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reggieandlee

(778 posts)
Thu Dec 21, 2017, 10:45 AM Dec 2017

BTRTN: The Ghost of Trump Yet to Come

Born to Run the Numbers scares Dickens out of you, seeing new ways Trump can debase the Presidency in 2018:

http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2017/12/the-ghost-of-trump-yet-to-come.html

Excerpt: "Yes, it’s Christmas time, and today we celebrate the season by tuning into A Christmas Carol: The Ghost of Donald Trump of the Future. We will follow the Magoo-in-Chief as he stumbles through 2018, continuing to prove that no matter what hideous deed he has committed, what awful words he has uttered, and what preposterous lies he has told, he can always find a way to do something even worse.

This has indeed been the signature identity of the man’s first year in office. Every time that you thought this guy had done the worst thing that an American President had ever done, he found a way to do something even more horrendous. Firing the director of the FBI for his investigation of Trump? Bad. But then Trump pulled our country out of the Paris Climate Accord. Nauseating? Yes, but not as awful as rallying to the defense of neo-Nazis. Retweeting anti-Muslim videos from a right-wing hate group? Sickening, but still not as horrific as actively and enthusiastically campaigning to elect a pedophile to the U.S. Senate. And these represent just a small sampling of Trump’s capacity to disgrace.

Is there always a way for this guy to sink lower? Let’s find out..."

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