6/18/19: It’s official. President Twitter Thumbs is running for reelection. In announcing his decision at a rally, Trump lashes out in all directions. Democrats, he says, are “an angry, left-wing mob.” His opponents are “depraved.” (Is it just me, or does Trump always sound angry when talking about how angry his opponents are supposed to be?) The man whose campaign had dozens of contacts with Russians – and who said recently he’d happy to talk to Russians or Chinese or Norwegians if they’d help him win again (see: 6/12/19) – has the audacity to complain about critics and political foes.
He faults them for the “un-American conduct of those who tried to
undermine our great democracy.”
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“Instead of bringing us together as one America, Democrats want to splinter us into factions and tribes. They want us divided.”
President
Trump
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Trump was bad in 2016; if he wins in 2020, his brand will metastasize. Opponents don’t just disagree about healthcare. Democrats don’t just want to raise taxes. “They want to destroy you [emphasis added],” he warns his worshipers. They want to “destroy our country as we know it. It’s not acceptable, and it’s not going to happen.”
By comparison, Trump describes his fans as people who “love their country, love their flag, love their children, and believe that a nation must care for its own citizens first.”
In the twisted mind of Trump – and in confused MAGA minds – we on the other side don’t love this country.
We do.
He says we don’t love the flag.
We do (we’re just not blindly nationalistic).
And he says we don’t love our children???
He’s an asshole for sure.
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Yeah. We love our children. |
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We definitely do. |
Trump is in full authoritarian mode as he eyes a second term. He’s stirring maximum hate. He tells listeners that their enemies – currently more than half the American people – are a threat. “They would shut down your free speech and use the power of the law to punish their opponents,” he storms. They “would strip Americans of their constitutional rights while flooding the country with illegal immigrants.”
He turns, while speaking of constitutional rights, to attacking the “Fake News” people. He directs his fans’ attention to reporters at the back of the crowd. His fans boo and shout and shake their fists.
The greatest divider in American politics today goes on, ironically, to say, “Instead of bringing us together as one America, Democrats want to splinter us into factions and tribes. They want us divided.”
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THE ORLANDO SENTINEL makes an early endorsement for president in 2020: Anyone but Trump.
“The great casualty of this presidency.”
The editorial board explains:
Some readers will wonder how we could
possibly eliminate a candidate so far before an election, and before knowing
the identity of his opponent. Because there’s no point pretending we would ever
recommend that readers vote for Trump.
After 2½ years we’ve seen
enough. Enough of the chaos, the division, the schoolyard insults, the
self-aggrandizement, the corruption, and especially the lies.
Historically, the Sentinel has endorsed Republican candidates for president in 1956, 1960, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2008 and 2012. Now the board cites Trump’s “successful assault on truth” as “the great casualty of this presidency, followed closely by his war on decency.” The board also warns that Trump “has diminished our standing in the world.”
“The nation must endure another 1½ years of Trump,” the Sentinel
concluded. “But it needn’t suffer another four beyond that. We can do better.
We have to do better.” (See: 6/15/19.)
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PATRICK SHANAHAN, Trump’s Acting Secretary of Defense gets bounced from his job after Trump tries and fails to get him confirmed for the permanent cabinet post. It turns out Shanahan once justified his then-17-year-old son’s use of a baseball bat to knock out his mother, and Shanahan’s ex.
Admittedly, mom sounds kind of nuts. But a baseball
bat? Mom suffered a cracked skull and was left in a pool of blood.
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