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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump managed to do this.
He surrounded himself with the worst fuckers in the world.
Not hyperbole. They are the worst people breathing.
Miller? Bannon? Manafort?
A sane and honest person would not be able to come close to finding people like this.
As a side note, I've been thinking the following: If you are unlucky enough to have the intelligence and awareness to see what is actually happening in this country, you are at risk of having a nervous breakdown. Sometimes I envy the stupid people.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)He's just gross.
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)Also read 20committee and Eric Garland on Twitter. We got this. It's just a matter of time.
sweetroxie
(776 posts)snake.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)Ivanka will stick around, if only Tuesday thru Thursday. She takes long weekends to catch up on massages, Botox injections, and pretending to be Jewish. Also, Maleria sticks around, to impress the men. She paraded into the UN like a Victoria's Secret model, wearing clothes. People who feel sorry for her being married to HIM are wasting their sympathy. She loves the attention, stood there posing with her hand in her pocket like a REAL model does. Hanging around for her payoff when he is either imprisoned or impeached. Then the charade will be over for her. Watch her reaction when it is revealed that he is not RICH, he owes Vlad more than he is worth!!
Eyeball_Kid
(7,432 posts)They're just as hideous, just as criminal, just as deceitful. Trumpy surrounds himself with a cesspool of evil.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,490 posts)All destructive deplorables....a GOP dream team.
raging moderate
(4,305 posts)Breathe and watch. We will get past this.
Nitram
(22,800 posts)This is no time to panic. Stay calm, stay informed, and watch for opportunities to have an effect.
raging moderate
(4,305 posts)That is what I mean.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Fuckers, all.
Corvo Bianco
(1,148 posts)The Whitehouse is filled with Donald's only "friends", the planet's human garbage.
ananda
(28,860 posts).. just to get my mind off all the craziness and horror
going on right now.
I can only take so much at a time.
This week I'm playing 6 times, three plus hours
each time.
Yay bridge!
I'm doing my activist stuff too, but in smaller,
shorter doses.
We're having our local Democrats meeting on
October 1st. I hope it goes well.
PatrickforO
(14,573 posts)and I hadn't realized until the other day how much stress I've been feeling.
BigmanPigman
(51,590 posts)AAARRRGGG!!!
barbtries
(28,793 posts)think i pay too much attention. i'm like chicken little to them. but the sky is falling. i can't unring the bell of awareness.
BigmanPigman
(51,590 posts)barbtries
(28,793 posts)la la la la
barbtries
(28,793 posts)first time ever. even after my daughter was killed i didn't (refused) take pills. i had to be able to maintain a professional demeanor at work with people i felt actively hostile toward and was so distraught, which has not abated. he's proven every bit as bad as i imagined he would be. maybe worse, but when you find yourself contemplating that you may actually live long enough to witness the end of the world, it's hard to see how it could be worse.
doesn't help that the work situation has deteriorated all by itself and now the IRS is chasing me down unfairly for money i don't owe.
i don't take them every day, but there are days...when i double up.
Eyeball_Kid
(7,432 posts)Brainstormy
(2,380 posts)I couldn't scroll down fast enough to add DeVos.
Fla Dem
(23,668 posts)These three and what they can do to impact the future of America for a generation or more is down right horrifying. Posting just a miniscule of what reflects their attitudes and positions.
Cruella DeVille as Secretary of Education. Will privatize it all, demand religious teaching and prayer in classrooms, totally destroy our 380 year history of public schools.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_education_in_the_United_States
https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2017-04-18/donald-trump-and-betsy-devos-budget-destroys-public-education-for-kids
deeply devout people like Lanting and DeVos, education plays a key role in that mission. Since her nomination, DeVos hasnt had much to say about her faithor whether she plans to defend the separation of church and state in public schools. (DeVos declined Mother Jones request for an interview, but a Trump transition team spokeswoman replied in an email, Mrs. DeVos believes in the legal doctrine of the separation of church and state.) However, in a 2001 interview for The Gathering, a group focused on advancing Christian faith through philanthropy, she and her husband offered a rare public glimpse of their views. Asked whether Christian schools should continue to rely on givingrather than pushing for taxpayer money through vouchersBetsy DeVos replied, There are not enough philanthropic dollars in America to fund what is currently the need in education Our desire is to confront the culture in ways that will continue to advance Gods kingdom.
Added Dick DeVos: As we look at many communities in our country, the church has been displaced by the public school as the center for activity t is certainly our hope that more and more churches will get more and more active and engaged in education.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/01/betsy-devos-christian-schools-vouchers-charter-education-secretary/
The human tragedy resulting from Hurricane Harvey is also an environmental crisisand the Environmental Protection Agency, even as it has been disrupted and diminished by the Trump administration, is playing a crucial role in responding to the flooding that has created dramatic new perils for Texans.
Unfortunately, the charlatan who heads the EPA, Scott Pruitt, is spinning discussions about that response to make them fit within the narrow confines of his climate-science denial. As Americas fourth-largest city was under water this week, and as reports mounted regarding environmental threats unleashed by the storms and the unprecedented flooding of industrial and refinery zones, Pruitts EPA went so far as to criticize media outlets and scientists who dared to suggest that there are explanations for the epic rainfall, storm surges, and flooding associated with Harvey to be found in climate science.
https://www.thenation.com/article/for-scott-pruitts-epa-climate-change-denial-is-mission-critical/
In 2012, the newly appointed HHS secretary claimed the ACAs contraceptive mandate trampled on religious liberties and helped literally no women.
President-elect Donald Trump announced his pick to head the Health and Human Services Department on Tuesday: House Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price, a Republican from Georgia and a fierce opponent of abortion, the Affordable Care Act, and the laws birth-control mandate.
Perhaps Price opposes the provision, which covers birth control without a copay, because he believes it to be unnecessary. In 2012, he made comments suggesting all women can afford birth control:
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/11/tom-price-not-one-woman-cant-afford-birth-control/509003/
mopinko
(70,103 posts)syringis
(5,101 posts)...to the level of an art !
To his credit, even if he didn't it on purpose, in fact, it is quite the opposite, he managed to avoid us, European, the Deutch and French assholes (Wilders and Le Pen).
He came too late. Otherwise, we would have avoided the Brexit mess...
I know it is not a consolation for you, however, on the international stage, it would have been much more worse than it is now, if those 2 clowns (clones of Trump ?) won the elections. Apocalyptic is probably more relevant than worse.
Trump's bottomless ignorance is a great threat to the world.
Traditionally, The USA has a key role in the global balance. The position is now dangerously vacant, bringing all what the planet counts of unhinged leaders, from a "controled potential threat" to "an out of hand real threat".
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Some days, I only have the energy to sigh. Today is one of those days.
ThoughtCriminal
(14,047 posts)More corrupt than all previous administrations COMBINED. And that includes Nixon, Reagan and both Bushes.