We are on the precipice of a new era. Before in America, if you hated a particular president, you knew you only had to put up with him (so far it’s only been a him) for a finite period of time, the next four years. In a worse case scenario, he would be reelected. Dubya is a good example. After eight years of Dubya we were completely exhausted. But at least we knew it was over.
Those days are gone. If Donald Trump gets back in, he won’t leave. He’s made that clear. So take a look at Lincoln Project’s latest submission. This is not only what you’ll have to put up with for four more years, this is what you’ll put up with for life. Yours or his, whichever ends first.
Usually when a member of a family has a personality disorder, the whole family becomes sick. The person with the disorder becomes the center of attention of the family members who become psychologically exhausted and dysfunctional.
This is the American reality today.— George Du Bocage🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@GeorgeD1954) March 23, 2024
That’s true enough. If a family has a mentally ill member, that member dominates. I know whereof I speak. I had a paranoid schizophrenic brother ten years older than myself. He was the demon of my childhood. The less said about that the better, except to say that I learned a valuable lesson at a very early age and that is: A sick person can and will drag you down faster and more surely than you can elevate the sick person to your level, to mental health and a positive outlook. There is virtually no chance that you can talk the person out of being crazy but the crazy person will drive you crazy and drag you down to their level.
For some reason, mental illness is more contagious than mental health. This we have all seen as we’ve witnessed the deterioration of our culture the past nine years since the unspeakable one came down the escalator, cheered on by paid extras waiving signs and wearing the now infamous MAGA hats.
It’s been quite the Show From Hell and it’s looking to be renewed. Let’s cancel it at the ballot box.
Here is another LP video. This is worth seeing. The freak show we’re looking at has the label Republican because the Republicans of this era have let that be. But the people in this video would never have tolerated what’s going on.
Principles over power, country over party, America over Trump.
The Republican Party we once knew is dead, we know who killed it. pic.twitter.com/BfiSaZNsP9
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) March 24, 2024
We live in a totally different world. Never in American history, before now, has a candidate been both so unqualified and so toxic as to destroy the party that put him on the ticket and cause the best of that party to flee.
And flee they have. The Never Trumpers were the intelligentsia of the GOP. They were the writers, the people in the think tanks. Now the think tanks have gone MAGA and gatherings like CPAC, where the best of conservative thought was heard, has become a complete circus.
Trump is the worst of this country. You’ve heard the famous quote by a gentleman who’s an exec at Verizon: “It’s almost impossible to believe he exists. It’s as if you took everything that was bad about America, scraped it off the floor, stuffed it in an old hot dog skin and then taught it to make noises with its face.”
Trump is on one level, the Republican id, and he’s also on another level, the lowest common denominator. He stands for nothing beyond bread and circus. His relationships are transactional and exploitative. He buys and sells people. Friendship and love are not aspects of life which are known to him.
Trump is one step above the apes. They throw feces at each other and Trump doesn’t do that. Yet. But that, too, may come.
dfg has his magats do the feces throwing for him
Is it trump who is the worst of this country or is it those who not only gave him his power, but continue in their attempt to allow hm to keep it? trump is not bright. he has in fact a minimally functional brain and this is not news but something anyone who has been paying even one iota of attention to realized years ago. Either his magat base doesn’t realize the facts of the matter therefore they are even less bright than he is, or they realize it and maintaining their hatred of the other is a higher priority than our nation–anything about or for our nation-which makes them dumb and evil.
Overwhelming ignorance and hatred is at the heart of the 21st century gop/magat party and we are screwed until the entire mess is disposed of and that had better be damned quickly.
There has never been any thing good about the Republican party in my life. I was born in the first year of Eisenhower. He did some good, but he laid the groundwork for the Vietnam war. Then Nixon came along and extended that war with his treason and lies. How many Americans and Vietnamese died because of his interference in the Paris peace talks in an effort to keep LBJ from having a win before the 1968 election? Sound familiar? Then there was Reagan and Iran. I could go on. However, the only thing that has ever put these monsters in power is racism and lies. MAGA has been here all my life.
You must be the same age as me. I was born on the last day of Harry Truman’s presidency, The next day Ike took power. There is no room for Eisenhower in today’s Republican party. There’s barely room for the likes of Romney, and even the Cheneys are out of the game. If you look at who has left the GOP, collectively, it makes a terrifying statement.
The Lincoln Project is becoming very on point and effective IMO.
As the campaigns progress I expect them to lay waste to Trump.
I truly do believe a new GOP will rise out of all this. How, I haven’t the slightest idea. But what is the alternative? Trump running again in 2028 and 2032 until he croaks?
Being the ASS_TUTE person that he is, he has claimed that he has 500 million in his bank account, the one labeled for his campaign funding …
If so, since I am not a lawyer, wouldn’t that be a crime to use those funds to pay his fines and bonds?
Those funds are collected from many sources, the donors are all told they are supporting his campaign, so the Maga’s with little income to match their mental acuity, are being criminally used for his personal benefit, also, the mega-donors might not want to support his bonding, as many have stopped their support already … Har Har, those mega donors MIGHT decide to send their own bad news, (Trump cannot get enough of that), if the donors have written off business expenses to that poor judgement of investment, they may not appreciate government up-close investigations … And the cancelled checks would not be worth a wooden nickel …
I’m curious how Trump thinks dedicated funds can just be swung in another direction, one that locks those funds into court functions and leaves Trump at home because he cannot afford fuel for his old big jet …
That comment was very ill advised. His lawyers must have been having conniption fits. Bottom line, if he has the money but lied about not having it (when he was under oath) then he could be subject to a perjury charge.
I don’t think he has it. I think he just needed to tell the base, “I’m really really rich.” And he is, by any rational yardstick. He’s probably got something like $250M to his name, in reality, and that’s wealthy. But it’s not the $9B, $10B that he has bragged about.