An attempt to boost his mood
Apparently it has finally dawned on Trump that a lot of people really don’t like him. Really don’t like him.
You’d think he would have known that all his life, given what an up front unabashed asshole he is…except he’s a narcissist so if you understand about narcissists you wouldn’t think that. Understanding narcissists is not easy.
In a week that saw a devastating global pandemic worsen, a record economic meltdown confirmed and an all-out bid to stoke racial tensions for political gain deepen, Trump is finding himself more and more the odd man out: absent and detached from the leadership of either party, locked in antique cultural battles and increasingly unpopular among voters.
In other words most of us detest him more than we’ve ever detested anyone in our whole lives. He’s literally the worst person we’ve ever experienced.
Even his staunchest Republican allies flatly rejected his suggestion that November’s voting be delayed, some actually laughing at what, by most accounts, was a serious (if toothless) proposal from the President to undermine the election.
The nation’s civic leadership, including three of Trump’s four living predecessors, gathered without him in Atlanta to honor the late Rep. John Lewis, making the sitting president’s absence conspicuous if unsurprising.
Ain’t nobody ever gonna talk about Trump the way mourners talked about John Lewis.
In an attempt to boost his mood, Trump’s advisers scrambled to assemble a scaled-down political event on a baking Florida tarmac on Friday, where Trump addressed a mostly mask-less crowd standing inches from one another. Other events in the state that Trump had scheduled for Saturday were canceled as a storm approached.
Scaled-down is right – there were maybe a couple of hundred people on that tarmac.
Party’s over, Don. Go home.
I wish I could say that; spending my childhood and young adult years with a Trump-type was hell. But I can say that he is literally the worst person I’ve ever experienced who reached that level of power.
Yes. He’s definitely put Assholes I Have Known in perspective. I can’t think of anyone who came close.
Assholes I Have Known? I’d read that book.
Volume I alone would be about a foot thick.
The election of the orange sewage fountain is certainly the worst thing that has happened in the world in my lifetime. That was when all light went out of the world. Even before then I was less optimistic than most others who confidently predicted that he would never make it through the primaries. And after that it was: “Ok, so he did win the primaries, but we all know he’ll never actually get elected, so nothing to worry about”. “Ok, so he managed to get himself elected, but the responsibility of the job as well as the moderating influence of the Republican establishment will force him to behave”. “Ok, so he’s obviously not behaving, but he’ll be forced to resign in no time, you just wait and see”. “Ok, so he has gotten away with everything so far, but we all know he’ll never get re-elected”, etc. etc. The president is not a monarch, or so we’ve been told. Nobody – not even the president – is above the law. There are “Checks and Balances” built into the system to keep the government from devolving into kleptocracy and tyranny. And even today whenever he says or does something outrageous (i.e. whenever he says or does anything at all) there always seems to be someone prepared to predict that this will be his downfall. Apparently there are even people who still cling to the hope that there’s more to him than all that. As Ophelia recently quoted someone saying:
*Head exploding*
Well given all the things he has already managed to get away with, I for one will not feel any sense of relief until after he and his puppets have indeed been removed from office. And even then the astronomical flaws in the electoral system that helped him
winsteal the election, even with 3 million less votes than his opponent, will still be in place. We will still have to deal with the fact that a sufficiently large minority were prepared to vote for him in the first place, and, to a large degree, still support him to this day. I will take this opportunity to condemn Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” comment. That was indeed inexcusable. She should never have said that a subset of Trump’s supporters were deplorables, thus seemingly implying that the rest were not deplorables. If you want to be a decent person, being in favor of anything that Trump represents is not among the options available to you. There are plenty of things that decent people can disagree about, but this is not one of them. And, of course, just because Trump is the worst of the worst, it still doesn’t follow that Biden or the Democrat establishment are in any sense “good”. As I have previously commented, American liberals and leftists are nothing if not divided and the fact that they all hate Trump doesn’t automatically lead to political change as long as they hate each other even more.At any rate the cat is out of the bag, and now every future Hitler-type with ambitions of establishing the 4th Reich will know that stealing an election pretty much does make you a monarch and place you above the law, and you don’t even need a majority of votes to get there, that the apocryphal “Checks and Balances” offer little or no protection against the government devolving into kleptocracy and tyranny, that you can tell obvious, outright, shameless lies and commit the most obvious crimes in plain sight every day, and there will be nothing anybody can do about it.
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Ditto, except I grew up with mine. I think that he was such a giant piece of shit maybe capped his potential for harm.
Which is to say, if Trump was any worse, and I mean just by one iota, none of us would even know his name.