Post by sharksrog on Dec 19, 2021 7:39:02 GMT -5
I missed this at the time, but Thursday, May, 2020, right after the George Floyd killing, President(?) Trump retweeted a video of someone saying "The only good Democrat is a dead Democrat." Shouldn't he have been relieved of his duties immediately?
When I read this minutes ago, I was stunned. That was an action I wouldn't expect even from Trump. And yet his horrendous actions had become so commonplace that I hadn't even seen this one.
Appalling. No question Trump had become the Divider in Chief. Which he remains to this day.
Not content to simply trash Democrats, within six months the defeated Trump would take on democracy itself. Never mind that our greatest president ever, Abraham Lincoln, was denied public office half a dozen times before he was elected president, in Trump's mind he couldn't lose a fair election. How in his wildest dreams could a rational man believe he couldn't be subject to the same things Honest Abe had to overcome. How could the Republican Party have sunk from the heights of Honest Abe to the depths and deception of Dishonest Donald?
While most of my friends are Republicans, none of them -- I mean NONE of them -- can logically explain why they support the man. The seemingly most reasonable say they don't like the man, but look at his accomplishments. Well, I DO look at them.
. 800,000 COVID deaths, most of them avoidable. We're right at 800,000 deaths MORE than South Korea, who began to experience COVID the same week we did. Same week for the first case. Same week for the first death.
. A country more torn apart than at any time since the Civil War.
. An attempted coup against democracy, which the Trumpers are refusing to answer questions about, some going so far as the invoke their 5th Amendment right against self-incrimination. Both the guilty and the innocent have that right, but while the innocent usually disdain it, realizing the truth shall set them free, the guilty cling to it, not wanting to help the state with its burden of proof. The innocent realize that the state's having the truth makes its burden harder. The guilty realize that KEEPING the truth from the state makes its burden harder.
. An economy torn apart more than at any time since the Great Depression.
. Despite his campaign pledge to balance the budget, a $2 trillion DEFICIT BEFORE COVID. And of course one that has grown fourfold since the uncontrolled virus. Our Commander in Chief has been successful in controlling his critics by disdaining them, but the virus refused and refuses to be disdained.
I agree that we should judge the ex-president by his actions. I look forward to when the courts do, as well.
When I read this minutes ago, I was stunned. That was an action I wouldn't expect even from Trump. And yet his horrendous actions had become so commonplace that I hadn't even seen this one.
Appalling. No question Trump had become the Divider in Chief. Which he remains to this day.
Not content to simply trash Democrats, within six months the defeated Trump would take on democracy itself. Never mind that our greatest president ever, Abraham Lincoln, was denied public office half a dozen times before he was elected president, in Trump's mind he couldn't lose a fair election. How in his wildest dreams could a rational man believe he couldn't be subject to the same things Honest Abe had to overcome. How could the Republican Party have sunk from the heights of Honest Abe to the depths and deception of Dishonest Donald?
While most of my friends are Republicans, none of them -- I mean NONE of them -- can logically explain why they support the man. The seemingly most reasonable say they don't like the man, but look at his accomplishments. Well, I DO look at them.
. 800,000 COVID deaths, most of them avoidable. We're right at 800,000 deaths MORE than South Korea, who began to experience COVID the same week we did. Same week for the first case. Same week for the first death.
. A country more torn apart than at any time since the Civil War.
. An attempted coup against democracy, which the Trumpers are refusing to answer questions about, some going so far as the invoke their 5th Amendment right against self-incrimination. Both the guilty and the innocent have that right, but while the innocent usually disdain it, realizing the truth shall set them free, the guilty cling to it, not wanting to help the state with its burden of proof. The innocent realize that the state's having the truth makes its burden harder. The guilty realize that KEEPING the truth from the state makes its burden harder.
. An economy torn apart more than at any time since the Great Depression.
. Despite his campaign pledge to balance the budget, a $2 trillion DEFICIT BEFORE COVID. And of course one that has grown fourfold since the uncontrolled virus. Our Commander in Chief has been successful in controlling his critics by disdaining them, but the virus refused and refuses to be disdained.
I agree that we should judge the ex-president by his actions. I look forward to when the courts do, as well.