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WePurrsevere

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21. You're right, Trump isn't a Republican, he's his own...
Thu Apr 13, 2017, 11:19 AM
Apr 2017

'Me, me, me' Party with his ignorant followers willing to bite off their nose to spite their face to bow down to their golden idol.

Your dad sounds a lot like mine and for a man who grew up in a pre-civil rights era I'd say he's quite 'liberal' in many ways although a bit 'stuck' in past on a couple issues but they're religious conflicts so he feels separate from politics). When I was very young we belonged to a country club, my dad came home furious one day after a club meeting (late 1960s) and announced we wouldn't be renewing because the board refused my dad and a few other members request that the club allow Jewish and black members. A few years later they finally opened up the membership (and my dad joined just for the golfing) but I'd never seen him as angry as he was that night before.

He didn't like Shrub at all, he feels that he's a totally inept fool used to get Cheney in power, but the total disgust and anger I hear in his voice when he talks about Trump goes way beyond his opinion of Shrub and the thing that 'really' nailed it home for him before the election was how Trump treats and speaks to/about women and the disabled. He still gets livid about it even months later.

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He doesn't want to kill it. He just doesn't give enough fucks to keep this around. DetlefK Apr 2017 #1
He doesn't understand it. Ilsa Apr 2017 #2
That's an excellent point. Rhiannon12866 Apr 2017 #3
W.T.H! This just plain 'penny smart, dollar foolish'. WePurrsevere Apr 2017 #4
I know. Rhiannon12866 Apr 2017 #5
I was/am the same way... WePurrsevere Apr 2017 #8
I sure agree about that, too. Rhiannon12866 Apr 2017 #10
You're right, Trump isn't a Republican, he's his own... WePurrsevere Apr 2017 #21
Republicans are a death cult, hell bent on destroying the planet and killing everything that lives anarch Apr 2017 #6
I think you're right, more's the pity Rhiannon12866 Apr 2017 #7
Yep - just mean spirited hatred Cosmocat Apr 2017 #12
"Will destroyng this piss off liberals and Democrats? Then let's destroy it!" hatrack Apr 2017 #18
Any consumer protection device is antithetical to his quest to screw others... Cooley Hurd Apr 2017 #9
So he's doing everything he can to make the rest of us sick, too... Rhiannon12866 Apr 2017 #11
They attack the effective regulations first, because they want to discredit regulation itself /nt MrModerate Apr 2017 #13
because he's just a fucking giant asshole who hates progress Fast Walker 52 Apr 2017 #14
Because it's on the "Freedom" Caucus list of regulations to eliminate. mtngirl47 Apr 2017 #15
Trump has alienated so many groups and individuals, there has to be a backlash in 2018 Rhiannon12866 Apr 2017 #17
I'm in Whittier---just outside the Cherokee Reservation mtngirl47 Apr 2017 #19
It certainly is beautiful country! Rhiannon12866 Apr 2017 #20
Yeah. 'Free market' zealots and pro-consumption energy interests. Mc Mike Apr 2017 #16
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