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loyalsister

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3. It should be
Fri Feb 17, 2017, 02:19 PM
Feb 2017

If it was easy it would take place often. In fact, Obama would have been removed. Trump's behavior is far outside of our experience because we generally expect a president to be smart, compassionate, classy, and cautious with language. This is the same image he presented when he campaigned largely as the anti-politician, having none of the qualities I mentioned. "A candidate just doesn't say such things, and win elections" was what I was thinking during the primary and general elections.

This administration knows exactly what they are doing. Using insecurity about the election process to encourage more voting restrictions. That also encourages people to support the round ups and turning away immigrants. And, the republicans know he has tea party folks and other bigots fired up at dangerous levels. I am sure that they are not forgetting what it all means in a culture that values guns and hate more than people.

A weird metaphor I thought of was this really dumb song about a working man's hero from the 70s. The guy is telling his down on his luck story about his crappy job and his refrain is "take this job and shove it." The at the end he goes all out and says "take this job and stick it."

I really think that Trump's language and presentation appeal to the same people.

If you can tolerate it.







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