How hard is it for a President of the United States to call for

[bronxiteforever]

an end of hate and violence in this Country instead of embracing hate?
How hard is it for a Vice President to not blame the opposition party for violence in the United States and just be a decent person and call for calm and compassion?
And how hard is it for the press to call out violent rhetoric by the President and Vice President?

Rhetorical I know but my god this Country and its people are swimming in raw sewage and then acting shocked when the sewage strikes them down with disease.

[Initech]

1. Because Donald Trump doesn't give a fuck and his favorite news network wants chaos and corruption to reign free.

A peaceful and prosperous America is not in Rupert Murdoch's best interests. And he can go get royally fucked.

[Ocelot II]

2. Not only swimming in raw sewage, but continuing to shit directly into the pool

and wondering why it stinks and they're getting cholera.

[ms liberty]

3. For this President? Impossible. For this Vice President? When it becomes necessary for him to do so to save himself

[SheltieLover]

4. Not hard at all, unless your base support is fueled by hatred.

[usonian]

5. His entire political career runs on hate.

Fascist playbook.

10 Small Steps: Executing the Fascist Playbook
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/10-small-steps-executing-the-fascist-playbook_b_585dfec2e4b04d7df167cfab

The Fascists’ Playbook
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/05/08/the-fascists-playbook/

[evilhime]

6. Hatred is his survival

He was a bully from a very young age and got worse and worse the older he got . . . His parents couldn’t handle him so they sent him to a military academy where he carried on the same way . . . he has a history of dropping out - he was in ROTC during his first year of college but dropped out in his second year. He dropped football after 3 or 4 weeks, and his racquet sports apparently were mediocre at best. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/trump-the-bully-how-childhood-military-school-shaped-the-future-president/ "Trump would emerge from military school with a blueprint for leadership by force and ridicule.”

[iluvtennis]

7. Because TSF ran on hate - racial, immigrants, LGBTQ, hate to poor people/others needing governmental assistance, etc n/t

[BurnDoubt]

8. Absolutely!!!