Trump Says He Didnt Divide America. The New York Times Response Is Perfect

[babylonsister]

http://occupydemocrats.com/2016/12/09/trump-says-didnt-divide-america-new-york-times-response-perfect/

Trump Says He Didn’t “Divide” America. The New York Times’ Response Is Perfect
By Natalie Dickinson
Posted on December 9, 2016


Potential election winner Donald Trump has been complaining about his TIME “Man Of The Year” cover, which labeled him the next leader of the “divided states of America.” Speaking to the Today Show, Trump whined that “When you say divided states of America, I didn’t divide them. They’re divided now.” He added later, “I think putting divided is snarky, but again, it’s divided. I’m not president yet. So I didn’t do anything to divide.”

New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow took Trump to task for his obvious attempts to dodge responsibility for exacerbating the deep rifts that cut through American society for his own personal gain:

Donald, thy name is division. You and your campaign of toxicity and intolerance have not only divided this country but also ripped it to tatters.

This comports with an extremely disturbing tendency of Trump’s: Denying responsibility for things of which he is fully culpable, while claiming full praise for things in which he was only partly involved.

As my mother used to say: Don’t try to throw a rock and hide your hand. Own your odiousness.

But Trump delivered the lie with an ease and innocuousness that bespoke a childish innocence and naïveté. In fact, his words disguised cold calculation. That is the thing about demagogy: It can be charming, even dazzling, and that is what makes it all the more dangerous.

Demagogues can flatter and whisper and chuckle. They can remind us of the good in the world because they have an acute awareness of the ways of the world. They can also love and be loved. They can reflect our own humanity because they are human, but their ambitions do not bend toward the good.Their ultimate end is distraction, which allows domination, which leads to destruction.

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[Hekate]

1. KnR

Can't sleep either, eh Babylonsister?

[Cha]

3. Hi, Hekate..

Can't sleep? It's almost 2am here. The night is still young for me.

[Hekate]

5. It just hit 4am for me. I was almost asleep and it all came pouring back into me...

I laid there for well over an hour before giving up on sleep. DU is no place to try to calm down tonight, but at least I know my friends are in the same boat.

I literally feel like I could throw up. Remember the anxiety here in the days before the election? One of our DUers said she dreamed Trump had been elected, and woke up and had the dry heaves. I can't remember if it was you or someone else who started hyperventilating. Well I'm there now with the nausea, but instead of hyperventilating I have to remind myself to breathe.

And somewhere out there are the goddamned trolls laughing at us.

There's more of us than there are of them. There's more of us than there are of them. We can ride this out.

[Cha]

8. We can ride this out! Just have to remind ourselves..

Mahalo for doing so.

I remember that dream someone had that drumpf won.. how prescient.. we all thought it was just a nightmare.

I still feel like we're living one and we need to wake up.. It's the literal Global Twilight Zone magnified by billions.

Yes, it can get very depressing around here with all the latest news from putin pandering central.. greedy plans to strip our Democracy bare.

But, we can also find friends to talk to and help each other through this.. It's been over a month and although I have had some good days.. the peace of mind has been fleeting.

Never Giving up, though.. We can do this. Like rzemanfl says..

I am thinking of a novel. A political thriller.

The leader of the free world has lots of evidence that a foreign power has influenced the outcome of an election that chose a dangerous moron sociopath as his successor. He has information from multiple super-secret agencies regarding the interference. The problems he is facing are-

1) he doesn't know who he can trust, the FBI, for one, is certainly involved in the plot
2) he needs absolute, incontrovertible proof-confessions, transcripts of phone calls, proof of software hacks and machine tampering
3) he cannot tip his hand until the time is right
4) he wants to avoid a civil war
5) he has very little time

I think I will call my main character "Barack."

by rzemanfl http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=1636187

[Hekate]

10. Wow. Rzemanfl has a very good grasp of the situation.

Thanks for the link -- I went and bumped it with

[Cha]

12. Cool! I liked it right away.. how intriguing.

Stranger than fiction/AKA/you cannot make this shite up.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

29. Well said

[Dustlawyer]

15. We should file a Class Action against Trump and the media for

Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress! We are all up when he is, just not tweeting BS!

[Cha]

18. The Majority of the American Voters are filing a Class

Action against drumpf for Lying his damn head off every time he opens his mouth. And the "media" for enabling him and trying in vain to make him seem normal.

We're not gonna take it anymore.

[Cha]

2. Thank you, babylonsister

[mercuryblues]

4. I learned very

early on that what ever trump says, the opposite is true. Try telling that to a trumpeter and they get vile.

[Cha]

9. That's too bad.. they should make note

of it and check it out.

They really are brainwashed.

[mercuryblues]

13. Thereis no hope for many of them

A gay man, supporting trumps picks for Czars.....All of whom are rabidly anti-gay. Got upset when I called him a homophobe. A comment that I stand by. You can not support homophobes by the dozens and not agree with them on some level. Those appts should have been deal breakers for anyone who is truly for gay rights.

[Cha]

14. Exactly, mercuryblues

"Those appts should have been deal breakers for anyone who is truly for gay rights."

[Augiedog]

6. tRump, thy name is hate.

[Guilded Lilly]

7. Hideous, odious man of no character...

You can't reason with a dense brick wall.
Besides his own treacherous mindset, he is supported and surrounded by cold-blooded, wretched suck ups who put everything and anything above the well being of humanity and the earth we live on.

I'm not ever going to get over this exploding freak show. Even while I will stubbornly struggle to survive the shredding of my country to bits by a two-bit, imbalanced con man, I can't see how I will ever get over this abomination.

The only power I have is my signature on petitions, emails and messages left on office recorders. And that is pretty worthless in the scheme of things.

The Cretin hasn't just divided the country, he has taken a barbed wired baseball bat to destroy all sanity.

[47of74]

21. Actually dense brick walls might be easier to reason with

Than Agent Orange or his Branch Trumpvidians.

[RelativelyJones]

11. Charles Blow

I the voice of resistance I have been looking to along with Van Jones and Maddow. Anyone else have favorites?

[handmade34]

16. Bill Moyers, Joy Reid...

https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid

http://billmoyers.com/

http://billmoyers.com/story/savvy-news-consumers-guide-not-get-duped/

[RelativelyJones]

19. +1

[mopinko]

27. charlie pierce.

got a duzy this time-

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a51430/russia-election/?src=socialflowFB

and for just gutbucket rage, i always like the rude pundit.

[RelativelyJones]

31. Thanks! I have to organize my roster.

Usually its Atrios, TPM, but I forget to check Pierce and others.

[JI7]

32. anna navarro

[NewJeffCT]

17. Just wait until Trump slams somebody on Twitter

and they get more than just threats and intimidation - they end up dead or maimed. What will happen then?

[Bear Creek]

20. Reminds me of

Pslams 5: 8 Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face. 9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue. 10 Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee. 11 But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee. 12 For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.
Psalms 10 defines Trump to a tee. I like to read 1- 10 for comfort 58 is a nice curse though.

[Wounded Bear]

22. K & R ...... nt

[annabanana]

23. Trump is Amoral

[progressoid]

24. That's a keeper.

[pbmus]

28. Excellent..

[uponit7771]

30. +1

[robbedvoter]

25. That was Charles Blow, not NYT. He is perfect.

NYT, not so much.

[UTUSN]

26. R#65 & K n/t

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

33. K & R.

[Liberal_in_LA]

34. kick

[hfojvt]

35. the answer, my friend, is clearly NOT

Blowing in the wind.

[world wide wally]

36. Some of us are patriots...

and some vote Republican