the most shattered economy. And we are, because of the fool that sits in the Oval Office behind the Resolute Desk.
 
Hüsker Dü said:
Only in trumps America or maybe a banana republic or some other dictatorship.

www.yahoo.com

Anthony Fauci Reveals ‘Serious Threats’ To Himself, His Family

"it’s a little bit disturbing," said the prominent coronavirus expert of the venomous attacks that require him and his family to have extra security.
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You love to project what your Party is doing to AMERICA don't you....
Why can't you just be honest and say you despise this Country....
Stop being a Big Pink Pussy....Man up and say how you really feel...!
It ooooozes from everyone of your posts ...

And that little twerp you Criminals seeded into the White House ......
Take that be-speckled wanna be Doctor back...

Awwww.....the poor " Little " lying Brooklyn shitbag....
He should call Al Sharpton with his Tawana Brawley " style "
accusations....

Death Threats....no one threatened that piece of garbage....
They told him to get off the field after that horrible attempt...
No one threatened that piece of garbage.....no one !
 
Putin’s puppet may through his awkward and clumsy ways done a great disservice to his puppeteer by exposing us in the US directly to the influence of Autocracy inc.
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The Bad Guys Are Winning

If the 20th century was the story of slow, uneven progress toward the victory of liberal democracy over other ideologies—communism, fascism, virulent nationalism—the 21st century is, so far, a story of the reverse.
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Maybe if I post this more than once it may actually be read. Here’s hoping against hope!
 
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Here on chaos day let’s remember to be thankful to the POS responsible for the exposure of the weaknesses in our system, an honor system based on the presumption that only men of honor would be allowed to climb so high, and the true character of many that were hiding their true feelings towards an open free society.

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Law and order has always been the refuge of moral cowards. In the twisted hands of the Trump administration it has become a justification for cruelty.

ICE officers are the modern equivalent of slave catchers. Black America has lived under this regime since the first slave patrols rode under the flag of law and order. What is new is not the brutality, it is that the rest of the country is now being forced to feel it. Different century, different paperwork, same pit of moral vacancy. The men and women who sign up for this work are volunteers. They choose to create terror. They choose to attack black and brown communities. They choose to do the dirty work of enforcing a racial hierarchy.

But it’s the law, they cry.

Hypocrites. Once slavery was the law of the land. Jim Crow was law, women couldn’t vote or own land was law. Forced sterilization was law. Internment camps were law. The law has never been synonymous with justice. Morality has always been the thing that drags the law forward, usually kicking and screaming. When the law demands cruelty, the moral response is refusal, not obedience.

What gives this moment its particular stench is the blatant hypocrisy. Imagine for a moment, the federal government unleashing the same militarized force on white-collar crime. Imagine ICE-style raids on Wall Street, agents storming trading floors to arrest insider traders, insurance fraudsters, and tax evaders who siphon billions from the public. Imagine the National Guard descending on the hedge funds the way they descend on immigrant neighborhoods. White people zip tied and choking on pepper spray.

It will never happen. Because power does not police itself.

Instead, the racists howl for brown and black bodies. They salivate over the spectacle of punishment. White bodies committing financial crimes that collapse economies? Those are treated with subpoenas, settlements, and polite negotiations. Brown bodies crossing a border to survive? Shackles, cages, bullets, deportation flights.

This is not about legality. It is about who we have decided is disposable.

Trump did not invent this ugliness. He exposed it. He ripped the mask off a country where roughly a quarter of the population is eager to trade morality for dominance. Where racism is a feature some people are desperate to preserve. Where law and order is code for racial discipline.

Our moral compass is wildly out of wack, pointing not toward justice but toward cruelty. It is time to name it and fight it. We are done mistaking brutality for strength and obedience for ethics.
 
Hüsker Dü said:
Law and order has always been the refuge of moral cowards. In the twisted hands of the Trump administration it has become a justification for cruelty.

ICE officers are the modern equivalent of slave catchers. Black America has lived under this regime since the first slave patrols rode under the flag of law and order. What is new is not the brutality, it is that the rest of the country is now being forced to feel it. Different century, different paperwork, same pit of moral vacancy. The men and women who sign up for this work are volunteers. They choose to create terror. They choose to attack black and brown communities. They choose to do the dirty work of enforcing a racial hierarchy.

But it’s the law, they cry.

Hypocrites. Once slavery was the law of the land. Jim Crow was law, women couldn’t vote or own land was law. Forced sterilization was law. Internment camps were law. The law has never been synonymous with justice. Morality has always been the thing that drags the law forward, usually kicking and screaming. When the law demands cruelty, the moral response is refusal, not obedience.

What gives this moment its particular stench is the blatant hypocrisy. Imagine for a moment, the federal government unleashing the same militarized force on white-collar crime. Imagine ICE-style raids on Wall Street, agents storming trading floors to arrest insider traders, insurance fraudsters, and tax evaders who siphon billions from the public. Imagine the National Guard descending on the hedge funds the way they descend on immigrant neighborhoods. White people zip tied and choking on pepper spray.

It will never happen. Because power does not police itself.

Instead, the racists howl for brown and black bodies. They salivate over the spectacle of punishment. White bodies committing financial crimes that collapse economies? Those are treated with subpoenas, settlements, and polite negotiations. Brown bodies crossing a border to survive? Shackles, cages, bullets, deportation flights.

This is not about legality. It is about who we have decided is disposable.

Trump did not invent this ugliness. He exposed it. He ripped the mask off a country where roughly a quarter of the population is eager to trade morality for dominance. Where racism is a feature some people are desperate to preserve. Where law and order is code for racial discipline.

Our moral compass is wildly out of wack, pointing not toward justice but toward cruelty. It is time to name it and fight it. We are done mistaking brutality for strength and obedience for ethics.
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1) Source?

2) So only White people commit financial crimes? Who's the racist now?

3) Where were you when Obama was doing the same thing in record numbers? I don't recall you pissing and moaning back then.
 
I think it's important to remind folks that the Republican Party was a cult long before Donald Trump took it over. Back in 2013, I wrote an article where I referred to the party as the "Cult of Republicanity," a group of people who chose to believe in things that were objectively not backed by reality.

For a moment, let's ignore all the MAGA nonsense of the past decade.

Prior to Trump, what did Republicans always say they were about?

Fiscal conservatism, small government, family values, the Constitution, personal accountability, pro-life policies, religious freedom, border security, and states' rights.

Except that was all bullsh*t long before Trump.

Fiscal Conservatism: This is one of the easiest ones for me, dating back to when I was much younger. It never made sense why a party looked at Ronald Reagan as the "icon of fiscal conservatism" when he nearly tripled the national debt during his eight years in office. How in the world is that "fiscally conservative"? Since then, Republican presidents have added more to the national debt than Democrats, and a president from the GOP hasn't balanced the budget since Eisenhower left office in 1961. So, how in the world do you claim to be the party of "fiscal responsibility" when your "icon" nearly tripled the national debt — and your party has added more to it than the opposition you claim is built on "out-of-control government spending"?

Small Government: This has always been a joke as well. The only time the GOP backs small government is when that government is trying to prevent them from using that very same government to impose their views on others. In nearly every other instance, such as gay marriage and abortion, they want a massive, controlling government. Even at the state level, they're hypocrites. Here in Texas, when a local city or county passes something Republicans oppose at the state level, Gov. Greg Abbott signs legislation that overrides the will of that smaller local government. Republicans love themselves some big government whenever they can use it to force others to follow their ideologies.

Family Values: How? Where? Newt Gingrich was the House Speaker in the '90s who led the impeachment effort against Bill Clinton over his affair while he himself was having multiple affairs during both of his marriages. But it gets worse: He divorced his first wife, whom he was cheating on, while she was being treated for cancer. Then he divorced his second wife, whom he was cheating on, just months after she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Then the very next Republican House Speaker, Dennis Hastert, sexually abused and assaulted male students when he was a high school teacher. And now the party is represented by Donald Trump, with Pete Hegseth and RFK Jr. right there with him — three men with multiple affairs, divorces, two confirmed legal cases involving sexual assault, as well as multiple other allegations.

The Constitution: Like with everything else in the GOP sphere, such as the Bible, they cherry-pick what and when they want to look to the Constitution. Similar to their stance on small government, they want to use the Constitution when it benefits them, then ignore it when it doesn't.

Personal Accountability: Absolutely none. Again, these are the folks who impeached Clinton for having an affair while embracing practically any scumbag with an "R" next to their name. And while the Epstein files have proven that Republicans will clearly ignore the need to go after child predators, let's not forget Roy Moore, another accused child predator, who nearly won the Senate seat in Alabama, getting 48.3% of the vote even after multiple victims had come forward with details of his abuse of them while they were minors. That was in 2018.

Pro-Life: That's always been nonsense. The question I always ask conservatives is this: Tell me a policy besides abortion where anything else your party supports could remotely be considered "pro-life." They oppose programs that feed impoverished children, they oppose any sensible gun regulations to save lives, and they oppose health care access, which would also save lives. The term "pro-life" is just a slogan they use for their abortion stance, but outside of that, they do absolutely nothing else to protect life.

Religious Freedom: By this, they mean they want the religious freedom to force their warped views and fake "Christianity" on others, but they damn sure don't mean total religious freedom for all religions. By "freedom of religion," they mean their right to restrict the religious freedoms of others by forcing their views into our laws — which is the exact opposite of religious freedom.

Border Security: Here's a secret — Republicans really don't want to solve the issues with illegal immigration. If they did, how would they use illegal immigrants to demonize and manipulate their base? I've lived in Texas my entire life. Republicans have fully controlled this state for over 30 years. So, why haven't they shut Texas's border down? They have the power and money to do so. It's all about small government and states' rights, right? Then what are Texas Republicans waiting for? Oh, I know — they're going to blame Democrats even though Republicans have controlled Texas for three decades. Like a lot of "boogeyman" issues Republicans use, they really don't want to solve a problem because then they can't use that issue to scare their voters and distract them from the other policies they have that are screwing all of them over.

States' Rights: Again, same with the Constitution and "small government." Republicans have only ever believed in states' rights when the federal government was trying to block them from violating the constitutional rights of others. Yet when it comes to Republicans controlling the federal government, they're more than willing to do whatever they can to force big government on every American in every state so that every American is made to live their lives according to the GOP's values.

So, you see, Republicans were a cult long before Trump rose to take the party over: millions of people who believed in a political party whose actions and policies didn't back the propaganda they were pushing about what they supposedly supported.

Which is exactly how a con artist like Donald Trump took the party over in the first place: someone who realized that you could get these people to believe anything as long as you told them what they wanted to hear.

Now they've not just contradicted everything I've already listed, they're now against free markets — a pillar of the GOP economic platform for decades — and, after spending the last 10+ years saying how much they were against America getting involved in new wars, they're all on board with Trump's war in Iran.

You know, the war he warned these same voters they better vote for him to avoid because Kamala Harris would absolutely start one.

The party of "Christian family values, personal responsibility, small government, the Constitution, and fiscal conservatism" completely sold out to...

A multiple adulterer, the antithesis of Christian values — a man who takes absolutely no personal responsibility for anything he does, has effectively torn up the Constitution as he tries to rule like a dictator, and will go down in history having added more trillions to the national debt than any other president in history.

It wasn't a matter of if a lowlife piece of crap took over the Republican Party, just when and who it would be.

Because Donald Trump isn't the cause of what made the Republican Party a cult; he's just the result of the Cult of Republicanity that existed long before he took the party over.
 
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