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kstewart33

(6,552 posts) Sat Sep 23, 2017, 10:56 PM Sep 2017

Trump's Madness: A Question. [View all]

Today, Trump's tweets about the NFL and his late night tweet that pushes us closer to the brink of war with North Korea brings to mind lawyer Joseph Welch's comment to Senator Joe McCarthy during the televised Senate hearings in the 1950s, that brought McCarthy to his knees and McCarthyism to its death:

"Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"

I so wish that someone with the position, the respect and even the admiration of the large majority of people in this country, would say those words to Donald Trump, loudly and publicly. Who might that be? Who might turn this terrible tide?

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Trump's Madness: A Question. [View all] kstewart33 Sep 2017 OP

What would be the point? MousePlayingDaffodil Sep 2017 #1

Mouse, one comment brought down the greatest witchhunt in our history. kstewart33 Sep 2017 #14

I agree. I have yet to see any person of consequence confront him directly on the smirkymonkey Sep 2017 #15

Imagine his response. kstewart33 Sep 2017 #16

I certainly hope so. He's a loose cannon and we can't afford to let him continue smirkymonkey Sep 2017 #17

Mattis, John McCain, McMaster...Dems say it all of the Alice11111 Sep 2017 #2

Hope springs eternal, and it's a fantastic dream. N/T SonofDonald Sep 2017 #4

The Joint Chiefs of Staff janterry Sep 2017 #3

!!! Alice11111 Sep 2017 #5

The joint chiefs can't do it as that might be construed as insubordination... brush Sep 2017 #7

But isn't there a limit, even in the military janterry Sep 2017 #12

I hope before he gives the order to say bomb NK that the joint chiefs go to Congress and press... brush Sep 2017 #13

That's a great idea. kstewart33 Sep 2017 #18

He'd puff himself up to full Mussolini stance and try to bully and bluster his way out of it Warpy Sep 2017 #6

This thread screamed Roy Cohn Awsi Dooger Sep 2017 #8

Too many people under 60 don't have a clue who the rotter was Warpy Sep 2017 #9

He would just say that he is the most decent person that ever existed. n/t LuckyCharms Sep 2017 #10

The only way this would happen is if Trump and family felt so threatened that they would flee icymist Sep 2017 #11