I feel much the same way. I’m torn between obsessively following all these threads, wallowing in schadenfreude, delighting in every Trump screw-up; and feeling the need to just walk away for a while and watch the sunrise and cat videos, for my mental health.
At the moment: obsessive schadenfreude is winning.
Yea, you try to raise your kids right and teach them the importance of honesty, compassion and virtue but how do you explain why a bunch of lying, cheating, hate filled jerks have all the power? If it was Romney or McCain, you could easily say you disagree with them but respect the office and believe that they are doing what they think is right. With Trump, you’ve got someone who openly brags about screwing people over and hurting others just because he can.
There are lots of Dem supporters who, had McCain or Romney become president, would have screamed bloody murder about the evil men in the White House. It’s only now, when Donnie has taken over, that many of them realize those were the sane Rep nomination choices.
And [del]they[/del] we would have been right to do so.
Not so, at least not chez-99. Granted, Donny is a couple of quantum levels worse than they had the potential to be, but that fact doesn’t retroactively make any Republican even remotely acceptable.
Because bullies are afraid of those who are confident and strong. This is why I hope that in Monday’s meeting with the Canadian Prime Minister, Trudeau kicks Trump squarely in the nuts.
If that happens I will start a petition to name Trudeau Chief Goon (a hockey term for a player whose job is to rough up the opposing team’s players) for life.
I just said they were the sane Republican choices. My vote is predicated on whomever I think will be best for the country, regardless of which tribe he represents. That said, it has been a long time (maybe never since I’ve come of voting age) that I think that the Republican party has put forth a better candidate than the Democratic Party, though some margins were narrower than others. But if you look at this years Republican Primary, the choices (except maybe Kascich) all made Romney and McCain seem like good choices in comparison, and we ended up with the 2nd worst candidate (the worst now heads HUD :smack: )
“In 1993, on the 12th green of the Spyglass Hill Golf Course, at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, Trump sinks a hole-in-one after Trump struck the ball 180 yards with a 5-iron, and it bounced once before dropping into the cup.”
