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Irish_Dem

(47,570 posts)
1. Yes Trump is a sadistic narcissist and sociopath.
Sat Apr 27, 2024, 07:48 AM
Apr 27

He greatly enjoys creating chaos and division.
He loves causing pain to others.

Trump gets off on this.

sop

(10,274 posts)
3. What's shocking is how easily Trump tapped into the rich vein of like-minded shitbags in this country.
Sat Apr 27, 2024, 08:24 AM
Apr 27

Trump didn't even have to convince tens of millions of other hateful shitbags to hurt others, they were just waiting to crawl out from under their rocks and join in the fun. I find that deeply depressing.

PatSeg

(47,691 posts)
6. Yes, he didn't need any real talent
Sat Apr 27, 2024, 08:53 AM
Apr 27

or great oratory skills. They were waiting for their Messiah to come and validate their loathsome beliefs. They didn't see a smart, savvy businessman, they saw a kindred soul - "He gets me". He made it acceptable to be hateful, dishonest, sexist, and racist. Not just acceptable, but even preferable.

NanaCat

(1,382 posts)
10. I don't get how people missed them
Sat Apr 27, 2024, 10:17 AM
Apr 27

They've been in the open all along. They weren't hiding anywhere, and they weren't silently seething, either.

Maybe one needs to have been a minority to have seen how open they were about their viciousness? Because every woman, POC, LGBT, non-Christian and so forth has witnessed the openly expressed hate of bigots for all of their lives. And the hate was there before we the hated were born.

You're noticing it now because it's now in the mainstream news. We the hated didn't need the mainstream news to reveal these monsters to us. They've been tormenting us all of our lives.

Hope22

(1,900 posts)
4. It's really difficult to carry the load.
Sat Apr 27, 2024, 08:28 AM
Apr 27

It seems never ending and more absurd with each passing day. Stay strong. I’m right there with you. We can’t let TSF get the best of us. Peace and love to you! 💗💗🙏🏼

Rhiannon12866

(206,420 posts)
5. According to Mary Trump's book, his mother was warned not to have anymore children after the first three
Sat Apr 27, 2024, 08:51 AM
Apr 27

For health reasons. But she went on to have Donald and his younger brother (who he bullied) and his mother was absent during his earliest years because she was often hospitalized - at one point she was expected to die. The only care he got was from his eldest sister who was 12 and his Dad wasn't fond of little kids, according to Mary.

NanaCat

(1,382 posts)
11. Why are you blaming the mother for the # of kids?
Sat Apr 27, 2024, 10:25 AM
Apr 27

This is the most disgustingly sexist thing I've seen on DU today.

She didn't get pregnant by herself, you know,. Why is she the only party responsible for the kids that came from the horizontal mamba? I doubt she had much say in a husband's demand for sex--especially not back then. And that's before getting to how the demand came from a blatant psychopath. You try living with one, and see if you can withstand denying one what he wants.

And that's before getting into how little access there was to safe and effective birth control in the 1940s.

Makes me sick to see people on this site blaming only a woman for the number of children she had, especially one from a time when women had next to zero rights.

NH Ethylene

(30,820 posts)
13. It looks like they were just stating facts.
Sat Apr 27, 2024, 10:52 AM
Apr 27

She was warned not to get pregnant, but she did. She may or may not have had any control over that. Life was not easy for women before The Pill.

Mr.Bee

(187 posts)
12. I'm worried about the next one - and it doesn't have to be a Drumpf
Sat Apr 27, 2024, 10:44 AM
Apr 27

It could be a Carlson, or a Hannity, 20-30 years from now, a President Waters? Hmmm...

Hotler

(11,470 posts)
15. He's only doing what repug voters want, cruelty and meanness to those not like themselves.
Sat Apr 27, 2024, 11:01 AM
Apr 27

Basically own and hate and punish the Dems & Libs.

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