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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe most succinct and brutal Republican rejection of Donald Trump that you will ever read
Steve Schmidt on MSNBC:
"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."
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/23/politics/steve-schmidt-donald-trump/index.html
Nevilledog
(50,659 posts)empedocles
(15,751 posts)Schmidt was not fooled. or suffer the palin fool gladly. See 'Game Change'. Book and movie.
grumpyduck
(6,197 posts)who have been enabling him. And getting away with it.
live love laugh
(12,995 posts)Amaryllis
(9,523 posts)live love laugh
(12,995 posts)Theyre swearing against him again. Fool me once...
certainot
(9,090 posts)the primary reason why we are in this disaster is democrats and the left have ignored that fact. that is the unifying ignorance and hate defining the current GOP
trump's neighbor, golf partner, and adviser is dying at the worst possible time for trump. it would be a shame that the age of limbaugh ends and he never gets 'credit' for what he enabled the republicans to do - they couldn't have done this without him and trump would not be in the white house without him.
it is pitiful that after 30 years of no significant progress liberals still blame symptoms of ignoring talk radio - money in politics, voter suppression, cycles, lizard brains - they've been studying fish without water
and half of limbaugh's stations get the endorsements they need to survive from university and pro sports teams that are majority black!
Capperdan
(490 posts)They could move it to Moscow before we tear it down in November
certainot
(9,090 posts)Upthevibe
(7,879 posts)can NOT be overstated I'm going to sum up in a short, easy to understand account of what my understanding is regarding an important component of what has happened. If I got anything wrong, please feel free to add your comments:
The elimination of The Fairness Doctrine in 1987 (Reagan) enabled Limbaugh's (and those of his ilk) to dominate AM Radio.
From Center for American Progress: Talk Radio by the Numbers, July 10, 2007 (excerpt):
Conservative Dominance:
Conservative: 91%
Progressive: 9%
.....And from The Atlantic: They Just Wanted to Entertain -AM stations mainly wanted to keep listeners engagedbut ended up remaking the Republican Party.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/talk-radio-made-todays-republican-party/596380/
So, here's a scenario: Jim is a salesman in Iowa, Nebraska, (pick a state). He spends a lot of time driving from one county to another. He's bored inside his truck, car (whatever). He turns on the radio. There's someone talking and it's VERY interesting and entertaining- (context is everything - like when you're on a plane, a mediocre movie seems great - but if you'd seen it in a theatre it would've just been good). So "Jim" gets drawn in and you've got a Rush Limbaugh fan. I realize this is a simplistic summary....
certainot
(9,090 posts)even if he wanted alternative opinions there is little chance he'll find anything different except around cities.
i thought it was more like 95% RW.... i think since '07 they got rid of what was air america and made sure to 'discourage' any other competition.... i would like to find a more recent survey result.
he might just have that station on because it's clearer/longer longer on his drive, it gives news and weather and traffic and emergency reports. and then the next station has a different talker with a 'slightly' different version but usually not contradicting limbaugh - because the political correctness police - dittoheads who have tried unsuccessfully for years to call limbaugh - call the other guys and correct them
it's one big chorus on the main events and issues, starting from limbaugh's 600 stations.
fakenewsradio.org has a bit of a summary
Upthevibe
(7,879 posts)Thank you for posting about the fakenewsradio.org website. I've never heard of it. I'll definitely check it out.
sop
(9,943 posts)"What matters is whether he is a danger to the country, because he will do it again. And none of us have can have confidence, based on his record, that he will not do it again. Because he is telling us every day that he will.
We just didn't realize "it" would be mass murder on a scale never seen before in this country.
tanyev
(42,354 posts)Republicans in the House and Senate have chosen party over country.
stopdiggin
(11,089 posts)As the OP sets out .. DJT the man (and president) is the one that has normalized blithering idiocy .. and an utter absence of any sign of decency or substance .. as things to be expected in our executive.
Mario or Ted Cruz (in a theoretical WH term) might have been equally awful in their policies (debatable) .. but they would never have matched this creature in his seemingly bottomless depth of character, incompetence .. and sheer toxicity. And the world, looking on .. would have seen them as yet another rightward tilt by the U.S. .. rather that a a leadership that is absolutely unmoored .. unhinged .. and seemingly divorced from reality.
A shipwreck in search of a reef.
geardaddy
(24,924 posts)BComplex
(7,977 posts)He just hates trump.
Beartracks
(12,761 posts)Firestorm49
(4,002 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)FM123
(10,050 posts)AleksS
(1,665 posts)"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."
He may be a former repub but Steve Schmidt is THE most articulate voice in America today when it comes to condemning drumpf.
Cha
(295,899 posts)Dem2theMax
(9,594 posts)To Poiuyt
Poiuyt
(18,087 posts)bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)Sucha NastyWoman
(2,725 posts)I have become a big fan of he and Nicole Wallace
pamela
(3,469 posts)I even thought it was going to be this exact statement.
FailureToCommunicate
(13,988 posts)pudgy, ketchup stained little fingers.
He's just the sort of narcissistic, myopic, increasingly desperate sociopath that would see raining down total nuclear annihilation as a credible option in his toy soldier view of the world and his enemies.
God help us all.
sprinkleeninow
(20,132 posts)Squidly
(783 posts)That the US military will not obey an order to launch a nuclear attack. Especially for an unprovoked, stupid, unlawful reason that the orange menace would be sure to concoct.
BarbD
(1,190 posts)ecstatic
(32,566 posts)uses NYC as an insult. I notice a lot of republicans do this for some reason.
whathehell
(28,968 posts)Would a con man from somewhere else would be more acceptable?
Apart from that, it's great
wnylib
(21,146 posts)NYC and Hollywood to be the east coast and west coast symbols of "lib'rall" evil and moral decadence.
johnnyfins
(772 posts)There is a huge con/psyop happening RIGHT NOW. The con is, that the conman is weak. We can sit back in Nov. and let Joe win. FUCK THAT!!!! VOTE!!!!.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,535 posts)I wish every Republican could be forced to read that and really think about it.
littlemissmartypants
(22,417 posts)Larry Moecurley
(72 posts)Hey, you're almost there already!
Larry Moecurley
(72 posts)sprinkleeninow
(20,132 posts)Hamlette
(15,388 posts)Yes, Schmidt is someone who has made no secret of his distaste for Trump. But that doesn't mean that all of what he says about the President above is wrong. Or should be ignored.
It should read nothing of what he says should be ignored. Chicken shits.
czarjak
(11,191 posts)Arsonists dont get to bitch about the smoke from the fire, asshole! Go back and listen to yourself during The Mores, and The Have Mores America youd return to this instant if you could. Asshole. (You know, Bushie?)
BannonsLiver
(16,161 posts)czarjak
(11,191 posts)BannonsLiver
(16,161 posts)shadowmayor
(1,325 posts)Schmidt, Rick Wilson, George Will, Nicole Wallace, Kristol et. al. are scum of the earth. Now that they hate what they have brought forth, they are gleefully accepted into democratic arms because they rant and rave about herr drumpf. This rant is fine, nothing out of the ordinary nor anything that hasn't been obvious over the past 3+ years. It seems the bar is low when this is who and what we are cheering. Let's hear more of this from the real democrats. An enemy of my enemy ain't necessarily a friend or ally. If Pence were running for President, Schmidt and the others would be lining up behind him. He can choke on a dried turd for all I care.
Xolodno
(6,330 posts)...are saying, "What the fuck?!"
N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,593 posts)North Shore Chicago
(3,253 posts)are trumps GOOD points.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Hotler
(11,353 posts)elected Democrats? Where is the relentless fire and brimstone? Where are the stinging political ads from the DNC?
ecstatic
(32,566 posts)Mountain Mule
(1,002 posts)iscooterliberally
(2,849 posts)I hope they all get their asses handed to them in November. What a bunch of assholes.
Upthevibe
(7,879 posts)Thank you for this post.
Poiuyt
(18,087 posts)Azathoth
(4,603 posts)mikeysnot
(4,755 posts)I clicked on it twice just to make sure it was from CNN?
geretogo
(1,281 posts)the media both Tv and radio and now internet . Lies and propaganda 24/7 for forty years .
Lord Ludd
(585 posts)
was scrawled in tiny letters at the base of a back wall outside a mess hall in Phu Bai, Vietnam, sometime early in 1968 by an anonymous marine soon to ship out in an attempt to break the siege of Khe Sanh. (Gawd, I hope he made it back to Murka.)
It read: "USMC--192 years of death, destruction, and boundless stupidity."
Substitute "Trump" for "USMC" & "4" for "192," & it fits perfectly in 2020.