This example shows a willingness to weaponize federal law enforcement and to use it to intimidate people into silence and indifference. I’m sure it only gets better from here.
Dialog from Gandhi:
Learn to read, asshead. I’ve shat on the orange shroom plenty in this thread. Apparently anytime the facts don’t fit your narrow worldview you can’t handle it. A person can despise Trump while still correcting a fallacy criticizing his administration.
Beyond any specific policies or events involving Trump, this will prove to be the greatest single legacy of his presidency.
That being, citizens who have come to the realization that “Hey, if the President of the United States can be a racist, sexist, inhumane asshole right out in public, then I can too! Woohoo! What a relief that I don’t have to hide it any more…I’m gonna let my freak flag fly now!”
Programs for dealing with illegal aliens existed under previous presidents. The Trump administration has taken legitimate programs and abused them. Sensible people understand the blame for that doesn’t fall on the people who set up the programs.
Most of those people are going to end up like Roseanne; they’re going to find out that you can’t get away with being a racist, sexist, inhumane asshole in public unless you’re also a very rich white man.
Here is a thought for the day: Trump’s daughter is his type. God help her.
Yeah, KKK. You’ve got me snickering and I’m not sure I should be:eek:
…and probably serving them up to Garrison Keillor who did what, besides give anyone outside of Minnesota a reason to give a crap about Minnesota Public Radio?
Since this is the pit, I demand you apologize to the pigs of this planet.
Absolutely. As I said. The policies from this administration piss me off. :mad:
Thank you for this post, RTFirefly. And even more frightening (you touch on this with #3) this so detestable Administration is fully embraced by a large portion of our citizens and most of the GOP. Like sadists, or imbeciles, or lunatics they chant ‘Lock her up’, fart ‘MAGA’ and make jokes about the kiddies in concentration camps.
That some Dopers are not as flabbergasted by all this as I am is unsettling. Do I see it more clearly as an ex-pat looking in, while Americans living in the midst have become inured, like the apocryphal frog in heating water?
Oh no, septimus. Many of us, and I’m guessing most Dopers (who are following the situation) are way past flabbergasted and well into appalled, disgusted, distressed, dismayed, despairing, and sick. And we feel helpless at this point in time.
Yes, there are still Dopers who minimize the disaster that is the t—p administration, but there are fewer than there were a couple of years ago. And sometimes I think some of those apologists post their defense of DJT just to wind up the rest of us and not because they really believe in/admire him. I think they enjoy derailing threads and leading outraged Dopers on a not-so-merry chase into the weeds. Better to channel Nancy Pelosi and NOT take the bait they so freely throw out. If no one ever engaged with one of the apologists, they would soon disappear from the t—p threads.
And then there’s those who get paid for it.
I’d say this is death by 1000 cuts, but the motherfucker just won’t bleed.
I got into a Facebook argument with one of those last week, who claimed that 1/3 of the kids were “trafficked”. They couldn’t seem to grasp my argument that, even assuming for the sake of argument that this is true, *that makes it even worse. *The idiot seems to think the cure to abuse is more abuse.
How do you even begin to penetrate such a mind?
I wonder if he even knows what ‘trafficking’ is, or if he’s just repeating a scare word.