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Surely you realize by now that you have been conned by your dear leader. Con men in practice search for the weakest and most vulnerable people to prey on. If he thought democrats were the weakest and most vulnerable, he would have claimed to be a democrat and pushed for a single payer program to get elected (think about that). You see, this con man does not care about you or me. He could not care less if we lived or died. He doesn't care about our kids education. He doesn't really care or have any interest in anything except money and power for him and his family. Hell, he doesn't even care about your 2nd amendment rights (how does that make you feel?). I wish I could just sit back and laugh while you suffer from your Yuge blunder (and yes you are the very people that will suffer most from this con), but unfortunately your ignorance will cause all of us to suffer in some way. Democrats and the rest of the world tried to warn you. You should have listened to us.
Hayduke Bomgarte
(1,965 posts)Hillary... The E-mails... Benghazi.
tazkcmo
(7,300 posts)They come for SalmonEnchantedEvening's Sunday LOL Cats and come up out of the basement only to have Grandma read the captions to them.
that is a VERY good reason to come out of the basement.
tazkcmo
(7,300 posts)They eat the rats IN grannies basement.
Lighten up. Just KIDDING.
certainot
(9,090 posts)they get plenty of wit and wisdom and science there!
RedWedge
(618 posts)Leith
(7,809 posts)There's something about them that makes it difficult for them to understand that those moving objects around them are human beings, just like themselves. They just want to kick at us because it's fun.
You don't believe me? Click on this link:
https://www.discussionist.com/
That site is owned by the same people that own DU. It was taken over by trolls, assholes, and jerks more than a year ago and they trashed the fuck out of the place. There are still a few good liberals there, trying to bring intelligence to the unwilling, but most of us have left.
after seeing their own families suffer and or die from Rethug policies, they will come around a bit..
Nah...who am I kidding.
They will just blame it all on Obama because he was such a successful prez while being black...just doesn't make no sense...must be the devil's work...had to be deleted from history...fight the good fight...white power...blah blah blah
red dog 1
(27,802 posts)I posted some OPs over there + about 200 comments; but I thought it "went under"
They do have a forum that's supposed to be for "progressives"...(it's infested with GOP trolls too)
But the fun part over there is putting the trolls on "Ignore"........I love doing that!
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Mosby
(16,311 posts)That proves your point is trump on trade.
He pandered to blue collar republicans with his statements on trade agreements and tariffs.
There is not a single republican leader in the US that supports tariffs and a pull back from free trade agreements, trump took these positions just to get votes from stupid republicans who stupidly believed a billionaire when he said that free trade was bad.
Jno_Gilmor_
(127 posts)issue he could have capitalized on. You're right though, no Republicans support this, a few Democrats still do.
BamaRefugee
(3,483 posts)the MURDERS! She murdered people every 10 days or so!!!!!!
LakeArenal
(28,817 posts)BamaRefugee
(3,483 posts)BLOODTHIRSTY
Nwgirl503
(406 posts)I haven't heard anything about that.
Augiedog
(2,546 posts)Brogrizzly
(145 posts)He said Trump wanted to hold people accountable, to which internally I face-palmed, and said so, he should release his taxes then. Afterwhich the immediate reply was ,"he's under audit!" So, I just stood their and slowly spoke, that doesn't mean anything, the IRS said he can release his returns. Immediately without a second to pause he started talking about Hillary's uranium selling, again internal face-palm. Theirs no arguing with these people, you can only walk away. Maybe you can start somewhere where both sides agree? I don't know, I'm astounded at the depth these people believe in Trump.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)turbinetree
(24,701 posts)Democrats 1+1= 2
Republicans 1+1=3
dchill
(38,492 posts)turbinetree
(24,701 posts)KT2000
(20,577 posts)when tRump bought the hotel from Merv Griffin many years ago. Mr Griffin was getting up in years and not in the best of health. After the deal was struck, Rump bragged about how he screwed over Mr. Griffin. He would not stop talking about it on any talk show. If he can inflict pain he will do it for his pleasure.
Citizens who condone such behavior as evident in the healthcare bill, share his sickness. I consider them predators and sadists just like Rump - they are the same.
malaise
(268,998 posts)They are ReTHUGs. Many are cons in their own right.
tRump is, indeed, a "con man"...Don the Con.
Back in the 1800s, they would have called him a "snake oil salesman".
Doitnow
(1,103 posts)I think it has somehow lost the intensity it deserved at one time. I, and perhaps others, think of snake oil salesmen as people who sell something that is worthless, but still doesn't do much harm. Drump and friends would find pleasure walking all over anyone in their path for the sheer fun of it even if there wasn't any financial gain involved. They get their kicks seeing other people being hurt.
Shandris
(3,447 posts)Because they had a choice -- either it was 100% guaranteed they wouldn't get what they desired from us, or some small percentage chance he would keep his promise. Just because he turned out to be just as bad as us (in their eyes) doesn't mean they would have voted for us, because again, everything we stand for is what they hate.
So ultimately all this comes across as to them is something to laugh at, because they haven't lost anything (in general) that they weren't losing anyway, but they've still ruined your happiness just as you're celebrating (or indicate that you wish to) how you think theirs is ruined.
When both sides spite each other, this happens. That makes both sides eminently predictable and, as a result, the nation eminently lootable.
POLARIZATION IS YOUR ENEMY AND SO IS ANY PERSON WHO PUSHES IT.
BigmanPigman
(51,591 posts)DFW
(54,378 posts)Yes, they'll suffer
Yes, they'll be less well-off
Yes, the country will be less secure
Yes, they will be less likely to be able to obtain health care that could save their own lives
Blame Fox, blame National Hate Radio, blame their lack of education, blame some kind of mass psychosis, but be aware that THEY DO NOT CARE.
If "libbruls" think something is bad, then, to them, by definition, it must be good. Even if we think that low-income white people in West Virginia need access to health care if coal mining has poisoned their drinking water--the very fact that WE believe that will be reason enough for them to think that they need no such thing.
If we feel that deporting people who have established lives here, American families, American tax-paying businesses, and contribute to America--if we feel this is bad, THEY FEEL IT IS GOOD. Well, there will always be the exceptions--i.e. the Trump voters who are directly affected. The undocumented woman in Texas who voted for the Republican Attorney General maybe regretted her vote when he signed her deportation order. The woman in Indiana, who voted for Trump, thinking he would deport only "bad people" was more than a little surprised to find out that "bad people" to her beloved Trump administration included her husband, who she saw sent to a detention center awaiting his deportation.
Listen to Adam Schiff when he tells of the constituent that says flat out that anyone who cannot afford necessary health care on their own deserves to get none. THIS IS HOW THEY THINK. We must at some point accept that, for whatever reason, they, including the Republicans reading this, are not ashamed of any of this. They find nothing wrong with any of this. They APPROVE of all of this. They did before, they did now, and they will continue to do so. We can discuss the why and the how, and the illogic of it all, but this is how they feel, and in most cases, their lives crashing down about them will NOT change their minds. If tragedy befalls them, it will somehow be our fault, Obama's fault, Hillary's fault, but NEVER their fault, never Trump's fault, and for sure never the fault of their beloved Republican Party.
Two plus two may make four in our minds, but if Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh say that two plus makes five, I promise you they will think that our computers and calculators have been manipulated by "libbruls" for some nefarious purpose, and have been wrong all this time.
The Republicans reading this will not think that last paragraph was mocking them. They will read it and think, "damn straight!" THAT is what we're up against and the sooner we realize it, the better.