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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIn your worst nightmare when Trump became President
Did you ever think, he would be on the level of telling people to
inject themselves with disinfectant to beat a deadly virus?
Rorey
(8,445 posts)The entire trump clan is mentally deficient, so I shouldn't be surprised that he'd say and believe something so ludicrous.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Rorey
(8,445 posts)DownriverDem
(6,226 posts)thought that trump and the repubs would ram through all their nasty ideas one after another. I thought by now ObamaCare would be overturned as well as Roe v Wade. I never thought we would be on the verge of all dying and the world would hate us.
Rorey
(8,445 posts)Even when they've had the power to overturn it, it hasn't happened. I believe it's just a talking point to appeal to the Evangelicals, and it works. The Evangelicals haven't put together the pieces to tell them that they're being used and duped. It's the same with the 2nd Amendment. The right has been told *forever* that we're going to take their precious guns away. They believe what they're fed.
Sheesh, I went to Home Depot yesterday looking for a chimney cap (didn't find one), and there was a guy in that aisle wearing a full on respirator and had a gun in a holster on his hip. Naturally he was too effing stupid to figure out which sprinkler part he needed and took up a LOT of an employee's time trying to find it.
Sorry, went off on a tangent.....
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,852 posts)I knew he was mentally lazy and stupid, but not to this degree.
Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)niyad
(113,074 posts)Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)Then again, there is no telling what his addled mind will come up with before he does that. I cannot even begin to fathom what will come out of his mouth next. At this point, I'm almost afraid to find out.
Alwaysna
(574 posts)You would have to ask a proctologist to look up his ass. That's where he keeps all his asinine (lol ) ideas.
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)He probably has to do that to see.
niyad
(113,074 posts)LisaL
(44,972 posts)But I guess injecting disinfectant into people will do.
Though at some point I envisioned gas chambers and gulags. Which may be coming at that.
Injecting or drining poison under guise of public health never occurred to me, because a pandemic never occurred to me. But that's my bad.Epidemiologists have known for years that something would come.
Tiger8
(432 posts)I ascribed to the "Reasonable Man" theory with Trump doing whatever necessary to get 60-70-80% approval ratings, so he could lull the nation into a sense of security and then rob us blind, install a dictatorship or oligarchy.
Reasonable Man theory. OH siilly me. It almost seems funny now.
Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I guarantee that if he gets another four years, both of those things will come to pass.
Skittles
(153,113 posts)NOTHING that fascist piece of shit says surprises me anymore.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)I have to admit the whole Covid 19 twist was unexpected
That trump is the POTUS during a pandemic and what his stupid words and actions may result in doing to this country is another level of scary all around
Generic Brad
(14,272 posts)But I never envisioned this was how it would go down.
Under The Radar
(3,401 posts)Cha
(296,853 posts)night and was catatonic for days.
ChoppinBroccoli
(3,781 posts)...........is start a war to distract from his disastrous presidency. And if the economy doesn't improve here in the next couple of months, guess what I fully expect him to do before the election.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)I was pretty sure that either something on this scale would happen and he would make it worse or that he would cause something awful on this scale to happen.
LeftInTX
(25,135 posts)I always thought of SARS, Ebola etc.. Trump would have been a useless buffoon in those types of epidemics, but would just be the idiot talking head and the CDC etc would handle it.
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)What I couldn't imagine was how bad it could possibly be.
Who would have predicted four years ago that, at this point, the U.S. would barely have an ally in the world, the economy would collapse, unemployment would be off the charts, we'd be in the midst of major worldwide pandemic/sheltering in place in our homes, AND that this pretender president would be suggesting we inject ourselves with bleach and Lysol.
Anyone writing a novel predicting this would be laughed out of the publisher's office.
GWC58
(2,678 posts)I felt something Id never, NOT EVER, experienced when my candidate lost; dread, terror, really... Now I know why I felt such dread.. Im scared Ill fall victim to this, or someone close to me will succumb to this virus.. Turns out the current POTUS aint nothing but a scary 🤡!!
Warpy
(111,161 posts)Donald Mengele.
Jesus.
Chasdev
(33 posts)My greatest fear is that the endtimers get a hand all the way up his ass and control him more than they already do.
We all know mark of the beast will be the vaccine against covid-19, so there's no way he can allow mass inoculations.
I think he already tried to start WWIII when he put a hit on the Iranian but someone pulled us back from the brink, and thank geebus for that.
He is a comedian, he is doing an act, he is very convincing, we all hang on every word.
Meanwhile, like a fast growing cancer, his rot spreads deep into the machine of government, wearing the gears to a nub and grinding the smooth rolling bearings to dust, which may or may not be a recoverable situation if he ever does lumber up the steps of trump 1 and fly away to Russia for good.
Ilsa
(61,690 posts)particularly those who rely on low paid and low skilled workers to be their advocates. The purpose would be to make money and to determine efficacy and risk of the treatment to himself. Everyone else is a disposable guinea pig.
Demsrule86
(68,469 posts)page 6...he was the 80's equivalent to the Kardashians...except Kim is smarter than he is. I was terrified. He is rotten to core and one of the most stupid men who has ever lived...a number of electricians, plasterers,builders etc were stiffed by him in my town. Several of my Dad's friends were bankrupted by Trump while he walked away intact dumping his debts on taxpayers. He lived off his name...he failed at everything he ever tried(destroyed Atlantic city and the USFL football league too.) He worked with the mob .
My brother who likes most people...very friendly kind of guy despises Trump worked with his company in the early 2000's on some deal. Trump's incompetence and arrogance made him the worst person to be president. Although, I knew enough to be fearful, he has surpassed my expectations in terms of arrogance, cruelty and stupidity. I especially underestimated the stupid.
Books_Tea_Alone
(253 posts)I honestly thought we would not be here now as a people. I was worried about nuclear war or something sinister with Russia. The pandemic did not cross my mind until February.
Initech
(100,040 posts)But I must admit that I didn't have "inject bleach into your veins to cure a deadly virus" anywhere on my Trump fuck nuttery bingo card. Really, I didn't see this one coming.
heckles65
(547 posts)wondering how 10% of Americans could have voted for Trump. Yes, I know he had thirty years of the media telling us he was all that and a bag of chips. I saw him for what he was about the time he went into casinos. Why couldn't other people see?
GoCubsGo
(32,075 posts)But, I knew we were all fucked. I was already at the point where nothing he, or any other Republican, could do would surprise me. Not even suggesting that people inject themselves with Lysol to treat themselves for the pandemic that he ignored until it was too late. Just like I am not at all surprised at anything Moscow Mitch is doing.
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)We could work around that!
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)very differently today. November can't come soon enough for me.
ananda
(28,835 posts)I was expecting genocide, but I didn't think he'd fall apart
so much mentally.
This.. is .. something.
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)I knew it would be a clusterfuck, but this takes the cake. What will he do next? Tell people to light themselves on fire to kill the virus? There is no telling with him. I am still beyond pissed off about him inciting violence against Democratic governors, Kushner saying PPE that taxpayers paid for already does not belong to the states but belongs to them instead, Betsy DeVos and her family organizing these hideous protests where they are blocking ambulances, and all of the other stuff going on. The outrage from all of that is still fresh on my mind, because I haven't moved on from it. Why is there no action for those things alone, before he ever even said this, to either 25th Amendment him or file criminal charges for inciting violence? It's like a three ring circus led by a madman who is hellbent on destroying the country. When are the adults going to take over and put him in his playpen? I guess it will have to be Biden, because no one in his admin will stand up to him. They are enabling him. We have GOT to get Biden elected in November. I don't know how much more this country can stand of Trump. He is the worst ever, and I mean worst everything ever, in America.
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)In 2016 I predicted in 4 years we'd have the GREATEST DEPRESSION (check) and he would launch nukes at either Iran or N Korea (we still have time for that by the way)
I said he was insane and dangerous then and i say it again now.
pazzyanne
(6,543 posts)I have developed chronic indigestion whenever I see or hear him. He is definitely bad for people's health in more ways than one.
NNadir
(33,474 posts)kentuck
(111,052 posts)From the knot in my stomach.
ElementaryPenguin
(7,800 posts)Aussie105
(5,334 posts)Either voted out or taken away by the Grim Reaper, can we revise the way America does politics please?
Suggestions:
1. Upper age limit on politicians going for the presidency, 55 sounds about right to me.
2. Enforced retirement age for people in politics. 65 sounds about right to me.
3. Enforced diversion of business interests before being sworn in.
4. Release of tax returns and examination of possible outside interests with potential hooks into any new president.
5. Strengthening the Constitution so all this can't happen again.
6. Banning contributions from interest groups during political campaigns. (They always come back for favors.)
7. Appointments to government offices to be made on merit and skills, not on who you know.
8. Get rid of 'executive orders'. Makes a madman a dictator. And makes a joke of checks and balances.
9. Get rid of the electoral college.
I guess we have to thank Trump for showing how the American political system is open to abuse, and what needs to be fixed.
betsuni
(25,380 posts)During his campaign rallies he said whatever nutty bullshit came into his head and if it got a lot of applause was repeated next time, the rest forgotten. But a press conference isn't a rally so we all hear the nutty bullshit which can't be forgotten, although Trump still thinks it can because we're all so stupid.
But her emails and she got paid for speeches...
JI7
(89,240 posts)I didn't know exactly what he would do and say. But the level of fuckedupness is not a surprise for me.
mvd
(65,161 posts)conspiracy theories, I am not surprised. This is unique to what I thought his lunacy might be, however.
Politicub
(12,165 posts)I knew things were going to get dark in our country. I just didn't know the degree. I predicted he would act swiftly against groups his base finds abhorrent like immigrants and other minorities.
But injecting bleach was not something I expected. Nor did I expect Twitter to become such a sounding board for him.
And I didn't anticipate that every day would bring a new outrage -- gutting the clean water act, etc.
ecstatic
(32,653 posts)removal from office *regardless* of who would take his spot after. While I didn't quite know how his evil incompetence and ignorance would manifest itself, I knew it could be very bad.
And it's not just his actions with regard to the current (completely avoidable IMO) pandemic. He's given companies the green light to poison our water, he's caging kids, separating families--the list goes on and on. And he's STILL fucking up with each new day. Shutting down funding to WHO during a pandemic? Really?!
Also, the daily emotional abuse he doles out onto our population matters. Americans are stressed like never before because of him. It's sickening!
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)...a lot of us made a lot of predictions.....nuclear war, the mass stripping of our rights, declaring himself king.
We were told by non-political, BOTH SIDES ARE BAD people we were "hysterical".
They aren't saying much now.
cheezmaka
(737 posts)And when you think Trump has already said the worst...
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)And I never expected that so many people would continue to support him despite how much he has already destroyed this country with his hatred, incompetence, evil and stupidity. That was the most surprising thing.