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Your pResident has demonstrated, time and again, that he has absolutely NO idea what hes doing, NO concept of the responsibilities of his office, and NO clue as to how our government operates domestically nor its role in the global community.
His constant lies now clocked-in at an average of five whoppers per day have resulted in polls that show that 74% of Americans dont trust anything they hear from the Trump White House.
He has filled almost every Cabinet position with people who are inexperienced in the fields they now oversee, and have already proven themselves to be totally incompetent.
His advisors are equally inept. His son-in-law, Jared Kushner, has been tasked with everything from solving the problems in the Middle East to government reform to criminal justice reform, despite the fact that he has absolutely NO experience beyond running his daddys real estate company, a company that is now billions of dollars in debt.
Your pResident has yet to utter a single statement that hasnt been ridiculed for its stupidity, its ignorance of the facts, and its blatant dishonesty. His every statement is the butt of jokes not only on late-night TV talk shows, newspapers, and magazines in the US, but around the world.
While claiming he will make America great again by bringing off-shored jobs back to American workers, your pResident continues to have his own brand merchandise manufactured in low-wage countries including the MAGA-branded merchandise that he sells to those who are out of work because their former jobs at factories that once produced such merchandise have been moved overseas.
Your pResident spends his days tweeting utter nonsense, watching TV, and planning his next golf game. His daily briefings are limited to one page of bullet points, because he doesnt want to have his time wasted being informed of whats going on in the country he allegedly leads, or what events are happening in the world at large.
Aside from being illiterate and woefully ill-educated about history, geography, and world events, your pResident doesnt even possess enough common sense to not lash out at your own party members particularly those who have supported him and now find themselves under the bus.
Your pResident continues to say and do things for the sole purpose of appeasing his base , an ever-dwindling group of rabid racists who are just as stupid and ill-informed as he is.
Your law-and-order pResident pardoned Joe Arpaio after he was convicted of breaking the law, while declaring that there are very fine people among Nazis, white supremacists, and KKK members. And now he is pushing for the deportation of DACA-protected children and young adults whose only crime is being law-abiding, productive members of our society.
Your pResident is now bringing us close to the edge of nuclear holocaust by provoking Kim Jong-un a man who is an equally self-serving, self-absorbed, paranoid madman in a game of chicken that has worldwide consequences.
Your pResident has not fulfilled a single campaign promise. His Muslim travel ban failed, his repeal-and-replace Obamacare has failed, and anyone who still believes that border wall is going to be paid for by Mexico is as dumb as the man who promised it would be.
Above all else, your pResident is under investigation for colluding with our enemy, Russia and all your cries of theres no there there are falling on deaf ears as the evidence mounts against him. This is, of course, the same pResident who handed over classified information to the Russians he is accused of colluding with, while you continue to defend him. Some of your prominent party members have even gone so far as to commit perjury in order to do so.
The vast majority of your pResidents statements and actions have served one purpose only: to create headlines that he hopes will distract the media from focusing on his treasonous behaviour. Its as obvious as it is sickening. While your pResident decries the fake news, he regularly praises actual fake news sites that discuss children being enslaved to work on Mars.
Yes, you must be SO PROUD to have elected this mentally-unhinged idiot to the highest position in our country.
As we move into the mid-term elections next November, I will quote your pResidents eloquent comment when addressing the flood victims in Texas: Good luck!
Well, good luck supporting a pResident who is a national disgrace. Good luck defending a pResident whose approval rating has consistently dropped like an anchor every week hes been in office. Good luck trying to convince voters even those who once supported your party no matter what that the party that is more interested in defending and protecting a god-damned idiot than defending and protecting the Constitution, the rule of law, and common decency should continue to be in control of our nation.
In closing, I can only say the obvious: FUCK YOU, Republicans. FUCK YOU, those who continue to support a lying, pussy-grabbing racist. FUCK YOU, those who have tried to cover up your pResidents stupidity, his incompetence, and his obvious treason.
FUCK YOU ALL.
50 Shades Of Blue
(9,983 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)I wish you could stop blocking and just say what you mean.
benld74
(9,904 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Thank you!
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)You did forget to thank the Electoral College for "doing its job," however.
lunamagica
(9,967 posts)ancianita
(36,048 posts)They are truly a congress of shitgibbons.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)For the previous 8 YEARS all they had to do was insult President Obama, work very few days, and coast to the election. What we need is a complete shakeup especially as far as elections go. The gop already has their dirty trics teams in place. The dems. had better do SOMETHING about elections and FAST.
mcar
(42,307 posts)I have no words for the emotion.
BigmanPigman
(51,590 posts)I post on DU half of the time. I am glad so many here are eloquent and can put my anger and frustration into words . Mine would be a string of at least 15 obscenities and not much more than that.
George II
(67,782 posts)Permanut
(5,602 posts)Great post, great rant, NanceGreggs for President. Well, okay, maybe that's a little over the top.
Loge23
(3,922 posts)Any one of the paragraphs in this excellent rant should be enough to stir the most ardent republican into action to save what's left of their party, but even the entire piece will not.
We live in a country now where tens of millions of people suport this monster whom is actively destroying our country.
Nothing changes other than things continue to get worse. Now we have republicans abetting the #IPOTUS by obstructing their own investigation!
We rant and rave righteously but I wonder if we have lost the country.
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)thbobby
(1,474 posts)Great post Nance! Depressing, but I have been depressed since November.
The pride the GOP deplorables must feel about replacing the "Black" president (intelligent, patriotic, compassionate, honest, moral, etc.) with a "White", whatever he is, who is the most disgusting excuse for a human being ever. Even Hitler pales in comparison. How proud the GOP should be for showing America how "superior" a white man is to the black president who preceded him.
I can only echo your sentiment, Nance. FUCK YOU GOP! Racists Haters Bigots and Idiots. FUCK YOU!
LiberalLovinLug
(14,173 posts)"Above all else, your pResident is under investigation for colluding with our enemy, Russia and all your cries of theres no there there are falling on deaf ears as the evidence mounts against him."
OK, I know this is a rhetorical question but...I wonder if these same folks will say, "oh, I guess there is a there there and he is a traitor. I was wrong about him" if and (hopefully when) Mueller comes down with his indictments. And when Trump is finally charged with crimes.
I imagine it will have already moved on by then to Soros and the shadow government running the secret show
Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)kimbutgar
(21,137 posts)You have poor judgement and lack of insight. Until you wakr up and see this cretin for what he is, you are an idiot you me.
brer cat
(24,562 posts)rzemanfl
(29,557 posts)broadcaster90210
(333 posts)Sad but true.
William769
(55,145 posts)Stonepounder
(4,033 posts)Thank you!
nancy1942
(635 posts)Gothmog
(145,168 posts)The Wizard
(12,545 posts)was gleeful as he announced the end of DACA. Lincoln's mistake was fighting a Civil War to keep creeps like Sessions in the Union. Lincoln should have bought the slaves from the South, built a wall to separate Slave States from normal people, and enforced a naval blockade to prevent any further slave importation. The Mexican border would have been safe as Mexico outlawed slavery in 1843, which was the cause of the Mexican American War as Texas land owners wanted free labor to pick cotton.
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)And if American democracy is damaged in the process, then who's to say they should stop? As long as they put more money into their donors' pockets.
WestMichRad
(1,320 posts)This isn't a rant - it's just accurate observations of the mess we have with this mis-administration. Well stated, Nance!
PatrickforO
(14,572 posts)Anger at these people who are ripping apart everything good this nation stands for a tile at a time. At the radical capitalists like Charles Koch, whose ALEC actually puts his initiatives on state ballots, and whose Cato Institute gives these radical traitors to democracy talking points. We are so close to losing our republic it isn't even funny.
I was going to be facetious and say, "Gee, Nance, you've got to quit being so wishy washy - no one knows how you really feel." That would be a joke, you see.
But this isn't a joke.
My anger grows each day. Depression, despair, confusion as to which of a thousand different attacks on morality, on common decency I ought to fight today, and which I should fight tomorrow. And fucking nazis marching down OUR streets when our fathers and grandfathers shed blood to fight them 70 years ago. That war cost 60 million human lives, and now we have nazi fucks that want that to happen again????
So, Nance, keep ranting. But, everyone also keep resisting. We cannot give up because this is the battle of our lives.
Shoonra
(521 posts)Donald Trump has accomplished something in just the first eight months of his Presidency that most of us thought would never be accomplished in our lifetimes, nor even in the lifetimes of our children:
Donald Trump has made George W. Bush look good.
Back in 2008 we were all insisting that Junior Bush was THE. WORST. PRESIDENT. EVER. It was a superlative that he deserved and we thought and hoped that his claim to that sobriquet would be unchallenged for many decades to come. Obama's competence and productivity stood in such contrast that we were willing to suggest Obama to be among the better occupants of the Oval Office.
But now, less than a decade after Bush Jr went back to Texas, Donald Trump has wrested his claim for immortality from him. In fact, we are now concerned that Trump will somehow make himself the Last of the Presidents.
niyad
(113,279 posts)ismnotwasm
(41,976 posts)NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)One of your best, Nance, and that's saying something.
niyad
(113,279 posts)tempted to add-sideways, with a rusty chainsaw.
ariadne0614
(1,727 posts). . .that you have the most effective and satisfying way of expressing the collective DU consciousness. Thanks again.
bucolic_frolic
(43,146 posts)then why are 100% of his decisions against everything the government, previous presidents, and the non-Fascist wing of his party has ever done?
You'd get better results just flipping a coin.
So he knows exactly what he's doing. Total cutthroat capitalism, and grabbing everything for the wealthiest people.
DoctorJoJo
(1,134 posts)We all know most all of this, but sometimes itemizing it really provides dynamic impact. Unfortunately, Repubs don't read this venue. They are hugging their blankies and hoping it all goes away, while watching Fox and Fiends. Thankfully, justice is grinding away, too slow for the impatient, but inexorably, to remove this blight from our country.
JoJo
Initech
(100,068 posts)We need to hammer this point home, even if the voters don't get it.